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The Night House
(Paperback)
Jo Nesbo; Translated by Neil Smith
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WHEN THE VOICES CALL, DON'T ANSWER...
In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths fourteen-year-old Richard
Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote
town of Ballantyne.
Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate
named Tom goes missing, no one believes him when he says the telephone
booth out by the edge of the woods sucked Tom into the receiver like
something out of a horror movie.
No one, that is, except the enigmatic Karen, who encourages Richard to
pursue clues the police refuse to investigate. He traces the number to
an abandoned house in the woods. There he catches a glimpse of a
terrifying face in the window. And then the voices start.
When another classmate disappears, Richard grapples with the dark magic
that's possessing Ballantyne to try and find them before it’s too
late...
What lies beyond the veil of death? Journey past this mortal coil
and discover the secrets of the Shadowlands. Study the practices
around death and dying on Azeroth, then follow a Broker through the
groves of Ardenweald, over the gleaming towers of Bastion, and into
the depths of the Maw for a detailed voyage unlike any other.
Featuring gorgeous artwork never before glimpsed by mortal eyes, a
stunning fold-out map, and secrets straight from the game team,
Grimoire of the Shadowlands and Beyond is made to be treasured for
eternity. In his authorial debut, Blizzard Entertainment historian
Sean Copeland teams up with World of Warcraft's Lead Narrative
Designer, Steve Danuser, to open the vaults of hidden knowledge for
all curious souls.
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Red Mars
(Paperback)
Kim Stanley Robinson
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R502
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But she isn't here, no one is here. And I have a terror of being alone,
in this building, in London, in the world.
Neffy is a young woman running away from grief and guilt, and the one
big mistake that has derailed her career. When a debilitating new virus
sweeps across the globe, volunteering in a vaccine trial offers her a
way to make up for her past. But then, the virus mutates, and the
future she had dreamed for herself is gone.
As the London streets outside the medical unit fall silent, and food
begins to run out, Neffy must decide where safety lies. Might she find
solace by revisiting her own heady memories of the past? Can she trust
the strangers trapped inside with her - despite her growing suspicions?
Or is her best chance of a future to be found in the terrifyingly
unknown world outside?
Haunting and compelling, The Memory of Animals is a novel about freedom
and captivity, survival and sacrifice, and what we cling to when
everything else has been taken away, from the Costa Award-winning,
Women's Prize-shortlisted author of Unsettled Ground.
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Earthlings
(Paperback)
Sayaka Murata; Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori
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FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY, INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR
Mind-blowing, twisted and wildly entertaining, Earthlings asks: how
far would you go just to be yourself? As a child, Natsuki believed
she was an alien, a different species to her earthling family and
classmates. She hoped a spaceship would come down and take her
home. Now, she lives quietly in an asexual marriage, pretending to
be normal. But the buried horrors of Natsuki's past are pursuing
her. As she flees the suburbs for the Nagano mountains and a
reunion with her beloved cousin Yuu, she wonders, what will it take
to escape the earthlings?
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of
best-loved, essential classics. 'There are things in that wallpaper
that nobody knows about but me, or ever will' Hailed as one of the
most distinctive and compelling literary voices of her era,
Charlotte Perkins Gilman is praised today for her ground-breaking,
feminist writing. Collected here, both The Yellow Wallpaper and
Herland are extraordinary for scrutinising the patriarchal norms of
turn-of-the-century America. In The Yellow Wallpaper a woman
frantically paces the empty nursery at the top of a secluded
mansion. Her husband John, a physician, is of no comfort and she
can't bear to sit with the new baby as his crying makes her much
too nervous. And then there's the putrid, yellow wallpaper which
seems to shift and creep around the room before her very eyes...
Herland, first published in 1915, follows a group of three men as
they arrive in a female-only society. Peace and tranquillity thrive
in this utopian land, forcing the explorers to question how their
own corrupted, male-dominated world can survive.
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Tender Is the Flesh
(Paperback)
Agustina Bazterrica; Translated by Sarah Moses
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Infinity Engine is the third and final novel in the Transformation
series, by bestselling science fiction author Neal Asher, following
Dark Intelligence and War Factory. A man battles for his life, two
AIs vie for supremacy and a civilization hangs in the balance . . .
Several forces now pursue rogue artificial intelligence Penny
Royal, hungry for revenge or redemption. And the Brockle is the
most dangerous of all. This criminal swarm-robot AI has escaped its
confinement and is upgrading itself, becoming ever more powerful in
anticipation of a deadly showdown. Events also escalate aboard the
damaged war factory station where Penny Royal was constructed. Here
Thorvald Spear, alien prador, and an assassin drone struggle to
stay alive, battling insane AIs and technology gone wild. Then the
Weaver arrives - last of the Atheter, resurrected from a race that
suicided two million years ago. But what could it contribute to
Penny Royal's tortuous plans? And beyond the war factory a black
hole conceals a tantalizing secret which could destroy the Polity.
As AIs, humans and prador clash at its boundary, will anything
survive their explosive final confrontation?
Andrew Bye was born in the late forties in the East End of London.
After a lengthy career in engineering he took up writing when he
retired; he is an unashamed Trekkie and loves sci-fi, amongst other
things. He writes about everything and hopes you enjoy this work as
much as he did writing it.
Fierce, mixed-race fighter Shindo has been kidnapped by the yakuza.
After brutally beating most of them in an attempt to escape, she is
forced to work as a bodyguard to protect the gang boss's sheltered
daughter Shoko, a strange, friendless eighteen-year-old who could order
Shindo's death in a moment.
At first Shindo derides Shoko's naïvete, but as the men around them
grow ever more bloodthirsty and controlling, she becomes ferociously
devoted to her charge. However, she knows that if things continue as
they are, neither woman can expect to survive much longer.
But could there ever be a different life for two people like them?
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Girl One
(Paperback)
Sara Flannery Murphy
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