Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Found only on the island of Tasmania, Tasmanian devils are the worlds largest carnivorous marsupials. Readers will find out how devils spend their nights scavenging for carrion, how they protect themselves from predators, and where they build their dens.
2) Horns
Author
Language
English
Description
After his childhood sweetheart is brutally killed and suspicion falls on him, Ig Parrish goes on a drinking binge and wakes up with horns on his head, hate in his heart, and an incredible new power which he uses in the name of vengeance.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Screwtape Letters" is an epistolary satire by C.S. Lewis, wherein the whole plot of temptation and moral conflict in a series of letters is written between the senior demon Screwtape to his novice nephew Wormwood. In their correspondence, Lewis exposes not only the nature of human faith but even the subtleties of human sin and spiritual battles that besiege men. Hilarious and profound all at once, it shows just how easily one can be derailed...
Author
Publisher
Destiny Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A study into the enigmatic devil of folkloric witchcraft and his many forms. Explains the Dark Man phenomenon through centuries-old folklore and mythology, testimony from British witch trials, and modern accounts. Challenges the simplistic concept of the Devil as "evil, " explaining how encounters with this entity can reveal one's life purpose and how the Dark Man can be an initiator into witchcraft. Presents interviews with those who have witnessed...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Fiona Quinn is approached in a bar by a man who calls himself Scratch and claims he's the devil, she figures it's just some kind of post-modern ironic pickup line. But since he offers to pick up the tab, what the hell. A few drinks in, Scratch offers something much stranger--a wish in exchange for her immortal soul. Fiona has been wondering if her boyfriend is having an affair. What if she could become invisible, see what he's really up to?...
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 13
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Thomas Ward faces his ultimate test as he and his master prepare to deal with the Fiend once and for all"--
Author
Publisher
Tor Essentials, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The time is the Beginning. The place is Heaven. The story is the Revolt of the Angels--a war of magic, corruption and intrigue that could destroy the universe. Originally published in 1984, Steven Brust's To Reign in Hell is a retelling of Satan's revolt against Heaven with much more sympathy for Lucifer and his allies. Heaven is threatened by the reemergence of a cataclysmic event, a wave of energy that can destroy life and result in the loss of...
Author
Language
English
Description
Presents a satirical drama about Satan's visit to Moscow, where he learns that the citizens no longer believe in God. He decides to teach them a lesson by perpetrating a series of horrific tricks. Combines two distinct yet interwoven parts, one set in contemporary Moscow, the other in ancient Jerusalem.
11) Papillon
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A classic memoir of prison breaks and adventure – a bestselling phenomenon of the 1960s Condemned for a murder he had not committed, Henri Charrière (nicknamed Papillon) was sent to the penal colony of French Guiana. Forty-two days after his arrival he made his first break, travelling a thousand gruelling miles in an open boat. Recaptured, he went into solitary confinement and was sent eventually to Devil's Island, a hell-hole of disease and brutality....
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When witches steal Tom's inheritance and kidnap his relatives, Tom, the Spook, and Alice set out for Pendle Hill, a particularly dangerous district, in hopes of preventing the three witch clans from uniting to raise the Fiend, the Devil himself, thus bringing about an age of darkness.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The greatest philosopher of all time is offering to sell his soul to the Devil. All he wants is twenty more years to complete his life's work. After that, he really doesn't care. But the assistant demon assigned to the case has his suspicions, because the philosopher is Saloninus--the greatest philosopher, yes, but also the gretest liar, trickster, and cheat the work has yet known ..."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A sweeping and comprehensive search for the origins of belief in a Satanic figure across the centuries, The Devil's Best Trick is a keen investigation into the inescapable reality of evil and the myriad ways we attempt to understand it. Instructive, riveting, and unnerving, this is a profound rumination on crime, violence, and the darkness in all of us. In The Devil's Best Trick, Randall Sullivan travels to Catemaco, Mexico, to participate in the...
16) Devil's advocate
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A young Florida attorney is hired at a New York firm, where his boss is Satan.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A queer retelling of the fall of Satan. In an eternal paradise, the most beautiful angel, Lucifer, struggles with shame, identity, and timidity, with little more than the desire to worship his creator. It isn't until the strongest angel, Michael, comes into his life that Lucifer learns to love himself. Along the way, their friendship begins to bloom into something else. Maybe the first romance in the history of everything. But this God is a jealous...
18) The Wrong Enemy
Author
Series
Seven archangels volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
No one knows why Tabris, a guardian angel, killed the child he vowed to protect. The boy Sebastian got into Heaven, but the angels don't understand why Tabris isn't in Hell. Instead God's given him a second chance. Another assignment. Another guardianship. Although he struggles to help this new child, a ten-year-old girl named Elizabeth, Tabris can't escape what he did with Sebastian. Elizabeth's co-guardian doesn't trust him at all, which makes sense...
Author
Series
Devil's West volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the last novel of The Devil's West trilogy, Isobel, the Devil's Left Hand, and Gabriel ride through the magical land of the Territory to root out evil by the way of mad magicians, ghosts, and twisted animal spirits. As Isobel and Gabriel travel to the southern edge of the Territory, they arrive in the free city of Red Stick. Tensions are running high as the homesteading population grows, crowding the native lands, and suspicions rise across the...
20) Devil's day
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the wink of an eye, as quick as a flea, / The Devil he jumped from me to thee. / And only when the Devil had gone, / Did I know that he and I'd been one . . . Every autumn, John Pentecost returns to the farm where he grew up, to help gather the sheep down from the moors for the winter. Very little changes in the Endlands, but this year, his grandfather--the Gaffer--has died and John's new wife, Katherine, is accompanying him for the first time....
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request