After millennia hiding, Mina Tepes, the princess of the ancient covenant & ruler of all vampires, wants change. Using the vast wealth of the Tepes line, she has paid off the entire gross national debt of Japan & in so doing, gained the authority to create a 'special district' off the coast of Japan that is to become the future haven for vampires from all over the world! Now, on the eve of the landmark press conference announcing the existence of vampires to the world, terrorists & rival factions are plotting to assassinate Mina Tepes. Dance In The Vampire Bund is an ongoing manga series that features stunning artwork & an enthralling original supernatural narrative. ...

1963. Kenya is on the verge of independence from British colonial rule. In the Great Rift Valley, Kenyans of all backgrounds come together in the previously white-only establishment of the Jakaranda Hotel. The resident musician is Rajan Salim, who charms visitors with songs inspired by his grandfather`s noble stories of the railway construction that spawned the Kenya they now know. One evening, Rajan is kissed by a mysterious woman in a shadowy corridor. Unable to forget the taste of her lavender-flavoured lips, Rajan sets out to find her. On his journey he stumbles upon the murky, shared history of three men – his grandfather, the owner of the Jakaranda & a British preacher – who were implicated in the controversial birth of a child. What Rajan unearths will open his eyes about the birth not just of a child, but of an entire nation. ...

HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R. R. Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE & FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A DANCE WITH DRAGONS is the fifth volume in the series. The future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance. In the east, Daenerys, last scion of House Targaryen, her dragons grown to terrifying maturity, rules as queen of a city built on dust & death, beset by enemies. Now that her whereabouts are known many are seeking Daenerys & her dragons. Among them the dwarf, Tyrion Lannister, who has escaped King's Landing with a price on his head, wrongfully condemned to death for the murder of his nephew, King Joffrey. But not before killing his hated father, Lord Tywin. To the north lies the great Wall of ice & stone
- a structure only as strong as those guarding it. Eddard Stark's bastard son Jon Snow has been elected the 998th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, but he has enemies both in the Watch & beyond the Wall, where the wildling armies are massing for an assault. On all sides bitter conflicts are reigniting, played out by a grand cast of outlaws & priests, soldiers & skinchangers, nobles & slaves. The tides of destiny will inevitably lead to the greatest dance of all...
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High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists & teachers. A one-armed beach-combing poet, an uptight hotel clerk & one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem. Combine this offbeat cast of characters with Murakami`s idiosyncratic prose & out comes Dance Dance Dance. It is an assault on the sense, part murder mystery, part metaphysical speculation; a fable for our times as catchy as a rock song blasting from the window of a sports car. ...

Part of Sticker Dolly Dressing series, this title helps the men & women look their best when they go out to perform their best dance performances. It

Includes:: costumes for dances performed all around the world, such as Ballet, Irish dancing, Flamenco, Jazz-Tap & many more.

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The elephant is ubiquitous in many cultures & is synonymous with strength, family & wisdom. In children’s literature they are generally depicted as models of exemplary behaviour, so two elephants dancing amongst flowers must surely be a philosophy for living? This lovely polyester- & philosophy- filled cushion is colourful, meaningful & highly decorative, plonk it pride of place & follow the elephant. Spread the love, live the life, dance like no-one is watching & be happy. Supplier Info: The supplier of this cushion employs sixty people, half of whom are cottage workers, twenty are employed at the factory & ten are sub-contractors. Employees receive benefits in addition to statutory wages & are happy, long-standing members of the company. This company supplies us with beautiful textiles such as cushions & scarves & they use cotton, polyester, jute fabric & even recycled plastic bags & cotton fibre in their work. On the subject of recycling, they harvest water & making factory improvements is an ongoing process. ...

The elephant is ubiquitous in many cultures & is synonymous with strength, family & wisdom. In children’s literature they are generally depicted as models of exemplary behaviour, so two elephants dancing amongst flowers must surely be a philosophy for living? This lovely polyester- & philosophy- filled cushion is colourful, meaningful & highly decorative, plonk it pride of place & follow the elephant. Spread the love, live the life, dance like no-one is watching & be happy. Supplier Info: The supplier of this cushion employs sixty people, half of whom are cottage workers, twenty are employed at the factory & ten are sub-contractors. Employees receive benefits in addition to statutory wages & are happy, long-standing members of the company. This company supplies us with beautiful textiles such as cushions & scarves & they use cotton, polyester, jute fabric & even recycled plastic bags & cotton fibre in their work. On the subject of recycling, they harvest water & making factory improvements is an ongoing process. ...

The fourth part of the sensational My Struggle series that has been hailed as ”perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our times.” (Guardian). Fresh out of high school, Karl Ove moves to a remote fishing village to work as a teacher. He has no interest in the job itself
- or in any other job for that matter, his sole aim is to save money & start writing. All goes well to begin with but as the nights grow longer, his life takes a darker turn. Drinking causes him blackouts, his repeated attempts at losing his virginity end in humiliation, & to his own great distress he develops romantic feelings towards one of his 13-year-old students. & all the while the shadow of his father looms large...
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18 years old & fresh out of high school, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to a tiny fisherman`s village far north of the polar circle to work as a school teacher. He has no interest in the job itself
- or in any other job for that matter. His intention is to save up enough money to travel while finding the space & time to start his writing career. Initially everything looks fine: He writes his first few short stories, finds himself accepted by the hospitable locals & receives flattering attention from several beautiful local girls. But then, as the darkness of the long polar nights start to cover the beautiful landscape, Karl Ove`s life also takes a darker turn. The stories he writes tend to repeat themselves, his drinking escalates & causes some disturbing blackouts, his repeated attempts at losing his virginity end in humiliation & shame, & to his own distress he also develops romantic feelings towards one of his 13-year-old students. Along the way, there are flashbacks to his high school years & the roots of his current problems. And then there is the shadow of his father, whose sharply increasing alcohol consumption serves as an ominous backdrop to Karl Ove`s own lifestyle. The fourth part of a sensational literary cycle that has been hailed as ”perhaps the most important literary enterprise of our times.” (Guardian).
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This critically-acclaimed book provides an unprecedented, up-close portrait of Africa`s Great War. At the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal & unstaunchable war in which millions have died. It has become Africa`s Great War. Despite its epic proportions, the war has received little sustained attention from the rest of the world. How do you cover a war that has involved at least twenty different rebel groups & nine government armies yet seems to have no clear cause or objective? How do you put a human face on vast numbers of casualties most of whom perished in remote mountain towns & villages? ” The New York Times” gave Darfur nearly four times the coverage it gave the Congo in 2006, while Congolese were dying at nearly ten times the rate. In ” Dancing in the Glory of Monsters”, veteran political activist & journalist Jason K. Stearns has written a compelling, personal, & deeply reported narrative of how Congo became a failed state that, rocked by violence arising from the aftermath of the genocide in neighboring Rwanda, collapsed into a war of retaliatory massacres of extraordinary brutality. Stearns brilliantly describes the key perpetrators, many of whom he met personally, & high-lights the nature of the political system that brought these people to power, as well as the moral decisions with which the war confronted them. As a Congolese friend & parliamentarian told him: ” In the Congo, in order to survive, we all have to be a bit corrupt, a bit ruthless. That`s the system here. That`s just the reality of things. If you don`t bribe a bit & play to people`s prejudices, someone else who does will replace you”. ...