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A Handful Of Horrid Henry
Horrid Henry creates havoc wherever he goes. To his well-meaning parents and to every adult whose path he crosses, he is the ultimate nightmare child. His naughtiness is of the kind all children secretly admire and few dare to aspire to. He doesn't always mean to be bad, but the best- laid plans have a habit of going wrong...
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Horrid Henry's Evil Enemies
Ten brilliant stories about Horrid Henry's evil enemies - Moody Margaret, Sour Susan, Stuck-Up Steve, Bossy Bill, Perfect Peter and Rabid Rebecca the Bogey Babysitter, to name just a few - and how he schemes to outwit them, sometimes successfully, sometimes not. Alongside these much-loved and laughed-over stories there is lots of new material, such as Horrid Henry's Top Secret Plan to Rule the World, Rules for a Secret Club, a Wanted poster, an exchange of rude notes between Henry and Moody Margaret, diagrams, battle-plans and recipes for Glop. With many pictures in colour, including some new ones, this is a treat for all Horrid Henry fans, just as funny and inventive as HORRID HENRY'S BIG BAD BOOK and HORRID HENRY'S WICKED WAYS.
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The Late Show
Los Angeles can be a dangerous city - never more so than in the dead of night. Detective Renée Ballard, once one of the department's young hotshots, now works 'The Late Show', the graveyard shift at the LAPD. It's a thankless job keeping strange hours in a twilight world of tragedy and violence, handing over her investigations as the sun rises, never getting closure. Some nights are worse than others. And tonight is the worst yet. Two cases: a brutal assault and a multiple murder with no suspect. Ballard knows it is always darkest before dawn. But what she doesn't know is how deep her dual investigation will take her into the dark heart of her city, her department and her past...
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The Geneva Strategy
The Covert One Team must find and recover kidnapped US officials, one of whom holds the keys to all of America’s drones. Robert Ludlum’s The Geneva Strategy is a thriller novel by Jamie Freveletti. Summary of the Book When several high-ranking US officials are kidnapped, Jon Smith and the Covert One team are put on the case. Among the kidnapped is Nick Rendel, a coder and an expert on drone programming and strategy. In his hands he holds the key to confidential passwords, codes and details related to the US Drone program. As the team recovers a few of the kidnapped officials, they discover that kidnappers used brainwashing or mind-altering drugs on them. The search leads Smith to Fort Detrick, where a researcher had once tried to create a memory wiping drug to use on soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress. However, the researcher was later placed in a mental institution, and her research was stopped. Can the team find Nick Rendel before he cracks and reveals all of America’s secrets related to the Drone program? About the Authors Robert Ludlum was an American novelist known for The Matarese Circle, the Bourne series and the Covert One series. Jamie Freveletti is an American novelist, trial attorney and martial artist. She has also written Running from the Devil and Dead Asleep.
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Missing You
It's a profile, like all the others on the online dating site. But as NYPD detective Kat Donovan focuses on the accompanying picture, she feels her whole world explode, as emotions she's ignored for decades come crashing down on her. Staring back at her is her ex-fianc? Jeff, the man who shattered her heart eighteen years ago. Kat feels a spark, wondering if this might be the moment when past tragedies recede and a new world opens up to her. But when she reaches out to the man in the profile, her reawakened hope quickly darkens into suspicion and then terror as an unspeakable conspiracy comes to light, in which monsters prey upon the most vulnerable. As Kat's hope for a second chance with Jeff grows more and more elusive, she is consumed by an investigation that challenges her feelings about everyone she ever loved-her former fiance? her mother and even her father, whose cruel murder so long ago has never been fully explained. With lives on the line, including her own, Kat must venture deeper into the darkness than she ever has before and discover if she has the strength to survive what she finds there
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Gone Girl
When Anne Dunne vanishes, the prime suspect is her husband. However, what really happened to his controlling wife? Gillian Flynn tells the story of a man as he hunts for his wife in Gone Girl, a thriller novel. Summary of the Book On their fifth wedding anniversary, Nick and Anne Dunne should have enjoyed a serene party. No one expected the house to be a crime scene. Anne has vanished and Nick is the prime suspect. Everyone seems to believe that he killed her and hid the body, but even though his behaviour seems to reinforce that belief, Nick professes only innocence. No one believes him, especially given his strange fantasies and daydreams. When they find Anne’s diary, more facts come to light. The diary reveals her true side, showing how controlling and domineering she really was. Nick was considered to be the ideal husband in the entire town, but is there a possibility that Anne’s control-frenzy could have driven him to commit the ultimate crime? About Gillian Flynn Gillian Flynn is an American writer and was a television critic for Entertainment Weekly. She has also written Sharp Objects and Dark Places. Gone Girl has been loosely adapted into a mystery-thriller film, directed by David Fincher, and starring Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry and Carrie Coon.
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Malala
Written in collaboration with critically acclaimed national book award finalist Patty McCormick, this is Malala's story, written for her peers. Meet the girl behind the icon-a girl who loves cricket, has spats with her best friend and on the day of the shooting, nearly overslept and missed an exam. A girl who saw women suddenly banned from public, schools blown up and Taliban opponents whipped in public. A girl whose homeland descended into a state of fear and repression and who found herself transformed from being some what shy and bookish into a fearless opponent of a murderous regime. This is the story of her passionate belief in every child's right to education, her determination to make that a reality throughout the world and her hope to inspire other children around the world to stand up for their rights alongside her. Includes brand new material about Malala's life after the shooting-adapting to life in a strange country, rehabilitation and her thoughts on the continued threats she faces, as well as new photos and illustrations. About the Author Malala Yousafzai was born in 1997 in the Swat Valley of Pakistan. In her short lifetime, she has already experienced devastating changes in her country, which has been transformed from a once peaceful land to a hot bed of terrorism. Malala, who now lives in Birmingham, England, says she has been given a second life, which she intends to devote to the good of the people and her belief that all girls everywhere deserve an education. The fund she started can be found at MalalaFund.org.
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Horrid Henry and the Secret Club
Four stories about Henry, in which he goes to the dentist, torments his brother Peter, creates havoc at his birthday party, and plans revenge when Moody Margaret won\'t let him into her secret club
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Horrid Henry Tricks The Tooth Fairy
Four stories about Horrid Henry, in which he tries to trick the tooth fairy, has Moody Margaret to stay and sends her packing, makes teachers run screaming from school, and wrecks a wedding.
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Horrid Henry Gets Rich Quick
More hilarious stories about Horrid Henry, the child teachers have nightmares about. Horrid Henry makes sure he gets the presents he wants for Christmas, sabotages the school sports day, runs away from home, and thinks of a brilliant way to get rich quick - by selling off his little brother.
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Horrid Henry's Nits.
When Horrid Henry gets nits, and his little brother Peter Perfect doesn\'t, he makes sure that everyone esle gets them too. After that, he can turn his attention to sabotaging the school trip, ruining his parents\' dinner party, and terrorizing Peter.
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Horrid Henry's Haunted House
Four favourite HORRID HENRY stories: Horrid Henry and the Comfy Black Chair, Horrid Henry\'s Haunted House, Horrid Henry\'s School Fair, and Horrid Henry Minds his Manners.
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The Janus Reprisal
The brand new Covert-One novel in the series created by the undisputed master of the thriller genre, Robert Ludlum. Jon Smith is attending a W.H.O. conference in The Hague on infectious diseases and wakes in his hotel room to find a man aiming a gun at him. Smith neutralizes the shooter, and finds three pictures in the assassin's pocket: one of an unknown woman, one of Peter Howell, his friend and a former agent with Britain's MI6, and one of him. When Smith tries to leave the hotel, he encounters a second group of terrorists in the process of attacking it. The hotel is not the only target in The Hague. Within minutes of Smith's narrow escape, bombs go off at the train station, airport and at the headquarters of the International Court of Justice, where a Pakistani warlord, Oman Dattar, is being held while he is tried for crimes against humanity. In the resulting chaos, Dattar escapes. Dattar has learned of a new strain of bioelectric bacteria that can grow electrical wires as a form of cilia. These cilia connect with another metallic source and can transmit and transport themselves via electric current. These bacteria are carried to the W.H.O. conference in preparation for an international consortium of biologists convened to study them, along with other strains of deadly bacteria. Dattar arranges for his men to steal the bacteria and use them to bring down the West once and for all. Can Jon Smith stop him? About The Author Robert Ludlum launched his career as a bestselling writer with THE SCARLATTI INHERITANCE in 1971, the first of a string of international bestsellers. There are more than 300 million copies of his books in print and they have been translated in 32 languages. Jamie Freveletti is a trial attorney, martial artist, and runner. Her debut thriller, Running from the Devil, was an international bestseller and was awarded Best First Novel by the International Thriller Writers. She has written four novels and lives in Chicago with her family.
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Seconds Away
When tragedy strikes close to home, teenager Mickey Bolitar and his loyal new friends - sharp-witted Ema and the ever-charming Spoon find themselves at the centre of a murder investigation involving their friend Rachel. Now, not only does Mickey have to continue his quest to uncover the truth about the mysterious death of his father, he also needs to figure out what happened to Rachel - no matter what it takes. Mickey has always been ready to sacrifice everything to help the people he loves. But how can he protect them when he's not even sure who - or what - he's protecting them from?