Winner of the Ringo Award for Best Webcomic 2017 this book collects the first volume of The Red Hook the tale of a super-thief who is bequeathed the Omni-fist of Altruism & transformed into a hero against his will a year after a sentient Brooklyn’s heart is broken & physically secedes from America ...

TRY A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYFar from the gentle slopes of the Hundred Acre Wood lies The Red House the setting for AA Milne's only detective story where secret passages uninvited guests a sinister valet & a puzzling murder lay the foundations for a classic crime caper & when the local police prove baffled it is up to a guest at a local inn to appoint himself ' Sherlock Holmes' & together with his friend & loyal ' Watson' delve deeper into the mysteries of the dead man The Red House Mystery is a lost gem from a time before Tigger & a perfectly crafted whodunit with witty dialogue deft plotting & a most curious cast of characters ...

Jill & Dad have gone to the park to fly their kites The kites fly high in the sky until suddenly they begin to fall down Read to find out what happens when the kites come down 16 pages Dale Jay ...

Forget George & the Dragon Forget Sir Lancelot & tales of Knightly exploits This is dirty bloody work This is violent visceral action This is a mercenary knight as you've never seen one before Twenty eight florins a month is a huge price to pay for a man to stand between you & the Wild Twenty eight florins a month is nowhere near enough when a wyvern's jaws snap shut on your helmet in the hot stink of battle & the beast starts to rip the head from your shoulders But if standing & fighting is hard leading a company of men
- or worse a company of mercenaries
- against the smart deadly creatures of the Wild is even harder It takes all the advantages of birth training & the luck of the devil to do it The Red Knight has all three he has youth on his side & he's determined to turn a profit So when he hires his company out to protect an Abbess & her nunnery it's just another job The abbey is rich the nuns are pretty & the monster preying on them is nothing he can't deal with Only it's not just a job It's going to be a war

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Tracklist The Tone Of Your Voice; Be Firm Don't Shout No! No! No! Trust Yourself Parents Get Cross Strong Romance Little Doubts At Best There's A Lot Of Hard Work & Deprivation Why We Need Idealistic Children Make Believe in Moderation A Fork in the Road The Age of Three ...

Racketeers gangsters the occasional power-mad supervillain
- all have fallen before the iron resolve of the city's masked protectors
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Selected as a Book of the Year 2017 in the Guardian' Maggie Nelson's short singular books feel pretty light in the hand But in the head & the heart they seem unfathomably vast their cleverness & odd beauty lingering on' Observer In 1969 Jane Mixer a first-year law student at the University of Michigan posted a note on a student noticeboard to share a lift back to her hometown of Muskegon for spring break She never made it she was brutally murdered her body found a few miles from campus the following day The Red Parts is Maggie Nelson's singular account of her aunt Jane's death & the trial that took place some 35 years afterward Officially unsolved for decades the case was reopened in 2004 after a DNA match identified a new suspect who would soon be arrested & tried In 2005 Nelson found herself attending the trial & reflecting with fresh urgency on our relentless obsession with violence particularly against women Resurrecting her interior world during the trial
- in all its horror grief obsession recklessness scepticism & downright confusion
- Maggie Nelson has produced a work of profound integrity & in its subtle indeterminacy deadly moral precision

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Masterful linked short stories by Nobel prizewinner John Steinbeck author of The Grapes of Wrath The Red Pony is one of The Originals from Penguin
- iconic outspoken first Young Jody Tiflin lives on his father's California ranch He is thrilled when his father gives him a red pony & later promises him the colt of a bay mare Both these gifts bring joy to Jodi's life
- but tragedy soon follows As Jodi begins to learn the harsh lessons of life & death he starts to understand what growing-up & becoming an adult really means The Originals are the pioneers of fiction for young adults From political awakening war & unrequited love to addiction teenage pregnancy & nuclear holocaust The Originals confront big issues & articulate difficult truths The collection

Includes:: The Outsiders
- SE Hinton I Capture the Castle
- Dodie Smith Postcards from No Man's Land
- Aidan Chambers After the First Death
- Robert Cormier Dear Nobody
- Berlie Doherty The Endless Steppe
- Esther Hautzig Buddy
- Nigel Hinton Across the Barricades
- Joan Lingard The Twelfth Day of July
- Joan Lingard No Turning Back
- Beverley Naidoo Z for Zachariah
- Richard C O' Brien The Wave
- Morton Rhue The Red Pony
- John Steinbeck The Pearl
- John Steinbeck Stone Cold
- Robert Swindells


















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'A little masterpiece' New York Times Jody Tiflin is a ten-year-old boy living on his father's ranch One day his father brings home a small pony He's Jody's if the boy will learn to feed clean stable & care for him But Jody learns through the colt & through his other adventures on the ranch that with responsibility can come sacrifice & pain Joy may swiftly turn to tragedy & he also discover that the simplicities of childhood must eventually turn into the complications of adulthood The Red Pony is Steinbeck's brilliant & sometimes brutal celebration of adolescence with a stunning new cover by renowned artist Bijou Karman ...

A biography of Wilhelm von Habsburg that intends to reconstruct the life of this extraordinary man
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