This book focuses on the themes heat light & sound. Like all Winners titles it combines high-interest science content a variety of text types & all the features needed to support kids struggling with reading. Reading age of 7.5 years & an interest age of 9 years. Contents: Shadows (Text Type: Feature Article) All about Light (Text Type: Explanation) The Handsome Prince (Text Type: Comic Strip) Multimedia Information Shadows Told the Time (Text Type: Recount) Quick 8 Quiz Learn Mo" ...

The astonishing first volume in Raymond E. Feist's bestselling Serpentwar series... Ancient powers are readying themselves for a devastating confrontation & a dark queen has raised a standard & is gathering armies of unmatched might. Into this battleground of good & evil a band of desperate men are forced whose only hope for survival is to face this ancient power & discover its true nature. Their quest is at best dangerous & at worst suicidal. Among them are some unlikely heroes
- Erik a bastard heir denied his birthright & his friend Roo an irrepressible scoundrel with a penchant for thievery are accompanied by the mysterious Miranda upon whom all must wager their lives. She appears to be an ally but also possess a hidden agenda & may prove to be a more deadly foe when the final confrontation is at h&...
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It began with A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES. Historian Diana Bishop descended from a line of powerful witches & long-lived vampire Matthew Clairmont have broken the laws dividing creatures. When Diana discovered a significant alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library she sparked a struggle in which she became bound to Matthew. Now the fragile coexistence of witches daemons vampires & humans is dangerously threatened. Seeking safety Diana & Matthew travel back in time to London 1590. But they soon realise that the past may not provide a haven. Reclaiming his former identity as poet & spy for Queen Elizabeth the vampire falls back in with a group of radicals known as the School of Night. Many are unruly daemons the creative minds of the age including playwright Christopher Marlowe & mathematician Thomas Harriot. Together Matthew & Diana scour Tudor London for the elusive manuscript Ashmole 782 & search for the witch who will teach Diana how to control her remarkable powers... Fall under the spell of Diana & Matthew once more in this stunning richly imagined epic tale. ...

It began with A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES. Historian Diana Bishop descended from a line of powerful witches & long-lived vampire Matthew Clairmont have broken the laws dividing creatures. When Diana discovered a significant alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library she sparked a struggle in which she became bound to Matthew. Now the fragile coexistence of witches daemons vampires & humans is dangerously threatened. Seeking safety Diana & Matthew travel back in time to London 1590. But they soon realise that the past may not provide a haven. Reclaiming his former identity as poet & spy for Queen Elizabeth the vampire falls back in with a group of radicals known as the School of Night. Many are unruly daemons the creative minds of the age including playwright Christopher Marlowe & mathematician Thomas Harriot. Together Matthew & Diana scour Tudor London for the elusive manuscript Ashmole 782 & search for the witch who will teach Diana how to control her remarkable powers... Fall under the spell of Diana & Matthew once more in this stunning richly imagined epic tale. ...

Shadow of the Knight is a celebration of Sir Alex Fergusons trophy-studded management career brilliantly analysing the factors which have contributed to his success
- then looking to the future & the vexed question of how Manchester United will ever be able to replace their iconic leader. Paul Smiths detective work uncovers the key decisions & methods the people & beliefs which have shaped Fergusons values & helped evolve his deadly mode of operation. He scrutinises Fergusons credentials through the eyes of former team-mates managerial charges & those who have worked closest to him. & so to the almost unthinkable question of United after Ferguson & who best to follow in his illustrious footsteps. Discover the ruthless & softer sides of Ferguson the key role of family in the Manchester United success story
- & how the past might offer up the key to the future at Old Trafford.

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M.M. Kaye author of The Far Pavilions" sweeps her readers back to the vast glittering sunbaked continent of India. " Shadow of the Moon" is the story of Winter de Ballesteros a beautiful English heiress who has come to India to be married. It is also the tale of Captain Alex Randall her escort & protector who knows that Winters husband to be has become a debauched wreck of a man. When India bursts into flaming hatreds & bitter bloodshed during the dark days of the Mutiny Alex & Winter are thrown unwillingly together in the brutal & urgent struggle for survival." ...

The first in the Mc Levy series this is wonderfully evocative detective fiction based in dark violent Victorian Edinburgh. Its 1880 & the city is gripped by election fever. But while the rich & educated argue about politics in the dank wynds of the city its a struggle just to stay alive especially when a murderous madman seems to have resurfaced after 30 years. Mc Levy is lured into a world of politics perversion deception & mystery & into the shadow of the serpent. ...

On buses donkey carts trains jeeps & camels Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia across northern Afghanistan & the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey. Covering over 7000 miles in eight months Thurbron recounts extraordinary adventures
- a near-miss with a drunk-driver incarceration in a Chinese cell during the SARS epidemic undergoing root canal treatment without anaesthetic in Iran
- in inimitable prose. Shadow of the Silk Road" is about Asia today; a magnificent account of an ancient world in modern ferment."

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Evil Pharaoh Oba has imprisoned the gods who protect Egypt & now bloodthirsty monsters roam the l&. Only one boy can stop them: Akori an orphaned farm-boy with a huge destiny. The battle to end all battles has begun. Akori must fight Set the dark Lord of Storms himself & beat Oba the evil Pharaoh to claim his rightful throne. But can Egypts young hero finally win the crown? Dont miss a single battle in this huge new adventure series! ...

Only with the greatest of simplifications for the sake of convenience can we say Africa. In reality except as a geographical term Africa doesnt exist". Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout his career. In a study that avoids the official routes palaces & big politics he sets out to create an account of post-colonial Africa seen at once as a whole & as a location that wholly defies generalised explanations. It is both a sustained meditation on themosaic of peoples & practices we call Africa & an impassioned attempt to come to terms with humanity itself as it struggles to escape from foreign domination from the intoxications of freedom from war & from politics as theft." ...