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A game of blackmail and betrayal is played among the backstreets and canals of Venice . . .Carnevale is in full swing, the streets and waterways of Venice are crowded with masked revellers and Nathan Sutherland's birthday is about to be ruined.A night at the opera at La Fenice is always a memorable experience - and this time it will be so for all the wrong reasons as the curtain call is interrupted by a fatal stabbing. But why is the dead man ...

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A combination of exotic settings, thought-provoking science and exciting action distinguishes this thriller in which a renowned investigator of the supernatural goes after a killer whose very existence seems improbable.

That night, when I started to follow the woman with the sparkling ring, I finally found a clue to unravelling the mystery. I suddenly realised what I was attracted to. I was attracted to someone feeling afraid.Yu-jin is a model student, a successful athlete and a good son. But one day he wakes up covered in blood. There is no sign of a break-in and there is a body downstairs. It is the body of someone he knows all too well . . .Yu-jin struggle...

Accident or murder? A perfect day hides the perfect crime . . . Summer has arrived in Inishowen and solicitor Ben O'Keeffe is greatly tempted by a job offer she's received from a law firm in America. Yet before making any life-changing decisions there is her friend Leah's wedding to attend at the newly restored Greysbridge Hotel, with its private beach and beautiful pier. It's the perfect location, everyone agrees, but the festivities are brut...

1930s California. Where Hollywood stars, looking for privacy, find a world of scandalous trysts and wild parties. But even the most dazzling of illusions can't hide the darkest secrets . . . After escaping from a private sanitarium, Adelaide Blake arrives in Burning Cove, California, desperate to start over.Working at a herbal tea shop puts her on the radar of those who frequent the seaside resort town: Hollywood movers and shakers always in n...

Meticulously documented, full of drama . . . filled with smuggling, violence, ever-changing loyalties and tension . . . this is a tale fluently told, and a thriller as well' Kate Adie, Literary Review On 17 October 2013, teenage sisters Ayan and Leila Juma left their family home near Oslo, seemingly as usual. Later that day they sent an email to their unsuspecting parents, confessing they were in fact on their way to Syria. They had been plann...

By day an ordinary slug, by night Super Snail, Kevin attempts to prove his worth to the League of Heroes. Elys Dolan is the author of "The Doughnut Of Doom".

Brilliant . . . Hall has shaped a richly imagined, tremendously moving fictional work. Its genius is not to explain but to embody the science and politics that shaped Oppenheimer's life . . .The resulting quantum portrait feels both true and dazzlingly unfamiliar' New York Times J. Robert Oppenheimer - the father of the atomic bomb - was a brilliant scientist, a champion of liberal causes, and a complex and often contradictory character. In Lo...

Nina X has never been outside. She has never met another child. She has no mother and no father, she has Comrade Chen, and Comrades Uma, Jeni and Ruth. Her closest emotional connection is with the birds she sees when she removes the plasterboard that covers her bedroom window. Comrade Chen has named her The Project, she is being raised entirely separated from the false gods of capitalism and the cult of the self. He has her record everything i...

Nina X has never been outside. She has never met another child. She has no mother and no father, she has Comrade Chen, and Comrades Uma, Jeni and Ruth. Her closest emotional connection is with the birds she sees when she removes the plasterboard that covers her bedroom window. Comrade Chen has named her The Project, she is being raised entirely separated from the false gods of capitalism and the cult of the self. He has her record everything i...

Yasunari Kawabata was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1899 and before the Second World War had established himself as his country's leading novelist. Among his major works are Snow Country, A Thousand Cranes and The Master of Go. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, he died in 1972.

Classic SF from the golden age of the pulps, in a striking new edition! The collected tales of Jirel of Joiry - C.L. Moore's classic fantasy heroine.

‘An intricate, layered tale of empire, personal ambition, political obligations and interstellar intrigue. Vivid and delightfully inventive’Aliette de Bodard‘Perfectly balances action and intrigue with matters of empire and identity’Ann Leckie‘The most thrilling ride ever. This book has everything I love’Charlie Jane Anders‘Thrillingly smart . . . Like Iain M. Banks, she’s created a universe that can spawn a hundred books’Daryl Gregory‘An exce...

A question-and-answer board book, with two questions along the lines of 'Where's the jumping frog?' and 'Where's the hungry dog?' presented on each double page spread. Endearing animals and detailed illustrations throughout.

INFORMATION WANTED ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF DOLLMAKER EWA CHAPLIN AND/OR FRIENDSHIP, CORRESPONDENCE. PLEASE REPLY TO: BRAMBER WINTERS.Stitch by perfect stitch, Andrew Garvie makes exquisite dolls in the finest antique style. Like him, they are diminutive, but graceful, unique and with surprising depths. Perhaps that's why he answers the enigmatic personal ad in his collector's magazine.Letter by letter, Bramber Winters reveals more of her stran...

The series focusing on the firsts of a junior dinosaur's life continues, as Nancy is confronted with her most loathed food item and forced to hatch a plan to dispose of it through alternative channels. Simple rhyming text and colourful artwork for young readers.

This book takes a unique approach to linear optimization by focusing on the underlying principles and business applications of a topic more often taught from a mathematical and computational perspective.

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This undergraduate textbook introduces English literature students to the application of linguistics to literary analysis.