Five friends. Three days. One heart-stopping discovery.Three years ago, Danny Morris left behind a gun, a tonne of questions and a gaping hole in the lives of those who loved him. What he didn’t leave was a suicide note.On the anniversary of his death, his closest friends gather at his parents’ beach house in New Zealand's idyllic Marlborough Sounds. Each of them is struggling with Danny’s absence in different ways. One of them is keeping a secret that will...

Five friends. Three days. One heart-stopping discovery.Three years ago, Danny Morris left behind a gun, a tonne of questions and a gaping hole in the lives of those who loved him. What he didn’t leave was a suicide note.On the anniversary of his death, his closest friends gather at his parents’ beach house in New Zealand's idyllic Marlborough Sounds. Each of them is struggling with Danny’s absence in different ways. One of them is keeping a secret that will...

A missing girl, a grieving family and a destiny so powerful it will not be denied.Five years ago, Emily McGovern decided to walk home from a party - and disappeared into thin air. While Emily became one of New Zealand's 350+ official missing persons, her boyfriend Heath Danes was branded as 'the one left behind'. As their friends and family steadfastly move on with their lives, Heath exists in limbo, waiting for something which may never happen. Only when he's surf...

Here is a grab-bag collection of great fantasy stories -- modern and classic, adventure-filled and serious, funny and sad -- by authors whose work you may already know, or may be discovering for the first time. Included are:THE COPPERSMITH, by Lester del ReyDOGS QUESTING, by John Gregory BetancourtOF WITHERED APPLES, by Philip K. DickYELLOW EYES, by Marylois DunnSEA TIGER, by Henry S. WhiteheadTHE BLACK TOWER, by R. H. BarlowTHE SHADOW FROM...

Exam board: AQALevel: A-levelSubject: Design and TechnologyFirst teaching: September 2017First exams: Summer 2018 (AS) Summer 2019 (A-Level)Encourage your students to be creative, innovative and critical designers with a textbook that builds in-depth knowledge and understanding of the materials, components and processes associated with the creation of fashion and...

An exploration of coding that investigates the interplay between computational abstractions and the fundamentally interpretive nature of human experience.The importance of coding in K-12 classrooms has been taken up by both scholars and educators. Voicing Code in STEM offers a new way to think about coding in the classroom--one that goes beyond device-level engagement to consider the interplay between computational abstractions and the fundamentally interp...

Here for your reading delectation, are 25 outre tales of crime. Since history has proven that there is nothing unusual or unexpected about the human (or inhuman) drive to break the law, it should come as no surprise that the weird, the strange, the supernatural, and the just plain odd often, in fictional form, manifest themselves allayed to the criminal element. Included are:INTRODUCTION, by Shawn GarrettTHE WINDOW OF HORRORS, by H.L. MenckenTHE FOOTSTEPS ON THE STAIR...

The Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK®s are designed to introduce readers to classic science fiction writers who might otherwise be forgotten. Lester del Rey (1915–1993) is most remembered today as one of the namesakes of Del Rey Books—but in the Golden Age he was an accomplished writer who got his start alongside (and sold to the same markets as) a young Isaac Asimov. This volume assembles 9 classic del Rey tales—more than 500 pages of great reading! Included are:PURSUIT...

The Second Mack Reynolds MEGAPACK® assembles a stellar collection of rare and classic works by a science fiction master! Here are 21 tales spanning space and time by the author of the Joe Mauser series and the Legrange series. Included are:COME IN, SPACEPORTCOMPOUNDED INTERESTTHE BUSINESS, AS USUALGOOD INDIANNO RETURN FROM ELBAPACIFISTEARTHLINGS GO HOME!ALBATROSSTHE ENEMY WITHINSURVIVORFADSPACEMAN ON A SPR...

The Tenth Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK® presents no less than 19 classic science fiction stories by this great writer. Included in this volume are:CANALEXIT MR. SMITHGENTLEMEN, THE SCAVENGERSKINCAID'S CARLODANASEQUENCESTRANGERS TO STRABATEST CASETHE GENTLEMAN IS AN EPWATHE PLAYER AT YELLOW SILENCETHE WAR OF THE WEEDSTHE WHITE PINNACLETHE WORLD IN A BOXWRITING ON THE WALL

To anyone interested in the roots of modern science fiction, the name of Ray Cummings should be well known. He wrote science fiction and fantasy before the name "science fiction" had been coined, publishing fantastic yarns in Argosy, Munsey's Magazine, and other mainstream magazines. Of course, as soon as the science fiction pulps debuted, he moved to them, where his work received a hearty welcome from fans. Cummings publishing more than 750 novels and short stories over ...

This volume assembles 15 classic science fiction stories by Grand Master Ray Bradbury, one of the true greats of the science fiction field. Included are:THE MONSTER MAKERMORGUE SHIPLAZARUS COME FORTHDEFENSE MECHTHE CREATURES THAT TIME FORGOTLORELEI OF THE RED MIST, by Leigh Brackett and Ray BradburyZERO HOURTHE IRRITATED PEOPLEROCKET SUMMERJONAH OF THE JOVE-RUNREFERENTPILLAR OF FIRETHE SQUARE PEGS