"The true story of Ivan, known as the Shopping Mall Gorilla, who lived alone in a small cage for almost 30 years before being relocated to the gorilla habitat at ZooAtlanta."-- Provided by publisher.

When a deranged murderer traps Jo and her friends in a defunct shopping center, their only chance of survival is to navigate the sprawling ruins of the mall and outwit the killer before they strike again.

An entertaining and evocative stroll through the rise, fall, and ongoing reinvention of malls -- which proved to be a powerful draw for creative thinkers including Joan Didion, Ray Bradbury, and George Romero -- chronicles how the design of these marketplaces played an integral role in cultural ascent.

"Describes the behind-the-scenes places of a shopping mall"--Provided by publisher.

When high school junior Tessa Reynolds falls into a coma after getting hit in the head during gym class, she experiences heaven as the mall where her parents work, and she revisits key events from her life, causing her to reevaluate herself and how she wants to live.

Fourteen-year-old Doreen Green's work as a superhero leads to problems with her life in middle school, but when a new shopping mall creates turmoil between two towns, Squirrel Girl is on the case.

India is undergoing a retail revolution in which the aspiring middle-class is demanding more western goods and services. Modern malls are muscling into the traditional marketplace, pushing India's economic infrastructure to the limits and threatening to put thousands of bazaar owners and small farmers out of business. In Hindi "Mallamall" literally means "bountiful goods," and nowhere else in the world are the markets so lively with their jewel-colored...

Over the course of two centuries, Americans went from buying supplies at general stores to shopping at megamalls and spending billions of dollars online. Spending Spree takes readers on an amazing journey to learn about the evolution of shopping in the United States.

While working at the mall, organizing a school fundraiser, and trying to prove that her best friend's boyfriend is seeing another girl, high-school student Charlotte's best intentions always seem to backfire.