Books with author Joe Kelly

Humans coexist with a species blessed with abilities known as the Gifted, a race the humans voted out of society several years ago. Aaron Harker has to keep his dark urges a secret if he's to stay on the right side of the fence, but doing so is about to become harder as he’s set to become a Gespiator – one entrusted to Keep the Peace. Aaron knows he isn’t human, but what he doesn’t realise is he’s not a Gifted. He’s something entirely different – a Reaper; a being that requires the life essence from others in order to survive. The Dark Hunger; a curse to deal with in a time when being different means survival is not a certainty.

La moria grandissima began its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, leaving unimaginable devastation in its wake. Five years later, twenty-five million people were dead, felled by the scourge that would come to be called the Black Death. The Great Mortality is the extraordinary epic account of the worst natural disaster in European history -- a drama of courage, cowardice, misery, madness, and sacrifice that brilliantly illuminates humankind's darkest days when an old world ended and a new world was born.

A magisterial account of one of the worst disasters to strike humankind--the Great Irish Potato Famine--conveyed as lyrical narrative history from the acclaimed author of The Great MortalityIn this masterful, comprehensive account of the Irish Potato Famine, delivered with novelistic flair, Kelly gives us not only the startling facts of this disaster--one of the worst to strike mankind, killing twice as many lives as the American Civil War--but examines the intersection of political greed, bacterial infection, religious intolerance, and racism that made it possible. Kelly brings new material to his analysis of relevant political factors during the years leading up to the famine, and the extent to which Britain's nation-building policies exacerbated the mounting crisis. Despite the shocking, infuriating implications of his findings, The Graves Are Walking is ultimately a story of triumph--of one people's ability to remake themselves in a new land in the face of the unthinkable.

The masked avenger of the cartoon spaceways has been a popular character since his introduction to television in 1966. Since then, people have wondered who he is, how he got those power bands and why he protects the galaxy from evil. Now his story is told for the first time ever. Learn the tragic circumstances that led to his donning a cowl and his first battle with arch nemesis Zorak.

It’s the start of the summer but for Michael, it’s the beginning of a nightmare. His dad has betrayed him. He’s gotten Michael an unpaid summer job at his Uncle Herald’s new venture, Swamp Camp. Un-for-give-able! Uncle Herald is as peculiar as Michael remembered, but what crazy type of uncle surrounds himself with giant crocodiles? Perhaps an uncle with something to hide amongst all of the monstrous creatures that live in his swamp.

There is a silent war taking place against the human race, one that we’re not even aware of. Colm, Joanne and Vince make the horrifying discovery when they bump into an Eenac, a race of galactic protectors. The Eenac’s greatest adversary are the Konsumer Empire, and they are here on Earth, hidden in plain sight. A realisation that the three children stumble upon when they accidently acquire abilities, and become Hybrids.

Both terrifying and fascinating, sharks are the most well-known creature of the ocean ecosystem. Sharks are a guaranteed hit with young readers, but this book goes beyond basic shark 101 information. Now it's possible for young readers to step into the wild, wonderful life cycle of the Greenland shark, the longest-living vertebrate in the world. Early elementary readers are sure to enjoy the colorful photography of this captivating text, and won't even notice that they're learning key science concepts, like ecosystems and food chains, along the way.

WARNING! THIS IS AN EMERGENCY. There's been a major Q-T incident reported in Cringetown – we need the monster doctor, stat!Q-Ts are highly dangerous to all monsters – they have huge eyes, tiny noses, squeaky high-pitched voices and are covered in a disgustingly soft fur-like material. Physical contact with these revolting creatures is to be avoided AT ALL COSTS! Ozzy is an ordinary human – an unusual trait for a monster doctor in training! – and he can't understand why monsters are so scared of these Q-Ts. So when the doctor receives a desperate phone call reporting a Q-T sighting, she and Ozzy race to save the horrible creature before the abominable Inspector Pincher arrives . . .Monster Doctor: Revolting Rescue is the second in a howlingly hilarious series of monster adventures from John Kelly that will have you laughing your head off . . . literally.