Everyone wants to be a Roanoke girl. But you won't when you know the truth... The Richard and Judy Book Club pick 2017 and the darkly compulsive thriller that will keep you reading late into the night. Perfect for fans of The Couple Next Door and The Girls.
THE NEW FRONTLIST THRILLER FROM THE MILLION-SELLING AUTHOR OF COFFIN ROAD AND THE BLACKHOUSE In 1989, a killer dumped the body of twenty-year-old Lucie Martin into a picturesque lake in the West of France. Fourteen years later, during a summer heat wave, a drought exposed her remains - bleached bones amid the scorched mud and slime. No one was ever convicted of her murder.
Eleven-year-old Malcolm Polstead and his damon, Asta, live with his parents at the Trout Inn near Oxford. Across the River Thames (which Malcolm navigates often using his beloved canoe, a boat by the name of La Belle Sauvage) is the Godstow Priory where the nuns live. Malcolm learns they have a guest with them; a baby by the name of Lyra Belacqua . . .
Using an innovative approach, these 13 comic strips narrate the destinies of people who in the battle against totalitarian power either morally triumph or succumb to their weaknesses.
The monograph originated in response to a number of critical methodological issues that arise in technical efficiency measurement in banking, especially with a focus upon the branch level.
ICT penetrates all levels of the economy together with social life and thus changes society into the information society. It is defined as the society where information and information technologies are predominant. The issue of managerial education in ICT is not sufficiently analysed in the Slovak Republic.
A new book in the bestselling "Maze Runner" series, this is a prequel which holds all the answers to questions that fans want to know. How did WICKED find the Gladers? Who are Group B? And what side are Thomas and Teresa really on? All will be revealed! Ages: 12+
ENTREPRENEURS VERSUS CHEATERS offers a comprehensive overview of the types of fraud most frequently committed against company owners. Learn more about fraudulent tricks and techniques through specific examples that have actually taken place and minimize the risk of becoming a victim yourself.
Recent financial and economic crisis has highlighted the significance and relevance of business ethics in the global context. The basic objective of authors was to find out which cultural and ethical factors influence managerial decision-making in the field of values-oriented leadership as a part of value-based management in the current Slovak business environment.
'I am old. That is the first thing to tell you. The thing you are least likely to believe. If you saw me you would probably think I was about forty, but you would be very wrong.' Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries.
TWO MEN. . . ONE MISSION. . . TO KILL THE MAN WITH THE IRON HEART Based on true events, this gripping historical thriller is the culmination of Howard Linskey's fifteen-year fascination with the attempted assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the architect of the Holocaust.
The Cabinet of Natural Curiosities is one of the 18th century's greatest natural history achievements and remains one of the most prized natural history books of all time. Though scientists of his era often collected natural specimens for research purposes, Amsterdam-based pharmacist Albertus Seba (1665-1736) was unrivaled in his passion.
The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this exquisite collection. Here are men and women of wildly different times and circumstances, their lives made vividly palpable by the nuance and empathy of Munro's writing. Runaway is about the power and betrayals of love, about lost children, lost chances.
The highly acclaimed, epic novel from international bestseller Neil Gaiman. Now a major TV series. American Gods, the extraordinary, highly acclaimed epic novel from storytelling genius and international bestseller Neil Gaiman, comes vividly to life in a major new TV series on Amazon Prime Video starring Ricky Whittle, Ian McShane, Emily Browning and Gillian Anderson.
A brand new edition of J.K. Rowling's hugely successful title and companion to the "Harry Potter" stories. Features a new foreword from J.K. Rowling and a beautiful jacket by Jonny Duddle. 'No wizarding household is complete without a copy', Albus Dumbledore. Ages: 9-11yrs
On a brisk autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman arrives in Amsterdam to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt. But her splendid new home is not welcoming. Johannes is kind yet distant, and leaves Nella alone with his sister, the fearsome Marin.
The heartwarming new novel from Graeme Simsion, the international bestselling author of The Rosie Project and The Rosie Effect Can you define your life by a single song?
A new edition of this award-winning conclusion to the Chaos Walking trilogy, with a bonus short story, Snowscape. 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?
From two-time Carnegie Medal winner Patrick Ness comes an enthralling and provocative new novel chronicling the life - or perhaps afterlife - of a teen trapped in a crumbling, abandoned world. A boy called Seth drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments, losing his life as the pounding sea claims him. But then he wakes. He is naked, thirsty, starving. But alive. How is that possible?
A new edition of the award-winning second novel in the Chaos Walking trilogy, with a bonus short story, The Wide, Wide Sea. Fleeing before a relentless army, Todd has carried a desperately wounded Viola right into the hands of their worst enemy, Mayor Prentiss. Immediately separated from Viola and imprisoned, Todd is forced to learn the ways of the Mayor's new order.
