With invasion imminent, the militarization of human society is nearly complete. But not everyone is going along willingly with the aliens draft. A growing number of humans have rejected the call to arms, instead forming a violent resistance movement. One that may unleash chaos when one of the most revered figures of this brave new world is assassinated...

The world's leading toy manufacturer makes playthings for the rich and famous, and every toy it creates contains a tiny computerised brain and a unique personality. These toys are seriously awesome! But every so often there's a faulty toy …Meet the SPY TOYS! Dan, the Snugaliffic Cuddlestar bear whose hugs are a little too strong, Arabella, the Loadsasmiles Sunshine Doll with a very short temper, and Flax, a police robot rabbit gone AWOL. Together they will undertake missio...

Bloomsbury presents… Hero Wanted! by Mark Powers read by Eva Feiler.Grace is woken in the middle of the night to the sound of an armoured horse in her back garden. The next thing she knows, a dying Grace doppelganger bursts through her bedroom door and insists that she is the fifteenth and final Grace, and it is her destiny to win the Worthy War.Grace's quest takes her to the county of Brokenshire, where she must work with her trusty steed (who has...

Bloomsbury presents Space Detectives: Cosmic Pet Puzzle by Mark Powers, read by Paul Panting.Immensely, cheerily silly' Guardian'A thunderously good read, so funny and action packed. Children are going to love it!' Serena Patel, author of ANISHA, ACCIDENTAL DETECTIVEGrown an extra head and don't know why? Pocket money stolen by a green blob? Lost your peculiar pet? You need the Space Detectives!What seems like a simple case of a missing pet soon has the Space...

Dr. Phineas Mann has come a long way from the darkness in his past. He has a loving wife, two bright children, a lively interest in beekeeping, and a rewarding career in intensive care medicine.And then a challenging case presents: an elderly man in the throes of full-blown tetanus. To make a difficult case worse, the patient's openly racist son abuses and threatens his father's medical team, especially the Black intern.When inexplicable setbacks occur, the son's threats es...

Chicago’s only professional wizard, IS BACK AND READY FOR ACTION, in the new entry in the #1 New York Times best-selling Dresden Files. Harry Dresden, Is working for Bigfoot. Three hard to find Dresden short stories reimagined and interwoven with additional material to make a wholly original graphic novel story featuring Harry taking on a case and going under cover to watch over Irwin Pounder, Bigfoots Scion.Featuring a cover by Chris McGrath the current Dresden Files prose cover artist.Do...

New York Times-bestselling author Jim Butcher expands his beloved "Dresden Files" novel series with the all-new "Dog Men" story set within official continuity, created exclusively as a graphic novel! Harry Dresden is a man on the edge—and that is something that can be dangerous to friend and foe alike. He’s been drafted by a senior member of the White Council of Wizards to investigate a series of murders in rural Mississippi. As always, there’s more afoot than is immediately apparent. The ...

Harry Dresden`s life is a mess. His top client (and close friend), Lt. Karrin Murphy, no longer trusts him. Chicago`s underworld and the cops alike think he's mobster Johnny Marcone's supernatural enforcer. And the enigmatic White Council continues to view him with suspicion. If all that weren't enough, a pack of werewolves have unleashed a wave of terror on the Windy City. But as is always the case when it comes to the creatures of the Nevernever, there's far more going on than meets the ...

Harry Dresden, a Chicago private investigator and wizard, heads to a small, isolated Missouri town terrorized by Nevernever monsters. The singularly unfortunate Talbot family has suffered a curse that has decimated their number for generations, and only our hero can save them... that is, if he can survive hostile lawmen, the dark secrets of townsfolk, an ancient guardian spirit, and two deadly carnivores! Can Dresden cleanse the Talbot bloodline of its curse without a blood sacrifice of hi...

London 1945, VE Day. And for Edward Fairfax, a strange sense of anti-climax. Newly commissioned and eager to join the fighting, it seems the war has passed him by.A sense of mystery too. 'Operation Joshua', behind enemy lines, has been a disaster. His father is blamed and threatened with court martial, yet no-one will tell Edward the truth.A sense also of impending violence. A chance meeting with the beautiful Carole Romm will cast long shadowsinto his future. As the war in...

He knows the secret, she knows the truth…“The list. You’re on the list. God’s chosen Gene.”When children’s hospital volunteer and high school student Gene Adamson hears the words of the dying man, the gunman who used him as a shield after murdering a prominent geneticist, Gene thinks the man delirious. But then the bodies of killer and victim disappear from the morgue, and a ten-year-old girl desperately needing a heart transplant is mysteriously bumped from her number-one ...

If you’ve ever had trouble falling or staying asleep, then keep reading.Few things are more frustrating than going to bed completely exhausted, yet unable to fall asleep.We’ve all been there—nodding off in a work meeting, falling asleep at a friend’s dinner or while driving to said dinner, a little short with someone for no good reason...Did the Starbucks barista deserve to be eye-rolled & yelled at about their life choices because they for...