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Hollow City
The #1 new york times best-selling series. bonus features: • sneak preview of the third peculiar children novel • exclusive q&a with ransom riggs • never-before-seen peculiar photography like its predecessor, this second novel in the peculiar children series blends thrilling fantasy with vintage photography to create a one-of-a-kind reading experience. september 3, 1940. ten peculiar children flee an army of deadly monsters. and only one person can help them—but she’s trapped in the body of a bird. the extraordinary journey that began in miss peregrine’s home for peculiar children continues as jacob portman and his newfound friends journey to london, the peculiar capital of the world. there, they hope to find a cure for their beloved headmistress, miss peregrine. but in this war-torn city, hideous surprises lurk around every corner. and before jacob can deliver the peculiar children to safety, he must make an important decision about his love for emma bloom.
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The Midnight Palace
The 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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Healing Is The New High
Achieve genuine inner healing, let go of past trauma and find clarity, resilience and freedom with #1 sunday times bestselling author vex king. by committing to the principles and unique practices in this book, you’ll raise your vibration, release what’s holding you back and create space to welcome more joyful experiences into your life.
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Someday
The 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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How To Win Friends & Influence People
Dale carnegie’s enduring classic, the inspirational personal development guide that shows how to achieve lifelong success.
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Duma Key
Duma 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
‘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
Two 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
A 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
Two 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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Landline
Georgie 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
