Splashing down off the coast of Australia, Alex is soon working undercover - this time for ASIS, the Australian Secret Service - on a mission to infiltrate the criminal underworld of South-East Asia: the ruthless world of the Snakehead. Faced with an old enemy and troubled by his own past, Alex is caught between two secret services, with no one to trust - and this time he needs all his wits to sur

The literary world was shocked when in 1889, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently on the Pacific island of Samoa. His readers were equally shocked when he began to use the subject material offered by his new environment, not to promote a romance of empire, but to produce some of the most ironic and critical treatments of imperialism in nineteenth-century

This full-color series presents nonfiction topics about interesting places and subjects. Each title features color photographs and a glossary to help with vocabulary comprehension. Exercises and suggestions for project work are also included. The books are graded at 400-to 1,400-word vocabulary levels. Audio \"CDs or \"Cassettes are available for select titles.

Meet Emily and Paul: The parents of two young children, Emily is the newly promoted VP of Marketing at a large corporation while Paul works from home or from clients\' offices as an independent IT consultant. Their lives, like all of ours, are filled with a bewildering blizzard of emails, phone calls, meetings, projects, proposals, and plans. Just staying ahead of the storm has become a seemingly insurmountable

For Shannon Bodine, losing her mother has been doubly heartbreaking: hours before she died, her mother confessed that Shannon\'s father was not the man she believed, but a married man in Ireland. Across the ocean, Brianna and Maggie Concannon have been eagerly awaiting news of their half-sister. But the woman who visits Brie\'s guest house in County Clare is not the loving sibling they had hoped for.

The unlikeliest League ever continues their adventures in their new best-selling series with JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA VOL. 2, as part of DC Rebirth! The JLA discovers a super-arms dealer has transformed an entire city into his own massive militia force. And when the team can\'t liberate its citizens from the outside, they turn to their own legendary master of mass destruction...Lobo! Will the Czarnian

\'It had been almost a year since I’d found Hannah dead, and I thought I’d managed to erase all traces of that night within myself. I was wrong.\' Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a mesmerizing debut. As teenager Blue van Meer tells her story we are hurled into a dizzying world of murder and butterflies, womanizing and wandering, American McCulture, the Western Canon, political radicalism and

Jean Nouvel, winner of the 2008 Pritzker Prize, is widely regarded as France’s most original and important contemporary architect. From 1967 to 1970, he assisted influential architects Claude Parent and Paul Virilio, before creating his own practice in Paris. His first widely acclaimed project was the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris (1981–87). Since then he has completed the Lyon Opera House, the

Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is having a streak of bad luck. First her co-worker is killed, and no one seems to care. Then she comes face-to-face with a beastly creature which gives her a painful and poisonous lashing. Enter the vampires, who graci

Sheherezade is beautiful and clever. She also knows many wonderful stories: a thousand and one! Some of them are in this collection. We meet many different people in these stories: a clever servant girl, a boy judge, a stupid barber and forty bad thieves.

With the advent of speed dating, an increase in single-person households, rising divorce, and greater expectations from our relationships, we all want to know...have we met THE ONE? This book unveils a theory to reveal why you\'re in the relationship you\'re in - and whether your partner is really the right one for you. Supported by celebrity case studies, it explains why David and Victoria Beckham

Grand tour: Weekend wonders across EuropeThis revised and updated edition of The New York Times 36 Hours Europe offers 130 expert itineraries to reveal the continent s brightest gems and best-kept secrets. From Renaissance splendor in Florence to Flamenco in Seville, from luxurious Lake Como to easygoing Lisbon, you ll find the antique and the cutting-edge, the renowned and the unexpected, and all

A mouth-watering collection of recipes inspired by fresh, seasonal French market produce, and illustrated with gorgeous full-colour photographs.Once again Joanne Harris and Fran Warde have collaborated to write a French cookbook with a difference. This time they have gone to Gascony for their inspiration and into the world of the French rural market. The best ingredients in season, locally produced

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Jessie Cave is a successful actress, comedian, writer and artist. But just like all other young women in the twenty-first-century, she suffers from self-doubt, jealousy, a fear of failure and constant worry. In 2010 Jessie decided to take up a self-tasked mission - to draw a doodle a day for Twitter. No matter what the subject, and no matter how personal, she would post a new drawing each day without

Colour is a powerful selling tool. It is the first thing to catch the consumer\'s eye in the shop window. Get the colour choice wrong and an entire range can stay on the racks. So, how do colours arrive on the catwalk or the sales floor and why do different companies choose similar colours each season? In this book, Kate Scully and Debra Johnston Cobb look at how the industry has developed and how

Lost meets The Passage in this incredible new thriller, for all fans of The Shining Girls and Stephen King. They\'re here ...The boy. The boy watch the boy watch the dead people oh Lordy there\'s so many ...They\'re coming for me now. We\'re all going soon. All of us. Pastor Len warn them that the boy he\'s not to---- The last words of Pamela May Donald (1961 - 2012) Black Thursday. The day that will

Fifteen-year old John Trenchard lives in a quiet village. But after dark, Moonfleet is a village with secrets. A dead man walks the streets, and smugglers do their work. When John accidentally learns about this dangerous world, his life suddenly changes. But will he live – or will he die?