Thirteen-year-old Johnny Merrimon has to face things no boy his age should face. In the year since his twin sisters abduction his world has fallen apart: his father has disappeared & his fragile mother is spiralling into ever deeper despair. Johnny keeps strong. Armed with a map a bike & a flashlight he stalks the bad men of Raven County. The police might have given up on Alyssa; he never will. Someone somewhere knows something theyre not telling. Only one person looks out for Johnny. Detective Clyde Hunt shares his obsession with the case. But when Johnny witnesses a hit-&-run & insists the victim was killed because hed found Alyssa even Hunt thinks hes lost it. & then another young girl goes missing.. . ...

This is the Penguin English Library Edition" of " The Last Chronicle of Barset" by Anthony Trollope. " He is so scandalously weak & she is so radically vicious that they cannot but be wrong together. The very fact that such a man should be a bishop among us is to me terribly strong evidence of evil days coming". When Reverend Josiah Crawley the impoverished curate of Hogglestock is accused of theft it causes a public scandal sending shockwaves through the world of Barsetshire. The Crawleys desperately try to remain dignified while they are shunned by society but the scandal threatens to tear them & the community apart. Drawing on his own childhood experience of genteel poverty Trollope gives a painstakingly realistic depiction of the trials of a family striving to maintain its standards at all costs. With its sensitive portrayal of the proud & self-destructive figure of Crawley this final volume is the darkest & most complex of all the Barsetshire novels. " The Penguin English Library"
- 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century & the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War."
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Hastings October 1066. The Normans have landed in Sussex ready for battle. They have prepared for everything about the English
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It's the Discworld's last continent & it's going to die in a few days except... Who is this hero striding across the red desert? Sheep shearer beer drinker bush ranger & someone who'll even eat a Meat Pie Floater when he's sober. A man in a hat whose luggage follows him on little legs. Yes it's Rincewind the inept wizard who can't even spell wizard. He's the only hero left. Still...no worries eh? ...

Anything you do in the past changes the future. The tiniest little actions have huge consequences. You might tread on an ant now & it might entirely prevent someone from being born in the future.' There's nothing like the issue of evolution to get under the skin of academics. Especially when those same academics are by chance or bad judgement deposited at a critical evolutionary turning point when one wrong move could have catastrophic results for the future. Unfortunately in the hands of such an inept & cussed group of individuals the sensitive issue of causality is sadly only likely to receive the same scant respect that they show to one another... ...

The Last Crusade puts the reader on da Gamas ships in the midst of a perplexing terrifying yet exciting new world & in doing so traces the ancestry of antagonism between the worlds two dominant faiths Christianity & Islam. In 1498 a young captain sailed from Portugal circumnavigated Africa crossed the Indian Ocean & discovered the sea route to the Indies opening up access to the fabled wealth of the East. It was the longest voyage known to history; the ships were pushed to their limits their crews were racked by storms & devastated by disease. However the greatest enemy was neither nature nor the fear of venturing into unknown worlds. With blood-red Crusader crosses emblazoned on their sails the explorers arrived in the heart of the Muslim East at a time when the old hostilities between Christianity & Islam had intensified. In two voyages that spanned six years Vasco da Gama would fight a running sea battle that would ultimately change the fate of three continents. The Last Crusade is an epic tale of spies intrigue & treachery; of bravado brinkmanship & confused
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- between cultures encountering one another for the first time. With the world once again tipping back East The Last Crusade offers a key to understanding age-old religious & cultural rivalries resurgent today.

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The Last Crusaders is about the titanic contest between Hadsburg-led Christendom & the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth & sixteenth centuries the last great conflict between East & West
- the battles that were fought & the men who led the armies that fought them. It was in its way the first world war.
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Three of these stories were previously published in Victoria Hislop's ebook collection One Cretan Evening. In ten powerful stories Victoria Hislop takes us through the streets of Athens & into the tree-lined squares of Greek villages. As she evokes their distinct atmosphere she brings vividly to life a host of unforgettable characters from a lonesome priest to battling brothers & from an unwanted stranger to a groom troubled by music & memory. These bittersweet tales of love & loyalty of separation & reconciliation captured in Victoria Hislop's unique voice will stay with you long after you reach the end. ...

Three of these stories were previously published in Victoria Hislop's ebook collection One Cretan Evening. In ten powerful stories Victoria Hislop takes us through the streets of Athens & into the tree-lined squares of Greek villages. As she evokes their distinct atmosphere she brings vividly to life a host of unforgettable characters from a lonesome priest to battling brothers & from an unwanted stranger to a groom troubled by music & memory. These bittersweet tales of love & loyalty of separation & reconciliation captured in Victoria Hislop's unique voice will stay with you long after you reach the end. ...

Three of these stories were previously published in Victoria Hislop's ebook collection One Cretan Evening. In ten powerful stories Victoria Hislop takes us through the streets of Athens & into the tree-lined squares of Greek villages. As she evokes their distinct atmosphere she brings vividly to life a host of unforgettable characters from a lonesome priest to battling brothers & from an unwanted stranger to a groom troubled by music & memory. These bittersweet tales of love & loyalty of separation & reconciliation captured in Victoria Hislop's unique voice will stay with you long after you reach the end. ...