THE ELVES ARE ENSLAVED Calaius is occupied by an implacable relentless enemy. The great elven cities are little more than prison camps. Elven slaves are forced to destroy their beloved rainforest to harvest timber for their masters. The enemy has no mercy no honour & little skill in battle. The enemy is Man. Those few elves who remain free are fragmented in squabbling factions & they must unite before they can take a stand against Man. Many believe that the battle is already lost but Auum is not one of them. He knows Mens numbers are great but their tactics are weak; he knows Men think the Elves are already beaten; he is convinced that his people must fight now or see their race destroyed. Takaar disagrees. He believes Elven salvation lies in unlocking their magic not in fighting pitched battles against Man. He is determined to save his people too but his tactics are entirely different.. .and if some Elves must die now to ensure Calaius will be free of Man in the future its a sacrifice he is willing to make. The Elves must choose their sides. Whatever they decide victory will win their freedom.. .and failure will mean extermination.. . ...

Joe is just an ordinary boy until he makes a wish on a spooky Egyptian amulet... Now he's the Protector of Undead pets! Fluffy's owner Olivia lost a necklace in her back garden & she's going to get in big trouble if it isn't found. Fluffy can't bear to see her owner in distress & she demands that Joe finds the necklace
- now! Can Joe do what Fluffy wants or will the undead pet be hopping around forever? Undead Pets is full of animal zombies & pets with one last thing to do before they pass to the other side! Funny dark & full of adventure this series is ideal for boys seeking a fast-paced & amusing chapter book.
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Maya Delaney is a skin-walker
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When Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin is summoned to a burning barn he finds inside the charred remains of a man who is quickly identified as a local drug dealer Martin Kielty. It soon becomes clear that Kielty's death was no accident & suspicion falls on a local vigilante group. Former paramilitaries the men call themselves The Rising. Meanwhile a former colleague's teenage son has gone missing during a seaside camping trip. Devlin is relieved when the boy's mother Caroline Williams receives a text message from her son's phone & so when a body is reported washed up on a nearby beach the inspector is baffled. When another drug dealer is killed Devlin realises that the spate of deaths is more complex than mere vigilantism. But just as it seems he is close to understanding the case a personal crisis will strike at the heart of Ben's own family & he will be forced to confront the compromises his career has forced upon him. With his fourth novel Mc Gilloway announces himself as one of the most exciting crime novelists around: gripping heartbreaking & always surprising The Rising is a tour de force -- Mc Gilloway's most personal novel so far. ...

Rising 44" is a brilliant narrative account of one of the most dramatic episodes in 20th century history drawing on Davies unique understanding of the issues & characters involved. In August 1944 Warsaw offered the Wehrmacht the last line of defence against the Red Armys march from Moscow to Berlin. When the Red Army reached the river Vistula the people of Warsaw believed that liberation had come. The Resistance took to the streets in celebration but the Soviets remained where they were allowing the Wehrmacht time to regroup & Hitler to order that the city of Warsaw be razed to the ground. For 63 days the Resistance fought on in the cellars & the sewers. Defenceless citizens were slaughtered in their tens of thousands. One by one the Citys monuments were reduced to rubble watched by Soviet troops on the other bank of the river. The Allies expressed regret but decided that there was nothing to be done Poland would not be allowed to be governed by Poles. The sacrifice was in vain & the Soviet tanks rolled in to the flattened city. It is a hugely dramatic story vividly & authoritatively told by one of our greatest historians." ...

Take another step into the wild with the Warrior Cats! Rejoin the adventures in book four of the series set in a thrilling feline fantasy world when the forest is getting hotter & hotter! Firehearts traitorous enemy Tigerclaw has been vanquished & exiled from Thunder Clan -- but Fireheart cant shake the feeling that hes lurking out there in the forest waiting for the chance to strike. Thats not the only problem facing the young Thunder Clan deputy in these blazing summer months as he struggles to handle ominous omens a disrespectful apprentice with a shocking secret & a devastated Clan leader who is a shell of her former self. Meanwhile the forest gets hotter & hotter & everyone braces for the coming storm. ...

The past is waiting to surface.. . Ethan Quinn shares his late father's passion for the ocean & he is determined to make the family boat-building business a success. But as well as looking out for his young brother Seth the strong but guarded Quinn is also battling some difficult home truths. Grace Monroe the woman Ethan has always loved but never believed he could have is learning that appearances can be deceptive. For beneath Ethan's still dark waters lies a shocking past. With Grace's help can he overcome the shadows that haunt him & finally accept who he is? ...

As an amateur jockey Roland Britten was lucky; as an accountant he was zealous. He knew he was on the hate list of several fraudsters but never thought pen-pushers got kidnapped
- not from a racecourse. Not after winning the Cheltenham Gold Cup. The identity of the kidnappers unknown the reason behind Britten's abduction is a mystery. Then with the help of old school headmistress Hilary Pinlock he escapes & begins to use his accountant's logic to track his abductors down. But they have other ideas.. .' Dick Francis holds his form like a top-class chaser' The Times Literary Supplement
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