Into The Fire
The gripping new sunday times top 5 bestseller from the bestselling author of out of the dark and orphan x evan smoak – former government assassin, ‘orphan x’, turned white knight of last resort – is planning on hanging up his gun. Then he gets one last call. Max merriweather has lost his wife, home and career. Now it looks like he’s going to lose his life. A murdered cousin has left him a package and a team of assassins on his trail . . . Nothing evan can’t handle
God Of Small Things
The god of small things offers a keen insight into human nature with sensuous prose and dreamlike style. It is set in kerala, india, during the late 60s where communism rattled the ancient caste system. The story starts off with the funeral of young sophie mol, who is the cousin of the protagonists – the twins, rahel and estha. In a serpentine and suspenseful narrative, arundhati roy unveils local politics, social taboos and historical aspects that lie underneath family tensions which leave the relationships irrevocably shattered. In this poignant novel, roy captures the children’s candid observations, while showing an adult’s clouded understanding and complex emotional life
The Girl On The Train
The girl on the train is a 2015 psychological thriller novel by british author paula hawkins that gives narratives from three different women about relationship troubles and binge drinking.
The Trials Of Apollo The Tyrant`S Tomb
The former god apollo is having a pretty rough time of it. Well, for one thing, he’s been turned into a human and banished from olympus. And he’s called lester. But being an awkward mortal teenager is the least of his worries right now. Though he and some of his friends have emerged from the burning maze, rescued the oracle and lived to fight another day, they can’t escape the tragedy that has befallen them, or the terrible trials still to face.
The Archer
The archer we meet tetsuya, a man once famous for his prodigious gift with a bow and arrow but who has since retired from public life, and the boy who comes searching for him. The boy has many questions, and in answering them tetsuya illustrates the way of the bow and the tenets of a meaningful life. Paulo coelho’s story suggests that living without a connection between action and soul cannot fulfil, that a life constricted by a fear of rejection or failure is not a life worth living.
Book Thief
Special 10th anniversary edition with exclusive extra behind-the-scenes material from the author it is 1939. In nazi germany, the country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier – and will become busier still. By her brother’s graveside, liesel’s life is changed forever when she picks up a single object, abandoned in the snow. It is the gravedigger’s handbook, and this is her first act of book thievery. So begins liesel’s love affair with books and words, and soon she is stealing from nazi book-burnings, the mayor’s wife’s library
Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods
So begins percy jackson’s greek gods, in which the son of poseidon adds his own magic–and sarcastic asides–to the classics. He explains how the world was created, then gives readers his personal take on a who’s who of ancients, from apollo to zeus. Percy does not hold back. “if you like horror shows, blood baths, lying, stealing, backstabbing, and cannibalism, then read on, because it definitely was a golden age for all that.”
Red Pyramid
Since his mother’s death six years ago, carter kane has been living out of a suitcase, traveling the globe with his father, the brilliant egyptologist dr. Julius kane. But while carter’s been homeschooled, his younger sister, sadie, has been living with their grandparents in london. Sadie has just what carter wants — school friends and a chance at a “normal” life. But carter has just what sadie longs for — time with their father. After six years of living apart, the siblings have almost nothing in common. Until now.
The Hazel Wood
Seventeen-year-old alice and her mother have spent most of alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the hazel wood, alice learns how bad her luck can really get: her mother is stolen away―by a figure who claims to come from the hinterland, the cruel supernatural world where her grandmother’s stories are set. Alice’s only lead is the message her mother left behind: “stay away from the hazel wood.”
Origin (Soft Cover)
Robert langdon, harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the ultramodern guggenheim museum bilbao to attend a major announcement – the unveiling of a discovery that “will change the face of science forever.” the evening’s host is edmond kirsch, a 40-year-old billionaire and futurist whose dazzling high-tech inventions and audacious predictions have made him a renowned global figure.
Heroes of Olympus The Son of Neptune
Percy jackson, son of poseidon, god of the sea, has woken from a very deep sleep and come face to face with two snake-haired ladies who refuse to die but they’re the least of his problems. Because percy finds himself at a camp for half-bloods, which doesn’t ring any bells for him. There’s just one name he remembers from his past. Annabeth..
Magnus Chase and the Sword of Summer
One day, he’s tracked down by an uncle he barely knows—a man his mother claimed was dangerous. Uncle randolph tells him an impossible secret: magnus is the son of a norse god. The viking myths are true. The gods of asgard are preparing for war. Trolls, giants and worse monsters are stirring for doomsday. To prevent ragnarok, magnus must search the nine worlds for a weapon that has been lost for thousands of years.
She’s With Me
Moving to a new town to escape her dark past, amelia collins is determined to keep her head down and finish her senior year. But her plan is proving difficult when she runs into aiden parker – the school’s hottest bad boy. Initially she can’t imagine anyone worse than aiden – his good looks can’t possibly excuse his bad attitude. But soon she’ll realise there’s more to him than meets the eye.
The House We Grew Up In
Meet the picture-perfect bird family: pragmatic meg, dreamy beth, and towheaded twins rory and rhys, one an adventurous troublemaker, the other his slighter, more sensitive counterpart. Their father is a sweet, gangly man, but it’s their beautiful, free-spirited mother lorelei who spins at the center. In those early years, lorelei tries to freeze time by filling their simple brick house with precious mementos. Easter egg foils are her favorite. Craft supplies, too. She hangs all of the children’s art, to her husband’s chagrin.
Magnus Chase and the Ship Of The Dead
Magnus chase, a once-homeless teen, is a resident of the hotel valhalla and one of odin’s chosen warriors. As the son of frey, the god of summer, fertility, and health, magnus isn’t naturally inclined to fighting. But he has strong and steadfast friends, including hearthstone the elf, blitzen the dwarf, and samirah the valkyrie, and together they have achieved brave deeds, such as defeating fenris wolf and battling giants for thor’s hammer, mjolnir. Now magnus faces his most dangerous trial yet. His cousin, annabeth, recruits her boyfriend, percy jackson, to give magnus some pointers, but will his training be enough?
Every Thing, Every Thing
Madeline whittier is allergic to the outside world. So allergic, in fact, that she has never left the house in all of her seventeen years. But when olly moves in next door, and wants to talk to maddie, tiny holes start to appear in the protective bubble her mother has built around her. But does maddie dare to step outside her comfort zone?
Still Me
Lou clark knows too many things . . . She knows how many miles lie between her new home in new york and her new boyfriend sam in london. She knows her employer is a good man and she knows his wife is keeping a secret from him.what lou doesn’t know is she’s about to meet someone who’s going to turn her whole life upside down. Because josh will remind her so much of a man she used to know that it’ll hurt
Me Before You
Lou clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in the buttered bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend patrick. What lou doesn’t know is she’s about to lose her job or that knowing what’s coming is what keeps her sane.
After You
Lou clark has lots of questions. Like how it is she’s ended up working in an airport bar. Whether her family can ever forgive her. And will she ever get over the love of her life. What she knows for certain is that something has to change. Then it does. But does the stranger on her doorstep hold the answers lou is searching for? Close the door and life continues: simple, ordered, safe. Open it and she risks everything.
Paris For One And Other Stories
Liv, a spontaneous twenty-three-year-old graduate and sophie, a provincial shop girl, both find themselves in paris and in love. Though living decades apart, liv and sophie have a lot in common and they both find that marriage is only the beginning of their love stories . .
The House On The Lake
Lisa needs to disappear. And her friend’s rambling old home in the wilds of yorkshire seems like the perfect place. Its miles away from the closest town and no one there know her or her little boy, joe. But when a woman from the local village comes to visit them, lisa realizes that she and joe aren’t as safe as she thought.
The Mister
Life has been easy for maxim trevelyan. With his good looks, aristocratic connections, and money, he’s never had to work, and he’s rarely slept alone. But all that changes when tragedy strikes and maxim inherits his family’s noble title, wealth, and estates, and all the responsibility that entails. It’s a role he’s not prepared for and one that he struggles to face.
Let It Snow
Let it snow is a charming tale of love, romance and unforgettable emotions. Christmas eve is a time when the snow falls on a very festive ground which is decorated with lights. Gifts with colorful ribbons are being gift wrapped for loved ones. This particular eve, however, has all of this and more. There is an air of romance in the air as a hike from a stranded train ends in a kiss from a beautiful stranger, and the way back to true love happens during an early morning shift at starbucks. Also, a trip to the waffle house leads to falling in love with an old friend.
Into The Water
Just days before her sister plunged to her death, jules ignored her call. Now nel is dead. They say she jumped. And jules must return to her sister’s house to care for her daughter, and to face the mystery of nel’s death. But jules is afraid. Of her long-buried memories, of the old mill house, of this small town that is drowning in secrecy . . . And of knowing that nel would never have jumped.
The Trials of Apollo The Tower of Nero
It’s time to face the final trial . . . The battle for camp jupiter is over. New rome is safe. Tarquin and his army of the undead have been defeated. Somehow apollo has made it out alive, with a little bit of help from the hunters of artemis. But though the battle may have been won, the war is far from over. Now apollo and meg must get ready for the final – and, lets face it, probably fatal – adventure
Throne of Fire
In this exciting second installment of the three-book series, carter and sadie, offspring of the brilliant egyptologist dr. Julius kane, embark on a worldwide search for the book of ra, but the house of life and the gods of chaos are determined to stop them.
The Invited
In a quest for a simpler life, helen and nate have abandoned the comforts of suburbia to take up residence on forty-four acres of rural land where they will begin the ultimate, aspirational do-it-yourself project: building the house of their dreams. When they discover that this beautiful property has a dark and violent past, helen, a former history teacher, becomes consumed by the local legend of hattie breckenridge, a woman who lived and died there a century ago.
Percy Jackson And The Greek Heroes
If you like poisonings, betrayals, mutilations, murders and flesh-eating farmyard animals, keep reading . . . In this gripping follow-up to percy jackson and the greek gods, demigod percy jackson tells the stories of twelve of the original greek heroes in all their gory, bloodthirsty glory. Want to know who cut off medusa’s head? Which hero was raised by a she-bear? Who tamed pegasus, the winged horse? Percy has all the answers . . .
The Serpent’s Shadow
He’s b-a-a-ack! Despite their best efforts, carter and sade kane can’t seem to keep apophis, the chaos snake, down. Now apophis is threatening to plunge the world into eternal darkness, and the kanes are faced with the impossible task of having to destroy him once and for all.
The Librarian of Auschwitz
Fourteen-year-old dita is one of the many imprisoned by the nazis at auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the terezin ghetto in prague, dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When jewish leader freddy hirsch asks dita to take charge of the eight precious books the prisoners have managed to smuggle past the guards, she agrees.
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