' Ahoy! Ahoy! Swallows! Ahoy!' Have you ever sailed in a boat or built a camp? Have you caught trout & cooked it yourself? The four Swallows John Susan Titty & Roger return to the lake full of such plans & they can't wait to meet up with Nancy & Peggy the Amazon Pirates. When the Swallow is shipwrecked & the Amazon's fearsome Great-Aunt makes decides to make a visit their summer seems ruined. Then they discover a wonderful hidden valley & things take a turn for the better...BACKSTORY: Discover the real Swallowdale swot up on seafaring & learn all about the adventurous author. ...

Merry Gentry is not your average private investigator. Half human half faerie shes caught in a struggle that threatens not only her life but the lives of those she desires & holds dear. Her very existence & her rightful place on the throne of Faerie have long depended on her producing an heir
- & now after many failed attempts she is pregnant...A triumphant moment but revelation follows revelation: for Merry carries twins & they have more than one father... There are those of her own flesh & blood who want Merry & her unborn children dead but she is a fighter & wields a wild magic. & this is her world. This is where the magical & the mortal intertwine where folklore fantasy & erotically charged adventure collide...
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John Susan Titty & Roger sail their boat Swallow to a deserted island for a summer camping trip. Exploring & playing sailors is an adventure in itself but the island holds more excitement in store. Two fierce Amazon Pirates Nancy & Peggy challenge them to war & a summer of battles & alliances ensues. ...

The ultimate children's classic
- long summer days filled with adventure. John Susan Titty & Roger sail their boat Swallow to a
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A master storyteller sympathetically in touch with real children & their interests has created characters who are accepted as friends by children everywhere not to mention plots which are eminently plausible & unexpected.' SUNDAY TIMES in an article listing Swallows & Amazons among '99 Best Books for Children. ...

Moshen & his wife Zunaira met at the university & once looked forward to a happy & prosperous life together. But Moshems dream of becoming a diplomat halted by the war with Russia dies with the ascendancy of the Taliban. Zunaira formerly a lawyer who worked for womens rights can no longer even appear on the streets of Kabul without a veil over her face. It is only in their own home that they can be themselves. One day unable to resist Moshens pleas Zunaira dons her burqa & goes to market with him. The outing turns into a nightmare. Atiq a veteran of the Russian war is now a part-time jailer who watches over those condemned to death. The darkness of the prison & the wretchedness of his job have seeped into his soul. His home offers little respite from his rage & misery; his wife Musarrat is suffering from an illness no doctor can cure & even the most furvent prayers cannot alleviate. As Atiq begins to lose all faith in his own ability to survive the arbitary demands & extreme cruelties of the Taliban he is drawn to Zanaira now in prison awaiting public execution. In a final act of defiance Musarrat conceives a plan that will allow her husband to live & hope again... Already a best seller in France The Swallows of Kabul" brilliantly exposes the differences between religiosity & dangerous religious extremism. Written in spare exquisite prose it is an unforgettable portrait of life under a fascist theocracy." ...

The second action-packed quest in an exciting new six book character-led series for 7+ girls who love fantasy adventure & high-kicking heroines! This time Sophie has to call upon all her strength & skills to defeat her most gruesome foe yet...THE SWAMP BOGGLES! Very few people ever enter the Shadow Woods for these woods are like no others. Hidden deep within them is the Gateway to the Shadow Realm
- a dark & chaotic world where all kinds of gruesome creatures live... On her tenth birthday tomboy Sophie learns she is the Guardian of the magical gateway & that her destiny is to protect the human world from the goblins trolls & evil sprites that inhabit the Shadow Woods. Together with her brave best friend & loyal sidekick Sam Sophie must find a way to stop an invasion of disgusting slime-filled stinky Swamp Boggles from causing mayhem in her town & it'll take all of Sophie's Guardian magic powers to defeat it!
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The first collection of the new acclaimed SWAMP THING series from the superstar team of writer SCOTT SNYDER & artist YANICK PAQUETTE!
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Alec Holland is back as the Swamp Thing fully formed as the protector of The Green". Immediately upon his return he must battle his way through the Bone Kingdom & The Rot to free his ally
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- Abigail Arcane. But will the cost of freeing her be...fighting her? Nothing not even this titanic battle will prepare Swampy for what he has to face next
- a resurrected & even more dangerous Anton Arcane! " Batman" writer Scott Snyder & artist Yanick Paquette bring you one of the New 52s breakthrough titles with the classic DC mainstay " Swamp Thing!""


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In the Florida Everglades gator-park Swamplandia! is in trouble. Its star performer the great beauty & champion alligator-wrestler Hilola Bigtree has succumbed to cancer & Ava her resourceful but terrified 13-year-old daughter is left in charge with her two siblings. But Avas sister has embarked on a romantic relationship with a ghost her brother has defected to a rival theme park & her father is AWOL. & then a mysterious figure called Bird Man guides Ava into a perilous part of the swamp called the Underworld promsing he can save both her sister & the park... Swamplandia! was longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize & shortlisted for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize. ...