The nameless & beautiful narrator of The Gargoyle" is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows. He crashes into a ravine & wakes up in a burns ward undergoing the tortures of the damned. His life is over
- he is now a monster. But in fact it is only just beginning. One day Marianne Engel a wild & compelling sculptress of gargoyles enters his life & tells him that they were once lovers in medieval Germany. In her telling he was a badly burned mercenary & she was a nun & a scribe who nursed him back to health in the famed monastery of Engelthal. As she spins her tale Scheherazade fashion & relates equally mesmerising stories of deathless love in Japan Greenland Italy & England he finds himself drawn back to life
- & finally to love."

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When Max & Ben discover that the ancient stone figures on the church next door to their school actually come to life they are delighted! School will be much more fun now that the boys have the gargoylz to help them play pranks & wreak havoc. & when they discover that the gargoylz all have special powers too they realize that the possibilities for mischief are endless! In this book the boys meet Theo the gargoyle with the power to turn into a fearsome tiger
- if he can only learn to get it right. & theres trouble for Toby when Maxs gran mistakes him for a garden gnome! More fun & hijinks abound in the second of this fun & funny series for young readers. GARGOYLZ ARE VERY NAUGHTY & WONT KEEP STILL FOR LONG. THEREFORE THE TOY INCLUDED MAY NOT BE EXACTLY AS SHOWN.
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Max & Ben need a plan of escape! Maxs parents are planning a terrifying princess party for his sisters birthday. Its going to be pink! Its going to be horrible! Luckily the Gargoylz come to the rescue with disguises tricks & a whole heap of mischief! Dont miss the fun! Join Max Ben & the Gargoylz in these four new adventures. GARGOYLZ ARE VERY NAUGHTY & WONT KEEP STILL FOR LONG. THEREFORE THE TOY INCLUDED MAY NOT BE EXACTLY AS SHOWN. ...

When Max & Ben discover that the ancient stone figures on the church next door to their school actually come to life they are delighted! School will be much more fun now that the boys have the gargoylz to help them play pranks & wreak havoc. & when they discover that the gargoylz all have special powers too they realize that the possibilities for mischief are endless! Gargoyle Toby can fly Barney can make terrible smells Bart burps spiders & Zack can turn himself invisible
- & those are just the four gargoylz that Max & Ben meet in book one! Imagine the fun & chaos that ensues once the gargoylz & the boys are working together...GARGOYLZ ARE VERY NAUGHTY & WONT KEEP STILL FOR LONG. THEREFORE THE TOY INCLUDED MAY NOT BE EXACTLY AS SHOWN.
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Knights dungeons & battlements
- Cavel Castle has it all! Max Ben & the Gargoylz cant wait to explore. But the castle has Gargoylz
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Garlic & Sapphires" is Ruth Reichl's riotous account of the many disguises she employs to dine undetected when she takes on the much coveted & highly prestigious job of " New York Times" restaurant critic. Reichl knows that to be a good critic she has to be anonymous
- but her picture is posted in every four-star low-star kitchen in town & so she embarks on an extraordinary
- & hilarious
- undercover game of disguise
- keeping even her husband & son in the dark. There is her stint as Molly a frumpy blonde in an off-beige Armani suit that Ruth takes on when reviewing Le Cirque resulting in a double review of the restaurant: first she ate there as Molly; & then as she was coddled & pampered on her visit there as Ruth " New York Times" food critic. Then there is the eccentric mysterious red head on whom her husband
- both disconcertingly & reassuringly
- develops a terrible crush. She becomes Brenda the earth mother Chloe the seductress & even Miriam her own (deceased) mother. What is even more remarkable about Reichl's spy games is that as she takes on these various guises she finds herself changed not just physically but also in character revealing how one's outer appearance can very much influence one's inner character expectations & appetites."





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The peasants of Paradise County in China have been eking out an existence virtually unchanged for hundreds of years until a glut on the garlic market forces them to watch the crop that is their lifeblood wilt rot & blacken in the fields
- leading them to storm the seat of corrupt Communist officialdom in an apocalyptic riot. Against this heroic backdrop unfold three intricately interwoven tales of love loyalty & retribution: between man & woman father & child friend & friend. Banned in China following Tianamen Square The Garlic Ballads" is a bawdy mystical & brawling novel that portrays a landscape at once strange & utterly compelling & a people whose fierce passions overflow the rigid confines of their traditions."
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The magic of garlic for cooking & healing has been known since the dawn of civilisation. Garlic: The Mighty Bulb" is a comprehensive guide to using garlic at home not just a staple when cooking but in a variety of ways. Theres advice on growing your own (the best varieties for health) & how to cultivate & store the plant to maintain its healing properties. Author Natasha Edwards also demonstrates how to dry & plait garlic into traditional grapes how to make up decongestants & boost the immune system. Plus a collection of 50 simple & varied recipes from classic dishes such as aioli & chicken with 40 cloves of garlic to salad dressings & immune boosting winter soups." ...

In a strange room in Morocco Mary Russell is trying to solve a pressing mystery: Who am I? She has awakened with shadows in her mind blood on her hands & soldiers pounding at the door. Out in the hive-like streets she discovers herself strangely adept in the skills of the underworld escaping through alleys & rooftops picking pockets & locks. She is clothed like a man & armed only with her wits & a scrap of paper showing a mysterious symbol. Overhead warplanes pass ominously north. Meanwhile Holmes is pulled by two old friends & a distant relation into the growing war between France Spain & the Rif Revolt led by Emir Abd el-Krim
- who could be a Robin Hood or a power-mad tribesman. The shadows of war are drawing over the ancient city of Fez & Holmes badly wants the wisdom & courage of his wife whom he discovers to his horror has gone missing. As Holmes searches for her & Russell searches for herself each tries to crack deadly parallel puzzles before its too late for them for Africa & for the peace of Europe.
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The Prince a political treatise by the Florentine public servant & political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli is widely regarded as the most important exploration of politics
- & in particular the politics of power
- ever written. In Garments of Court & Palace Philip Bobbitt a preeminent & original interpreter of modern statecraft presents a vivid portrait of Machiavelli's Italy & demonstrates how The Prince articulates a new idea of government that emerged during the Renaissance. Bobbitt argues that when The Prince is read alongside the Discourses modern readers can see clearly how Machiavelli prophesied the end of the feudal era & the birth of a recognizably modern polity. As this book shows publication of The Prince in 1532 represents nothing less than a revolutionary moment in our understanding of the place of the law & war in the creation & maintenance of the modern state.

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