James Patterson's Book Shots Short fast-paced high-impact entertainment If the mission fails it's World War III Any questions? Owen Taylor is about to be betrayed on his final covert mission It will take everything he has to make it home alive & to save the woman he loves ...

Dear reader There is nothing to be found in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events' but misery & despair You still have time to choose another international best-selling series to read But if you insist on discovering the unpleasant adventures of the Baudelaire orphans then proceed with caution violet Klaus & Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children They are charming & resourceful & have pleasant facial features Unfortunately they are exceptionally unlucky In The End the siblings face a fearsome storm a suspicious beverage a herd of wild sheep an enormous bird cage & a truly haunting secret about the Baudelaire parents In the tradition of great storytellers from Dickens to Dahl comes an exquisitely dark comedy that is both literary & irreverent hilarious & deftly crafted Despite their wretched contents A Series of Unfortunate Events' has sold 60 million copies worldwide & been made into a Hollywood film starring Jim Carrey & in the future things are poised to get much worse thanks to the forthcoming Netflix series directed by Neil Patrick Harris You have been warned Are you unlucky enough to own all 13 adventures? The Bad Beginning The Reptile Room The Wide Window The Miserable Mill The Austere Academy The Ersatz Elevator The Vile Village The Hostile Hospital The Carnivorous Carnival The Slippery Slope The Grim Grotto The Penultimate Peril The End And what about All the Wrong Questions? In this four-book series a 13-year-old Lemony chronicles his dangerous & puzzling apprenticeship in a mysterious organisation that nobody knows anything about Who Could That Be at This Hour?' When Did you Last See Her?' Shouldn't You Be in School?' Why is This Night Different from All Other Nights?' Lemony Snicket was born before you were & is likely to die before you as well He was born in a small town where the inhabitants were suspicious & prone to riot He grew up near the sea & currently lives beneath it Until recently he was living somewhere else Brett Helquist was born in Ganado Arizona grew up in Orem Utah & now lives in New York City He earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts from Brigham Young University & has been illustrating ever since His art has appeared in many publications including Cricket magazine & The New York Times ...

Eminent scientist Dr Ralph Padley is dying
- & he knows it's time to finally tell the truth Padley has a dark secret which if it
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Please note this is the NTSC version of the game which is compatible with PAL systems Any future DLC may require a US Nintendo account The End is Nigh is a sprawling adventure platformer where the player takes control over Ash one of few things that have survived the end of the world Follow Ash as he flops his way through a future of pain & suffering Feel his stress levels rise as you throw him into an endless swarm of decaying mutant animal-like creatures & help aid his final epic quest to simply make a friend (out of pieces of people he finds along his journey) 600 levels 12 explorable chapters 20 collectible & fully playable mini game cartridges (each with their own tiny achievements)80 achievements that will make you feel good about yourself Hundreds of collectible little squishy tumors Loads of hidden extras & endings that you will probably see someone else find before you do ...

In My Struggle Karl Ove Knausgaard examines with ruthless unsparing rigour his life his ambitions & frailties his uncertainties & doubts & his relationships with friends & exes his wife & children his mother & father 1168 pages Knausgaard Karl Ove ...

Our fate is in their hands The universe is a hostile place in John Scalzi's The End of All Things the sixth in The Old Man's War series The Colonial Union's Defence Force was formed to save humanity when aggressive alien species targeted our worlds Now Lieutenant Harry Wilson has an urgent new mission as a hostile universe becomes ever more dangerous He must investigate a sinister group which lurks in the darkness of space playing different factions against one another They'll target both humans & aliens & their motives are unfathomable The Defence Force itself is weakening as its soldiers fall
- without recruits to replace them Relations with Earth have broken down & it will send no more troops even as human colonies become increasingly vulnerable to alien attack Lieutenant Wilson & Colonial Union diplomats must race to keep the peace seek reconciliation with an enraged Earth & maintain humanity's unity at all costs If they don't it will mean oblivion extinction & the end of all things
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Rewriting the science of Alzheimer's Disease this book presents the first proven plan to reverse Alzheimer's Disease Revealing that AD is not one condition but in fact three it outlines 36 metabolic factors including micronutrients hormone levels & sleep which together can trigger downsizing in the brain 320 pages Bredesen Dale E ...

' Must the tyranny of the group rule us from cradle to grave? Absolutely not says Todd Rose in a subversive & readable introduction to what has been called the new science of the individual Readers will be moved' Abigail Zuger The New York Times' Groundbreaking The man who can teach you how not to be average' Anna Hart Daily Telegraph' Fascinating engaging & practical The End of Average will help everyone
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- live up to their potential' Amy Cuddy author of Presence' Lively & entertaining a cheering story of how the square pegs among us can build successful lives despite being unable or unwilling to fit into round holes' Matthew Reisz Times Higher Education' Heartening a worthwhile read for the aspiring nonconformist' Iain Morris Observer

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Winner of the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize From one of the most daring voices in European fiction this is a story of the twentieth century traced through the various possible lives of one woman She is a baby who barely suffocates in the cradle Or perhaps not? She lives to become as an adult & dies beloved Or dies betrayed Or perhaps not? Her memory is honoured Or she is forgotten by everyone Moving from a small Galician town at the turn of the century through pre-war Vienna & Stalin's Moscow to present-day Berlin Jenny Erpenbeck homes in on the moments when life follows a particular branch & 'fate' suddenly emerges from the sly interplay between history character & pure chance The End of Days is a novel that pulls apart the threads of destiny & allows us to see the present & the past anew ...

A brilliant novel courageous necessary & deeply touching' Guardian Edouard Louis grew up in a village in northern France where many live below the poverty line His bestselling debut novel about life there The End of Eddy has sparked debate on social inequality sexuality & violence It is an extraordinary portrait of escaping from an unbearable childhood inspired by the author's own Written with an openness & compassionate intelligence ultimately it asks how can we create our own freedom?A mesmerising story about difference & adolescence' New York Times Edouard Louisis that relatively rare thing
- a novelist with something to say & a willingness to say it without holding back' The Times Louis' book has become the subject of political discussion in a way that novels rarely do' Garth Greenwell New Yorker
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