Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern & to save her own life the vizier's daughter Shahrazad begins to tell the king tales of adventure love riches & wonder
- tales of mystical lands peopled with princes & hunchbacks the Angel of Death & magical spirits tales of the voyages of Sindbad of Ali Baba's outwitting a band of forty thieves & of jinnis trapped in rings & in lamps. The sequence of stories will last 1 001 nights.
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Wilfred Thesiger was born in Addis Ababa in 1910 & educated at Eton & Oxford. Though British he was repulsed by the softness & rigidity of Western life the machines the calling cards the meticulously aligned streets etc." In the spirit of T.E. Lawrence Thesiger spent five years exploring & wandering the deserts of Arabia. With vivid descriptions & colorful anecdotes he narrates his stories including two crossings of the Empty Quarter among peoples who had never seen a European & considered it their duty to kill Christian infidels." ...

Now completely revised & updated this popular guide to the Arabic language has been a valuable resource for students for many years. In Arabic & Roman script the book

Includes:: a guide to writing in Arabic model sentences & vocabulary explanations of irregular forms & illustrations from the prose & poetry of eminent Arabic writers. Forty-four lessons offer grammar instruction from the rudimentary to the more complex.

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Compact & easy to use this handy guide

Includes:: travel & language tips plus a two-way mini-dictionary so

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As the national language of nearly 20 countries in Africa & Asia & spoken by Approx. 190 million people Arabic is the lingua franca of the Middle East. This title uses a standard Arabic helpful to those travelling all over the region. The emphasis is on commonly heard terms & phrases that are recognisable throughout the Arabic speaking world. Both the dictionary & phrasebook incorporate the Arabic script & its romanised transliteration. The two-way dictionary contains important travel geographical & cultural terminology while the phrasebook focuses on the needs of travellers & covers almost every situation from arrival to departure. ...

Concise convenient & teeming with useful vocabulary words in the target language this handy dictionary makes effective communication a snap. The compact size allows travellers students & businesspersons to keep this bilingual dictionary close at hand & discrete while side-by-side pronunciation enables users to speak & understand the language at a basic level. Also included is a grammar section. ...

In the caves of Avantia lurks Arachnid the King of Spiders. Massive & terrifying Arachnid preys on the local townspeople & guards a piece of the magical golden armour. Can Tom defeat the Beast & save the kingdom from destruction? Don't miss: ZEPHA THE MONSTER SQUID
- CLAW THE GIANT MONKEY
- SOLTRA THE STONE CHARMER
- VIPERO THE SNAKE MAN
- TRILLION THE THREE-HEADED LION.



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After an upbringing of proper behaviour & oppressive expectations Aralorn fled her noble birthright for a life of adventure as a mercenary spy. But her latest mission involves more peril than she ever imagined. Agents of Sianim have asked her to gather intelligence on the increasingly popular & powerful sorcerer Geoffrey ae Magi. Soon Aralorn comes to see past the mans striking charisma
- & into a soul as corrupt & black as endless night. & few have the will to resist the sinister might of the ae Magi & his minions. So Aralorn aided by her enigmatic companion Wolf joins the rebellion against the ae Magi. But in a war against a foe armed with the power of illusion how do you know who the true enemy is
- or where he will strike next? This omnibus edition contains the two titles MASQUES & WOLFSBANE.

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WHO STOLE THE FROGS? When somethings amiss in the Spook household theres usually only one suspect
- Araminta. But she swears she
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Aramintas Aunt Tabby has won a Transylvanian holiday for four so she & all the adults of Spook House are going for a much-needed break but it just so happens to be Aramintas birthday too. So who will keep an eye on Araminta & her friend Wanda? Mathilda Aramintas grown up cousin arrives to babysit along with two rowdy teenage ghosts. At first Araminta & Wanda are in heaven
- staying up late playing loud music & ordering take aways
- no more of Aunt Tabbys rules! But they soon find themselves cleaning up after everyone else; being home alone isnt turning out as theyd hoped. So Araminta & Wanda come up with a plan. They have to find a way to move their unreliable ghost-sitters to another house. Maybe then Araminta can start to have a proper birthday

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