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Set in the early 1900s, a young boy comes across a life altering machine - and creatures - that may change the course of London's history. Oliver finds himself struggling with understanding the means of the system and where he fits in among creatures that aren't necessarily human. Can he beat the clock and save humanity before it's too late?

Would you like to save up deposits, buy a property every few years, and (maybe) get financial freedom in a decade? Or would you rather do it in less than a year with none of your own money? It sounds almost unbelievable, but it’s totally achievable, and thousands of regular people are doing it all over the UK.

This biography introduces listeners to Ramesses II's many accomplishments as both a warrior-king and a god-king. When he died at age 96, Egyptians believed him to be a higher deity than any who preceded him; in some ways, he achieved eternal life by living on in memory through the end of the Egyptian Empire and beyond.

In this eighth book of the Colony Ship Eschaton series, Jamie and Michael face the revenge of some old enemies. Not everyone will come out of these encounters alive.

Jamie and Michael are asked to help track down something that is destroying food in Habitat One of the Colony Ship Eschaton. What they find is a secret history of the ship itself. Cut off from everyone, except the dog, Liduma, Jamie and Michael race to find all the pieces of this suppressed history. But something else is seeking it as well and does not want Jamie and Michael to succeed. Will they make it back to report what they have learned about the building of the colony ship?

On February 15, 1942, the British surrendered to the Imperial Japanese Army and handed over Singapore and surrounding Malaya countries. The conflict began on December 8, 1941, when Japanese forces bombed Singapore and continued to make their way through the treacherous Malayan jungle. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill stated during the attack, “the worst disaster and the largest capitulation in British history”.

From robots with contagious diseases to space explorers who stumble upon the birthplace of the Cthulhu, these stories twist horror and science into sexy pulp fiction that's hard to escape. Showcasing fantastic stories in which printed people colonize planets, augmented reality is used to punish criminals and take over corporations, and futures where cyberpunk adolescence rule cities where all the adults have disappeared; this is a collection of unique peepholes into the future of our planet and species.

Holiday for the Hostile, second book in the Hostile series, is probably even stranger than the first. Serena, plus her unusual friend and partner in crime, Tile X, reluctantly find themselves suffering a family holiday at her eccentric grandfather's hovel in Ireland. Who will escape intact from their dramatic holiday from Hell? A gripping paranormal thriller with a splash of horror.

Join Mr. Bee as his ordinary day takes an unexpected twist full of danger and discovery, and how a simple blue button changes his life forever. A book for kids of all ages.

When Wyatt Tobiah, the youngest brother of four, sees a shadowy figure beckoning him through a mirror in the Jenkin's manor near his family's summer home, he doesn't realize that the figure is his deceased mother. Now an angel with beautiful feathered wings, she invites her sons to step through the portal located in the mirror and join her in the land of Talia.

Continuing the story of Shauna from The Ghost in the Water, Noel Osualdini takes us beyond the walls of Refuge and - for Shauna - back into the realms of nightmares. Oh, and meet the undertaker Ed Underwood. Just as you'd expect him to be? Honest, reverent, dignified, detached. Maybe not....

After his divorce, Pete has nothing left to live for. Having lost his home and money, he finds himself in a hotel where he spends a night with a man he does not know. And when the next day that man is found dead, Pete is the main suspect. During his investigation to find the murderer he finds more about himself and his roots. He meets people that change his life forever.

Simon is a seasoned enterprise architect who joins a corporation in New York as their first-ever vice president of enterprise architecture. On his very first day, he meets the global chief executive officer, who asks Simon, "What do you do?" Simon's reply triggers the CEO to respond in a way that our hero least expects.

A man at odds with the universe, Anthony McGowan stumbles from one improbable fiasco to the next. On the mean streets of West Hampstead he reflects upon all that is at the heart of life itself - socks with holes, underwhelming packed lunches, broken washing machines, Kierkegaard, liver salts, British Library eccentricities, and disapproving ladies on trains. In this chronicle of one man’s daily failures and disappointments, McGowan can’t help but speak his mind - with cringe-worthy and hilarious results.

Sir Charles Huxley kept a dark secret — a secret the former government minister should have taken to the grave. His son, William, lives an uneventful life in his late father’s shadow. He never planned on becoming a middle-aged bachelor, and he definitely didn’t plan a career as a low-level...