The definitive companion to the POIROT novels, films and TV appearances. 'My name is Hercule Poirot and I am probably the greatest detective in the world.' The dapper, moustache-twirling little Belgian with the egg-shaped head, curious mannerisms and inordinate respect for his own 'little grey cells' has solved some of the most puzzling crimes of the century. Yet despite being familiar to millions, Poirot himself has remained an enigma - until now. From his first ap...
Alien Island (Gerry Anderson's space precinct, No 3)
by David Bischoff
An energy being with awesome powers is sucking the life force from the citizens of Demeter City, the Crime Capital of the Galaxy, and it's up to Brogan and his dangerously desirable new partner to stop the killer before the havoc spreads. Is it a demon with angel wings--or an angel gone bad?
He's the last thing you'll ever see... Seven-feet-tall. Four hundred pounds. A blood-crusted, rusty steel plate screwed into his skull. But perhaps the most terrifying thing about reclusive psychopath Jacob Goodnight are the razor-sharp nails on his forefingers, the ones that circle around his victims' eyes just before he takes them. Holed up within the long-abandoned Blackwell Hotel, nine floors of hidden passageways and two-way mirrors that once acted as a playground for the rich and pr...
This inquiry begins with the puzzle of sibling relations. Why are individuals from the same family little more similar in personality than people from different families? Why doesn't a shared family environment lead to similar values and beliefs? Sulloway suggests a fresh way of understanding how family affects individual development. Among siblings, the most important factor for systematically understanding the sources of individual differences is birth-order. This work shows how birth-order is...
Britain has a new Prime Minister and a new King. Francis Urquhart is a ruthless politician determined to cling to power in spite of the troubles he knows are ahead, but he is frustrated at every turn by a caring, idealistic monarch. Their differences of opinion quickly degenerate into open hostility. The battlefield ranges from architecture to the underprivileged; the battle is fought with rigged opinion polls, manipulated newspaper headlines, sexual scandal and economic brinkmanship a...
Bartman: The Hero's Handbook (The Vault of SimpsonologyTM)
by Matt Groening
The swashbuckling archaeologist returns in one of his most challenging adventures yet! A novelization of the major motion picture The time is 1935. Through a series of misadventures in Shanghai—and a narrow escape from death—Indiana Jones finds himself in a remote village in India. A mysterious old shaman tells him that his arrival has been foreseen—and that he and his companions are destined to save the villagers. So begins the most daring, dark, and dangerous quest of Indiana Jones’s care...
The next adventure in the High Republic begins expanding the new era of Star Wars, with a story set generations before Light of the Jedi. It is an age of exploration. Jedi travel the galaxy, expanding their understanding of the Force and all the worlds and beings connected by it. Meanwhile, the Republic, led by its two chancellors, works to unite worlds in an ever-growing community among near and distant stars. On the close-orbiting planets of Eiram and E’ronoh, the growing pains of a galaxy...
The Comfort of Despair (Damaged and Broken Collection, #4)
by Joe Leonardi
The Walking Dead: The Fall of the Governor: Part One (Walking Dead: The Governor, #3)
by Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga
Firefly - The Ghost Machine (Barnes & Noble Special)
by James Lovegrove
