Adventure conspiracy & shapeshifting
- X-Men meets Alex Rider Dax Jones is an ordinary schoolboy until something extraordinary
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Ordinary kids extraordinary powers amazing adventures There's a lot of strange stuff going on for Dax Jones To start with there's the mysterious letter from his dad telling Dax to go to a secret location & find something from his dead mother Perhaps it's a clue about how he became a shapeshifter Then there's the weirdness at school The scientists are up to something but Dax is sworn to secrecy-he can't even tell his best mate So when his classmates are suddenly taken away 'for their own safety' Dax's fox senses tell him all is not as it seems If Dax continues with his quest to find out more about his mother he could be leaving his friends in danger Is he really willing to risk their lives in his search for the truth about his existence? With appeal for both boys & girls this exciting finale to the original Shapeshifter series is a fast-paced action adventure about contemporary children with super powers told with award-winning Ali Sparkes's humour & lightness of touch Perfect for fans of Alex Rider Robert Muchamore's CHERUB series & Young Bond ...

The fourth volume that contains the early myths & legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war The Silmarillion In this fourth volume of The History of Middle-earth the shaping of the chronological & geographical structure of the legends of Middle-earth & Valinor is spread before us We are introduced to the hitherto unknown Ambarkanta or Shape of the World the only account ever given of the nature of the imagined Universe ccompanied by maps & diagrams of the world before & after the cataclyusms of The War of the Gods & the Downfall of Numenor The first map of Beleriend is also reproduced & discussed In The Annals of Valinor & The Annals of Beleriend we are shown how the chronology of the First Age was moulded & the tale is told of Aelfwine the Englishman who voyaged into the True West & came to Tol Eressea Lonely Isle where he learned the ancient history of Elves & Men Also included are the original Silmarillion' of 1926 & the Quenta Noldorinwa of 1930
- the only version of the myths & legends of the First Age that J R R Tolkien completed to their end
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Designed by the internationally renowned architect Renzo Piano & developed by Irvine Sellar The Shard is one of the worlds most striking new skyscrapers & is now at 310m the tallest building in Western Europe Almost twice the height of any other viewing gallery in London the View on floors 68 69 & 72 offers visitors a 360-degree 40-mile view over one of the worlds most historic & exciting cities Organized spread by spread easy to navigate & as elegantly designed as the building itself the official guidebook sets The Shard in the context of Southwark before outlining the design principles & construction story of the building Also included are Q& As with both the architect & the developer & fascinating facts & stats relating to this extraordinary building Central to the books purpose as the official guidebook is a series of twelve double-page panoramic photographs of the view from The Shard all of them new to this edition An informative souvenir for visitors to The Shard the book will also be available in the trade making it available to all Londoners & visitors to the capital ...

From the islands of Hawaii the tale of Nanaue who tries to balance his Dad&s yearning with his Mom&s nurture ...

SHARPE&S PERIL It&s India 1818 & Lt Col Richard Sharpe & Sergeant Major Patrick Harper are travelling across India escorting the beautiful Marie-Angelique Bonnet to meet her fiancee While in bandit-plagued badlands they come across the very dregs of the Crown&s troops; an ill disciplined rag-tag unit led by boy soldier Beauclare As Sharpe & company sit down to have dinner with their hosts the camp comes under attack by the notorious bandit Chitu As the dust settles it becomes apparent there have been many casualties & Sharpe realises that he is the only person now capable of getting this wagon train to the safety of the next army garrison Little does Sharpe know that the adventure has only just begun & that he has inadvertently stumbled across a massive opium trafficking ring SHARPE&S CHALLENGE Wellington sends Sharpe to India following the news of unrest in the country Sharpe finds himself tasked with saving a general&s daughter & keeping a beautiful scheming woman at arms length ...

World War I battlefield nurse Bess Crawford goes to dangerous lengths to investigate a wounded soldier's background-and uncover his true loyalties-in this thrilling & atmospheric entry in the bestselling "vivid period mystery series" (New York Times Book Review) At the foot of a tree shattered by shelling & gunfire stretcher-bearers find an exhausted officer shivering with cold & a loss of blood from several wounds The soldier is brought to battlefield nurse Bess Crawford's aid station where she stabilizes him & treats his injuries before he is sent to a rear hospital The odd thing is the officer isn't British-he's French But in a moment of anger & stress he shouts at Bess in German When Bess reports the incident to Matron her superior offers a ready explanation The soldier is from Alsace-Lorraine a province in the west where the tenuous border between France & Germany has continually shifted through history most recently in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 won by the Germans But is the wounded man Alsatian? & if he is on which side of the war do his sympathies really lie? Of course Matron could be right but Bess remains uneasy-and unconvinced If he was a French soldier what was he doing so far from his own lines & so close to where the Germans are putting up a fierce last-ditch fight? When the French officer disappears in Paris it's up to Bess-a soldier's daughter as well as a nurse-to find out why even at the risk of her own life ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-Ray player in order to play City Banker Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is in Shawshank State Prison after receiving a double life sentence for murder There he meets Red (Morgan Freeman) & also forms friendships with the warden & prison guards Andy soon finds that you either get on with living or you get on with dying Actors Tim Robbins Morgan Freeman Directors Frank Darabont Format PAL Blu-ray Language English Subtitles English Run Time 142 minutes ...

Region 2 This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Accountant Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is sent to prison in the Forties for the murder of his unfaithful wife & her lover despite protesting his innocence He slowly comes to terms with the injustices of the corrupt prison system & quietly inspires some of his fellow prison inmates to have a more positive outlook on life Meanwhile the Governor of the prison discovers Dufresne&s book-keeping talents & recruits him to do a spot of creative accountancy Fellow inmate ageing gangster & Red& (Morgan Freeman) uses his connections to take care of Dufresne&s material needs & narrates the story of his friend&s term in jail through to the late Sixties ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Accountant Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is sent to prison in the Forties for the murder of his unfaithful wife & her lover despite protesting his innocence He slowly comes to terms with the injustices of the corrupt prison system & quietly inspires some of his fellow prison inmates to have a more positive outlook on life Meanwhile the Governor of the prison discovers Dufresne&s book-keeping talents & recruits him to do a spot of creative accountancy Fellow inmate ageing gangster & Red& (Morgan Freeman) uses his connections to take care of Dufresne&s material needs & narrates the story of his friend&s term in jail through to the late Sixties ...