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Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Darkness Under the Sun is the perfect read for Halloween - or for any haunted night - and reveals a secret, fateful turning point in the career of Alton Turner Blackwood, the killer at the dark heart of What the Night Knows, the forthcoming novel by Sunday Times bestselling author Dean Koontz. There once was a killer who knew the night, its secrets and rhythms. How to hide within its shadows. When to hunt. He roamed from town to town, city to city,...
Author
Language
English
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Description
When a newborn baby dies after a routine hospital procedure, there is no doubt about who will be held responsible: the nurse who had been banned from looking after him by his father. What the nurse, her lawyer and the father of the child cannot know is how this death will irrevocably change all of their lives, in ways both expected and not.
4) The Named
Author
Series
The Guardians of Time Trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury Childrens
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Imagine if you were able to change history. By altering one tiny thing you could start a chain of catastrophic events. Ethan is one of the Named, fated to stop this ever happening, although the forces of chaos have other ideas and Ethan is finding it more and more difficult to stay one step ahead. He is also a normal schoolboy, whose life is rapidly becoming far too confusing. So when Isabel arrives on the scene she is only going to make matters worse...
5) Gone
Author
Series
Gone volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Suddenly there were no adults, no answers. What would you do? In the blink of an eye, the world changes. The adults vanish without a trace, and those left must do all they can to survive. But everyone's idea of survival is different. Some look after themselves, some look after others, and some will do anything for power.
Author
Series
School for Good and Evil volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Every four years, two girls are kidnapped from the village of Gavaldon. Legend has it these lost children are sent to the School for Good and Evil, the fabled institution where they become fairytale heroes or villains. Sophie, the most beautiful girl in town, has always dreamed of her place at the School for Good while her friend Agatha, with her dark disposition seems destined for the School for Evil. But when the two are kidnapped they find their...
8) Hunger
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Language
English
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Description
The clock is ticking for Sam Temple and the kids of Perdido Beach. However it's not the big one-five they face now, but starvation. Sam must lead the kids in the face of dwindling rations, in-fighting, his rival Caine and a dangerous mutant beast living down an abandoned mine-shaft.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
After mastering the ability to walk between dimensions, Joey helped save the Altiverse from destruction. But rival powers of magic and science are still out there, seeking to control all worlds. InterWorld?s peacekeeping mission is far from finished. And when a stranger follows Joey back to BaseTown things get even more complicated. No one knows who she is or where she?s from and, more importantly, why she knows so much about InterWorld. Dangerous...
10) I am David
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
This children's classic tells the story of a child who escapes from a concentration camp and survives untold miseries and dangers to find his way home.
11) Starborn
Author
Series
The Flaxfield quartet volume 4
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Tadpole, a young roffle, decides to leave the deep world and venture Up Top for the first time, he just wants to see the stars. But instead he finds himself caught up in a terrible war - the final showdown between good magic and evil. He joins Sam, Tamrin and the other wizards as they risk their lives to defeat Ash once and for all - but they are facing an enemy more dangerous than ever before.
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans
Pub. Date
1977, c1974
Language
English
Description
In his discussion of natural theology (arguments to prove the existence of God) and natural atheology (arguments for the falsehood of theistic belief) Plantinga focuses on two of the traditional arguments: the ontological argument as an example of natural theology, and the problem of evil as the most important representative of natural atheology.
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/HarperCollins UK
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Language
English
Description
Emma Dickson has a successful career and a flourishing relationship in the city. So why does the advertisement for sale of Liza's Cottage, a house she remembers from childhood holidays on the rural Essex coast, turn her well-ordered life upside down with longing? Mike Sinclair is the new rector of Manningtree and Mistley, the tightly knit community where Liza's Cottage is situated. He is fascinated by the history of the parish, especially the seventeenth...
Author
Series
Goosebumps HorrorLand volume 12
Publisher
Scholastic Audio
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Language
English
Description
The kids who are trapped in HorrorLand thought they had reason enough to panic. That was before they reached Panic Park.
16) The evil we love
Author
Series
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy volume 5
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The Shadowhunter Academy has only just reopened following the disastrous rise of The Circle. Now the faculty can finally admit to what happened when Valentine was a student. This standalone e-only short story follows the adventures of Simon Lewis, star of the #1 New York Times bestselling series The Mortal Instruments, as he trains to become a Shadowhunter. Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy features characters from Cassandra Clare?s Mortal Instruments,...
17) Elidor
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Language
English
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Description
A reprint of this classic fantasy story, first published in 1965, illustrated with black and white line drawings by Charles Keeping. Four children in Manchester chance on a ruined church where the fabric of time and place is weak enough to allow them entry into the strange world of Elidor which is threatened by the powers of evil.
Author
Series
The Magician Trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Language
English
Description
Gwyn can feel danger coming in the wind. Somehow he knows the warnings have to do with the broken toy horse that holds the evil spirit of a prince who lived long ago. When Gwyn discovers that the prince's dark soul has escaped from the horse and is seeking revenge Gwyn, Emlyn, and Nia have to figure out how to save the mysterious soldier who claims to be Nia's distant cousin. With the help of the Snow Spider, can they recapture the prince's soul without...
20) Plague
Author
Series
Gone volume 4
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
They've survived hunger. They've survived lies. But the stakes keep rising, and the dystopian horror keeps building in Plague, Michael Grant's fourth book in the New York Times bestselling Gone series. A highly contagious fatal illness is spreading at an alarming rate, while sinister, predatory insects terrorize Perdido Beach. Sam, Astrid, Diana, and Caine are plagued by a growing doubt that they'll escape-or even survive-life in the FAYZ. With so...
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