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Ancestral magic swords whose names fill the pages of history, handed down through generations of heroes ... arcane staves of power, crafted by legendary mystics and passed from master to apprentice ... These are staples of fantasy literature-but difficult to recreate in the d20 System. Artifacts of the Ages provides rules for introducing legendary swords and staves that grow in power as their wielders advance in level. Special "scion" prestige...

Speak, Memory, first published in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised in 1966, is an elegant and rich evocation of Nabokov's life and times, even as it offers incisive insights into his major works, including Lolita, Pnin, Despair, The Gift, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, and The Defense.

Two books containing stories taken from a collection of government papers between 1830 and 1930.

X D Operations is the first account of the thrilling operations by the Kent Fortress Royal Engineers, tasked with destroying all the oil reserves stored in refineries in the ports along the Continental coastline, thus denying the Nazis vital stocks. Mounted at very short notice and in extreme secrecy, such was the importance attached to them that no plans existed for the unit's evacuation. The book describes the trip over in destroyers, freque...

an outstanding photographercertain to shape the medium in years to come.' Arts Review, December 2004

The Bible Detectives, Harry, Jess and Click the mouse are on the case, ready to investigate Mark... but they need your help! Are you ready? With the help of their computer, faxes and modems The Bible Detectives are ready to get to grips with this mystery... but there is one important piece of equipment they need God's Word - The Bible. Help them to zone in on the answers, flick through the data and follow up the clues. Meet the people that Mar...

Case: Investigation Matthew? Who was he and what did he do? Who were his friends? What is his story?The Bible Detectives, Harry, Jess and Click the mouse are on the case, ready to investigate... but they need your help! Are you ready? With the help of their computer, faxes and modems The Bible Detectives are ready to get to grips with this mystery... but there is one important piece of equipment they need. God's Word - The Bible. Help them to ...

An intrepid sleuth and articulate tutor, Wessels teaches us to read a landscape the way we might solve a mystery. What exactly is the meaning of all those stone walls in the middle of the forest? Why do beech and birch trees have smooth bark when the bark of all other northern species is rough? How do you tell the age of a beaver pond and determine if beavers still live there? Why are pine trees dominant in one patch of forest and maples in an...

New and enlarged edition. The story of how President Theodore Roosevelt showed his compassion and respect for life by not shooting a peaceful black bear on a long anticipated hunting trip. It captured the interest of a newspaper cartoonist who drew the scene showing Teddy Roosevelt and a very small bear and, inspired a candy store owner to send the president a small stuffed bear ? the first teddy bear.

A collection of essays on nature by the Nobel Prize-winning Swedish author.

A hard-hitting illustrated expose of the world's most powerful and destructive military.

The "gripping and exciting" ("Publishers Weekly") story of a captured young Marine pilot who survived more than three years in Japanese prison camps before escaping

Winner of the 2005 Holocaust Literature Award Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. When Bruno Lind, a neuroscientist and memory expert, returns to Vienna, the city of his birth, more awaits him than he had expected. Propelled by dreams, a chance name overhead in a hotel lobby, and the urgings of his daughter, Lind becomes the detective of his own unexplored life, retracing the experiences of World War II, refugee camps, and migrati...

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Whenever Jule Ann goes outside, a Mud Puddle jumps on her and gets her muddy all over. But she defeats it with cheerful ingenuity and two bars of smelly yellow soap. As in all Munsch stories, kids are the heroes!

Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness a...

This tour through numerous southwest dream homes is brimming with unique and decorative ideas for every room.

The complete short plays of the renowned Russian playwright Anton Chekhov

When J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings appeared in 1954, it was hailed by readers but dismissed by critics as juvenile escapism. For many years both critics and professors of literature refused to take Tolkien seriously, yet today they reluctantly admit that he was indeed a great writer. Jared Lobdell claims that the literary achievement of Tolkien in fact represents a new mainstream of literary development. The future of fiction lies in fa...

To many commuters driving past Bay Point on nearby Highway 4, it would appear that the community sprang up as a housing development sometime in the very recent past, but its unique history is much more than that. During the frontier days, the area was comprised of ranchers and farmers. The large 19th-century district sprouted smaller neighborhoods at the beginning of the 20th century. Nearby the communities of Clyde, Nichols, and later West Pi...