Having been transported to the world of Disboard where everything is decided by games Sora & Shiro (who together form the unstoppable gamer team " ") are still winning They&ve racked up an unbroken string of victories against opponents armed with all manner of magic & treachery As the pair enjoy a well-deserved vacation in the Eastern Union they&re approached by a Dhampir named Plum Sora & Shiro prepare for battle but this game is one of the very few they haven&t beaten & mastered—the game of love! About the Author Yuu Kamiya is the author & illustrator behind the light novel series No Game No Life & its manga adaptation ...

History repeats itselfor does it?! With the end of Sora & Shiro&s dice game against the Old Deus fast approaching they&re faced with completing Jibril&s final task-a strategic simulation game set during the ancient Great War before the world of Disboard changed As leaders of the weakest race Immanity the gamer siblings have one objective Ensure that in this version of the War no one dies But when their Old Deus opponent demands a sacrifice Sora & Shiro will have to come up with some unconventional tactics to secure victory! About the Author Yuu Kamiya is the author & illustrator behind the light novel series No Game No Life & its manga adaptation ...

The story of No Game No Life centers around Sora & Shiro a brother & sister who are brilliant (but unemployed) gamers whose Internet fame have spawned urban legends all over the Internet One day they are summoned by a boy named " God" to an alternate world There God has prohibited war & declared this to be a world where "everything is decided by games"
- even national borders Humanity has been driven back into one remaining city by the other races Will Sora & Shiro the good-for-nothing brother & sister become the " Saviors of Humanity" on this alternate world?
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Ten years on from 911 much of the Muslim faith remains largely unknown & misunderstood in the West While there have been a number of successful books on the topic of Islamic history
- from Karen Armstrong's Islam A Brief History to Bernard Lewis's The Crises of Islam
- there is surprisingly no book for a popular audience about Islam as a religion let alone one by an author from an Islamic background No God But God fills that gap addressing issues of belief the difference between the Quran & the Bible the meaning of the Hajj the Muslim relationship with Jesus the Muslim attitude towards Jews equality between the sexes & more This revised & updated edition

Includes:: a wealth of new material & new chapters covering recent uprisings in Tunisia Egypt & Libya; the changing face of Islam in Europe & North Africa; & a number of topics of heated debate (the veil controversy; Islam & women; Iraq War as a Jihadi recruiting agent etc)



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Jon & Lobo return for book 5 in the series A nanotech-enhanced soldier-of-fortune joins with his AI-equipped spaceship on a mission to acquire forbidden tech Jon & Lobo are back–and enemies on all sides are out to get them Haunted by memories of children he could not save Jon Moore becomes so increasingly self-destructive that even his best friend the hyper-intelligent Predator-Class Assault Vehicle Lobo is worried So when Jon receives both a job offer & a message from a woman from his distant past he & Lobo leap at the welcome diversions That the job is illegal is the least of their problems They’re happy to retrieve stolen artifacts from Jon’s quarantined home world & their fee is high even for a job so highly illegal The forces protecting their targets are formidable & the assault team that’s chasing them is even more dangerous–but Jon & Lobo are used to that The scientist Jon & Lobo need for the mission has an agenda of her own but they’ve faced that problem before This time though the knowledge that they & the others seek spells doom for Jon Racing from planet to planet Jon & Lobo come at last to a world so inhospitable that its statues & monuments outnumber its living inhabitants Desperate & out of options they encounter their deadliest challenges yet & must make life-changing decisions from which there truly is No Going Back Meet the Author Mark L Van Name whom John Ringo has said is "going to be the guy to beat in the race to the top of SFdom" has worked in the high-tech industry for over 30 years & today runs a technology assessment company in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina A former Executive Vice President for Ziff Davis Media & a national technology columnist he&s published over a thousand computer-related articles & multiple science fiction stories in a variety of magazines & anthologies including the Year&s Best Science Fiction A portion of Van Name&s profits from the Jon & Lobo saga are dedicated to Falling Whistles a fund for the rehabilitation of child soldiers ...

What do you do when the homeless man on the street you've just given money to thanks you by name & turns out to be one of your closest' friends one you haven't seen for over twenty years? Take him for a hot meal & see him on his way? Give him a lot more money than you usually would? Or take him in & try to get him back on his feet? For Alan there's no question
- only natural that he'd want to see his old mate Craig off the streets even if only for a few nights & into some clean clothes But what if the successful life you've made for yourself
- good job happy marriage lovely kids grand Victorian house (you did well out of the property boom thank you very much)
- is one that that your old pal would quite like to have too? Even if it means taking it from you? Gradually inevitably mayhem ensues as Craig turns Alan's orderly household upside down threatening to wreck Alan's life for good Following the divergent lives of two childhood friends No Good Deed is a funny & painful examination of friendship; of the strange currents of ambition loathing pity & affection that flow between people over the decades; & of men getting older as they fail & succeed


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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A former DA & her two small children are terrorised & kidnapped after she invites a handsome but mysterious stranger into their home DVD Bonus Feature “ Making a Thriller” Featurette
- Producers Glenn S Gainor & Will Packer as well as Director Sam Miller Idris Elba & Taraji P Henson discuss the process of making a thriller developing relatable characters & incorporating exciting action while telling a real & raw story
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In 1779 driven out of his home Calum Mac Donald sets sail from the Scottish Highlands with his extensive family After a long terrible journey he settles his family in 'the land of trees' & eventually they become a separate Nova Scotian clan red-haired & black-eyed with its own identity its own history It is the 1980s by the time our narrator Alexander Mac Donald tells the story of his family a thrilling & passionate story that intersects with history with Culloden where the clans died & with the 1759 battle at Quebec that was won when General Wolfe sent in the fierce Highlanders because it was 'no great mischief if they fall' ...

<p> The story of a school shooting & its awful aftermath; a psychologically convincing study of grief loss & guilt & their effects on young lives<p> 280 pages Anna Seidl ...

Theodore Honey is a shy inconspicuous aircraft engineer whose eccentric interests in quantum mechanics & spiritualism are frowned upon in aviation circles But when a passenger plane crashes in unexplained circumstances Honey must convince his superiors that his unorthodox theories are correct before more lives are lost ...