Romantic, liberating and totally addictive, the \"Fifty Shades\" trilogy will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you for ever ...Daunted by the dark secrets of the tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Ana Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new career with a US publishing house. But desire for Grey still dominates her every waking thought, and when he proposes a new arrangement,

2045-2059. After the cataclysmic upheavals of Step Day and the Yellowstone eruption humanity is spreading further into the Long Earth, and society, on a battered Datum Earth and beyond, continues to evolve. Now an elderly and cantankerous AI, Lobsang lives in disguise with Agnes in an exotic, far-distant world. He\'s convinced they\'re leading a normal life in New Springfield - they even adopt a child

Take one precocious eleven-year-old girl called Flavia. Add an ancient country house somewhere in England in 1950. Then sprinkle with murder, mystery and dark family secrets...For very nearly eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, the discovery of a dead snipe on the doorstep of Buckshaw, the crumbling de Luce country seat, was a marvellous mystery - especially since this particular snipe had a rather rare

Written in political exile during the Second World War and first published in 1945, Karl Popper\'s The Open Society and Its Enemies is one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. Hailed by Bertrand Russell as a \'vigorous and profound defence of democracy\', its now legendary attack on the philosophies of Plato, Hegel and Marx exposed the dangers inherent in centrally planned political

Seventeen-year-old River doesn\'t know what to do with himself when Penny, the girl he adores, dumps him. He lives in LA, where nobody walks anywhere, and Penny was his ride; he never bothered getting a license. He\'s stuck. He\'s desperate. He\'s lonely. One afternoon he does the unthinkable - he starts walking, and stumbles on a support group for teens with addictions. He fakes his way into the meetings

For the first time in Italy, Contrasto offers to the public an exclusive book, from the book collection In Parole, that merges Jack London incredible and well-known literature with his yet unpublished photographs, creating a dialogue between the visual and literary arts and building up towards the completion of the Jack London artist.

\'Forget everything you think you know . . .\' Ana Moon\'s best friend Bea has vanished. Her house has changed. Her parents have become strangers. She has fallen into a world that is not her own. Guided by the mysterious Malik and his Pathfinders, Ana must travel across seven versions of Earth to get Bea back. Lying in wait are the sinister Order, monstrous Reapers and a rogue Pathfinder bent on finding

He\'s been looking in the windows again. Messing with cameras. Leaving notes. Supposed to be a refuge. But death got inside. When Katie Straw\'s body is pulled from the waters of the local suicide spot, the police decide it\'s an open-and-shut case. A standard-issue female suicide. But the residents of Widringham women\'s refuge where Katie worked don\'t agree. They say it\'s murder. Will you listen

Energetic and cosmopolitan, the Batrakani family fate is entwined with that of their adopted land, Egypt, as it is caught in the upheavals of the 20th century. Georges Bey Batrakani is the patriarch of this family of Greek Catholic, French-speaking Syrians, living in a Muslim Cairo run by the British. He is driven by the need to achieve the wealth necessary for the luxury he craves. His chosen method

One of the top hairstylists working in fashion today, Serge Normant performs his magic on the most beautiful actresses and models of our time. A tour de force of feminine fantasy, Serge Normant Metamorphosis is a dazzling summation of contemporary style, fashion, and glamour-as envisioned by this gifted artist and captured in images by the world\'s leading fashion photographers. In transforming the

An adult fantasy/horror epic of monumental proportions, Kentaro Miura\'s Berserk is now offered at its original published size in handsome deluxe hardcover editions each collecting three volumes of the acclaimed manga series. Marked with the unholy Brand of Sacrifice that draws the damned to him, Guts the Black Swordsman battles the minions of Hell that thwart his search for Casca, his former captain

Celebrate the tenth anniversary of the first title in Cassandra Clare\'s internationally bestselling Infernal Devices trilogy with this sumptuous new edition. Brand new content, including the first chapter of Chain of Gold. Love is the most dangerous magic of all... First in the bestselling prequel series to The Mortal Instruments, set in Victorian London. Something terrifying is waiting for Tessa

A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An opthamologist tries to diagnose his distinctive white blindness, but is affected before he can read the textbooks. It becomes a contagion, spreading throughout the city. Trying to stem the epidemic, the authorities herd the afflicted into a mental asylum where the wards are terrorised by blind thugs. And when fire destroys the asylum, the inmates

´Sons of Scotland! You have come here to fight as free men. If you fight, perhaps you’ll die. If you run, you may live for a time. But at what cost?’ Braveheart is the story of William Wallace, who gave hope to Scottish people in their fight to be free.

Set in the bleak, magical Wessex landscape so familiar from Hardy\'s early work, Tess\'s cruel story reveals circumstances slowly closing in on her as she attempts to grasp a few moments of happiness with her lover.

In a flat near Reykjavik city centre, a young man lies dead in a pool of blood. There is no sign of a break-in: the only clues are a woman\'s purple shawl, found under the bed in the next room, and a vial of prescription drugs in the victim\'s pocket. With Detective Erlendur away in a remote part of Iceland, Detective Elinborg, who is already struggling to juggle family life and the relentless demands

Inventive, electrifying and daring, True Story is a novel like nothing you\'ve ever read before. After a college party, two boys drive a girl home: drunk and passed out in the back seat. Rumours spread about what they did to her, but later they\'ll tell the police a different version of events. Alice will never remember what truly happened. Her fracture runs deep, hidden beneath cleverness and wry

Career Paths: Engineering is a new educational resource for engineering professionals who want to improve their English communication skills in a work environment. Incorporating career-specific vocabulary and contexts and reviewed by leaders within the engineering industry, each unit offers step-by-step instruction that immerses students in the four key language components: reading, listening, speaking

The life of Hannibal, the Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps with his army in 218 BCE, is the stuff of legend. And the epic choices he and his Roman enemies made on the battlefield and in life offer timeless lessons to us today about how we should respond to our own victories and defeats. Inspired by ancient history, Hannibal and Me explores the triumphs and disasters in our lives by examining