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The Midnight Palace
₱250.00The book begins with a chase through the streets of calcutta in may 1916. lieutenant peake pauses for breath outside the ruins of the jheeter’s gate station knowing that he only has a few hours to live. inside his overcoat he is sheltering two newborn babies – twins, a boy and a girl. peake entrusts them to aryami bose. sixteen years later we meet the boy, ben, and his friends. they have formed a secret club, the chowbar society, which meets each week at midnight in the old ruin they have christened the midnight palace. then aryami bose turns up with sheere, ben’s sister, and tells them the story of the parents they never knew. their father was an engineer and writer who died in tragic circumstances at the inauguration of jheeter’s gate station. but as the novel unfolds, there is more to their history than meets the eye and they are lured by a shadowy figure from the past into a final showdown in the ruins.
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Someday
₱250.00The sequel to the new york times best-selling every day every day a new body. every day a new life. every day a new choice. for as long as a can remember, life has meant waking up in a different person’s body every day, forced to live as that person until the day has ended. a always thought there wasn’t anyone else who was like this. a was wrong. someday starts where every day left off. david levithan takes readers further into the lives of a and rhiannon, exploring more deeply what every day and another day had originally asked: what is a soul? what makes us human? and does gender matter when it comes to love?
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Batman
₱220.00Before he was batman, he was bruce wayne. a reckless boy willing to break the rules for a girl who may be his worst enemy. the nightwalkers are terrorizing gotham city, and bruce wayne is next on their list
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Duma Key
₱250.00Duma key is the engaging, fascinating story of a man who discovers an incredible talent for painting after a freak accident in which he loses an arm. he moves to a ‘new life’ in duma key, off florida’s west coast; a deserted strip, part beach, part weed-tangled, owned by a patroness of the arts whose twin sisters went missing in the 1920s. duma key is where out-of-season hurricanes tears lives apart and a powerful undertow lures lost and tormented souls. here freemantle is inspired to paint the amazing sunsets. but soon the paintings become predictive, even dangerous. freemantle knows the only way forward is to discover what happened to the twin sisters – and what is the secret of the strange old lady who holds the key? the story is about friendship, about the bond between a father and his daughter. and about memory, truth and art. it is also is a metaphor for the life and inspiration of a writer, and an exploration of the nature, power and influence of fiction.
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Cell
₱300.00‘civilization slipped into its second dark age on an unsurprising track of blood but with a speed that could not have been foreseen by even the most pessimistic futurist. by halloween, every major city from new york to moscow stank to the empty heavens and the world as it had been was a memory.’ the event became known as the pulse. the virus was carried by every cell phone operating within the entire world. within ten hours, most people would be dead or insane. a young artist clayton riddell realises what is happening. and together with tom mccourt and a teenage girl called alice, he flees the devastation of explosive, burning boston, desperate to reach his son before his son switches on his little red mobile phone…
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The Iliad
₱400.00Two of the greatest adventure stories of all time, these timeless epics of war, duty, honour and revenge are filled with magic, mystery and an assortment of gods and goddesses who meddle freely in the affairs of men. the iliad recounts the war between the trojans and achaeans and the personal and tragic struggle of the fiery-tempered achilles. the odyssey chronicles odysseus’s return from the trojan war and the trials he endures on his journey home.
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Lies We Sing To The Sea
₱400.00A fantasy romance, by dazzling new talent sarah underwood, inspired by greek mythology and the tale of penelope’s twelve hanged maids.
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Black House
₱300.00Two of the greatest storytellers of our time join forces to create an epic thriller of unsurpassed power, a twisting, compelling story of a small american town held in the grip of evil beyond all reason. abandoned by his friends as they cycle through the wisconsin town of french landing, ten-year-old ty marshall spots a crow hopping towards him down the sidewalk. then it calls his name. fascinated, ty gets off his bike for a closer look — and is dragged into the shadows. is ty destined to become the fourth victim of the fisherman, the serial killer who’s stalking this sleepy town? if so, only ex-detective jack sawyer may be able to save him. jack left his old life behind precisely to avoid such madness, but lately he’s been visited by strange nightmares and visions. could the doomed past he thought he’d escaped forever be reaching out for him … from the black house?
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The Chase
₱200.00Jill’s latest story was supposed to the biggest of her career. instead it unleashes a frightening series of events that threaten the safety and well-being of her and her family.
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Domina
₱350.00Everything you thought you knew about maestra… you don’t. judith rashleigh returns in the stunning new thriller from the author of the worldwide # 1 bestseller, maestra.
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Landline
₱220.00Georgie mccool knows her marriage is in trouble. that it’s been in trouble for a long time. she still loves her husband, neal, and he still loves her – but that almost seems besides the point now. two days before they’re supposed to visit neal’s family in omaha for christmas, georgie tells him that she can’t go. she’s a tv writer, and something’s come up on her show; she has to stay in los angeles. she knows that neal will be upset with her – he is always a little upset with her – but she doesn’t expect to him to pack up the kids and go home without her. when her husband and the kids leave for the airport, georgie wonders if she’s finally done it. if she’s ruined everything. that night, georgie discovers a way to communicate with neal in the past. it’s not time travel, not exactly, but she feels like she’s been given an opportunity to fix her marriage before it starts … is that what she’s supposed to do or would georgie and neal be better off if their marriage never happened
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Chicken Soup For The Soul
₱350.00Two of america’s best-loved inspirational speakers share the very best of their collected stories and favorite tales that have touched the hearts of people everywhere. canfield and hansen bring you wit and wisdom, hope and empowerment to buoy you through life’s dark moments.
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Maestra
₱300.00Sex. murder. shoes. a shockingly original and darkly decadent thriller, maestra is the launch title of zaffre, the new fiction imprint of bonnier publishing fiction.
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Citadel
₱330.00An epic wartime novel from the no.1 bestselling author of labyrinth and the mistletoe bride. 1942, nazi-occupied france. sandrine, a spirited and courageous nineteen-year-old, finds herself drawn into a resistance group in carcassonne – codenamed ‘citadel’ – made up of ordinary women who are prepared to risk everything for what is right. and when she meets raoul, they discover a shared passion for the cause, for their homeland, and for each other. but in a world where the enemy now lies in every shadow – where neighbour informs on neighbour; where friends disappear without warning and often without trace – love can demand the highest price of all.
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Cruel Crown
₱250.00Two women on either side of the silver-red divide tell the stories no one else knows. queen song queen coriane, first wife of king tiberias, keeps a secret diary – how else can she ensure that no one at the palace will use her thoughts against her? coriane recounts her heady courtship with the crown prince, the birth of a new prince, cal, and the potentially deadly challenges that lay ahead for her in royal life. steel scars diana farley was raised to be strong, but being tasked with planting the seeds of rebellion in norta is a tougher job than expected. as she travels the land recruiting black market traders, smugglers, and extremists for her first attempt at an attack on the capital, she stumbles upon a connection that may prove to be the key to the entire operation – mare barrow. contains an extract from glass sword, the second novel in the red queen series.
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The Chase
₱200.00When a terrible event shatters the lives of netty and gerald fenwick, they move to france hoping to escape their past and salvage their marriage. they take refuge in an old hunting-lodge, steeped in gallo-roman history, and as netty deciphers more recent sadistic dramas, they begin to drift apart.
