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A bold debut novel reminiscent of Emma Cline`s The Girls; a story of love, lust & the spaces in between, from a `captivating` (New York Times) new voice in fiction It is 1950, & Willa`s mother has a new beau. The arrival of his blue-eyed, sun-kissed sons at Willa`s summer home signals the end of her safe childhood. As her entrancing older sister Joan pairs off with Kenneth, nine-year-old Willa is drawn to his strange & solitary younger brother, Patrick. Left to their own devices, Willa is swept up in Patrick`s wicked games. As they grow up, their encounters become increasingly charged with sexuality & degradation. But when Willa finally tries to reverse the trajectory of their relationship, an act of desperation has devastating results. Unfolding between the wild freedoms of British Columbia & the glittering beaches of California, Demi-Gods explores a girl`s attempt to forge a path of her own choosing in a world where female independence is suspect. Sensitive, playful & entirely original, Eliza Robertson is one of the most exciting new voices in contemporary literature. ...

Join Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase & Carter & Sadie Kane as they do battle with an ancient Egyptian magician determined to become a god. Against impossible odds, the four demigods & magicians team up to prevent the apocalypse. This book contains the short stories The Son of Sobek, The Staff of Serapis & The Crown of Ptolemy, together in one volume for the first time. &, read an exciting extract from The Sword of Summer, the first book in Rick Riordan`s latest series, Magnus Chase & the Gods of Asgard. ...

It is 490BC & Athens is at war. Leander, trying to rouse his comrades for the morrow`s battle against a far mightier enemy, begins to recount the story of his own life. Having witnessed the evils of the old tyrannical regimes & the rise of a new political system, Leander tells a tale of danger, bravery & big ideas, of the death of gods & the tortuous birth of democracy. Through a series of breathtaking scenes, we see that democracy was forged from chance & historical contingency
- but also through the cunning & courage of a group of highly talented, driven individuals. Alecos Papadatos & Annie Di Donna, artists behind the international phenomenon Logicomix, together with writer Abraham Kawa deliver a graphic novel bursting with extraordinary characters & vibrant colour, one that offers fresh insight into how this greatest of civic inventions came to be.
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Prompted by the EU referendum in the UK & the presidential election in the USA, A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces they were designed to manage, & why, crucially, it matters. First he considers moments in history
- Periclean Athens, the English Civil War, the American & French Revolutions, among them
- in which the challenges we face today were first encountered & what solutions, however imperfect, were found. Then he lays bare the specific problems of democracy in the twenty-first century & maps out a set of urgently needed reforms. With the advent of authoritarian leaders & the simultaneous rise of populism, representative democracy appears to be caught between a rock & a hard place, yet it is this space that it must occupy, says Grayling, if a civilized society, that looks after all its people, is to flourish.

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In 1831 Tocqueville set out from post-revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take him 9 months & cover 7, 000 miles. The result was ” Democracy in America”: a subtle & prescient analysis of the life & institutions of 19th-century America. Tocqueville`s study of the strengths & weaknesses of an evolving democratic society has been"ed by every American president since Eisenhower. It remains a key point of reference for any discussion of the American nation or the democratic system. ...

An explosive expose of the man who devoted his career to shackling democracy
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The new jaw-achingly funny novel from David Walliams, the number one bestselling author! Make your appointment if you dare... Darkness had come to the town. Strange things were happening in the dead of night. Children would put a tooth under their pillow for the tooth fairy, but in the morning they would wake up to find...a dead slug; a live spider; hundreds of earwigs creeping & crawling beneath their pillow. Evil was at work. But who or what was behind it...? Read this book & find out! ...

The latest jaw-achingly funny, number-one bestselling novel from David Walliams
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THE EPIC NEW THRILLER BEGINS. The creator of the number one bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series returns with the story of a girl on the run from everything she loves...and the monsters that await her. For anyone who ever thought their parents were monsters... Amber Lamont is a normal sixteen-year-old. Smart but insecure, she spends most of her time online, where she can avoid her beautiful, aloof parents & their weird friends. But when a shocking encounter reveals a horrifying secret, Amber is forced to go on the run. Killer cars, vampires, undead serial killers & red-skinned, horned demons
- Amber hurtles from one threat to the next, revealing the terror woven into the very fabric of her life. As her parents close in behind her, Amber`s only chance rests with her fellow travellers, who are not at all what they appear to be... Witty, action-packed & heart-stoppingly thrilling, Demon Road will take you on an epic road-trip across the supernatural landscape of America.
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