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 ...

On 14 September 2015, after 50 years of searching, gravitational waves were detected for the first time & astronomy changed

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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? ...

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.

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Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body features 1, 247 vibrant engravings, many in color, from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13, 000 entries ranging from the Antrum of Highmore to the Zonule of Zinn. 23.6 x 15.9 x 6.6 cm, pages 1096 ...

Fantasy took over his life, in a world of battles ruled by his teddy bear, Alan Measles. Here, he tells his own story. Early childhood in Chelmsford, Essex is a rural Eden that ends abruptly with the arrival of the violent milkman who becomes his stepfather, leading to constant swerving between his parents' houses. ...