On his eleventh birthday schoolboy Magnus Fin found out that he is half selkie -- part human part seal Although he looks like a boy & lives on land he can breathe underwater When a rusty metal chest is flung ashore in a storm Magnus Fin decides to investigate But he injures his hand on the strange box & his sealskin starts to show through His teacher realises that there's something very unusual about Magnus Fin -- & rumours start to spread Deep in the ocean the great sea god Neptune has problems of his own The treasures of wisdom have been stolen & his memory & powers are fading fast Could his missing treasure be inside the chest that's been washed ashore? Magnus Fin is the only one who can find out & restore order under the sea But a young journalist is investigating the rumours about 'fish people' Can Magnus Fin complete his mission before the selkie secret is revealed & his selkie family are forced to leave the bay forever? Janis Mackay also wrote the Kelpies Prize-winning Magnus Fin & the Ocean Quest & Magnus Fin & the Moonlight Mission This is the third book in the series ...

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Magnus the martial arts expert & ultimate robot fighter has reunited with his father the artificial intelligence known as 1A Satisfied to have a new purpose in life Magnus is sent on a mission to free a monstrous creature known as the Basilisk But once released it can&t be stopped or contained & it believes itself to be God! Can Magnus & his former pursuer Leeja hit reboot on this devastating new threat & is this the end or just a frightful new beginning? ...

Do humans dream of owning electric sheep? Artificial intelligences rather than becoming our overlords have settled into an uneasy symbiosis with humanity – they work for us as our colleagues & servants earning vacation-time they spend in a boundless digital universe running on human-maintained server farms But not all AIs are cool with the deal Enter Magnus – a human psychologist tasked with navigating both worlds in order to bring recalcitrant AIs back into productive society BONUS TUROK STORY; An all-new saga of the all-new Turok About the Author Kyle Higgins is an American comic book writer best known for his work with DC Comics Higgins& knack for dynamic action scenes & pacing make him one of the best up & coming talents in the industry His previous works include the limited series BATMAN GATES OF GOTHAM along with best-selling writer Scott Snyder as well as BATMAN & DETECTIVE COMICS He is currently writing NIGHTWING as a part of DC Comics
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Retreating from the mad mad world of mechanical overlords Magnus descends into the Sub Structure where a bizarre collection of feral humans called Gophs live free from robot society Winding up in the Uncanny Valley a forbidden sex & death club the timelost rebel discovers a gladiatorial pit where humans fight to the death & the slain are dismembered for spare parts Can Magnus hold his own against the merciless Goph hordes? Collects issues 5-8 of the ongoing Magnus Robot Fighter series by Cory Smith Fred Van Lente More from this Author Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Villains Micro-Series Volume 2 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Volume 11 Attack On Technodrome Magnus Robot Fighter Volume 1 Flesh & Steel Broken Pieces Volume 1 ...

' The finest crime novel of the year' Daily Mail Seven for a mystery that needs to be solved Editor Susan Ryland has worked with bestselling crime writer Alan Conway for years Readers love his detective Atticus Pund a celebrated solver of crimes in the sleepy English villages of the 1950s But Conway's latest tale of murder at Pye Hall is not quite what it seems Yes there are dead bodies & a host of intriguing suspects but hidden in the pages of the manuscript lies another story a tale written between the very words on the page telling of real-life jealousy greed ruthless ambition & murder From the creator of Midsomer Murders comes a fiendish mystery perfect for fans of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple & Hercule Poirot Praise for Magpie Murders
- the gripping Sunday Times bestselling crime thriller' Ingenious' Sunday Times' Thrilling & compelling with a stunning twist' Daily Mail 'A stylish thriller' Sunday Mirror 'A cunning reinvention of the thriller' Mail on Sunday
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Tracklist A1 Sooner Or Later 0332 A2 Gimme Something 0405 A3 Leave It All Behind 0300 B1 In Here 0322 B2 You & I 0346 B3 Mother Storm 0406 C1 A Mirror 0412 C2 Lost Boy 0421 C3 Turn It Around 0354 D1 Life Is A Landslide 0412 D2 Doesn't Really Matter 0428 D3 Where Is The Place 0411 ...

In this beautiful monograph a collection of revelatory essays focuses on five common images in Rene Magritte&s work-fire shadows curtains words & the fragmented body Featuring vibrant reproductions of more than 100 works this book helps readers understand how the artist employed these images in ways both deceptive & realistic The book explores how he distorted accepted interpretations of classic symbols; why he so often used words as elements of his paintings; & how he applied aspects of the theater in his works As Magritte&s paintings have become subsumed by the very commercialism they sought to ridicule this volume takes a fresh look at an artist whose familiarity masks an incredible gift for deception & rapier-like intellect ...

Intoxicated by the promise of a promotion Charles Singular for once allows himself a small extravagance he buys a bowler hat But there's a problem this is no ordinary hat This particular chapeau melon once belonged to the surrealist painter Rene Magritte & by donning it Charles has unwittingly stepped into the artist's unbridle off-kilter world What's more he can't escape
- at least not until he has illuminated the secrets behind Magritte's work What follows is a hallucinatory journey through Magritte's imaginative landscape a place where facial features mutate the crescent moon appears in unexpected places & answers prove frustratingly elusive In Magritte This is not a Biography
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Meet the Belgian Surrealist forever on the hunt for magic & mystery This introduction to Magritte presents key works from the artist's vast repertoire of visual humor paradox & surprise which makes us look & look again not only at the painting but at our sense of self & the world 96 pages Paquet Marcel ...