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Splashing down off the coast of Australia, Alex is soon working undercover - this time for ASIS, the Australian Secret Service - on a mission to infiltrate the criminal underworld of South-East Asia: the ruthless world of the Snakehead. Faced with an old enemy and troubled by his own past, Alex is caught between two secret services, with no one to trust - and this time he needs all his wits to sur

Fallen is the first in Lauren Kate’s series of dark, romantic novels featuring 17 year old Lucinda and Daniel, her doomed angel lover. What if the person you were meant to be with could never be yours? 17-year-old Lucinda falls in love with a gorgeous,

This lavishly illustrated volume explores one of the most versatile, useful and enduring technologies ever invented:?the book. Books:?A?Living History charts the evolution and influence of books around the world, from the cuneiform tablets of ancient Sumer through the development of movable type and the emergence of the modern information revolution. A feast for traditional book-lovers, as well as

When world traveler and paranormal journalist Elian Black Mor arrives in London, he discovers a hidden world the Park of Illusions, a hidden refuge for werewolves, fauns, hydras, and other mystical creatures. In this stunning collection of his observations, Elian describes his encounters with fascinating supernatural beings of all kinds, from the Master Eel of the Thames to the Plant Sarcophagus of

The author of TV Book Club\'s SPIES OF THE BALKANS returns with a hugely evocative thriller set in wartime Paris. Frederic Stahl, born of Viennese intelligentsia, ran away to sea at the age of seventeen. Embarking in America, his matinee idol looks and Old-World charm took him to Hollywood, and a life of movies and women. But by autumn 1939, the unease in Europe has spread even to Stahl\'s glamorous

Andy Warhol je považovaný za najdôležitejšieho predstaviteľa pop artu. Nadviazal na tradíciu silno subjektívneho umelca, ktorý sebe vlastným spôsobom vystupoval s ostrou kritikou americkej konzumnej spoločnosti (napr. séria Cambellových poli evok) inšpirovaný aj komiksovou kultúrou. V r. 1963 otvoril v New Yorku svoju \"Továreň\"- manufaktúru ídeí a práce, ktorá mala veľký vplyv na americký film 60.

The place is St Oswald\'s, an old and long-established boys\' grammar school in the north of England. A new year has just begun, and for the staff and boys of the school, a wind of unwelcome change is blowing. Suits, paperwork and Information Technology rule the world and Roy Straitley, Latin master, eccentric, and veteran of St Oswald\'s, is finally - reluctantly - contemplating retirement. But beneath

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Lauren Graham, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood, comes a witty, charming, and hilariously relatable debut novel about a struggling young actress trying to get ahead?and keep it together?in New York City. It’s January 1995, and Franny Banks has just six months left of the three-year deadline she set for herself when she came to New York, dreaming of Broadway

From the bestselling author of Ice Station, another dizzyingly fast-paced adventure thriller featuring Shane Schofield. It is America\'s most secret base, hidden deep in the Utah desert, an Air Force installation known only as Area 7. And today it has a visitor: the President of the United States. He has come to inspect Area 7, to examine its secrets for himself. But he\'s going to get more than he

From the author of The Power, winner of the Baileys Women\'s Prize for Fiction 2017 Ronit has left London and transformed her life. She has become a cigarette-smoking, wise-cracking, New York career woman, who is in love with a married man. But when Ronit\'s father dies she is called back into the very different world of her childhood, a world she thought she had left far behind. The orthodox Jewish

This up-to-date collection offers a vivid picture both of the world today, and of the landmark events and key voices leading to it. From Scott\'s Antarctic Expedition in 1912 to the attack on the World Trade Centre in 2001, it charts watersheds such as two World Wars as well as the ebbs and flows of popular culture. Containing 5,000+ quotations from authors as diverse as Elizabeth Arden, Billy Connolly,

From our earliest childhood experiences, we learn to see the world as contested space: a battleground between received ideas, entrenched conventions and myriad Authorised Versions on the one hand, and new discoveries, terrible dangers, and everyday miracles on the other. As we grow, that world expands further, to include new species, lost continents, the realm of the dead and the lives of others: cosmonauts

It is beautiful to look at, hard to reach, and terribly difficult to climb. Winds of 200 kilometres per hour or more scream across it day and night, while temperature falls to -20 degreeC or lower. Every year, some who try to climb the highest mountain in the world do not return. But for a century people have been coming to climb Everest - some alone, some in groups, but all with a dream of going to

Alptraum New York... Ein Mann landet auf dem New Yorker Flughafen; noch geschüttelt von der Flugangst, überfällt ihn die Panik, seine Frau nicht wiederzuerkennen. Aus Angst wird Ekel, Ekel vor der Frau ... Ekel vor der Stadt - Abscheu vor allem, was zuvor so normal war.Die Geschichte beginnt beunruhigend. Sicher, es ist nicht ungewöhnlich, daß jemand, der aus Deutschland zurück nach New York fliegt,

dead and she has nowhere to go. When she meets Milagro Carmona - a young, rebellious gypsy - the two women are instantly inseparable. Milagros introduces Caridad to the gypsy community, an exotic fringe society that will soon bring them love and change their life forever. From the tumultuous bustle of 18th-century Seville to the theatres of Madrid, The Barefoot Queen takes us into the murky world of

Lost meets The Passage in this incredible new thriller, for all fans of The Shining Girls and Stephen King. They\'re here ...The boy. The boy watch the boy watch the dead people oh Lordy there\'s so many ...They\'re coming for me now. We\'re all going soon. All of us. Pastor Len warn them that the boy he\'s not to---- The last words of Pamela May Donald (1961 - 2012) Black Thursday. The day that will

Edward Prendick is travelling in the South Pacific when his ship goes down. He is saved after many days at sea by another ship, and a passenger, Montgomery, nurses him back to health. Prendick becomes interested in the mystery of Montgomery’s life. Why does he live on an unknown Pacific island? Why is he taking animals there? And should Prendick fear the dark secrets of Montgomery’s master – the even