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Carpe Jugulum
Mightily oats has not picked a good time to be priest. he thought he d come to lancre for a simple ceremony. now he s caught up in a war between vampires and witches. there s young agnes, who is really in two minds about everything. magrat, who is trying to combine witchcraft and nappies, nanny ogg … and granny weatherwax, who is big trouble. and the vampires are intelligent. they ve got style and fancy waistcoats. they re out of the casket and want a bite of the future. mightily oats knows he has a prayer, but he wishes he had an axe. carpe jugulum is terry pratchett’s twenty-third discworld novel – but the first to star vampires.
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His ‘n’ Hers
From their first meeting at the student union over a decade ago, jim and alison successfully navigated their way through first dates, meeting parents, moving in together and more… then they split up and divided their worldly goods (including a sofa, a cat and their flat) into his ‘n’ hers. now, three years on and with new lives and new loves, they couldn’t be happier. until a chance encounter throws them back together, and causes them to embark on a journey through their past to ask themselves the big question: where did it all go wrong, and is it too late to put it all right?
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Soul Music
Other children get given xylophones. susan just had to ask her grandfather to take his vest off. yes. there’s a death in the family. it’s hard to grow up normally when grandfather rides a white horse and wields a scythe – especially when you have to take over the family business, and everyone mistakes you for the tooth fairy. and especially when you have to face the new and addictive music that has entered discworld. it’s lawless. it changes people. it’s called music with rocks in. it’s got a beat and you can dance to it, but… it’s alive. and it won’t fade away.
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The Distance Between Us
Gripping, insightful and deft, maggie o’farrell’s third novel is a haunting story of the way our families shape our lives. it won the somerset maugham award. on a cold february afternoon, stella catches sight of a man she hasn’t seen for many years, but instantly recognises. or thinks she does. at the same moment on the other side of the globe, in the middle of a crowd of chinese new year revellers, jake realises that things are becoming dangerous. they know nothing of one another’s existence, but both stella and jake flee their lives: jake in search of a place so remote it doesn’t appear on any map, and stella for a destination in scotland, the significance of which only her sister, nina, will understand.
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Gruesome Facts
A great book of gruesome facts for kids to read and enlarge their knowledge.
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The Host
Melanie stryder refuses to fade away. the earth has been invaded by a species that takes 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’s body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too-vivid memories. but there was one difficulty wanderer didn’t expect: the former tenant of her body refusing to relinquish possession of her mind. melanie fills wanderer’s thoughts with visions of the man melanie loves – jared, a human who still lives in hiding. unable to separate herself from her body’s desires, wanderer yearns for a man she’s never met. as outside forces make wanderer and melanie unwilling allies, they set off to search for the man they both love.
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Drawing Is Fun
Perfect for aspiring young artists, this book provides a fantastic way to get kids drawing. simple, step-by-step illustrations are accompanied by clear instructions, helping children to progress from sketching basic outlines to creating detailed, colourful drawings.
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Ps, I Love You
When her high school sweetheart and beloved husband, gerry, dies at 30, holly doesn’t know how to go on without him – nor does she want to. but two months after his death, holly receives a mysterious package and opens it to find that gerry has left her a letter.
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Vampire Academy
How far will rose go to keep a promise? the recent strigoi attack at st. vladimir’s academy was the deadliest ever in the school’s history, claiming the lives of many. even worse, the strigoi took some of their victims with them – including dimitri. he’d rather die than be one of them, and now rose must abandon her best friend, lissa-the one she has sworn to protect no matter what-and keep the promise dimitri begged her to make long ago. but with everything at stake, how can she possibly destroy the person she loves most?
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Digital Fortress
When the national security agency s invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls in its head cryptographer, susan fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. what she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. the nsa is being held hostage not by guns or bombs, but by a code so complex that if released would cripple u. s. intelligence. caught in an accelerating tempest of secrecy and lies, fletcher battles to save the agency she believes in. betrayed on all sides, she finds herself fighting not only for her country but for her life, and in the end, for the life of the man she loves&
