Of course you know the Guardians of Childhood. You've known them since before you can remember & you'll know them 'til your memories are like twilight: Santa The Tooth Fairy The Sandman The Easter Bunny & the others. But...where did they come from? How did they became beloved & worthy of holidays? Wonder no more because William Joyce is here to answer your questions. This the second book in the Guardians picture book series will provide the background the history the life of Sanderson Man Snoozy. You may be more familiar with his nickname-the Sandman-but you are certainly privy to his legend to his ability to control & manipulate sweet dreams...for those who deserve them. ...

Written by Neil Gaiman; Art by P. Craig Russell Milo Manara Bill Sienkiewicz Miguelanxo Prado Barron Storey Glenn Fabry & Frank Quitely; painted cover & book design by Dave Mc Kean; Cover by Dave Mc Kean Joined by a dream-team of artists from around the world Neil Gaiman
- the Hugo Award-winning New York Times best-selling author of American Gods & the childrens book Coraline
- returned to the beloved characters he made famous for THE SANDMAN: ENDLESS NIGHTS the comics event of 2003. Now this landmark work is available in a beautiful softcover edition. Alternately haunting bittersweet erotic & nightmarish the seven stories in this book
- one for each of the Endless siblings each illustrated by a different artist
- reveal strange secrets & surprising truths. In addition to the seven tales of the Endless THE SANDMAN: ENDLESS NIGHTS

Includes:: a biography section in the spirit of the Sandman collections (designed by Dave Mc Kean) & a summary of each volume in the Sandman Library.





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Written by NEIL GAIMAN Art by KELLEY JONES MALCOLM JONES III COLLEEN DORAN & CHARLES VESS Cover by DAVE MCKEAN A new recolored edition of the classic SANDMAN series with new cover art & trade dress. Volume 3 collects issues 17-20 including A Midsummer Night's Dream " which won a World Fantasy Award. On sale OCTOBER 13
- 160 pg FC $19.99 US
- MATURE READERS"

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Written by NEIL GAIMAN Art by SAM KIETH MIKE DRINGENBERG & MALCOLM JONES III Cover by DAVE MCKEAN The first volume collecting Neil Gaimans seminal horror series is available in a new edition featuring the enhanced production values & coloring from the Absolute Edition. In PRELUDES & NOCTURNES collecting issues 1-8 an occultist attempting to capture Death to bargain for eternal life traps Deaths younger brother Dream instead. After his 70-year imprisonment & eventual escape Morpheus goes on a quest for his lost objects of power. On his arduous journey Morpheus encounters Lucifer John Constantine & an all-powerful madman. This book also

Includes:: the story The Sound of Her Wings" which introduces the pragmatic perky Death."

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Written by NEIL GAIMAN
- Art by MIKE DRINGENBERG MALCOLM JONES III CHRIS BACHALO & others
- Cover by DAVE MCKEAN In this new

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This is a fascinating portrait of royal life at Sandringham from the early life of Albert Edward to the modern day. Drawing on letters diaries & contemporary reports it is a rich exploration of the private lives of Britain's royal family. From family life at the estate to the first visit of Queen Victoria the glittering parties of the early twentieth century & all the way up to the death of King George V the reigns of his sons & the Sandringham of today it will delight anyone with an interest in the lives of the British royal family. ...

Lady Kara Kensingtons family paid a high price in money & blood to found the gallery that now lies in ruins. & her search for answers is about to lead her into a world she never imagined existed: a lost city buried beneath the Arabian desert where something astonishing is waiting...A covert government operative hunting down a traitor is being drawn there. But at the end of a perilous journey lies an ageless power that can create a utopia
- or tear down everything humankind has built over millennia of civilisation...
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The overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi was a defining moment of the early twenty-first century. Lindsey Hilsum International Editor for Channel 4 News was an eyewitness to the revolution. In Sandstorm" she traces the history of Gaddafis strange regime from its beginnings
- when he had looks charisma & popular appeal & posed as a kind of socialist revolutionary
- to the massacre at Abu Salim prison & the paranoid corrupt final state. This is the Libyan revolution as it was made & lived; a narrative of how the people overcame fear & disillusionment to find the strength to rebel against years of terror & tragedy."

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The overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi has been one of the twenty-first centurys defining moments: the Arab worlds most bizarre dictator brought down by his own people with the aid of NATO aircraft. Lindsey Hilsum was in Libya when Gaddafi met his squalid end. She traces the history of his strange regime from its beginnings
- when Gaddafi had looks charisma & popular appeal
- to its paranoid corrupt final state. At the heart of her book however is a brilliant narrative of Libyan people overcoming fear & disillusionment & finding the strength to rebel. Hilsum follows five of them through the terror & tragedy. This is the story of modern Libyan as it was lived from the excesses of dictatorship to violent revolution. Sandstorm" will take its place in a library of classic books about turning points of history."

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As the no-ship Ithaca flees through space the heroes of HUNTERS OF DUNE finally meet the Enemy who followed the violent fanatics the Honored Matres back to their universe. The thinking machines vanquished by Serena Butlers jihad were not destroyed only driven into exile
- & now tens of thousands of years later they are back. Can the resurrected heroes on board the Ithaca save our race from annihilation?
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