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Shipwrecked on a snowy, forested shore and hunted by klops and trolls, 16-year-old Cyrus LongBones has uncovered an ancient clue that may free his stranded village. Delving within a crumbling ice palace, Cyrus goes in search of the wise yeti, desperate for knowledge of a living island known as a hune.

In the ancient Roman town of Liternum stood one of the bloodiest gladiator arenas in the land; Brutal matches between gladiators frequently graced it’s golden sands, though out of the view of the bloodthirsty crowds, there is so much more happening than simply gladiators fighting for the adoration of the people.

Owain was dedicated to three things: Wales, the Order of the Rose, and most of all, his cousin, Elizabeth Tudor. From the moment he met the mysterious Anna Elizabeta, he denied the attraction. Yet when England's spymaster sends them on a mission, Owain throws caution to the wind and claims her. When she won't tell him her secrets, Owain rejects her upon their return to court. It takes an act of treason for Owain to realize what was his. To recover Anna, Owain must lead the Roses against a stronghold of the Sons of Scion - the Order's archenemy.

The word avant-garde, so much used in connection with the various manifestations of contemporary art, is starting to have a strange, ironic ring to it. One might even claim that it is starting to signify what is behind the times, rather than in front of them. Like all such terms, it is in fact a metaphor, rather than a direct description. Borrowed from old-fashioned military terminology, it seeks to describe a situation where social norms are being perpetually challenged by artists. In the military sphere, where it originated, it is long out of use.

This empowering book contains the most potent success recipes in each chapter, which the author has discovered over the last 24 years of his professional experience and interaction with thousands of professionals. It will help listeners to master every area of their lives, from understanding the rationale behind fears and failures to being happy and successful in work and in relationships.

When Samantha Watson walked into the Bank of England and inherited $6 million she had no idea that she would fall in love with the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes. Nor did she have the slightest inkling she would be drawn into a sinister world of vampires and evil.

In Simply Hitchcock, author and movie critic David Sterritt explores the celebrated director’s entire career, from its beginnings in the British silent film industry to its glory days in Hollywood. He shows Hitchcock as a consummate artist who dealt with deep existential and psychological issues, as well as a mischievous prankster who loved playing tricks on the audience and never missed a chance to pull a dead rabbit out of a hat.

Cradle of Islam: How Islam Began is a concise, easy-to-listen, and accurate account of how Islam began. It investigates the initial beginning of Islam including its religious and historical background, main historical figures, and subsequent expansion. The book also presents the story of how the Quran was compiled and transmitted. While it is based on the latest and most accurate historical research on early Islam, it is intended to be listened to and enjoyed by listeners who are less familiar with Islam.

Adrian Hartman is the charismatic director of the Serendipity holiday community, set among pine trees on a sunbaked island. His job is to ensure the perfect mindful break, with personal growth and inner peace guaranteed. His guests return year after year to bare their souls. For some, Adrian is Serendipity. But this year Adrian isn't there, and nobody knows the reason why. Things have changed: staff and guests are bewildered without their leader and the simmering hostility of the local villagers is beginning to boil over.

In the ultimate battle between evil and evil...only one can win. Four hundred years ago, Benjamin Harwood butchered whoever he saw fit to kill, knowing that sacrificing his murder victims to a demon would keep him safe from eternal punishment. But now, their agreement has been torn in half and the demon is coming for Harwood’s soul, coming to set him to burn. Preparing for war, Harwood gathers the worst of the worst, the monsters and murderers he calls friends.

Now eighty-two years old, Cledwyn E Lewis looks back on his life experiences and influences. Cledwyn has worked in the British Army as a doctor and surgeon then in Alberta, Canada, he worked in general practice and Emergency Medicine with some surgery and had the role as Medical Director of Regional EMS.

Time travel, once again, with award-winning author J.A. Snow as she takes us on another journey with her ancestors. You will go to war with Private Eddie Snow, visit the Sacrifice Rock with Mercy Snow of the Wampanoag tribe of old Cape Cod, and travel westward with Bertram Snow to the Great Dust Bowl of the Great Plains.

Matthew Blackwell smiled as he stirred Haley's drink, spiked with enough ketamine to render her unconscious. For many weeks he had been planning this evening, to have sex his way. It was going to be a night to remember. Matthew believed that money was power. With it he got what he wanted and he felt that he could do anything to women. Always at his side was his good friend, Ryan Crowe. Matthew had the financial means and Ryan seemingly had the connections.

Cyber-crime didn't exist in the 1980s. Or did it? Clem Chambers' gripping techno-thriller series, The Hacker Chronicles, is a reminder that the dark art of hacking is as old as network technology. Dial Up for Murder is set in 1984, long before the revolutionary advent of the Internet and World Wide Web. The hacker hero Peter is an entrepreneurial nerd struggling to attract paying subscribers to his new-fangled network. A chance meeting with a shady customer soon has the young computer whizz raking in the dough.

Grant Hastings was once the leader of an elite special ops team known as The Sebs. Now he’s retired, living alone in a bedsit over a pub, and haunted by the ghosts of the mistakes he’s made in the past. Then a mysterious woman turns up to entice Hastings and The Sebs back for one last mission, to rescue an anthropologist, son of an esteemed professor.

William Hanna recounts history under an intellectual light backed by both scientific and historical data to call out the injustices being done to Palestinian people under the guise of a religious movement.

In earlier books in the series, we met the Snow family of Porlock, England, traveled with them through the bloody streets of London during Tudor times, crossed the Atlantic with the original Pilgrims and now stand with them in the American Revolutionary war. Based on over 30 years of genealogical research into the author's own ancestors, this is a story like no other. There is love and hardship; there is treachery and murder. There is honor and courage.

Volume two in the series An American Family follows the Snow family on to the bloody streets of London during Tudor times where they experience the dreaded plagues, horrible executions, and persecution for their religious beliefs. There are ghosts in the monastery and scandals afoot, and an intimate look into the lives of the Tudor royal family. You won't want to miss this chapter in the story of one of America's founding Pilgrim families.

Escaping the wintry klops slave mines, 16-year-old Cyrus LongBones has discovered the hidden location of the living island that can save his village. Forced to brave treacherous mountains and ravenous wolves, Cyrus uncovers a remote klops army that has imprisoned and armored the turtle-like island known as a "hune".

Nothing newsworthy had ever happened in Liverpool, Nova Scotia until one day a murder shook the little town. It occurred on opening night of the stage play, Perkins’ Ghost, at the Astor Theatre, leaving many residents of the sleepy hollow to suspect that the murderer might have been that of the ghost of Simeon Perkins. There were virtually no clues to follow, apart from the unexplained sightings of a Perkins look-alike, clairvoyants, fortune cookies, intuitions, and a seemingly odd connection between the murder and the Kings Orange Rangers.