Aphra Behn the poet playwright novelist & political satirist was the first truly professional woman writer in English. This selection edited & introduced by Professor Janet Todd demonstrates the full sophistication & vitality of Aphra Behns genius. It contains the plays The Rover" & " The Widow" " Ranter" (the first English play to be set in the American colonies) together with " Love Letters to a Gentleman" a choice of poems & two short novels
- " The Fair Jilt" & " Oroonoko"
- which are among the most innovative prose writings of the seventeenth century."

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Citizens of our beloved Democratic Republic of North Korea! Imagine the life of an orphan boy plucked from nowhere to be trained as a tunnel assassin a kidnapper a spy. He has no father but the State no sweetheart but Sun Moon the greatest opera star who ever lived whose face is tattooed on his chest. Imagine he lives in our very own country a model of exemplary Communism. A nation that is the envy of the world especially the Americans. Where the only stories people need to hear are those blasting out of loudspeakers to the glory of our dear Leader Kim Jong il. Dry your eyes now comrades! Prepare to hear the Greatest North Korean Love Story Ever Told. THE ORPHAN MASTERS SON is an iconoclastic work of fiction part thriller part coming-of-age story part love story. Dark playful & genre-defying its searing depiction of one mans epic journey through the surrealist brutality of North Korea shines a fierce light on the essence of the human condition. ...

I've told you before & I will tell you again if you are unable to read the Holy Book you will be punished." The teacher's face was a mask of anger. " Understand?" Born in 1975 in the UK to a Pakistani father & an English mother Alexander Khan spent his early years as a Muslim in the north of Engl&. But at the age of three his family was torn apart when his father took him to Pakistan. Despite his desperate cries that was the last he saw of his mother
- he was told she had walked out & abandoned them; many years later he learned she was told he'd died in a car crash in Pakistan. Three years on Alex is brought back to England but kept hidden at all times. His father disappears to Pakistan again leaving Alex in the care of a stepmother & her cruel brother. & it is then that his troubles really begin. Seen as an outsider by both the white kids & the Pakistani kids Alex is lost & alone. When his father dies unexpectedly Alex is sent back to Pakistan to stay with his 'family' & learn to behave like a 'good Muslim'. Now alone in a strange hostile country with nobody to protect him Alex realises what it is to be truly orphaned. No one would listen. No one would help. & no one cared when he was kidnapped by men from his own family & sent to a fundamentalist Madrassa on the Afghanistan border. A fascinating & compelling account of young boy caught between two cultures this book tells the true story of a child desperately searching for his place in the world; the tale of a boy lost & alone trying to find a way to repair a life shattered by the shocking event he witnessed through a crack in the door of a house in an isolated village in Pakistan."
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The team of code-crackers face a new code that has never been solved. Brodie Hunter & Tusia are back at Station X the secret code-cracking station at Bletchley Park. & they are still wrestling with the great unanswered question: what secret lies behind the ancient coded Voynich Manuscript? Their first adventure left them with a musical box that plays a tune by the composer Elgar. Elgar loved codes. At once they are off on a new search which takes them to the stories behind Elgars famous music & a coded letter he wrote to a young friend Dorabella. The Dorabella Cipher has never ever been solved. Now our team of code-breakers are on a twisting trail via medieval book burnings in Florence a mysterious boy known as the Orphan of the Flames & a one-time famous prisoner in Londons Newgate Prison who wrote about King Arthur. Where is it all leading? & will they survive when hot on their trail is a secret organisation that has always thwarted the search for Truth & is prepared to kill to stop them.. . The second story in this highly original puzzle-solving series
- a Da Vinci Code for kids. The reader races along with the Secret Breakers team to break the code.. . Enter the world of the Secret Breakers at http://hldennis. com/
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Darien is no longer a lost outpost of humanity but the prize in an intergalactic power struggle. Hegemony forces control the planet while Earth merely observes rendered impotent by galactic politics. Yet Earths ambassador to Darien will become a player in a greater conflict as there is more at stake than a turf war on a newly discovered world. An ancient temple hides access to a hyperspace prison housing the greatest threat sentient life has ever known. Millennia ago malignant intelligences were caged there following an apocalyptic struggle & their servants work on their release. Now a new war is coming. ...

The ones you leave behind are the ones that stay with you forever... When Madeleine Belfield loses her family & her home in the Blitz she is sent to love with relatives in the relative safety of the Yorkshire Dales. On board the steam train Maddy befriends Gloria Conley & her brother Sid abandoned by their desperate mother. Although Maddy & Gloria are chalk & cheese they soon vow to be forever friends. Maddy slowly adjusts to Brooklyn Hall & her new family especially Aunt Plum. Eager to help with the war effort Plum has opened up a home for difficult evacuees & Maddy & Gloria quickly become bound together in friendship & mischief with a motley crew including headstrong Greg & flighty Enid. The friendship endures into adulthood until a tragic experience tears them apart. Desperate to escape her memories Maddy flees to London. Years later chance reunites her with Gloria & Greg. But a visit back to Yorkshire reveals the truth about the past
- a revelation with unimaginable consequences.
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I have never written down the answers to the deepest mysteries nor will I ever... The philosopher Plato wrote these words more than two thousand years ago following a perilous voyage to Italy -- an experience about which he never spoke again but from which he emerged the greatest thinker in all of human history. Today twelve golden tablets sit in museums around the world each created by unknown hands & buried in ancient times & each providing the dead with the route to the afterlife. Archaeologist Lily Barnes working on a dig in southern Italy has just found another. But this tablet names the location to the mouth of hell itself. & then Lily vanishes. Has she walked out on her job her marriage & her life -- or has something more sinister happened? Her husband Jonah is desperate to find her. But no one can help him: not the police & not the secretive foundation that sponsored her dig. All Jonah has is belief & a determination to do whatever it takes to get Lily back. But like Plato before him Jonah will discover the journey ahead is mysterious & dark & fraught with danger. & not everyone who travels to the hidden place where Lily has gone can return. ...

This important work offers the most comprehensive & up-to-date account of the Orthodox Church available providing a detailed account of its historical development as well as exploring Orthodox theology & culture Written by one of the leading Orthodox historians & theologians in the English-speaking world Offers an in-depth engagement with the issues surrounding Orthodoxys relationship to the modern world including political cultural & ethical debates Considers the belief tradition spirituality liturgical diversity & Biblical heritage of the Eastern Churches; their endurance of oppressions & totalitarianisms; & their contemporary need to rediscover their voice & confidence in a new world-order Recipient of a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 award ...

Pete Rollins is inspired by the fact that all language fails when it comes to describing God. This he says is what nourishes poets & pilgrims alike as they try to capture enact & incarnate truth. Such truth can only be lived
- it cannot be reduced to mere words. From this starting point he revisits the parables of Jesus
- odd & unexpected stories that set hearers & readers spinning off course from what is safe & familiar towards some completely new kind of understanding. Parables are subversive; they never attempt to make faith simplistic. A parable does not primarily provide information about our world. Rather if we allow it to do its work within us it will change our world-breaking it
- & us
- open to wholly new possibilities. In the spirit of Jesus' parables Peter offers some transformative stories of his own.



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The FIRST EVER Orthodox Study Bible" presents the Bible of the early church & the church of the early Bible. Orthodox Christianity is the face of ancient Christianity to the modern world & embraces the second largest body of Christians in the world. In this first-of-its-kind study Bible the Bible is presented with commentary from the ancient Christian perspective that speaks to those Christians who seek a deeper experience of the roots of their faith. Features Include: Old Testament newly translated from the Greek text of the Septuagint including the Deuterocanon New Testament from the New King James Version Commentary drawn from the early Church Christians Easy-to-Locate liturgical readings Book Introductions & Outlines Subject Index Full-color Icons Full-color Maps" ...