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Autumn chills: Tales of Intrigue from the Queen of Crime
Autumn is the season of misty mornings and cosy nights in, but as the leaves begin to fall the nights get longer and the shadows grow darker…
Secluded cottages, eerie manors and ghostly hauntings and cursed tombs abound in this collection of 12 supernatural mysteries and murderous plots featuring Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple and Agatha Christie’s other favourite detectives.
INCLUDES THE STORIES:
Murder in the Mews
The Case of the Rich Woman
While the Light Lasts
Triangle at Rhodes
Death by Drowning
The Bird with the Broken Wing
The Lemesurier Inheritance
The House of Lurking Death
Tape-Measure Murder
The Voice in the Dark
Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds
Witness for the Prosecution
Lacná kniha Rooms (-90%)
Estranged patriarch Richard Walker has just died, leaving behind a country house full of rooms packed with the detritus of a lifetime. His alienated family—bitter ex-wife Caroline, troubled teenage son Trenton, and unforgiving daughter Minna—have arrived for their inheritance.
But the Walkers are not alone. Alice and Sandra, two long-dead and restless ghosts, linger within the house's claustrophobic walls, bound eternally to its physical structure. Jostling for space and memory, they observe the family, trading barbs and reminiscences about their past lives. Though their voices cannot be heard, Alice and Sandra speak through the house itself—in the hiss of the radiator, a creak in the stairs, the dimming of a light bulb.
The living and dead are haunted by painful truths that surface with explosive force. When a new ghost appears, and Trenton begins to communicate with her, the spirit and human worlds collide—with cataclysmic results.
Elegantly constructed and brilliantly paced, Rooms is an enticing and imaginative ghost story and a searing family drama that is as haunting as it is resonant.
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Lacná kniha The Seamstress
This is an unforgettable tale of adventure, tragedy, love and war. In love for the first time, Sira Quiroga leaves Madrid, along with everything she knows and cares about, to run away to Tangiers, Morocco with her lover Ramiro. She entrusts him with all her inheritance only to be left by him - pregnant, penniless and in trouble with the authorities. At her lowest ebb Sira falls back on the one skill she possesses: sewing. Moving to Tetouan, Sira survives by sewing beautiful clothes for the English mistress of one of the most powerful men in Morocco and for her German friends. As the women unguardedly gossip about their husbands and lovers, Sira is placed in a position very valuable to the British secret service, and she is soon forced to move to Madrid where great danger lies. This is a grand and epic story that tells the story of Spain's civil war, Madrid in the Second World War and reveals a world of war, glamour, espionage and passion.
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Karen M. McManus Boxset
A boxset of four titles from the internationally bestselling author of ONE OF US IS LYING.
Secrets. Lies. Murder. The Karen M. McManus boxset has it all:
ONE OF US IS LYING
Five students go to detention. Only four leave alive.
ONE OF US IS NEXT
Truth or dare turns deadly. Who would you believe?
TWO CAN KEEP A SECRET
Two dead homecoming queens. Who's next?
THE COUSINS
Secrets. Lies. Inheritance. Family first always. Right?
'It's easy to see why queen of teen crime Karen McManus is a bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic' - Guardian
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A Blood Condition
The moving, expansive, and dazzling second collection from award-winning poet Kayo Chingonyi
A Blood Condition tells a story of inheritance - the people, places, cultures and memories that form us. Kayo Chingonyi explores how distance and time, nations and a century's history, can collapse within a body; our past continuous in our present. From London, Leeds, and The North East to the banks of the Zambezi river, these poems consider change and permanence, grief and joy, the painful ongoing process of letting go, with remarkable music and clarity.
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Lacná kniha OWC School for Scandal and Other Plays (-90%)
Richly exploited comic situations, effervescent wit, and intricate plots combine to make Sheridan's work among the best of of all English comedy. The School for Scandal (1777) is his masterpiece, a brilliantly crafted comedy of contrasts in which brothers Joseph and Charles Surface contend for Maria, with hilariously differing intentions and results. Also a work of acute comic irony, The Rivals satirizes the romantic posturing of Lydia Languish while her disguised suitor Captain Absolute's resourceful contrivances advance an ever inventive and skilfully wrought plot. Included in this edition are the opera play The Duenna and the rarely printed musical play A Trip to Scarborough, adapted from Vanbrugh's The Relapse. Sheridan's last play, The Critic, is an exuberant parody of the modish tragic drama of the day. Lampooning Sir Fretful Plagiary's absurdly bombastic historical drama during its confused stages of production, its satire never fails to delight. The texts of the plays have been newly edited by the General Editor of the Oxford World's Classics English Drama series. A fine introduction and notes on Sheridan's playhouses and critical inheritance make this an invaluable edition for study and performance alike.
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Bunker Spreckels /Taschen
The tale of Bunker Spreckels (19491977) reads like a pitch for a movie to rival Boogie Nights: The stepson of Clark Gable is a privileged Los Angeles party boy who is heir to a multimillion dollar fortune; passionate about surfing, martial arts, gun
s, and women, he lives the life of a debauched international jet-setter before succumbing to his excesses at the tender age of 27. Born Adolph B. Spreckels III, heir to the Spreckels sugar fortune, Bunker became a famous surfer as a teenager, but aft
er his inheritance came along, he began to slip into a life of pomp and excess where surfing took a back seat to drugs, sex, and wild road trips. So remarkable was his lifestyle that he created an alter-ego who invited photographers and documentarian
s to trail him, piecing together a tell-all epic of his own rise to fame and fortune. Before the project, known as The Player, could be completed, Spreckels suddenly died.
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The Science of Me
A fascinating look at how our family history shapes us physically, and at the links between us and our ancestors. From genetics and evolution to our environment and our families, this entertaining book looks at all the factors that shape us into the people we are.
It explains how physical characteristics and abilities are passed down through generations, and why some things are inherited and others not. It explores how evolution has shaped us as a species, and at how the world we live in has impacted on and shaped us too.
It also looks at intelligence, where it comes from, and how we learn, looking at our personality, how we build relationships with other people, and how and why we form memories.
Fun activities at the back of the book help you to find out more about who YOU really are!
Supports the science curriculum covering topics of genes, DNA, inheritance and evolution, as well as social and emotional issues such as belonging and identity.
New Model Army - Original Album Series 5CD
Tracklist:
1. Frightened 2005 Remastered Version
2. Ambition 2005 Remastered Version
3. Grandmother's Footsteps 2005 Remast (Ered Version)
4. Better Than Them 2005 Remastered Ve (Rsion)
5. My Country 2005 Remastered Version
6. No Greater Love 2005 Remastered Ver (Sion)
7. No Rest 2005 Remastered Version
8. Young Gifted And Skint 2005 Remaste (Red Version)
9. Drag It Down 2005 Remastered Versio (N)
10. Shot 18 2005 Remastered Version
11. The Attack 2005 Remastered Version
12. The Hunt 2005 Remastered Version
13. Lights Go Out 2005 Remastered Versi (On)
14. 51St State 2005 Remastered Version
15. All Of This 2005 Remastered Version
16. Poison Street 2005 Remastered Versi (On)
17. Western Dream 2005 Remastered Versi (On)
18. Love Songs 2005 Remastered Version
19. Heroes 2005 Remastered Version
20. Ballad 2005 Remastered Version
21. Master Race 2005 Remastered Version
22. I Love The World 2005 Remastered Ve (Rsion)
23. Stupid Questions 2005 Remastered Ve (Rsion)
24. 225 2005 Remastered Version
25. Inheritance 2005 Remastered Version
26. Green And Grey 2005 Remastered Vers (Ion)
27. Ballad Of Bodmin Pill 2005 Remaster (Ed Version)
28. Family 2005 Remastered Version
29. Family Life 2005 Remastered Version
30. Vagabonds 2005 Remastered Version
31. Archway Towers 2005 Remastered Vers (Ion)
32. Get Me Out 2005 Remastered Version
33. Space 2005 Remastered Version
34. Innocence 2005 Remastered Version
35. Purity 2005 Remastered Version
36. Whirlwind 2005 Remastered Version
37. Lust For Power 2005 Remastered Vers (Ion)
38. Bury The Hatchet 2005 Remastered Ve (Rsion)
39. 11 Years 2005 Remastered Version
40. Lurhstaap 2005 Remastered Version
41. Before I Get Old 2005 Remastered Ve (Rsion)
42. Vanity 2005 Remastered Version
43. Whirlwind Live
44. The Charge Live
45. Space Live
46. Purity Live
47. White Coats Live
48. Vagabonds Live
49. Get Me Out Live
50. Lib.Ed. Live
51. Better Than Them Live
52. Innocence Live
53. Love Songs Live
54. Lurhstaap Live
55. Archway Towers Live
56. Smalltown England Live
57. Green And Grey Live
58. The World
OWC Late Victorian Gothic Tales
He was a man of fairly firm fibre, but there was something in this sudden, uncontrollable shriek of horror which chilled his blood and pringled in his skin. Coming in such a place and at such an hour, it brought a thousand fantastic possibilities int
o his head...' The Victorian fin de siecle: the era of Decadence, The Yellow Book, the New Woman, the scandalous Oscar Wilde, the Empire on which the sun never set. This heady brew was caught nowhere better than in the revival of the Gothic tale in t
he late Victorian age, where the undead walked and evil curses, foul murder, doomed inheritance and sexual menace played on the stretched nerves of the new mass readerships. This anthology collects together some of the most famous examples of the Got
hic tale in the 1890s, with stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, Vernon Lee, Henry James and Arthur Machen, as well as some lesser known yet superbly chilling tales from the era. The introduction explores the many reasons for the Gothic revival, and how it
spoke to the anxieties of the moment.
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To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars is a masterful epic science fiction novel from the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of the Inheritance Cycle, Christopher Paolini.
Kira Navarez dreamed of life on new worlds
Now she's awakened a nightmare
During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. At first she's delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move.
As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact isn't at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very limits of what it means to be human.
While Kira faces her own horrors, Earth and its colonies stand upon the brink of annihilation. Now, Kira might be humanity's greatest and final hope . . .
Call of the Raven
THE DESIRE FOR REVENGE CAN BURN THE HEART OUT OF A MAN.
The son of a wealthy plantation owner and a doting mother, Mungo St John is accustomed to wealth and luxury - until he returns from university to discover his family ruined, his inheritance stolen and his childhood sweetheart, Camilla, taken by the conniving Chester Marion. Mungo swears vengeance and devotes his life to saving Camilla-and destroying Chester.
Camilla, trapped in New Orleans, powerless as a kept slave and subject to Chester's brutish behaviour, must do whatever it takes to survive.
As Mungo battles his own fate and misfortune, he must question what it takes for a man to regain his power in the world when he has nothing, and what he is willing to do to exact revenge...
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball Book 14
Book 14 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series - from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney.
In Wrecking Ball, an unexpected inheritance gives the Heffley family a chance to make major improvements to their home. But they soon find that construction isn't all it's cracked up to be. When things get rough, will the Heffleys be able to stay .
. . or will they be forced to move?
And don't miss Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson's Journal- the instant #1 bestseller, told from Rowley's perspective!
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Hours
Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer and Pen/Faulkner prizes, The Hours is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf. A passionate, profound and haunting story of love and inheritance, hope and despair. Exiled in Richmond in the 1920s, taken from her beloved Bloomsbury and lovingly watched over by her husband Leonard, Virginia Woolf struggles to tame her rebellious mind and make a start on her new novel. In the brooding heat of 1940s Los Angeles, a young wife and mother yearns to escape the claustrophobia of suburban domesticity and read her precious copy of Mrs Dalloway. And in New York in the 1990s, Clarissa Vaughan steps out of her smart Greenwich Village apartment and goes shopping for flowers for the party she is giving in honour of her life-long friend Richard, an award-winning poet whose mind and body are being ravaged by AIDS. These are the characters in Michael Cunningham's exquisite and deeply moving novel, which takes Woolf's life and work as inspiration for a meditation on artistic behaviour, failure, love and madness. Moving effortlessy across the decades and between England and America, Cunningham's elegant, haunting prose explores the pain and trauma of creativity and the immutable relationship between writer and reader.
Kindred
'Beautiful, evocative, authoritative.' Professor Brian Cox
'Important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in humanity.' Yuval Noah Harari
Kindred is the definitive guide to the Neanderthals. Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins.Rebecca Wragg Sykes uses her experience at the cutting-edge of Palaeolithic research to share our new understanding of Neanderthals, shoving aside cliches of rag-clad brutes in an icy wasteland. She reveals them to be curious, clever connoisseurs of their world, technologically inventive and ecologically adaptable. Above all, they were successful survivors for more than 300,000 years, during times of massive climatic upheaval.
Much of what defines us was also in Neanderthals, and their DNA is still inside us. Planning, co-operation, altruism, craftsmanship, aesthetic sense, imagination, perhaps even a desire for transcendence beyond mortality. Kindred does for Neanderthals what Sapiens did for us, revealing a deeper, more nuanced story where humanity itself is our ancient, shared inheritance.
Loud House 3in1 2
More LOUD adventures than Mr. Grouse can shake a stick at! Nickelodeon's hit show featuring Lincoln Loud and his ten siblings! Whether it's building tree houses, journeying on a role playing adventure, or trying to win Pop Pop's inheritance Lincoln Loud gets it done in Loud style. Plus, read Loud House "After Dark" and Loud House "Loud and Proud" as originally intended, as a 100-page, nonstop, continuous adventure--the longest Loud House comic yet! All told by the creative team of Nickelodeon's hit show!
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Pineapple Street
A witty exploration of family, money, love and heartbreak
This unputdownable debut follows three women in an old Brooklyn Heights clan: one who was born with money, one who married into it, and one who wants to give it all away.
Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected, carefully-guarded Stockton family, has never had to worry about money. Darley followed her heart, trading her job and her inheritance for motherhood, sacrificing more of herself than she ever intended. Sasha, Darley's new sister-in-law, has come from more humble origins, and her hesitancy about signing a pre-nup has everyone worried about her intentions. And Georgiana, the baby of the family, has fallen in love with someone she can't (and really shouldn't) have, and must confront the kind of person she wants to be.
Rife with the indulgent pleasures of life among New York's one per centers - glittering parties, weekend homes and hungover brunches - Pineapple Street is a scintillating, escapist novel that sparkles with wit and wry humour. Full of recognisable, loveable if fallible characters (and a few appalling ones!), it's about the peculiar unknowability of someone else's family, the miles between the haves and have-nots and everything in between.
The Crooked Mask
Part ghost story, part murder mystery - a creepy and magical tale steeped in Norse myth, perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman.
Welcome to the Circus of Myth & Mayhem - where performers re-enact tales of the Norse gods wearing masks which mysteriously change expression, the creepy jester isn't quite human, and the big top is full of the dead.
Martha arrives at the circus, deep in the forests of Northern Norway, determined to learn how Nina died. Did she fall from the trapeze as Stig said, or was there more to her 'accident?'
Drawn into a dangerous game of the gods, Martha must look behind the mask and see the truth . . . before it's too late.
Following the events of THE TWISTED TREE, THE CROOKED MASK continues the story of Martha and Stig as she comes to terms with her magical inheritance.
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The Neanderthals Rediscovered
There is a little Neanderthal in all of us. Although they have been extinct for 40,000 years, our genetic inheritance means that they are not entirely gone. Since the publication of the first Neanderthal genome in 2010, our understanding of the Neanderthals - and our connection to them - has changed dramatically. Once stereotyped as simple and brutish, recent discoveries by archaeologists and geneticists have painted a different picture of Neanderthals, and one more familiar to us: they buried their dead, cared for the sick, and even painted cave walls. We can now delve into their DNA to trace their evolution in Europe and movements across Asia, and piece together how they lived and died in amazing detail.
This fully updated edition presents cutting-edge research on our fascinating hominin relatives: their interbreeding with humans and other species including the recently discovered Denisovans, their social behaviours such as smiling to indicate friendliness, and the genes they have passed down to us that could be affecting our health. By confronting our differences and similarities to the Neanderthals, this book addresses the biggest question of all: what it means to be human.
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