New Releases by Daniel Kraus

Her estranged mother''s death brings Kat Somerville back to Comfort Notch, New Hampshire, a home town she can barely remember. As she and her daughter Sybil try to settle into a new life, Kat discovers that sometimes home is best forgotten. WELCOME TO COMFORT NOTCH! HOME OF AMERICA''S PRETTIEST AUTUMN. YOU''LL NEVER WANT TO LEAVE. Following the death of her estranged mother, Kat Somerville and her daughter, Sybil, flee a difficult life in Chicago for the quaint--and possibly pernicious--town of Comfort Notch, New Hampshire. From NY Times best-selling author, Daniel Kraus (The Shape of Water, Trollhunters, The Living Dead), and rising star Chris Shehan, comes a haunting vision of America''s prettiest autumn. Collects the complete eight issue series. “Superb, fall-toned art plays on a recurring theme of leaves. The gripping, violent plot and the sharply drawn mother-daughter dynamic at its core are a complex combo that will easily satisfy genre fans.” --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY “Bestselling Kraus makes his graphic debut with another terror-inducing narrative, brilliantly illustrated by Shehan and Wordie (lettered by Jim Campbell). The full-color, saturated visuals never slow down, the unpredictable panels constantly in motion as if unable to hold the story back. The petrifying horror won’t be contained - "She grows. She waits." '' - BOOKLIST Starred Review

Es beginnt mit einem Toten, der sich plötzlich von der Bahre erhebt und zwei Pathologen angreift. Schnell breitet sich das Phänomen über das ganze Land aus: In einer Wohnwagensiedlung im Mittleren Westen müssen eine junge Schwarze und ein muslimischer Einwanderer gegen ihre toten Freunde kämpfen, die aus ihren Gräbern hervorgekrochen sind. Auf einem Flugzeugträger der US Navy verstecken sich die überlebenden Seeleute vor ihren untoten Kameraden. Ein einsamer Nachrichtensprecher sendet weiter, bis seine wiederauferstandenen Kollegen kommen, um ihn zu zerfleischen. In Washington, D.C., dokumentiert eine autistische Bundesbeamtin die Ausbrüche für eine Nachwelt, die es vielleicht nie geben wird. Im ganzen Land kämpfen die Lebenden gegen die Toten. Wir dachten, wir wüssten, wie diese Geschichte endet. Wir haben uns geirrt.

"Truly captivating." —The New York Times "A deliciously macabre fairy tale, full of snuggles.” —Holly Black, award-winning author of Doll Bones and co-creator of The Spiderwick Chronicles Welcome to The Teddies Saga, a gripping new middle grade trilogy from New York Times-bestselling author Daniel Kraus and illustrator Rovina Cai. Buddy wakes up in the middle of a garbage dump, filled with a certain awareness: he’s a teddy bear; he spent time at a Store waiting for his future to begin; and he is meant for the loving arms of a child. Now he knows one more thing: Something has gone terribly wrong. Soon he finds other discarded teddies—Horace, Sugar, Sunny, and Reginald. Though they aren’t sure how their luck soured, they all agree that they need to get back to the Store if they’re ever to fulfill their destinies. So, they embark on a perilous trek across the dump and into the outer world. With ravenous rats, screeching gulls, and a menacing world in front of them, the teddies will need to overcome insurmountable challenges to find their way home. Equal parts Toy Story and Lord of the Flies, They Threw Us Away is the unforgettable start of a captivating series.

“A horror landmark and a work of gory genius.”—Joe Hill, New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman New York Times bestselling author Daniel Kraus completes George A. Romero''s brand-new masterpiece of zombie horror, the massive novel left unfinished at Romero''s death! George A. Romero invented the modern zombie with Night of the Living Dead, creating a monster that has become a key part of pop culture. Romero often felt hemmed in by the constraints of film-making. To tell the story of the rise of the zombies and the fall of humanity the way it should be told, Romero turned to fiction. Unfortunately, when he died, the story was incomplete. Enter Daniel Kraus, co-author, with Guillermo del Toro, of the New York Times bestseller The Shape of Water (based on the Academy Award-winning movie) and Trollhunters (which became an Emmy Award-winning series), and author of The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch (an Entertainment Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year). A lifelong Romero fan, Kraus was honored to be asked, by Romero''s widow, to complete The Living Dead. Set in the present day, The Living Dead is an entirely new tale, the story of the zombie plague as George A. Romero wanted to tell it. It begins with one body. A pair of medical examiners find themselves battling a dead man who won’t stay dead. It spreads quickly. In a Midwestern trailer park, a Black teenage girl and a Muslim immigrant battle newly-risen friends and family. On a US aircraft carrier, living sailors hide from dead ones while a fanatic makes a new religion out of death. At a cable news station, a surviving anchor keeps broadcasting while his undead colleagues try to devour him. In DC, an autistic federal employee charts the outbreak, preserving data for a future that may never come. Everywhere, people are targeted by both the living and the dead. We think we know how this story ends. We. Are. Wrong. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

New York Times bestselling author Daniel Kraus completes George A. Romero''s brand-new masterpiece of zombie horror, the massive novel left unfinished at Romero''s death! Download a FREE sneak peek today! George A. Romero invented the modem zombie with Night of the Living Dead, creating a monster that has become a key part of pop culture. Romero often felt hemmed in by the constraints of film-making. To tell the story of the rise of the zombies and the fall of the humanity the way it should be told, Romero turned to fiction. Unfortunately, when he died, the story was incomplete. Enter Daniel Kraus, co-author, with Guillermo del Toro, of the New York Times bestseller The Shape of Water (based on the Academy Award-winning movie) and Trollhunters (which became an Emmy Award-winning series), and author of The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch (an Entertainment Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year). A lifelong Romero fan, Kraus was honored to be asked, by Romero''s wido, to complete The Living Dead. Set in the present day, The Living Dead is an entirely new tale, the story of the zombie plague as George A. Romero wanted to tell it. It begins with one body. A pair of medical examiners find themselves battling a dead man who won''t stay dead. It spreads quickly. In a Midwestern trailer park, a Black teenage girl and a Muslim immigrant battle newly-risen friends and family. On a US aircraft carrier, living sailors hide from dead ones while a fanatic makes a new religion out of death. At a cable news station, a surviving anchor keeps broadcasting while his undead colleagues try to devour him. In DC, an autistic federal employee charts the outbreak, preserving data for a future that may never come. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

“Kraus gets under your skin with brutal, elegant efficiency. Necessarily horrifying, devastatingly timely.”—Kiersten White, New York Times-bestselling author of The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein and Slayer From New York Times-bestselling author Daniel Kraus comes a breakneck, genre-defying YA thriller perfect for fans of Kiersten White, Neal Shusterman, and M. T. Anderson. Liv Fleming’s father went missing more than two years ago, not long after he claimed to have been abducted by aliens. Liv has long accepted that he’s dead, though that doesn’t mean she has given up their traditions. Every Sunday, she and her lifelong friend Doug Monk trudge through the woods to check the traps Lee left behind, traps he set to catch the aliens he so desperately believed were after him. But Liv is done with childhood fantasies. Done pretending she believes her father’s absurd theories. Done going through the motions for Doug’s sake. However, on the very day she chooses to destroy the traps, she discovers in one of them a creature so inhuman it can only be one thing. In that moment, she’s faced with a painful realization: her dad was telling the truth. And no one believed him. Now, she and Doug have a choice to make. They can turn the alien over to the authorities...or they can take matters into their own hands. On the heels of the worldwide success of The Shape of Water, Daniel Kraus returns with a horrifying and heartbreaking thriller about the lengths people go to find justice and the painful reality of grief. “Bent Heavens is the darkest, angriest alien horror story that I''ve ever encountered. Hell. Yes.”—Stephanie Perkins, New York Times-bestselling author of There''s Someone Inside Your House

From the co-author of the New York Times–bestselling novelization of The Shape of Water comes the blood-curdling story of a Halloween night where trick-or-treat becomes life-or-death In a ruined house at the end of Yellow Street, an angry outcast hatches a scheme to take revenge for all the wrongs he has suffered. With the help of three alienated kids, he plans to hide razor blades, poison, and broken glass in Halloween candy, maiming or killing dozens of innocent children. But as the clock ticks closer to sundown, will one of his helpers—an innocent himself, in his own streetwise way—carry out or defeat the plan? Told from the child’s point of view, in a voice as unforgettable as A Clockwork Orange, Kraus’ novel is at once frightening and emotional, thought-provoking and laugh-out-loud funny. It’ll make you rethink your concepts of family, loyalty, and justice—and will leave you double-checking the wrappers on your Halloween candy for the rest of your days. “A Stephen King tale told by a pidgin Artful Dodger, it’s a twisted little miracle with a sneaking, beating heart.” —Megan Abbott, New York Times–bestselling author of Give Me Your Hand

Master''s Thesis from the year 2018 in the subject Business economics - Trade and Distribution, grade: 1,3, German Graduate School of Management and Law gGmbH, language: English, abstract: This thesis comparatively investigates factors for customers satisfaction in voice commerce and e-commerce to assess the emphasis customers place on factors in both channels. Voice commerce is a newly evolving electronic commerce channel where customers communicate with dedicated systems on smart speakers, mobile phones or other devices using their voice, in order to find and order products. This thesis identifies customer satisfaction predictors that potentially differ between both channels: convenience and transaction process efficiency are based on previous research on chatbot and digital assistant expectations. In the area of recommendations, recommendation personalization (the degree of personalization of product recommendations) is identified from previous research. The construct of recommendation complexity has been created, which is the degree of detail and amount of information recommendations are presented. Differences in this domain of computer-human-interaction are explained by media richness theory, an application of neuro-ergonomics. Data was collected through a survey conducted on the crowdsourcing platform Amazon MTurk. The sample consisted of 178 US consumers that had purchased goods using both e-commerce and voice commerce. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used as well as multiple regression analysis for statistical hypotheses testing. Two SEM models were created for each voice commerce and e-commerce and both models were compared to investigate comparative hypotheses. This research enables product managers to recognize which factors of customers satisfaction differ from those in e-commerce. While developing their voice commerce strategy and system design, managers should emphasize convenience factors such as ease of use and ease of understanding, as well as an efficient transaction process.

The 2018 Academy Award''s Best Picture of the Year and New York Times-bestselling novel, The Shape of Water. From visionary storyteller Guillermo del Toro and celebrated author Daniel Kraus comes this haunting, heartbreaking love story. "[A] phenomenally enrapturing and reverberating work of art in its own right...[that] vividly illuminates the minds of the characters, greatly enhancing our understanding of their temperaments and predicaments and providing more expansive and involving story lines." —Booklist It is 1962, and Elisa Esposito—mute her whole life, orphaned as a child—is struggling with her humdrum existence as a janitor working the graveyard shift at Baltimore’s Occam Aerospace Research Center. Were it not for Zelda, a protective coworker, and Giles, her loving neighbor, she doesn’t know how she’d make it through the day. Then, one fateful night, she sees something she was never meant to see, the Center’s most sensitive asset ever: an amphibious man, captured in the Amazon, to be studied for Cold War advancements. The creature is terrifying but also magnificent, capable of language and of understanding emotions...and Elisa can’t keep away. Using sign language, the two learn to communicate. Soon, affection turns into love, and the creature becomes Elisa’s sole reason to live. But outside forces are pressing in. Richard Strickland, the obsessed soldier who tracked the asset through the Amazon, wants nothing more than to dissect it before the Russians get a chance to steal it. Elisa has no choice but to risk everything to save her beloved. With the help of Zelda and Giles, Elisa hatches a plan to break out the creature. But Strickland is on to them. And the Russians are, indeed, coming. Developed from the ground up as a bold two-tiered release—one story interpreted by two artists in the independent mediums of literature and film—The Shape of Water is unlike anything you’ve ever read or seen. “Most movie novelizations do little more than write down what audiences see on the screen. But the novel that’s accompanying Guillermo del Toro’s new movie The Shape of Water is no mere adaptation. Co-author Daniel Kraus’ book and the film tell the same story, of a mute woman who falls in love with an imprisoned and equally mute creature, in two very different ways.” —io9 Praise for The Shape of Water directed by Guillermo del Toro Winner of the 2018 Academy Award for Best Picture Winner of the 2018 Academy Award for Best Director Winner of the 2018 Academy Award for Music (Original Score) Winner of the 2018 Academy Award for Production Design Winner of the 2018 Golden Globe Award for Best Director of a Motion Picture "With encouragement from critics and awards voters, discerning viewers should make Fox Searchlight’s December release the season’s classiest date movie—for perhaps the greatest of The Shape of Water’s many surprises is how extravagantly romantic it is.” —Variety "A visually and emotionally ravishing fantasy that should find a welcome embrace from audiences starved for imaginative escape.” —The Hollywood Reporter Awarded the Golden Lion for Best Film at the 74th Annual Venice International Film Festival

IL ROMANZO CHE HA ISPIRATO IL FILM VINCITORE DEL LEONE D’ORO E DI 4 OSCAR «Dal talento visionario di Guillermo Del Toro e Daniel Kraus, una favola dark, spaventosa e romantica.» D - La Repubblica - Eva Grippa «Dal talento visionario di Guillermo del Toro e Daniel Kraus, una favola dark, spaventosa e romantica.» D - la Repubblica Guillermo del Toro e Daniel Kraus hanno unito i loro talenti di narratori visionari e celebrati in tutto il mondo dando vita a una storia d’amore tormentata e struggente. Baltimora, 1962. Al Centro di Ricerca Aerospaziale di Occam è stata appena consegnata la «risorsa» più delicata e preziosa che abbia mai ricevuto: un uomo anfibio, catturato in Amazzonia. Il suo arrivo segna anche l’inizio di un commovente rapporto tra la singolare creatura ed Elisa, una donna muta che lavora al centro come addetta alle pulizie e usa il linguaggio dei segni per comunicare. Immaginazione, paura e romanticismo si mescolano in una storia d’amore avvincente, arricchita dalle illustrazioni di James Jean e destinata a conquistare lettori e spettatori. La forma dell’acqua – The Shape of Water è una storia diversa da qualsiasi cosa abbiamo letto o visto finora. Una storia unica, creata e interpretata da due artisti capaci di farci sognare in ugual misura con un libro e con un film, con le parole e con le immagini.

A história de Guillermo del Toro que deu origem ao filme vencedor do Leão de Ouro no Festival de Veneza, recordista de indicações ao Globo de Ouro e um dos mais cotados na corrida do Oscar 2018. Richard Strickland é um oficial do governo dos Estados Unidos enviado à Amazônia para capturar um ser mítico e misterioso cujos poderes inimagináveis seriam utilizados para aumentar a potência militar do país, em plena Guerra Fria. Dezessete meses depois, o homem enfim retorna à pátria, levando consigo o deus Brânquia, o deus de guelras, um homem-peixe que representa para Strickland a selvageria, a insipidez, o calor — o homem que ele próprio se tornou, e quem detesta ser. Para Elisa Esposito, uma das faxineiras do centro de pesquisas para o qual o deus Brânquia é levado, a criatura representa a esperança, a salvação para sua vida sem graça cercada de silêncio e invisibilidade. Richard e Elisa travam uma batalha tácita e perigosa. Enquanto para um o homem-peixe é só um objeto a ser dissecado, subjugado e exterminado, para a outra ele é um amigo, um companheiro que a escuta quando ninguém mais o faz, alguém cuja existência deve ser preservada. Mistura bem dosada de conto de fadas, terror e suspense, A forma da água traz o estilo inconfundível e marcante de Guillermo del Toro, numa narrativa que se expande nas brilhantes ilustrações de James Jean e no filme homônimo, vencedor do Leão de Ouro em 2017. Uma história cinematográfica e atemporal sobre um homem e seus traumas, uma mulher e sua solidão, e o deus que muda para sempre essas duas vidas.

From the coauthor of the New York Times bestselling The Shape of Water comes the “utterly riveting” (Entertainment Weekly) complete life—and death—of Zebulon Finch, now available in a magnificent hardcover boxed set. At the end of the twentieth century, seventeen-year-old Zebulon Finch is voluntarily being sealed into a tomb far beneath the World Trade Center. After a long, grueling journey across American history, he is determined to fade away into the darkness at last—but not before setting the record straight on his infamous “life” once and for all. So he begins to write his story, starting in 1896—the year he was shot to death on a beach by a fellow Chicago gangster. Zebulon spent a mere twenty minutes in the void before waking up to find that his corpse still lived. After being swept into Lake Michigan, hooked by a fisherman, and sold to a traveling medicine show, he began to live a second life quite unlike the first. As decade after decade passes, Zebulon slowly comes to understand the meaning of life even as everyone he knows succumbs to death—friends, enemies, and lovers alike. Grand, thrilling, heartbreaking, funny, and ambitious at every turn, The Death & Life of Zebulon Finch is not just one young man’s story. Rather, it is the story of America itself, the story of what it means to be human in a world so often lacking in humanity.

From the coauthor of the New York Times bestselling The Shape of Water comes the second and final book in the “utterly riveting” (Entertainment Weekly) epic tale about a murdered teen who is resurrected to walk the earth for more than a century. Zebulon Finch has faced more violence, lust, and heartbreak than any other seventeen-year-old in history. But nothing can prepare him for what is coming next. Half a century has passed since Zebulon Finch was gunned down and then inexplicably resurrected to experience a second life. Picking up his tale where he left off, Zebulon heads to Nazi Germany on a top-secret mission. From there he escapes to the shiny new world of the suburbs—a tidy neighborhood hiding dark secrets. He will exchange the pains of this world for what he believes will be peace among the stars. He will march for social change all the way to Woodstock, go raving mad in the desert, and finally exit from humanity the only way he knows how. We first met Zebulon sealed in a tomb beneath the World Trade Center—might he yet crawl from the rubble to discover a different America? Enthralling and gut-wrenching, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Volume Two: Empire Decayed is the conclusion to the epic saga of one young man’s journey down the long road to redemption.

"The story follows Zebulon Finch, a teenager murdered in 1896 Chicago who inexplicably returns from the dead and searches for redemption through the ages."--

O estilo inconfundível e marcante de Guillermo del Toro, sempre envolvendo universos mágicos, criaturas fantásticas e histórias espantosas, está presente em toda a sua obra como cineasta, roteirista, produtor e autor. Em Caçadores de trolls, ele presenteia os leitores com uma história sombria e de dar arrepios, com ilustrações capazes de nos transportar para um mundo paralelo apavorante. Jim Sturges é o típico adolescente na cidade de San Bernardino: tem um pai superprotetor, um melhor amigo meio desajeitado e uma paixão platônica por uma menina que nem sabe que ele existe. Mas isso tudo muda quando um mistério de décadas ressurge, ameaçando a vida de todos os moradores da entediante cidadezinha. Junto com um grupo de heróis improváveis, Jim terá que enfrentar monstros com um gosto especial por carne humana. Um livro sobre os medos e criaturas que se ocultam onde menos se espera.

Equal parts haunting and horrifying, this literary horror novel gives readers insight into the mind of a controlling homicidal man and the son who must stop him. "Marvin Burke is one of the great monsters of literature, a figure of immense, credible terror and savagery."--Cory Doctorow, author of Little Children and coeditor of Boing Boing Imagine your father is a monster. Would that mean there are monsters inside you, too? Nineteen-year-old Ry Burke, his mother, and little sister eke out a living on their dying family farm. Ry wishes for anything to distract him from the grim memories of his father’s physical and emotional abuse. Then a meteorite falls from the sky, bringing with it not only a fragment from another world but also the arrival of a ruthless man intent on destroying the entire family. Soon Ry is forced to defend himself by resurrecting a trio of imaginary childhood protectors: kindly Mr. Furrington, wise Jesus, and the bloodthirsty Scowler.

In this thesis, an introduction to Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) combining both theory and application is presented. The basis of the NMPC is described to give a general idea how this process control strategy works. For this purpose, two test casestudies are implemented. The first one is a simple two tanks in series to get acquainted with open-source platform the JModelica.org and the Optimica extension.Finally, a more complex example, which consists of solving a start-up problem of a steam boiler using the JModelica framework, is provided. The results demonstrate the effort saved in solving an optimal control problem when using the JModelica framework in comparison to individual, case-specifically arranged solutions.

Many loan commitment contracts contain a material adverse change clause which allows banks to renege or step back from their commitment based on rather subjective claims regarding the borrowers'' prospective financial situation. While this sounds like an attractive option for banks, empirical evidence shows that, despite its frequent appearance in contracts, the clause is rarely invoked (cf. Sufi, 2009; Ivashina and Scharfstein, 2010). In the present paper, we argue that this is due to the fact that, in combination with appropriate pricing on the spot loan market, the clause is essentially an effective means to screen the borrowers'' riskiness. In particular, it renders loan commitment contracts comparably more expensive for high-risk borrowers, thereby directing them to the spot loan market. Low-risk borrowers, in turn, are still attracted to loan commitment contracts as for them the implicit extra cost is lower. Thus, in equilibrium, there is no need for banks to step back from earlier promises. Moreover, we show that the presence of the clause increases welfare as it decreases credit rationing for low-risk entrepreneurs and reduces total loan costs.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Whalefall, The Shape of Water with Guillermo del Toro, Scowler, and more, comes Rotters. Grave-robbing. What kind of monster would do such a thing? It''s true that Leonardo da Vinci did it, Shakespeare wrote about it, and the resurrection men of nineteenth-century Scotland practically made it an art. But none of this matters to Joey Crouch, a sixteen-year-old straight-A student living in Chicago with his single mom. For the most part, Joey''s life is about playing the trumpet and avoiding the daily humiliations of high school. Everything changes when Joey''s mother dies in a tragic accident and he is sent to rural Iowa to live with the father he has never known, a strange, solitary man with unimaginable secrets. At first, Joey''s father wants nothing to do with him, but once father and son come to terms with each other, Joey''s life takes a turn both macabre and exhilarating. Daniel Kraus''s masterful plotting and unforgettable characters make Rotters a moving, terrifying, and unconventional epic about fathers and sons, complex family ties, taboos, and the ever-present specter of mortality.