Born in the Dublin slums of 1901 his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer & settler of scores Henry Smart has to grow up fast. By the time he can walk hes out robbing & begging often cold & always hungry but a prince of the streets. By Easter Monday 1916 hes fourteen years old & already six-foot-two a soldier in the Irish Citizen Army. A year later hes ready to die for Ireland again a rebel a Fenian & a killer. With his fathers wooden leg as his weapon Henry becomes a Republican legend
- one of Michael Collins boys a cop killer an assassin on a stolen bike.
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This title contains two sparkling Magic Kitten stories! In Star Dreams" Jemmas biggest dreams become possible when she discovers silky cream & brown kitten Flame & theres Double Trouble for Kim when silver tabby kitten Flame comes to stay!" ...

It is the year 5012 & the Milky Way galaxy is under attack. After the Universal War a war that almost brought about the destruction of every known universe the planets in the Milky Way banded together to create the Intergalactic Force
- an elite fighting team sworn to protect & defend the galaxy. Only the brightest & most promising students are accepted into the Intergalactic Force Academy & only the very best cadets reach the highest of their ranks & become.. .STAR FIGHTERS! Summoned by a strange distress signal Peri & the rest of the Phoenix's crew head to the remote desert planet Westrenia to see if they can help. At first the main town seems devoid of life. Then the crew realise that the inhabitants are in hiding. The sheriff of Westrania has been kidnapped & a gang of outlaws is terrorising the town. It's up to Peri to think of a way to outwit the outlaws & get the sheriff back!
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Who are the best graphic designers today? Who are the emerging new superstars of the moment? Where do they get their ideas from? What are their best pieces of work? In what direction is contemporary graphic design heading? What new sources are used for inspiration? You will find the answers to these questions in Star Graphic Designers: a compilation of more than 80 of the best current international graphic designers with the aim of offering a comprehensive showcase of their most prominent works & becoming a reference manual for graphic design in the 21st Century. The result of this research is a careful presentation of 400 projects that show the path that graphic design will take in the next decade. ...

These are the guitars so famous that their names are often household words: B. B. Kings Lucille Eric Claptons Blackie Stevie Ray Vaughans First Wife Billy F Gibbons Pearly Gates Neil Youngs Old Black & many more. Heres the first ever illustrated history of the actual guitars of the stars that made the music. Other best selling guitar histories look at the rank & file models but this book is unique in profiling the actual star guitars"-the million dollar babies such as the 1968 Stratocaster that Jimi Hendrix burned at Woodstock which sold at Sothebys auction house in 1993 for $1 300 000. Amateurs buy guitars to emulate the stars-Claptons Strat Slashs Les Paul-and this book explains the stars modifications thus showing how others can recreate those famous tones." ...

One moment a man sits on a suburban hill gazing curiously at the stars. The next he is whirling through the firmament & perhaps the most remarkable of all science fiction journeys has begun. Even Stapledons other great work LAST & FIRST MEN pales in ambition next to STAR MAKER which presents nothing less than an entire imagined history of life in the universe encompassing billions of years. ...

In 1896 in a pilgrim church in the Alps an abandoned baby girl is found by a cook & a housemaid. They take her home & Annika grows up in the servants' quarters of a house belonging to three eccentric Viennese professors. She is happy there but dreams of the day when her real mother will come to find her. & sure enough one day a glamorous stranger arrives at the door. After years of guilt & searching Annika's mother has come to claim her daughter who is in fact a Prussian aristocrat & whose true home is a great castle. But at crumbling spooky Spittal Annika discovers that all is not as it seems in the lives of her new-found family. Eva Ibbotson's hugely entertaining story is a timeless classic for readers young & old. ...

Richard the Second is losing his hold on the crown & Henry of Bolingbroke previously exiled by the king returns to England to claim it. Richard is deposed & dies mysteriously murdered some say on the orders of Bolingbroke now King Henry the Fourth. But Henry finds the crown harder to hold onto than it was to win. He is beset by enemies hampered by disease & concerned about the rebellious behaviour of his son. Dominating the court & with his eye on the crown is Harry of Monmouth whose reckless conduct in low-class taverns with his crony Sir John Oldcastle causes scandal. When the king dies Harry became King Henry the Fifth & the change is dramatic for both him & Oldcastle. The licentious youth becomes a great king & Oldcastle the rake turns into a religious reformer. Oldcastle dies a martyr & Harry becomes the conquering hero of Agincourt. The Star of Lancaster is in the ascendant. Harry has brought France to her knees & married her princess. It seems that the long war was at an end. But a greater enemy than the French awaits Harry... ...

Shy Mia loves the idea of entering a school talent contest for singer/songwriters but just isn't confident enough until her friends persuade her to give it a go. She's thrilled to make it through the auditions but when she realizes that another entrant might be cheating will she be brave enough to tell the judges what's going on? Filled with secrets hopes dreams & above all the power of friendship School Friends" is addictive reading for girls." ...

In the bitter winter of 1847 from an Ireland torn by injustice & natural disaster the Star of the Sea sets sail for New York. On board are hundreds of fleeing refugees. Among them are a maidservant with a devastating secret bankrupt Lord Merridith & his family an aspiring novelist a maker of revolutionary ballads all braving the Atlantic in search of a new home. Each is connected more deeply than they can possibly know. But a camouflaged killer is stalking the decks hungry for the vengeance that will bring absolution. The twenty-six day journey will see many lives end others begin afresh. In a spellbinding story of tragedy & mercy love & healing the further the ship sails towards the Promised Land the more her passengers seem moored to a past which will never let them go. ...