A grand alternate history science fiction adventure from multiple New York Times best-selling author Eric Flint creator of the Ring of Fire alternate history series the Jao Empire series & the Boundary series & multiple Hugo award winner & science fiction legend Mike Resnick Russ Tabor is one of the top security specialists in the galaxy Much against his will he finds himself assigned to provide protection for Rupert Medawar Narayan Shenoy—“ Lord Shenoy” as he likes to style himself—who is probably the human race’s most brilliant savant Shenoy has become convinced that the race of ancient aliens known as the Old Ones possessed powers unknown to any modern intelligent species He believes they had harnessed forces which may well have been actual magic giving the Old Ones the stature of gods Off Russ & Shenoy go to find the secret Meanwhile Occo a member of the alien race known as the Nac Zhe Anglan returns to her religious creed’s home cloister to find that it has been completely destroyed—and by means which suggest that the Old Ones were the perpetrators Yet the Old Ones those ancient & inimical gods of the galaxy were thought to have perished eons before Occo is not a savant of any kind She is a shaman castigant a warrior of her creed Her purpose now is to seek revenge not to uncover the secrets of the Old Ones But she cannot do the one without first doing the other So she & her familiar Bresk set ought to track down those long-gone deities Now human adventures & an alien shaman are on a collision course with the truth despite their many differences only if they unite their forces do they stand any chance of surviving the coming encounter with the gods of Sagittarius About the Author Eric Flint is a modern master of alternate history fiction with three million books in print He’s the authorcreator of the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series starting with first novel 1632 With David Drake he has written six popular novels in the “ Belisarius” alternate Roman history series & with David Weber collaborated on 1633 & 1634 The Baltic War & latest Honorverse series entry Cauldron of Ghosts Flint&s latest Ring of Fire novel is 1636 The Ottoman Onslaught Flint was for many years a labor union activist He lives near Chicago Illinois Mike Resnick is the all-time leading finalist of science fiction’s Hugo awards He’s won five times & received a record 37 nominations He is also the winner of the Nebula award & other major awards in the USA France Japan Spain Catalonia Croatia & Poland Resnick is the author of 75 novels over 275 stories & 3 screenplays & the editor of 42 anthologies His work has been translated into 27 languages He is currently the editor of Stellar Guild books & Galaxy’s Edge magazine ...

A grand alternate history science fiction adventure from multiple New York Times best-selling author Eric Flint creator of the Ring of Fire alternate history series the Jao Empire series & the Boundary series & multiple Hugo award winner & science fiction legend Mike Resnick Russ Tabor is one of the top security specialists in the galaxy Much against his will he finds himself assigned to provide protection for Rupert Medawar Narayan Shenoy—“ Lord Shenoy” as he likes to style himself—who is probably the human race’s most brilliant savant Shenoy has become convinced that the race of ancient aliens known as the Old Ones possessed powers unknown to any modern intelligent species He believes they had harnessed forces which may well have been actual magic giving the Old Ones the stature of gods Off Russ & Shenoy go to find the secret Meanwhile Occo a member of the alien race known as the Nac Zhe Anglan returns to her religious creed’s home cloister to find that it has been completely destroyed—and by means which suggest that the Old Ones were the perpetrators Yet the Old Ones those ancient & inimical gods of the galaxy were thought to have perished eons before Occo is not a savant of any kind She is a shaman castigant a warrior of her creed Her purpose now is to seek revenge not to uncover the secrets of the Old Ones But she cannot do the one without first doing the other So she & her familiar Bresk set ought to track down those long-gone deities Now human adventures & an alien shaman are on a collision course with the truth despite their many differences only if they unite their forces do they stand any chance of surviving the coming encounter with the gods of Sagittarius Meet the Author Eric Flint is a modern master of alternate history fiction with over three million books in print He’s the authorcreator of the New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series With David Drake he has written six popular novels in the “ Belisarius” alternate Roman history series & with David Weber collaborated on 1633 & 1634 The Baltic War Flint was a labor union activist for many years He lives in Chicago IL Mike Resnick is the all-time leading finalist of science fiction’s Hugo awards He’s won five times & received a record 37 nominations He is also the winner of the Nebula award & other major awards in the USA France Japan Spain Catalonia Croatia & Poland Resnick is the author of 75 novels over 275 stories & 3 screenplays & the editor of 42 anthologies His work has been translated into 27 languages He is currently the editor of Stellar Guild books & Galaxy’s Edge magazine ...

The ultimate Rome story Fresh from triumph in Britain & Gaul Caesar is marching on Rome with his legions of hardened veterans To unseat Pompey now dictator of the empire he must make the terrible decision to wage war on his own people The glory that Julius Brutus Mark Antony & Octavian enjoy is short lived There are lands to conquer & choices to make that may yet tear them apart What cost will Caesar suffer for the path he has walked? Who will make him pay? The final instalment in the bestselling Emperor series ...

In the year 2100 the invention of the Electron Pump
- an apparently inexhaustible supply of free energy
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It is April 1793 & the final power struggle of the French Revolution is taking hold the aristocrats are dead & the poor are fighting for bread in the streets In a Paris swept by fear & hunger lives Gamelin a revolutionary young artist appointed magistrate & given the power of life & death over the citizens of France But his intense idealism & unbridled single-mindedness drive him inexorably towards catastrophe Published in 1912 The Gods Will Have Blood is a breathtaking story of the dangers of fanaticism while its depiction of the violence & devastation of the Reign of Terror is strangely prophetic of the sweeping political changes in Russia & across Europe ...

'A great read & a fascinating insight into performance' Sir Clive Woodward We all want to discover our hidden talents & make an impact with them But how? Rasmus Ankersen an ex-footballer & performance specialist quit his job & for six intense months lived with the world's best athletes in an attempt to answer this question Why have the best middle distance runners grown up in the same Ethiopian village? Why are the leading female golfers from South Korea? How did one athletic club in Kingston Jamaica succeed in producing so many world-class sprinters? Ankersen presents his surprising conclusions in seven lessons on how anyone
- or any business organisation or team
- can defy the many misconceptions of high performance & learn to build their own gold mine of real talent

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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 Leave it up to the Tramp to turn hard times into hilarity as he savours a Thanksgiving feast of boiled shoe slip slides inside a house teetering on a cliff choreographs a whimsical dance of dinner rolls & faces all manner of perils with pluck & fortitude ...

Winner of the 2016 EDGAR AGATHA MACAVITY & HRFKEATING crime writing awards this real-life detective story investigates how Agatha Christie & colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction Detective stories of the Twenties & Thirties have long been stereotyped as cosily conventional Nothing could be further from the truth The Golden Age of Murder tells for the first time the extraordinary story of British detective fiction between the two World Wars A gripping real-life detective story it investigates how Dorothy L Sayers Anthony Berkeley Agatha Christie & their colleagues in the mysterious Detection Club transformed crime fiction Their work cast new light on unsolved murders whilst hiding clues to their authors' darkest secrets & their complex & sometimes bizarre private lives Crime novelist & current Detection Club President Martin Edwards rewrites the history of crime fiction with unique authority transforming our understanding of detective stories & the brilliant but tormented men & women who wrote them ...

Parts of the previous e Book edition of The Golden Cage have been removed from this edition & will be re-released in the fourth book in The Ballad of Benfro series The Broken World There's a new fantasy phenomenon for 2014
- The Golden Cage is the third enchanting tale in J D Oswald's epic fantasy series The Ballad of Sir Benfro Queen Beulah is determined to have her war despatching Inquisitor Melyn north through the ancient forest to cross unseen into the land of her enemies Battling the ever growing influence of Magog Benfro struggles to resist the treacherous orders of the long dead Dragon Mage a task made yet more difficult by the arrival of Errol in his forest refuge His body broken Errol is tormented by dreams of his beloved Martha imprisoned in a Golden Cage He has escaped from King Ballah's torture chamber but remains powerless to help her Yet fate has united these two Errol holds the key to halting Magog's influence & Benfro has the skill to heal broken bones Working together they might survive Apart they will surely perish & all Gwlad with them The Ballad of Sir Benfro is an utterly compelling & beautifully written new fantasy series from JD Oswald Fans of the Inheritance Series & readers hooked to the world of George R R Martin's Game of Thrones series will love the magic of the Twin Kingdoms The Golden Cage is the third book in the series following Dreamwalker & The Rose Cord which are also published as Penguin e Books Please note that parts of the previous e Book edition of The Golden Cage have been removed from this edition & will be re-released in the fourth book in The Ballad of Benfro series The Broken World J D Oswald is the author of the epic fantasy series The Ballad of Sir Benfro Currently Dreamwalker The Rose Cord & The Golden Cage are all available as Penguin ebooks He is also the author of the Detective Inspector Mc Lean series of crime novels under the name James Oswald In his spare time James runs a 350-acre livestock farm in North East Fife where he raises pedigree Highland Cattle & New Zealand Romney Sheep httpjamesoswaldcouk
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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 Big-budget children&s fantasy adventure adapted from the first instalment of Philip Pullman&s & His Dark Materials& trilogy Lyra (Dakota Blue Richards) a twelve year-old girl living in an Oxford somewhat dissimilar to the one we&re used to goes off in search of a friend who has been kidnapped by &the Gobblers& In this alternate world where a person&s soul appears outside the body in the form of an animal called a &daemon& & witches & talking bears co-exist a shadowy organisation called the & Magisterium& controls the population keeping them in check As she embarks on her quest to find her friend Lyra is soon involved in an epic battle against the forces of darkness in a desperate attempt to save her world Actors Nicole Kidman Daniel Craig Dakota Blue Richards Ben Walker Sam Elliott Directors Chris Weitz Writers Chris Weitz Producers Bill Carraro Deborah Forte Language English Number of discs 2 ...