The sale of customised goods or perishable goods, sealed audio or video recordings, or software, which has been opened. If you are considering cancelling or wish to cancel a product you have ordered from us, please be aware of the following terms that apply:Īpplicability of cancellation rights: Legal rights of cancellation under the Distance Selling Regulations available for USA consumers do not apply to certain products and services. If you are a non-US customer, please see our returns policy. For further information about your statutory rights, contact your local authority Trading Standards department or consumer advice centre.

Refunds for orders cancelled under the provisions of the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations will be processed in accordance with your legal rights. If you are a USA consumer, you have the legal right, under the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000 to cancel your order within twenty eight (28) working days following your receipt of the goods or the date on which we begin provision of the services. They spared those they could from the ruined Earth, and suspended them in a long, deep sleep.Over centuries, the Oankali learned from the past, cured disease and healed the world. When Lilith lyapo wakes in a small white room with no doors or windows, she remembers a devastating war, and a husband and child long lost to her.She finds herself living among the Oankali, a strange race who intervened in the fate of humanity hundreds of years before. He also fears that, if left alone, humanity will destroy itself again. He understands the desire to fight for the independence of humanity. But there are those who resist the Oankali and the salvation they offer.The first of his kind, Akin is more powerful than any other being. The Oankali saved humanity years before, compelled by the desire to create an extraordinary new race of children. His family live together on Earth, but not in complete peace. Lilith's son Akin looks like an ordinary child. Jodahs is a child of the Earth and stars, born from the union between humans and the Oankali, who saved humanity from destruction centuries before.But Jodahs is approaching adulthood, a metamorphosis that will take him beyond gender and family, and into a great but dangerous unknown.Frightened and alone, Jodahs must come to terms with this new identity, learn to master lifechanging powers and bring together what's left of humankind - or become the biggest threat to their survival.

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