Fly to the moon & back in this star-spangled adventure & contact your own alien with an intergalactic walkie-talkie! One day a boy finds an aeroplane in his cupboard. Up up up & away he flies high into the sky. He whizzes past clouds & stars until suddenly phut phut phut the plane runs out of petrol... Miles from earth the boy crash lands on the moon. Just as he is beginning to get cold & lonely a Martian appears from the darkness
- could this be the start of an unlikely friendship? & will the boy ever manage to get home again? Make extraterrestrial contact with an intergalactic walkie-talkie & a special miniature hardback edition of The Way Back Home.
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The alliance has failed. There is a dark full moon on mid-winters day
- sign that the foretelling has come to pass. Karan is held
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Its night & the dark is filled with strange sounds as Shane makes his way home. On a fence he finds a stray cat that at first growls & spits at him. But Shane talks & strokes the kitten to calmness & decides to take the Spitfire Kitten Number One home with him. No gang of boys or avenue of dense traffic or fierce dog can stop Shane carrying his new found friend to the place he calls home. Greg Rogers sensitive use of charcoal & pastel create Shane & his cat in splendid city-at-night time scenes. ...

Everyone knows that Lord Sugar has strong opinions & is not afraid to share them
- no matter how controversial they may be. His
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Everyone knows that Lord Sugar has strong opinions & is not afraid to voice them
- no matter how controversial they may be. His
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This is the Penguin English Library Edition" of " The Way of All Flesh" by Samuel Butler. The greater part of every family is always odious; if there are one or two good ones in a very large family it is as much as can be expected. Written with great humour irony & honesty " The Way of All Flesh" exploded perceptions of the Victorian middle-class family in its radical depiction of Ernest Pontifex a young man who casts off his background & discovers himself. The awkward but likeable son of a tyrannical clergyman & a priggish mother & destined to follow his father into the church Ernest gleefully rejects his parents respectability & chooses instead to find his own way in the world. " The Penguin English Library" contains 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century & the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War." ...

The young scribe Iker has finally realised that in pursuing Pharaoh Senusret with his hatred he chose the wrong target. The real enemy the one who is attacking the Tree of Life at Abydos is in fact the Herald that baleful individual who is rallying troops on the border in order to invade Egypt & annihilate her. Now Senusret has entrusted Iker with a particularly dangerous mission: to enter Canaan & discover the Heralds lair.. . Who can save Egypt now? Senusret
- constantly faced with savage assassination attempts? Iker
- fighting on a thousand fronts to prevent the traitor from succeeding? Or the beautiful priestess Isis who perhaps
- deep in her heart
- will find the means to pacify the spirit of the Nile?



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According to mythology mankind used to live in The Tranquiline Halls. Heaven. But then the Voidbringers assaulted & captured heaven casting out God & men. Men took root on Roshar the world of storms. & the Voidbringers followed.. . They came against man ten thousand times. To help them cope the Almighty gave men powerful suits of armor & mystical weapons known as Shardblades. Led by ten angelic Heralds & ten orders of knights known as Radiants mankind finally won. Or so the legends say. Today the only remnants of those supposed battles are the Shardblades the possession of which makes a man nearly invincible on the battlefield. The entire world is at war with itself
- & has been for centuries since the Radiants turned against mankind. Kings strive to win more Shardblades each secretly wishing to be the one who will finally unite all of mankind under a single throne. On a world scoured down to the rock by terrifying hurricanes that blow through every few day a young spearman forced into the army of a Shardbearer led to war against an enemy he doesn't understand & doesn't really want to fight. What happened deep in mankind's past? Why did the Radiants turn against mankind & what happened to the magic they used to wield?
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When we think of the Kray Legend we think of Sixties London an underground culture that has all but vanished. Reg Kray was the torchbearer of that era in British history. But despite ongoing press interest in the world of the Krays few have an understanding of Reg the man
- a man who spent half of his life in prison & who died of cancer in October 2000. Sidgwick & Jackson published Reg & Rons joint memoir Our Story" in 1988 & Ron Krays autobiography " My Story" in 1993. This is Reggies story a diary of the life he lived with reflections on the past & the new role he found for himself on the inside. It is a story of courage & remorse revelation & friendship. For the first time he speaks of his marriage to Roberta of his relationship with his brothers Ron who died five years ago & Charlie who died April 2000 putting certain misconceptions straight. Updated with a new chapter by Roberta Kray this is a valuable document for future generations & a fascinating insight into prison life."
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