A nation on the run A homeland ravaged & barren To stay would mean certain death Going back is only considered by the foolish & those who have vowed to die on their native soil Under these circumstances the people must be considered blessed to have such an amazingly beautiful abundantly rich so warmly welcoming destination ahead – Ambria the promised land of Queen Korinthia You are but one of many who have travelled across the snow-clad passes of the Titans You have set foot in your new homeland but there is still much to learn The journey continues to Thistle Hold the town of explorers & treasure hunters bordering the great forest of Davokar From there it continues out into the forest brooding on ruins & powerful artifacts from the golden days of Symbaroum It will be a journey that will make you see the world & yourself with new eyes provided that you reach the end of the road with eyes to see & with life left to live The Copper Crown features two independent sequels to the tutorial adventure included in the Core Rulebook & is meant to provide players & Game Masters with more advanced guidelines regarding the rules & game world of Symbaroum The first adventure The Mark of the Beast deals with different kinds of problem-solving & introduces the players to the town of Thistle Hold & in the second adventure Tomb of Dying Dreams the Game Master gets an example on how to design a so called adventure landscape while the players finally get to venture out in the vast Davokar Forest All in all it will undoubtedly be a journey to remember! Aside from the adventures the Chronicle of the Copper Crown
Includes: 7 mystical artifacts A handful of color maps to explore A dozen handouts of letters notes & map sketches More than 20 NPCs & creatures New rules in the form of rituals traits & elixirs
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The first in the exhilarating British Fantasy Award-nominated Copper Cat Trilogy Epic fantasy for fans of Robin Hobb & Jay Kristoff's Nevernight series 'A fast-paced & original new voice in heroic fantasy' Adrian Tchaikovsky author of Children of Time There are some tall stories about the caverns beneath the Citadel
- about magic & mages & monsters & gods Wydrin of Crosshaven has heard them all but she's spent long enough trawling caverns & taverns with her companion Sir Sebastian to learn that there's no money to be made in chasing rumours But then a crippled nobleman with a dead man's name offers them a job exploring the Citadel's darkest depths It sounds like just another quest with gold & adventure if they're lucky they might even have a tale of their own to tell once it's over These reckless adventurers will soon learn that sometimes there is truth in rumour Sometimes a story can save your life
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The Copyeditor's Handbook is a lively practical manual for newcomers to publishing & for experienced editors who want to fine-tune their skills or broaden their understanding of the craft This book may be used for self-instruction or as a textbook in copyediting classes The exercises are accompanied by answer keys & detailed line-by-line explanations The third edition features updates reflecting the 16th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style & the most current editions of other major style manuals; additional updates to register technology-driven changes in onscreen editing procedures & type coding; a revised chapter on resources for editors; & expanded bibliography & glossary ...

1 Dreaming Of You 2 In The Morning 3 Pass It On 4 Don&t Think You&re The First 5 Jacqueline 6 Secret Kiss 7 Goodbye 8 Shadows Fall 9 Liezah 10 Who&s Gonna Find Me 11 Bill Mc Cai 12 Put The Sun Back 13 Something Inside Of Me 14 Being Somebody Else ...

Pollsters called it a foregone conclusion Columnists said Theresa May's snap general election wouldn't just return her a thumping majority in the House of Commons
- it would plunge the Opposition into existential crisis For Labour MPs concerns about job security in an age of zero-hours contracts suddenly felt uncomfortably close to home & then something happened Momentum got to work Grime 4 Corbyn gathered steam Clicktivists became door-knocking flag-waving activists Jezza talked jam on the One Show & opened for the Libertines at Prenton Park All this while Theresa turned into the Maybot & the Conservatives released a manifesto that looked bad for people & even worse for animals Islington-dwelling socialist bike-riding pacifist green-fingered threat to the status quo this revolutionary anthology captures the qualities & quirks of the Daily Mail's worst nightmare In one incarnation he is Corbyn the Barbarian facing off against the Maydusa In another Corbynman leaves his 'mild mannered allotment of solitude' to take on the 'inter-dimensional invasion fleet of Daily Mail death drones blasting everything with their Tory food bank rays' with a rallying battle cry of 'jam on!' Just in time for the Labour party conference an unlikely superhero is preparing to take his place alongside the likes of Spider-Man & Wonder Woman Jeremy Corbyn The Guardian
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The trilogy that inspired ITV&s television series The Durrells Three classic tales of childhood on an island paradise
- My Family
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The accomplished Corinthian Sir Richard Wyndham is wealthy sophisticated handsome & supremely bored Tired of his aristocratic family constantly pressuring him to get married he determines to run away after meeting the delightful unconventional heroine Penelope Creed Penelope literally falls into his life late one night as she hangs from the window of her aunt!s house she too attempting to escape the pressures of forced marriage The two allies become embroiled in a series hilarious madcap adventures as they cross-dress run into escaped criminals have a case of mistaken identity & save people from their own dramatics Little do they predict their feelings for one another blossoming into romance ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play From the creators of The Wire comes the award winning & critically acclaimed six part mini-series The Corner Gritty raw honest & compelling the series explores the lives of residents in a drug blighted West Baltimore neighborhood in 1993 Based on real events & real people The Corner is challenging & intelligent drama at its best A must-buy for any fans of The Wire The critically acclaimed & award winning series is based on the non-fiction book & The Corner
- A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood& The Corner tells the true story of men women & children living amid the open-air drug markets of West Baltimore It chronicles a year in the lives of 15-year old De Andre Mc Cullough his mother Fran Boyd & his father Gary Mc Cullough as well as other addicts & low-level drug dealers caught up in the twin-engine economy of heroin & cocaine
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A masterful historical novel of monastic life set in the 14th century Many consider this Townsend Warner's most accomplished work 416 pages Warner Sylvia Townsend ...

Spring 1919 James Max' Maxted former Great War flying ace returns to the trail of murder treachery & half-buried secrets he set out on in The Ways of the World He left Paris after avenging the murder of his father Sir Henry Maxted a senior member of the British delegation to the post-war peace conference But he was convinced there was more
- much more
- to be discovered about what Sir Henry had been trying to accomplish & he suspected elusive German spymaster Fritz Lemmer knew the truth of it Now enlisted under false colours in Lemmer's service but with his loyalty pledged to the British Secret Service Max sets out on his first
- & possibly last
- mission for Lemmer It takes him to the far north of Scotland
- to the Orkney Isles where the German High Seas Fleet has been impounded in Scapa Flow its fate to be decided at the conference-table in Paris Max has been sent to recover a document held aboard one of the German ships What that document contains forces him to break cover sooner than he would have wished & to embark on a desperate race south towards London with information that could destroy Lemmer
- if Max as seems unlikely lives to deliver it





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