Fire & Water: Book of Elements - Skylanders Universe (Barry Hutchison)

Fire & Water: Book of Elements - Skylanders Universe

Barry Hutchison

Blurb: Skylands; historian Hugo (with a little help from Flynn) is your guide through Fire and Water: two of the Elements that make up the incredible world of the Skylanders.

ISBN: 9781409391449 (Paperback)

Year: 2013

Publisher: Sunbird

Pages: 80 (Fiction)

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The World's Most Evil Psychopaths - Horrifying True-Life Cases (John Marlowe)

The World's Most Evil Psychopaths - Horrifying True-Life Cases

John Marlowe

Blurb: Carl Panzram was gang-raped at the age of 14 and by way of revenge forcibly sodomised more than a thousand boys and men as well as committing over 20 murders.

Ed Kemper shot his grandmother once in the head and twice in the back and went on to murder his grandfather, his mother, her friend and six female hitch-hikers.

Jerry Brudos strangled Jan Whitney in his house and left her body dangling from the ceiling for several days.

Pietro Pacciani got 13 years in prison for killing a travelling salesman who had slept with his fiancee. Not only did Pacciani stab the man 19 times, but he also raped the corpse. 

The World's Most Evil Psychopaths provides a concise, yet detailed look at some of the most dangerous individuals who have ever lived. Starting with examples of the earliest recorded psychopaths, author John Marlowe presents a carefully chosen cross-section of history's most infamous criminals, whose fascinating life stories are viewed with an unflinching gaze, making for a chilling, but engrossing read.

ISBN: 9781841937533 (Paperback)

Year: 2009

Publisher: Ice Water Press

Pages: 208 (Non-Fiction)

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Evil Serial Killers - In The Minds of Monsters (Charlotte Greig)

Evil Serial Killers - In The Minds of Monsters

Charlotte Greig

Blurb: Our fascination with serial killers is at once disturbing and understandable: disturbing because according to society's mores we should condemn the killers' crimes and avoid all thought of their horrific actions, but understandable because we are so fascinated by their motives - what leads them to behave in such perverted ways and what makes them become killers who strike again and again?

Charlotte Greig has chosen and written in details about fifty of the world's most infamous serial killers, ranging from Jack the Ripper to Ted Bundy. Documenting each of the fifty, it is easy to see similar themes emerging: David Berkowitz or Anatoly Onoprienko who grew up to be loners and subsequently wrought revenge on society which they felt had rejected them; the killers who kill purely for the sexual thrills, like Albert Fish or John Christie; and occult practitioners like the Chicago Rippers and Richard Ramirez who were inspired by macabre rituals to take their dark fantasies into even darker realities.

Whatever the personal stories that emerge from this line-up of twisted individuals, Evil Serial Killers is a compelling testament, and warning, of the potential of human behaviour for true horror and pure evil.

ISBN: 9781841934600 (Paperback)

Year: 2009

Publisher: Ice Water Press

Pages: 208 (Non-Fiction)

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The Mansion of Mazes - Maths Quest (David Glover; Illustrated by Tim Hutchinson)

The Mansion of Mazes - Maths Quest

David Glover; Illustrated by Tim Hutchinson

Blurb: A mathematical mystery of shape, space and measures.

The Mansion of Mazes has been burgled and you have been asked to solve the mystery. If you fail, the villains will escape for good!

Make your way through this thrilling adventure, using your maths skills to decide how the plot unfolds. Complete your mission and become a maths whizz at the same time!

ISBN: 9781921981579 (Softback)

Year: 2011

Publisher: Ice Water Press

Pages: 48 (Fiction)

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4. Review of this and other activity books for kids

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The Water Room (Christopher Fowler)

The Water Room

Christopher Fowler

Blurb: An oasis in the heart of Kentish Town, Balaklava Street is ripe for gentrification. But then the body of an elderly woman is found at No. 5. Her demise seems to have been peaceful but for the fact that her throat is full of river water...

For the Met's Peculiar Crimes Unit, led by London's longest-serving detectives, Arthur Bryant and John May, this curious death marks the beginning of a distinctly sinister investigation. And the new owner of No. 5 is understandably unsettled by the damp in the basement of her home, some particularly resilient spiders and the ghostly sound of rushing water.

Unearthing hitherto undiscovered secrets, the two octogenarian policemen learn that, in a London filled with the rich, the poor and the dispossessed, there's still something a desperate individual is willing to kill for. And kill again to protect.

Armed only with their wits, their own idiosyncratic practices and a plentiful supply of boiled sweets, Bryant and May come face to face with madness, greed and revenge in a wickedly sinuous mystery that goes to the heart of every London home.

ISBN: 9780553824681 (Paperback)

Year: 2004

Publisher: Bantam Books

Pages: 430 (Fiction)

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