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Pandemic
(Hardcover)
Michele C. White
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Homeseekers
(Hardcover)
S. B. Broshar
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To gain the power he needs to save his friend from a cursed spirit,
Yuji Itadori swallows a piece of a demon, only to find himself
caught in the midst of a horrific war of the supernatural! In a
world where cursed spirits feed on unsuspecting humans, fragments
of the legendary and feared demon Ryomen Sukuna have been lost and
scattered about. Should any demon consume Sukuna's body parts, the
power they gain could destroy the world as we know it. Fortunately,
there exists a mysterious school of jujutsu sorcerers who exist to
protect the precarious existence of the living from the
supernatural! Despite the injuries and losses they suffered in an
attack on the Goodwill Event, the students of Jujutsu High have
little time rest as people start dying under mysterious
circumstances. Could these strange deaths have anything to do with
Sukuna's lost fingers?
The complete 12-book History of Middle-earth, printed in three
volumes and set in a matching box. J.R.R. Tolkien is famous the
world over for his unique literary creation, exemplified in The
Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. What is less
well known, however, is that he also produced a vast amount of
further material that greatly expands upon the mythology and
numerous stories of Middle-earth, and which gives added life to the
thousand-year war between the Elves and the evil spirit Morgoth,
and his terrifying lieutenant, Sauron. It was to this enormous task
of literary construction that his Tolkien's youngest son and
literary heir, Christopher, applied himself to produce the
monumental and endlessly fascinating series of twelve books, The
History of Middle-earth. This very special collector's edition
brings together all twelve books into three hardback volumes --
over 5,000 pages of fascinating Tolkien material -- and places them
in one matching box.
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Beyond the Eclipse
(Hardcover)
Dunnia Balczar-Goldstein, Dunnia Balcazar-Goldstein
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R828
Discovery Miles 8 280
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Life Heat
(Hardcover)
Kennedi Simone
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R915
R815
Discovery Miles 8 150
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Published in 1925, Willa Cather's The Professor's House is a novel
exploring the need to change and adapt to new life circumstances.
Its protagonist, Professor Godfrey St. Peter, a man in his 50's, is
living what would seem a successful and happy life. He has attained
professional success in academia and has a loving family. Despite
all this, he is experiencing a profound disappointment with life
and is trying to find a deeper meaning to his existence. Godfery's
existential dilemmas are universal.
Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller is back on the job in this heart-stopping thriller from the renowned #1 New York Times bestselling author.
On the night he celebrates a big win, defense attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over by police, who find the body of a former client in the trunk of his Lincoln. Haller is immediately charged with murder but can’t post the exorbitant $5 million bail slapped on him by a vindictive judge.
Mickey elects to represent himself and is forced to mount his defense from his jail cell in the Twin Towers Correctional Center in downtown Los Angeles. All the while he needs to look over his shoulder—as an officer of the court he is an instant target, and he makes few friends when he reveals a corruption plot within the jail.
But the bigger plot is the one against him. Haller knows he’s been framed, whether by a new enemy or an old one. As his trusted team, including his half-brother, Harry Bosch, investigates, Haller must use all his skills in the courtroom to counter the damning evidence against him.
Even if he can obtain a not-guilty verdict, Mickey understands that it won’t be enough. In order to be truly exonerated, he must find out who really committed the murder and why. That is the law of innocence.
In his highest stakes case yet, the Lincoln Lawyer fights for his life and proves again why he is “a worthy colleague of Atticus Finch . . . in the front of the pack in the legal thriller game” (Los Angeles Times).
Drawing on extensive interviews and correspondence with many of
Tann's surviving victims, Barbara Raymond shows how Tann not only
popularised adoption - which until then had been feared and
discouraged - but also commercialised and corrupted it. She tells
how Tann abducted babies or coerced women to leave their children
in her care and then sold them. To cover her kidnapping crimes she
falsified birth certificates, a practice that was approved by
legislators who believed it would spare adoptees the taint of
illegitimacy - an one that still holds today in the form of
'amended' birth certificates and closed adoption records.
Uncovering many life-shattering stories along the way, Raymond
recounts how Tann openly sold more that 5,000 children, and killed
so many through neglect that Memphis's infant mortality rate soared
to the highest in the country. She explores how Tann's operation
was able to thrive in a Tennessee governed by 'Boss' Ed Crump and
the political network that allowed her to operate with impunity.
And she portrays the lack of options available to women, affecting
not only the birth mothers she robbed, but also Tann herself, who
turned to social work after having been barred for a 'masculine
profession' - the law. Written by an adoptive mother, The Baby
Thief is part social history, part detective story, and part
expose. It is a riveting investigative narrative that explores
themes that continue to reverberate in the modern era, when baby
sellers operate overseas. It is particularly relevant at this time
in the UK, amidst heated national debate over the controversial
adoption targets that seem to provide a perverse incentive to
remove babies from birth parents.
In the predawn hours of a gloomy February day in 1994, two thieves
entered the National Gallery in Oslo and made off with one of the
world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's Scream. It was a
brazen crime committed while the whole world was watching the
opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. Baffled
and humiliated, the Norwegian police turned to the one man they
believed could help: a half English, half American undercover cop
named Charley Hill, the world's greatest art detective.The Rescue
Artist is a rollicking narrative that carries readers deep inside
the art underworld -- and introduces them to a large and colorful
cast of titled aristocrats, intrepid investigators, and
thick-necked thugs. But most compelling of all is Charley Hill
himself, a complicated mix of brilliance, foolhardiness, and charm
whose hunt for a purloined treasure would either cap an illustrious
career or be the fiasco that would haunt him forever.
Kafka wants to clean up kaiju, but not literally! Will a sudden
metamorphosis stand in the way of his dream? With the highest
kaiju-emergence rates in the world, Japan is no stranger to attack
by deadly monsters. Enter the Japan Defense Force, a military
organization tasked with the neutralization of kaiju. Kafka Hibino,
a kaiju-corpse cleanup man, has always dreamed of joining the
force. But when he gets another shot at achieving his childhood
dream, he undergoes an unexpected transformation. How can he fight
kaiju now that he’s become one himself?! Kafka has encountered
Kaiju No. 9, but he finds himself unable to transform. Luckily,
Kikoru comes to the rescue and goes head-to-head with it.
Meanwhile, the Kaiju No. 9 that Captain Narumi encountered
undergoes an evolution during battle! With the pressure on,
Director General Shinomiya is left with no choice but to act!
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