In June 1631 pirates from Algiers & armed troops of the Turkish Ottoman Empire led by the notorious pirate captain Morat Rais stormed ashore at the little harbour village of Baltimore in West Cork. They captured almost all the villagers & bore them away to a life of slavery in North Africa. The prisoners were destined for a variety of fates
- some would live out their days chained to the oars as galley slaves while others would spend long years in the scented seclusion of the harem or within the walls of the Sultans palace. The old city of Algiers with its narrow streets intense heat & lively trade was a melting pot where the villagers would join slaves & freemen of many nationalities. Only two of them ever saw Ireland again. The Sack of Baltimore was the most devastating invasion ever mounted by Islamist forces on Ireland or Engl&. Des Ekins exhaustive research illuminates the political intrigues that ensured the captives were left to their fate & provides a vivid insight into the kind of life that would have awaited the slaves amid the souks & seraglios of old Algiers. The Stolen Village" is a fascinating tale of international piracy & culture clash nearly 400 years ago & is the first book to cover this relatively unknown & under-researched incident in Irish history. It was shortlisted for the Argosy Irish Nonfiction Book of the Year Award."
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This is the way we stomp our feet Stomp! Stomp! Stomp! This is the way we like to eat Chomp! Chomp! Chomp! Stomp! Chomp! Big Roars Here come the dinosaurs! This is a brilliant third action rhymes book from the perfect duo of Kaye Umansky & Nick Sharratt. Following on from Tickle my Nose" & " Wiggle My Toes" this book focusses on the perennial favourites dinosaurs & boasts a whole host of brand new interactive fun rhymes about all sorts of things. Illustrated with Nick Sharratt's superbly vibrant & fantastic dinosaur characters this will soon become a most popular book." ...

Stone Cold is an exciting & disturbing thriller by Robert Swindells. A tense exciting thriller combined with a perceptive & harrowing portrait of life on the streets as a serial killer preys on the young & vulnerable homeless. 17-year-old Link is distrustful of people until he pairs up with Deb homeless like him. But what Deb doesn't tell him is that she's an ambitious young journalist on a self-imposed assignment to track down the killer & that she's prepared to use herself as bait... Winner of the Carnegie Medal Robert Swindells lives on the Yorkshire moors & is a full-time writer. He has won the Children's Book Award twice for Brother In The Land & for Room 13. In 1994 he won the Carnegie Medal for Stone Cold & also the Sheffield Book Award. Also by Robert Swindells: Brother in the Land; Room 13; Stone Cold; Nightmare Stairs; Unbeliever; Blitzed; Ruby Tanya; The Thousand Eyes of Night; The Tunnel; The Shade of Hettie Daynes; Burnout; In the Nick of Time; Daz 4 Zoe; Snakebite; Snapshot; Branded; Roger's War; No Angels; Wrecked; Jacqueline Hyde; Stayling Up; A Serpent's Tooth; Follow a Shadow; Timesnatch; Unbeliever; & The Last Bus. ...

Investigating a serial killer in an affluent suburban town is difficult & dangerous & with the added pressures from the town selectmen & the media the heat is turned up on Jesse. Hes spengin too much time with the bottle & with his ex-wife neither of which helps him or the case. & the harder these outside forces push against him the more Jesse retreats into himslef convinced despite the odds that its up to him alone to stop the killing. ...

On 14 January 2003 Steve Austin was voted the best professional wrestler of the last ten years in a WWE fan poll. In addition to the WWE he has wrestled in the ECW the WCW & WWF. He has been known as The Ring Master Superstar Steve Austin stunning Steve Austin & now Stone Cold Steve Austin. He has held the tag team belt in WCW & WWF the Million Dollar Belt & the Intercontinental Championship in WWF. He won the 1996 King of the Ring the 1997 Royal Rumble & the Larry Flynt Freedom of Speech Slammy. Steve Austin is by far the best & most exciting wrestler today. A notoriously private man this is the book his fans have been waiting for: his own personal story told in full for the first time. ...

When the newly-released demons set the Order of the Crow an impossible ultimatum
- deliver the Philosopher's Stone or suffer fatal
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize the National Book Critics Circle Award & the Governor-Generals Award & short-listed for the Booker Prize. The Stone Diaries is the story of one womans life a truly sensuous novel which relects & illuminates the unsettled decades of our century. This is the story of Daisy Goodwill from her birth on a kitchen floor in Manitoba Canada to her death in a Florida nursing home nearly ninety years later. Through Daisys life Shields reflects & illuminates the unsettled decades of our century in this rich & poignant novel. ...

The land of the goblins is hidden but not so far away. If you look carefully you might just find it Saggypant & Seepage are Stone Goblins
- but theyre not much good at collecting stones! So imagine how they cope with a dragons tail Check out www.hiddengoblins.co.uk for more Goblins information & activities.
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The Stone Gods" is one of Jeanette Wintersons most imaginative novels
- an interplanetary love story; a travellers tale; a
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Friend becomes foe & trust is a thing of the past when the Misfits most relentless enemy on the cusp of ultimate revenge turns Elspeths world upside down. Before its too late Elspeth must rescue a former ally whose mind & body have been manipulated to unleash a plague that will destroy all it touches. ...