Life in mid-19 century New York was tough, & violence & corruption were rife. Two gangs, the Dead Rabbits & the Native Americans, were locked in an endless battle for supremacy. Amsterdam Vallon, son of the Rabbits' murdered leader, is seeking vengeance for his father's death at the hands of Bill ' The Butcher'. ...

Ben is getting used to life without his beloved granny. She was a cabbage enthusiast, a Scrabble partner… & an international jewel thief known as The Black Cat. Now, only the memory of their extraordinary adventure to steal the Crown Jewels lives on. Then something inexplicable happens. World-famous treasures are stolen in the dead of night & the clues point to none other than The Black Cat? But that's impossible? Expect the unexpected in this wonderfully entertaining & laugh-out-loud adventure, which will have readers on the edge of their seats as they join Ben on his quest to unravel the mystery of the return of The Black Cat!   Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9780008581404 •†Author: David Walliams •†Publisher:   Harper Collins Publishers •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:† 368 •†Dimensions:†19.8 x 12.9 x 2.7 cm ...

It's been two years since legendary Chicago hitman Sal Cupertine disappeared into the guise of Las Vegas Rabbi David Cohen. 

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You've heard of Bonnie & Clyde, the Kray twins, Lucky Luciano & Al Capone. Now find out the truth behind the urban legends & movie adaptations inside the ultimate guide to Gangsters. Learn all about the most notorious old-school lawbreakers, crooked convicts, mafia bosses & other mob members, with detailed individual profiles of each famous name & fantastic photographs throughout. Including the stories of all of history's most infamous gangland criminals, Gangsters is one meeting with the Mob you'll never forget. ...

The masochistic orb Gantz has gathered a crew of ordinary citizens to play within its dangerous plot. The new draftees & returning survivors are thrown headfirst into a game promising a far more lethal prey. This time their target is a strange robot in the guise of famed Japanese folk singer Tanaka Seijin. ...

Gantz is getting absolutely intense. Our protagonist, the eternally awkward otaku boy named Kei, has hunted a bevy of odd & dangerous aliens living in Japan. The Onion Alien was strange enough, but then there were the dinosaur aliens & eventually some vampires who might not be aliens at all. ...

It seems like every new alien creature the Gantz gang fights is just practice for another, tougher, more demented future alien battle. Every new alien means another crew of newly dead citizens, reborn as alien hunters. Except for those who survive for the next battle. & Kei is the only one who's survived. ...

The crazy world of Gantz just got a heck of a lot crazier! First, there were people being recruited at the moment of death to fight aliens living on earth, but unseen by humanity. The battles seemed to take place outside of human sight. Our reluctant hero, Kei, has lived through many of these battles, but now something strange is happening. ...

Kei, Masaru, & the buxom Kishimoto try to reinsert themselves into their old lives. However, before any of them begins to take comfort in this fact, they're all transported back to the inescapable condo where the whole mess started. In the disorientation of new arrivals, Gantz spills the beans on their new alien extermination target. ...

Life is confusing for Kei Kurono. Once a conscripted fighter of invisible alien invaders, a strange turn of events finds him back in his old life. Having no recollection of his warrior days, the sense of something missing flickers in the shadows of his memory. But despite a missing past, Kei's present is still a matter of life & death. ...