Ice Shock

8 best books like Ice Shock (M.G. Harris): Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, Mother Knows Best: A Tale of the Old Witch, Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade, Awful End, City of Shadows, The Fall of Fergal: The First Unlikely Exploit, Corregidora, Dreadful Acts

Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things

Author	Lafcadio Hearn
ISBN	0804836620

A blind musician with amazing talent is called upon to perform for the dead. Faceless creatures haunt an unwary traveler. A beautiful woman — the personification of winter at its cruelest — ruthlessly kills unsuspecting mortals. These and 17 other chilling supernatural tales — based on legends,...

Mother Knows Best: A Tale of the Old Witch

Author	Serena Valentino
ISBN	1368009026

The tale of the legendary golden flower is widely known. The story has been told many times and in many ways. But always the flower is coveted by an old witch to keep herself young and beautiful. And always the flower is used to save a dying queen, who then gives birth to a princess with magical hair. Not willing...

Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade

Author	Robert B. Cialdini
ISBN	1501109790

The author of the legendary bestseller Influence, social psychologist Robert Cialdini shines a light on effective persuasion and reveals that the secret doesn’t lie in the message itself, but in the key moment before that message is delivered.

What separates effective communicators...

Awful End

Author	Philip Ardagh
ISBN	0805068287

The first book in a hilarious, action-packed trilogy.
Eddie Dickens is sent off to stay with his aunt and uncle and a riotously funny comedy of errors ensues.
When both Eddie Dickens's parents catch a disease that makes them turn yellow, go a bit crinkly around the edges, and smell of hot water...

City of Shadows

Author	Alex Scarrow
ISBN	0141337079

Liam O'Connor should have died at sea in 1912.
Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.
Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.

But all three have been given a second chance - to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history...

Hunted...

The Fall of Fergal: The First Unlikely Exploit

Author	Philip Ardagh
ISBN	0805074767

The very last words young Fergal McNally heard in his life were: "Don't lean out of that window!" The very last sounds were probably the air whistling past his sticky-out ears as he fell the fourteen stories, the honk of traffic horns below (getting nearer and nearer, of course), and-possibly-the "SP"...

Corregidora

Author	Gayl Jones
ISBN	0807063150

Here is Gayl Jones's classic novel, the tale of blues singer Ursa, consumed by her hatred of the nineteenth-century slave master who fathered both her grandmother and mother.

From the back cover: "History and fiction have yielded little about those black slave women who were mistress and...

Dreadful Acts

Author	Philip Ardagh
ISBN	0439537606

Ah, life is never easy for Eddie Dickens. In this brave and hearty installment of the Eddie Dickens Trilogy, he narrowly avoids being blown up, trampled by horses, hit by a hot-air balloon, and arrested - only to find himself falling heels over head for a girl with a face like a camel's. He also falls into...