Think you know your Zook from your Zap & your Spell Punk from your Squiddler? Nows your chance to prove it with this cracking compendium of Skylanders quizzes & activities. Impress your friends! Impress your enemies! Impress people youre not really bothered about either way! You get the idea. ...

Bring your toys to life in Spyros Adventure. Brady Games joins the battle to create Skylanders: Spyros Adventure Official Strategy Guide". As you enter the game through the Portal of Power youll embark on a journey into the amazing Skylander world. Explore mythical lands battle menacing creatures collect gold & treasures & solve puzzles while on a quest to save the world from Kaos an evil Portal Master. Learn primary secondary attacks & upgrades for every Skylander plus tips to take down every boss & clear every bonus area. Amazing extras including character stickers are included with the strategy guide. New gamers & Skylanders fans shouldnt be without it." ...

When word reaches the Skylanders of a giant ancient & deadly weapon Spyro Gill Grunt Boomer & Eruptor set out to find it before the evil Kaos can get there first. Can Master Eon's group of heroes use their Elemental powers to save Skylands from The Machine of Doom? Find out in this hilarious & exciting novel starring the characters from the smash hitvideo game Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure"." ...

Vis in magia in vita vi. In magic there is power & in power life. For fifteen years Lark Ainsley waited for the day when her Resource would be harvested & she would finally be an adult. After the harvest she expected a small role in the regular orderly operation of the City within the Wall. She expected to do her part to maintain the refuge for the last survivors of the Wars. She expected to be a tiny cog in the larger clockwork of the city. Lark did not expect to become the Citys power supply. Her only choice is to escape; follow the birds into the wilderness beyond. Into the Iron Wood Perfect for fans of The Hunger Games" " Skylark" is an electrifying tale of magic secrecy & survival." ...

Until 2012 London did not have its own Empire State Building. But the completion of the Shard
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Layken's father died suddenly leaving her to gather every ounce of strength to be a pillar for her family in order to prevent their world from falling apart. Now her life is taking another unexpected turn… Layken's mother gets a job which leads to an unwanted move across country. However a new home means new neighbours… & Layken's new neighbour is the very attractive Will Cooper. Will has an intriguing passion for slam poetry & a matching passion for life. The two feel an irresistible attraction but are rocked to the core when a shocking revelation brings their romance to a screeching halt. Layken & Will must find a way to fight the forces that threaten to tear them apart… or learn to live without each other. ...

Set in London & Monmouth in the late 1700s this is an extraordinary novel about Mary Saunders the young daughter of a poor seamstress. Mary hungers greedily for fine clothes & ribbons as people of her class do for food & warmth. Its a hunger that lures her into prostitution at the age of thirteen. Mary is thrown out by her distraught mother when she gets pregnant & almost dies on the dangerous streets of London. Her saviour is Doll
- a prostitute. Mary roams London freely with Doll selling her body to all manner of cullies dressed whorishly in colourful gaudy dresses with a painted red smile. Faced with bad debts & threats upon her life she eventually flees to Monmouth her mothers hometown where she attempts to start a new life as a maid in Mrs Joness house. But Mary soon discovers that she cant escape her past & just how dearly people like her pay for yearnings not fitting to their class in society...
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It seems excessive...but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. The mass of black curls. The top hat. The cigarette dangling from pouty lips. These are the trademarks of one of the world's greatest & most revered guitarists a celebrity musician known by one name: Slash. Saul Slash" Hudson was born in Hampstead to a Jewish father & a black American mother who created David Bowie's look in The Man Who Fell to Earth. He was raised in Stoke until he was 11 when he & his mother moved to LA. Frequent visitors to the house were David Bowie Joni Mitchell Ronnie Wood & Iggy Pop. At this time Slash got into BMX bikes & would eventually turn professional winning major awards & money but at 15 his grandmother gave him his first guitar. Sessions with numerous local LA rock bands followed until a fateful meeting with singer W Axl Rose...and the rest was rock history. Guns N' Roses spent two years builiding their reputation before Appetite for Destruction was unleashed on an unsuspecting world. Chart success & global domination followed but with it came the inevitable fall
- addicted to heroin booze & cigarettes the band imploded in a rift between Axl & Slash that is as deep today as ever. But with a new wife kids & new band Velvet Revolver Slash is back on track. As raucous & edgy as his music Slash sets the record straight & tells the real story as only Slash can."
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A human cartoon of hair super-strength cigarettes & the rock worlds most famous top hat Slash is one of the most iconic guitarists in recent memory. Although born in Stoke-on-Trent this one-off guitarist came to prominence through the debauchery & stellar chart success of the American west coasts Guns N Roses; Slashs highly productive but volatile relationship with lead singer Axl Rose led to a perhaps inevitable split in the mid-90s. Moving on first to his own Snakepit project then a blues band then on to a career as one of the worlds most sought after soloists Slashs profile has finally returned to its highest peak with the formation of the outrageous & hugely successful Velvet Revolver a super-group of rock stars that lives life as hard as his former b&-mates ever did. His story is inevitably one of massive rock & roll excess exhausting & famous live shows fiery confrontations with other musicians but also of incredible discipline a unique natural musical gift & of course
- through Sweet Child O Mine" & " Paradise City" to name but a few
- the creation of some of rock musics most legendary songs."

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Dr Siris bagged himself a holiday: an all-expenses-paid trip to the northern mountains of Laos. Whats more through a bit of skilful bartering (well blackmail) he has wangled it so that his nearest & dearest may accompany him. They are to assist a US-funded search for a lost CIA pilot
- Boyd Bowry
- missing since his aircraft was downed in 1968. But Siris not taking the search too seriously as he strongly suspects that when the helicopter exploded the pilot followed suit. However just hours into the trip it becomes apparent that ulterior motives are at work within the group. & Siris suspicions are confirmed when those associated with the airman start dropping like the insects that frequent his country. Siri & co are caught up in something big: something that goes way back & way over their heads. & if this wasnt bad enough a psychic of unquestionable repute then informs Siri that he will shortly die: in a day or two to be precise.

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