Each turn in the children&s game Maskenball der Käfer each player spins the spinner on the board If the spinner points to one of the eight ladybugs the player may move that ladybug to visit the others Each ladybug piece has a magnet in its nose & if the visiting ladybug "likes" the ladybug (ie is attracted to it) they may swap spots (each ladybug has five spots of one color) & she continues on to visit other ladybugs; if the ladybugs do not like each other the turn is over Once a ladybug has five spots of different colors she is ready for the ball & taken out of play The players win if all of the ladybugs are ready If the spinner points to one of the smaller leaves then the player doesn&t get to move any ladybugs but instead must advance the ants along the side of the board If all seven of the ants are on board (and each takes two moves to get on-board) the players lose AWARDS & HONORS 2002 Spiel des Jahres Kinderspiel Winner 2002 Spiel des Jahres Kinderspiel Nominee 2002 Japan Boardgame Prize Best Childgame Nominee Ages 4 Playing time 20-30 minutes Players 2-6 ...

THE LADYKILLER is the first book in the DI Kate Burrows series the only time Sunday Times bestseller Martina Cole has written from the perspective of the Old Bill The 'undisputed queen of crime writing' (Guardian) Martina's unique powerful storytelling will appeal to fans of Karin Slaughter & Patricia Cornwell A killer is on the loose It's up to DI Kate Burrows to stop him But Kate has a problem The Grantley Ripper has attacked the daughter of one of London's most infamous gangsters Patrick Kelly & now Kate's investigation along with her heart are dangerously entwined with him As the worlds of crime & law collide will Kate take down the Ladykiller or will he be her undoing? ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Classic Ealing comedy in which a group of bank robbers struggle to silence the eccentric old lady who discovers their crime Mrs Wilberforce (Katie Johnson) lives alone in King&s Cross with her parrots She has been led to believe that the group of men renting rooms from her Professor Marcus (Alec Guinness) the Major (Cecil Parker) Louis (Herbert Lom) Harry (Peter Sellers) & One-Round (Danny Green) are classical musicians However when one of the group&s cases gets caught in the door & opens to reveal not a musical instrument but a plethora of banknotes the virtuous Mrs Wilberforce vows to go to the police with the identities of the men The criminals agree that the old lady has to be killed to silence her but will this be as straightforward as it sounds? ...

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In the Eastern Aegean lies an island of forested hills & olive groves with streams marshes & a lagoon that nearly cuts the land in two It was here over two thousand years ago that Aristotle came to work Aristotle was the greatest philosopher of all time Author of the Poetics Politics & Metaphysics his work looms over the history of Western thought But he was also a biologist
- the first Aristotle explored the mysteries of the natural world With the help of fishermen hunters & farmers he catalogued the animals in his world dissected them observed their behaviours & recorded how they lived fed & bred In his great zoological treatise Historia animalium he described the mating habits of herons the sexual incontinence of girls the stomachs of snails the sensitivity of sponges the flippers of seals the sounds of cicadas the destructiveness of starfish the dumbness of the deaf the flatulence of elephants & the structure of the human heart & then in another dozen books he explained it all In The Lagoon acclaimed biologist Armand Marie Leroi recovers Aristotle's science He goes to Lesbos to see the creatures that Aristotle saw where he saw them & explores the Philosopher's deep ideas & inspired guesses
- as well as the things that he got wildly wrong Leroi shows how Aristotle's science is deeply intertwined with his philosophical system & how modern science even now bears the imprint of its inventor

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More terrifying than The Passage more gripping than The Hunger Games The Lair by Emily Mc Kay is the hotly anticipated sequel to The Farm In the battle against evil humanity is heading for extinction Twin sisters Lily & Mel have bravely escaped the Farm
- a place where young people are bred to die Now separated they must continue the fight on their own After making it to a resistance base camp Lily decides to make the difficult trek north to Canada
- & safety Meanwhile Mel is being taught how to survive by the vampire who turned her But when a monstrous betrayal places Lily in mortal danger Mel must set out to find her & save her sister But in the fight against the ultimate evil can both hope to survive? Praise for The Farm' Equal parts Resident Evil & Hunger Games
- & just as thrilling' Chloe Neill Emily Mc Kay is the author of The Farm which is also published by Penguin She loves to read shop & geek out about movies When she's not writing she reads online gossip & bakes luscious desserts She pretends that her weekly yoga practice balances out both of those things She lives in central Texas with her family & her crazy pets


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With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies The worst parts were the great masses of flesh of the monstrous Worm in all its red & sickening aspect The sight was horrible enough but with the awful smell added was simply unbearable The Worm's hole appeared to breathe forth death in its most repulsive forms' Here are two great neglected horror novels by Bram Stoker author of Dracula together in one volume for the first time It is a double treat for lovers of blood-curdling fantasy fiction The Lady of the Shroud published here in its full & unabridged form is a fascinating & engrossing concoction of a vampire tale Ruritanian adventure story & science fiction romance The novel fully demonstrates the breadth & ingenuity of Stoker's imagination The spine-chilling The Lair of the White Worm features a monstrous worm secreted for thousands of years in a bottomless well & able to metamorphose into a seductive woman of a reptilian beauty who survives on her victim's life blood The novel contains some of Stoker's most graphic & grisly moments of horror ...

Marie de France (fl late twelfth century) is the earliest known French woman poet & her lais
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Everything comes with a price The chilling next instalment in the Konrad Simonsen series perfect for fans of Johan Theorin & Yrsa Sigurdardottir The skeleton of a young woman is discovered tied to a stone in a lake deep in the Danish countryside The woman's identity is a mystery; no one matching her description has been reported missing After months of fruitless investigation by the local police force a media scandal brings the case to nationwide attention & is quickly handed over to Konrad Simonsen & his team from the Copenhagen Police force It soon becomes clear that this unknown woman is the key to a sinister world of human trafficking prostitution & violence A world where everything comes with a price & no mistake goes unpunished ...

' Luke flung the light of his torch full onto the face of the immobile figure Then he had the shock of his life The man had no face! Where his face should have been was a sort of inhuman uniform blank!' When a body is found at an isolated garage Inspector Meredith is drawn into a complex investigation where every clue leads to another puzzle was this a suicide or something more sinister? Why was the dead man planning to flee the country? & how is this connected to the shady business dealings of the garage? This classic mystery novel is set amidst the stunning scenery of a small village in the Lake District It is now republished for the first time since the 1930s ...