Kirjahaku

When plucky eleven-year-old Anna Richardson goes missing out-of-work journalist Robert MacLennan is hired to find her, but Anna hasn't been abducted she's slipping uncontrollably backwards through time towards a point of no return. Separated by the years but connected by journals that Anna leaves behind, as Robert is pursued across Europe by people bent on harnessing Anna's ability as the ultimate weapon they both fight to discover some way of saving Anna from her inexorable slide into oblivion and the world from the awesome powers that lie behind this.A compelling adventure through the quirky labyrinth of time paradoxes, Anna's adventures present a view of the world from a unique and bizarre perspective.

Mystery, high adventure, horror, and a liberal sprinkling of some good old-fashioned Wild West clich s, The Railroad drives a wedge through the genre into unknown territory. When greed lures Randolph Gaff to force a railroad into a labyrinthine wilderness it isn't just the inaccessible terrain that he has to worry about. It seems that the local Indians are protected by deadly, mysterious strangers that will stop at nothing to see the railroad fail. With all the odds against him he turns to Carter, a wilderness guide, and Sven, a cartographer and railroad engineer to find him a route. But as these unlikely friends begin to uncover the land's deadly secret they become torn between their obligations and their growing consciences.

Eleven-year-old Melaua's life has become complicated. A volcano fell on father, mother was abducted by an evil, secretive organisation, and now her hometown has fallen down a chasm. Add to this the probability that there's going to be another World War after which humans will almost certainly go extinct and to be honest things could be going better. Sometimes it seems that the only things that stand between the world she knows and seismic doomsday weapons, war and Armageddon are her and her surreal, improbable, half-imaginary friends. Welcome to the world of synchronicity where things aren't always as they seem. From the distant past to a disturbingly plausible near future, never has so much shit hit so many fans in so many varied and spectacular ways. Indiana Jones, Jason Bourne, James Bond, step aside. Let me introduce Melaua Sai Vesk .

Assassins and high-adventure. When a hidden manuscript is discovered a startling alternative history of Elizabeth I is revealed. Aided by three enigmatic strangers, one of whom acts as her double, the queen sails away on a mission to save the realm, becomes a pirate, avoids assassins and sails against the Spanish Armada. But as the archaeologists slowly piece this together they are soon forced to confront a danger of their own as a mysterious stranger threaten to deprive them of their find and their lives. With high levels of historic accuracy and a wickedly playful streak Elizabeth is finally portrayed as she might have been.

Elderly care home resident Etty Bradshaw has a tale to tell; secrets that she has held for many years. When she declares that she is about to go to a "better place" the management recruit Andrea Wright, a psychology student, to keep an eye on her. But the story that unfolds is unlike anything that young Andie could ever have imagined. With the clock ticking she must decide, is Etty paranoid and delusional or is there really something very sinister about this particular care home?