The hunt for the seven shards of the Shattered Star continues with the heroes following the trail across the face of Varisia & into the notorious City of Strangers
- Kaer Maga! There the heroes encounter strange enemies & stranger allies as their quest for the ancient Thassilonian artifact embroils them in the politics of Varisia&s most exotic city What secrets lie hidden in the dark & deadly realms deep under Kaer Maga where things best shunned from day&s light & sane minds lie in wait? Will the heroes survive their descent below or will the Dark Rider claim their heads for his ever-growing collection? Continuing the Shattered Star Adventure Path The Asylum Stone is a Pathfinder Roleplaying Game adventure for 7th-level characters The Asylum Stone

Includes:: several short bonus city-based encounters & side-quests & a look at the strange factions of Kaer Maga New monsters fill the Pathfinder Bestiary while Bill Ward (Return of the Sword) continues a new novella in the Pathfinder&s Journal


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' This is as much a mystery as the Immaculate Conception which of itself must make a doctor an unbeliever'A stunning pair of ...

70000 years ago the human race almost went extinct We survived but no one knows how Now the next stage of human evolution is beginning Will we survive this time? Geneticist Kate Warner & counter-terrorism agent David Vale have prevented a fierce plague from wiping out humanity
- but the struggle to survive is far from over The Atlantis World stretches deep into space & time harbouring an enemy greater than anyone had imagined Now Kate & David must race through galaxies past space stations & into the past of a mysterious culture whose secrets could save humanity in its darkest hour This is the blockbusting final instalment in the Origin Mysteries
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Photographs & stories of 500 women from around the world based on the author's hugely popular website Since 2013 Mihaela Noroc has travelled the world with her backpack & camera taking photos of everyday women to showcase the diversity & beauty all around us The Atlas of Beauty is a collection of her photographs that celebrates women from fifty countries across the globe & shows that beauty is everywhere regardless of money race or social status & comes in many different sizes & colours Mihaela's portraits feature women in their native environments from the Amazon rain forest to markets in India London city streets & parks in Harlem creating a mirror of our varied cultures & proving that beauty has no rules' Stunning aims to challenge the ideals of beauty dictated by the women's fashion magazine industry' Independent'A startling & revealing project' Daily Mail' Scrolling through The Atlas of Beauty beauty becomes not a universal standard but a complicated tapestry' Huffington Post ...

One day a collection of very old maps in found in a dusty library They show where in the world monsters from mythology & folklore can be found According to the notes left with them they were made by Cornelius Walters an intrepid explorer from the 15th century But did Walters really make these elaborate maps or is it all a hoax? The librarian who discovered them is not certain & what are the strange messages in a cryptic code that Walters records in his ship's log? Inside this wonderous atlas are trolls & dragons minotaurs & krackens goblins & giants & there is a puzzle to solve Stuart Hill's spectacular illustrations evoke the beauty of a medieval map but with a contemporary twist ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Collection of seven films from Canadian writerdirector Atom Egoyan

Includes:: EXOTICA THE ADJUSTER FAMILY VIEWING THE SWEET HEREAFTER CALENDAR NEXT OF KIN & SPEAKING PARTS Actors Bruce Greenwood Mia Kirshner Elias Koteas Sarah Polley Ian Holm Directors Atom Egoyan Format Import Blu-ray Language English Subtitles English Region Region B2 (Read more about DVDBlu-ray formats) Number of discs 7

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When the Americans make an offer to buy land in Iceland to build a NATO airbase after the Second World War a storm of protest is provoked throughout the country Narrated by a country girl from the north the novel follows her experiences after she takes up employment as a maid in the house of her Member of Parliament Her observations & experiences expose the bourgeois society of the south as rootless & shallow & in stark contrast to the age-old culture of the solid & less fanciful north ...

NEVER VOLUNTEER FOR ACTIVE DUTY Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency While his colleagues are out saving the world Bob's under a desk restoring lost data His world was dull & safe
- but then he went & got Noticed Now Bob is up to his neck in spycraft parallel universes dimension-hopping terrorists monstrous elder gods & the end of the world Only one thing is certain it will take more than a full system reboot to sort this mess out This is the first novel in the Laundry Files
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A prophetic & experimental masterpiece by J G Ballard the acclaimed author of Crash' & Super-Cannes' This edition

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The Attack opens with Amin Jaafari an Israeli surgeon of Palestinian after the deadly attack an Israeli police officer informs Jaafari that the suicide bomber was his wife Sihem Believing her to be on an overnight trip he completely refuses to accept the accusation They were leading an ideal life in Tel Aviv moving among both Arab & Israeli society with ease or so Jaafari thought But then he receives a posthumous message from Sihem confirming the worst Desperate to understand how he missed even the slightest clue Jaafari leaves the relative security of Israel & enters the Palestinian territories to find the fanatics who recruited her In search of the truth he confronts a reality that he had refused to see This book was first published as the French novel L' Attentat by Yasmina Khadra in 2005 One year later L' Attentat was translated into English as The Attack & it garnered international praise 'A fierce rendering of geopolitical tensions & a plea for peace' (The New York Times); ' Audaciously conceived courageously important & urgently humane' (The Los Angeles Times) It was translated into more than 20 languages & sold over 600000 copies Then in 2012 the original French book went into graphic form with the release in 2012 of L' Attentat by Loic Dauvillier & Glen Chapron This has now been translated into English by Ivanka Hahnenberger
- the book featured here The Attack is a poignant tragedy that mixes the intimacy of grief & betrayal with the futility of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict It makes no judgment & takes no side Chapron's masterful illustrations & astute text are wrought with the despair & hope of Jaafari's search The raw humanity of the story raises more questions than can be answered Timely & affecting The Attack is an essential purchase
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