Exciting Classics

Agatha Raisin meets Knives Out in this witty debut cozy mystery packed with bad luck, big secrets, and murder at sea. Some people are born lucky. Jane Grey isn’t one of them. Her parents died in a tragic accident when she was six, her piano teacher tried to murder her at ten, and her last real estate client turned out to be a wanted drug lord. Now unemployed and desperate for a break, Jane suddenly ‘wins’ an all-expenses-paid luxury cruise to Europe. It sounds like the miracle she’s been waiting for… except there’s more to this trip than meets the eye. On board, Jane finds ...

Five classic novelisations of exciting TV adventures set on distant planets! In The Sensorites, the First Doctor is forced into an uneasy alliance with a race of telepathic creatures from the Sense-Sphere. In Doctor Who and the Space War, the Third Doctor finds that a full-scale war between Earth and the planet Draconia seems inevitable. In Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks, the Third Doctor and Jo discover a vast army of Daleks waiting to mobilise and conquer on the planet Spiridon.

Exciting Weekends Dinners for the Family. Get your copy of the best and most unique Dinner recipes from BookSumo Press! Come take a journey with us into the delights of easy cooking. The point of this cookbook and all our cookbooks is to exemplify the effortless nature of cooking simply. In this book we focus on Dinner. Dinner Ideas for Weekend is a complete set of simple but very unique Dinner recipes. You will find that even though the recipes are simple, the tastes are quite amazing. Besides recipes you will learn about the following: The Concept of Dinner: From Ritual to Routine ...

Five classic novelisations of exciting TV adventures set on the planet Earth! In Fury from the Deep, the Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria discover sentient seaweed threatening a gas refinery on the South Coast of England. In Doctor Who and the Pyramids of Mars, the Fourth Doctor and Sarah arrive in 1920s England, where plans are being laid to free Sutekh the Destroyer from his prison on Mars. In The Stones of Blood, the Fourth Doctor, Romana and K9 confront an ancient villainess on Bodcombe Moor.

We are all classicists - we come into touch with the classics on a daily basis: in our culture, politics, medicine, architecture, language, and literature. What are the true roots of these influences, however, and how do our interpretations of these aspects of the classics differ from their original reality?

Welcome to Easy Asian Cooking. Get your copy of the best and most unique Asian recipes from BookSumo Press! Come take a journey with us into the delights of easy cooking. The point of this cookbook and all our cookbooks is to exemplify the effortless nature of cooking simply. In this book we focus on Asia. Asian Food Ideas is a complete set of simple but very unique Asian recipes. You will find that even though the recipes are simple, the tastes are quite amazing. Besides recipes you will learn about the following: The History of Asian Cuisine Balancing Flavors in Asian Cooking Freshness ...

Once upon a time, in a land far far away, two children bearing the Mark of the plague are led into the woods and left to fend for themselves. But they are not ordinary children, they are the Prince and Princess. Faced with a bleak future, they do what they can to keep each other going. But unbeknownst to them, it is all a lie concocted by their parents the King and Queen. They do not have the plague and have been left to die. Years pass, in which time the children have grown, and their hopes have died. Then, finally, the truth is revealed. But with so many years away from the world, can ...

Precursores de los aztecas (lo que en sí mismo es asombroso), la civilización precolombina de los toltecas despertó tanto respeto y admiración en sus sucesores, en especial por su dominio de la artesanía y su ferocidad en la guerra, que los aztecas afirmaban ser sus descendientes. ¿Por qué este imperio llegó a ser considerado la cúspide de la cultura, la sofisticación y la civilización? ¿Cómo y por qué los superaron los aztecas?

Min works at the BBC as an audio engineer, where she is struggling to replicate the sound of a heartbeat. At home, other matters of the heart are making a mockery of life as Min knows it. Min has found herself the object of her lodger's affection. An internationally renowned opera singer she's nicknamed 'The Bloater', Min is disgusted and attracted to him in equal measure. But with a husband so invisible that she accidentally turns the lights off on him even when he's still in the room, Min can't quite bring herself to silence The Bloater's overtures.

Möchten Sie die spannende und beeindruckende Geschichte des antiken Griechenlands kennenlernen? In diesem Buch werden die brillanten Menschen, die erstaunlichen Kriege und das bezaubernde Erbe der alten Griechen von der archaischen bis zur hellenistischen Epoche vorgestellt.

Stories are vanishing again—but this time, they’re not being erased. They’re being rewritten. Armed with her StoryScope, a stubborn journal, and an ever-growing crew of misfit legends, thirteen-year-old Juniper Quill must journey through a warped Neverland, a satirised empire of giants, a jungle ruled by silence, and a city where Arabian tales have fallen asleep. Along the way, she faces pirates who collect taxes, talking horses who quote poetry, hunter-kings afraid of joy, and the Redacto, a mysterious villain with the power to twist tales from the inside out. If Juniper can’t find...

From the award-winning author of Porkington Hamm: a scrumptiously satisfying holiday tale – Christmas Hamm. Christmas? Humbug! Porkington wants to get into the holiday spirit, but the Scrooge in him is winning out. Work is hectic, decorating is a waste of time, and shopping is just no fun. The holiday season is a great big pain. He tries to give it a go for Bonny’s sake, but he can’t get anything right. And when Porkington discovers the dark side of the season, his jolly holiday dreams come to a screeching halt. How can he be merry when other people’s lives are anything but? Will ...

Alva, a widow, states a preference for plain ordinary pleasures—only to get drunk and flirtatious and pass out in a strange bed when she is asked out for the evening. Sadie, a spinster, goes to a holiday resort complete with pine groves, marshmallows and respectable clientele—to bring her nervous sister home, but she instead comes to an eerie end herself.