Books with title Monster Talk

Two thrilling short stories combined into one book. Lexi Greene's Dangerous Lesson a story about Lexi, a young girl gifted with paranormal abilities being stalked by a man eager to kill her, because he thinks she's a monster and Lexi Greene's Grim Awakening. A story about Lexi waking to discover she forgotten the past four months.It’s a prequel to My Watcher (The Zeuorian Series).

Malcolm is a monster. Unfortunately, he has grown weary of spending his days causing mischief and breaking the rules. Malcolm longs for a good adventure. The number of possibilities is thrilling. There is exploring the moon and distant planets. Maybe, finding a long, lost buried treasure is always exciting. Of course, exploring uncharted territory or overcoming a fear would be a worthy pursuit. Where will the journey take Malcolm?

Meet Monster. Meet Judy. Two humans who don't like each other much, but together must fight dragons, fire-breathing felines, trolls, Inuit walrus dogs, and a crazy cat lady—for the future of the universe. Monster runs a pest-control agency. He's overworked and has domestic troubles—like having the girlfriend from hell. Judy works the night shift at the local Food Plus Mart. Not the most glamorous life, but Judy is happy. No one bothers her, and if she has to spell things out for the night-manager every now and again, so be it. But when Judy finds a Yeti in the freezer aisle eating all the Rocky Road, her life collides with Monster's in a rather alarming fashion. Because Monster doesn't catch raccoons; he catches the things that go bump in the night. Things like ogres, trolls, and dragons. Oh, and his girlfriend from Hell? She actually is from Hell.

Acclaimed author Michael Grant delivers a stunning follow-up to the globally bestselling Gone series perfect for fans of Stephen King s suspenseful writing. It s been four years since a meteor hit Perdido Beach and everyone disappeared. Everyone, except the kids trapped in the FAYZ an invisible dome that was created by an alien virus. Inside the FAYZ, animals began to mutate and teens developed dangerous powers. The terrifying new world was plagued with hunger, lies, and fear of the unknown. Now the dome is gone and meteors are hitting earth with an even deadlier virus. Humans will mutate into monsters and the whole world will be exposed. As some teens begin to morph into heroes, they will find that others have become dangerously out of control . . . and that the world is on the brink of a monstrous battle between good and evil. Ratchets up the gore and action, and features a diverse cast of characters. An evocative, intricately plotted companion series. ALA BooklistRead the entire series:GoneHungerLiesPlagueFearLightMonsterVillainHero

Example in this ebookChapter IWhen the clergyman had gone, the bride turned.Before her was an open window before which was the open sea. In the air was a tropical languor, a savour of brine, the scent of lilies, the sound of mandolins that are far away. Below, in the garden, were masses of scarlet, high heaps of geranium blooms. A bit beyond was the Caprian blue of the San Diego Bay. There, a yacht rode, white and spacious. The yacht belonged to her husband who was beside her. She turned again and as passionately he embraced her; she coloured.For the moment, as they stood there, they seemed so sheerly dissimilar that they might have come of alien races, from different zones. He, with his fair hair, his fair skin, his resolute and aggressive face, was typically Anglo-Saxon. She, with her delicate features, her dense black hair, and disquieting eyes, looked like a Madrilene Madonna—one of those fascinating and slightly shocking creations of seventeenth-century art that more nearly resemble infantas serenaded by caballeros than queens of the sky. There was a deeper contrast. He appeared frankly material; she, all soul.Leisurely she freed herself.“One might know,” she began, then paused. A smile completed the sentence.He smiled too.“Yes, Leilah, one might know that however I hold you to me, I never can hold you enough.”“And I! I could be held by you forever.”On the door came a tap, rapid and assured. A page entered, the preoccupation of the tip in his face, in his hand a platter of letters.The man, taking the letters, dismissed him.“Miss Ogston,” he continued. “From your father, confound him. It is the last time he will address you in that fashion. Miss Ogston,” he repeated. “From the Silverstairs, I fancy. Gulian Verplank. There is but one for me.”He looked at his watch. “The launch from the yacht will be here shortly.”“When do we start?”“Whenever you like. The Marquesas will keep. Bora-Bora will be the same whenever we get there. Only——”“Only what?”“I am in love with you, not with hotels.”“Let us go then. There will be a moon to-night?”“A new one, a honeymoon, a honeymoon begun.”“Gulian! As if it could end!”In pronouncing the “u” in his name her mouth made the sketch of a kiss.“You would not wish it to?” he asked.“When I die, perhaps, and even then only to be continued hereafter. Heaven would not be heaven without you.”She spoke slowly, with little pauses, in a manner that differed from his own mode of speech, which was quick and forceful.Verplank turned to the letter that had been addressed to him, and which he still held. Without opening it, he tore it into long, thin strips. It was, he knew from the imprint, a communication of no importance; but, at the moment, the action seemed a reply to her remark. It served to indicate his complete indifference to everything and everyone save her only. Afterward, with a regret that was to be eternal, she wished he had done the same with hers.Yet, pleased at the time, she smiled.“Gulian, you do love me, but I wonder do you love me as absolutely as I love you?”Verplank, with a gesture that was familiar to him, closed and opened a hand.“I do not know. But while I think you cannot love me more wholly than I love you, I do know that to me you are the unique.”Leilah moved to where he stood.“Gulian, and you to me. You are the only one.” She moved closer. Raising her hands, she put them on his shoulders. “Tell me, shall you be long away?”“An hour or two. Apropos, would you care to leave before dinner?”“Yes.”“We will dine on board, then. Is there anything in particular you would like?”“Yes, lilies, plenty of lilies; and pineapples; and the sound of your voice.”Lifting her hands from his shoulders to his face, she drew it to her own. Their lips met longly. With the savour of her about him, Verplank passed out.To be continue in this ebook

The Monster is an 1898 novella by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). The story takes place in the small, fictional town of Whilomville, New York. An African-American coachman named Henry Johnson, who is employed by the town's physician, Dr. Trescott, becomes horribly disfigured after he saves Trescott's son from a fire. When Henry is branded a "monster" by the town's residents, Trescott vows to shelter and care for him, resulting in his family's exclusion from the community. The novella reflects upon the 19th-century social divide and ethnic tensions in America.The fictional town of Whilomville, which is used in 14 other Crane stories, was based on Port Jervis, New York, where Crane lived with his family for a few years during his youth. It is thought that he took inspiration from several local men who were similarly disfigured, although modern critics have made numerous connections between the story and the 1892 lynching in Port Jervis of an African-American man named Robert Lewis. A study of prejudice, fear, and isolation in a rather small town, the novella was first published in Harper's Magazine in August 1898. A year later, it was included in The Monster and Other Stories—the last collection of Crane's work to be published during his lifetime.Written in a more exact and less dramatic style than two of his previous major works (Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and The Red Badge of Courage), The Monster differs from the other Whilomville stories in its scope and length. Its themes include the paradoxical study of monstrosity and deformity, as well as race and tolerance. While the novella and collection received mixed reviews from contemporary critics, The Monster is now considered one of Crane's best works.

Though best known for The Red Badge of Courage, his classic novel of men at war, in his tragically brief life and career Stephen Crane produced a wealth of stories—among them "The Monster," "The Upturned Face," "The Open Boat," and the title story—that stand among the most acclaimed and enduring in the history of American fiction. This superb volume collects stories of unique power and variety in which impressionistic, hallucinatory, and realistic situations alike are brilliantly conveyed through the cold, sometimes brutal irony of Crane's narrative voice.