A DI Ryan Wilkins Mystery • A Shocking Disappearance • A four-year-old girl goes missing in plain sight outside her nursery in Oxford, a middle-class, affluent area, her mother only a stones-throw away • A Triggering Response • Ryan Wilkins, one of the youngest ever Detective Inspectors in the Thames Valley force, dishonourably discharged three months ago, watches his former partner DI Ray Wilkins deliver a press conference, confirming a lead • A Dark Web • Ray begins to delve deeper, unearthing an underground network of criminal forces in the local area. But while Ray's investigation stalls Ryan brings his unique talents to unofficial and quite illegal inquiries which will bring him into a confrontation with the very officials who have thrown him out of the force
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The Roman Empire's conquest of Britannia is under threat from within • A messenger on the streets of Rome has been intercepted and tortured, revealing a plot to sabotage the Roman army's campaign against Caratacus, commander of Britannia's native tribes. A treacherous agent's mission is to open a second front of attack against them and eliminate the two Roman soldiers who could stand in the way • Unwarned, the Prefect Cato and the Centurion Macro are with the Roman army pursuing Caratacus and his men through the mountains of Britannia. Defeating Caratacus seems within their grasp. But the plot against the two heroes threatens not only their military goals but also their lives • Includes 2 maps and Roman army organisation chart
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Франческа Саймон работала с такими крупными изданиями, как Sunday Times, Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, Vogue, но, главное, она популярнейший автор детских книг • Благодаря ее таланту, на свет появилось 25 книг об Ужасном Генри, а по их мотивам сняты фильм и мультсериал • Проведите свои летние каникулы с Ужасным Генри! В этой книге 6 любимых историй, множество забавных шуток и страниц с заданиями, которые будут развлекать поклонников Ужасного Генри всех возрастов в течение нескольких часов • Короче говоря, перед нами еще один заслуженно прекрасный сборник историй о том, кто носит титул УЖАСНОГО ГЕНРИ! И отличное введение ребенка в чтение для удовольствия • Книга "Fun in the Sun" в подарок ребенку понравится любителем тонкого юмора, оригинальных иллюстраций и, конечно же, увлекательных сюжетов
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Если вдруг вы не знали, Муми-тролли – это добрые существа с бархатной шерсткой и гладкими круглыми носиками. Они живут в живописной долине в Финляндии и очень любят философствовать. А еще они любят солнце и каждую зиму впадают в спячку, просыпаясь лишь с приходом весны • Но сейчас никто не может их отыскать. По просьбе Муми-папы они покинули свою любимую долину и перебрались на одинокий остров с маяком. С тех пор никто их не видел. Приближается зима, и Снусмумрик, Мюмла, Тофт и другие друзья Муми-троллей посещают их дома, чтобы дождаться возвращения хозяев. Но у незваных гостей появляются свои заботы, и лишь Тофт остается ждать дальше. Он замечает какое-то мерцание на горизонте. Неужели это Муми-тролли возвращаются назад? • «В конце ноября» - это последняя и самая грустная история Туве Янссон о Муми-троллях, в которой автор прощается с любимыми персонажами
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В 843 году нашей эры трое оставшихся в живых внуков великого императора Карла Великого встретились в Вердене. После долгих лет ожесточенных споров о том, кто унаследует семейную землю, они, наконец, решили разделить территорию и разойтись в разные стороны. В момент ошеломляющей значимости один внук унаследовал то, что стало Францией, другой - Германией, а третий - Лотарингией: кусок, который первоначально разделил два других. Динамика отношений между этими тремя великими зонами во многом определила нашу последующую судьбу • В увлекательной, веселой и неотразимой книге Саймона Уиндера "Лотарингия. Личная история Франции, Германии и стран, расположенных между ними" мы прослеживаем, как с запада и востока множество амбициозных персонажей пытались и потерпели неудачу в борьбе с этими лотарингцами
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One Wednesday morning in November 1912 the ageing Thomas Hardy, entombed by paper and books and increasingly estranged from his wife Emma, finds her dying in her bedroom. Between his speaking to her and taking her in his arms, she has gone • The day before, he and Emma had exchanged bitter words - leading Hardy to wonder whether all husbands and wives end up as enemies to each other. His family and Florence Dugdale, the much younger woman with whom he has been in a relationship, assume that he will be happy and relieved to be set free. But he is left shattered by the loss • Hardy's bewilderment only increases when, sorting through Emma's effects, he comes across a set of diaries that she had secretly kept about their life together, ominously titled 'What I Think of My Husband'
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In 1964, two years after the critically lauded release of his debut novel A Different Drummer, William Melvin Kelley published his first collection of short stories, Dancers on the Shore. Reissued in a new edition by riverrun, these seventeen stories expand Kelley's literary world, showcase his limitless imagination and spotlight his inimitable talent
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In September 1985, nineteen-year-old John Lindqvist moves into a dilapidated old building in Stockholm, planning to make his living as a magician. Something strange is going on in the building's basement - and the price of entry is just a little blood • I Always Find You is a horror story - as bizarre and macabre as any of Lindqvist's bestselling novels. It's also a book about being young and lonely, about making friends and growing up. It's about magic, and the intensity of human connection - and a society's communal responsibility for a devastating act of political violence
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In the feverish tropics of the Andaman Islands, a young botanist tends to a fragile rose he has imported to welcome his bride. Hoping their marriage will bloom in this strange life, hundreds of miles from the east coast of India, he is entranced by Chanda Devi's fierce nature and unusual gifts; speaking to trees and the ghosts of former colonialists. These islands, she tells her adoring husband, rest on a faultline, cracked so deep into the earth that spirits cross the boundary freely. But it is not this fracture that takes a tragic bite out of their happiness • With the family riven by heartbreak, their maid takes the chance to resolve her own past mistakes. Having abandoned her son many years before, she now traces him to Myanmar, only to find him in prison - the enemy of a brutal regime
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In this darkly ironic novel - a quest for truth, a satire, an elegy - Joanna Kavenna displays fearless originality and wit in confronting the strangeness of reality and how we contend with the death of those we love. Beautiful, ethereal drawings by Oly Ralfe illustrate this haunting journey through time, space and human understanding
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In a tiny settlement on the west coast of Greenland, 11-year-old Aleq and his best friend, frequent trespassers at a mining site exposed to mountains of long-buried and thawing permafrost, carry what they pick up back into their village, and from there Shepard's harrowing and deeply moving story follows Aleq, one of the few survivors of the initial outbreak, through his identification and radical isolation as the likely index patient. While he shoulders both a crushing guilt for what he may have done and the hopes of a world looking for answers, we also meet two Epidemic Intelligence Service investigators dispatched from the CDC - Jeannine, an epidemiologist and daughter of Algerian immigrants, and Danice, an MD and lab wonk. As they attempt to head off the cataclysm, Jeannine - moving from the Greenland hospital overwhelmed with the first patients to a Level 4 high-security facility in the Rocky Mountains - does what she can to sustain Aleq
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IN THE LATEST SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE MILLION-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE BLACKHOUSE, PETER MAY BRINGS MURDER BACK TO THE OUTER HEBRIDES • A man stands bewildered on a deserted beach on the Hebridean Isle of Harris. He cannot remember who he is. The only clue to his identity is a folded map of a path named the Coffin Road. He does not know where this search will take him • A detective from Lewis sits aboard a boat, filled with doubt. DS George Gunn knows that a bludgeoned corpse has been discovered on a remote rock twenty miles offshore. He does not know if he has what it takes to uncover how and why • A teenage girl lies in her Edinburgh bedroom, desperate to discover the truth about her scientist father's suicide. Two years on, Karen Fleming still cannot accept that he would wilfully abandon her
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