The third book in the seventh series of the exciting adventure stories that are as gripping as a computer game! Great for boys with a huge collectability factor bolstered by the collectors' cards in the back of the books & links to an excellent interactive website. Evil Wizard Malvel is steering the land of Tavania towards total destruction. Tom must stop him by defeating six rampaging Beasts & sending them back to their rightful homes. Krestor the Crushing Terror awaits him... Don't miss CONVOL THE COLD-BLOODED BRUTE HELLION THE FIERY FOE MADARA THE MIDNIGHT WARRIOR ELLIK THE LIGHTNING HORROR CARNIVORA THE WINGED SCAVENGER ...

Pozdnyshev & his wife have a turbulent relationship. When her beauty blossoms after the birth of their children men begin to flock around her & he becomes increasingly jealous. Convinced his wife is betraying him with a young musician his overpowering suspicion drives him to ever more dangerous lengths. United by the theme of love the writings in the Great Loves" series span over two thousand years & vastly different worlds. Readers will be introduced to loves endlessly fascinating possibilities & extremities: romantic love platonic love erotic love gay love virginal love adulterous love parental love filial love nostalgic love unrequited love illicit love not to mention lost love twisted & obsessional love..." ...

This the first of two volumes on Germanys World War II U-boats traces their development through: the early U-boats of the Kaisers navy; the prohibition on Germany having U-boats following the Armistice in 1918 & the subsequent Treaty of Versailles; the secret development of U-boats using a cover-firm" in Holland; & culminating in the formation of the 1st U-boat Flotilla in 1935 with the modern Type II. The operational history section

Includes:: examples from the classes Type VIIA Type VIIB VIID VIIE & VIIF before concentrating on the mainstay of the U-boat arm the Type VIIC. Comparisons are also made with the standard Allied submarines their strength & weakness & U-boat tactics."

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Ruskin Splinter is small & thin with knock-knees thick glasses & a squeaky voice & the idea of him taming a dragon makes the whole class laugh. Big strong Elvis is stupid but he looks like a hero. So who is more likely to get the big part in the school play? But when the mysterious beast Krindlekrax threatens Lizard Street & everyone who lives there it is Ruskin who saves the day & proves he is the stuff that heros are made from after all. ...

Saul Kripke has been a major influence on analytic philosophy & allied fields for a half-century & more. His early masterpiece Naming & Necessity reversed the pattern of two centuries of philosophizing about the necessary & the contingent. Although much of his work remains unpublished several major essays have now appeared in print most recently in his long-awaited collection Philosophical Troubles. In this book Kripke's long-time colleague the logician & philosopher John P. Burgess offers a thorough & self-contained guide to all of Kripke's published books & his most important philosophical papers old & new. It also provides an authoritative but non-technical account of Kripke's influential contributions to the study of modal logic & logical paradoxes. Although Kripke has been anything but a system-builder Burgess expertly uncovers the connections between different parts of his oeuvre. Kripke is shown grappling often in opposition to existing traditions with mysteries surrounding the nature of necessity rule-following & the conscious mind as well as with intricate & intriguing puzzles about identity belief & self-reference. Clearly contextualizing the full range of Kripke's work Burgess outlines summarizes & surveys the issues raised by each of the philosopher's major publications. Kripke will be essential reading for anyone interested in the work of one of analytic philosophy's greatest living thinkers. ...

Kris Kristofferson is one of country musics most illustrious singer-songwriters. Seemingly destined for a distinguished military career ex-Golden Gloves boxer & Rhodes scholar Kristofferson gave it all up to sweep floors in Nashville began to pitch his songs to his musical heroes & finally became a star himself. Stephen Millers biography perfectly captures the spirit of a single-minded but multi-talented man who has been inducted into both the Country Music Hall of Fame & the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. It details the 100 films Kristofferson has been in to date & talks about the people who he worked with including Willie Nelson & Bob Dylan to Barbra Streisand & Martin Scorcese & Sam Peckinpah. The story if brought right up to date as Kristofferson carries on working following heart bypass surgery & the death of his friends & fellow performers including Johnny Cash The Highwaymen & Waylon Jennings. ...

It all began with a great idea... Kristy Thomas brilliant business plan to form a club of friends who will babysit for neighbours gets off to a flying start wit the help of Claudia Kishi (vice-president) Mary Anne Spier (secretary) & Stacey Mc Gill (treasurer). Friendships are forged adventures begun & life lessons learned in the first book of the series that took the world by storm. ...

Third in the massively successful new Krondor series inspired by Feist's global bestselling computer game Return to Krondor. A DROP IN THE OCEAN? A raid upon the high seas signals an attack of unprecedented magnitude by the forces of darkness. For the holiest of holies the Tear of the Gods has been lost to the Temple of Ishap. After a raid planned by Bear one of the most brutal pirates to sail the Bitter Sea goes dramatically wrong the colossal gems sink below the waves. So begins a story of the Tear of the Gods the most powerful artifact known to the Temples of Midkemia. For it allows the temples to speak with their gods. Without it they are lost for a decade until another gem is formed in the distant mountains. Squire James William & Jazhara new court magician must seek out the location of this gem with Brother Solon a warrior priest of Ishap & Kendaric the sole member of the Wreckers' Guild with the power to raise the ship. They are opposed by the minions of Sidi servant of the Dark God who seeks to possess the Tear for his own ends or to destroy it denying it to the forces of light. This third tale in The Riftwar Legacy is a breathless race for a priceless treasure. It's a race against time against the myriad sinister & competing evil forces desperate for the all-powerful prize & ultimately against the fundamentals of nature which in Midkemia can be as formidable as the Gods themselves ...

The second instalment of The Riftwar Legacy Assassins reveals Feist at his storytelling best. There is intrigue humour & breakneck action aplenty here from the undisputed master of epic fantasy. Fresh back from the front another foe defeated Prince Arutha arrives to find all is not well in Krondor. A series of apparently random murders has brought an eerie quiet to the city. Where normally the streets are bustling with merchants & tricksters good life & night life now there seems to be a self-imposed curfew at sundown. Mutilated bodies have been turning up in the sewers the Mockers' demense. The Thieves' Guild has been decimated
- men women children it matters not. The head of the Mockers is missing presumed dead. Those few who survived the terrible attacks are lying low. Very low. The Crawler it seems is back in town. & he's being helped by others more ruthless than he. Can it be the Nighthawks again? The Prince enlists his loyal Squire James to find out. If anyone can unravel what's happening in the bowels of Krondor he can. He knows the sewers like the back of his h&. Afterall as Jimmy the Hand he grew up there. Meanwhile the retinue of the Duke of Olasko has arrived suddenly at the palace a week ahead of schedule but with no apologies & many demands. They say they are here to hunt. But to hunt what. Pug's son William on his first posting as a knight-lieutenant must escort them into the wilds. It should have been a straightforward mission...
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A new episode in Feists massively successful Riftwar saga. From the endlessly inventive mind of one of fantasys all-time greats comes a spellbinding new adventure featuring old favourites Jimmy Locklear & Pug. It is nine years on from the aftermath of Sethanon. There has been peace awhile & its been needed. But news is feeding through to the people of the Kingdom of the Isles that deadly forces are stirring on the horizon. The bringer of the latest tidings is Gorath a moredhel (dark elf). The bloodletting has started. Nighthawks are murdering again. Politics is a dangerous cut-throat game once more. At the root of all this unrest lie the mysterious machinations of a group of magicians known as The Six. Meanwhile renegade Tsurani gem smugglers a rival criminal gang to the Mockers led by someone known only as The Crawler & traitors to the crown are all conspiring to bring the Kingdom of the Isles to its knees. ...