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NATIONAL BESTSELLER A young girl’s troubled family is haunted by an entity she calls “Other Mommy” in this chilling tale from the author of Bird Box. COMING SOON AS THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OTHER MOMMY, STARRING JESSICA CHASTAIN “Deeply discomfiting, imaginatively ripe, yet...

'The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs Shears' house. It looked as if it was running on its side, the way dogs run when they think they are chasing a cat in a dream. But the dog was not running or asleep. The dog was dead. There was a garden fork sticking out...

In the late 21st century, society is more fractured than ever. Billions satisfy their every whim in virtual worlds, leaving those in power free to tighten their grip on the real one. When a terrorist with strange abilities launches a campaign of violence, military investigator Asim Rahal must stop her before she strikes again. But each step of his pursuit reveals a threat far greater than anyone imagined. Truth has always come with a price. Every hero asks themselves what’s worth dying for. The harder question is: what’s worth killing for?

Now a major motion picture, Other Mommy, starring Jessica Chastain. 'This is the rare novel that's authentically scary' – Stephen King, the bestselling author of The Shining and IT From the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box, Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman is a chilling...

Something about her company's new CEO, Karl Becker, makes Hannah Hart wary. When she interrupts him sexually violating a semi-conscious co-worker, Danielle Roberts, Hannah's instincts are proven right. Enraged by his lies and payoff to quiet his victim, she delves into his perverse private life and lands in the middle of an investigation into a series of online escort murders now spanning several years. When she sees Becker among onlookers at the latest crime scene, Hannah's suspicions shift into high gear.

Special Agent Sam Jameson is having a bad week. People are trying to kill her. That would be business as usual in the counterespionage world, except that it’s the good guys who have her in the crosshairs. Will a ruthless mercenary, a hapless American traitor, and a dead man’s cryptic clue hold the key to Sam’s survival? As the noose tightens around her neck, Sam must uncover a brutal and deadly conspiracy before she becomes its next victim.   

On the International Space Station, an unthinkable disaster occurs. Was it an accident? ESA astronaut Thomas Ehrmann and NASA astronaut Patricia Michaels escape in a Soyuz capsule. The Russian authorities in Kazakhstan have questions and want to know what happened to the third member of the crew, Oleg Rashkin. They both refuse to talk. What are they hiding? Amina Young is a psychologist with the ESA. In her mid-thirties, she specialized in and advanced the field of psychological analysis of astronauts. If anyone can get to the facts about the incidents that happened on the mission, it's her.

Su protagonista, Christopher Boone, es uno de los más originales que han surgido en el panorama de la narrativa internacional en los últimos años, y está destinado a convertirse en un héroe literario universal de la talla de Oliver Twist y Holden Caulfield. A sus quince años, Christopher conoce las capitales de todos los países del mundo, puede explicar la teoría de la relatividad y recitar los números primos hasta el 7.507, pero le cuesta relacionarse con otros seres humanos.

In this much-anticipated second installment of Neve Maslakovic’s time-travel series, St. Sunniva University’s Julia Olsen and Nate Kirkland find themselves hot on the trail of a 14th-century artifact, a missing runic specialist, and an all-too-familiar kidnapper who has used the time travel lab’s STEWie (SpaceTimE Warper) for a joyride deep into America’s past. Armed with nothing more than a hunch and a keen understanding of History’s rules, can Julia, Nate, and their teammates track down the kidnapper and the missing researcher before the inevitable - and perilous - clash with history?

Thanks to the time travel lab at St. Sunniva University, history is no longer a mystery. But when the beloved co-inventor of the university’s time machine is inexplicably smeared across time, academic exploration and the future of St. Sunniva is thrown into doubt. As assistant to the dean of science, Julia Olsen is tasked with helping Campus Security Chief Nate Kirkland quietly examine this rare mishap…then, just as quietly, make it go away.

The Modronovich, a cargo ship testing a prototype Newtonian drive, loses contact on its shakedown cruise. It was briefly seen, overdue and far off course, and then never heard from again. Two-hundred fifty years later, Penelope Middleton walks into Spaulding Recovery Services with a copy of a garbled transmission recorded by her grandfather, a communications technician serving aboard Capella Station during the Modronovich’s voyage. Haunted by childhood memories of him and the enigmatic partial transmission, she hires Spaulding’s pilot and wreck diver to unravel the mystery.

‘This book is the monster that lives inside your closet’ – Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted House To eight-year-old Bela, her family is her world. There’s Mommy, Daddy and Grandma Ruth. But there is also Other Mommy, a malevolent entity who asks...

She wakes up under an overpass, disoriented, next to a dying stranger. By the time she understands what happened, her life will never look the same. The Incident Under the Overpass is the first installment in Anne McClane's Traiteur Trilogy, a supernatural thriller set against the atmospheric...

Bookshop owner Gemma Doyle heads to London for a wedding, but when a body is found in connection with a rare book, Gemma sets out to sleuth the slaying in bestselling author Vicki Delany’s 10th Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery. Gemma Doyle and her friends have packed their bags and headed to...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 STELLA PRIZE "Forebodingly rhythmic ... a harrowing, fascinating, compelling work" The Australian When 25-year-old Bella Michaels is brutally murdered in the small town of Strathdee, the community is stunned and a...

Avere come vicina una maestra in pensione dalla personalità esplosiva e invadente può rivelarsi un'esperienza estrema, soprattutto se si viene da un periodo nero nel quale la vita sentimentale è andata a rotoli, insieme a quella lavorativa. Questo direbbe Carolina Bassani, cardiologa, dirimpettaia dell'arzilla Eufemia. Due anni prima, una terribile disgrazia ha distrutto la carriera lavorativa sua e di un collega, Ascanio Sangiorgi, chirurgo plastico.

Quando la figlia muore in quello che la polizia definisce un semplice incidente, secondo l'agente speciale e profiler dell'FBI Pierce Quincy rimangono troppe domande senza risposta. È convinto che qualcuno abbia ucciso sua figlia ed è disposto a rischiare tutto per scoprire cosa sia davvero successo. C'è solo una persona disposta ad aiutarlo: la sua amica ed ex agente di polizia Rainie Connor. Ma la persona che cercano è diversa da qualsiasi altro killer che i due esperti professionisti abbiano mai incontrato prima.

Gary Mansfield’s grandfather has raised him on a scrapbook entailing every detail of The JFK Assassination and its surrounding conspiracies. Yet one day, he spotted a photo of an old Hollywood actress named Lorraine Hayes and his grandfather’s eccentric behavior adds fuel to the fire. It shall all come to ahead on November 22, 2013, the 50th Anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination. A day where he will find out something his grandfather never wanted him to.

When Somali pirates hijack a fishing boat smuggling a nuclear warhead, a frantic race for the weapon ignites. Al Qaeda wants the bomb to strike a devastating blow against the West. The North Koreans want the nuclear weapon back before their role in nuclear terrorism is laid out before the world stage. The CIA wants their operative Eric Ritter to seize the bomb intact for later use... and Ritter doesn't know why.

For twenty-five years, Ethan Keller was Division 8’s most efficient assassin who never failed a mission. Then he discovered his targets weren’t threats to national security, but obstacles to his handlers’ criminal empire. Now living in the shadows, Keller is dragged back into the kill zone when Madison Hargrove—brilliant scientist and daughter of one of his CIA confidants—is abducted.