Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow. Orphaned & sent to live with her uncle in his austere manor on the moors, Mary Lennox is a lonely & unhappy child. A meeting with Dickon, her servant's brother begins her adventure & it is through their friendship & her relationship with her troubled hypochondriac cousin Colin that she begins to learn about herself. Their lives all begin to change when a Robin shows Mary the door to a mysterious secret garden. ...

Mistress Mary stood up & looked at it with an almost frightened face as it hung from her finger ï ½ Perhaps it has been buried for ten yearsï ½, she said in a whisper. ï ½ Perhaps it is the key to the garden!ï ½ - Chapter VII, The Key of The Garden When Mary Lennox, a nine year-old orphan, is forced to move to England to live with her uncle, she is seen as selfish & disagreeable by everyone at Misselthwait Manor. As she tries to settle in, Mary starts to explore the big, gloomy house on the Moors that will be her new home. In a flower bed, she discovers an old key that leads her to a secret garden, left locked & neglected for ten years ï ½ Mary befriends her maidï ½s brother Dickon & meets her sickly cousin Colin, whose existence had been hidden from her. As the childrenï ½s friendship grows & the garden is brought back to life, the trio find happiness, mystery & magic beyond their expectations. ...

When spoiled rich girl Mary Lennox is orphaned, she is shipped from India to live in her Uncle's enormous manor in faraway Engl&, where all is not quite as it seems. Before long, the lonely Mary finds a key to a secret garden that has been left untouched for years, & a whole new world of enchantment opens up to her. For the first time she learns to make friends- with the talented animal charmer Dickon, & her sickly cousin Colin. Between them the three children truly flourish as the garden reveals its haunting secrets. ...

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Mary Lennox is a rude & obstinate child. When her parents both die, she is sent to live with her wealthy uncle in Misselthwaite Manor. Mary gradually explores the large, empty house & discovers a beautiful secret garden in its grounds. Can Mary change her ways & bring happiness back to Misselthwaithe? ...

Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking & living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly & for ever. ...

Books History Books On 1 August 1990, British Airways Flight 149 departed from Heathrow Airport, destined for Kuala Lumpur. It never made it there, & neither did its nearly 400 passengers & crew. Instead, Flight 149 stopped in Kuwait, as Iraqi troops invaded
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- which has had a direct impact on terror attacks in the West & the shape of the Middle East today. It is high time the truth is told. Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9781789465365 •†Author:†  Stephen Davis •†Publisher:†  John Blake •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:† 336 •†Dimensions:†12.9 x 2.13 x 19.8 cm






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Who is Lucifer? The orthodox Christian view tells us that he challenged God, fell from Heaven, tempted Eve & created death & suffering. Then he became Satan, horned king of Hell. Yet as Lynn Picknett explains, Devil was only a new incarnation of the old woodland deity Pan, while Lucifer was a personification of the Morning Star, the planet Venus & its goddess. ' He' was therefore originally 'she', & a divine representation of love, beauty & human warmth. Indeed, many ancient goddesses were known as Lucifera, or ' Light-bringer' an honour extended to Mary Magdalene in her true role as goddess-worshipping priestess & Christ's successor. While thousands follow Lucifer in order to achieve earthly wealth & power, Picknett explains that such misguided behaviour is far from true Luciferan principles
- the audacious pushing ever outwards of the limits of human knowledge, startlingly exemplified by the little-known heresies of Leonardo da Vinci. Ironically, controversial modern scientists, who see no proof of a God, much less of a Devil, may possess the key to the existence of the old archetypal adversaries. Urging a radical shift in both religious & scientific paradigms, Picknett draws together ancient heretical Christian & Egyptological texts, & the implications of abnormal psychology & the 'extreme possibilities' of certain barely-understood human attributes, to pose the extraordinary question: ' Have we humans actually created God & Lucifer, not merely as icons or metaphors, but in a terrifying way, literally.
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The authorized history of the world's oldest & most storied foreign intelligence service, drawing extensively on hitherto secret documents. Britain&'s Secret Intelligence Service (also commonly known as MI6) was born a century ago amid fears of the rising power of other countries, especially Germany. The next forty years saw MI6 taking an increasingly important-&, until now, largely hidden-role in shaping the history of Europe & the world. This thorough, fascinating, & revelatory account draws on a wealth of archival materials never before seen by any outsider to unveil the inner workings of the world's first spy agency. MI6's early days were haphazard but it was quickly forged into an effective organization in the crucible of World War I. During these war years, MI6 also formed ties with the United States-harbingers of a relationship that would become vital to both countries security as the century progressed. These early years also saw the development of techniques that would become plot devices in a thousand books & films-forgery, invisible ink, disguises, concealing mechanisms, & much more. The interwar years were nominally peaceful, but Britain perceived numerous threats, all of which MI6 was expected to keep tabs on. The outbreak of World War II once again caught MI6 off balance, & high-profile blunders (and the memoirs of MI6 operatives such as Graham Greene) created an impression of ineffectiveness. At the same time, however, the service was pioneering cryptography at Bletchley Park (where the Enigma code would be broken) & devising the very methods & equipment that would inspire Ian Fleming's novels. ...