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The Missing Hour - Robert Rutherford
***Winner of the Lindisfarne Prize for Crime Fiction***YOUR HUSBAND HAS BEEN ARRESTED.Maggie s husband is suddenly arrested in the middle of the night, on suspicion of murder.When Grant dies in custody, her world implodes.EVERYONE BELIEVES HE IS GUILTY. All the evidence points to Grant being a killer - including DNA at the scene.But how can this be true when he was with Maggie all night?ONLY YOU CAN PROVE THEM WRONG.Following a trail of deception, it s up to her to uncover the truth.But Maggie has a secret too. Something she hasn t told anyone.She was with her husband all night - apart from one missing hour...
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The Missing Hour - Robert Rutherford
***Winner of the Lindisfarne Prize for Crime Fiction***YOUR HUSBAND HAS BEEN ARRESTED.Maggie s husband is suddenly arrested in the middle of the night, on suspicion of murder.When Grant dies in custody, her world implodes.EVERYONE BELIEVES HE IS GUILTY.All the evidence points to Grant being a killer - including DNA at the scene.But how can this be true when he was with Maggie all night?ONLY YOU CAN PROVE THEM WRONG.Following a trail of deception, it s up to her to uncover the truth.But Maggie has a secret too. Something she hasn t told anyone.She was with her husband all night - apart from one missing hour...
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The Missing Hour - Robert Rutherford
***Winner of the Lindisfarne Prize for Crime Fiction***YOUR HUSBAND HAS BEEN ARRESTED.Maggie s husband is suddenly arrested in the middle of the night, on suspicion of murder.When Grant dies in custody, her world implodes.EVERYONE BELIEVES HE IS GUILTY.All the evidence points to Grant being a killer - including DNA at the scene.But how can this be true when he was with Maggie all night?ONLY YOU CAN PROVE THEM WRONG.Following a trail of deception, it s up to her to uncover the truth.But Maggie has a secret too. Something she hasn t told anyone.She was with her husband all night - apart from one missing hour...
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The Last Hour Study Guide â
As the last hour approaches, it s time to topple misconceptions and discern God s plan.We all have questions about the end times. But as Israeli Christian and respected Bible teacher Amir Tsarfati explains, biblical prophecy is a mystery, not a secret. Understanding is available to anyone who takes the time to study it. Designed as a companion to the bestselling and eye-opening book The Last Hour, this study guide is full of thought-provoking· reflection questions· discussion starters· Scripture studies· bonus reading material· and practical applicationAs the last hour approaches, rather than engaging in speculation and playing on people s fears, Amir poses real-life scenarios grounded in biblical truth and helps you explore biblical prophecy--and its modern-day application and fulfillment--in fresh and fascinating ways.Praise for The Last Hour: This timely book is a well-written, thrilling, thought-provoking, challenging, encouraging must-read. --Anne Graham Lotz What God has promised to His people, He is fulfilling. I believe that God is going to use The Last Hour to open hearts to the Gospel. --Dr. David Jeremiah
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The Drowning Hour - S. K. Tremayne
The unputdownable new psychological thriller from S K Tremayne, the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Ice TwinsA hotel brimming with wealthy guestsSurrounded by the Blackwater estuary, The Stanhope hotel sits on a beautiful remote island. Tonight is the grand reopening, and organiser Hannah watches the guests with pride.Celebration leads to tragedyBut as drinking descends into debauchery, drunken revellers wade into the water, unaware of the treacherous tide at The Drowning Hour.They are never seen again.Fear becomes phobiaTormented by a terror of water, Hannah is stuck on the island over winter. Whispers about That Night begin to circle.Someone knows what really happened in The Drowning Hour â “ and Hannah isnâ ™t safeâ ¦Gripping, atmospheric and twisty, The Drowning Hour is perfect for fans of C.J. Tudor and Ruth Ware.
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The Eleventh Hour - Salman Rushdie
Dazzling new short stories from Salman Rushdie that transport us around the world from Bombay neighbourhoods to elite English universitiesIf old age was thought of as an evening, ending in midnight oblivion, they were well into the eleventh hour. â ˜Salman Rushdie is a geniusâ ™ A.M. HomesTwo quarrelsome old men in Chennai, India, experience private tragedy during national calamity. Revisiting the Bombay neighbourhood of Midnight s Children, a magical musician is unhappily married to a multibillionaire. In an English university college, an undead academic asks a lonely student to avenge his former tormentor. These five dazzling works of fiction move between the three countries that Salman Rushdie has called home â “ India, England and America â “ and explore what it means to approach the eleventh hour of life. Do we accommodate ourselves to death, or rail against it? How can we bid farewell to the places that we have made home? The Eleventh Hour ponders life and death, legacy and identity with the penetrating insight and boundless imagination that have made Salman Rushdie one of the most celebrated writers of our time. Rushdieâ ™s wry sense of mischief remains undimmed Financial Times, *Books of the Year* One of the most important voices in contemporary literature Independentâ ˜Rushdie has not just enlarged literatureâ ™s capacities, he has expanded the worldâ ™s imaginative possibilitiesâ ™ The Times
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Margaret Rutherford - Andy Merriman
Margaret Rutherford was without a doubt one of Britain’ s best-loved comic actresses. But behind the kindly, serene front Rutherford presented to the world lay a life of trauma and repeated nervous breakdown – the legacy of the legacy of family tragedy that saw her father murder her grandfather during a bout of mental illness and her depressive mother later kill herself. Andy Merriman’ s acclaimed biography intrigued and shocked readers with these revelations when it was published in hardback. Now out in paperback, it is also a portrait of one of our most individual actresses. Rutherford appeared in such thoroughly English classics as Blithe Spirit, The importance of Being Earnest, Passport to Pimlico and I’ m All Right, Jack! But above all she was Miss Marple, in four films – and entirely created for the screen the role of Agatha Christie’ s elderly and fearless private detective that subsequent actresses like Joan Hickson and Geraldine McEwan have continued. Rutherford first played Miss Marple at the age of 70, and insisted on wearing her own clothes to feel right in the part. Above all, this was a vulnerable woman whom no-one failed to like and respect, notable again and again for quiet acts of kindness, whose life story has great appeal to everyone who appreciates both classic English comedy and simple human decency.
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The 24th Hour - James Patterson
The thrilling new instalment in the globally bestselling Women s Murder Club series.___________________________________________________Trouble is never far away . . . The Womenâ ™s Murder Club is out celebrating an engagement at San Franciscoâ ™s finest restaurant when a blood-curdling scream interrupts the festivities.They soon discover a young woman who has been the victim of a violent assault. Sergeant Lindsay Boxer makes an arrest. Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano takes the case.But assigning blame is made impossible due to the victimâ ™s chaotic version of events â “ and the shocking reason behind her ever-changing memory.As Yuki argues the toughest case of her career, Lindsay must chase down a high-society killer whose target practice may leave the Womenâ ™s Murder Club short a bridesmaid . . . or two.______________________________________________________Readers are loving The 24th Hour . . . These ladies are like family to me James Patterson does it again as only he can I would highly recommend this whole series to anyone Such an enjoyable read, so entertaining Juggernaut speed until the very end _______________________________________________PRAISE FOR THE WOMEN S MURDER CLUB Packed with action... a compelling read with great set pieces and, most of all, that charismatic cast of characters SUN I couldn t turn the pages quick enough. Great plot, fantastic storytelling and characters that spring off the page - all the right ingredients for a thriller! HEIDI PERKS Fast-moving, intricately plotted... Boxer steals the show as the tough cop with a good heart. MIRROR Terrific, high-octane, really pacy... every scene is a film, every character real, and every plot point leaves us breathless. JO SPAINThe 24th Hour was a No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller 17/03/2024
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The Violet Hour - James Cahill
An enthrallingly intricate novel . . . impressive GUARDIAN There s something of F. Scott Fitzgerald about the way Cahill writes about the very rich DAILY MAIL A biting satire of the art world s glamour, pomp and greed . . . lucid and evocative DAILY TELEGRAPH I really loved The Violet Hour . . . On one level it functions as a highbrow whodunnit, and grippingly so, but it s much more than that, building into a meditation on mortality and the unreliable consolations of art, love and materialism PATRICK GALE, author of Mother s Boy A thrilling story told in seductive, shimmering prose. Beauty, money, power, seduction, betrayal. It s all here in this bewitching and all too often troubling backstage pass to the commercial art world CHLOË ASHBY, author of Wet Paint I m overwhelmed by the beauty of James Cahill s writing and storytelling SANTANU BHATTACHARYA, author of Deviants Artists are slaves to their vanity. But in the end, in time, they see things as they really are. Thomas Haller has achieved the kind of fame that most artists only dream of: shows in London and New York, paintings sold for a fortune. The vision he presents to the world is one of an untouchable genius at the top of his game. It is also a lie. Who is the real Thomas Haller? His oldest friend and former dealer, Lorna, might once have known - before Thomas traded their early intimacy for international fame. Between his ruthless new dealer and a property mogul obsessed with his work, the appetite for Thomas and his art is all-consuming. On the eve of his latest show, the luminaries of the art world gather. But the sudden death of a young man has put everyone on edge, and a chain of events begins that will lead the friends back into the past, to confront who they have become. A story of deception, power play and longing, The Violet Hour exposes the unsettling underbelly of the art world, asking: who is granted admission to a world that only seems to glitter and who is left outside, their faces pressed to the glass?PRAISE FOR TIEPOLO BLUE The best novel I have read for ages . . . masterly STEPHEN FRY An exhilarating, erudite read VOGUE.COM Electric GUARDIAN Startlingly impressive DAILY MAIL
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The Witching Hour - Anne Rice
NOW A MAJOR TV SHOW, FROM THE NETWORK BEHIND THE WALKING DEAD---------------- Anne Riceâ ™s Mayfair Witches series is a surfeit of macabre delights, summoning up lush decadence, gothic secrets, and a little brimstone. Holly Black, Sunday Times bestselling author of Book of Night Rice s sprawling, supernatural family saga cements her in perpetuity as a titan of the gothic genre. Daring, dark, and lovely. S.T. Gibson, Sunday Times bestselling author of A Dowry of Blood A sensual, genre-defining thriller from the queen of gothic horror. Jay Kristoff, New York Times bestselling author of Empire of the Vampire Anne Rice did what so few writers do, and created something truly original. Cassandra Clare, New York Times bestselling author of Sword Catcher__________Rowan Mayfair is special.A brilliant neurosurgeon with a hidden legacy, sheâ ™s unaware that sheâ ™s a descendent of an ancient witch bloodline.Michael Curry was dead.When a drowned body washes up on the coast of California, Rowan finds him one day and brings him back to life.Now, he lives with a mysterious and terrifying new power.Drawn together by a fierce and irresistible bond, they must dive into the secrets that surround them both.And when dark truths are uncovered, the witching hour begins.A hypnotic novel of witchcraft and the occult across four centuries, by the spellbinding, bestselling author of The Vampire Chronicles.__________ A curious amalgam of gothic, glamour fiction, alternate history, and high soap opera. The Washington Post Book World [W]hen I found Rice s work I absolutely loved how she took that genre and (...) made [it] feel so contemporary and relevant. Sarah Pinborough, bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes [Rice wrote] in the great tradition of the gothic Ramsey Campbell, bestselling author of The Hungry Moon----------------READERS ABSOLUTELY THE WITCHING HOUR . . .***** Can t get enough! ***** Chilled me to the bone from the very beginning ***** Dark. Enthralling. Powerful. ***** After the first few pages, I couldn t put it down. ***** Her writing is so good. ***** I absolutely loved this book ***** These books are a wonderful world to enter ***** I am so hooked on this book ***** Haunting, elegant and twisted.
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The Midnight Hour - Elly Griffiths
**THE THRILLING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** If only all history mysteries could be as good as The Midnight Hour The TimesAn old man lies dead and it looks like poison, but his wife isn t the only one who had reason to kill him. Brighton, 1965When theatrical impresario Bert Billington is found dead in his retirement home, no one suspects foul play. But when the postmortem reveals that he was poisoned, suspicion falls on his wife, eccentric ex-Music Hall star Verity Malone. Frustrated by the police response to Bert s death and determined to prove her innocence, Verity calls in private detective duo Emma Holmes and Sam Collins. This is their first real case, but as luck would have it they have a friend on the inside: Max Mephisto is filming a remake of Dracula, starring Seth Billington, Bert s son. But when they question Max, they feel he isn t telling them the whole story.Emma and Sam must vie with the police to untangle the case and bring the killer to justice. They re sure the answers must lie in Bert s dark past and in the glamorous, occasionally deadly, days of Music Hall. But the closer they get to the truth, the more danger they find themselves in...***********PRAISE FOR THE MIDNIGHT HOUR An intricately plotted whodunnit Daily Mail Griffiths writes with verve and wit Irish Times An entertaining period murder mystery Irish Independent Layered with a gripping plot Belfast TelegraphA Sunday Times bestseller w/c 24/04/2022
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The Happy Hour - Cressida McLaughlin
Can they fall in love, sixty minutes at a time? Cressida s characters are wonderful Sarah Morgan Bursting with warmth Kirsty Greenwood We couldn t put this down! BELLA You ll devour this Woman s WeeklyThe deliciously captivating new standalone novel from the bestselling author of The Staycation and The Cornish Cream Tea series.Jess is happy working in Greenwich market selling trinkets to well-heeled locals and excitable tourists.Then one Sunday, Jess is thrown together with handsome, funny Ash, as they chase a pickpocket through the market, and before long they are making a habit of running into each other at the same time each week.Jess starts to realize that their hour together is the brightest part of her life. But Ash isnâ ™t telling her everything â “ can she discover the truth before itâ ™s too late?Readers LOVE The Happy Hour! I fell hard for this bookâ ¦ A summer must-read Reader review âââââ A gorgeous romance Reader review âââââ Absolutely beautiful â ¦ heartwarming and romantic Reader review âââââ This is an amazing book! Reader review âââââ I couldnâ ™t put it downâ ¦ Reader review âââââ This has everything I want in a good read Reader review âââââ
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The Blue Hour - Paula Hawkins
â ˜Vivid, extremely tense, unnervingly unputdownable. This is a superb, powerful read.â ™ Independentâ ˜Undoubtedly Hawkinsâ ™ best novel yetâ ™ Observer*****For twelve hours each day, the Scottish island of Eris is cut off from the mainland. No way in. No way out.The islandâ ™s only house was once home to Vanessa, whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared twenty years ago. Now this remote and beautiful place is home to Grace . . . a solitary creature of the tides, guarding the islandâ ™s past.But far away in London, a stranger has just made a startling discovery - a human bone where no human bone should be. And in that moment Graceâ ™s precious isolation is threatened.How will she respond? Can she be trusted? Or is it Grace who should be afraid?Suddenly this is a very dangerous time to be alone . . . A darkly atmospheric, engaging mystery - her best book since The Girl On The Train. Good Housekeeping (Book of the Year)*****Readers are OBSESSED with The Blue Hour! This blew me away. I want to read it again IMMEDIATELY. Itâ ™s creepy, unsettling and tense. 5-STAR Reader Review I soaked up every bit of this book, savoured every word. I didn t want it to end but when it did, it did so in chilling style. Brilliant! 5-STAR Reader Review Once again, Hawkins has produced an irresistible, gripping story that I was completely immersed in from page one. 5-STAR Reader Review------------More praise for The Blue Hour:â ˜Really, really, REALLY good. Highly recommended!â ™ MARIAN KEYES A fine, insidious thriller. The Mail on Sunday Gorgeous and chilling. SHARI LAPENA Extremely hard to put down. MICK HERRONâ ˜Paula s very best book. . . and a bloody good read.â ™ LIZ NUGENTThe Girl on the Train, global No.1 bestseller, The Bookseller Feb 2024Paula Hawkins, Sunday Times bestseller, October 2024
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The Midnight Hour - Eve Chase
The Richard and Judy Book Club Pick The #1 eBook Bestseller Uncover the secrets that lie beneath Notting Hill; the captivating new mystery from Sunday Times bestseller Eve Chase â “ now in paperback! A clever mystery that kept me gripped. I loved every word Claire Douglas Passionately emotional, dreamily written and dripping with boho glamour Daily Mail A book you want to race back to Lisa Jewell A wonderful twisty novel of family and secrets Kate Morton Moody, evocative, with a dream-like quality no other author can master Gillian McAllister Lush, evocative, nostalgic; gripping. A true treat of a book Sarah Vaughan Impossible to forget Publishers Weekly, starred review*****Present day Paris: Maggie Parker receives a call. The new owners of her familyâ ™s old Notting Hill home are digging up the basement. Theyâ ™ve no idea what might lie beneath . . .London, twenty-one years earlier: teenaged Maggie, babysitting her little brother, waits in vain for her mother to come home after a night out. Seeking clues to her motherâ ™s mysterious disappearance, she s drawn away from the neighbourhoodâ ™s grand terraces and into its hustling backstreets - and the arms of someone else living on their wits.Over two decades later, the clock is ticking on a secret set to shatter Maggieâ ™s grown-up life. But the draw of the past is irresistible . . . *****Praise for The Midnight Hour: Evocative, beautifully written and absolutely gripping, The Midnight Hour is sensationalâ ™ Rosie Walsh A gripping tale of family secrets Woman s Own I was up all night reading Elizabeth Fremantle Engrossing, atmospheric and beautifully written Anna Mazzola A plot as tightly sprung as a Swiss watch Veronica Henry Absorbing and compulsive . . . a brilliantly imagined and beautifully written story Hazel Gaynor An exquisitely-written, immersive mystery Tammy Cohen I adored every word Gill Paul So vivid, it s like a time machine Tasmina Perry
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The Big Empty - Robert Crais
Private investigator Elvis Cole and his enigmatic partner Joe Pike face a cryptic case and a terrifyingly unpredictable killer in this twisty, edge-of-your-seat thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Crais. ‘Elvis Cole and Joe Pike are right up there with Harry Bosch and Reacher as must reads for me. Robert Crais has mastered the fine art of storytelling’ James Patterson ‘Robert Crais has crafted another masterpiece, delivering a gripping page-turner and a profound exploration of hidden evils; an edge-of-your-seat reading experience that will stay with you long after the final page’ Ryan Steck ‘Hands down the best book I’ve read this year. Simply incredible … it’s intricately plotted, full of Crais’s trademark wit, and packed with characters that leap off the page. Simply sensational’ M. W. CravenTraci Beller was only thirteen when her father disappeared in the sleepy town of Rancha, not far from Los Angeles. The evidence says Tommy Beller abandoned his family, but Traci never believed it. Now a super-popular influencer with millions of followers, she finally has the money to hire a new detective to uncover the truth. And that detective is Elvis Cole. Taking on a ten-years-cold missing person case is almost always a losing game, though Elvis quickly picks up a lead in Rancha when he learns that an ex-con named Sadie Givens and her daughter Anya might have a line on the missing man. But when he finds himself shadowed by a deadly gang of vicious criminals, the case flips on its head. Victims become predators, predators become prey, and when everyone is a victim, will it be possible to save them all? Calling on the help of his ex-Marine friend, Joe Pike, Elvis follows Tommy Beller #39;s trail into the twisted, nightmarish depths of a monstrous evil, even as what he finds tests his loyalty to his clients, and to himself. But the truth must come out, no matter the cost.Elvis must face The Big Empty and see justice done.PRAISE FOR ROBERT CRAIS: #39;Robert Crais is my favourite crime writer. #39; M. W. Craven ‘The smoothest writing and best storytelling you #39;ll ever read’ David Baldacci ‘A modern master of crime fiction’ Gregg Hurwitz ‘Robert Crais – and Joe Pike – will have you by the throat’ Independent #39;Just keeps getting better and better #39; Evening Standard ‘Robert Crais is hands-down the World’s Greatest Crime Fiction Writer’ Huffington Post ‘Expertly delivers his customary modern-day riff on the 1940s hardboiled idiom’ Guardian ‘Cleverly plotted, stylishly written’ Washington Post ‘One of the most reliable storytellers in modern crime fiction’ Daily Mail
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The Missing Piece - Paul Martino, Stacey Martino
Relationship experts Stacey and Paul Martino share their norm-shattering method to single-handedly transform your relationship, create unshakable love, and unleash deeper passion.After 14+ years of helping thousands of people to save their marriages, Stacey and Paul Martino are finally releasing their book to share their unique Relationship Development® Methodology with the world. The surprising paradigm the Martinosâ ™ have uncovered has been The Missing Piece in our knowledge of human relationships. They demonstrate why the old relationship paradigm is broken, why couples work is actually destructive, and how their norm-shattering one-person methodology can be easily learned by the reader to enable them to single-handedly transform their marriage, stop the kerfuffles, and bring harmony back to their home.The Martinos have proven that marriage isnâ ™t a â œmental healthâ or even a personality issue. Instead, thriving relationships are the result of a skill set that nobody else has been able to figure-out, until now.Packed with tools, this book demonstrates how one person can quickly begin to transform their relationship, without compromise or pleasing and without having to convince their partner to get on board.At a time when divorce rates are sky high and families are unnecessarily suffering, The Missing Piece provides powerful solutions to help the reader navigate real-life situations harmoniously, regardless of what they are currently facing.Written in a relatable and actionable style, this book is an indispensable guide.Whether the reader wishes to make a great relationship even better, rescue a marriage on the brink of divorce or heal a co-parenting relationship affecting their family, this book has the answers they need. Giving them the piece that has been missing all this time.There has never been a book published which promises a one-person relationship method before. But this isnâ ™t just a theory or idea, the Relationship Development Methodology has been proven by many students, over many years. Now itâ ™s your turn to finally get The Missing Piece.
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The Witching Hour - Jess Kiddová, Andrew Michael Hurley, Stuart Turton, Natasha Pulley, Bridget Collins, Elizabeth Macneal, Laura Shepherd-Robinsonová
FROM THE CREATORS OF THE HAUNTING SEASON AND THE WINTER SPIRITS COMES A BRAND NEW COLLECTION OF GHOSTLY TALESFeaturing new and original stories from:Michelle PaverStacey HallsBridget CollinsImogen Hermes GowarKiran Millwood HargraveAndrew Michael HurleyJess KiddNatasha PulleyElizabeth MacnealSusan Stokes-ChapmanLaura Shepherd-RobinsonStuart TurtonCatriona Ward_________There is something peculiar about the hour after midnight.It is the time when darkness reigns.And strange things roam the earth.In this dazzling collection of original haunted tales, thirteen bestselling and much-loved authors bring the old superstition of the witching hour to new and vivid life.Transporting you from the smog of London to the freezing mists of Svalbard, from an Irish town riddled with rumour to a sinister English boarding school, these thirteen stories will serve as your spinetingling companion to the long hours of winter.So curl up, light a candle, and wait for the clock to strike . . .
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The Shadow Rising - Robert Jordan
The Wheel of Time is now an original series on Prime Video, starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine! In The Shadow Rising, the fourth novel in Robert Jordan⠙s #1 New York Times bestselling epic fantasy series, The Wheel of Time®, Rand al⠙Thor now wields the sword Callandor. He is both the Champion of Light and the Dragon Reborn. Now, he seeks answers to another prophecy that lies with the warrior people known as the Aiel to put him on the path of learning how to wield the One Power.Accompanied by Moiraine Damodred, Rand arrives at the Aiel Waste and is granted permission by the Wise Ones to enter the sacred city of Rhuidean. After passing through a doorframe ter angreal, Moiraine gains foresight while the Aiel await Rand s return, either with both arms marked by dragon symbols, validating his identity as He Who Comes With the Dawn, the Chief of Chiefs of all the Aiel⠔or to never emerge at all.Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time® has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters. The last six books in series were all instant #1 New York Times bestsellers, and The Eye of the World was named one of America s best-loved novels by PBS s The Great American Read.The Wheel of Time®New Spring: The Novel#1 The Eye of the World#2 The Great Hunt#3 The Dragon Reborn#4 The Shadow Rising#5 The Fires of Heaven#6 Lord of Chaos#7 A Crown of Swords#8 The Path of Daggers#9 Winter s Heart#10 Crossroads of Twilight#11 Knife of DreamsBy Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson#12 The Gathering Storm#13 Towers of Midnight#14 A Memory of LightBy Robert Jordan and Teresa PattersonThe World of Robert Jordan s The Wheel of TimeBy Robert Jordan, Harriet McDougal, Alan Romanczuk, and Maria SimonsThe Wheel of Time CompanionBy Robert Jordan and Amy RomanczukPatterns of the Wheel: Coloring Art Based on Robert Jordan s The Wheel of Time
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The Great Hunt - Robert Jordan
The Wheel of Time is now an original series on Prime Video, starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine!In The Great Hunt, the second novel in Robert Jordan s #1 New York Times bestselling epic fantasy series, The Wheel of Time(R), Rand al Thor and his companions set out to retrieve a powerful artifact from The Dark One s Shadowspawn.For centuries, gleemen have told the tales of The Great Hunt of the Horn. So many tales about each of the Hunters, and so many Hunters to tell of...Now the Horn itself is found: the Horn of Valere long thought only legend, the Horn which will raise the dead heroes of the ages. And it is stolen.In pursuit of the thieves, Rand al Thor is determined to keep the Horn out of the grasp of The Dark One. But he has also learned that he is The Dragon Reborn-the Champion of Light destined to stand against the Shadow time and again. It is a duty and a destiny that requires Rand to uncover and master extraordinary capabilities he never imagined he possessed. Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time(R) has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters. The last six books in series were all instant #1 New York Times bestsellers, and The Eye of the World was named one of America s best-loved novels by PBS s The Great American Read.The Wheel of Time(R)New Spring: The Novel#1 The Eye of the World#2 The Great Hunt#3 The Dragon Reborn#4 The Shadow Rising#5 The Fires of Heaven#6 Lord of Chaos#7 A Crown of Swords#8 The Path of Daggers#9 Winter s Heart#10 Crossroads of Twilight#11 Knife of DreamsBy Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson#12 The Gathering Storm#13 Towers of Midnight#14 A Memory of LightBy Robert Jordan and Teresa PattersonThe World of Robert Jordan s The Wheel of TimeBy Robert Jordan, Harriet McDougal, Alan Romanczuk, and Maria SimonsThe Wheel of Time CompanionBy Robert Jordan and Amy RomanczukPatterns of the Wheel: Coloring Art Based on Robert Jordan s The Wheel of Time
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A Map for the Missing
Longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s 2022 First Novel Prize!“Belinda Huijuan Tang’s debut novel is a beautifully drawn, sensitively rendered portrait of a man desperately searching for his father—and for reconnection to the past and people he once knew and loved. Both rich in historical detail and timeless in scope, A Map for the Missing explores the costs of choosing your own path, whether what’s left behind can ever be retrieved, and whether it is possible to forgive the wounds we inevitably inflict on each other.” —Celeste Ng, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere“An engrossing saga of a young mathematician caught between two countries, two cultures, two eras, and two loves. Set against the violent turmoil of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, this powerful debut explores the wrenching impact of political ideologies on individual lives in a way that is resonant and timely.” —Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and Emptiness and A Tale for the Time BeingAn epic, mesmerizing debut novel set against a rapidly changing post–Cultural Revolution China, A Map for the Missing reckons with the costs of pursuing one’s dreams and the lives we leave behindTang Yitian has been living in America for almost a decade when he receives an urgent phone call from his mother: his father has disappeared from the family’s rural village in China. Though they have been estranged for years, Yitian promises to come home. When Yitian attempts to piece together what may have happened, he struggles to navigate China’s impenetrable bureaucracy as an outsider, and his mother’s evasiveness only deepens the mystery. So he seeks out a childhood friend who may be in a position to help: Tian Hanwen, the only other person who shared Yitian’s desire to pursue a life of knowledge. As a teenager, Hanwen was “sent down” from Shanghai to Yitian’s village as part of the country’s rustication campaign. Young and in love, they dreamed of attending university in the city together. But when their plans resulted in a terrible tragedy, their paths diverged, and while Yitian ended up a professor in America, Hanwen was left behind, resigned to life as a midlevel bureaucrat’s wealthy housewife. Reuniting for the first time as adults, Yitian and Hanwen embark on the search for Yitian’s father, all the while grappling with the past—who Yitian’s father really was, and what might have been. Spanning the late 1970s to 1990s and moving effortlessly between rural provinces and big cities, A Map for the Missing is a deeply felt examination of family and forgiveness, and the meaning of home.
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The Missing Billionaires - James White, Victor Haghani
An Economist Best Book of the Year Making Money and Keeping It â “ The Wall Street Journal Over the past century, if the wealthiest families had spent a reasonable fraction of their wealth, paid taxes, invested in the stock market, and passed their wealth down to the next generation, there would be tens of thousands of billionaire heirs to generations-old fortunes today. The puzzle of The Missing Billionaires is why you cannot find one such billionaire on any current rich list. There are a number of explanations, but this book is focused on one mistake which is of profound importance to all investors: poor risk decisions, both in investing and spending. Many of these families didnâ ™t choose bad investmentsâ “ they sized them incorrectlyâ “ and allowed their spending decisions to amplify this mistake. The Missing Billionaires book offers a simple yet powerful framework for making important lifetime financial decisions in a systematic and rational way. It s for readers with a baseline level of financial literacy, but doesnâ ™t require a PhD. It fills the gap between personal finance books and the academic literature, bringing the valuable insights of academic finance to non-specialists. Part One builds the theory of optimal investment sizing from first principles, starting with betting on biased coins. Part Two covers lifetime financial decision-making, with emphasis on the integration of investment, saving and spending decisions. Part Three covers practical implementation details, including how to calibrate your personal level of risk-aversion, and how to estimate the expected return and risk on a broad spectrum of investments. The book is packed with case studies and anecdotes, including one about Victorâ ™s investment with LTCM as a partner, and a bonus chapter on Liarâ ™s Poker. The authors draw extensively on their own experiences as principals of Elm Wealth, a multi-billion-dollar wealth management practice, and prior to that on their years as arbitrage tradersâ “ Victor at Salomon Brothers and LTCM, and James at Nationsbank/CRT and Citadel. Whether you are young and building wealth, an entrepreneur invested heavily in your own business, or at a stage where your primary focus is investing and spending, The Missing Billionaires: A Guide to Better Financial Decisions is your must-have resource for thoughtful financial decision-making.
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A Map for the Missing
Longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s 2022 First Novel Prize!“Belinda Huijuan Tang’s debut novel is a beautifully drawn, sensitively rendered portrait of a man desperately searching for his father—and for reconnection to the past and people he once knew and loved. Both rich in historical detail and timeless in scope, A Map for the Missing explores the costs of choosing your own path, whether what’s left behind can ever be retrieved, and whether it is possible to forgive the wounds we inevitably inflict on each other.” —Celeste Ng, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere“An engrossing saga of a young mathematician caught between two countries, two cultures, two eras, and two loves. Set against the violent turmoil of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, this powerful debut explores the wrenching impact of political ideologies on individual lives in a way that is resonant and timely.” —Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and Emptiness and A Tale for the Time BeingAn epic, mesmerizing debut novel set against a rapidly changing post–Cultural Revolution China, A Map for the Missing reckons with the costs of pursuing one’s dreams and the lives we leave behindTang Yitian has been living in America for almost a decade when he receives an urgent phone call from his mother: his father has disappeared from the family’s rural village in China. Though they have been estranged for years, Yitian promises to come home. When Yitian attempts to piece together what may have happened, he struggles to navigate China’s impenetrable bureaucracy as an outsider, and his mother’s evasiveness only deepens the mystery. So he seeks out a childhood friend who may be in a position to help: Tian Hanwen, the only other person who shared Yitian’s desire to pursue a life of knowledge. As a teenager, Hanwen was “sent down” from Shanghai to Yitian’s village as part of the country’s rustication campaign. Young and in love, they dreamed of attending university in the city together. But when their plans resulted in a terrible tragedy, their paths diverged, and while Yitian ended up a professor in America, Hanwen was left behind, resigned to life as a midlevel bureaucrat’s wealthy housewife. Reuniting for the first time as adults, Yitian and Hanwen embark on the search for Yitian’s father, all the while grappling with the past—who Yitian’s father really was, and what might have been. Spanning the late 1970s to 1990s and moving effortlessly between rural provinces and big cities, A Map for the Missing is a deeply felt examination of family and forgiveness, and the meaning of home.
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The Missing Billionaires - James White, Victor Haghani
An Economist Best Book of the Year Making Money and Keeping It â “ The Wall Street Journal Over the past century, if the wealthiest families had spent a reasonable fraction of their wealth, paid taxes, invested in the stock market, and passed their wealth down to the next generation, there would be tens of thousands of billionaire heirs to generations-old fortunes today. The puzzle of The Missing Billionaires is why you cannot find one such billionaire on any current rich list. There are a number of explanations, but this book is focused on one mistake which is of profound importance to all investors: poor risk decisions, both in investing and spending. Many of these families didnâ ™t choose bad investmentsâ “ they sized them incorrectlyâ “ and allowed their spending decisions to amplify this mistake. The Missing Billionaires book offers a simple yet powerful framework for making important lifetime financial decisions in a systematic and rational way. It s for readers with a baseline level of financial literacy, but doesnâ ™t require a PhD. It fills the gap between personal finance books and the academic literature, bringing the valuable insights of academic finance to non-specialists. Part One builds the theory of optimal investment sizing from first principles, starting with betting on biased coins. Part Two covers lifetime financial decision-making, with emphasis on the integration of investment, saving and spending decisions. Part Three covers practical implementation details, including how to calibrate your personal level of risk-aversion, and how to estimate the expected return and risk on a broad spectrum of investments. The book is packed with case studies and anecdotes, including one about Victorâ ™s investment with LTCM as a partner, and a bonus chapter on Liarâ ™s Poker. The authors draw extensively on their own experiences as principals of Elm Wealth, a multi-billion-dollar wealth management practice, and prior to that on their years as arbitrage tradersâ “ Victor at Salomon Brothers and LTCM, and James at Nationsbank/CRT and Citadel. Whether you are young and building wealth, an entrepreneur invested heavily in your own business, or at a stage where your primary focus is investing and spending, The Missing Billionaires: A Guide to Better Financial Decisions is your must-have resource for thoughtful financial decision-making.
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The Collected Poems - Robert Frost
No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. Hailed as ‘the most eminent, the most distinguished Anglo-American poet’ by T.S. Eliot, he is the only writer in history to have been awarded four Pulitzer Prizes. In iconic poems like ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’, simple images summon the rural landscape of New England, and Frost unfailingly moves the reader with his profound grasp of the human condition. This is the most comprehensive and authoritative volume of Frost s verse available, comprising all eleven volumes of his poems, meticulously edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Review The most eminent, the most distinguished Anglo-American poet now living (T. S. Eliot) Frost was the first American poet who could honestly be reckoned a master-poet by world standards (Robert Graves) Robert Frost has passed into the poetic pantheon (Independent) Of all the poetry written in our generation, Frost s is most likely to stand the test of time (Lewis Gannett) About the Author Robert Frost was born in San Francisco in 1874. After the death of his father he moved with his mother and sister to Massachusetts. His first collection, A Boy s Will, was published in 1913. In 1924 he won the first of four Pulitzer Prizes for his fourth book, New Hampshire. In the 1930s, as he became ever more revered, he suffered a series of family tragedies: his youngest child Marjorie died in 1934, his wife Elinor in 1938, and his son Carol in 1940. Another daughter, Irma, suffered from mental illness. Frost s last major collection, A Witness Tree (1942), contains a number of poems reflecting these disasters. In 1957 Robert Frost received honorary degrees from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. He died in January 1963.
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The Missing Family - Tim Weaver
IT WAS THE PERFECT DAY OUT . . . UNTIL THEY NEVER CAME BACK. THE EDGE-OF-YOUR-SEAT DAVID RAKER THRILLER FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING MASTER OF THE MISSING PERSON MYSTERY, TIM WEAVERRICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK Fiendishly serpentine and utterly compulsive Louise CandlishA beautiful summer day. A remote Dartmoor lake. The Fowler family takes a boat out. Mother Sarah stays on shore. She looks away for one minute. When she turns back the boat is empty . . . Her family has vanished. The police draw a blank. Yet missing persons investigatorDavid Raker knows something isnâ ™t right. He promises answers. But his questions might put him in the path of a killer . . . --PRAISE FOR THE MISSING FAMILY â ˜A twisty adventure, a masterclass of plottingâ ™ Literary Reviewâ ˜Raker and a race against time - is there a better basis for a book? Impossible to put downâ ™ HOLLY WATTâ ˜Oh-so tantalising twistyâ ™ Heat
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The Missing Lynx - Ross Barnett
Britain s lynx are missing, and they have been for more than a thousand years. Why have they gone? And might they come back?Britain was a very different place 15,000 years ago â “ home to lions, lynx, bears, wolves, bison and many more megafauna. But as its climate changed and human populations expanded, most of early Britain s largest mammals disappeared. Will advances in science and technology mean that we can one day bring these mammals back? And should we?In The Missing Lynx, palaeontologist Ross Barnett uses case studies, new fossil discoveries and biomolecular evidence to paint a picture of these lost species and to explore the ecological significance of their disappearance. He discusses how the Britons these animals shared their lives with might have viewed them and investigates why some species survived while others vanished.Barnett also looks in detail at the realistic potential of reintroductions, rewilding and even of resurrection in Britain and overseas, from the successful return of beavers in Argyll to the revolutionary Pleistocene Park in Siberia, which has already seen progress in the revival of mammoth steppe grassland.As widespread habitat destruction, climate change and an ever-growing human population lead us inexorably towards the sixth extinction, this timely book explores the spaces that extinction has left unfilled. And by helping us to understand why some of our most charismatic animals are gone, Ross Barnett encourages us to look to a brighter future, one that might see these missing beasts returned to the land on which they once lived and died.
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The Missing - Andrew O
One of the most original, moving and beautifully written non-fiction works of recent years, The Missing marked the acclaimed debut of one of Britain s most astute and important writers.In a brilliant merging of reportage, social history and memoir, Andrew O Hagan clears a devastating path from the bygone Glasgow of the 1970s to the grim secrets of Gloucester in the mid 1990s. A triumph in words. Independent on Sunday The Missing, part autobiography, part old-fashioned pavement-pounding, marks the most auspicious debut by a British writer for some time. Gordon Burn, Independent A timely corrective to the idea that nothing profound can be said about now. Will Self, Observer Books of the Year His vision of modern Britain has the quality of a poetic myth, with himself as Bunyan s questing Christian and the missing as Dantesque souls in limbo. Blake Morrison, Guardian
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Missing on the Moon - Cory Crater
Missing on the Moon is your next neo-noir obsession, brought to you by writer Cory Crater (The Codex) and artist Damian Couceiro (X-Force, Ghost Rider 2099, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles).The year is 1997, and crime on the Moon runs rampant...and in the Lunar colony of Buzztown, a billionaire s daughter has just gone missing. Washed-up private investigator Daniel Schwinn is tasked with finding the missing child, but in the process discovers a dark conspiracy stemming back decades... Schwinn will have to navigate a world of undead drug addicts, mechanized robocops, and blue-skinned Soviets known as Darksiders to discover the truth. In doing so, he ll have to confront his own allegiances, and try to atone for past mistakes since resurfaced.
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The Necronomicon - Robert E. Howard, Hearn Lafcadio, Robert W. Chambers, Arthur Machen, Howard P. Lovecraft
This luxurious hardback compendium showcases the very best of the cosmic horror genre through 10 classic tales, beautifully presented with gilded page edges, patterned endpapers and cover embossing.The Necronomicon is a fictional book of dark magic that appears in several of H. P. Lovecraft s stories. With its ancient evils and long-forgotten secrets, it symbolizes the essence of cosmic horror that is at the heart of Lovecraft s fiction. His tales of tentacled Elder Gods, nightmarish visions, and creeping insanity helped create the horror genre as we know it.This anthology brings together tales from H.P. Lovecraft and his fellow writers of the weird , including Arthur Machen, Robert W. Chambers, and Lafeadio Hearn. Whether telling of the emergence of a tentacled alien being in The Call of Cthulhu or the sinister discovery of secrets in The Black Seal, the stories found here are the stuff of nightmares.Includes:• The History of the Necronomicon by H. P. Lovecraft• The Haunter of the Ring by Robert E. Howard• Nightmare-Touch by Lafcadio Hearn• The Mask by Robert W. ChambersPart of the Arcturus Gilded Classics series, this edition is features deluxe gilded page edges, silver cover embossing and ivory pages, evoking the ancient treasury of forbidden knowledge that was Lovecraft s Necronomicon.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Arcturus Gilded Classics series presents luxury gift editions of classics works, printed on opulent ivory paper, featuring hardcover Wibilin binding, foil-embossed cover designs, beautifully designed end-papers and gilded page edges. These make perfect collectibles for lovers of classic literature.
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The Road to Oxiana - Robert Byron
A real-life adventure that inspired countless travellers in fact and fiction, the Penguin Classics edition of Robert Byron s The Road to Oxiana includes an introduction by Colin Thubron.In 1933 Robert Byron began a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Teheran to Oxiana - the country of the Oxus, the ancient name for the river Amu Darya which forms part of the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. The Road to Oxiana offers not only a wonderful record of his adventures, but also a rare account of the architectural treasures of a region now inaccessible to most Western travelers. Robert Byron (1905-41) was born in 1905, and educated at Eton and Merton College, Oxford. He died during the Second World War, when the ship he was serving on was torpedoed by a U-Boat off Cape Wrath. Byron s The Road to Oxiana is considered by many modern travel writers to be the first example of great travel writing.If you enjoyed The Road to Oxiana you might like Charles Darwin s The Voyage of the Beagle, also available in Penguin Classics. The greatest of all pre-war travel books William Dalrymple What Ulysses is to the novel between the wars, and what The Waste Land is to poetry, The Road to Oxiana is to the travel book Paul Fussell In any list of the great travel books of the 20th century, Robert Byron s account of his travels in Persia and Afghanistan, The Road to Oxiana, must be put somewhere near the very top Telegraph
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The Missing Sister - Lucinda Rileyová
From the vineyards of New Zealand to the majestic landscape of Ireland, The Missing Sister is the penultimate instalment in the multimillion-selling epic Seven Sisters from Lucinda Riley. A breathtaking story of love and loss, inspired by the mythology of the famous star constellation.They⠙ll search the world to find her . . .The six D⠙Aplièse sisters have each been on their own incredible journey to discover their heritage, but they still have one question left unanswered: who and where is the seventh sister?They only have one clue ⠓ an image of a star-shaped emerald ring. The search to find the missing sister will take them across the globe; from New Zealand to Canada, England, France and Ireland, uniting them all in their mission to at last complete their family.In doing so, they will slowly unearth a story of love, strength and sacrifice that began almost one hundred years ago, as other brave young women risked everything to change the world around them . . .The Seven Sisters series is drawn to its epic, unforgettable conclusion in Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt. Praise for the Seven Sisters: A masterclass in beautiful writing ⠓ The Sun Heart-wrenching, uplifting and utterly enthralling ⠓ Lucy Foley, author of The Hunting Party A breathtaking adventure ⠓ Lancashire Evening PostFive-Star Reader Reviews: Absolutely incredible Totally addictive Ideal for when you need to escape
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The 4-Hour Work Week - Timothy Ferriss
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERDiscover the life-changing, inspirational business book on escaping the 9-5 and finding a new way of living from the bestselling author and entrepreneur. â ˜This book is a must read!â ™ Stephen Key, award-winning entrepreneur, inventor and bestselling author of One Simple Ideaâ ˜[The] self-help hit of the decadeâ ™ Menâ ™s JournalDonâ ™t wait to start living. Learn how to create a life that isnâ ™t all about work with the bestselling phenomenon. Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan - there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and working less, this book is the blueprint. This step-by-step guide to living the life you want reveals:How Tim went from $40,000 dollars per year and 80 hours per week to $40,000 per MONTH and 4 hours per weekHow to outsource your life and do whatever you wantHow to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hoursHow to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and frequent mini-retirements This edition also includes:More than 50 practical tips and case studies from readers who have doubled their income, overcome common sticking points and reinvented themselves using the original book as a starting pointReal-world templates you can copy for eliminating email and negotiating with bosses and clientsTips for how lifestyle design principles can be used to live ambitiously in unpredictable economic timesThe latest tools and tricks, as well as high-tech shortcuts, for living like a diplomat or millionaire without being either. Whether youâ ™re just starting work or have been employed for decades, The 4-Hour Work Week is the inspirational, essential guide to living the life you want to lead.
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Kitty and the Missing Pumpkins - Paula Harrisonová, Jenny Løvlie
The purrrfect series for newly confident readers, beautifully illustrated by Waterstones Children s Book Prize winner, Jenny Løvlie, and written by bestselling author, Paula Harrison.Kitty is a superhero-in-training with feline superpowers. She dreams of being just like her superhero mum one day, but she s still got a lot to learn. Join her for a series of enchanting adventures by the light of the moon. In Kitty and the Missing Pumpkins, Kitty is excited about the upcoming Autumn Festival. It s going to be a real feast for the whole community, and Kitty has worked hard all week to help prepare for it. But when she arrives to help set-up for the party, everything has been ruined. The decorations have been torn down, half the food has disappeared, and the pumpkins she and her friends carved are missing. Can Kitty use her superpowers to save the Autumn Festival?For another superhero adventure with Kitty and her cat crew, read Kitty and the Stolen Storybook.
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The Invisible Hour - Alice Hoffman
From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of the Practical Magic series comes an enchanting novel about love, heartbreak, self-discovery and the enduring magic of books. Sixteen-year-old Ivy is pregnant and alone. Cast out by her family, she runs away and finds safety in the arms of Joel Davis. He offers a simpler life than the one she had in Boston, a quiet, rural life of rules, peace and community. Little does she realise, Joel is the charismatic leader of a cult known as the Community, and all is not quite as it seems. Daughter Mia has only known the claustrophobic life of the Community. While out serving the Community one weekend, she secretly commits a transgression – reading. Discovering a world beyond the edges of the Community’s property is intoxicating. But breaking rules carries serious consequences, and sends Mia on a path she could never have imagined. With two fiercely wonderful heroines, The Invisible Hour is a heart-breaking and hopeful novel of family, redemption and the power of love.Praise for Alice Hoffman ‘Beautiful, harrowing, a major contribution to twenty-first century literature’Toni Morrison ‘I am still reeling from The Dovekeepers – from the history Alice Hoffman illuminates, from the language she uses to bring these women to life. This novel is a testament to the human spirit and to love rising from the ashes of war. But most of all, this novel is one that will never be forgotten by a reader.’Jodi Picoult ‘In her remarkable new novel, Alice Hoffman holds a mirror to our ancient past as she explores the contemporary themes of sexual desire, women’s solidarity in the face of strife, and the magic that’s quietly present in our day-to-day living. Put The Dovekeepers at the pinnacle of Hoffman’s extraordinary body of work. I was blown away.’Wally Lamb ‘Alice Hoffman takes seemingly ordinary lives and lets us see and feel extraordinary things.’Amy Tan ‘Miss Hoffman heals wounds with the gentle touch of an angel’Joseph Heller #39;Oh, what a book this is! Hoffman’s exploration of the world of good and evil, and the constant contest between them, is unflinching; and the humanity she brings to us – it is a glorious experience. #39;Elizabeth Strout
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Sherlock Mendelson and the Missing Afikomen - David Shawn Klein
A joyful and charming Passover tale with kid appeal. -Kirkus ReviewsIt s Passover, and 10-year-old Sherwood Mendelson s parents are hosting the Seder. Sherwood s big, loving family have all gathered at the Mendelson home, from Grandma Norma, who brings her Matzoh Balls That Sank the Titanic, to Sherwood s cousins, the Wilder twins, Zach and Seth, who when reciting the Ten Plagues call out Zach s breath! and Seth s soccer shorts! It s a happy Seder until suddenly a terrible thing happens.After Solomon hides the afikomen-it goes missing. Not missing as it always does at Passover. It has completely, utterly, and thoroughly disappeared. Right into thin air! Without the afikomen, the Mendelson family cannot finish its Seder! But Sherwood happens to be the Greatest Fan of the Greatest Detective of All Time, Sherlock Holmes. With his faithful assistant, Watson, the family Basset Hound, Sherlock Mendelson uses all of his super detective skills to hunt down the culprit who stole the afikomen.
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The Tainted Cup - Robert Jackson Bennett
Part Sherlock Holmes murder mystery, part Through the Looking-Glass, The Tainted Cup is one of the wildest, most original stories WESLEY CHUAn eccentric detective and her long-suffering assistant untangle a web of magic, deceit, and murder in this sparkling fantasy reimagining of the classic crime novel - from the bestselling author of The Founders Trilogy.A peculiar crime. A brilliant investigator. A mystery of epic proportions. In an opulent mansion at the borders of the Empire, an Imperial officer lies dead - killed when a tree spontaneously erupted from his body. Even here, where contagions abound and the blood of the Leviathans works strange magical changes, it s a death at once terrifying and impossible.Called in to solve the crime is Ana Dolabra, an investigator whose reputation for brilliance is matched only by her eccentricity. At her side is her new assistant, Dinios Kol, an engraver, magically altered to possess a perfect memory.Soon, the mystery leads to a scheme that threatens the safety of the Empire itself. For Ana, all this makes for a deliciously thorny puzzle - at last, something to truly hold her attention. And Din? He ll just have to hold on for the ride. READERS LOVE ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT This is that rare thing - a book so good that you are bereft when you reach the final page. I loved this and would spend much more time in its world ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Utterly riveting read from beginning to end. Another mind blowing innovative world-build ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I couldn t put this one down and read waaay into the night to discover who did what to whom - and came away with a massive book hangover that had me dreaming of Bennett s world for the rest of the week ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I adored this book! Can t recommend it enough. Murder mystery in a fantasy setting with botanical murder weapons, augmented humans and leviathans threatening to breach city walls! It was such a wonderful, exciting book! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This book destroyed those expectations. This was fantastic ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐AUTHORS LOVE ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT Engrossing and fascinating MUR LAFFERTY A masterstroke. I want Bennett to write a dozen of these, and send them to me yesterday MAX GLADSTONE Original, imaginative, and suspenseful MEG GARDINER Riveting AMAL EL-MOHTAR If you love unique, genre-bending, boundary-pushing fantasy as much as I do, look no further than Robert Jackson Bennett FONDA LEE
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The Revolutionary Temper - Robert Darnton
A Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement, and The Times Book of the Yearâ ˜Robert Darnton is one of the worldâ ™s greatest historians, and this is an exceptional book: a huge social and cultural portrait of Paris in the build-up to the French Revolutionâ ™ Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times, Books of the Year When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. Most historians account for the French Revolution by viewing it as the outcome of underlying conditions such as a faltering economy, class conflict or Enlightenment ideology. Without denying any of these, Robert Darnton offers a different explanation: what Parisians themselves, those at the centre of the Revolution, thought was happening at the time and how it guided their actions. To understand the rise of what he calls â ˜the revolutionary temperâ ™, Darnton draws on a lifetimeâ ™s study of pamphlets, books, underground newsletters, songs and public performances, exploring Paris as an information society not unlike our own. Its news circuits were centred in cafes and market-places, on park benches, and under the Palais-Royalâ ™s Tree of Cracow, a favourite gathering-place for gossips. He shows how the events of forty years â “ from disastrous treaties, official corruption and royal scandal to thrilling hot-air balloon ascents and a new conception of the nation â “ all entered the collective consciousness of ordinary Parisians. As news and opinion travelled across this profoundly unequal society, public trust in royal authority eroded, its legitimacy was undermined, and the social order unravelled. Much of Robert Darntonâ ™s work has explained the hidden dynamics of history, never more so than in this exceptional book. It is a riveting narrative, but it adds a new dimension, the perceptions of contemporary Parisians, which allows us to see these momentous decades afresh.
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The Missing Half - Ashley Flowers
The gripping psychological thriller from the host of the CRIME JUNKIE podcast - an instant New York Times bestseller! A propulsive mystery with excellent writing and a genuine beating heart at its centre. Simply a great read! GILLIAN FLYNN, author of Gone Girl A gripping, tense story of sisterhood for women everywhere GILLIAN MCALLISTER, author of Wrong Place Wrong Time Sharp, slick, and chilling, with a whiplash ending you ll never see coming JENEVA ROSE, author of Home Is Where the Bodies Are__________________________________________Nicole Monroe is in a rut. At twenty-four, she lives alone in a tiny apartment in her hometown in Indiana, she s just gotten a DWI, and she works the same dead-end job she s been working since high school. Everyone has felt sorry for her for the last seven years - since the day her older sister, Kasey, vanished without a trace. On the night Kasey went missing, her car was found over a hundred miles from home. The driver s door was open and her purse was untouched in the seat next to it. The only real clue in her disappearance was Jules Connor, another young woman from the same area who disappeared in the same way, two weeks earlier. But with so little for the police to go on, both cases eventually went cold. Nic wants nothing more than to move on from her sister s disappearance and the state it s left her in. But then one day, Jules s sister, Jenna Connor, walks into Nic s life and offers her something she hasn t felt in a long time: hope.What follows is a gripping tale of two sisters who will do anything to find their missing halves, even if it means destroying everything they ve ever known.
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The Missing Maid - Holly Hepburn
Meet Harriet White, Sherlock Holmes feisty â “ and entirely fake â “ assistant, in this gloriously fun mystery, perfect for fans of Anita Prose, Verity Bright and Janice Hallett.London, 1932. A young maid steps onto a trainâ ¦ and disappears. Her family writes to the only person they can think of to help: Sherlock Holmes. A shame then, that Mr Holmes isnâ ™t real. But then, from a basement beneath 221b Baker Street, someone repliesâ ¦Harriet White knows responding to the maidâ ™s family could land her in hot water, but sheâ ™s no stranger to trouble. It was refusing to cow to her over-familiar boss that saw her demoted to the postal department of their Baker Street head office in the first place. Her new job is to work through the mountain of correspondence addressed to the streetâ ™s most famous resident. But when this letter catches her eye, she knows she must do something to help the missing girl. Harriet decides to act as Holmesâ ™ new assistant, armed with only her love of Conan Doyleâ ™s stories to guide her. But can she solve the case of the missing maid? Or does she risk losing her job â “ or much, much more â “ in the process?Readers are loving The Baker Street Mysteries: A page-turning cosy crime delight, with a fearless heroine and a twisty mystery at its heart, full of humour, drama, revelations and romance â “ KATIE MARSHâ ˜I really enjoyed this cozy mystery because it is at the intersection between cozy mystery and historical fiction and it is simply brilliant. Hepburn weaves a strong plotline and Harry shines throughout. A real pleasure to read.â ™ â “ Goodreads reviewer ?????â ˜I am definitely a Sherlock Holmes fan, so the premise of this story got my attention immediately, but it was the writing, characters and the new story perspective that firmly held it.â ™ â “ Goodreads reviewer ?????â ˜I loved everything about this historical cozy. The link to Sherlock Holmes intrigued me as I didn t know that this was based on the fact that someone was actually employed at the Building Society to answer letters sent to Sherlock Holmes. I love history so this little tidbit fascinated me and it sets up Harry nicely for many more investigations.â ™ â “ Goodreads reviewer ?????â ˜A delightful cozy mystery! Can you imagine having the job of answering letters addressed to Sherlock Holmes? And what would you do if it was someone who you thought you might help? I found myself laughing out loud at the antics of Harry! She is such a delightful heroine. Funny, smart and brave! Her indomitable spirit instantly endeared her to me.â ™ â “ Goodreads reviewer ?????â ˜Grabbed my heart from the first minute and captivated me to the last page. When a book connects so beautifully with what one wants at the time, it s impossible to keep it under wraps. It gave me Dear Mrs. Bird vibes, a very happy discovery!â ™ â “ Goodreads reviewer ?????â ˜I was totally gripped from the first page to the last. Loved the story and the characters with a few unexpected bumps along the way. Loved this book and canâ ™t wait for the next one!!!â ™ â “ Goodreads reviewer ?????â ˜I liked Harry from the very beginning. I loved the interaction between Harry and Oliver and can see this unfolding in future books.â ™ â “ Goodreads reviewer ?????
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The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer - Ragnar Jónasson
THE GRIPPING MYSTERY FROM NEXT-GEN NORDIC STAR (LA TIMES) AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR, RAGNAR JONASSON ONE OF THE FINEST CRIME WRITERS IN THE WORLD TODAY DAILY MAILâ ˜Jónasson is an automatic must-read for me . . . possibly the best Scandi writer working todayâ ™ LEE CHILDâ ˜A master of the Icelandic thrillerâ ™ NEW YORK POST----One winter evening bestselling crime author, ElÃn S. Jónsdóttir goes missing. There are no clues to her disappearance and it is up to young detective, Helgi, to crack the case before it s leaked to the press. As he interviews the people closest to her â “ a publisher, an accountant, a retired judge â “ he realises that ElÃnâ ™s life wasnâ ™t what it seemed. In fact, her past is even stranger than her stories. As the case of the missing crime writer becomes more mysterious by the hour, Helgi must uncover the secrets of a very unexpected life . . . Rooted in the golden age of crime fiction and full of charming literary allusions. Elegiac and satisfying Sunday Times
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Kitty and the Missing Pumpkins - Paula Harrisonová, Jenny Løvlie
The purrrfect series for newly confident readers, beautifully illustrated by Waterstones Children s Book Prize winner, Jenny Løvlie, and written by bestselling author, Paula Harrison.Kitty is a superhero-in-training with feline superpowers. She dreams of being just like her superhero mum one day, but she s still got a lot to learn. Join her for a series of enchanting adventures by the light of the moon.In Kitty and the Missing Pumpkins, Kitty is excited about the upcoming Autumn Festival. It s going to be a real feast for the whole community, and Kitty has worked hard all week to help prepare for it. But when she arrives to help set-up for the party, everything has been ruined. The decorations have been torn down, half the food has disappeared, and the pumpkins she and her friends carved are missing. Can Kitty use her superpowers to save the Autumn Festival?For another superhero adventure with Kitty and her cat crew, read Kitty and the Stolen Storybook.
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The Missing Trick - Robin Jacobs
A funny yet empowering story about a child, who unaware of his own talents, creates a diverse community around him, delighting in his show. This is an adorable story, complemented by energetic, fun illustrations. The art excels at showing the growing happy crowd of diverse spectators enjoying Louis’s capers, and it’s hard not to smile and shout “Hooray!” along with them . -- Youth Services Book Review A sweet picture book read about embracing the unexpected, THE MISSING TRICK will delight young readers with its simplicity and magic . -- YA and Kids Central A fun and # inclusive picture book with lots to explore . -- CILIP School Libraries Group A magical story about talent and self-belief, that acts as a reminder that sometimes distractions can mean we miss the magic happening right in front of us . ?-- Paper Ren A simple yet powerful book…Aimee Wright s beautifully illustrated audience are diverse too - meaning every child reading this book can relate to the people they see shown on the pages . -- The Value s Bookshelf An entirely clever and brilliantly illustrated story. I can’t recommend this one highly enough!  -- My Shelves Are Full Meet Louis… Every little thing he does is MAGIC!Louis is a young street magician. He is setting up for his show but he can’t find his rabbit anywhere. He looks inside his hat but finds only a bouquet of flowers, which is caught by a passing woman as he throws it away in disgust. He looks under his cups, spilling out dozens of balls, which are pounced upon by a group of kids. An endless string of scarves comes out of his sleeve and is wrapped around the neck of a posh lady.... With each trick, his audience grows, and unbeknownst to Louis, his show is unfolding brilliantly... But WHERE could that pesky rabbit be hiding???Finally, Louis looks in his bag…. climbs in it…. and disappears. Now the rabbit AND Louis are missing! The audience hold their breaths until, POOF! Louis appears on the table in a puff of smoke. They erupt in a roar of applause. Louis, bemused, notices them for the first time. He takes off his cap to take a bow. The rabbit is sitting on his head.An adorable story to enjoy time and again, complemented by energetic, fun illustrations by newcomer Aimee Wright.
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The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme - Gavin Stamp
Edwin Lutyens Memorial to the Missing of the Somme at Thiepval in Northern France, visited annually by tens of thousands of tourists, is arguably the finest structure erected by any British architect in the twentieth century. It is the principal, tangible expression of the defining event in Britain s experience and memory of the Great War, the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916, and it bears the names of 73,000 soldiers whose bodies were never found at the end of that bloody and futile campaign. This brilliant study by an acclaimed architectural historian tells the origin of the memorial in the context of commemorating the war dead; it considers the giant classical brick arch in architectural terms, and also explores its wider historical significance and its resonances today. So much of the meaning of the twentieth century is concentrated here; the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing casts a shadow into the future, a shadow which extends beyond the dead of the Holocaust, to the Gulag, to the disappeared of South America and of Tianenmen. Reissued in a beautiful and striking new edition for the centenary of the Somme.
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At the Louvre: Robert Polidori - Robert Polidori, Laurence des Cars
An exclusive look into the preparations behind the Naples in Paris exhibition at the Louvre, beautifully captured by the renowned photographer Robert Polidori.From June 2023 to January 2024, the Musée du Louvre in Paris welcomed sixty major masterpieces from the Museo di Capodimonte, on loan for the exhibition Naples in Paris: The Louvre Hosts the Museo di Capodimonte. The former Italian royal palace, which once served as a hunting lodge for Bourbon monarchs, is now one of the largest museums in Italy holding one of the continent’s most important collections of Italian paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Among the artworks featured are the famously enigmatic Antea by Parmigianino, a poignant painting of the Crucifixion by Masaccio, The Transfiguration of Christ by Giovanni Bellini, and preparatory cartoons by Raphael and Michelangelo.On the occasion of this historic artistic exchange, acclaimed photographer Robert Polidori was granted exclusive access to the preparations of the exhibition in the Louvre’s prestigious Grand Galerie. Known for his unique images of architecture and interiors, Polidori exquisitely captures the process and inner workings of the arrival, set-up, and display of the artworks. Part photography monograph, part art history book, this unique publication reveals the hidden workings behind one of the most significant collaborative efforts among major museums in recent years.
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The Missing Ball - Howard Pearlstein
A ball is missing and no one has seen it. Not Blue. Not Red. Not Yellow. No one has seen the ball. At least that s what everyone says. Is the ball really missing? Or is someone not being honest? Young readers will discover the truth -- and a valuable lesson about honesty – in The Missing Ball: An Orange Porange Story.
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The Missing Ball - Howard Pearlstein
A ball is missing and no one has seen it. Not Blue. Not Red. Not Yellow. No one has seen the ball. At least that s what everyone says. Is the ball really missing? Or is someone not being honest?Young readers will discover the truth -- and a valuable lesson about honesty -- in The Missing Ball: An Orange Porange Story.
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The Missing Ones - Patricia Gibneyová
The hole they dug was not deep. A white flour bag encased the little body. Three small faces watched from the window, eyes black with terror. The child in the middle spoke without turning his head. I wonder which one of us will be next? When a woman s body is discovered in a cathedral and hours later a young man is found hanging from a tree outside his home, Detective Lottie Parker is called in to lead the investigation. Both bodies have the same distinctive tattoo clumsily inscribed on their legs. It s clear the pair are connected, but how? The trail leads Lottie to St Angela s, a former children s home, with a dark connection to her own family history. Suddenly the case just got personal. As Lottie begins to link the current victims to unsolved murders decades old, two teenage boys go missing. She must close in on the killer before they strike again, but in doing so is she putting her own children in terrifying danger? Lottie is about to come face to face with a twisted soul who has a very warped idea of justice. Fans of Tess Gerritsen, Karin Slaughter and Helen Fields will be gripped by this page-turning serial killer thriller, guaranteed to keep you reading late into the night. What everyone is saying about The Missing Ones: Gripping . . . palpable tension from the very start to its electrifying twist Irish Independent This debut novel from Gibney is just EVERYTHING!!! This was THE BEST book I have read in quite some time. If I could give it more than 5 stars, I would! Butterfly s Booknerdia Blog Totally riveting and 100% engrossing. Books From Dusk Till Dawn A gripping read from beginning to finish. Deja Read AMAZING! Really well written and kept me itching to read the next page. It was unputdownable! Cannot wait to read book two when released. Goodreads Reviewer I was immediately grabbed by the opening paragraph and was so enthralled that I read it in two sittings. I only put it down when my eyes refused to stay open! Goodreads Reviewer It s one of those stories where you look at the clock and you think just a couple more chapters, and then you look again and hours have gone by. It was well worth the lack of sleep. Goodreads Reviewer A phenomenal read for a debut novel - when I say good, I mean gooooooooood. Page Turners Nook Gibney definitely is a writer to watch and an exciting new voice in crime fiction. But Books are Better
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The Missing Months - Lachlan Mackinnon
Many of the poems in The Missing Months occupy the strange hiatus afforded by lockdown. They look forward as well as back, toying with possible futures, enthused by utopian dreams or fearing cultural and bodily entropy. They celebrate and mourn the lives of friends and relatives, captivated by carefully tended images from the past. Lockdownâ ™s â ˜missing monthsâ ™ in the world of a four-year-old granddaughter are laid down and remembered for her. Familiar objects â “ a park bench, stones, grass, stars, windows â “ are reanimated. This poetry of imaginative journeying â ˜stretches/Banks on a slope of air and turnsâ ™ like the heron it watches. Between the crackle of radio signals and rain, the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam and the American singer Miranda Lambert, here is a poet in search of points of reference, the â ˜bright fresh leavesâ ™ of sunlight among the ruins.
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The Violet Hour - James Cahill
An enthrallingly intricate novel . . . impressive GUARDIAN There s something of F. Scott Fitzgerald about the way Cahill writes about the very rich DAILY MAIL A biting satire of the art world s glamour, pomp and greed . . . lucid and evocative DAILY TELEGRAPH A highbrow whodunnit, and grippingly so, but it s much more than that PATRICK GALE, author of Mother s Boy As sensuous and glimmering as it is dark and unsettling . . . a novel to get sucked into JENNY MUSTARD, author of Okay Days It s brilliant . . . the human drama of it is just pitch perfect . . . Hypnotic SEÃN HEWITT, author of All Down Darkness Wide Artists are slaves to their vanity. But in the end, in time, they see things as they really are. Thomas Haller has achieved the kind of fame that most artists only dream of: shows in London and New York, paintings sold for a fortune. The vision he presents to the world is one of an untouchable genius at the top of his game. It is also a lie. Who is the real Thomas Haller? His oldest friend and former dealer, Lorna, might once have known - before Thomas traded their early intimacy for international fame. Between his ruthless new dealer and a property mogul obsessed with his work, the appetite for Thomas and his art is all-consuming.On the eve of his latest show, the luminaries of the art world gather. But the sudden death of a young man has put everyone on edge, and a chain of events begins that will lead Thomas and Lorna back into the past, to confront who they have become. A story of deception, power play and longing, The Violet Hour exposes the unsettling underbelly of the art world, asking: who is granted admission to a world that only seems to glitter and who is left outside, their faces pressed to the glass?
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After the First Death - Robert Cormier
AFTER THE FIRST DEATH is a brilliantly tense hostage drama, by Robert Cormier, the acclaimed author of THE CHOCOLATE WAR. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first. On the outskirts of a small American town, a bus-load of young children is being held hostage. The hijackers are a cold and ruthless group, opposed to the secret government agency Inner Delta. At the centre of the battle are three teenagers. Miro is the terrorist with no past and no emotions. Kate is the bus driver, caught up in the nightmare, and Ben is the General s son who must act as a go-between.The Originals are the pioneers of fiction for young adults. From political awakening, war and unrequited love to addiction, teenage pregnancy and nuclear holocaust, The Originals confront big issues and articulate difficult truths. The collection includes: The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton, I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith, Postcards from No Man s Land - Aidan Chambers, After the First Death - Robert Cormier, Dear Nobody - Berlie Doherty, The Endless Steppe - Esther Hautzig, Buddy - Nigel Hinton, Across the Barricades - Joan Lingard, The Twelfth Day of July - Joan Lingard, No Turning Back - Beverley Naidoo, Z for Zachariah - Richard C. O Brien, The Wave - Morton Rhue, The Red Pony - John Steinbeck, The Pearl - John Steinbeck, Stone Cold - Robert Swindells.
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