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Death has her in his clutches. she doesn’t want him to let go. seventeen-year-old pierce oliviera knew by accepting the love of john hayden, she’d be forced to live forever in the one place she’s always dreaded most: the underworld. the sacrifice seemed worth it, though, because it meant she could be with the boy she loves. but now her happiness – and safety – are threatened, all because the furies have discovered that john has broken one of their strictest rules: he revived a human soul. if the balance between life and death isn’t fixed, both the underworld and pierce’s home back on earth will be wiped away. but there’s only one way to restore order. someone has to die.

In the small southern town of chin-kiang, two young girls from very different worlds collide and become inseparable companions. willow is hardened by poverty and fearful for her future; pearl is the daughter of a christian missionary who desperately wishes she was chinese too. neither could have foreseen the transformation of the little american girl embarrassed by her blonde hair into the nobel prize-winning writer and one of china’s modern heroines, pearl s. buck. when the country erupts in civil war between the nationalists and the communists, pearl and willow are brutally reminded of their differences. pearl’s family is forced to flee the country and willow is punished for her loyalty to her ‘cultural imperialist’ friend. and yet, in the face of everything that threatens to tear them apart, the paths of these two women remain intimately entwined.

Late one night, exploring her father’s library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters addressed ominously to ‘my dear and unfortunate successor’. her discovery plunges her into a world she never dreamed of – a labyrinth where the secrets of her father’s past and her mother’s mysterious fate connect to an evil hidden in the depths of history. in those few quiet moments, she unwittingly assumes a quest she will discover is her birthright – a hunt for the truth about vlad the impaler, the medieval ruler whose barbarous reign formed the basis of the dracula myth. deciphering obscure signs and hidden texts, reading codes worked into the fabric of medieval monastic traditions, and evading terrifying adversaries, one woman comes ever closer to the secret of her own past and a confrontation with the very definition of evil. elizabeth kostova’s debut novel is an adventure of monumental proportions – a captivating tale that blends fact and fantasy, history and the present with an assurance that is almost unbearably suspenseful – and utterly unforgettable.

Imagine you can hear everything the town of men say about you. and they can hear everything you think. imagine you don’t fit into their plans. todd hewitt is just one month away from the birthday that will make him a man. but his town has been keeping secrets from him. secrets that are going to force him to run.

A stunning thriller and “a page-turning read” (daily mail) set in the trenches of world war i featuring beloved literary character and sherlock holmes’s sidekick dr. john watson. deep in the trenches of flanders fields, men are dying by the thousands every day…so one more death shouldn’t be a surprise. but then a body turns up with bizarre injuries, and sherlock holmes’s former sidekick dr. john watson finds his suspicions raised. the victim’s jaw was clamped shut in a terrible rictus and facial expression suggested that the man had seen unimaginable horror. something is terribly wrong. but this is just the beginning. soon more bodies appear, and watson must discover who is the killer in the trenches. but who can he trust? surrounded by unimaginable carnage, amidst a conflict that’s ripping the world apart, watson must step out of the shadows and into the limelight if he’s to stop a brutal killer before he strikes again.

Lou clark knows lots of things but she doesn’t know is she’s about to lose her job or that knowing what’s coming is what keeps her sane. will traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. what will doesn’t know is that lou is about to burst into his world in a riot of colour.

Three armies march on new prentisstown, each one intent on destroying the others. todd and viola are caught in the middle, with no chance of escape. as the battles commence, how can they hope to stop the fighting? how can there ever be peace when they’re so hopelessly outnumbered?