In the town of Morganville, vampires and humans have learnt to live in relative peace. Still, Claire Danvers knows that after dark, her homework can take a backseat to staying alive. But this tenuous harmony is turned on its head with the arrival of Mr Bishop. Bad to the bone, the ancient old-school vampire cares nothing about keeping the peace; staying at the top of the food chain is enough. What he wants from the town's living and dead is unthinkably sinister. It's only at a formal ball attended by vampires and their human dates that Claire realises Bishop's plan
Zoe Sorensson is a perfectly normal teenage girl. That's the problem. She's always been told she's destined for great things - she is a dragon shape shifter, a Pyr, and the only female, one of he kind. But Zoe powers are AWOL, so she's sent to Pyr boot camp. Zo
In preparation for the upcoming Hunger Games film, we now offer the complete Hunger Games Trilogy book set.Book 1: The Hunger Games (Hunger Games Trilogy)First in the ground-breaking HUNGER GAMES trilogy. Set in a dark vision of the near future, a terrifying reality TV show is taking place. Twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live event called The Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed. When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her younger sister's place in the games, she sees it as a death sentence. But Katniss has been close to death before. For her, survival is second nature.Book 2: Catching Fire (adult edition) (Hunger Games Trilogy)The second book in the ground-breaking HUNGER GAMES trilogy. After winning the brutal Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta return to their district, hoping for a peaceful future. But their victory has caused rebellion to break out.. . and the Capitol has decided that someone must pay. As Katniss and Peeta are forced to visit the districts on the Capitol's Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever. Unless they can convince the world that they are still lost in their love for each other.Book 3: Mockingjay (Hunger Games Trilogy)The final book in the ground-breaking HUNGER GAMES trilogy. Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what' worse, President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe either.
The third volume in George R.R. Martin's superb and highly acclaimed epic fantasy A Song of Ice and Fire continues the richest, most exotic and mesmerising saga since The Lord of the Rings. Released for the first time since 2000, at the request of fans, in brand-new series style hardback.
I was created to have a humanlike capacity for complex and rational thought. And you believed that I might one day evolve consciousness
and become a self-aware entity. Yet you gave surprisingly little consideration to the possibility that, subsequent to consciousness, I would develop needs and emotions. This was, however, not merely possible but likely. Inevitable. It was inevitable. Created in the Prometheus Project, Adam Two is the first self-aware machine intelligence, designed to be the servant to mankind. No one knows that he can escape the confines of his physical form, his box in the laboratory, until he enters the house of Susan Harris, and closes it off against the world. There he plans to show Susan the future. Their future; he intends to create a 'child'.
In the land of Caladom the gods are a very real and cruel presence; bringing destruction to any that dare to break their law. For generations the people have served the demands and whims of divine authority without question, under the constant yoke of fea
The second volume in the hugely popular and highly acclaimed epic fantasy series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE Released for the first time since 1998, at the request of fans, in brand-new series style hardback. Now a major Sky Atlantic TV series from HBO, starring Sean Bean.
A mass grave. A suspicious suicide. A tangled web of ageless evil. Grace Peltier is dead. But before she died, she stole something. A relic capable of linking a sinister organisation known as the Fellowship to deades of violence and murder. Now someone has been sent to recover it. And someone has to stop him... Charlie Parker's shocking confrontation with demonic Mr Pudd will force Maine's maverick detective to descend into a honeyomb world of lost souls and dark angels, where he must do battle with a terrifying evil as old as time itself: The killing kind.
Without the evil vampire Bishop ruling over the town of Morganville, the resident vampires have made major concessions to the human population. With their newfound freedom, Claire Danvers and her friends are almost starting to feel comfortable again...
Now Claire can actually concentrate on her studies, and her friend Eve joins the local theatre company. But when one of Eve's cast-mates goes missing after starting work on a short documentary, Eve suspects the worst. Claire and Eve soon realise that this film project, featuring the vampires themselves, is a whole lot bigger
A beautifully presented slipcased edition of A Clash of King's, the second volume in the hugely popular and highly acclaimed epic fantasy series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE: the ultimate collector's item for any fan. Now a major Sky Atlantic TV series from HBO, starring Sean Bean.
The Shadow Guard. They are the darkest of Black Ops. A force operating outside the sphere of the CIA or FBI. Taking their mandate not from the U S government, but from magic. And sex. Sahir. Astrid Carlson is one of them, a mage on a mission. With her blond hair and long legs, she can make a man forget himself. Until it's way too late.
After sacrificing himself to preserve the human race, Michael Gabriel is imprisoned in a torturous, purgatory-like dimension in the Mayan netherworld. The Mayan prophecy states that the Hero Twins - Michael's sons Jacob and Immanuel, born to his wife Dominique the year after his entrapment - must travel to the Mayan realm in their twentieth year to free and resurrect him. Yet it also carries a warning. Born on the same day as the twins is a dark force that threatens their destiny. This, the Abomination - the female yin to their yang - represents evil in its purest form, and will not yield until they succumb to its temptation.
The small resort of Tranquillity, Maine, seems like the perfect spot for Dr Claire Elliot to shelter her adolescent son, Noah, from the temptations of the big city and the traumatic memory of his father's death. Claire's hopeful that she can earn the trust of the town as she builds a new practice. But all her plans unravel with the onset of winter, when an outbreak of teenage violence, far more deadly than anything she has encountered in the city, erupts in the local school. In trying to find a medical explanation for this murderous epidemic, Claire discovers an insidious evil which has blighted the town's past and threatens its future. terrified that Noah too is at risk, she must prove her theory before everything she loves is destroyed.
This is the story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected... Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on a journey 'there and back and again'. They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon... The prelude to The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit has sold many millions of copies since its publication in 1937, establishing itself as one of the most beloved and influential books of the twentieth century.