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As the world descends into chaos, a fractured resistance makes its final, desperate play to stop Cytocorp and free the Domes. Having landed a critical blow against Cytocorp, Novi, Owen, and the rest of the Phage hope to break the Company's power once and for all. Their ambitious plan would prevent the Synthiont from taking over the world and potentially spur the Northern Cities to rise up. But morale is flagging and so is their faith in the ...

Desperate and shellshocked, the survivors of Dome Six face a foreign and terrifying threat: The outside world. To Owen and his fellow Domies, the forest west of the Willamette River might as well be an alien world. Every sight, smell, and sound is new. They should be grateful, but right now, they're just focused on getting through the next few hours alive. Every one of them is a ticking time bomb. Whispers of an underground militia lead th...

The discovery of a strange signal makes a young technician and his uncle question all they know about their utopian refuge. Now, they must solve the biggest mystery of all: Is there life beyond Dome Six? The Dome Project was meant to protect America's best and brightest from a climate catastrophe. When they lost contact with the outside world, all they could do was wait and hope. But four generations later, Dome Six is still waiting, and hop...

In The Skull Beneath the Skin, the second Cordelia Gray mystery from P.D. James, Cordelia is hired to protect a beautiful but neurotic actress and soon becomes embroiled in a case as dangerous to her life as it is mysterious.

Meet Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Required to delve into the hidden secrets of the Callender family, Cordelia soon realises it is not a case of suicide, and that the truth is entirely more sinister.

When a young girl is found murdered in a field, the scientific examination of the exhibits is just a routine job for the staff of Hoggatt's forensic science laboratory. When the senior biologist is found dead in his laboratory Commander Dalgliesh is called to the bleak fens of East Anglia, where the murderer is lying in wait to strike again.

Reissues of the popular crime series from the author of "Death Comes To Pemberley", casting light on the macabre undertow and complicated passions beneath the calm surfaces of various forms of English life.

Tutti abbiamo bisogno di energia nella vita quotidiana... e tanta! Solleva le linguette per capire che cos'è, perché ci serve e come il modo in cui la otteniamo influisce sul pianeta. Potrai anche scoprire le esaltanti nuove invenzioni su cui la scienza lavora per l'energia del futuro. Età di lettura: da 6 anni.

As if organising stalls, as well as presiding over luncheon, the bishop and the tea tent, were not enough for Mrs Maxie on that mellow July afternoon, she also has to contend with the news of her son's sudden engagement to her new parlour maid, Sally Jupp.

A stand-alone thriller from P. Philippa enters a new and terrifying world and soon comes to realize that she is not the only one interested in her parents' whereabouts. Innocent Blood is both a mystery and a thriller, a superb novel that explores the themes of self-identity and the meaning of life.

This book brings a blend of introductory, practical and theoretical treatments and likely future developments are also highlighted. A good selection of past and current references are given and each chapter concludes with a helpful summary comment.

The standalone dystopian novel of mass infertility and pervasive mystery from the Queen of Crime, set in 2021, reissued in a new edition. This title will appeal to fans of "The Handmaid's Tale" and Naomi Alderman's "The Power". 'Extraordinary... P.D. James stretches her considerable talents in this daring novel' "New York Times

The first of P.D. James's novels to feature Cordelia Gray, set in Cambridge. A chilling study of the complex motives behind cold-hearted murder. Issued into the launch list of "Faber Modern Classics".

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936), who published under the byline M. R. James, was a noted medieval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905-1918) and of Eton College (1918-1936), best remembered today for his ghost stories in the classic Victorian Yuletide vein. He is most widely known for his ghost stories, but as a medieval scholar his output was phenomenal and remains highly respected in scholarly circles. His discovery of a ...