You are invited to choose from over 20 spooky endings. You go to meet your granny at the train station and you start seeing double -- double grannies! Which one is your real grandma?

Joseph has always had such good luck that his nickname is Lucky. Tomorrow, he is going to turn thirteen on the thirteenth of the month. He's the thirteenth child in a family with thirteen kids...and both of his parents are also thirteenth children. With so many thirteens, his luck is bound to run out! An old man and a woman with a black cat visit Lucky to warn him that he has too many thirteens in his life. And if he collects thirteen thirteens by midnight on his birthday, he'll unleash evil spirits. Almost as soon as the old man and the woman leave, the bad luck begins. And the thirteens just keep coming: the thirteen doughnuts his teacher gives him, the thirteen he scores on his pop math quiz, the thirteen barks from his normally quiet dog. Now Lucky is driving himself crazy adding up everything he comes across. Can he break the curse of thirteen in time? Clever and fun, The 13th Warning is certain to spook young readers.

Two stepsisters are thrilled to have their own car, not knowing that inside lives an ancient evil.

Bryan has his heart set on owning the sleek white car, not knowing that inside lives an ancient evil.

Robin Fear has waited decades for this moment. His evil plan is in place. Dierdre Bradley, her father, and Fear Park will be destroyed. Nothing can stop Robin now. Except one person. Who's been watching--finding out Robin's secrets--and waiting for revenge.

When Al invents a stink bomb that doesn't explode, he thinks his chemistry set is a dud. But when the bomb starts to ooze all over the cat and Al's best friend, they are changed forever. And the ooze is heading straight for him.

The sequel to one of the most popular Fear Street titles, with nearly 500,000 copies in print. Deena and Jade are up to their old tricks, despite their vow to stop the phone pranks. Then the ominous call comes: "I'm getting out soon", the voice says, "and when I do, I'll come after you". Now the girls fear someone is out to kill them!

And to top it off, a local bully won't stop torturing him. Bobby is about to find out just how terrifying and exhilarating one fat summer can be.

NY 1946 Harcourt Brace. Hardcover. Octavo, 69pp., black cloth. Near Fine, no DJ.

The Extravagant Universe tells the story of a remarkable adventure of scientific discovery. One of the world's leading astronomers, Robert Kirshner, takes readers inside a lively research team on the quest that led them to an extraordinary cosmological discovery: the expansion of the universe is accelerating under the influence of a dark energy that makes space itself expand. In addition to sharing the story of this exciting discovery, Kirshner also brings the science up-to-date in a new epilogue. He explains how the idea of an accelerating universe--once a daring interpretation of sketchy data--is now the standard assumption in cosmology today. This measurement of dark energy--a quality of space itself that causes cosmic acceleration--points to a gaping hole in our understanding of fundamental physics. In 1917, Einstein proposed the "cosmological constant" to explain a static universe. When observations proved that the universe was expanding, he cast this early form of dark energy aside. But recent observations described first-hand in this book show that the cosmological constant--or something just like it--dominates the universe's mass and energy budget and determines its fate and shape. Warned by Einstein's blunder, and contradicted by the initial results of a competing research team, Kirshner and his colleagues were reluctant to accept their own result. But, convinced by evidence built on their hard-earned understanding of exploding stars, they announced their conclusion that the universe is accelerating in February 1998. Other lines of inquiry and parallel supernova research now support a new synthesis of a cosmos dominated by dark energy but also containing several forms of dark matter. We live in an extravagant universe with a surprising number of essential ingredients: the real universe we measure is not the simplest one we could imagine.

"The inspirational story of Compass CEO Robert Reffkin-born black and raised Jewish-and the vital lessons he learned to help him overcome life's daunting obstacles"--

The inspirational story of Compass CEO Robert Reffkin, whose mother, mentors, and search for belonging taught him valuable lessons that anyone with a dream can put into action today to improve their quality of life No one expected a dreadlocked fifteen-year-old who cared more about his DJ business than his homework to grow up to become one of the youngest-ever White House Fellows, create multiple nonprofits, and found a multibillion-dollar company. But Robert Reffkin--raised by an Israeli immigrant single mother, disowned by his maternal grandparents for being Black, and abandoned by his father--has always defied the odds. Compass's mission is to help everyone find their place in the world, and in these pages, Reffkin distills the wisdom he's gathered along his journey. Each chapter offers a part of his life story and a practical lesson, such as: Love your customers more than your ideas Find someone to give you the critical feedback others won't Create your own "rich-kid's network" The advice in No One Succeeds Alone will inspire you to dream bigger than you ever have before, to realize your full potential, and to give back by helping to make someone else's dreams come true, too. All author proceeds from No One Succeeds Alone are being donated to nonprofits that help young people realize their dreams.

Great leadership is not about having all the answers- it is, more often, about having the courage to ask the critical questions. In What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, Robert Kaplan offers a concise and engaging guide to help executives improve their effectiveness as leaders. At the core of the book is a series of critical questions to help you lead your organization more successfully and take ownership of your career.--[book jacket].

In the spring of 2000, stand-up comedian Robert Schimmel was diagnosed with stage III non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and soon the fire of his white-hot career started to fizzle. But Schimmel never lost his sense of humor, his searing honesty, and most of all, his passion to make people laugh. Indeed, it was his basic need to entertain—even if the only people around him were suffering from cancer and the room he was playing was the Mayo Clinic infusion center—that carried him through his ordeal. Alternately laugh-out-loud funny and deeply moving, Cancer on 5 a Day is a stirring account of how one man's face-off with a deadly disease helped him better understand himself, and ultimately changed his life.

Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Roger Zelazny once again teams with Robert Sheckley for the latest comic fantasy starring demon extraordinaire, Azzie Elbub. On a devilish sabbatical in Europe, Azzie discovers that morality plays are all the rage, so he strikes back by producing an immorality play.

Untouched By Human Hands... ...are the stacks of boxes confronting two starving explorers on an alien world. Some of their contents are digestible--and some of them are hungry! ...are the "surplus female" pens of a distant planet--where wife killing is required by law, and mendacity is an act worse than death. ...is the Altar of Baz-Matain--until it appears in New Jersey, just north of Hoboken. ...is filled with fear, surprise, ruthless humor and an almost fanatical devotion to delight, as Robert Sheckley, the greatest science-fantasy writer of recent years, reaches out his hands to you.

A team of space archaeologists makes an astonishing discovery about an ancient alien race in this science fiction tale from "a master of his craft" ( Los Angeles Times ). Graduate student Tom Rice is thrilled to embark on his first deep-space archeological expedition. He is part of a team from Earth, venturing out in search of artifacts from a civilization that ruled the universe many millennia ago. Called the High Ones, the members of this long-gone society left tantalizing clues about their history and culture scattered throughout space. One such clue, a "message cube" containing footage of the ancient ones, is more interesting than all of the others combined. It seems to indicate that the High Ones aren't extinct after all--and just like that, Tom Rice's archeological mission has become an intergalactic manhunt, one filled with ever-increasing danger that will send the explorers hurtling headlong into the greatest adventure--and peril--of their lives.

Ghost Towns of the American West. hardcover book

"Global overcrowding, a new immortality serum and an unfriendly alien ambassador are only a few of the problems confronting Roy Walton, government's new Master of Life and Death in Robert Silverberg's early and accomplished novel. Praised by a distinguished critic, Anthony Boucher, for 'its complete clarity and narrative drive' the novel retains its power today."