A terrifying & original tale of a world populated mostly by teens who are fighting to save their lives… & the future of planet Earth A decade ago the alien Creepers came to Earth dropping asteroids to drown our coastal cities detonating nuclear weapons overhead to destroy our communications power & computer systems & to set up their network of killer stealth satellites to kill anything on our planet that used modern technology In a matter of days Earth was driven back to a nineteenth century existence Then the war really began as the Creepers descended & set up domed bases that were impervious to everything save a nuclear bomb For ten years then the battered & surviving members of humanity have fought against the Creepers & their mechanized exoskeletons until something unexpected happened a chance for victory Sixteen-year-old Randy Knox has the usual problems of a teenage boy getting along with his father dating his sweetheart & trying not to fail his junior year of high school But Randy also has other demands on his time as a sergeant in the NH National Guard attached to the US Army & fighting the invading Creepers Randy has dim memories of a time of electric lights laptop computers television screens & above all plenty of food at every meal On his twelfth birthday he enlisted in the Army to carry on the fight since most of the world s adults have been killed off & it s up to the younger generations to serve But now as a veteran of the Creeper war & with his K-9 partner Thor Randy has learned to focus on the essentials the best way to kill a Creeper scrounge through abandoned buildings for old canned goods & to avoid being turned into barbecue bait He has earned the Bronze Star two violet Hearts & the Combat Infantryman Badge Endless war is all he knows Now change has drastically come to his life The current President of the United States has announced that scattered remnants of the Air Force have destroyed the Creeper s Orbital Base ensuring victory over the alien invaders Those surviving Creepers on the Earth s surface will be hunted down & exterminated as a weary & wary population celebrates victory Yet Randy is assigned a new mission to escort a secret representative from the Governor of New Hampshire to the nation s capitalto meet with the President & at the last moment a fellow teen soldier the beautiful Serena Coulson & her mute younger brother Buddy are assigned to join Randy This secretive mission proves to be the most dangerous assignment of his life as Randy tries to protect his charges from rampaging Creepers & criminal humans & as he fights to reach the capitol with a vital mission Randy learns that all of his skills in combating aliens may not be enough to survive the dark conspiracies of his fellow humans ...

From three-time Shamus Award winner Brendan Du Bois comes the sequel to Dark Victory A terrifying & original tale of teens who are fighting to save their lives & the future of planet Earth US Army Sergeant Randy Knox is sixteen & already a seasoned veteran He is an alien killing prodigy who has eradicated more of the invading Creepers than anyone can keep track of But Randy is also a high school student struggling with geometry & he is a young man whose heart is being pulled in two directions by two very different girls One Abby Monroe a straightforward warrior The other Serena Coulson dangerous & mysterious Randy with the help of Serena’s strange brother alien interpreter Buddy Coulson has convinced a Creeper base to surrender After a decade of conflict misery & the death of millions of humans it finally seems that the war may come to an end But then the surrender effort turns into a bloody ambush More disturbing Buddy & Serena Coulson arrive having escaped torture & interrogation at the hands of a CIA operative It begins to dawn on Randy that as much as he doesn’t want to believe it the powers-that-be may not want the war to be over Now as Randy’s hodge-podge military unit makes a desperate stand at a remote outpost young Sergeant Randy Knox learns just how far he will go to protect those he loves—and what it takes to save humanity from total alien domination About the Author Brendan Du Bois is the award-winning author of sixteen novels & more than 120 short stories His short stories have twice won him the Shamus Award from the Private Eye Writers of America & have also earned him three Edgar Award nominations He has recently collaborated with New York Times best-selling author James Patterson on several novellas for Patterson&s Bookshots Brendan lives in New Hampshire A former Jeopardy! champion he also appeared on—and won—the game show The Chase ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Based on a story by Japanese novelist Koji Suzuki & a film by Hideo Nakata (THE RING) DARK WATER is a thrilling exercise in psychological terror Jennifer Connelly stars as Dahlia a troubled woman who is battling her husband Kyle (Dougray Scott) for custody of their young daughter Ceci (Ariel Gade) Low on cash Dahlia moves with Ceci into a creepy apartment building on Roosevelt Island in New York City & soon discovers that something very wrong is going on one floor above them As black water drips down ominously from the ceiling in her bedroom Dahlia is unable to get help from the real estate agent in charge (the appropriately mysterious John C Reilly) or his very strange employee (a grizzled Pete Postlethwaite) Around the time Ceci starts going to her new school she also seems to have developed a very dangerous invisible friend with eerie ties to the apartment above Believing that Kyle might be gaslighting her Dahlia turns to a rather curious lawyer (Tim Roth) who appears to work out of his car All the while memories of her strained relationship with her mother begin flooding her mind & giving her debilitating migraines Brazilian director Walter Salles&s (THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES CENTRAL STATION) first Hollywood film DARK WATER cleverly paces itself before unleashing a terrifying conclusion ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A mother & her young daughter move into a rundown apartment building The discovery of an abandoned schoolbag sets of a series of chilling events Age Rating 15 ...

Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction A doctor looks back on the patient whose dark secret changed his understanding of what makes us human 480 pages Lowry Elizabeth ...

Book 3 in the Wild Seasonsseries that began with New York Timesbestseller Sweet Filthy Boy When three besties meet three hot guys in Vegas anything could-and does-happen Moving from college into the real world has never been so crazy or fun Let the Wild Seasons begin In Dark Wild Night now that they're only friends kissing Lola is all Oliver can think about Trying to forget her with a wild anonymous hookup he's simultaneously thrilled & torn Is this his chance to get over her? Or will this new stranger only pull him in deeper? ...

Dark Willow is the name given to Buffy&s best friend Willow as she became addicted to magic & sought to become the most powerful witch in her dimension! With her immense powers she truly was a force to be reckoned with! Add her to your Pop! Vinyl collection today! ...

Agent Nick Stone expects his latest mission to be a straightforward part of the fight against Osama Bin Laden's network of terror Despatched to Malaysia all he needs to do is assassinate a suspicious biochemist But there are complications Not least the attractive woman he is working alongside Target neutralised Stone returns to the USA to find turmoil in his personal life He is guardian to a teenage girl who is haunted by her traumatic past & attempting to numb it with a heavy drug dependency Stone knows he is the only one who can help her but her scars run deeper than he thinks Before long the conspiracy he has uncovered unravels to reveal a doomsday threat against the populations of New York London & Berlin & Stone faces the ultimate trade-off the life of someone he loves against those of millions he doesn't even know ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING RICHARD & JUDY PICK & KINDLE CHART-TOPPING SENSATION MEET DS AECTOR MCAVOY & BEGIN DAVID MARK'S ADDICTIVE CRIME SERIESDS Aector Mc Avoy is a man with a troubled past His unwavering belief in justice has made him an outsider in the police force he serves a good man among the lazy & corrupt Then on a cold day in December he is the first cop on the scene when a young girl is killed in Hull's historic church
- & the only one to see the murderer A masked man with tears in his eyes When two more seemingly unconnected people die the police must work quickly Only Mc Avoy can see the connection between the victims A killer is playing God
- & Mc Avoy must find a way to stop the deadly game Hooked on Hull? Then check out the second instalment in the DS Mc Avoy series Original Skin

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Iona Sheehan has always felt a powerful connection to Ireland So when her beloved grandmother confesses an extraordinary family secret she can't resist visiting County Mayo to discover the truth for herself Arriving at the atmospheric Castle Ashford Iona is excited to meet her enigmatic cousins Connor & Branna O' Dwyer & when she lands a job at the local riding school she is soon drawn to its owner
- the charismatic fiercely independent Boyle Mc Grath Perhaps she has found her true home at last But Iona's arrival is no accident The three cousins have each inherited a dangerous gift from an ancestor known as the Dark Witch & they are about to discover that some old legends can return to haunt the present The first in a magical new trilogy Dark Witch is a captivating story of love family & destiny
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