When Tintin buys a model ship called the Unicorn, he doesn't realize he's about to become the center of a centuries-old family feud involving nefarious pirates & treasure. Following clues from the high seas to the blazing-hot desert, Tintin makes new friends & outwits new enemies as he uncovers the secret of the Unicorn. ...

On the banks of the Mississippi, Tom Sawyer & his friends seek out adventure at every turn. Then one fateful night they witness a murder. The boys swear never to reveal the secret & run away to be pirates & search for hidden treasure. But when Tom gets trapped in a cave with the murderer, can he escape unharmed? ...

In this enduring & internationally popular novel, Mark Twain combines social satire & dime-novel sensation with a rhapsody on boyhood & on America's pre-industrial past. Tom Sawyer, resilient, enterprising, & vainglorious, has long been a defining figure in the American cultural imagination. ...

Elaborates the origins of the two heroes Det & Osen as they begin their journey, finding romance & battling their way to glory. This title lets you discover with them the wonders of their world, the horrors that afflict it, & the struggles endured by a new mankind. ...

We're off to Button Moon. We'll follow Mr Spoon. Button Moon is a fantasy moon shining high in Blanket Sky. It looks down on Junk Planet, home to the Spoon Family. Every day Mr Spoon flies in his spaceship to Button Moon. He always takes his telescope with him to see what he can see. Join Mr Spoon & his family in 10 exciting adventures on Button Moon. Episodes include: ' The Three Pigs', ' Billy Goat's Gruff', ' The Fox & the Hen', ' Scruffy & the Bone', ' The Hare & the Tortoise', ' Hose on Charlie's Nose', ' Planet Doughnut', ' Rag Doll has a Cold', ' Mrs Spoon's Jumble Sale' & ' Bobbing Bottle'. Running time
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A dramatic meditation on love both fleeting & everlasting, ' Adverbs' is a serious work of fiction by one of today's most innovative voices. ' Adverbs' marks the return of Daniel Handler to adult fiction as he tackles life's most complicated & compelling noun: love. In a series of intersecting narratives that explore variations of that ineffable feeling, Handler crafts a moving & shifting story exploring the frustrating glory of this most troublesome of emotions. Two friends, one dying & one lonely; an adolescent's first homosexual stirrings for his sister's boyfriend; a doomed, enormously inappropriate tryst between a taxi driver & his passenger; a high-school crush that falls painfully short of a movie projected on a grungy screen. Handler's characters experience love in all of its dark, triumphant, devastating & sneaky forms. In ' Adverbs', Daniel Handler reveals to us how the most universal of themes is also the most unknown. ' Love was in the air, so both of us walked through love on our way to the corner. We breathed it in, particularly me.' ...

A dramatic meditation on love both fleeting & everlasting, ' Adverbs' is a serious work of fiction by one of today's most innovative voices, & famed author of the Lemony Snicket series. ' Adverbs' marks the return of Daniel Handler to adult fiction as he tackles life's most complicated & compelling noun: love. In a series of intersecting narratives that explore variations of that ineffable feeling, Handler crafts a moving & shifting story exploring the frustrating glory of this most troublesome of emotions. Two friends, one dying & one lonely; an adolescent's first homosexual stirrings for his sister's boyfriend; a doomed, enormously inappropriate tryst between a taxi driver & his passenger; a high-school crush that falls painfully short of a movie projected on a grungy screen. Handler's characters experience love in all of its dark, triumphant, devastating & sneaky forms. In ' Adverbs', Daniel Handler reveals to us how the most universal of themes is also the most unknown. ' Love was in the air, so both of us walked through love on our way to the corner. We breathed it in, particularly me.' ...

The world as mortal kind knows it stands to fall & the age of humans is about to end. Extinction is only moments away. Two heroes rise to challenge the Adversary. For the sake of the Multiverse, humanity, every other living creature & for the pure lif ...

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Beginning with the Neolithic period, pre-3000 BCE, & ending at the close of the Bronze Age & the transition to the Iron Age of Hellenic Greece (c 1000 BCE), this text is an introduction to the visual arts & architecture of the era. The historical & social context of the art is discussed. ...