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England, today. Between the housing estate and the motorway lies an ancient wood. The motorway bends to avoid it. Last week, teenager Laura Brown went missing. Tonight, Vicky Caine will miss her bus and take a shortcut through the wood. And she will disappear too. England, 1917. Between the village and the main road lies an ancient wood. The old Roman road bends to avoid it. Tonight Emily Bostock and a man called Rory Williams will go to the woods. Investigating events in the present day and back in 1917, the Doctor and Amy are desperate to find out what's happened to Rory. He was supposed to look after Emily — and now they've both vanished. Something is waiting in the woods. Something that's been there for thousands of years. Something that is now waking up...

A war is coming, and all that stands between Earth and 100,000 vengeful supermen is the Man of Steel.

Sophie and Josh have returned to San Francisco. They must protect themselves from the Dark Elders, but they've not yet mastered the magic they'll need to do so. Their trust in Nicholas Flamel is shaken, and their friend Scatty is missing. Unbeknownst to the twins, John Dee has amassed an enormous army of foul creatures, with which he plans to battle Nicholas and his wife, Peronelle. In order for his plan to work, he must train a necromancer to raise the Mother of the Gods from the dead. The twins of legend will make the perfect pupils in his diabolical scheme.

Completely revised and updated, the Doctor Who Encyclopedia is the ultimate fan's guide to all things Doctor Who. Packed with photos, concept drawings, illustrations and artwork, and including the Christopher Ecclestone, David Tennant, and Matt Smith incarnations of the Doctor, learn every fact and discover every figure from every episode.

En el verano de 1816, el poeta Percy Bysshe Shelley y su esposa Mary se reunieron con Lord Byron y su m?dico Polidori en una villa a orillas del lago Leman. A instancias de Lord Byron y para animar una velada tormentosa, decidieron que cada uno inventar?a una historia de fantasmas. La m?s callada y reservada, Mary Shelley, dio vida as? a quien ser?a su personaje m?s famoso: el doctor Frankenstein. Al cabo de un a?o completar?a la novela, hoy d?a un cl?sico imperecedero de la literatura. La historia es de todos conocida: un cient?fico decide crear una criatura con vida propia a la que luego rechaza. Met?fora sobre la vida, la libertad y el amor, Frankenstein es una maravillosa f?bula con todos los ingredientes de los grandes mitos.

Ever y Damen han viajado a trav?s de incontables vidas pasadas y luchado contra los m?s temibles enemigos s?lo para poder al fin estar juntos. Pero el amor eterno tiene un alto precio: Roman les ha lanzado una poderosa maldici?n para que no puedan tocarse. Y, con una simple caricia o un suave roce de labios, Damen podr?a hundirse en el inh?spito abismo de las almas perdidas. Desesperada por salvar Damen, Ever se sumerge en la magia y recibe ayuda de una fuente inesperada… Jude Knight. Aunque se acaban de conocer, Jude — un atractivo chico de ojos verdes con grandes poderes m?gicos y un misterioso pasado — le resulta extra?amente familiar. Ever siempre pens? que Damen era su alma gemela, pero mientras ?l se aleja de ella para protegerla de las tinieblas que habitan en su alma, la relaci?n de Ever y Jude se hace cada vez m?s fuerte — y pone a prueba su amor por Damen como nunca antes.

An ideal activity book — with bold and bright art from Tanya Roitman — for children who have just learned to hold a crayon or pencil.

An ideal activity book — with bold and bright art from Tanya Roitman — for children who have just learned to hold a crayon or pencil.

Nina, the littlest elf in Santa's workshop, doesn't finish the teddy bear she's making in time for it to get loaded onto Santa's sleigh — but, encouraged by Santa Claus himself to not give up, she works far into the night to finish it. While Santa is out delivering presents, a baby is born. Santa comes back for Nina's now — finished bear — and guess who he takes along to deliver it?

Exterminate! The chilling battle cry of the Daleks has terrorised and terrified countless billions across thousands of worlds throughout time and space, from Skaro, Vulcan and Exxilon to the Medusa Cascade, Churchill's War Room and the opening of the Pandorica. This is the comprehensive history of the greatest enemies of the Doctor. Learn about the Daleks origins on the planet Skaro, how a Time Lord intervention altered the course of Dalek history, and how they emerged to wage war on Thals, Mechanoids, Movellans, Draconians and humans. With design artwork and photographs from five decades of Doctor Who, The Dalek Handbook also reveals the secrets of how they're operated, the development of their iconic look and sound, and their enduring appeal in television, radio, books, comics and more. Including the full story of the Daleks' centuries-long conflict with the one enemy they fear, the Doctor, The Dalek Handbook is the complete guide to the Daleks — in and out of their casings!

My word, it just gets worse and worse doesn't it? Collapsing banks, collapsing countries, massive government cuts, rising debt, inflation and the possibility of a double dip. It's amid all this uncertainty that the already embattled modern man needs the best advice he can get about how to be the best he can. Keep Calm for Chaps offers the same pearls of life wisdom as Keep Calm and Carry On especially for males at their wits' end. This is a pocket bible for today's man. 'Courage is being scared to death — but saddling up anyway' — John Wayne. 'A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials' — Lucius Annaeus Seneca. 'When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her'. Sacha Guitry. 'Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff' — Robert Eliot. 'If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter' — Albert A. Grant.

In a spaceship that can travel at the speed of light, Ulysse, a journalist, sets off from Earth for the nearest solar system. There they find a planet which resembles their own, but on Soror humans behave like animals, and are hunted by a civilised race of primates. Captured and sent to a research facility, Ulysse must convince the apes of their mutual origins. But such revelations will have always been greeted by prejudice and fear...

If someone hurts your sister and you're any kind of man, you seek revenge, right? If your brother's accused of a terrible crime but says he didn't do it, you defend him, don't you? When Mikey's sister claims a boy assaulted her, his world begins to fall apart. When Ellie's brother is charged with the offence, her world begins to unravel. When Mikey and Ellie meet, two worlds collide. This is a brave and unflinching novel from the bestselling author of Before I Die. It's a book about loyalty and the choices that come with it. But above all it's a book about love.

It is the French Riviera in the 1920s. Nicole and Dick Diver are a wealthy, elegant, magnetic couple. A coterie of admirers are drawn to them, none more so than the blooming young starlet Rosemary Hoyt. When Rosemary falls for Dick, the Diver's calculated perfection begins to crack. As dark truths emerge, Fitzgerald shows both the disintegration of a marriage and the failure of idealism. Tender is the Night is as sad as it is beautiful.

Graham Greene's 'long journey through time' began in 1904, when he was born into a tribe of Greenes based in Berkhamstead at the public school where his father was headmaster. In A Sort of Life Greene recalls schooldays and Oxford, adolescent encounters with psychoanalysis and Russian roulette, his marriage and conversion to Catholicism, and how he rashly resigned from The Times when his first novel, The Man Within was published in 1929. A Sort of Life reveals, brilliantly and compellingly, a life lived and an art obsessed by 'the dangerous edge of things'.

This title comes with an introduction by Ben Kane. Oliver Tressilian, a Cornish gentleman, is blessed with 'youth, wealth, and good digestion'. He is betrayed by his half-brother and becomes a renegade and Barbary corsair winning the title of Sakr-el-Bahr — hawk of the sea. This is the thrilling, full-blooded adventure of how a man wronged became the scourge of the Mediterranean and the terror of Christians...

Part fiction, part travelogue, the narrator of this compelling masterpiece pursues his solitary, eccentric course from England to Italy and beyond, succumbing to the vertiginous unreliability of memory itself. What could possibly connect Stendhal's unrequited love, the artistry of Pisanello, a series of murders by a clandestine organisation, a missing passport, Casanova, the suicide of a dinner companion, stale apple cake, the Great Fire of London, a story by Kafka about a doomed huntsman and a closed-down pizzeria in Verona?

Jay Gatsby is a self-made man, famed for his decadent champagne-drenched parties. Despite being surrounded by Long Island's bright and beautiful, Gatsby longs only for Daisy Buchanan. In shimmering prose, Fitzgerald shows Gatsby pursue his dream to its tragic conclusion. The Great Gatsby is an elegiac and exquisite portrait of the American Dream.

This 1949 Little Golden Book edition of the famous poem, The Night Before Christmas, was a staple in the Golden Book line for many years. Recently found in the Golden Books archives, Corinne Malvern's artwork for this title has been digitized and beautifully reproduced for today's kids!

The day has arrived for the Dogs' Summer Ball. It's so high class in fact, that each dog must remove their bottom before they are allowed inside the hall. But in the middle of all the frivolity something unexpected happens and the dogs have to make a hasty exit... with or without the correct bottom.

From the very hungry caterpillar to the big brown bear and many more, the World of Eric Carle brings all of this beloved illustrator's creations together. Now children can make this very unique and very timeless world a part of their own with this imagination-tickling coloring and activity series! The big activity book with a die-cut handle features 24 of Eric Carle's biggest and best animals to color — plus more than 50 stickers!

Adelia Aguilar is a rare thing in medieval Europe — a woman who has trained as a doctor. Her speciality is the study of corpses, a skill that must be concealed if she is to avoid accusations of witchcraft. But in Cambridge a child has been murdered, others are disappearing, and King Henry has called upon a renowned Italian investigator to find the killer — fast. What the king gets is Adelia, his very own Mistress of the Art of Death. The investigation takes Adelia deep into Cambridge; its castle and convents, and streets teeming with life. And it is here that she attracts the attention of a murderer who is prepared to kill again...

»When the sky grows dark and the moon glows bright, everyone goes to sleep... except for the watchful owl! «With a spare, soothing text and beautifully rich and textured illustrations of a starry night, this is the perfect «book of sleep.» Join the owl on his moonlit journey as he watches all the other animals settle in for the night: some sleep standing up, while some sleep on the move! Some sleep peacefully alone, while others sleep all together, huddled close. Il Sung Na makes his American debut with this gorgeous bedtime offering. While each animal rests in its own special way, little ones will also drift off to a cozy sleep.

Dr. Seuss's Fox in Socks has been troubling tongues — and garnering giggles — since 1965. Written specifically to be read aloud, it features a tricky fox in socks and the progressively more difficult tongue-twisting games he plays on his exasperated friend Mr. Knox. Now available for the first time in an abridged, sturdy, board book edition, this beloved classic will have babies of all ages laughing with — and at — their parents as they struggle, like Knox, to blab such blibber blubber as muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle!