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'That is the case. Alison has been murdered. His blazing body was
seen running about the battlements of Castle Skull.' And so a dark
shadow looms over the Rhineland where Inspector Henri Bencolin and
his accomplice Jeff Marle have arrived from Paris. Entreated by the
Belgian financier D'Aunay to investigate the gruesome and grimly
theatrical death of actor Myron Alison, the pair find themselves at
the imposing hilltop fortress Schloss Schadel, in which a small
group of suspects are still assembled. As thunder rolls in the
distance, Bencolin and Marle enter a world steeped in macabre
legends of murder and magic to catch the killer still walking the
maze-like passages and towers of the keep. This new edition of John
Dickson Carr's spirited and deeply atmospheric early novel also
features the rare Inspector Bencolin short story 'The Fourth
Suspect'.
Action Comics goes All In!
Superstar writers Mark Waid and Mariko Tamaki team-up to bring a
sweeping Superman epic that stretches from the past to the future and
beyond, and it all starts here with a brand new story arc perfect for
anyone looking for a way to jump into the rich world of the Man of
Steel!
Superman, back in time! In the past on his home planet Krypton,
Superman is left to uncover some uncomfortable truths relating to the
Phantom Zone and his own family – or, more specifically, his father,
Jor-El! But what will those truths mean for him in the present day? And
just how many unexpected allies and enemies can he unearth along the
way?
Collects Action Comics #1070-1081
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Crossfire
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Wilbur Smith, David Churchill
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Fawning is the vital, newly-discovered topic in psychology. You've heard of fight, flight and freeze - but fawning might be the most common trauma response of all. Learn how to work through it and find freedom with the leading expert, Dr. Ingrid Clayton.
Do you avoid conflict?
Do you tend to take the blame?
Do you take care of others at the expense of yourself?
Do you live in a state of hypervigilance?
Fawning can present as being more of who someone is: smart, generous, successful, funny, or beautiful, while for others it's about being less: vocal, ethnic, creative, self-assured or boundaried. Fawning can be visible or invisible; it can manifest in our relationships to sex or money, or in the tendency to 'people-please'; but one thing remains constant: it is about finding safety in an unsafe world, often at our own expense.
Fawning expert and clinical psychologist Dr. Ingrid Clayton is here to bring clarity and support. The first book by a practitioner with years of experience, Fawning will shine a light on this under-represented but crucial piece of the trauma puzzle. Drawing on twenty years of clinical psychology work, as well as a lifetime of insight as a recovering fawner herself, this groundbreaking book brings this emerging concept into the mainstream conversation. Readers will learn WHY we fawn, HOW to recognize the signs of fawning and WHAT we can do to successfully 'unfawn', using Clayton's invaluable tools and resources to find meaningful, reciprocal connections - and finally be ourselves.
Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopian classic Brave New World predicts - with eerie clarity - a terrifying vision of the future, which feels ever closer to our own reality.
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress...
Huxley's ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece.
'A bookshop is a first-rate place for unobtrusive observation,' he
continued. 'One can remain in it an indefinite time, dipping into
one book after another, all over the place.' Mr Richard Dodsley,
owner of a fine second-hand bookshop on Charing Cross Road, has
been found murdered in the cold hours of the morning. Shot in his
own office, few clues remain besides three cigarette ends, two
spent matches and a few books on the shelves which have been
rearranged. In an investigation spanning the second-hand bookshops
of London and the Houses of Parliament (since an MP's new crime
novel Death at the Desk appears to have some bearing on the case),
Ferguson's series sleuth MacNab is at hand to assist Scotland Yard
in an atmospheric and ingenious fair-play bibliomystery.
After a disastrous defeat at the 2018 World Cup, Japan's team struggles
to regroup. But what's missing? An absolute Ace Striker, who can guide
them to the win. The Japan Football Union is hell-bent on creating a
striker who hungers for goals and thirsts for victory, and who can be
the decisive instrument in turning around a losing match...and to do
so, they've gathered 300 of Japan's best and brightest youth players.
Who will emerge to lead the team... and will they be able to out-muscle
and out-ego everyone who stands in their way? After Sae Itoshi and
Ryusei Shidou enter their "flow" and lead the U-20 representatives in a
ferocious attack, Blue Lock plays their trump card: swapping in Barou.
The match quickly goes beyond all planning and strategies, as both
sides expend their utmost energy trying to surpass their limits in the
"flow" state. Will Isagi and the rest of Blue Lock be the ones to open
the door to a new era of Japanese soccer?!"
This is the classic novel brought to life in full colour! Bram
Stoker's gothic masterpiece was first published in 1897, and has
spawned so many classic films, all based on the character he
invented when Queen Victoria was on the throne. Like
"Frankenstein", the films have pushed the characters into the very
fabric of our society, so it is with great pride that we bring you
a visual treatment that is true to the original - made even more
exciting by the wonderous talent that is Staz Johnson!
'Elisa said Yes and I said Yes. We said Yes in all the European
languages. Yes. We said yes we said yes, yes to vague but powerful
things, we said yes to hope which has to be vague, we said yes to
love which is always blind, we smiled and said yes without
blinking.' ('A Better Way to Live') ----------- How does love
change us? And how do we change ourselves for love - or for lack of
it? Ten stories by acclaimed author Deborah Levy explore these
delicate, impossible questions. In Vienna, an icy woman seduces a
broken man; in London, a bird mimics an old-fashioned telephone; in
adland, a sleek copywriter becomes a kind of shaman. These are
twenty-first century lives dissected with razor-sharp humour and
curiosity, stories about what it means to live and love, together
and alone.
Variety is truly the spice of life throughout, thanks to the
inspired imagination of the author of this collection. Via his
vision you can experience the hardship of poverty-stricken
nineteenth-century England in "When God Looked Down to Help a
Child", or futuristic space journeys in "Just One Chance", and the
thrill of time travel in "Ahead of His Time". The reader should
keep one thing in mind: in the great short story tradition of
Vonnegut and Carver, the stories may start off as the ordinary run
of the mill kind, but expect the unexpected and the
far-from-ordinary.
Harry Gilmore has no idea of the terrible danger he faces when he
meets a beautiful girl in a local student bar. Drugged and
abducted, Harry wakes up in a secure wooden compound deep in the
Welsh countryside, where he is groomed by the leaders of a
manipulative cult, run by the self-proclaimed new messiah known as
The Master. When the true nature of the cult becomes apparent,
Harry looks for any opportunity to escape. But as time passes, he
questions if The Master's extreme behavior and teachings are the
one true religion. With Harry's life hanging by a thread, a team of
officers, led by Detective Inspector Laura Kesey, investigate his
disappearance. But will they find him before it's too late?
*Previously published as The Girl in White*
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The Waves
(Paperback, New edition)
Virginia Woolf; Introduction by Deborah Parsons; Notes by Deborah Parsons; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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Introduction and Notes by Deborah Parsons, University of
Birmingham. 'I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot', Virginia
Woolf stated of her eighth novel, The Waves. Widely regarded as one
of her greatest and most original works, it conveys the rhythms of
life in synchrony with the cycle of nature and the passage of time.
Six children - Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny and Louis -
meet in a garden close to the sea, their voices sounding over the
constant echo of the waves that roll back and forth from the shore.
The subsequent continuity of these six main characters, as they
develop from childhood to maturity and follow different passions
and ambitions, is interspersed with interludes from the timeless
and unifying chorus of nature. In pure stream-of-consciousness
style, Woolf presents a cross-section of multiple yet parallel
lives, each marked by the disintegrating force of a mutual tragedy.
The Waves is her searching exploration of individual and collective
identity, and the observations and emotions of life, from the
simplicity and surging optimism of youth to the vacancy and despair
of middle-age.
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