Carolyn Seymour
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The acclaimed author of the Prince of Nothing series returns with a new epic fantasy set in the same richly layered universe.
With his Prince of Nothing series, R. Scott Bakker won legions of fans and comparison to fantasy luminaries such as J.R.R. Tolkien and Frank Herbert. Now comes The Judging Eye, Bakker's first novel in a new series set in the world of Earwa, twenty years after the end of The Thousandfold Thought-a world that is both familiar...
2) Survivors
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A deadly virus spreads across the world. Within weeks, most of the human race is dead. Abby Grant ventures out into a strange new England, but she cannot settle until she knows the truth. Has her son survived?
3) The Fetch
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It's the 1980s and Alistair Matheson is forging a quietly ambitious path in Government. All is going to plan until a brief encounter with a man who looks exactly like him throws Alistair's ordered world into chaos. As this doppelgänger crosses his path time and again a series of events are set in motion with increasingly disturbing consequences. Is this double a spy? A conman? Or could he be something infinitely more sinister?
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“[A] rich read, part allegory, part a tale of retribution, part an exploration of honor, love, sex, marriage, war…an important and courageous book.”—Khaled Hosseini
“An expansive work of literature” that portrays the oppressive nature of Afghan society toward women (New York Post)
In Persian folklore, Syngue Sabour is the name of a magical black stone, a patience stone, which absorbs...
“An expansive work of literature” that portrays the oppressive nature of Afghan society toward women (New York Post)
In Persian folklore, Syngue Sabour is the name of a magical black stone, a patience stone, which absorbs...
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Ann Veronica is a New Woman novel by H.G. Wells. Ann Veronica describes the rebellion of Ann Veronica Stanley, "a young lady of nearly two-and-twenty," against her middle-class father's stern patriarchal rule. The novel dramatizes the contemporary problem of the New Woman. It is set in Victorian era London and environs, except for an Alpine excursion. Ann Veronica offers vignettes of the Women's suffrage movement in Great Britain and features a chapter...
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It begins with just a few people falling ill. Another flu virus that spreads around the globe. And then the reports begin that people are dying…
When most of the world's population is wiped out, a handful of survivors are left to pick up the pieces. Cities become graveyards. Technology becomes largely obsolete.
Mankind must start again…
1: Cabin Fever by Jonathan Morris
2: Contact by Simon Clark
3: Rescue by Andrew Smith
4: Leaving by...
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It begins with just a few people falling ill. Another flu virus that spreads around the globe. And then the reports begin that people are dying....
When most of the world's population is wiped out, a handful of survivors are left to pick up the pieces. Cities become graveyards. Technology becomes largely obsolete. Mankind must start again.
1: 'Dark Rain' by Ken Bentley. Introducing Tim Treloar as Russell, and Bernard Holley as Ridley. Months after...
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It begins with just a few people falling ill. Another flu virus that spreads around the globe. And then the reports begin that people are dying…
When most of the world's population is wiped out, a handful of survivors are left to pick up the pieces.
Cities become graveyards. Technology becomes largely obsolete. Mankind must start again…
Revelation by Matt Fitton
When people begin to die of a new strain of a flu virus, newspaper journalists Helen...
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"Pride and Prejudice, one of the most famous love stories of all time, has also proven itself as a treasured mainstay of the English literary canon. With the arrival of eligible young men in their neighbourhood, the lives of Mr and Mrs Bennet and their five daughters are turned inside out and upside down. Pride encounters prejudice, upward mobility confronts social disdain, and quick-wittedness challenges sagacity. Misconceptions and hasty judgements...
12) Congo
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When an explorer's quest for a diamond mine ends tragically in the Congo, his father and the operation's CEO sends Dr. Karen Ross, into the jungle to continue the hunt...maybe for his son, but definitely for the diamonds.