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Tanjiro sets out on the path of the Demon Slayer to save his sister
and avenge his family! In Taisho-era Japan, kindhearted Tanjiro
Kamado makes a living selling charcoal. But his peaceful life is
shattered when a demon slaughters his entire family. His little
sister Nezuko is the only survivor, but she has been transformed
into a demon herself! Tanjiro sets out on a dangerous journey to
find a way to return his sister to normal and destroy the demon who
ruined his life. Their initial confrontation with Kokushibo, the
most powerful of Muzan's demons, has left Tokito severely wounded
and Genya cut in half-but still alive! Can his regenerative power
heal even this fatal wound? The Hashira Himejima and Sanemi square
off with Kokushibo and unleash all the skill they have against him.
Himejima is blind, but if he can see into the Transparent World he
might have a chance. Who will survive this whirlwind of flashing
blades?
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*
So was Pemberley all peace, calm and pleasure after Elizabeth
Bennet married the sternly handsome Fitzwilliam Darcy? The
delightful short story from which this book takes its title tells
us in faithful detail how Lizzy fared and how her faithful
sister-in-law Georgiana rose Venus-like as a woman with her own
will and talents - and made an excellent match into the bargain. In
'Trina', we visit Tsarist Russia and the Tolstoyan setting of St
Petersburg, where a headstrong young girl falls for a man who can
work on her mind - and her fondness for rubies. Against the
backdrop of an era closer to our own, 'Friends and Relations'
explores the impact of World War I and a friendly American giant on
the tidy lives of a group of middle-class Britons. A keen eye for
social differences, a wonderful sense of time and place, and
occasional elegiac notes set these stories apart, guaranteeing the
reader rich and continuing rewards.
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.
A sinister case of deadly poisoned chocolates from Sodbury Cross's
high street shop haunts the group of friends and relatives
assembled at Bellegarde, among the orchards of 'peach-fancier'
Marcus Chesney. To prove a point about how the sweets could have
been poisoned under the nose of the shopkeeper, Chesney stages an
elaborate memory game to test whether any of his guests can see
beyond their 'black spectacles'; that is, to see the truth without
assumptions as witnesses. During the test - which is also being
filmed - Chesney is murdered by his accomplice, dressed head to toe
in an 'invisible man' disguise. The keen wits of Dr Gideon Fell are
called for to crack this brazen and bizarre murder committed in
full view of an audience. Also known by its US title The Problem of
the Green Capsule, this classic novel is widely regarded as one of
John Dickson Carr's masterpieces and remains among the greatest
impossible crime mysteries of all time.
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