This is a pacy bloodthirsty hugely entertaining teen zombie novel with an unconventional but tender love story at its heart. From the ruins of a cataclysmic ice-age a new society has emerged based on Victorian customs. Nora Dearly a feisty teenage girl & apparent orphan leaves her exclusive boarding school for the holidays to return home
- only to be dragged into the night by the living dead. Luckily for her this particular crack unit of zombies are good guys
- sent to protect her from the real nasties roaming the countryside & zeroing in on major cities to swell their ranks. Nora must find a way to defeat the evil undead with help from Bram a noble sweet & surprisingly hot zombie boy for whom she starts to fall...

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Miami's best-dressed serial killer is back & on the prowl at least he would be if he could shake off his permanent shadow. Ever since their paths first crossed Sergeant Doakes hasn't let Dexter Morgan out of his sight. Dexter may well be the Miami PD's blood-spatter analyst but Sgt. Doakes has a pretty good idea of how Dex likes to spend his free time & he's determined to catch him in the act. Dex hasn't killed in months & is getting twitchy. To throw Doakes off his scent he's spending more time with Rita his girlfriend. But no matter how many cosy nights they spend in front of the TV Doakes is still watching. Then a body turns up horribly mutilated & barely alive. To trap the torturer Doakes & Dexter will have to work together if they can trust each other. It's a devil's pact & one of them will have to be the bait... ...

Now in DCs acclaimed deluxe format this new hardcover collects all things Death including Death: The High Cost of Living 1-3 & Death: The Time of Your Life 1-3 plus extras including Death Talks about Life" AIDS pamphlet stories from Vertigo: Winters Edge 2 & The Sandman: Endless Nights the short story " The Wheel" from the 9-11 tribute book The Sandman 8 & 20 & art from the Death Gallery!" ...

Devastating conclusion to The Mercian Trilogy" as the vampires destiny is finally revealed. I am pestilence & plague war & turmoil. I am what you fear when the night is dark I am the shiver you feel in your spine when you least expect it. I am the dreams from which you awake full of dread. I am the dreams from which one day you fear you will never wake at all. I am death & you will know me soon enough. The sorcerer Wyndham is set to destroy Will before he can achieve his destiny but the bigger challenge facing the vampire Earl of Mercia is finding a way through the maze of prophecies laid down for him to a future that is good. As the barriers to the underworld fall around him only one thing is clear
- the choices will not be easy for Will or for Eloise..."
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While her best friend Brooklyn is focusing all of her energy on helping Lorelei hone her abilities Lorelei is dealing with the reality that Satans second in command has taken up residence inside her body. Oh & the fact that she has a crush on the Angel of Death. But what a beautiful death it is. If those werent bad enough something sinister has come to town & it wants nothing more than to hear Loreleis dying breath as it strangles it out of her. Thank goodness the gang has a supernatural champion. But what happens when the only being who can save them switches sides midstream? How can a group of misfits capture one of the most powerful beings ever created? & will they find out how to bring Jared back to them before its too late? ...

' Refreshingly romantic dangerously good fun hugely addictive' Joanne Harris author of Chocolat Charlie St. Cloud was a blessed boy destined to do good things in high places. But all that changed the night he survived the car crash that killed his little brother Sam. Years later Charlie is still trying to atone for his loss. He has stayed at home in his snug New England fishing village tending the lawns & monuments of the ancient cemetery where his brother is buried. You see Charlie is graced with an extraordinary gift: he can see talk to & even play catch with Sam's spirit. Theirs is a perfect magical world untroubled until Charlie meets Tess Carroll a captivating adventurous yachtswoman training for a solo trip around the world. Suddenly he is faced with a choice -- between death & life the past & the present holding on & letting go. The Death & Life of Charlie St. Cloud is a romantic & exhilarating novel about second chances & the liberating power of love. ' Heart-meltingly moving.' Glamour ' Sherwood makes you believe -- & that's miracle enough' Newsweek ...

In this classic text Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning & rebuilding & to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. The result is one of the most stimulating books on cities ever written. Throughout the post-war period planners temperamentally unsympathetic to cities have been let loose on our urban environment. Inspired by the ideals of the Garden City or Le Corbusiers Radiant City they have dreamt up ambitious projects based on self-contained neighbourhoods super-blocks rigid scientific plans & endless acres of grass. Yet they seldom stop to look at what actually works on the ground. The real vitality of cities argues Jacobs lies in their diversity architectural variety teeming street life & human scale. It is only when we appreciate such fundamental realities that we can hope to create cities that are safe interesting & economically viable as well as places that people want to live in. ...

This title presents a gloriously illustrated exploration of 3 000 years of the iconography of death & resurrection in world art. As one of the unavoidable realities of human existence death is also one of the oldest & most common themes in art. From Egyptian tomb paintings & battles scenes on Greek vases by anonymous artists to depictions of the crucifixion of Christ by Renaissance masters to contemporary encounters with these subjects by artists such as Damien Hirst & Andres Serrano this new volume in the Guide to Imagery" series examines three-thousand years of the iconography of death & resurrection. While focusing on the Western artistic tradition this volume also looks at many works of art from Asia Africa & Oceania as it explores depictions of death & resurrection
- including violent death ceremonial tributes to the departed allegorical depictions & the journey to the afterlife."
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Find a murderer
- & save the Queens Jubilee! It is 1897 & the London is preparing for Queen Victorias Diamond Jubilee. But a corpse
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Viktor is an aspiring writer with only Misha his pet penguin for company. Although he would prefer to write short stories he earns a living composing obituaries for a newspaper. He longs to see his work published yet the subjects of his obituaries continue to cling to life. But when he opens the newspaper to see his work in print for the first time his pride swiftly turns to terror. He & Misha have been drawn into a trap from which there appears to be no escape. ...