An outstanding new picture book with an extremely simple text
- full of humour with a brilliant twist at the end. Hungry Hen eats
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Fom the author of The Glass Palace the widely-acclaimed bestseller. The Hungry Tide is a rich exotic saga set in Calcutta & in the vast archipelago of islands in the Bay of Bengal. An Indian myth says that when the river Ganges first descended from the heavens the force of the cascade was so great that the earth would have been destroyed if it had not been for the god Shiva who tamed the torrent by catching it in his dreadlocks. It is only when the Ganges approaches the Bay of Bengal that it frees itself & separates into thousands of wandering strands. The result is the Sundarbans an immense stretch of mangrove forest a half-drowned land where the waters of the Himalayas merge with the incoming tides of the sea. It is this vast archipelago of islands that provides the setting for Amitav Ghoshs new novel. In the Sundarbans the tides reach more than 100 miles inland & every day thousands of hectares of forest disappear only to re-emerge hours later. Dense as the mangrove forests are from a human point of view it is only a little less barren than a desert. There is a terrible vengeful beauty here a place teeming with crocodiles snakes sharks & man-eating tigers. This is the only place on earth where man is more often prey than predator. & it is into this terrain that an eccentric wealthy Scotsman named Daniel Hamilton tried to create a utopian society of all races & religions & conquer the might of the Sundarbans. In January 2001 a small ship arrives to conduct an ecological survey of this vast but little-known environment & the scientists on board begin to trace the journeys of the descendants of this society. ...

Against all odds 17-year-old Gene has survived in a world where humans have been eaten to near extinction by the general population. The only remaining humans or hepers as they are known are housed in domes on the savannah & studied at the nearby Heper Institute. Every decade there is a government sponsored hunt. When Gene is selected to be one of the combatants he must learn the art of the hunt but also elude his fellow competitors whose suspicions about his true nature are growing. ...

Following in the tradition of Clive Cussler & Matthew Reilly Andy Mc Dermott takes us a roller-coaster ride in search of the legendary Atlantis. Archaeologist Nina Wilde believes she hasfound the location of the lost city of Atlantis andnow she wants the opportunityto prove her theory. Someone else though wants her dead! With the help of ex-SAS bodyguard Eddie Chase & beautiful heiress Kari Frost Nina faces a breakneck race against time around the world pursued at every step by agents of the mysterious & murderous Brotherhood of Selasphoros. From the jungles of Brazil to the mountains of Tibet from the streets of Manhattan to the depths of the Atlantic Ocean the hunt for Atlantis leads to a secret hidden for 11 000 years which in the wrong hands could destroy civilization as we know it... ...

On the night of 1 May 1945 Martin Bormann head of the Nazi Party Chancellery & private secretary to Adolf Hitler fled Fuhrers bunker into the ruins of Berlin. His subsequent disappearance became the source of countless rumours & wild speculation over the years even including a theory that he had been kidnapped by the son of Churchills doctor & Lt Commander Ian Fleming author of the James Bond books & had spent the rest of his life in quiet retirement in the English Home Counties! In The Hunt for Martin Bormann Charles Whiting examines over 50 years of rumours claims & counter-claims to uncover the real fate of one of the most hunted men of the twentieth century. Charles Whiting wrote his first novel in 1953 aged just twenty-six. He went on to be the worlds most prolific author of military books; he has sold in excess of three million in the UK alone & his collective works number around 200. Charles also lived abroad for thirty years working in German chemical factories US fashion companies newspapers magazines universities
- as an associate professor & lecturer
- & spent a long spell in the US army. He died in 2007.

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The door closed with a sickening thud of finality shutting my friends out & leaving me alone with my enemy a fallen angel & the monstrous bird creature his ancient lust had created. Then I did something Id only done twice before in my entire life. I fainted. Its all happening though Zoey Redbird wishes it wasnt. She has her friends back which is great. But a dark angel has taken over the House of Night supported by High Priestess Neferet. Not so great. This leaves Zoey hiding out with the (supposedly friendly) red fledglings in Tulsas prohibition-era tunnels. The not greatness continues. Zoey has some boy-thoughts to distract her with a chance to make-up with super-hot-ex Eric. But thoughts of the archer that died semi-permanently in her arms also keep distracting her. Then he shows up as Neferets newest minion. Well hell. Zoey & friends need a plan to put things right soon if shes to keep both head & heart intact.
- Not suitable for younger readers -
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Dylan the daughter of the scientist who created the Medusa gene for psychic powers has never felt she really fits into the crime-fighting Medusa Project. But then she makes a discovery about her father's death which changes everything. As she & the other Medusa teens search for the truth Dylan meets Harry
- a boy who seems to know more about Dylan's past than she does. But can Dylan trust him? While Dylan searches for the mysterious legacy that her father has left her from beyond the grave her dad's killer closes in. But just how far is the murderer prepared to go to keep Dylan from finding out the truth?
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The girl lies by the canal her face turned upwards like a stargazer. But she will never see the stars again. Her eyes have been torn out. The rain fills the empty sockets until they brim over spilling bloody tears down her cold white cheeks. Once every century the boundary between the demon Netherworld & the human world weakens. Legions of creatures gather preparing to cross over to bring death & destruction. This time is called The Shadowing. Callum has always known that there is something beyond the mortal world
- he can see ghosts. Lately hes started to have horrific visions of children murdered by some terrible unseen creature. & then the visions start to come true
- & Callum realises he is being hunted too. But Callum must stay alive. He is bound by a dark destiny & must stand against the demon forces that threaten our world forever. For it is nearly time. The Shadowing is coming...

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He took my palm in his & turned it over so that the sapphire-coloured tattoos that covered my palms were visible. Then much as I had just done he lightly traced his finger across my skin. I shivered but I didn't pull away. After the terrible arrival of the dark angel Kalona at the House of Night Zoey Redbird & her friends have fled to the tunnels under the town where they hide out with the strange new red Vampyre fledglings. Everything changes when Zoey is badly injured
- & finds herself back at the House of Night face to face with Stark who she hasn't forgotten since he died in her arms. But now Stark is working for Neferet. Can Zoey trust him? Who is really on her side as the battle begins? & what price will she have to pay for following her heart?
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When Jamie Tom & Wanna decide to hunt for prehistoric minibeasts they get more than they bargained for. There are no such things as minibeasts in the Permian
- just megabeasts! As the boys run away from the enormous dragonflies that are dive-bombing them they find a cave to hide in. But what they dont realize is that the cave is home to a giant spider & theyre caught in its web. Will the boys & Wanna be able to get free? Theres not much time.. .as today is the day of the end-of-the-Permian mass extinction event!
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