Conan the Cimmerian: the boy-thief who became a mercenary who fought & loved his way across fabled lands to become King of Aquilonia. Neither supernatural fiends nore demonic sorcery could oppose the barbarian warrior as he wielded his mighty sword & dispatched his enemies to a bloody doom on the battlefields of the legendary Hyborian age. Collected together in one volume for the very first time in chronological order are Robert E. Howard's tales of the legendary hero as fresh & atmospheric today as when they were first published in the pulp magazines of more than seventy years ago. Compiled by & with a foreward & afterword by award-winning writer & editor Stephen Jones ...

The Great War has ended but Downton Abbey is far from peaceful...A changing world has brought new challenges & new guests & inside the walls of the Great House there is more intrigue rivalry & romance than ever. The Chronicles of Downton Abbey takes you deep into the lives of the Crawleys their servants lovers friends & guests. So wander the crowded servants quarters & peek into luxurious bed chambers. Go beneath the surface & experience every aspect of their lives
- from daily routines dressing tables & treasure chests to their most secret hopes & fears. This lavish book explores the lives of every important member of the Downton estate. Focusing on each character individually it examines their motivations their actions & the inspirations behind them. An evocative source of story & background it will take you even deeper into the secret beating heart of the house.
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The official companion to all three seasons. The Great War has ended but Downton Abbey is far from peaceful...A changing world has brought new challenges & new guests. Inside the walls of the Great House there is more intrigue rivalry & romance than ever. The Chronicles of Downton Abbey take you deep into the lives of the Crawleys their servants lovers friends & guests. So wander the crowded servants' quarters & peek into luxurious bed chambers. Go beneath the surface & experience every aspect of their lives
- from daily routines dressing tables & treasure chests to their most secret hopes & fears. This lavish book explores the lives of every important member of the Downton estate. Focusing on each character individually it examines their motivations their actions & the inspirations behind them. An evocative source of story & background it will take you even deeper into the secret beating heart of the house.
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DEADWEATHER a sweaty little pirate-infested island is home to EGG thirteen years old & prey to a pair of cruel & stupid older siblings. But when Egg's family disappears in a freak accident he finds himself living on SUNRISE island with the glamorous Pembroke family & their feisty daughter Millicent. Finally life seems perfect. Until someone tries to throw him off a cliff. Suddenly Egg is lost in a world of cutthroat pirates & powerful villains. Only Millicent
- & a one-handed possibly deranged cabin boy
- can help him as he hurtles into the deadliest adventure of his life...

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This inspired collection of short stories is based on the original illustrations of Chris Van Allburg in his esteemed & mysterious The Mysteries of Harris Burdick" & features many remarkable best-selling authors in the worlds of both adult & children's literature: Sherman Alexie M.T. Anderson Kate Di Camillo Cory Doctorow Jules Feiffer Stephen King Tabitha King Lois Lowry Gregory Maguire Walter Dean Myers Linda Sue Park Louis Sachar Jon Scieszka Lemony Snicket & Chris Van Allsburg himself. Van Allsburg's Harris Burdick illustrations have evoked such wonderment & imagination since Harris Burdick's original publication in 1984; many have speculated or have woven their own stories to go with his images. More than ever the illustrations send off their eerie call for text & continue to compel & pick at the reader's brain for a backstory
- a threaded tale behind the image. In this book we've collected some of the best storytellers to spin them."
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The Chronicles of Narnia have enchanted millions of readers over the last fifty years & the magical events described in C.S. Lewis's immortal prose have left many a lasting memory for adults & children alike. All seven Chronicles are bound together in this new paperback edition (rebranded with Harper Collins logo). The Chronicles of Narnia have enchanted millions of readers over the last fifty years & the magical events described in C.S. Lewis's immortal prose have left many a lasting memory. For here is a world where a witch decrees eternal winter; where there are more talking animals than people; & where battles are fought by Centaurs Giants & Fauns. ...

Here are five gripping episodes of early Pern -- from the very first space survey recommending colonisation to the last where the early world its young dragon culture undetected is condemned to be isolated in space. Here is the saga of the mass evacuation from the volcanic southern continent an entire group of people moved across the dangerous seas guarded & guided by a flotilla of dolphins. Here too is the story of the creation of Ruatha Hold -- a mammoth undertaking in the early days of Pern. & here is one of the most fascinating dragon tales ever written by Anne Mc Caffrey when Fort Weyr was the only weyr & when dragonriders & dragons were overcrowded to danger point. As the news broke of three fresh weyrs to be established a young girl Torene came to realize that her dragon could be the next Queen of the newly formed Benden Weyr. ...

Darkness wars with darkness as the hard-bitten men of the Black Company take their pay & do what they must. They bury their doubts with their dead. Then comes the prophecy: The White Rose has been reborn somewhere to embody good once more.. . This is fantasy for all fans of Steven Erikson Joe Abercrombie & David Gemmell. Available for the first time in a UK edition. Contains the first three Black Company novels: THE BLACK COMPANY SHADOWS LINGER & THE WHITE ROSE With the Black Company series Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy
- something a lot of people didnt notice & maybe still dont. He brought the story down to a human level dispensing with the cliche archetypes of princes kings & evil sorcerers. Reading his stuff is like reading Vietnam fiction on Peyote STEVEN ERIKSON
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At what time was Guy Fawkes discovered underneath the Palace of Westminster with thirty-six barrels of gunpowder? What time of day did Big Ben strike New Year in 1963? When was Captain Bligh ordered off the Bounty? At what time was Einsteins Theory of Relativity proved & when did Titanic sink? All these questions & 400 more are answered in Chronologia: 24 Hours of History" a new book with a unique twist on how history is presented. Its the popular history book where events are arranged not in order of place theme or date
- but by the time of day they took place. " Chronologia" has 24 chapters one for each hour of the day with each chapter including the battles assassinations crimes deaths & disasters & everything else that makes up our vivid & unique history all presented by the hour & minute they took place."
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This is the only Bible that means that you can study Scripture in the order of events as they happened. The Chronological Study Bible" presents the text of the New King James Version in chronological order
- the order in which the events actually happened
- with notes articles & full-color graphics that connect the reader to the history & culture of Bible times. It is the only study Bible arranged in chronological order. Features include: the entire NKJV text with translators notes arranged in chronological order for absorbing & effective Bible study; full-color illustrations of places artifacts & cultural phenomena that give the reader a dramatic you are there experience; fascinating articles that connect the Bible text to world history & culture; Daily Life Notes that explain how people lived in Bible times; Time Panels & Charts that show the flow of Bible history; & In-text & full-page color maps of the biblical world."

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