The epic conclusion in the mind-blowing supernatural thriller from bestselling author DEREK LANDY, creator of international sensation Skulduggery Pleasant. Bigger, meaner, stronger, Amber closes in on her murderous parents as they make one last desperate play for power. Her own last hopes of salvation, however, rest beyond vengeance, beyond the abominable killers
- living & dead
- that she & Milo will have to face. For Amber`s future lies in her family`s past, in the brother & sister she never knew, & the horrors beyond imagining that befell them.

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North American & Alaskan Cruises Insight Guide is a detailed exploration of the cruise route with a selection of glossy illustrations. Introductory sections explore background information to cruising in general as well as the history & culture of the places en route, whilst selective photo-features illustrate the variety of the place. The ...

In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all the twentieth century`s promises of prosperity, civic order, & domestic bliss. Roth`s protagonist is Seymour ` Swede` Levov
- a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father`s Newark glove factory
- comes of age in thriving, triumphant post-war America. & then one day in 1968, Swede`s beautiful American luck deserts him. For Swede`s adored daughter, Merry, has grown from a loving, quick-witted girl into a sullen, fanatical teenager
- a teenager capable of an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism. & overnight Swede is wrenched out of the longed-for American pastoral & into the indigenous American berserk. Compulsively readable, propelled by sorrow, rage, & a deep compassion for its characters, this is Roth`s masterpiece.


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Few Americans & even fewer citizens of other nations understand the electoral process in the United States. Still fewer understand the role played by political parties in the electoral process or the ironies within the system. Participation in elections in the United States is much lower than in the vast majority of mature democracies. Perhaps this is because of the lack of competition in a country where only two parties have a true chance of winning, despite the fact that a large number of citizens claim allegiance to neither & think badly of both. Or perhaps it is because in the U.S. campaign contributions disproportionately favor incumbents in most legislative elections, or that largely unregulated groups such as the now notorious 527s have as much impact on the outcome of a campaign as do the parties or the candidates` campaign organizations. These factors offer a very clear picture of the problems that underlay our much trumpeted electoral system. The second edition of this Very Short Introduction introduces the reader to these issues & more. Drawing on updated data & new examples from the 2016 presidential nominations, L. Sandy Maisel provides an insider`s view of how the system actually works while shining a light on some of its flaws. He also illustrates the growing impact of campaigning through social media, the changes in campaign financing wrought by the Supreme Court recent decisions, & the Tea Party`s influence on the sub-presidential nominating process. As the United States enter what is sure to be yet another highly contested election year, it is more important than ever that Americans take the time to learn the system that puts so many in power. ...

Patrick Bateman is twenty-six & works on Wall Street; he is handsome, sophisticated, charming & intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to a head-on collision with America`s greatest dream -- & its worst nightmare -- American Psycho is a bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognize but do not wish to confront. ` American Psycho is a beautifully controlled, careful, important novel.. . The novelist`s function is to keep a running tag on the progress of the culture; & he`s done it brilliantly.. .A seminal book` Fay Weldon, Washington Post ` The first novel to come along in years that takes on deep & Dostoyevskian themes.. . Ellis is showing older authors where the hands have come to on the clock` Norman Mailer, Vanity Fair ` Serious, clever & shatteringly effective.. . For its savagely coherent picture of a society lethally addicted to blandness, it should be judged by the highest standards` Sunday Times ...

Iain Sinclair breaks for the border with American Smoke, his first full engagement with the memory-filled landscapes of the American Beats & their fellow travellers, echoed as always in the mythologies of London, through which so many of them also passed. In a book filled with bad journeys & fated decisions, this is an epic walk in the footsteps of Malcolm Lowry, Charles Olson, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Gary Snyder & more, heated by obsession (the Old West, volcanoes, Mexico) & enlivened by false memories, broken reports & strange adventures. With American Smoke Sinclair confirms his place as the most innovative of our chroniclers of the contemporary. ...

In American Smoke, Iain Sinclair hits the road to America in the tracks of the Beats. On the trail of the American Beats, Iain Sinclair makes a delirious & perhaps ill-fated expedition in the footsteps of Malcolm Lowry, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Charles Olson & Gary Snyder. It is a journey in search of literary ghosts behind mirages of volcanoes & the Old West. In which rumours vie with false memories & unreliable reports to steer our guide from one strange adventure into another. It is an odyssey in which the beginning offers no clues as to where it may end. ”A transatlantic odyssey.. .grippingly haunted”. (Observer). ”A challenging, maddening, fascinating journey.. .enjoy Sinclair`s poetic language & subtly warped sense of humour. Rich & engrossing”. (Metro). ” Sit back & feel the invigorating pulse of beautifully crafted prose.. .wonderful”. (Daily Telegraph). ” Iain Sinclair has gone from cult author to national treasure”. (Robert Macfarlane). Iain Sinclair is the author of Downriver (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize & the Encore Award); Landor`s Tower; White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings; Lights Out for the Territory; Lud Heat; Rodinsky`s Room (with Rachel Lichtenstein); Radon Daughters; London Orbital, Dining on Stones, Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire & Ghost Milk. ...

American Sniper: the Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. History is the personal gripping account of Chris Kyle’s extraordinary battlefield experiences as a Navy SEAL during the Iraq war. His skills & precision earned him the title “the Legend” from his fellow American warriors; while the enemy who feared him named him al-Shaitan (“the devil”) & placed a bounty on his head. This is a touching biography, with many moving first-person passages elaborating on the pain of war & the tragic loss of teammates. His wife Taya contributes with writing openly about the strains of war on their family. The amazing details that surface provide a powerful insight into how wars are really fought today & makes this book & extraordinary great war memoirs! This edition

Includes:: material by Taya Kyle about the making of the American Sniper Film.SEAL Team 3 Chief Chris Kyle (1974-2013) was awarded two Silver Stars, five Bronze Stars with Valor, & numerous other citations. Following four combat tours in Iraq he became chief instructor for training Naval Special Warfare sniper teams. He is the author of American Gun: A history of the U.S. in Ten Firearms. A native Texan, Kyle is survived by his wife Taya, & their two children.

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`[ American War] creates as haunting a post-apocalyptic universe as Cormac Mc Carthy did in The Road, & as devastating a look at the fallout that national events have on an American family as Philip Roth did in The Plot Against America... El Akkad has written a novel that not only maps the harrowing effects of violence on one woman & her family, but also becomes a disturbing parable about the ruinous consequences of war on ordinary civilians.` Michiko Kakutani, New York Times Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, that unmanned drones fill the sky. & when her father is killed & her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she quickly begins to be shaped by her particular time & place until, finally, through the influence of a mysterious functionary, she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. Telling her story is her nephew, Benjamin Chestnut, born during war
- part of the Miraculous Generation
- now an old man confronting the dark secret of his past, his family`s role in the conflict &, in particular, that of his aunt, a woman who saved his life while destroying untold others.

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A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE GUARDIAN, THE OBSERVER, NEW YORK TIMES, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, THE WASHINGTON POST` American War creates as haunting a post-apocalyptic universe as Cormac Mc Carthy did in The Road, & as devastating a look at the fallout that national events have on an American family as Philip Roth did in The Plot Against America.` Michiko Kakutani, New York Times ...