Books with author Will Hill

Jamie Carpenter's life will never be the same. His father is dead, his mother is missing, and he was just rescued by an enormous man named Frankenstein. Jamie is brought to Department 19, where he is pulled into a secret organization responsible for policing the supernatural, founded more than a century ago by Abraham Van Helsing and the other survivors of Dracula. Aided by Frankenstein's monster, a beautiful vampire girl with her own agenda, and the members of the agency, Jamie must attempt to save his mother from a terrifyingly powerful vampire. Department 19 takes us through history, across Europe, and beyond - from the cobbled streets of Victorian London to prohibition-era New York, from the icy wastes of Arctic Russia to the treacherous mountains of Transylvania. Part modern thriller, part classic horror, it's packed with mystery, mayhem, and a level of suspense that makes a Darren Shan novel look like a romantic comedy.

Jamie Carpenter's life will never be the same. His father is dead, his mother is missing, and he was just rescued by an enormous man named Frankenstein. Jamie is brought to Department 19, where he is pulled into a secret organization responsible for policing the supernatural, founded more than a century ago by Abraham Van Helsing and the other survivors of Dracula. Aided by Frankenstein's monster, a beautiful vampire girl with her own agenda, and the members of the agency, Jamie must attempt to save his mother from a terrifyingly powerful vampire.Department 19 takes us through history, across Europe, and beyond - from the cobbled streets of Victorian London to prohibition-era New York, from the icy wastes of Arctic Russia to the treacherous mountains of Transylvania. Part modern thriller, part classic horror, it's packed with mystery, mayhem, and a level of suspense that makes a Darren Shan novel look like a romantic comedy.

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressVeteran author William Hill commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark expedition with this guide to the history and the route of the Corps of Discovery. Journals, maps, paintings and photographs serve to vividly contrast the U.S. that Lewis and Clark ventured through to the land that the modern adventurere will pass through when following this guidebook.

Paperback. Pub Date: 2013-03-01 Pages: 704 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK Book 3 from the talent behind the bestselling hardback YA debut of 2011. Dracula is on the verge of coming into his full power. The Department of 19 is on the back foot. Ladies and gentlemen: welcome to the war. The stakes Mankind 's very survival...As the clock ticks remorselessly towards Zero Hour and the return of Dracula. the devastated remnants of Department 19 try to hold back the rising darkness.Jamie Carpenter is training new recruits. trying to prepare them for a fight that appears increasingly futile. Kate Randall is pouring her grief into trying to plug the Departments final leaks. as Matt Browning races against time to find a cure for vampirism. And on the other side of the world. Larissa Kinley has found a place she feels at home. yet where she makes a startling discovery.Un...

Whether for land, a chance for a new life, or for gold, California was the magnet that drew thousands of people during the 1840s, 50s and into the 60s. The California Trail was the way many emigrants and Argonauts chose. William Hill's book takes the reader there, starting at the various jumping-off places, across the Great Plains, the Rockies, the deserts, and finally over the Sierra Nevada. It examines the trail s historical development, alternate routes, and some of the available maps and guidebooks. Its extensive use of diaries enhances the reader s experience. Three diarists vividly describe the dreaded crossing of the Forty-Mile Desert and the Sierras. Especially impressive are its nearly 175 first-hand trail illustrations paired with relevant diary entries, comments and matching present-day photos. Most of the historic sites, fine museums and displays along the trail are also described. Revised from earlier edition published by Tamarack Books in 1993.

Shy Scooter Keyshawn, the judge's grandson, is looking for new friends and excitement. The minister's daring daughter, Kristie Candel, seeks forbidden thrills. Along with the sheriff's meek son, Paul Knight, and his beautiful but haughty sister, Racquel, they join the GRAVEYARD ARMADILLOS. Under the thumb of the cool and conniving Garrett Brashear, the principal's son, they plan on raising hell.After thirty years of making Hollywood horror movies, Marcus Chandler returned to the small Texas town and the Pickup Ranch--a farm surrounded by a metal fence of half-buried trucks. Chandler had always been strange: but now he'd been eternally banished to the darkness. Soon after Chandler's arrival, his parents suddenly died. Then children disappeared. Fear spread like wildfire. Finally, blood-drained bodies appeared. Now some whisper The word . . .VAMPIRE.Garrett believes he knows Chandler's darkest secret. To join the Graveyard Armadillos, Scooter and Kristie must prove that Chandler is one of the legion of the undead. But when the gang members inexplicably disappear one by one, and Garrett seems possessed. Scooter, Kristie and Paul are besieged by an ever-changing face of evil. Does Gunstock hide more than one creature of the night?

It's always darkest before dawn. Secret government unit Department 19 is recovering from evil vampire Valeri Rusmanov's deadly attack on their base. The Department’s newest member, teenage operator Jamie Carpenter, is tasked with training up a new squad, as his friends and colleagues desperately search for ways to try to stop what is coming. The timing couldn’t be worse for a coordinated global attack on a number of maximum security prisons and hospitals—with the already dangerous inmates now on the loose and turned into vampires. One of the escapees has a deep connection to one of the darkest moments in the history of Department 19 and embarks on a quest that threatens to expose the existence of vampires to the public. And with each day that passes, the regenerated Dracula gets stronger, bringing Zero Hour closer. In this third installment of the epic Department 19 series, Will Hill delivers higher—and sharper—stakes than ever before.