" King&s Landing It is the heart of the Seven Kingdoms & the home of the Iron Throne It is a city of lies a city of treachery a city of deceit The shadows of King&s Landing hide secrets that influence & dictate the future of Westeros Those shadows have come to the A Game of Thrones Living Card Game" City of Secrets is the first monthly installment of sixty fixed cards for the " King&s Landing" expansion to A Game of Thrones The Card Game based on George RR Martin&s best-selling A Song of Ice & Fire saga It contains three copies each of twenty different never-before-seen cards designed to augment existing decks & add variety to the A Games of Thrones metagame " King&s Landing" cycle City of Secrets A Time of Trials The Tower of the Handales from the Red Keep Secrets & Spies The Battle of Blackwater Bay ...

HBO&s hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin&s internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE & FIRE the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age George RR Martin&s A Song of Ice & Fire series has set the benchmark for contemporary epic fantasy Labelled by Time magazine as one of the top 100 most influential people in the world Martin has conjured a world as complex & vibrant as that of JRR Tolkien populated by a huge cast of fascinating complex characters & boasting a history that stretches back twelve thousand years Three great storylines weave through the books charting the civil war for control of the Seven Kingdoms; the defence of the towering Wall of ice in the uttermost north against the unearthly threat of the Others; & across the Narrow Sea the rise to power of Daenerys Targaryen & the last live dragons in the world Seasons one & two of the HBO adaption of A Game of Thrones aired world-wide to critical acclaim The box set
Includes:A GAME OF THRONESA CLASH OF KINGSA STORM OF SWORDS 1 STEEL & SNOWA STORM OF SWORDS 2 BLOOD & GOLDA FEAST FOR CROWSA DANCE WITH DRAGONS 1 DREAMS & DUSTA DANCE WITH DRAGONS 2 AFTER THE FEAST
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Art meets science in this beautiful catalogue of botanical illustration Drawn from the archives of the National Library of Vienna these exquisite color reproductions range from 6th-century manuscripts to 19th-century masterpieces & celebrate both the skill of botanical artists & the abundance of natural flora ...

When mattie Gokey is given a bundle of letters to burn she fully intends to execute the wishes of the giver Grace Brown When Grace Brown is found drowned the next day in Big Moose Lake Mattie finds that it is not as easy to burn those letters as she had thought & as she reads a riveting story emerges
- not only Grace Brown's story but also Mattie's hopes & ambitions for the future & her relationships with her friends & family Published to widespread acclaim this wonderful novel part murder mystery & part coming-of-age story is an astounding & accomplished piece of literature The reviews say it all
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The new medieval thriller from Queen of the Dark Ages Karen Maitland set on the wilds of Dartmoor 544 pages Maitland Karen ...

From the bestselling author of A Week in Paris & the Richard & Judy Bookclub pick A Place of Secrets comes a gripping & moving story of secrets passed through the generations of one family Photographer Lucy Cardwell has recently lost her troubled father Tom While sifting through his papers she finds he'd been researching an uncle she never knew he'd had Intrigued she visits her father's childhood home the once beautiful Carlyon Manor She meets an old woman named Beatrice who has an extraordinary story to tell Growing up in the 1930s Beatrice plays with the children of Carlyon Manor
- especially pretty blonde Angelina Wincanton Lucy's grandmother Then one summer at the age of fifteen she falls in love with a young visitor to the town Rafe Ashton whom she rescues from a storm-tossed sea But the dark clouds of war are gathering & Beatrice Rafe & the Wincantons will all be swept up in the cataclysm of events that follow Beatrice's story is a powerful tale of courage & betrayal spanning from Cornwall to London & Occupied France in which friendship & love are tested & the ramifications reach down the generations & as Lucy listens to the tales of the past she learns a secret that will change everything she has ever known Praise for Rachel Hore's novels A tour de force Rachel's Paris is rich romantic exotic & mysterious' JUDY FINNIGAN An elegiac tale of wartime love & secrets' Telegraph A richly emotional story suspenseful & romantic but unflinching in its portrayal of the dreadful reality & legacy of war' Book of the Week Sunday Mirror ' Pitched perfectly for a holiday read' Guardian ' Engrossing pleasantly surprising & throughly readable' SANTA MONTEFIORE 'A beautifully written & magical novel about life love & family' CATHY KELLY
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For every fan of manga anime J-pop or Zen A Geek in Japan is a hip smart & concise guide to the land that is their source Comprehensive & well informed it covers a wide array of topics in short articles accompanied by sidebars & photographs providing a lively digest of the society & culture of Japan Designed to appeal to the generations of Westerners who grew up on Pokemon manga & video games A Geek in Japan reinvents the culture guide for readers in the Internet age Spotlighting the originality & creativity of the Japanese debunking myths about them & answering nagging questions like why they're so fond of robots author Hector Garcia has created the perfect book for the growing ranks of Japanophiles in this inspired insightful & highly informative guide ...

Sigmund Freud's controversial ideas have penetrated Western culture more deeply than those of any other psychologist The Freudian slip' the Oedipus complex' childhood sexuality' libido' narcissism' penis envy' the castration complex' the id' the ego' & the superego' denial' repression' identification' projection' acting out' the pleasure principle' the reality principle' defence-mechanism'
- are all taken for granted in our everyday vocabulary Psychoanalysis was never just a method of treatment rather a vision of the human condition which has continued to fascinate & provoke long after the death of its originator Its central hypothesis that we live in conflict with ourselves & seek to resolve matters by turning away from reality did not emerge from experimental science but from self-examination & the unique opportunities for observation presented by the psychoanalytic technique
- in particular from the confessions produced by free-association' in Freud's consulting room Written during the turmoil of the First World War A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis was distilled from a series of lectures given at Vienna University but had to wait for the war to end before being made available to the English speaking world

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WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2017A finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 The brilliant new novel from the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize On the eve of Angolan independence Ludo bricks herself into her apartment where she will remain for the next thirty years She lives off vegetables & pigeons burns her furniture & books to stay alive & keeps herself busy by writing her story on the walls of her home The outside world slowly seeps into Ludo's life through snippets on the radio voices from next door glimpses of a man fleeing his pursuers & a note attached to a bird's foot Until one day she meets Sabalu a young boy from the street who climbs up to her terrace ...

In this book the author describes the way her garden evolved & how without meaning to do so she let it take over her life She suggests moving away from planning regimentation & gardening with the mentality of a stamp-collector Frequently funny & always stimulating she writes of the alchemy of gardens of the 19th-century plant-collectors & plant illustrators & of the gardening philosophers all fertilizing great thoughts along with their hollyhocks She won the 1988 Sinclair Consumer Press Garden Writer of the Year Award ...