Thriller starring Jamie Foxx & Chris Cooper. When a terrorist bomb detonates inside a Western housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, an international incident is ignited. While diplomats slowly debate equations of territorialism, FBI Special Agent Ro ...

Thriller starring Jamie Foxx & Chris Cooper. When a terrorist bomb detonates inside a Western housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, an international incident is ignited. While diplomats slowly debate equations of territorialism, FBI Special Agent Ro ...

The Kingdom is Clive Cussler's third Fargo Adventure. Whether it's lost treasure or missing persons, the Fargos find themselves in a heap of trouble every time... When Texas oil baron Charlie King contacts Sam & Remi Fargo he has an unusual request. He hired an investigator
- & good friend of the pair
- to locate his missing father in the Far East. But now the investigator has vanished. Would Sam & Remi be willing to look for them both? Though something about the request doesn't quite add up, Sam & Remi agree to help out. It's a journey that takes the Fargos to Tibet, Nepal, Bulgaria, India, & China. They get mixed up with black-market fossils, a centuries-old puzzle chest, the ancient Nepali kingdom of Mustang, a balloon aircraft from a century before its time... & an extraordinary skeleton that might turn the history of human evolution on its head. Oh, & not a few unfriendly people with guns & itchy trigger fingers... Clive Cussler, author of the celebrated Dirk Pitt novels Treasure of Khan & Valhalla Rising, presents the third novel in his newest series, following the adventures of treasure hunters Sam & Remi Fargo. The Kingdom follows Spartan Gold & Lost Empire.

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This is the Guardian Award winning novel. Harry is an old hand at air-raids
- but that night, although he survives the bombing,
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This enchanting anthology

Includes:: memorable extracts from over thirty classic stories. Here children will

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Ghostly goings-on & mysterious magic! Children love scary stories & there are chills aplenty in this thrilling collection. Featuring stories by such wellknown authors as Jan Mark, Virginia Hamilton, Susan Price & Ruskin Bond, this anthology is packed with blood-curdling tension & hilarious horror. Clanking skeletons, moonlit churchyards, strange shadows, ghostly trains & mysterious phantoms appear in these stories, ably illustrated with atmospheric black-&-white drawings. This is the perfect book to read at bedtime on dark, dark nights in dark, dark house...

Includes:: stories by Ruskin Bond, The Brothers Grimm, Grace Hallworth, Virginia Hamilton, Margaret Mahy, Jan Mark & Susan Price.

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I have lost my father in battle, my sister to Elizabeth Woodville's spy, my brother-in-law to Elizabeth Woodville's executioner, my nephew to her poisoner, & now my son to her curse...' The gripping & ultimately tragic story of Anne Neville & her sister Isabel, the daughters of the Earl of Warwick, the most powerful magnate in England through the Cousins' Wars. In the absence of a son & heir, he ruthlessly uses the two girls as pawns but they, in their own right, are thoughtful & powerful actors. Against the backdrop of the court of Edward IV & his beautiful queen, Elizabeth Woodville, Anne turns from a delightful child growing up in intimacy & friendship with the family of Richard Duke of York to become ever more fearful & desperate as her father's enemies turn against her, the net closes in & there is, in the end, simply nowhere she can turn, no one she can trust with her life. Read by Jane Collingwood ...

From the reign of Alfred the Great
- the first king of Wessex to call himself 'king of England'
- in the 9th century, to the

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Details: There is a secret from our history
- 500 years old
- startling in its revelations & devastating in its


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