The Great Irish Famine of 1845-52 was the defining event in the history of modern Irel&. In proportional terms one of the most lethal famines in global history the consequences were shocking: at least one million people died & double that number fled the country within a decade. The Curse of Reason is first & foremost a survey history of this great tragedy. In particular the testimonies of four key contemporaries are used throughout to convey the immediacy of the unfolding disaster. They are: * John Mac Hale-the Catholic Archbishop of Tuam * John Mitchel-the radical nationalist * Elizabeth Smith-the Scottish-born wife of a Wicklow landlord * Charles E. Trevelyan-the assistant secretary to the Treasury Each brings a unique perspective influenced by who they were what they witnessed & what they stood for. By counter-pointing the progress of the Famine with the experiences of these four individuals we get an intimate & compelling portrayal of these hungry years. The book shows how misguided policies inspired by slavish adherence to ideology-the curse of reason-contributed to & worsened the effects of a natural disaster of catastrophic proportions. ...

Evil Pharaoh Oba has imprisoned the gods who protect Egypt & now bloodthirsty monsters roam the l&. Only one boy can stop them: Akori an orphaned farm-boy with a huge destiny. The dead are stalking the living & Akori must send them back to their graves. But dog-headed Am-Heh the Hunter has sworn to destroy Akori...and no one has ever escaped his fearsome jaws. Dont miss a single battle in this huge new adventure series! ...

In the floating city of Sanctaphrax fusty old professors scheme & bicker with each other as they study the weather in minute detail
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Join our plucky Victorian Egyptologist together with her devastatingly handsome & brilliant husband Radcliffe in another exciting escapade. When Lady Baskerville's husband Sir Henry dies after discovering what may have been an undisturbed royal tomb in Luxor she appeals to eminent archaeologist Radcliffe Emerson & his wife Amelia to take over the excavation. Amid rumours of a curse haunting all those involved with the dig the intrepid couple proceeds to Egypt where they begin to suspect that Sir Henry did not die a natural death & they are confident that the accidents that plague the dig are caused by a sinister human element not a pharoah's curse. ...

Welcome to Spook School
- where lessons include learning how to fly walking through walls & making objects move! Charlie is now
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The island of Crampton Rock has emerged from pirate battle. But something far more sinister is on the move.. . What claim does the Darkling family have on Stanley Buggles home? & do the Darkling twins really keep a two-headed snake as a pet? Originally published under the title The Darkling Curse. ...

Beset by false friends & the weight of a worlds expectations Nish flees his father the God-Emperor
- always searching for the means
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Cassie Palmer the worlds chief clairvoyant just cant seem to stay away from trouble. After trying to come to an agreement with the Silver Circle
- the magical organisation thats been trying to kill her for years
- she finds herself kidnapped by one of its members & swept away in the ley line system a series of magical currents that occupies the space between worlds. Cassie manages to escape but fearing for her safety she decides to invest in a magical device for protection. However all she can afford is a statue that grants wishes.. . But what Cassie doesnt realize is that the statue doesnt always grant wishes the way the wisher would like. & when she wishes for the strength to shift herself & companion Pritkin away from a dangerous fight the statue grants the wish by switching her into Pritkins body & him into hers. & thats when the real trouble starts...

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Revenge in the face of bloodlust is seldom sweet... Theres one sound a woman doesnt want to hear when shes lost & alone in the Arctic wilderness: a howl. For Cheyenne Clark theres a bad moon on the rise. When a strange wolfs teeth slash her ankle to the bone her old life ends & she becomes the very monster that has haunted her nightmares for years. Worse the only one who can understand what Chey has become is the man
- & wolf
- whos doomed her to this fate. He also wants her dead. Yet as the line between human & beast blurs so too does the distinction between hunter & hunted...for Chey is more than just the victim she appears to be. But once shes within killing range she may find that
- even for a werewolf
- its not always easy to go for the jugular.



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Things are going well for Alex Verus. Hes on moderately good terms with the Council his apprentice is settling in & his shop in Camden is gaining quite a reputation. But when a mysterious woman bursts into the Arcana Emporium one night with an assassin on her tail Alex is thrown into a plot to revive a long-forbidden ritual. His old enemies are after the secret as well as a Council mage named Belthas & a mercenary named Garrick & at least one of them is trying to get Alex killed
- if he only knew which. He can see the future but knowing who to trust is something else.
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