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"The Tipping Point" is the biography of an idea, and the idea is quite simple: that many of the problems we face - from murder to teenage delinquency to traffic jams - behave like epidemics. They aren't linear phenomena in the sense that they steadily...

A history of the bra.Book InformationISBN 9780285630864Author Mary WantFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Souvenir Press LtdPublisher Profile Books Ltd

It hasn't been the best week for Jessica McClain.Her newly found mate has been kidnapped by a goddess hell-bent on revenge, and Jessica is positive she can save him.But being the only female werewolf in town comes with its own set of rules and powers . ...

Eli Monpress is brilliant. He's incorrigible. And he's a thief.He's also still at large, which drives Miranda Lyonette crazy. While she's been kicked out of the Spirit Court, Eli's had plenty of time to plan his next adventure. But now the tables have...

Sabina Kane is on the hunt. Her prey is Cain, father of the vampire race and the madman whose obsession with the goddess Lilith fuels his murderous plots. Armed with the name of a sect of dark historians who know the location of Cain's lair, Sabina...

'Tinges of the supernatural add to the electric sense of place in a caustic and original novel' Financial TimesBilly Sloat and Lydia Lemon don't have much in common, unless you count growing up on the same (wrong) side of the tracks, the lack of a...

Outlines the main skills, techniques and practices for the job of the researcher. An easy to follow guide to production research, it will help the new researcher to understand the possibilities to be considered when undertaking research and the kind of...

The Water-Babies (1863) is one of the strangest and most powerful children's books ever published. Written by an Anglican clergyman with an insatiable love of science, the story combines an uplifting moral about redemption with a crash course in...

In this World Book Day special, join MARV and his friends in FIVE action-packed superhero adventures celebrating the ultimate superpower-KINDNESS! When Marvin puts on his superhero suit he becomes the unstoppable, invincible, MARV, a superhero with...

Bringing together stories about supernatural beings which, whatever they are - fiends, demons, witches, vampires - cannot be regarded as ghosts, this collection is designed to complement the "Young Oxford book of ghost stories".Book InformationISBN...

It's a long hot summer. Temperatures are soaring and a strange creature has been spotted on Dartmoor. Connie Lionheart and her friends soon discover that the creature is a chimera. When it attacks Connie, leaving her gravely wounded, Col and Rat must...

A title in the "Oxford Illustrated Classics" series, this is a new translation of a classic tale.Book InformationISBN 9780192745002Author Geraldine McCaughreanFormat PaperbackPage Count 255Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University Press

When an ancient coffin is discovered in the grounds of Glastonbury Abbey, the local monks believe they've revealed the final resting place of King Arthur and his queen. In the coffin is also found a crude leaden cross. But when the cross and the bones...

Charlie and his great mate Ben have landed in a spooky House of Horror - all because of Charlie's new pyjamas! The mean old Stitcher and her stinky sidekick Grumpfart are planning to take revenge on the entire world . . . Can Charlie and Ben survive the...

'If you light a fire on Mabb's hill, she will come for you...'All Keri has ever wanted is to be part of the Magic. Now her brother Lu is dying. To save him she must bargain with the dangerous Faerie Queen Mabb, who exacts a terrible price. Will the Magic...

For anyone who listens reverentially in the half-light to Robert Johnson, Nick Drake, or Morrisey, who wait anxiously for new albums from The Cure, Leonard Cohen, or The Blue Nile, who buy up catalogs of Nina Simone, Johnny Cash, or Scott Walker, who...

A brilliant mythical drama about well-meaning people trapped in a war of spiritual forcesMarian Taylor, who has come as a "companion" to a lovely woman in a remote castle, becomes aware that her employer is a prisoner, not only of her obsessions, but of...

A New York Times bestseller, The Informationist introduces Vanessa Michael Munroe, a brilliant new heroine, in a thriller for fans of Lisbeth Salander, Jack Reacher and Jason Bourne.'One of the best thrillers of the year!' Tess GerritsenVanessa Munroe...

'R' is a zombie. He has no name, no memories, and no pulse, but he has dreams. He is a little different from his fellow Dead.Amongst the ruins of an abandoned city, R meets a girl. Her name is Julie and she is the opposite of everything he knows - warm...

Fast Company reporter Joe Berkowitz investigates the bizarre and hilarious world of pun competitions from the Punderdome 3000 in Brooklyn to the World competition in Austin. When Joe Berkowitz witnessed his first Punderdome competition, it felt wrong in...

Luxury living can still be achieved on a budget. "Savvy Chic" will teach you how to entertain, decorate, travel, and dress for less. In elegant prose, Anna Johnson combines a unique mix of anecdote, riff, and how-to, and shares her secrets of survivalist...

In this high-octane and mesmerising action thriller bestselling author Brett Battles expertly weaves together break-neck speed action with complex plot twists, exotic locations and unforgettable characters. If you like Jason Bourne, James Bond or Jack...

Fans of The Power will love this addictive novel' Stylist A masterful speculative novel exploring the fine lines between faith, conspiracy, and mania in contemporary America. While...

The second adult novel from the internationally bestselling author Melissa Marr Chloe knew she shouldn't have gone into the bar last night. Now, in addition to a pounding headache and weak limbs, she's got the guilt of five years sobriety down...

The first instalment of a thrilling new epic fantasy trilogy from the rising star of the genre. From out of the East they spread like a merciless plague - destroying kingdom after kingdom and the sovereigns who had previously mocked the...

Truly, madly, deadly...Kristin Cast and Alyson Noel head up this collection of 5 thrilling paranormal stories This irresistible collection features stories of love amidst vampires by five of today's hottest authors-Kristin Cast (Tempted),...

Australian secrets and Jack the Ripper's London keep Mel the time-travelling angel on her toes in her fifth adventure! New-look cover for an angelic series rebirth! Rather to Mel's horror, she is teamed up for her new assignment in the...

The third instalment in The Darkhaven series. Ayla Nightshade prepares to meet with the Kardise ambassador to sign a treaty between Mirrorvale and Sol Kardis. However, negotiations are halted as the ambassador is...

Exotic adventure and nonstop action explode as West meets East in this second breathtaking story of The Saint of Dragons. Dragons. They revel in human misery and leave a trail of pain and death wherever they go. They live alone, masquerading...

An evocative and magical romance set in the legendary time of King Arthur. Elen, the daughter of a Welsh chieftan, lives in the border territory with her widowed mother and her brother. Her family are keen to ally with King Arthur, but some of...

A paperback edition of The Horse and His Boy, book three in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia. This edition is complete with interior art by the original illustrator, Pauline Baynes. On a desperate journey, two runaways meet...

A paperback edition of Prince Caspian, book four in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia. This edition is complete with interior art by the original illustrator, Pauline Baynes. The Pevensie siblings are back to help a prince...

A paperback edition of The Magician's Nephew, Book One in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis. This edition is complete with interior art by the original illustrator, Pauline Baynes. On a daring quest to save a...

Scientist Hal Cousins is close to discovering the key to immortality but someone has already found it and will kill him to keep it secret. Vitals is a tense technothriller in the best Michael Crichton tradition. A mile and a half below the...

Maverick USAF pilot Patrick McLanahan is caught up in explosive events in the Middle East in this new high-action adventure from the bestselling author of FLIGHT OF THE OLD DOG and WARRIOR CLASS. Patrick McLanahan flies into a storm of...

In the millennium's last great sf novel, Stephen Baxter takes us a short step byond Y2K. The year is 2010. We have survived ... so far. Cornelius Taine of Eschatology, Inc., mathematical genius, predicts that in just 200 years our species will...

A fast-paced thriller combining the forces of fear, love, heroism and extraordinary adventure. 'In northern India a twelve-year-old boy is being interrogated by three intelligence officers. A tape-recorder turns; there is no air conditioning,...

The opening volume in a huge epic fantasy in the tradition of Frank Herbert's DUNE series. Struggling to survive an existence of enforced slavery on their home planet, the people of Kundala are slowly dying. Their oppressors, the V'ornn, a...

After battling with the fogs all night, the last thing El Morgan needed was to find a strange-looking baby lying like a sacrifice on the standing stones in the city park. The Night Fogs is a sharply topical, funny, satirical, and moving story that...

An epic, futuristic disaster novel set in the wastes of Antarctica. Like the world it protects, the Antarctic Treaty is dissolving.About the AuthorKim Stanley Robinson was born in 1952. After travelling and working around the world, he settled in his...