In February 1880 when Arthur Conan Doyle was only twenty years old he embarked upon the first real outstanding adventure in my life seven months as a ships surgeon on an Arctic whaler. The voyage took the young Conan Doyle into unknown regions & plunged him into dangerous & bloody work on the ice floes of the Arctic seas. His unforgettable adventure was echoed in a number of his early landmarks as a writer. A ghost story based on the experience The Captain of the Pole-Star got him noticed in publishing circles as a promising young writer & a magazine article called The Glamour of the Arctic won him the respect of intrepid Arctic explorers. During the voyage Conan Doyle kept a detailed diary. This incredible document hidden from public view for more than a century is written in his clear handwriting & is illustrated with many charming pen-&-ink sketches of scenes of life on board & of the sea-creatures & other sights he saw. It provides a vivid account of the coming of age of the young man who would go on to create Sherlock Holmes & of a life at sea that no longer exists. This book will feature a facsimile of this remarkable diary with a transcript as well as several non-fiction & fiction pieces based on the experience including the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Black Peter. It will also include photographs of the ship its captain & young Conan Doyle on deck. The publication of this unknown diary will be welcomed by all fans of Arthur Conan Doyle. ...

Hans Bengler a young entomologist leaves Sweden for the Kalahari Desert determined to find a previously undiscovered insect to name after himself & advance his career. Instead he finds a young boy whose tribe has been decimated by European raiders. Accustomed to collecting specimens Bengler re-names the traumatised child Daniel & brings him home to Sweden intending to civilise him. But Daniel yearns desperately for the desert & his real family. His only consolation is his friendship with a vulnerable young girl who is also an outsider in the community but even this bond is destined to be violently broken as Daniels isolation & increasing desperation lead to a chilling tragedy. ...

My Very First Bible published to high acclaim in 2003 & its popular stories & bright illustrations have since gone onto provide the basis for a number of additional series including board books big books sticker & activity books. 12 key Bible stories have now been made available as great value little paperbacks offering a smart way of collecting multiple books for use in groups & classes for award-giving or for anyone wanting a pocket-money gift. The series
Includes:: In the Beginning; Noah & the Ark; Moses & his Sister; Brave David; Jonah & the Whale; Daniel & the Lions; Baby Jesus; Jesus & the Storm; The Good Samaritan; The Lost Sheep; Our Father; & The Easter Story.
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As Daniel Deronda" opens Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table prepared to throw away her family fortune. She is observed by Daniel Deronda a young man groomed in the finest tradition of the English upper-classes. & while Gwendolen loses everything & becomes trapped in an oppressive marriage Derondas fortunes take a different turn. After a dramatic encounter with the young Jewish woman Mirah he becomes involved in a search for her lost family & finds himself drawn into ever-deeper sympathies with Jewish aspirations & identity. I meant everything in the book to be related to everything else wrote George Eliot of her last & most ambitious novel & in weaving her plot strands together she created a bold & richly textured picture of British society & the Jewish experience within it." ...

Daniel X has never lost a battle against the disgusting dangerous extraterrestrials on his List of Alien Outlaws. But he must now face a foe whose origins appear nearer to the depths of Hell than to the outer reaches of the galaxy! Number 2 is an unstoppable criminal whos slowly been amassing an underground army of alien henchmen to enslave Earths population
- all in preparation for the arrival of Number 1 the most powerful alien in the universe & Daniels arch-nemesis. To Daniels horror thousands of humans defect to Number 2s side without a fight. But for the first time in his life Daniel doesnt have to take a stand on his own. Hes connected with powerful military & intelligence groups that are prepared to follow his lead in the ultimate showdown against the evil that has plagued planet Earth for so long. Readers beware
- & be prepared for a truly epic battle that evokes the ancient prophesies of the end of the world.

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The Alien Hunter is playing with fire... Daniel X is on an impossible mission: to eliminate every intergalactic criminal on the face of the Earth. Using his incredible superpower to create objects out of thin air hes taken on some of the most fearsome & fiendish aliens in the universe. Now Daniel has travelled to England in search of his next target: the explosive demon of fire Phosphorius Beta & his army of flame-weaving henchmen. But its going to take a whole new level of mojo to destroy this villain. Betas strength has been growing since he arrived on Earth more than a millennium ago & hes finally ready to turn the blue planet into his own fiery wastel&. The only way to stop him is by jumping back in time to the Dark Ages to end Betas blistering reign before it has a chance to begin. But can Daniel X take the heat? Or will the Alien Hunter finally get burned? ...

THE BEST VIDEO GAME YOU EVER PLAYED.. . Daniel X is one of the greatest superheroes ever to walk planet Earth. He has defeated a host of evil-doers on The List of Alien Outlaws & now hes ready to raise the stakes on his next impossible mission
- by eliminating two criminals at once...IS THE WORST THING THAT HAPPENED TO PLANET EARTH. Tokyo is the stomping ground of a pair of sadistic shape-shifters at the helm of a massive video-game enterprise. & their next addictive game release is about to control the minds of kids all over the world. But this deadly duo also has an appetite for endangered extraterrestrial species & they plan to make Daniel the main course of their next feast. Can he escape their skewers
- or will it be game over for the Alien Hunter? LET THE COUNTDOWN TO EXTINCTION BEGIN.

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This is the best video game you ever played... Daniel X is one of the greatest superheroes ever to walk planet Earth. He has defeated a host of evil-doers on The List of Alien Outlaws" & now hes ready to raise the stakes on his next impossible mission
- by eliminating two criminals at once... Is the worst thing that happened to planet Earth. Tokyo is the stomping ground of a pair of sadistic shape-shifters at the helm of a massive video-game enterprise. & their next addictive game release is about to control the minds of kids all over the world. But this deadly duo also has an appetite for endangered extraterrestrial species & they plan to make Daniel the main course of their next feast. Can he escape their skewers
- or will it be game over for the Alien Hunter? Let the countdown extinction begin."

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With supreme abilities like being able to shape-shift & move objects with his mind Daniel is strong enough to take on anything in the world. Its the things from beyond this planet that are the real problem. Daniel possesses a coverted List
- that belonged to his father before he was brutally murdered
- targeting intergalactic criminals preying on the human race. Now Daniel vows to take on his fathers dangerous mission as the Alien Hunter. In the first book of the series Daniel must conquer the deadly Ergent Seth. The fate of the world rests on Daniel X & he will have his revenge whatever the cost.

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All's quiet in the small town of Holliswood
- television sets computers & portable devices aglow in every home classroom & store.
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