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Troubled Blood
***the 7th novel in the strike series, the running grave, is coming in september 2023. pre-order now and be the first to read it*** winner of the crime and thriller british book of the year award 2021 ‘one of crime’s most engaging duos’ guardian ‘magnificent’ sunday times ‘finely honed, superbly constructed’ daily mail ‘terrific’ daily express private detective cormoran strike is visiting his family in cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, margot bamborough – who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974. strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one forty years old. but despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and takes it on; adding to the long list of cases that he and his partner in the agency, robin ellacott, are currently working on. plus the pair are still battling their feelings for one another, while robin is also juggling a messy divorce and unwanted male attention. as strike and robin investigate margot’s disappearance, they come up against a fiendishly complex case with leads that include tarot cards, a psychopathic serial killer and witnesses who cannot all be trusted. and they learn that even cases decades old can prove to be deadly . . . a breathtaking, labyrinthine epic, troubled blood is the fifth strike and robin novel and the most gripping and satisfying yet. praise for the strike series: ‘a blistering piece of crime writing’ sunday times ‘the work of a master storyteller’ daily telegraph ‘unputdownable’ daily express ‘highly inventive storytelling’ guardian ‘superb . . . an ingenious whodunnit’ sunday mirror ‘come for the twists and turns and stay for the beautifully drawn central relationship’ independent ‘outrageously entertaining’ financial times
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Star Wars Expert Guide
The dictionary explains the language of the ks3 / 4 curriculum. with analphabetical wordfinder of over 1000 words and phrases , additional featurespreads on key topics enabling the student to explore the meaning of wordswithin a context rather than isolation, and fully supported with diagrams andillustrations, it is a key dictionary for secondary level science students.
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The Comeback
Ariadne hui thrives on routine. so what if everything in her life is planned down to the minute: that’s the way she likes it. if she’s going to make partner in toronto’s most prestigious law firm, she needs to stay focused at all times. but when she comes home after yet another soul-sucking day to find an unfamiliar, gorgeous man camped out in her living room, focus is the last thing on her mind. especially when her roommate explains this is choi jihoon, her cousin freshly arrived from seoul to mend a broken heart. he just needs a few weeks to rest and heal; ari will barely even know he’s there. (yeah, right.) jihoon is kindness and chaos personified, and it isn’t long before she’s falling, hard. but when one wrong step leads to a shocking truth, ari finds herself thrust onto the world stage: not as the competent, steely lawyer she’s fought so hard to become, but as the mystery woman on the arm of a man the entire world claims to know. now with her heart, her future, and her sense of self on the line, ari will have to cut through all the pretty lies to find the truth of her relationship… and discover the ariadne hui she’s finally ready to be.
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The Illustrated Stratford Shakespeare
Contains all 37 plays and 160 sonnets and poems; over 450 illustrations.
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Oxford Children’s Thesaurus
The oxford children’s thesaurus is aimed at readers at ks2, yr3-6 and p4-7 for scotland. blno confusing abbreviations – word classes (parts of speech) and inflections written in full blusage notes to help to encourage accurate use of language bltopic entries giving connected words for project work eg. weather, farm blexample sentences to help select the most appropriate word blup-to-date example sentences and phrases show how words are used in context
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A Long Long Way
Barely eighteen years old, willie dunne leaves dublin in 1914 to fight for the allied cause, largely unaware of the growing political and religious tensions festering back home. told in sebastian barry’s characteristically beautiful prose, ‘a long long way’ evokes the camaraderie and humour of willie and his regiment, the royal dublin fusiliers, but also the cruelty and sadness of war, and the divided loyalties that many irish soldiers felt. tracing their experiences through the course of the war, the narrative brilliantly explores and dramatises the events of the easter rising within ireland, and how such a seminal political moment came to affect those boys off fighting for the king of england on foreign fields – the paralysing doubts and divisions it caused them. it also charts willie’s coming of age, his leaving behind of his sweetheart gretta, and the effect the war has on his relationship with his father, a member of the dublin military police and fervent loyalist. running throughout is the question of how such young men came to be fighting in a war, and how they struggled with the events that raged around them.
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New Light On The Black Death
Exploring new ideas behind the emergence of the bubonic plague
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Faceless
A captivating tale of love, identity and redefining who you are from new york times bestselling author alyssa sheinmel. ‘it’s hard to be unique in a genre as broad as ya and in fiction in general, but faceless truly stands out … an absolute gem.’ the mile long bookshelf ‘faceless is a book you have to read’much loved books ‘sheinmel’s writing is absolutely exquisite … i can’t recommend this book strongly enough.’the bookbag how do you live your life when you can’t even recognise yourself? when maisie is struck by lightning, her face is partially destroyed. she’s lucky enough to get a face transplant, but how do you live your life when you can’t even recognize yourself any more? she was a runner, a girlfriend, a good student … a normal girl. now, after a single freak accident, all that has changed. as maisie discovers how much her looks did and didn’t shape her relationship to the world, she has to redefine her own identity, and figure out what ‘lucky’ really means. from new york timesbestselling author alyssa sheinmel comes an emotionally gripping ya novel a highly-acclaimed, beautifully written story perfect for teenage readers wonderfor a teen audience; perfect for fans of the perks of being a wallflowerand they both die at the end
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Star Wars
Star wars: revenge of the sith the visual dictionary brings dk’s world-acclaimed visual style to the star wars galaxy. high-quality annotated photographs and stills from the movie explain every important feature of the characters, creatures, costumes, droids and equipment found in the climactic, final prequel. features specially commissioned cutaway views of: general grievous’ cyborg mechanics a wookiee bowcaster anakin skywalker’s transformation into darth vader tactics and objectives of jedi in the field clone war land vehicles wookiee transports and weapons every detail of buzz droid weaponry and equipment and much more!
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Crime Scene
The secret world of forensic detection the cases that hit the headlines documents the forensics behind the controversial oj simpson trial, the hitler diaries fraud, and other high profile crimes where forensic evidence has proved crucial to solving the crime. accumulating and analysing key evidence details the methods and the highly specialised equipment that today’s forensic investigators use to sift through crime scenes and examine the findings. from the crime scene to the courtroom photographs from the actual crime scenes are combined with absorbing descriptions, 3-d diagrams, and scientific close-ups to explain how evidence in court can include blast fragments, lip prints, toxicology reports, encrypted data files, and much, much more . . .
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Attack Of The Clones
Attack of the clones is the second chapter in the star wars trilogy. this visual dictionary contains annotated photographs and stills, recreating all the characters, creatures, droids and equipment from the film.
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Missing, Presumed
A richard & judy bestseller 72 hours to find her… ‘hits the sweet spot between literary and crime fiction – gripping’ erin kelly ‘for those who love their crime fiction rich in psychology, beautifully written and laced with dark humour. dive in’ lucie whitehouse a missing girl edith hind is gone, leaving just her coat, a smear of blood and a half-open door. a desperate family each of her friends and relatives has a version of the truth. but none quite adds up. a detective at breaking point the press grows hungrier by the day. can ds manon bradshaw fend them off, before a missing persons case becomes a murder investigation?
