pp 1 margin 00px 00px 00px 00px; font 120px Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke 000000spans 1 font-kerning none In the gossip-fuelled world of Victorian London Persephone Lavelle is the name on everyone's lips As Mary's secret identity is exposed & rumours fly she flees the scandal by escaping to Venice Lost among the twisting alleyways & shadowy canals she encounters a mysterious masked young man He offers her the world but at what price? ...

In the middle of a rainy Swedish summer a little girl is abducted from a crowded train Despite hundreds of potential witnesses no one noticed when the girl was taken Her mother left behind at the previous station alerted the crew immediately But as the train pulled into Stockholm Central Station the girl was nowhere to be seen To Inspector Alex Recht of the Stockholm police this looks like a classic custody row But none of the evidence adds up & young Investigative Analyst Fredrika Bergman is convinced the case is far more complex than her boss is prepared to admit So when the missing child is found dead in the far north of Sweden with the word UNWANTED scribbled on her forehead the rule book is finally thrown out of the window Now on the trail of a ruthless murderer with a terrifying agenda will Alex & Fredrika manage to put aside their differences & work together to find the killer before it's too late? ...

A dazzling passionate polemic against anti-science movements of all kinds Cover note Each copy of the new edition of Unweaving the Rainbow features a unique wavelength pattern No two covers are exactly alike Keats accused Newton of destroying the poetry of the rainbow by explaining the origin of its colours In this illuminating & provocative book Richard Dawkins argues that Keats could not have been more mistaken & shows how an understanding of science enhances our wonder of the world He argues that mysteries do not lose their poetry because they are solved the solution is often more beautiful than the puzzle uncovering even deeper mysteries Dawkins takes up the most important & compelling topics in modern science from astronomy & genetics to language & virtual reality combining them in a landmark statement on the human appetite for wonder Cover note Each copy of the new edition of Unweaving the Rainbow features a unique wavelength pattern No two covers are exactly alike ...

Connor Risa & Lev are running for their lives Unwinding the process by which a child is both terminated & yet kept alive Unwinding is now a common & accepted practice in society Connor's parents want to be rid of him because he's a troublemaker Risa has no parents & is being unwound to cut orphanage costs Lev's unwinding has been planned since his birth as part of his family's strict religion Brought together by chance & kept together by desperation these unlikely companions make a harrowing cross-country journey knowing their lives hang in the balance If they can survive until their 18th birthday they can't be harmed
- but when every piece of them from their hands to their hearts is wanted by a world gone mad eighteen seems far far away Gripping brilliantly imagined futuristic thriller The issues raised could not be more provocative
- the sanctity of life the meaning of being human
- while the delivery could hardly be more engrossing or better aimed to teens Publishers Weekly starred review A thought-provoking well-paced read that will appeal widely School Library Journal starred review A breathless tale turning pages for teenage boys as it challenges not just where life begins & ends but what it means to be alive Educ 8 magazine a powerful shocking & intelligent novel It's wonderful wonderful stuff The Bookbag This is the kind of rare book that makes the hairs on your neck rise up It is written with a sense of drama that should get it instantly snapped up for film The Times Before there was The Hunger Games there was Unwind


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Tracklist A1 New Energy 157 A2 Demolished 249 A3 Natural Disasters 315 A4 Re-Enact The Crime 242 A5 Equally Stupid 306 A6 Pardon My French 130 A7 Descension 421 B1 Accidents On Purpose 155 B2 Petals Like Bricks 222 B3 Vern's Answer To The Masses 039 B4 Here Come The Dogs 206 B5 Disappoint 518 B6 Swan 809 ...

A wish-I'd-thought-of-it premise beautifully executed Highly recommended for anyone who thinks that fantasy can do more than just help you escape the real world
- Brian K Vaughan Y THE LAST MAN " Fascinatingone of the brainiest & most interesting comics of the year"
- Wired Tom Taylor's life was screwed from the word go His father created the mega-popular Tommy Taylor boy-wizard fantasy novels But dad modeled the fictional epic so closely to Tom that fans constantly compare him to his counterpart turning him into a lame Z-level celebrity When a scandal hints that Tom might really be the boy-wizard made flesh Tom comes into contact with a mysterious deadly group that's secretly kept tabs on him all his life Now to protect his life & discover the truth behind his origins Tom will travel the world to all the places in world history where fictions have shaped reality From Bill Willingham to Ed Brubaker from the LA Times to Ain't It Cool News THE UNWRITTEN has won over fans critics & pros Now don't miss the first collected edition featuring the first five issues of the overwhelmingly acclaimed Vertigo series

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Written by MIKE CAREY Art by PETER GROSS & others Cover by YUKO SHIMIZU Incredibly fun & ridiculously addictive
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Written by MIKE CAREY Art by PETER GROSS & RYAN KELLY Cover by YUKO SHIMIZU taut thriller that slyly plays off the real-world mania for imaginary ones"
- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY " Spellbinding a fast-paced supernatural horror story engrossing & exciting"
- BOING BOING The third volume of the critically acclaimed New York Times best-selling series collecting issues 13-18 This volume

Includes:: Man Knock" featuring the launch of the long-awaited new Tommy Taylor novel A scheme by the Unwritten cabal to bring its author out of hiding works with dramatic results leading to a momentous confrontation between Tom & Wilson Plus learn the truth behind Lizzie Hexam Tommy mysterious benefactor in an amazing interactive tale that lets the reader choose the story path



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Written by MIKE CAREY Art by PETER GROSS Cover by YUKO SHIMIZU This fourth volume in the acclaimed series sends Tommy Taylor into the world of Moby-Dick in a tale from issues 19-24! After the shocking return of Tommy father bestselling fantasy author Wilson Taylor the mysterious Cabal audition a new assassin & Tom seeks out source The source of what? He not really sure but it looks like a whale & apparently it can be found in the Nantucket farmhouse where Moby-Dick was written What he finds is a path into a whole different ocean with more trouble (and more whales) than he could possibly imagine ...

In this new title collecting issues 24-30 Tom heads to New York where the worldly goods of Wilson Taylor are being auctioned off
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