Each Peach Pear Plum
- the classic picture book by Janet & Allan Ahlberg. Each Peach Pear Plum is a timeless picture book classic
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Each Peach Pear Plum"
- the classic picture book by Janet & Allan Ahlberg. " Each Peach Pear Plum" is a timeless picture book classic
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The Eagle brings us at last to the heart of the tale the creation of fabled Camelot & the love story that enshrined its glory. Whyte takes us into the minds & lives of Arthur Guinevere & Lancelot three astonishing but fallible people who were bound together by honor loyalty & love. Three created the glory that was Britains shining dream...and some say caused its downfall. The Gaulish nobleman Clothar
- known in our time as Lancelot
- is drawn to the young High Kings court by tales of honor & nobility where he meets a man whose love of law matches his own. More he finds in Arthur a life-long friend whose dream of uniting the people of Britain in peace Clothar embraces. & Clothar meets Arthurs queen a wondrous beauty whose passion & ideals match her husbands. Together they work to bring Arthurs dream to life. But dark forces rise in opposition to Arthurs plans for creating this noble island nation & it is hard to tell friend from foe in the swirling chaos that ensues. Many tales have been told of the dream that shined & died. This one will astonish even the most jaded.

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Salah ad-Din or Saladin as he is known to the Franks was a Kurd the son of a despised people & yet he became Sultan of Egypt & Syria. He united the peoples of Allah recaptured Jerusalem & drove the Crusaders to the very edge of the sea. He battled & in the end tamed King Richard the Lionheart who well deserved his savage name. He was a great man the greatest man that I ever knew but when I first met him he was only a skinny child...- The Chronicle of Yahya al-Dimashq But alongside the legend of Saladin there is another story. When the Crusader army is routed beneath the walls of Damascus in 1148 a young Saxon named John is captured & enslaved. He is bought by Yusuf a slight bookish boy for the price of a pair of sandals. & so begins the story of two enemies brought together by fate & of a friendship that will change the face of the Holy L&. Timid Yusuf will grow up to become the warrior Saladin nicknamed 'the Eagle'; John will first teach his young master the art of war before returning west to serve first the King of Jerusalem & then King Richard himself. From spectacular set-piece battles to the political manoeuvrings of the corrupt Crusader court from the brutality of single combat to the sophistication of Islamic life this is the first in a remarkable trilogy that will chart the story of the greatest leader the Middle East has ever known. ...

A fascinating spiritual adventure. Rosemary Alteas journey of self-discovery reminds us that our existence is more mysterious than any of us have dared to believe James Redfield author of The Celestine Prophecy I recommend this book. One cannot deny the importance & truth of its message. Bernie Siegel author of Love Medicine & Miracles The Eagle & The Rose is Rosemary Alteas first book which Rider is now bringing back into print. When it was first published it became an international bestseller selling well over half a million copies & topping charts all over the world. It will be essential reading for her thousands of fans especially as it explains her early life & the beginning of her career. She also shows how she contacts the spirit world predicts future events performs spirit rescues for those unable to continue their journey & most of all she illuminates a plane of infinite goodness light & wonder beyond everyday life
- a place accessible to us all.
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Late summer 1940. Hitler has conquered France. Now he intends to cross the Channel & defeat Britain before winter arrives. A group of young refugees led by British spy Charles Henderson faces a stark choice. To head south into the safety of neutral Spain or go north on a risky mission to sabotage the German invasion plans. For official purposes these children do not exist. ...

In the early morning hours of 6 November 1943 SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler receives the coded message he has been waiting for ' The Eagle has landed'. It was to become known as the most daring enemy mission of the entire war: Operation Eagle Himmler's audacious plan to kidnap Winston Churchill on British soil. But despite spectacular secrecy there was to be no surrender without a fight.. . For in that remote corner of Norfolk an elite unit is gathered together. Ready to do battle for a nation against the most ruthless task force ever assembled. ...

The seventh novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Roman series. Trouble is brewing in Syria on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire. With the troops in a deplorable state centurions Macro & Cato are despatched to restore the competence of the cohort. But another challenge faces them as Bannus a local tribesman is brewing up trouble & preaching violent opposition to Rome. As the local revolt grows in scale Macro & Cato must stamp out corruption in the cohort & restore it to fighting fitness to quash Bannus
- before the eastern provinces are lost to the Empire forever...
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With a dull but awful roar the Mirage bloomed with dark crimson flame & sooty black smoke the wind ripped flames outwards in great streamers & pennants that engulfed all around them & David staggered onwards in the midst of the roaring furnace that seemed to consume the very air. Drawn to the sky as though to his natural element young David Morgan spurns the boardroom future mapped out for him by his family for the life of a jet pilot. Then he meets Debra the beautiful Israeli writer for whom he will fight in another countrys war at the controls of his Mirage. Yet the breathless action which brings them together is also the very tragedy that will threaten to tear them apart.. . ...

The Ninth Legion marched into the mists of northern Britain
- & they were never seen again. Four thousand men disappeared & their
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