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Michael J. Ward

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DESTINYQUEST

You have no memory of your past.With only a sword and a backpack to your name, you must discover your destiny in an unfamiliar world full of monsters and magic.As you guide your hero through this epic adventure, you will be choosing the danger that they face, the monsters that they fight and the treasures that they find. Every decision that you make will have an impact on the story - and, ultimately, the fate of your hero.With hundreds of special items to discover i...

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Thomas Hardy

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Michael Ward

The Trumpet-Major is the seventh published novel by English author Thomas Hardy published in 1880, and his only historical novel.When Anne Garland wakes up one morning, she little realises the significance of the sight from her window; of soldiers setting up camp for the summer on the hills overlooking her quiet village of Overcombe.But she soon finds herself pursued romantically by three men: Trumpet Major John Loveday, his brother Bob and the boorish Squire's nephew and y...

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Michael Ward

For over half a century, scholars have laboured to show that C. S. Lewis's famed but apparently disorganised Chronicles of Narnia have an underlying symbolic coherence, pointing to such possible unifying themes as the seven sacraments, the seven deadly sins, and the seven books of Spenser's Faerie Queene. None of these explanations has won general acceptance and the structure of Narnia's symbolism has remained a mystery. Michael Ward has finally solved the enigma. In ...

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Michael Ward

Millions of readers have been captivated by C. S. Lewis's famed Chronicles of Narnia, but why? What is it about these seven books that makes them so appealing? For more than half a century, scholars have attempted to find the organizing key—the "secret code"—to the beloved series, but it has remained a mystery. Until now.In The Narnia Code, Michael Ward takes the reader through each of the seven Narnia books and reveals how each story embodies and expresses the characterist...

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Michael T. Ward

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Billy's Big Ideas

Young Billy doesn't want to go to bed one night. He isn't afraid of the dark or anything like that.You see, Billy overheard his brother talking to a friend about how the tooth fairy came into his room and took one of his teeth and left money in return.No amount of money is going to get Billy to give up his teeth so he decides to have a battle. A battle with the tooth fairy.

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Jules Verne

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Michael Ward

This timeless classic of Jules Verne, depicts the tale of Axel Liedenbrock and his impatient and irascible uncle The Professor as they attempt a journey to the very centre of the Earth. After the Professor finds a coded message by the obscure Icelandic Savant Arne Saknussemm detailing how to attain passage to the very centre of the globe, he cannot but immiediately begin a journey to Iceland to make his own attempt, dragging his nephew with him.Based on the Frederick Amadeus Malleso...

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Michael T. Ward

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Billy's Big Ideas

Young Billy overheard a television program stating that many energy drinks are not good for kids. Billy wants his family to be healthy and if he can make a new drink for his family that makes them healthy and happy then he is going to do his best to surprise them all.Billy is very safe, but when he get's his imagination going in the kitchen without Mom or Dads help, the kitchen will never be the same again.This is an easy and entertaining read for kids who want to really enjo...

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Michael T. Ward

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Billy's Big Ideas

Billy learns what a charity is and about helping people who are poor and less fortunate.He really likes the idea, especially helping children in need and so the adventure begins.Billy sets out to find a way to help children in need and eventually decides on having a little carnival in his backyard to raise money to help children in need.Wait until you see what craziness takes place as Billy and his friends set out to create fun and excitement for the neighborhood in "B...

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Arthur Machen

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Michael Ward

"one of the best horror stories ever written. Maybe the best in the English language." - Stephen KingA tense and creepy horror story, The Great God Pan revolves around the mysterious "Mrs Vaughan" and the tide of death she leaves in her wake. Can she be stopped? What connection does she have to a certain illegal experiment performed some twenty years earlier? Or horrendous goings on at a sleepy welsh rural village? Inspired by his experiences at the ruins of a pagan temple in Wales...

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Baroness Orczy

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Michael Ward

Written by the author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Old Man in the Corner is a series of short detective stories centered in england.""Mysteries!" he commented. "There is no such thing as a mystery in connection with any crime, provided intelligence is brought to bear upon its investigation.""and so begin Polly Burtons encounters with the mysterious old man in the corner of the ABC Cafe in Norfolk Street, who talks of murders and mysteries with such insight and always with ...

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Washington Irving

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Michael Ward

A volume of selected stories from Washington Irving's The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Praised by Walter Scott and Lord Byron for its prose, this collection consists of his most famous works, "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", as well as the praised short stories "The Broken Heart" and "The Widow and her Son".Narrated by Michael Ward

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Wilkie Collins

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Michael Ward

The Dead Alive, also called John Jago's Ghost, is a novella written in 1874 by the author of The Moonstone and The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins, and is based on the Boorn Brothers murder case.When invalid barrister Phillip LeFrank visits his cousin's farm in America, he's hoping for a quiet convalescence. He is to be seriously disappointed, finding the farm to be a hotbed of jealousy, spite, hidden passions...and apparently; murder.Is his cousin, Ambrose, as innocent as h...