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Murderous mirrors. Vicious vampires. Soul-stealing circuses. Jamie Carter is slowly getting the hang of her new position as the museum curator. The museum's past is filled with dark secrets, deadly secrets. There are people hunting Jamie, trying to use her position to gain control of the museum and its power. With each new adventure, the threat to Jamie's life grows. Will Jamie be able to unravel the secrets of the museum in time or will she lose everything and everyone she cares about in the process?

Multi-billionaire Jacob Stone has spent much of his fortune creating New Eden, a preserve in the Alaskan wilderness for creatures out of the wildest reaches of scientific speculation. Monsters caught between human and animal shape; unimagined beasts that stalk, swim and fly through a world where legend and science are one. Cryptids. Now Stone has recruited the four remaining members of Task Force E, a renegade paramilitary group exposed to and transformed by a bizarre paranormal phenomenon, one that has left them with a strange sensitivity to--and affinity for—cryptids.

If you like Rivers of London, The Dresden Files, and the King's Watch series, this is for you. The third full-length instalment in the Black Museum series is a page-turning Urban Fantasy, with the most unlikely hero you can imagine. "This is more than just bloody murder Inspector, this is a race war, with magic on one side and a right evil monster who thinks it's the devil's work on the other." Archibald Strop. Editor. The Newgate Calendar. DCI Judas Iscariot of Scotland Yard's occult magic division, the Black Museum, has only been back in London for five minutes when things get bloody.

Der junge Staatsanwalt Carlo Caprizzi überwirft sich mit seinen Vorgesetzten, wird freigestellt und geht zur Selbstfindung nach Triest. Er beobachtet, wie Bilder aus dem Museum der Renaissance gestohlen werden, andere werden mit Farbe übergossen. Carlo Caprizzi gerät selbst unter Verdacht. Staatsanwältin Loretta Cucinotta nötigt ihn, die Sache aufzuklären. Gemeinsam mit der schönen, aber impulsiven Simona Cinquetti macht er sich auf die Suche. Wer aber steckt hinter dem Diebstahl und der Farbattacke? Das Syndikat, bestehend aus smarten und weniger smarten Mitgliedern.

A new edition of Cecil Lewis's 1944 aviation classic. Over the course of one night in 1942, the crew members of Wellington bomber 'P for Pathfinder' each reflect on the paths of their own lives, as they embark on a fateful mission deep into the heart of Nazi Germany. Cecil Lewis's novel examines the life of every man in turn, rendering a moving account of each as not merely a nameless crew member, but as an individual with a life lived, 'a life precious to some, or one...these men with dreams and hopes and plans of things to come'.

October 1941. Twenty-one-year-old Alan Mart is posted to India and taken under the wing of the overbearing Acting-Captain Sam Holl. Following the Japanese advance on Singapore, the men are deployed to Malaya. What follows is a quietly shattering and searingly authentic depiction of the claustrophobia of jungle warfare and the indiscriminate nature of conflict. Based on David Piper's own wartime experience in South East Asia, this new edition of a 1959 classic includes a contextual introduction from IWM which sheds new light on the dramatic true events that so influenced its author.

When the Doctor and his companions Ian, Barbara and Vicki enter a museum on the planet Xeros, they are astonished to find themselves displayed as exhibits! The TARDIS has jumped a 'time track' and offered them a glimpse of what the future could hold... The native Xerons are planning a rebellion...