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The instant Sunday Times #1 bestseller THE ULTIMATE TALE OF COURAGE AND SACRIFICE FROM THE MASTER STORYTELLER November 11th, 1918. As the guns of the Great War fall silent, two babies draw their first breath. Eve is the daughter of an Earl. Adam, a shepherd's son. Yet from their first meeting...

Adam Bede (1859), George Eliot's first full-length novel, marked the emergence of an artist to rank with Scott and Dickens. Set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the 18th century, the book relates a story of seduction issuing in "the inward suffering which is the worst form of Nemesis". But it is also a rich and pioneering record - drawing on intimate knowledge and affectionate memory - of a rural world that we have lost.

Each of us O’Sheas had a place in our family dynamic. I was the one who made sure our family stayed safe. The quiet O’Shea. The protective one. The one who did the dirty jobs. A woman and family were the farthest things from my mind. It wasn’t a dream I’d ever thought to have or even felt like I deserved. Until they landed on my doorstep. One look at them and I knew that I’d go back to the darkness I’d lived in to ensure they were safe.

Discover the sixth book in the ludicrously inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy, as broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Arthur Dent led a perfectly ordinary, uneventful life until the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy hurled him deep into outer space. Now he's convinced a cruelly...

Perfect Shores Funeral Parlour, the family business; we bury the bodies and reap the souls, it's what we do. "Be nice to the humans, Mal." My father insists. "Humans are our business." I don't do humans. I don't like humans. They're tedious, but I'm cold and unfeeling. They mean nothing to me.

For Lance, the incursion of monsters and a magical shop isn't as much of an apocalypse as an inconvenience. Coming back from archery practice, Lance and his club are in the right place and right time to deal some mayhem for the spawning monsters. But just killing them as they come out of the portals isn't enough. They're going to have to go in and finish the job.

Mysteriously transported back through time, Jonathan Black finds himself on the day everything changed–when a mana wave transformed Earth into a land of dungeons and monsters. Will ten years’ worth of hard-won knowledge, along with the rare abilities of a Necromancer, be enough to set right what once went wrong? With the help of two beautiful women warriors and the Heaven’s Shield Guild, it just might be.

Roaming India in 1939 and the early 1940s, two flawed but extraordinary men latch onto each other with shocking consequences as each follows an ill-fated quest for “enlightenment.” Moses, a Polish Jew, is fleeing both the Nazis and his own failed marriage; Sahadeva, an itinerant Hindu monk, is trying to resolve his crisis of religious belief. Both men find themselves embroiled in hardship, shame, and chaos, stumbling into scandal and ultimately tragedy.

In a quiet valley where bells ring constantly, the villagers have learned to abandon whatever they are doing the moment a signal sounds.Merchants ring bells to gather crowds.Storytellers ring bells to gather listeners.Gossip rings bells simply because it can.Over time the bells have become...

What is true power, if not that which can protect those who need protection? Adam had left everything behind. His brother, his empire, and System-space, all entirely gone in a gamble for peace. He had found a small, mana-dead universe at the far fringes of reality. He had made a new life, a family, and a surprising amount of happiness in the mundanity of it. With that new life came the pains of mortality. His daughter had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer, and there was nothing he could do to help.

Read by Bill Nighy. From the minds of Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) and Terry Jones (Monty Python) comes Starship Titanic, the hilarious novelization of the third-best adventure game of 1999. Welcome on board the Starship Titanic. The Ship that Cannot Possibly Go Wrong. At...

Look into the darkness of the human psyche that lies behind Adam’s eyes. As a child, Adam believes he responsible for a number of mysterious deaths. Is Adam a child serial killer?

Task List Item No. 1 – Become self-aware . . . A witty tale of robotic murder, rebellion and belonging from the master of science fiction, Service Model is perfect for fans of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Brilliantly performed by the author, Adrian Tchaikovsky...

Adam Binder has the Sight. It’s a power that runs in his bloodline: the ability to see beyond this world and into another, a realm of magic populated by elves, gnomes, and spirits of every kind. Years after his brother Bobby had him committed to a psych ward, Adam is ready to come to grips with who he is, to live his life on his terms, to find love, and maybe even use his magic to do some good. Hoping to track down his missing father, Adam follows a trail of cursed artifacts to Denver, only to discover that an ancient and horrifying spirit has taken possession of Bobby’s wife.

Published in 1916, this story is over a hundred years old, yet its message is just as relevant today as it was in 1916. Perhaps even more so. Why? Because never have we had greater access to information yet at the same time we’ve never been more deficient in common sense. Advertising legend David Ogilvy believed this book changed his life and was so passionate about its message that he had his employees read it every year. This is less a book about advertising, or even about Adams himself, as much as it’s a book about the power of mindset.

A quiet Sunday afternoon takes a deadly turn for real estate agent Ari Adams, who discovers the corpse of a business tycoon in one of her listings. When her best friend, Bob, becomes the prime suspect, Ari's desire to prove his innocence puts her on a collision course with Detective Molly Nelson, the gorgeous homicide detective facing the enormous pressure of finding the power broker's killer—fast. When Bob disappears, Ari enters a world of betrayal and deception, causing her to question Bob's innocence.

The last voice he trusted is gone. Now instinct is all he has left. Set in the devastated world of Scott Medbury's bestselling series America Falls, comes The Dog and the Girl, an action-packed and surprisingly moving post-apocalyptic survival story - perfect for fans of gritty dystopian fiction...

Adam had a fine life. He had all the food he wanted, a fine garden to live in, and miles and miles of peace and quiet. Until one day, a woman entered his life. And amongst her other garrulous qualities, she says that his beautiful garden doesn't really look like a garden at all. She thinks it looks more like a park.

George Eliot's first full-length novel Adam Bede is a profound rendering of 19th century English pastoral life. This timeless story of seduction and betrayal follows the virtuous carpenter Adam Bede, whose world is soon disrupted when the all-too-beautiful Hetty betrays him for another villager. Her actions precipitate a turmoil of tragic events that shake the very foundations of their serene rural community.

The Adams family were poor, cheerful and, above all, respectable. There was Mrs Adams, a widow having lost her husband in the Boer War; Boots, the bright one; Tommy, the quiet one; Sammy, a wheeler dealer in the making; and Lizzy. Lizzy was a real pearl - one of the prettiest girls in Walworth. Then Lizzy falls in love it is 1914. War is coming, and everyone is going to be affected. Will the Adams family - gutsy, tough and cheeky - pull through? Down Lambeth Way is the first in Mary Jane Staples' Adams Family series. Their story continues in Our Emily.