The second volume in Raymond E. Feist's highly acclaimed epic fantasy Riftwar Saga With the Kingdom of the Isles at peace Prince Arutha can at last look forward to marrying the Princess Anita in the city of Krondor. But the capital in the west harbours many shadows. When Jimmy the Hand a young thief in the Guild of Mockers upsets an assassination attempt on Arutha a sinister plot is uncovered. As the dead rise & assassins stalk the darkness Arutha must rally the Kingdom forces swiftly if he is to save his beautiful princess felled by a poisoned arrow on her wedding day & prevent a madman from destroying Midkemia. ...

The whole of the magnificent Riftwar Cycle by bestselling author Raymond E. Feist master of magic & adventure now available in ebook For nearly a year peace reigned in the enchanted kingdom of Rillanon. But new challenges awaited Arutha the Prince of Krondor when Jimmy the Hand
- the youngest thief in the Guild of Mockers
- came upon a sinister Nighthawk poised to assassinate him. What evil power raises the dead & makes corpses do battle with the living at the behest of the Guild of Death? & what high magic can defeat it? Meanwhile a life-or-death quest must be undertaken to find an antidote to a poison that fells a beautiful princess on her wedding day... Silverthorn is the second book in the Riftwar Saga. The trilogy concludes with book three A Darkness at Sethanon.

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George & Edie are travelling through un London a world of danger on the city streets & they are quite alone. Time is standing still & the rest of London is unaware of their plight unaware of the hidden world of living statues of Shackleton & the Queen of Time. In the concluding part of the breathtaking & critically acclaimed Stoneheart trilogy Edie & George look deeper into Edie's past & her future. ...

When a mysterious stranger suddenly turns up claiming to be Alfies guardian Alfies happy days living with Tims family are over. Soon Alfies trapped in a cage with a grouchy vampire & a mysterious creature called a scoffle. Hes been collected by werewolf hunter Sebarino Silvertooth whos captured extraordinary creatures in order to sell them to researchers. Can Tim & his parents with the help of Grandpa Werewolf & Noura help Alfie escape before he ends up in a lab... ...

Melanie Mc Grath's critically acclaimed East End family memoir now in paperback. In this remarkable book award-winning writer Melanie Mc Grath has given us a vivid & poignant memoir of the East End. Mc Grath spent years wondering about her East End roots. At the turn of the twenty-first century the places where her grandparents lived out their lives Poplar East Ham & Silvertown -- are virtually unrecognisable; her grandparents Jenny & Len Page long since dead & already half forgotten. Silvertown teems with stories of life in the docks & pubs & dog tracks of the old East End where Melanie Mc Grath's grandparents scraped a living. Here are the bustling alleys & lanes of Poplar in 1914 where eleven year old Jenny watches the men go off to fight; the Moses sweatshop on the Mile End Waste; the London docks then the largest port in the world; & Jenny having her teeth pulled out on her seventeenth birthday. Here too is the Cosy Cafe opened full of hope by Jenny & Len -- later a home to their troubled marriage -- & an East End landscape which is altered forever by the closure of the docks & the disintegration of this close knit community. The places Melanie Mc Grath describes have largely vanished now. This evocative & deeply moving family memoir recreates the lost East End & the struggles of those who live there. ...

The creators of Captain America" & the " Boy Commandos" produced some of the hardest-hitting crime comics of the 1950s. Often featuring real-world criminals like Ma Barker Al Capone & Pretty Boy Floyd & true-to-life events like the St. Valentines Day Massacre these adventures were torn from post-prohibition headlines. Explosive enough to draw the attention of the congressional committee on juvenile delinquency they remain action-packed for todays graphic novel audience. These are the best of the Simon & Kirby Crime comics fully restored & collected for the first time." ...

The creators of Captain America" produced some of the most thrilling science fiction. Spanning more than 20 years this volume features the first stories Joe Simon & Jack Kirby ever produced together (" The Blue Bolt Adventures") as well as " Race for the Moon" featuring pencils by Kirby & inked artwork by comic book legends Reed Crandall Angelo Torres & Al Williamson." ...

Love him or loathe him Simon Cowell is arguably the most influential player in the British entertainment industry & one of Britain's most successful exports. After a humble start in the post room at EMI his meteoric rise began when he became a top A&R executive signing huge acts from Westlife & Five to Robson & Jerome. Fame & a television career followed when he became a judge in the TV talent shows Pop Idol" & " American Idol" & subsequently created the hit shows " The X Factor" & " Britain's Got Talent" watched by millions every year. His trademark blunt honesty coupled with his extraordinary business savvy has made him a household name
- but what do we really know about this charismatic & sharp-tongued man? In " Simon Cowell" Chas Newkey-Burden finds out interviewing friends & old colleagues & lifting the lid on the professional & private life of one of Britain's most eligible batchelors."
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Even as a fourteen-year-old orphan Simon Beauvallet knows his own mind. Later friend & foe alike will know better than to cross the flaxen-haired mountain of a man whose exploits in battle have earned him knighthood lands & gilded armour. After Agincourt he has no equal save the king himself in generalship
- until his legendary prowess is baulked by a woman. In Normandy the icy rage of Simon the Coldheart" must melt
- or quench Lady Margaret spitfire of Belremy."

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Simon Wiesenthal was the legendary Nazi hunter a Holocaust survivor who dedicated his life to the punishment of Nazi criminals. A hero in the eyes of many he was also attacked for his unrelenting pursuit of the past when others preferred to forget. For this definitive biography Tom Segev has obtained access to Wiesenthals hundreds of thousands of private papers & to sixteen archives including records of the U.S. Israeli Polish & East German secret services. Segev is able to reveal the intriguing secrets of Wiesenthals life including his stunning role in the capture of Adolf Eichmann his controversial investigative techniques his unlikely friendships with Kurt Waldheim & Albert Speer & the nature of his rivalry with Elie Wiesel. Tom Segev has written a brilliant character study of a hunter who was driven by his own memories to ensure that the destruction of European Jewry never be forgotten. ...