Books with title The Death Collector

CONRAD is not like other boys. He doesn't like baseball or ice cream or messy rooms. Some kids think he's "weird". But Conrad doesn't care. He likes what he likes. And what he likes most of all is using his extra special imagination to find out-of-the ordinary, "you'd never believe this," objects to add to his collections. And no place offers more opportunities to find cool and curious things than Hong Kong, a land said to be visited by pirates and dragon-gods. It's in this place full of adventurous possibilities that we find our favorite collector. About the Author Sharon Wolfe, or Grandma Story, as some of her six grandchildren call her, has been entertaining children for decades with tales of unlikely young heroes who have extraordinary adventures. Conrad's adventures first emerged when her two grandsons moved with their parents to Hong Kong, a world rich in history, superstition, and imaginative possibilities for grandmothers and curious young adventurers alike.

Even the smallest wish can be dangerous. That's why the Collectors are always keeping watch.The Collectors sweeps listeners into a hidden world where wishes are stolen and dreams have a price. Fast-paced, witty, and riveting, this contemporary fantasy adventure has magic woven through every page.It's the first book in a two-book series from Jacqueline West, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Books of Elsewhere series. For fans of Serafina and the Black Cloak, The Isle of the Lost, and The Secret Keepers.Van has always been an outsider. Most people don't notice him. But he notices them. And he notices the small trinkets they drop, or lose, or throw away--that's why his collection is full of treasures. Then one day, Van notices a girl stealing pennies from a fountain, and everything changes. He follows the girl, Pebble, and uncovers an underground world full of wishes and the people who collect them. Apparently not all wishes are good and even good wishes often have unintended consequences--and the Collectors have made it their duty to protect us. But they aren't the only ones who have their eyes on the world's wishes--and they may not be the good guys, after all. Jacqueline West, author of the New York Times-bestselling Books of Elsewhere series, draws readers into a story about friendship, magic, and the gray area between good and evil. The Collectors is for fans of Cassie Beasley's Circus Mirandus and Jonathan Auxier's The Night Gardener.

Maddie, Max, and Theo Mattigan know everything now. They've solved the mystery of their Monsters' history, and even of their own. But Happily Ever After doesn't seem to be how their story was meant to end. There's an evil creature out there, more mysterious and monstrous than anything they could imagine. And it's coming for them. This time, the hunters have become the hunted.

In his classic thriller The Bone Collector, Jeffery Deaver introduced readers to Lincoln Rhyme-the nation's most renowned investigator and forensic detective. Now, a new killer is on the loose: a criminal inspired by the Bone Collector. And Rhyme must untangle the twisted web of clues before the killer targets more victims-or Rhyme himself. THE SKIN COLLECTOR The killer's methods are terrifying. He stalks the basements and underground passageways of New York City. He tattoos his victims' flesh with cryptic messages, using a tattoo gun loaded with poison, resulting in an agonizing, painful death. When a connection is made to the Bone Collector-the serial killer who terrorized New York more than a decade ago-Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are immediately drawn into the case. Rhyme, Sachs, and the NYPD must race against time to answer the many questions the investigation uncovers: Whom will the killer attack next? What is the message behind the victims' tattoos? Does the killer's own inking--a fanged centipede sporting a woman's face--hold any significance? And what is his ultimate mission? As time runs out, Rhyme discovers that the past has returned to haunt him in the most troubling way imaginable. . .

People have told stories since the world began — and everybody has a story. Old Mr. Grimsby, retired and a widower, makes a hobby of collecting stories. He collects stories from his housemaid, and from the housemaid's grandmother, from an old soldier, and from a dying woman. Late one night, as he walks home past a churchyard, he's joined by a large black dog, a Churchyard Grim, which leads him out of this world to Heaven's Gate - and tells him a story to pass the time as they walk. And in Heaven, the Virgin Herself pours the tea and tells a tale... From the beginning to the end, we tell stories. Everybody has a story. The Story Collector is a collection of folk-tales, retold by the acclaimed writer, Susan Price. Here are old stories, wise stories, funny and sad stories, of life, death and rebirth; of loss and love.