Jonathan Kellerman\'s Alex Delaware returns in this ingenious and breathtakingly good psychological thriller. Not since Jack the Ripper has there been such a gruesome crime scene. One look at the victim\'s apartment turned charnel house is enough for Milo Sturgis to summon The Crime Reader. But even Alex Delaware\'s skills may be stymied when more slayings occur in the same ghastly fashion...with no

Worldwide bestseller Camilla Lackberg weaves together another brilliant contemporary psychological thriller with the chilling struggle of a young woman facing the darkest chapter of Europe\'s past… Crime writer Erica Falck is shocked to discover a Nazi me

Following the smash-hit sci-fi comedy The Hitchhiker\'s Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is the second part in Douglas Adams\' multi-media phenomenon and cult classic series. This edition includes exclusive bonus material from the Douglas Adams archives, and an introduction by Monty Python star, Terry Jones. If you\'ve done six impossible things this morning, why not round

Mignola has expanded Hellboy into the most exciting group of books since the early Marvel universe, and his style has influenced art and illustration far beyond the world of comics. Selected finished pieces are shown alongside sketches and raw scans from the last twenty years. * Never-before-seen art! * Mignola\'s best pieces from the last twenty years! \"Nothing is better than having Mignola himself

From the author of the beloved New York Times best-selling The End of Your Life Book Club, an inspiring and magical exploration of the power of books to shape our lives in an era of constant connectivity. Why is it that we read? Is it to pass time? To learn something new? To escape from reality? For Will Schwalbe, reading is a way to entertain himself but also to make sense of the world, to become

\'To Kill a Mockingbird for the 21st Century\' Real Reader Review When a newborn baby dies after a routine hospital procedure, there is no doubt about who will be held responsible: the nurse who had been banned from looking after him by his father. What the nurse, her lawyer and the father of the child cannot know is how this death will irrevocably change all of their lives, in ways both expected and

This book presents a wide range of hotels, boasting some of the most forward-looking and inspiring design in the world, from the studios of some of modern architecture\'s leading names such as Kengo Kuma, Steven Holl, UN Studio and Legorreta + Legorreta. These modern temples of transience, haunt of the holidaymaker and bolthole of the business traveller, are thoroughly documented with the designers\'

Banished for centuries, as punishment for trying to measure time, the inventor of the world\'s first clock is finally granted his freedom, along with a mission: a chance to redeem himself by teaching two people the true meaning of time. He returns to our world and embarks on a journey with two unlikely partners: a teenage girl who is about to give up on life and a wealthy, ageing businessman who wants

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The third timeless, amazing and amusing volume of Isaac Asimov\'s robot stories. Asimov\'s Three Laws of Robotics have since been programmed into real computers the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and used as the outline for a legal robotic charter in Korea. ROBOT TONY is the first robot designed to perform domestic duties by the US Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation. Is it Tony\'s fault that

The forerunner to The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion fills in the background which lies behind the more popular work, and gives the earlier history of Middle-earth, introducing some of the key characters. The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien\'s World. It is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back, and in whose events

The bestselling novel that launched Cecelia Ahern to international superstardom is now a major motion picture starring Hilary Swank and Harry Connick Jr. With the help of letters her husband left her before he died, and a little nudging from an eccentric assortment of family and friends, a young widow learns to laugh, overcome her fears, and discover the world.

Throughout history we have told ourselves stories to try and make sense of what it all means: our place in a small corner of one of billions of galaxies, at the end of billions of years of existence. In this new book Richard Holloway takes us on a personal, scientific and philosophical journey to explore what he believes the answers to the biggest of questions are. He examines what we know about the

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Amsterdam 1671. Bis vor kurzem hielt das »Tulpenfieber« die Niederlande in Atem – gefährliche Spekulationen mit Tulpenzwiebeln kosteten manchen die Existenz. Und nun erschüttern rätselhafte Morde an ehrbaren Bürgern die Stadt. Bei Inspektor Jeremias Katoen läuten die Alarmglocken: Jeder Tote hält das Blütenblatt einer prächtigen Tulpe in der Hand …

Once upon a time, only typesetters needed to know about kerning, leading, ligatures, and hanging punctuation. Today, however, most of us work on computers, with access to hundreds of fonts, and we\'d all like our letters, reports and other documents to look as good - and as readable - as possible. But what does all the confusing terminology about ink traps, letter spacing, and visual centring mean,

They are not like other rats. They work at night, in secret...Time is running out for Mrs Frisby. She must move her family of mice before the farmer destroys their home. But her youngest son, Timothy, is too ill to survive the move. Help comes in the unexpected form of a group of mysterious, super-intelligent rats. But the rats are in danger too, and little by little Mrs Frisby discovers their extraordinary

A man fell from a very tall building. Why didn’t he die? Why did a dead woman have a frozen chicken under her hat? What fell out of an old man’s ear, and why did everybody laugh? And how did a cow fly? Find the answers in these strange stories.