This original, interactive thriller from debut author Jay Martel follows a brilliant teenage girl as she races across D.C. to decode the clues her father left behind, which may just be the key to saving the country from a devastating tragedy.Mia Hayes has peaceful plans for the summer—find a part-time job at a coffee shop and work on her college applications. Those plans are shattered one night when government agents arrive unannounced at her home seeking something...

'Skip the blurbs and just start reading this very funny book' MICHAEL MOORE.Earth used to be Galaxy Entertainment's most lucrative show. The inhabitants of the Western Galaxy – the saviest, richest demographic in the Milky Way – just couldn't get enough of the day-to-day details of the average Earthling's life.But Channel Blue's ratings are flagging and its producers are planning a spectacular finale. In just three weeks, their TV show will go out with a bang. The trouble i...

Earth used to be Galaxy Entertainment's most lucrative show. The inhabitants of the Western Galaxy just couldn't get enough of the day-to-day details of the average Earthling's live. But Channel Blue's ratings are flagging and its producers are planning a spectacular finale, the TV show is set to go out with a bang. The trouble is, so will Earth. Only one man can save our planet and he's hardly a likely hero...

When the fog comes down and the drums start to beat, the inhabitants of the island tremble: for the punishment satellites - which keep the tyrannical Wastelords at bay - are blind in the darkness, and the islanders become prey.The inhabitants are the old, the sick, the poor: the detritus of Society, dumped on the island with the rest of Society's waste. There is no point trying to escape, for the satellites - the invisible eyes of the law - mete out instant judgement from the sky.

Meet Bror Telemann. 42 years old. Husband to Nina Telemann. Father to Heidi, Berthold and Sabine. Currently: stage director at the Norwegian National Theatre. Soon to be: world-famous playwright and general talking head.Now he's on holiday with his family at the foot of the Alps, south of Munich. That's in Germany. Nina loves Germany. Telemann does not. Telemann loves Nigella Lawson.Ahem... he loves the theatre.That's better.So, whilst his wife and children frolic i...

Wars make good cover for people with secrets. A mercenary company in a deep-space war? Even better. Now Moire Cameron just needs a way to fulfil her last order, given by a dying man eighty years ago. If she lives long enough. A tale of action, adventure, survival, and loyalty in the tradition of Firefly and Lois McMaster Bujold, The Long Way Home is the first book in the Seqyoyah trilogy.

This is the complete omnibus edition of the Exodus Trilogy, which has captivated readers all over the world.When an object threatens human civilization it becomes clear that humanity needs to venture to the stars. With just a few years of warning, this will be a race against time, and only a small number of colonists can be saved.In an America turned authoritarian, a small group of people draws up their plan to change not this world, but the next. The confrontation seems in...

BONUS: This edition contains an Alice I Have Been discussion guide and an excerpt from Melanie Benjamin's The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb.Few works of literature are as universally beloved as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Now, in this spellbinding historical novel, we meet the young girl whose bright spirit sent her on an unforgettable trip down the rabbit hole–and the grown woman whose story is no less enthralling.But oh my dear, I am tir...

CSI in the land of elves, but they aren’t cute and christmassy, they’re sometimes sinister, and definitely deceased…Private eye Nicely Strongoak is your average detective-for-hire, if your average detective is a dwarf with a Napoleon complex. In a city filled with drug-taking gnomes, goblins packing heat and a serious case of missing-persons, Strongoak might just be what’s needed.But things are about to turn sour. When on the trail of the vanished surfer, Perry Goodfellow, ...

From bestselling crime author, Elly Griffiths, writing under her own name, comes a heart-warming tale of family rivalry and long-held secrets. Steeped in local Italian colour, it reveals a family at their worst - and best .'Witty and light as a tiramisu but with tart insight on sibling rivalry' Nottingham Evening PostGaby, the youngest of the de Angelis sisters, always knew she was her father Enzo's favourite; so when Enzo dies on ...

Accolades for Genesis:"Mr. Christensen has done it again.....he's delivered a very good read""This book completes The Exodus Trilogy and does it a great fashion""I have been reading science fiction since the 1950's this rates with some of the best"On Aurora, a people divided braces for the final confrontation.Aurora, the final destination of the starship Exodus, has become the scene of a de...

WINNER OF THE BRAM STOKER AWARD FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A YOUNG ADULT NOVELJohn Dixon’s critically acclaimed Phoenix Island reads like “Lord of the Flies meets Wolverine and Cool Hand Luke” (F. Paul Wilson, creator of Repairman Jack). For fans of The Bourne Identity, Alex Rider, and Melissa Marr.The judge told Carl that one day he’d have to decide exactly what kind of person he would become. But on Ph...