![]() ![]() Deep beneath them in the caves of the Cove an evil has returned, an evil which threatens to destroy everything they believed to be true about the world. When Peter and George visit Peter's Granddad's amazing mansion in Campbell's Cove for the summer holidays they had no idea it would change their lives forever. The evil was gone, and Campbell's Cove was safe again. The Viking succeeded and everything returned to normal. ![]() That was until, centuries ago, a Viking warrior came to Campbell's Cove and vowed to rid it of all evil, and claim the prize offered by the mysterious church elders. ![]() Aided by the hideous monster, Tolldruck there seemed no stopping their evil plan. The history of the Cove tells us of dragons, trolls, goblins and the evil Master who stole children, livestock and, strangest of all, eggs from the Cove every year. Campbell's Cove is a small town surrounded in mystery and intrigue. ![]() That's the reality Peter must face in this award-winning middle Grade adventure, The Viking's Apprentice. What would you do if you discovered nothing was as you thought, and the fate of your friends, perhaps even the world was in your hands? #1 Books for Boys who Hate Reading on Goodreads Voted #1 'Smart Novels to Read Your Kids' on Goodreads ![]()
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![]() ![]() When Marie Colvin was killed in an artillery attack in Homs, Syria, in 2012, at age fifty-six, the world lost a fearless and iconoclastic war correspondent who covered the most significant global calamities of her lifetime. ![]() The inspiring and devastating biography of Marie Colvin, the foremost war reporter of her generation, who was killed in Syria in 2012, and whose life story also forms the basis of the feature film A Private War, starring Rosamund Pike as Colvin. "Now, thanks to Hilsum’s deeply reported and passionately written book, has the full accounting that she deserves." -Joshua Hammer, The New York Times An Amazon Best Book of November, the Guardian Bookshop Book of November, and one of the Evening Standard's Books to Read in November Named a Best Book of 2018 by Esquire and Foreign Policy. Finalist for the Costa Biography Award and long-listed for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. ![]() ![]() President Woodrow Wilson and with two orphaned Russian brothers, whose plans to emigrate to America fall foul of war, conscription and revolution. Their destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to U.S. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. ![]() The first in Ken Follett's bestselling Century Trilogy, Fall of Giants is a huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women. ![]() ![]() ![]() To be in the record books, that means a lot for them. They just know what it takes day-to-day to grind, having to be really clutch. It’s their goal, but they don’t talk about it a lot. ![]() “It’s incredibly hard to go through the Big 12 undefeated. “A lot of work, a lot of trust, staying healthy, doing the right thing,” said OU coach Patty Gasso, whose team concluded the regular season with a 48-1 overall record and 18-0 in Big 12 play. The win was its 41st in a row, tying the program record for longest win streak (set in 2019), and six away from matching the NCAA record of 47 in a row set by Arizona in 1996-97. 7 Oklahoma State with a ho-hum 5-1 win before 1,565 fans on Sunday at Cowgirl Stadium.Īfter a Friday opener with its share of wackiness and the Sooners’ thrilling seventh-inning rally on Saturday, the finale lacked such intrigue, though the win had some program significance for OU. ![]() The top-ranked Sooners finished off the Bedlam sweep of No. STILLWATER - The OU softball team saved the least dramatic game for last. Watch Video: OU's Alyssa Brito discusses this weekend's Bedlam softball series in Stillwater ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Uncovering the secrets that the club's president is trying to keep hidden may very well put her life in danger. While investigating a story, she suddenly finds herself back in the crosshairs of the Savage Kings. Reporter Sasha Sheridan has steered clear of any and all bad boy bikers wearing the bearded skull for the last 10 years. But after an unexpected attack on the Kings sends his brothers on a path of vengeance, Chase will have no choice but to take on the burden of being the man in charge. He never wanted the responsibility that comes with being at the head of the table, preferring to leave that to his brother, Torin. Get ready to go for a ride with the Savage Kings MC!Ĭhase Fury, the VP of the Savage Kings MC, has dealt with his fair share of tragedy over the years. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'The Midnight Folk' was Masefield's first children's fantasy novel. ![]() Abner has his witch friends and his dark magic to help him, but Kay has the very special Midnight Folk. Determined to recover the long lost family treasure, Kay finds himself in a race against the evil Abner Brown. Overall a vg++ copy of this scarce and enchanting book. Rather savagely price clipped with bottom quarter of front flap cut away, blue boards with gilt titling, previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown (Harriet Holland), top of page block dyed blue as issued. Some edge wear and a couple of short closed tears to top and bottom of largely dark green jacket and spine, slight yellowing to back jacket, corners and folds slightly rubbed. Otherwise you can order right now (inclusive of shipping options) from the "Add to Basket" button to the right. For further info on this title, click on the "Contact Seller" button within this listing. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Covers are faded in spots but otherwise in sound condition. ![]() Moderate foxing front/rear pages, but body of book clean and unfoxed. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact, but spine is faded/sunned. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. First Illustrated Edition, or first by this illustrator and in this format. ![]() ![]() ![]() tells us that forty people rated this hotel four plus stars in the last month (Social Proof). Watch & Cola companies get popular actors to endorse their two hundred year old creations (Likeability). Ikea & Zara tell me there are only 3 of a particular product left (Scarcity principle). ![]() Influence opened my eyes to the subtle ways I am nudged and sometimes pushed around to do things that may not be in my interest. Why do governments have laws against politicians and bureaucrats accepting even small gifts from industrialists? This is a defensive tactic against the natural reciprocation response that kicks in. Cialidni even covers how to defend against these methods being applied on you. The chapters are rich with concepts, examples and famous incidents. Reciprocation, Commitment & Consistency, Social Proof, Liking, Authority, Scarcity, Unity. Cialdini sets out to document the various ways in which human beings can be made to undertake some actions or believe in certain beliefs.Įach chapter addresses one such method. A helicopter view of the idea of influence coupled with real world examples. If there was a book I’ll make required reading for all new sales & marketing professionals it would be Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. ![]() ![]() ![]() Geisel took his responsibility as a writer for children seriously, talking down to no reader, no matter how small. He introduced generations to the wonders of reading while teaching young people about empathy and how to treat others well. He had a successful career as an advertising man and political cartoonist, and his personal convictions appear, not always subtly, throughout his books-remember the environmentalist of The Lorax? Geisel was a complicated man on an important mission. It is there that the allure and fascination of his Dr. ![]() Theodor Geisel, however, had a second, more radical side. The Grinch, the Cat in the Hat, Horton, and so many more, are his troupe of beloved, and uniquely Seussian, creations. The silly, simple rhymes are a bottomless well of magic, his illustrations timeless favorites because, quite simply, he makes us laugh. Whimsical and wonderful, his work has defined our childhoods and the childhoods of our own children. ![]() ![]() ![]() This copy on paper was presented by Morris to his friend Aglaia Coronio (1834-1906) embroiderer, bookbinder, art collector and patron of the arts. 300 copies were printed on paper at £1 10 and 11 copies on vellum at 10 guineas. The lettering, this time in capitals only, was designed by Morris also the framing border. ![]() A finished pen and ink drawing by Burne Jones with lettering below by Morris for this frontispiece is in the Gallery's collection, see D75.īurne Jones re-drew the illustration for the frontispiece to the Kelmscott Press edition of Morris's work, and it was engraved on wood by W.H. They first appeared in book form in an edition published by Reeves & Turner 1888, with an engraved frontispiece by Burne Jones, with a couplet below "When Adam delved and Eve span / Who then was the gentleman?" in upper and lower case lettering designed by Morris. ![]() 'A Dream of John Ball and A King's Lesson' (originally called An Old Story Retold) were published in William Morris's newspaper The Commonweal between 1886-1887. © William Morris Gallery, London Borough of Waltham Forest See license information ![]() ![]() ![]() Today we can feel how time is a spiral, how the present moment is always layered with multiple pasts and underlying alternate futures. The paradox also acknowledges the ways in which time feels layered in Afrodiasporan traditions, where the past is always layered over the present moment-our ancestors reside with and within us, even if on a different temporal plane/scale. Butler herself is set apart in time and space, our grandmother paradox: Instead, Martha is set apart from space and time to do this work of helping humanity. Martha hopes (thinks) she must be dead or hallucinating, though she is not. The wrong kind of intervention will lead to depopulation, decreased birthrates, and a fundamental alteration of what it means to be human. God says that Martha must “Think of the needs of the future … as well as the needs of the present.”īutler’s Martha is understandably fearful, distressed, and upset by the task she is given. God asks her to consider carefully “What change would you make if you could make only one?”-one that would allow humanity to survive instead of its present trajectory to destroy itself. ![]() Butler’s story, “Book of Martha”-is tasked by a godlike figure (or someone so powerful they might as well be a god) to make a change. Martha Bes is a 43-year-old Black woman, living in Seattle, Washington. ![]() ![]() Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another. ![]() |