Ashes to ashes.. . California: The book of Abraham the Mage holds the secret of eternal life
- a secret more dangerous than any
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Voyager Classics
- timeless masterworks of science fiction & fantasy. A beautiful clothbound edition of Magician the original masterwork
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Meet Quentin Coldwater king of the bizarre & wonderful land of Fillory. But he is getting restless even in heaven a man needs a little adventure. So when a steward is murdered on a mornings hunt Quentin gets exactly that. But this quest is like no other. What starts as a glorified cruise to faraway lands soon becomes the stuff of nightmares... The Magician King" is a grand voyage into the dark glittering heart of magic an extraordinary journey that allows the imagination to run riot & proves Grossman is the modern heir to C.S. Lewis. This is a book like no other." ...

Many thousands of years ago two prophecies came into being & a moment was fixed when only one would determine the future. This moment a clash between the maimed god Torak & the descendant of the Rivan king is approaching... Garion was brought up as a farm lad but is now beginning to understand the extent of his part in the prophecy & working very hard to control his sorcerous power. He is travelling towards this meeting in a sinister tower where the evil god lies sleeping. With him is the wise sorcerer Belgarath. & Ce Nedra
- a wilful young princess who refuses to believe in sorcery but is terrified that Garion will die in the coming confrontation...
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The Narnia Chronicles first published in 1950 have been & remain some of the most enduringly popular childrens books ever published. The best known The Lion the Witch & the Wardrobe has been translated into 29 languages! Pollys hand went out to touch one of the rings. Immediately without a flash or a noise she vanished. When horrible Uncle Andrew starts experimenting with magic Digory & Polly find themselves in another world & at the beginning of an incredible adventure as the doorway to the magical land of Narnia opens! This is the first adventure in the exciting Chronicles of Narnia. ...

The fate of the black Magician will be sealed as prophecy becomes truth in the last book of the Riftwar Cycle. THE FINAL VOLUME IN THE EPIC RIFTWAR CYCLE. The dragons are calling... Civil war is tearing apart the Kingdom of the Isles for the throne lies empty & rivals are converging. Having spirited his beloved Princess Stephane safely out of Roldem Hal
- now Duke of Crydee
- must turn his attention to the defence of the ancient realm so that a king can be anointed by the Congress of Lords rather than by right of might. But the greatest threat may well lie out of the hands of men. Somewhere in the Grey Towers Mountains something not of this world is emerging. It will require that alliances be made between mortal enemies if disaster is to be averted. Elves & men must stand together ancient heroes must rise again dragons must fly & Pug Magnus & the other magic-users of Midkemia must be prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice if the whole world is to be saved.

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In a secret world of forbidden knowledge power comes at a terrible price... Quentin Coldwaters life is changed forever by an apparently chance encounter: when he turns up for his entrance interview to Princeton he finds his interviewer dead
- but a strange envelope bearing Quentins name leads him down a very different path to any hed ever imagined. The envelope & the mysterious manuscript it contains leads to a secret world of obsession & privilege a world of freedom & power & for a while its a world that seems to answer all Quentins desires. But the idyll cannot last
- & when its finally shattered Quentin is drawn into something darker & far more dangerous than anything he could ever have expected...

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Glorious new rejacket of a Diana Wynne Jones favourite featuring Chrestomanci -- now a book with extra bits! The Dukedom of Caprona is a place where music is enchantment & spells are as slippery as spaghetti. The magical business is run by two families
- the Montanas & the Petrocchis
- & they are deadly rivals. So when all the spells start going wrong they naturally blame each other. Chrestomanci suspects an evil enchanter; others say it is a White Devil. Or maybe a different kind of magic is needed to save Caprona!

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Each year the magicians of Imardin gather together to purge the city streets of vagrants urchins & miscreants. Masters of the disciplines of magic they know that no one can oppose them. But their protective shield is not as impenetrable as they believe. Sonea angry frustrated & outraged by the treatment of her family & friends hurls a stone at the shield putting all her rage behind it. To the amazement of all who bear witness the stone passes unhindered through the barrier & renders a magician unconscious. The guilds worst fear has been realised.. . There is an untrained magician loose on the streets. She must be found before her uncontrolled powers unleash forces that will destroy both her & the city that is her home. ...

This book provides a concise & informative treatment of the Maginot Line from North-East France down to the Alps. The Line was named after Andre Maginot who advocated a series of fixed defences to counter the threat of German military resurgence & to provide time for the French Army to mobilise in the event of any invasion. Construction of the Line began in 1929 & was largely complete by the outbreak of World War II. Packed with maps plans & elevations contemporary images & modern photographs plus stunning artwork it forms a detailed & informative visual treatment of this famous fortification system. ...