Kyle and Lauren Dempsey believe their soldier stepdad is dead, killed in action in Northern Ireland. But then he turns up at their flat in the Alpine Heights tower block, terrifying changed. One day later, a mysterious virus seems to be running rampant through the building and many residents are dead. Nobody has ever discovered what really happened - until now ...
THE NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY - Young Readers Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, the basis of the HBO TV show, and its proprietor Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, and good humor--not to mention help from her loyal assistant, Grac…
It’s estimated that there are over 50 million pensioners―in the United States alone. Like the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Italy, Germany and many other countries around the world are all in big trouble when it comes to the solvency of their pension funds. Who Stole My Pension? was written to give them guidance, resources, and tools so they can take action… and stop the looti…
Floating across the sky in her hot air balloon, Cassi watches a flock of swifts dive and swoop through the air. On their journey, the swifts witness the wind and all it's majesty as it awakes with a fury, whipping ocean waves and crafting spiralling hurricane clouds bursting with power
What secrets lie deep in the ocean, high up in the sky or way out in space? Look inside to discover the many, and sometimes dangerous, journeys we have taken into the unknown.
Did you know human bones are eight times stronger than concrete? Or that both humans and giraffes have seven vertebrae in their necks? You will learn about these amazing human body facts and much more in this fascinating book for children.
Chinese knowledge and wisdom have been well documented for hundreds of years. This story tells of the wise and talented craftsman Lu Ban, and of the other craftsmen who followed in his footsteps.
This, as I take it, was because all human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil
A riveting, poetic, and fearless portrait of political unrest and the universal struggle for justice by the acclaimed author of The Vegetarian. In the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed. The story of this tragic episode unfolds in a sequence of interconnected chapters as the victims and the bereaved encounter suppression, den…