Our narrator is the most talented salesperson at Dare to Know, an enigmatic company that has developed the technology to predict anyone’s death down to the second. Divorced, estranged from his sons, and broke, he's driven to violate the cardinal rule of the business by forecasting his own death day. The problem: his prediction says he died twenty-three minutes ago.The only person who can confirm its accuracy is Julia, the woman he loved and lost during his rise up the ranks of Dare...

In a small town tucked away in the midwestern corn fields, the adults whisper about Tornado Day. Our narrator, a high school sophomore, has never heard this phrase but she soon discovers its terrible meaning: a plague of sentient tornadoes is coming to destroy them.The only thing that stands between the town and total annihilation is a teen boy known as the tornado killer. Drawn to this enigmatic boy, our narrator senses an unnatural connection between them. But the adults are hidi...

Bijna geen land ter wereld maakte in de jaren zestig zulke ingrijpende veranderingen door als Nederland. Hoe kwam dit? Wat maakte het land zo bijzonder? James Kennedy, voormalig hoogleraar geschiedenis in Amsterdam, geeft op deze vragen antwoord. Homo ludens In 1959 bedacht Cobra-kunstenaar Constant Nieuwenhuys Nieuw Babylon, een toekomstsamenleving waarin de homo ludens ('spelende mens') zich vrijelijk zou kunnen ontplooien. Enkele jaren later diende die spelende mens zich al aan, in de v...

A young woman’s secretive midwestern town is engulfed by a mysterious plague of tornadoes every generation—and she must escape it before it claims her.Stephen King’s The Mist meets David Lynch’s Twin Peaks in this inventive, mind-bending horror-thriller.In a small town tucked away in the midwestern corn fields, the adults whisper about Tornado Day. Our narrator, a high school sophomore, has never heard this phrase but she ...

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When a valuable maritime painting known as the Cutty Sark disappears from a prestigious yacht club, private investigator Sean Connor is hired to uncover the truth. What begins as a routine investigation quickly spirals into a dangerous mystery when a gallery employee is found murdered and several key suspects vanish without a trace.Joined by his resourceful partner Bela Jones, Sean follows a tangled web of clues involving stolen ar...

'Harrowing, funny and 100% true' Ginger WildheartThe tale that follows is not another clichéd collection of rock'n'roll debaucheries (sorry) nor is it another tired fable of triumph over adversity (you're welcome).It's the story of a half-deaf kid from a tiny, remote village in South Wales who was hailed as a genius by the UK's biggest radio station and headhunted by major record labels, only for the music industry to collapse. It crashed hard, taking with ...

Dark Matter meets Annihilation in this mind-bending and emotional speculative thriller set in a world where the exact moment of your death can be predicted—for a price.Our narrator is the most talented salesperson at Dare to Know, an enigmatic company that has developed the technology to predict anyone’s death down to the second. Divorced, estranged from his sons, and broke, he is driven to violate the cardinal rule of the business by forecasting ...

The history of this volume can be given in a few words. Months ago I said to a beloved relative that during the greater part of my life I had more to do than I could well accomplish, and that now, with health and strength in a measure restored, I sometimes thought I had not enough to do. He said: "Why not write the reminiscences of your Indian life?" The counsel struck me as good, and I have acted on it. My theme has not the advantage of novelty: I cannot tell of a new country explored, an...

JO LAROUCHE HAS lived her 13 years in the California desert with her Aunt Lily, ever since she was dropped on Lily’s doorstep with this note: This is Jo. Please take care of her. But beware. This is a dangerous baby. At Lily’s annual Christmas costume party, a variety of strange events take place that lead Jo and Lily out of California forever—and into the mysterious, strange, fantastical world of Eldritch City. There, Jo learns the scandalous truth about who she is, and ...

"Mortality" is the story of an ancient evil being released from his tomb in the modern day. He wrecks havoc on the facility he finds himself in, seeking to extend his life through the only means he knows."The Horns" is a fantasy story about a dragon confined to a cave and the knight who comes to talk to it. The dragon contained itself in the cave after burning down the village it was captured in. The knight is the one remaining connection the dragon has to the world beyond....

Since the early 1990s, advances in toxicology have allowed scientists to detect traces of adulterant substances in everyday products – even down to parts per billion concentrations. We can now detect the presence of harmful ingredients at levels so low that they actually cause no harm.Nonetheless, we get scared. We are now able to overreact to harmless, negligible sources of contamination and flock to ‘natural’, ‘organic’ and ‘chemical-free’ alternative products at elevated prices ...