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A Place Called Here
The runaway sunday times no.1 bestseller and thriller of the year, now a major film starring emily blunt ‘really great suspense novel. kept me up most of the night. the alcoholic narrator is dead perfect’ stephen king rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. she knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. she’s even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. ‘jess and jason’, she calls them. their life – as she sees it – is perfect. if only rachel could be that happy. and then she sees something shocking. it’s only a minute until the train moves on, but it’s enough. now everything’s changed. now rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she’s only watched from afar. now they’ll see; she’s much more than just the girl on the train…
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The Boys From Biloxi
*** the sunday times bestseller! *** global icon john grisham returns to mississippi in his most gripping thriller yet. ‘as ever with grisham there are corkscrew twists and turns as he ratchets up the suspense. it is exceptional story-telling, which leaves the reader begging for the novel never to end. grisham has sold more than 300 million copies of his work. this shows exactly why’ daily mail for most of the last hundred years, biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. but it had a darker side. it was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, drugs . . . even contract killings. the vice was controlled by a small cabal of mobsters, many of them rumoured to be members of the dixie mafia. keith rudy and hugh malco grew up in biloxi in the sixties and were childhood friends. but as teenagers, their lives took them in different directions. keith’s father became a legendary prosecutor, determined to ‘clean up the coast.’ hugh’s father became the ‘boss’ of biloxi’s criminal underground. keith went to law school and followed in his father’s footsteps. hugh preferred the nightlife and worked in his father’s clubs. the two families were headed for a showdown, one that would happen in a courtroom. rich with history and with a large cast of unforgettable characters, the boys from biloxi is a sweeping saga of two sons of immigrant families who grow up as friends, but ultimately find themselves in a knife-edge legal confrontation in which life itself hangs in the balance. in this novel, grisham takes his powerful storytelling to the next level, his trademark twists and turns will keep you tearing through the pages until the stunning conclusion. ‘it’s a story that spans half a century and ends inevitably in a courtroom showdown. a morally complex, compelling and illuminating read’ mail on sunday ‘invites comparisons with the godfather trilogy – it spans two generations and several postwar decades – and has a vast cast and a winning energy’ sunday times ‘grisham nails a thriller with a great human backstory once again’ peterborough telegraph 350+ million copies, 45 languages, 10 blockbuster films: no one writes drama like john grisham
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Oliver Twist
A beloved story, beautifully republished in this special, scholastic classics edition of oliver twist. “please, sir, i want some more.” when oliver runs away from a workhouse and is taken in by a group of pickpockets and thieves, he finds himself plunged into a dark criminal underworld. fagin, the artful dodger, the menacing bill sikes and kind-hearted nancy all play their parts as oliver struggles to survive and find his real family. a rich and unrivalled look at london poverty from arguablythe greatest novelist of the victorian era, charles dickens.
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Inferno
*now a major film starring tom hanks and felicity jones* florence: harvard symbologist robert langdon awakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. nor can he explain the origin of the macabre object found hidden in his belongings. a threat to his life will propel him and a young doctor, sienna brooks, into a breakneck chase across the city. only langdon’s knowledge of the hidden passageways and ancient secret that lie behind its historic facade can save them from the clutches of their unknown pursuers. with only a few lines from dante’s inferno to guide them, they must decipher a sequence of codes buried deep within some of the renaissance’s most celebrated artworks to find the answers to a puzzle which may, or may not, help them save the world from a terrifying threat. . .
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The Host
Science fiction. the earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed. wanderer, the invading “soul” who has been given melanie stryder’s body didn’t expect her to refuse to relinquish possession of her mind
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The Visitor
“sergeant amy callan and lieutenant caroline cook have a lot in common. they’re both army career women, they’re both victims of sexual harrassment by their superiors, they’re both forced to resign from the service. and now they’re both dead. only jack reacher can discover their killer.”–publisher’s description.
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City Of Bones
Suddenly able to see demons and the darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old clary fray is drawn into this bizzare world when her mother disappears and clary herself is almost killed by a monster.
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Hogfather
It’s the night before hogswatch, the discworld festival, and the hogfather has been kidnapped. there’s only possible stand-in who can be everywhere at once and negotiate the thinnest chimney. he’s just got to remember to leave his scythe behind. that’s right. ho, ho, ho, everyone.
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Undoctored
The no. 1 sunday times bestseller – now including brand new material this is going to hurt was the bestselling non-fiction book of the century – a frank, funny and furious look at the brutal realities of life in the nhs. but it was only part of adam kay’s story. with his stethoscope now hung up, adam shares more suture-splitting anecdotes from both on and off the wards. from the hilarious to the profoundly moving, from the first days of medical school to life after the nhs, undoctored is an astonishing portrait of an extraordinary life, from one of britain’s finest – and funniest – storytellers.
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Murder Games
The next hand he deals you… may be your last. a serial killer is loose on the streets of manhattan. his victims appear to be total strangers. the only clue that links the crimes is the playing card left behind at each scene that hints at the next target. the killer, known in the tabloids as the dealer, is baiting the police into a deadly guessing game that has the city increasingly on edge. following her instincts, the tenacious cop in charge of the case turns to an unlikely ally – dylan reinhart, a brilliant professor with a keen insight into the criminal mind whose book turned up in connection with the murders. as the tabloid frenzy over the dealer reaches fever pitch, dylan and elizabeth must connect the clues to discover what the victims have in common before the dealer runs through his entire deck.
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Torment
About the book : – in torment fallen angel daniel and his mortal love lucinda think they are safe but evil forces are massing against them. as luce learns more about her past, and discovers that the lives she s already lived hold the key to her future happiness; she starts to wonder if daniel has told her the whole truth. what if his version of events isn t the way things happened? what if that means that she s really meant to be with someone else? about the author : – lauren kate lives in los angeles, usa with her husband and their dog. she is a full-time writer. her first published novel was the betrayal of natalie hargrove and she has since been working on the quartet of novels which begins with fallen.
