Kraken China MiévilleChina Miéville
The Natural History Museum's prize exhibit -- a giant squid -- suddenly disappears. This audacious theft leads Billy Harrow, the research scientist who has recently finished preserving the exhibit, into a dark urban underworld of warring cults and surreal magic. It seems that for some, the squid represents a god and should be worshiped as such. Billy gradually comes to realize that someone may be attempting to use the squid to trigger an apocalypse. And so it is now up to him and a renegade squid-worshiper named Dane to find a way of stopping the destruction of the world as they know it whilst themselves surviving the all out-gang warfare ...
Daddy Fox was very irregular in his habits about coming home, so, when the Bunny Boy Scouts captured him, after his escape from the Circus Cow Boy, and put him in the Jail House at Lettuceville, no one became uneasy for two or three days. After that time, Mrs. Fox said to Sly Boots and Bushy Tail, her two little sons: “Something has happened to your father. I know it, for he never stays away like this without telephoning or sending a message home. We’d better go out to-night and look for him.”
Billy BatsonIn style and tone, Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam! is a followup to Jeff Smith's 2007 miniseries Shazam!: The Monster Society of Evil, as both draw upon the light, whimsical feel of the Captain Marvel comics of the Golden Age for inspiration. In Magic of Shazam!, Billy Batson is a young boy who must juggle his superheroic life as Captain Marvel with looking after his rambunctious little sister Mary Marvel. Unlike Billy, who transforms into an adult when he speaks the magic word "Shazam", Mary possesses only a fraction of his power, although she is faster, and remains a child in her superhero form.
A married airline pilot lies dead in his London flat. Video cameras have filmed him and another leaving the Heathrow concourse. Ex-copper turned private investigator Billy Rucker joins the case which leads to a lonely trail through the city - until a phone call changes the game to fear.
Siblings Billy and Sheena Deep are spending their summer vacation on the Caribbean island of Ilandra with their uncle named Dr. Deep. A zoo crew wants Dr. Deep to find and trap a mermaid that has been reported in the area. While swimming, Billy is almost killed by a hammerhead shark but is saved by the mermaid whom Dr. Deep traps in a large glass tank.
