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A brand new heart-stopping series from a USA Today bestselling
author No sooner has Alexis Stone been sworn in as the interim
sheriff for Russell County, Tennessee, when a serial killer dubbed
the Queen's Gambit Killer strikes again--this time in her hometown.
Pearl Springs is just supposed to be a temporary stop along the way
to Alex's real dream: becoming the first female police chief of
Chattanooga. But the killer's calling card--a white pawn and a note
with a chess move printed on it--cannot be ignored. Pearl Springs
chief of police Nathan Landry can't believe that his high school
sweetheart Alexis (he refuses to call her Alex) is back in town,
and he can't help wanting to protect the woman he never stopped
loving. But as the danger mounts and the killer closes in, can
Nathan come through on the promises he makes to himself to bring a
killer to justice before it's too late.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of
best-loved, essential classics. Clarissa Dalloway is a woman of
high-society - vivacious, hospitable and sociable on the surface,
yet underneath troubled and dissatisfied with her life in post-war
Britain. This disillusionment is an emotion that bubbles under the
surface of all of Woolf's characters in Mrs Dalloway. Centred
around one day in June where Clarissa is preparing for and holding
a party, her interior monologue mingles with those of the other
central characters in a stream of consciousness, entwining, yet
never actually overriding the pervading sense of isolation that
haunts each person. One of Virginia Woolf's most accomplished
novels, Mrs Dalloway is widely regarded as one of the most
revolutionary works of the 20th century in its style and the themes
that it tackles. The sense that Clarissa has married the wrong
person, her past love for another female friend and the death of an
intended party guest all serve to amplify this stultifying
existence.
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G. P Taylor, Claire Wright
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A contemporary version of the story of David and Bathsheba. When
David Samuel, chairman of Globe Oil, a multinational oil company,
becomes a widower, his world is turned upside down. His old friend,
Nathan - also a work colleague - and his wife have provided support
and care for him, as has his friend and colleague, Rich Hampton.
Rich has recently married the beautiful Beth. Then David notices a
beautiful girl on a train and is very attracted to her. Later it
becomes devastatingly clear that this is the new Mrs Hampton. David
plans to get Rich out of the way by sending him on an assignment
abroad, and begins an affair with his wife; but Beth becomes
pregnant. When conscientious Rich won't return home, there's only
one solution in David's mind. he has Rich murdered. Played against
a strong backdrop of good supporting characters (including Beth's
sister, Cerys, whose husband has an affair and leaves her), Beth
ultimately loses the baby. But David has an epiphany; fasting for
the child and the woman he loves, he meets with God. He is a
chastened and changed man. Beth too has her own experience with
God, and throws herself into charitable work. At the end, they come
together again, different, but still in love.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved,
essential classics. 'We are in Transylvania; and Transylvania is
not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you
many strange things.' Earnest and naive solicitor Jonathan Harker
travels to Transylvania to organise the estate of the infamous
Count Dracula at his crumbling castle in the ominous Carpathian
Mountains. Through notes and diary entries, Harker keeps track of
the horrors and terrors that beset him at the castle, telling his
fiance Mina of the Count's supernatural powers and his own
imprisonment. Although Harker eventually manages to escape and
reunite with Mina, his experiences have led to a mental breakdown
of sorts. Meanwhile in England, Mina's friend Lucy has been bitten
and begins to turn into a vampire. With the help of Professor Van
Helsing, a previous suitor of Lucy's, Seward, and Lucy's fiance
Holmwood attempt to thwart Count Dracula and his attempts on Lucy
and consequently Mina's life. Arguably the most enduring Gothic
novel of the 19th Century, Bram Stoker's Dracula is as chilling
today in its depiction of the vampire world and its exploration of
Victorian values as it was at its time of publication.
New Release From 5-Time New York Times Best Selling Author Jonathan
Cahn!
Is America heading to judgment? What lies ahead? Discover what no book
has ever revealed . . . until now!
Are the unprecedented crises of our times, the signs and warnings of
coming judgment?
Does an ancient mystery hold the secret to the events of our times, and
the future of America and the world?
Is this mystery even behind the shakings that have now overtaken the
world and America?
How much time do we have left?
In 2012, Jonathan Cahn caused a worldwide sensation with the release of
his first book and massive bestseller The Harbinger. It was hailed as
'stunning, ' 'prophetic' 'mind-blowing, ' and 'astonishing.' Cahn
followed it with bestseller after bestseller but he has always held off
on writing a sequel. But now, for the first time, Cahn opens up what
could not be unlocked before - the mysteries that couldn't be revealed
until the present time, the manifestations that have taken place since
The Harbinger came out and up to the present hour, and the mysteries of
what is yet to come.
Ever since The Harbinger was released, people have been asking...
- Is an ancient mystery determining America's future?
- Have the harbingers of judgment continued to manifest on
American soil?
- Is America closer now than ever before to judgment and what
lies ahead for America and the world?
The Harbinger ended by speaking of what was yet to come. That which was
written is now coming true. After years of holding back, because he
believed it wasn't yet the time, Jonathan Cahn has now written the
sequel. The Harbinger II is being hailed as "a prophetic masterpiece"
even more powerful and stunning than the first book and will take the
mystery to new dimensions and disclose what could not be revealed in
The Harbinger or until now. The Harbinger II will open up the mysteries
of the Gate, the Watchmen, the Mystery Ship, the Word in the Ruins, the
Book of Days, the Image, the Judgment Tree, the Children of the Ruins,
the Convergence, the Handwriting on the Wall, and much more. It will
ultimately reveal the mystery of what is yet to come, including the
Shakings, the Plague, the Western Terrace, the Island, the Day of the
Watchman, and more.
As in the first book, the mysteries and revelations of The Harbinger II
are completely real and are determining the course of world events to
this day. And the mysteries are, likewise, revealed through a
narrative. In The Harbinger II, the reader will witness the return of
Nouriel, Ana Goren, and the mysterious figure known as 'the prophet.'
The prophet will now continue the revelation from where it left off and
open up mysteries as stunning and mind-blowing as the first. As in the
prophet's first appearance, the revelations will be unlocked, one by
one, through the giving of ancient seals, but also through dreams, and
a little girl as mysterious as the prophet. In The Harbinger II the
reader will be taken on a mysterious and epic journey to uncover the
new revelations: from an island in the waters of New England, to the
steps of the Supreme Court, to the top of the tower at Ground Zero, to
a primeval forest, to the House of Faces, to the pedestal of the Statue
of Liberty. The Harbinger II will also reveal the answer and the keys
we each need to have for the days that lie ahead.
After reading The Harbinger II, you will never see the world the same
way again. Prepare to be blown away!
'This book's power lies in its depiction of civilians trying to
lead ordinary lives during the horror of war . . . It is shattering
stuff, but Rothmann is tender towards his characters and this book
is as memorable as his last.' The Times, 'Historical Fiction Book
of the Month' As the Second World War enters its final stages,
millions in Germany are forced from their homes by bombing,
compelled to seek shelter in the countryside where there are barely
the resources to feed them. Twelve-year-old Luisa, her mother, and
her older sister Billie have escaped the devastation of the city
for the relative safety of a dairy farm. But even here the power
struggles of the war play out: the family depend on the goodwill of
Luisa's brother-in-law, an SS officer, who in expectation of
payment turns his attention away from his wife and towards Billie.
Luisa immerses herself in books, but even she notices the Allied
bombers flying east above them, the gauntness of the prisoners at
the camp nearby, the disappearance of fresh-faced boys from the
milk shed - hastily shipped off to a war that's already lost.
Living on the farm teaches Luisa about life and death, but it's
man's capacity for violence that provides the ultimate lesson, that
robs her of her innocent ignorance. When, at a birthday
celebration, her worst fears are realized, Luisa collapses under
the weight of the inexplicable. Ralf Rothmann's previous novel, To
Die in Spring, described the horror of war and the damage done on
the battlefield. The God of that Summer tells the devastating story
of civilians caught up in the chaos of defeat, of events that might
lead a twelve-year-old child to justifiably say: 'I have
experienced everything.'
An immensely powerful epic of colonialism, set in 18th-century
Greenland, about the great forces of nature, the meeting of
cultures and fathers and sons. 1728: The doomed Danish King Fredrik
IV sends a governor to Greenland to establish a colony, in the
hopes of exploiting the country's allegedly vast natural resources.
A few merchants, a barber-surgeon, two trainee priests, a
blacksmith, some carpenters and soldiers and a dozen hastily
married couples go with him. The missionary priest Hans Egede has
already been in Greenland for several years when the new colonists
arrive. He has established a mission there, but the converts are
few. Among those most hostile Egede is the shaman Aappaluttoq,
whose own son was taken by the priest and raised in the Christian
faith as his own. Thus the great rift between two men, and two ways
of life, is born. The newly arrived couples - composed of men and
women plucked from prison - quickly sink into a life of almost
complete dissolution, and soon unsanitary conditions, illness and
death bring the colony to its knees. Through the starvation and the
epidemics that beset the colony, Egede remains steadfast in his
determination - willing to sacrifice even those he loves for the
sake of his mission. Translated from Danish by Martin Aitken, Kim
Leine's The Colony of Good Hope explores what happens when two
cultures confront one another. In a distant colony, under the
harshest conditions, the overwhelming forces of nature meet the
vices of man.
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The Fraud
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Zadie Smith
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Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story?
In her first historical novel, Zadie Smith transports the reader to a
Victorian England transfixed by the real-life trial of the Tichborne
Claimant, in which a cockney butcher, recently returned from Australia,
lays claim to the Tichborne baronetcy, with his former slave Andrew
Bogle as star witness. Watching the proceedings, and with her own story
to tell, is Eliza Touchet – cousin, housekeeper and perhaps more – to
failing novelist William Harrison Ainsworth.
From literary London to the Jamaica’s sugar-cane plantations, Zadie
Smith weaves an enthralling story linking the rich and the poor, the
free and the enslaved, and the comic and the tragic.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell's modern fable on the way power corrupts is as apt as
ever in the twenty-first century. Educational edition of this
much-loved classic from Longman.
Few books have been as universally cherished by children and adults
alike as The Little Prince. A beautiful gift edition of this
touching and wise classic children's book, with the original
translation by Katherine Woods and full-colour illustrations. A
pilot stranded in the desert awakes one morning to see the most
extraordinary little fellow standing before him. "Please,... asks
the stranger, "draw me a sheep.... And the pilot realises that when
life's events are too difficult to understand, there is no choice
but to succumb to their mysteries. He pulls out a pencil and paper
... and thus begins this wise and enchanting fable that, in
teaching the secret of what is really important in life, has
changed the world forever for its readers. This stunning new
edition of the classic children's book The Little Prince, includes
the classic English translation by Katherine Woods and original
colour illustrations which will capture the hearts of readers of
all ages. Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944) was born in Lyons,
France. He wrote The Little Prince in the United States during a
two-year self-imposed exile from occupied France. A year after the
book's publication in 1943, Saint-Exupery disappeared over the
Mediterranean while flying a reconnaissance mission for his French
air squadron. Best known throughout the world as the author and
illustrator of The Little Prince, Saint-Exupery wrote several other
books that have also become classics of world literature. Katherine
Woods (1886-1968) produced the original English translation of The
Little Prince in 1943. It was later followed by several other
English translations, but her classic translation is treasured by
fans and is often considered to be the definitive English
translation. Her poetic translation perfectly captures the
enchantment and charm of Saint-Exupery's storytelling.
Follow the ingenious mysteries of the 'Tuesday Night Club' with
this hardback special edition of Agatha Christie's beloved classic.
THE ORIGINAL WEEKDAY MURDER CLUB 'Well,' said Joyce, 'it seems to
me we are a pretty representative gathering. How would it be if we
formed a Club? What is today? Tuesday? We will call it The Tuesday
Night Club. It is to meet every week, and each member in turn has
to propound a problem. Some mystery of which they have personal
knowledge, and to which, of course, they know the answer.' Two
years before The Murder at the Vicarage, Agatha Christie first
introduced the world to Jane Marple and the stories of murder and
intrigue told by each member of the Tuesday Night Club. Time and
time again, crimes so wicked they have confounded even Scotland
Yard's finest are solved by St Mary Mead's sharpest mind and
everyone's favourite armchair detective.
Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all
time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes
the family of the four March sisters living in a small New England
community. Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo,
at fifteen is ungainly and unconventional with an ambition to be an
author; Beth is a delicate child of thirteen with a taste for music
and Amy is a blonde beauty of twelve. The story of their domestic
adventures, their attempts to increase the family income, their
friendship with the neighbouring Laurence family, and their later
love affairs remains as fresh and beguiling as ever.
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved,
essential classics.
Is Mr. Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he a
devil?
Set on the bleak moors of Yorkshire, Lockwood is forced to seek
shelter at Wuthering Heights, the home of his new landlord,
Heathcliff. The intense and wildly passionate Heathcliff tells the
story of his life, his all-consuming love for Catherine Earnshaw
and the doomed outcome of that relationship, leading to his
revenge.
Poetic, complex and grand in its scope, Emily Bronte's
masterpiece is considered one of the most unique gothic novels of
its time."
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