Who says death is a serious subject? Grave Humor celebrates the lighter side of death through photos capturing the most amusing & ironic monuments to the dearly departed. From amusing epitaphs ('I told you I was sick') to comical burials (the Maxwell-House plot), this irreverent anthology of cemetery humour proves you can laugh to death. It

Features: photos of more than 100 funny, ironic & ridiculous tombstones; colour illustrations & clever captions; &, DIY epitaphs for anyone who wants to go out with a laugh.

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When Rebekkah returns to her small-town home for her beloved Grandmothers funeral, she little suspects that she is about to inherit a darkly dangerous family duty on behalf of Claysvilles most demanding residents ? the dead. Everyone in Claysville knows that the Barrows are no ordinary family, but no one can really explain why. When respected matriarch Maylene Barrow dies suddenly her granddaughter Rebekkah returns to the small town she grew up in, where she must face the demons of her past ? the suicide of her half-sister Ella, the person she was closest to in the world, & the subsequent break-up of her parents marriage. & she also re-encounters Byron, Ellas old boyfriend, someone to whom she has always felt a deep & mysterious connection. But the demons of the past are nothing compared with what the future has in store for Rebekkah. Her grandmother has left her an inheritance both wonderful & terrible. An onerous responsibility now rests on her shoulders ? one for which she is ill-prepared to say the least. For behind Claysvilles community-spirited, small-town facade lies a dark secret. One that ties Rebekkah & Byron together in an inextricable bond, & that will require them both to sacrifice everything to keep their friends & neighbours from harm. ...

Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns out the 'everyday' world is full of strange & magical things
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The award-winning & Number One bestselling Val Mc Dermid crafts a electrifying psychological suspense thriller that mixes history, heritage & heinous crimes. A 200 year-old-secret is now a matter of life & death. & it could be worth a fortune. It's summer in the Lake District & heavy rain over the fells has uncovered a bizarrely tattooed body. Could it be linked to the old rumour that Fletcher Christian, mutinous First Mate on the Bounty, had secretly returned to England? Scholar Jane Gresham wants to find out. She believes that the Lakeland poet William Wordsworth, a friend of Christian's, may have sheltered the fugitive & turned his tale into an epic poem ...

WINNER of the 2010 Cilip Carnegie Medal, the Newbery Medal & the Booktrust Teenage Book Prize 2009, & shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Award Stunningly illustrated by Chris Riddell, who brings the ghouls, ghosts & hero wonderfully to life in this fantastic ghost adventure story, laced with menace & humour ...

Top Ten bestselling author Tess Gerritsen delivers a thoroughly menacing new thriller. A brilliantly compulsive page-turner from the author of The Surgeon. Dr Emma Watson, a brilliant research physician, has been training for the mission of a lifetime: to study living organisms in space. Jack Mc Callum, Emmas estranged husb&, has shared her dream of space travel, but a medical condition has grounded him. Now he must watch from the sidelines? The mission aboard the space station turns into a nightmare when a culture of single-celled organisms begins to regenerate out of control ? & infects the crew with agonising & deadly results. Emma struggles to contain the deadly virus, while back home Jack & NASA work against the clock to bring her home. But there will be no rescue, as the astronauts are left stranded in orbit where they are dying one by one? ...

Emma Watson, a brilliant research physician, has been training for the mission of a lifetime: to study living creatures in space. Jack Mc Callum, Emma's estranged husb&, once shared her dream of space travel but is grounded due to a medical condition. A culture of singe-celled organisms aboard the space station begins to multiple uncontrollably, infecting the astronauts
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Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, & then, a screaming comes across the sky, heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. Soon Tyrone is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany. ...

An alien species is positioning an enormous asteroid to strike planet Earth, eradicate the human race, & replace mankind with millions of hybrid alien creations. A flawed but determined hero, Michael Kendon, steps out of the ranks of humanity to confront the alien Goliath. The powerful fuel of his humanity ultimately enables him to prevail. ...

Donovan Gray is ruthless & fearless. Just the kind of lawyer you need, deep in small-town Appalachia.

Samantha Kofer

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