The path of true love never runs smoothly & when Gemma is involved it can get exceedingly bumpy! For as long as thirteen-year-old Gemma Stone can remember she has dreamed of becoming an award-winning journalist. Unfortunately as the youngest member of the editorial team on the Green Park High student web-zine she is given the job of writing the horoscopes under the pen name ' Jessica Jupiter'. Not knowing the first thing about astrology Gemma decides to make the most of her unexpected situation by using her new position to play Cupid with her friends writing fictional forecasts to help their romantic dreams come true. But is Gemma to busy with her friends love lives to notice signs of love closer to home? ...

The path of true love never runs smoothly & when Gemma is involved it can get exceedingly bumpy! Gemma has finally been given the opportunity to work on an actual article for the school webzine. The only problem is that it involves working with annoying senior news reporter Will Bold & he's made it very clear that he doesn't want any of Gemma's help. But it's her first chance to prove herself so Gemma throws herself into the role of undercover journalist at full throttle earning some unexpected results... Meanwhile Gemma's mystic alter-ego Jessica Jupiter is still proving to be a hit amongst the students of Green Park
- & as her last project of getting Treacle & Jeff together worked out so well Gemma's keen to use her new found cupid-status to help Savannah in a love dilemma.
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As anyone who has spent time on the road knows you often have to depend on signs...to navigate through a town locate your hotel even obey the law a scary thought if youve ever come across any of the publicly posted absurdities that appear in this book. Signs about as easy to understand as a Swahili auctioneer (to a non-Swahili speaker) or as well-planned as the dance steps in a mosh pit with the help of signspotters around the globe weve assembled a collection of some of the most unintentionally entertaining postings on the planet
- we hope they confuse & amuse you!
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Their garments are black as night. They carry torches in their hands darkness & anger in their hearts. They are coming. When a dark family secret is exposed Sigruns peaceful life is shattered. Forced to pay for her parents misdeeds she finds herself exiled from all she knows
- & from the boy she loves
- for three long years. Yet more secrets lie ahead; not least the power Sigrun finds awakening in herself seemingly passed to her from a mysterious amulet. Can she use her new-found gift to save herself & those around her from the dangers they face? & will true love wait until her return?

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Louis E. Fenech offers a compelling new examination of one of the only Persian compositions attributed to the tenth Sikh Guru Guru Gobind Singh (1666-1708): the Zafar-namah or ' Epistle of Victory.' Written as a masnavi a Persian poem this letter was originally sent to the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb (d. 1707) rebuking his most unbecoming conduct. Incredibly Guru Gobind Singh's letter is included today within the Sikh canon one of only a very small handful of Persian-language texts granted the status of Sikh scripture. As such its contents are sung on special Sikh occasions. Perhaps equally surprising is the fact that the letter appears in the tenth Guru's book or the Dasam Granth in the standard Gurmukhi script (in which Punjabi is written) but retains its original Persian language a vernacular few Sikhs know. Drawing out the letter's direct & subtle references to the Iranian national epic the Shah-namah & to Shaikh Sa'di's thirteenth-century Bustan Fenech demonstrates how this letter served as a form of Indo-Islamic verbal warfare ensuring the tenth Guru's moral & symbolic victory over the legendary & powerful Mughal empire. Through analysis of the Zafar-namah Fenech resurrects an essential & intiguing component of the Sikh tradition: its Islamicate aspect. ...

George Eliots tale of a solitary miser gradually redeemed by the joy of fatherhood Silas Marner" is edited with an introduction & notes by David Carroll in " Penguin Classics". Wrongly accused of theft & exiled from a religious community many years before the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe living only for work & his precious hoard of money. But when his money is stolen & an orphaned child finds her way into his house Silas is given the chance to transform his life. His fate & that of Eppie the little girl he adopts is entwined with Godfrey Cass son of the village Squire who like Silas is trapped by his past. " Silas Marner" George Eliots favourite of her novels combines humour rich symbolism & pointed social criticism to create an unsentimental but affectionate portrait of rural life. This text uses the Cabinet edition revised by George Eliot in 1878. David Carrolls introduction is complemented by the original " Penguin Classics" edition introduction by Q.D. Leavis. Mary Ann Evans (1819-80) began her literary career as a translator & later editor of the Westminster Review. In 1857 she published " Scenes of Clerical Life" the first of eight novels she would publish under the name of George Eliot including " The Mill on the Floss" " Middlemarch" & " Daniel Deronda". If you enjoyed " Silas Marner" you might like Nathaniel Hawthornes " The Scarlet Letter" also available in " Penguin Classics". "I think " Silas Marner" holds a higher place than any of the authors works. It is more nearly a masterpiece; it has more of that simple rounded consummate aspect...which marks a classical work". (Henry James)." ...

Although the shortest of George Eliot's novels Silas Marner is one of her most admired & loved works. It tells the sad story of the unjustly exiled Silas Marner
- a handloom linen weaver of Raveloe in the agricultural heartland of England
- & how he is restored to life by the unlikely means of the orphan child Eppie. Silas Marner is a tender & moving tale of sin & repentance set in a vanished rural world & holds the reader's attention until the last page as Eppie's bonds of affection for Silas are put to the test.

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Silas Marner lives a friendless & isolated existence near the country village of Raveloe hoarding his gold. One night his fortune is stolen & Silas loses everything he holds dear. But then the golden-haired child Eppie appears in his home & Silas begins to reform bonds of faith & human connectedness that he once renounced forever. ...

Deep in the water lurks a new breed of Beast. The Robobeasts threatens the planet Nemos! Max & his new companion Lia plunge deeper into the depths on their mission to save his dad. But will Max survive the dangers that hide in the shadows? & can he defeat the shocking power of Silda the Electric Eel? Dive into Sea Quest & live the adventure! ...

The noise between Patch & Nora has gone. They've overcome the secrets riddled in Patch's dark past bridged two irreconcilable worlds & faced heart-wrenching tests of betrayal loyalty & trust...and all for a love that will transcend the boundary between heaven & earth. Armed with nothing but their absolute faith in one another Patch & Nora enter a desperate fight to stop a villain who holds the power to shatter everything they've worked for
- & their love
- forever.

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