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After a long and eventful winter, DCI Ryan and his team are looking forward to the joys of spring. But, when one of their colleagues is shot dead on her own doorstep and the brass think it’s an inside job, Ryan finds himself drafted in to investigate. He’s barely scratched the surface when reports flood in of a terror explosion at Durham Cathedral. Chaos descends on the sleepy, historic city and, when the smoke clears, they find a priceless artefact that once belonged to Saint Cuthbert is missing.

Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international best seller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics - an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence.

After a busy year fighting crime, DCI Ryan and his team of murder detectives are enjoying a festive season of goodwill, mulled wine and, in the case of DS Phillips, a stottie cake or two - that is, until a freak snowstorm forces their car off the main road and into the remote heart of Northumberland. Their Christmas spirit is soon tested when they’re forced to find shelter inside England’s most haunted castle, where they’re the uninvited guests at a ‘Candlelit Ghost Hunt’. It’s all fun and games - until one of the guests is murdered.

The chilling and little-known story of Adolf Hitler's eight-year march to the pinnacle of German politics. On the night of January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler leaned out of a spotlit window of the Reich chancellery in Berlin, bursting with joy. The moment seemed unbelievable, even to Hitler. After an...

'If I've learned one thing,' the late, great Father Fehily used to say, 'it's that life, families and rugby balls don't always behave the way you want them to!' Looking at my life, I'd have to say, the dude wasn't wrong. My old man had been caught rigging a general election. My old dear was about to become a 70-year-old mother of six. And Honor was walking around in a yellow rain mac, telling everyone that the end of the world was coming. It was enough to drive a man to the brink.

Jessica Kramer is a gladiator pilot with a target on her head, having survived a dark plot to assassinate her in the armored arenas of Junctionworld. Now, her crew chief's promise to a dead man sends Jessica and her armored mech plummeting through inter-dimensional space, trying to find the last family she has. As the guns of the Eighth Gate blaze, new threats arise, and unseen powers awaken.

Nazafareen is a Breaker, a mortal who has the rare ability to shatter spell magic - although her power carries a high price. With the memories of her former self erased and nowhere else to turn, she comes to Nocturne hoping to start a new life under the triple moons of the darklands. But when an assassin forces Nazafareen to flee to the sunlit mortal city of Delphi, she finds herself embroiled in a deeper mystery whose origins lie far in the past. Why was the continent sundered into light and dark a thousand years before?

In una serata di pioggia, Karim, vampiro diciassettenne, irrompe in un campo Rom. Dopo uno scontro con Ario, gli racconta la sua storia che parte dal 1350, dal giorno in cui un vampiro dagli occhi viola uccide la futura sposa di Walter, il suo padrone, che giura vendetta. Grazie all’aiuto di Alf, un saggio vampiro, Walter e Karim iniziano una ricerca e una lotta che attraversa i secoli e l'Europa, e che li porterà ad affrontare, in una battaglia all'ultimo sangue, il conte Omar di Roccanera, il vampiro più potente di tutti i tempi.

Roma è stata invasa! Un'orda di animali vampiri, insetti, topi, uccelli, gatti e cani, più forti dei normali Succhia Sangue, tengono la città sotto una coltre di terrore. Ario, il mezzosangue, insieme a suo padre, cerca di capire le cause dell'invasione e un modo per sconfiggere il nemico. Ma tutto diventa più pericoloso e inquietante quando si scopre che l'artefice di questa follia è una vampira traditrice, Priscilla, bellissima e malvagia.

Prodigal Daughter: A Christian Wife's Story of Falling into Darkness and to Coming Back to Grace is a story about the way Jesus has pursued me with his redemption throughout my life. Brought up in a loving, Christian home, I was sheltered from many of the things of this world when I was a small child. Having been sent to private Christian school, I accepted Jesus Christ into my heart in a chapel service when I was seven years old. My family was tightly knit, and my best friend was my little cousin, Mack.

A murder made to look like suicide. Another that appears an accident. DI Barton investigates the tragedies that have shattered a family’s lives, but without obvious leads, the case goes nowhere. Then, when the remains of a body are found, everything points to one suspect. Barton and his team move quickly, and once the killer is behind bars, they can all breathe a sigh of relief. But death still lurks in the shadows, and no one's soul is safe. Not even those of the Detectives.

C'è una strana scuola nella quale gli allievi sono giovani zombie, ma non sanno di esserlo. La loro vita scorre tranquilla fino a quando non cominciano ad apparire segni inquietanti. Una forza maligna si sta scatenando, o forse è solo la loro natura di zombie che non può più essere ignorata. Dopo numerosi colpi di scena e grazie alle particolari osservazioni di un topo misterioso, i ragazzi apprenderanno chi sono veramente e quale sarà il loro destino.

Per la scuola degli zombie arriva uno dei momenti più belli dell'anno: la gita! Matteo e i suoi compagni saranno protagonisti di un gemellaggio con un'altra prestigiosa scuola di zombie e non vedono l'ora. Ma l'entusiasmo si trasforma in puro terrore appena mettono piede nell'edificio. C'è qualcosa di molto strano negli studenti, nel preside e soprattutto nella mensa... E sarà proprio la cucina della scuola a riservare non poche e orride sorprese.

Nella scuola degli zombie, Matteo ha un unico desiderio, tornare a vedere i suoi genitori. Ma si imbatte nel terrificante dottor Morte, uno zombie folle e malvagio, che conduce allucinanti esperimenti in una clinica gestita dalla madre. Matteo sarà trasformato in una specie di gigante. Riuscirà a fuggire grazie a una ragazza prigioniera come lui, che pagherà con la morte. E quando un gruppo di suoi compagni, andato a salvarlo, si troverà in pericolo, lo scontro finale con il suo aguzzino sarà terrificante.

American agents abduct a high-profile terrorist in broad daylight on the streets of London, subduing him with a tranquilizer. He dies a few hours later on a flight back to Washington, DC, and the body is dropped into the ocean. Hours later, the President's brother - a political powerhouse in his own right - boards a plane to Las Vegas that doesn't land in Nevada. Libyan radicals are at the controls, and he is their prisoner. The only man who can save him is Chubb Dunjee.

Evadne is finally going to be reunited with her older sister, Halcyon, who has been serving in the queen’s army for eight long years. But when Halcyon unexpectedly appears a day early, Evadne knows something is gravely wrong. Halcyon has been charged with a heinous crime, and though her life is spared, she has been sentenced to 15 years of punishment - five years of hard labour, five years of imprisonment and five years serving the house that she has wronged.

From the bestselling author of What Was Mine-a deeply moving family drama about a young Irish immigrant, an ancestral home in New England and a dark secret that lay hidden in its walls for five generations. In 1908, sixteen-year-old Bridey runs away from her small town in Ireland with her...

This book contains a brief but unconventional look at the Titans and Olympian gods of Greek mythology. Brief, because a thorough treatment of these legendary super beings could take thousands of hours. Unconventional, because digging for truth is far more interesting than reciting old stories which have little relevance to us today. Attempting to reveal some semblance of truth brings the stories to life. It gives them relevance to our modern world. Here, we will look at many of the more fascinating stories.

Most of the time, when you sit down with a book of history, you are going to be reading about men. Men who win wars and men who lose wars. Men who create empires, and men who destroy empires. Men who author great works and design great machines that change the course of the world.

Dopo il grande successo de "La Foresta dei Segreti" ritorna Ali Ross con un altra divertentissima avventura! La notte era scesa sullo zoo di Animalandia, quando il cobra Cadabra aveva deciso di fuggire per vivere in libertà. Assieme ad altri serpenti velenosi formano una squadra, i Ribelli Serpenti. Per ottenere il rispetto di tutta la fauna del bosco, Cadabra decide che bisogna cacciare via tutti i serpentelli non velenosi, fra cui Spiga.