Only one thing is more terrifying than seeing the Ghost. Surviving. As they enter the menacing world of Chinese organised crime, quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme & his partner & lover Amelia Sachs face an ultimatum from the west, evil from the east & a brand new threat ï ½ from within. Having tracked down a cargo ship carrying illegal Chinese immigrants, Thyme & Sachs find the capture of the notorious killer behind the human smuggling goes terribly wrong. Now the detectives have just 48 hours to find the two surviving families before the Ghost does. And as the assassinï ½s threat grows clearer, Amelia is forming a connection that endangers the very fibre of her relationship with Rhymeï ½ ...

Three treasures. Two friends. One destiny.

Ever since Kenny learned that he’d been chosen as bearer of a magical sword,

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Ian Tilton knew The Stones Roses before they were famous & shot every key moment during the band's meteoric rise to fame in the late Eighties. He photographed their first TV appearance, the Roses three famous early gigs at Blackpool Tower, Glasgow Green & Spike Isl&, his photos appeared on their classic first album, he was the first photographer to do a Jackson Pollock shoot with the band & Ian is the man who first got Ian Brown to pull his famous monkey face! ...

Eight days before the summer solstice, a man is butchered in a blood-freezing sacrifice on the ancient site of Stonehenge before a congregation of robed worshippers. Within hours, one of the world's foremost treasure hunters has shot himself in his country mansion. & to his estranged son, young archeologist Gideon Chase, he leaves a cryptic letter. Teaming up with an intrepid Wiltshire policewoman, Gideon soon exposes a secret society
- an ancient international legion devoted for thousands of years to Stonehenge. With a charismatic & ruthless new leader at the helm, the cult is now performing ritual human sacrifices in a terrifying bid to unlock the secret of the stones.
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Madeline & Rufus Breeze come from a long line of fantabulous fanmakers they?ve been keeping people cool in style for centuries. & their eccentric inventor father has stubbornly continued the tradition even though their village has been covered in snow for several years. Now the Breeze family is so in debt, local tyrant Bartholomew Tullock is threatening to take their home. Then a smooth-tongued stranger & his blue-haired dog arrive in town with a solution to the Breezes? problem. Soon determined Madeline & her father are off on a death-defying journey to sell their breathtaking & breeze-making fans to the residents of the one nearby city that is (strangely) still hot. If only they didn?t have to face a mini-cyclone, stolen fans, enemy spies, eclectic elements & desert dunes hotter than an oven to get there, & in their absence its up to Rufus to keep his mother & their house safe from greedy Tullock & his nightmarish skeletal sidekick. ...

The greatest story ever told? Find out for yourself as Murray Watts retells the key stories of the Bible. Everything is here, from greed, deception & hate, to love, miracles & redemption. Above all, the Bible is a love story: the moving tale of God's love for the world in all its wonder & brokenness. Murray Watts combines his knowledge & love of the Bible with skilful storytelling to introduce readers to the drama & mystery of this great book. His evocative & engaging retellings unfold the sweep of Bible history in words & phrases everyone can understand & enjoy. As well as gripping accounts of all the great stories, there are accessible paraphrases of a number of popular psalms & Old Testament words of wisdom & prophecy. ...

An evocative & charming novel full of secrets & mystery, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Lost Bookshop In a quiet village in Irel&, a mysterious local myth is about to change everything… One hundred years ago, Anna, a young farm girl, volunteers to help an intriguing American visitor translate fairy stories from Irish to English. But all is not as it seems & Anna soon finds herself at the heart of a mystery that threatens her very way of life. In New York in the present day, Sarah Harper boards a plane bound for the West Coast of Irel&. But once there, she finds she has unearthed dark secrets – secrets that tread the line between the everyday & the otherworldly, the seen & the unseen. With a taste for the magical in everyday life, Evie Woods's latest novel is full of ordinary characters with extraordinary tales to tell. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008706678 • Author: Evie Woods • Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers • Format: Paperback • Pages: 3... ...

It is 1953, & America is still haunted by the war. Pearlie & Holland live quietly with their son in San Francisco, with a barkless dog in a vine-covered house. Apart from Holland's elderly aunts, the family have no regular visitors. That is until one day, a neat & elegantly dressed gentleman named Buzz appears at their door. The Story of a Marriage portrays three people trapped by the restrictions of their era, & reveals how we can never truly know the ones we love. ...

This story introduces us to the real girl who lies behind the famous diary. Within this book there are new insights into Anne Frank's early life, her relationships & the Frank family's harrowing two years spent hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam's Secret Annexe. This book brings to life the world of Anne Frank & her Diary. The size of the book is 19.7cm in height & 13cm in width. ...

From Ancient origins of astronomy to the Copernican revolution, & from Galileo to Dark Matter & Dark Energy, The Story of Astronomy charts the discoveries made by some of the greatest minds in human history in their attempts to unveil the secrets of the stars. ...