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Tolkien’s acclaimed modern classic ‘fairie’ tale, read by Derek Jacobi.While on holiday in 1925, four-year-old Michael Tolkien lost his beloved toy dog on the beach at Filey in Yorkshire. To console him, his father, J.R.R.Tolkien, improvised a story about Rover, a real dog who is magically transformed into a toy and is forced to seek out the wizard who wronged him in order to be returned to normal.This charming tale, peopled by a sand-sorcerer and a terrible dragon, by the ...

Early Burzum is a thoughtful exploration of the formative albums of Burzum. Far from glorifying controversy or indulging in heavy-handed mythmaking, this book takes the music on its own terms — as an evolving, personal expression rooted in sound, atmosphere, and trance.Through close listening and deliberate reflection, it traces the path from the raw immediacy of the debut to the layered introspection of Filosofem, always keeping focus on the music itself.Th...

Damien Sinclair is a force of nature, the beauty of a sunset over the ocean while capable of devastating hurricane-strength winds. At one time, he’d held my heart in his hands. That was until the day I walked away.I didn’t leave him because I didn’t love him. It was that loving him was too much, an all-encompassing affair. In his presence, I failed to exist.For two years, I worked to build a life free from Damien’s irresistible pull. I succeeded until one fate-filled aftern...

Millions swear by Reality Transurfing; sceptics call it New Age dressed in borrowed physics. Both are partly right. Over eighty-eight daysand twenty lessons, this independent course walks you through the whole system— the space of variations, importance, pendulums, intention, slides —explaining each idea fairly, then testing it against real psychology andevidence. Every lesson ends with something concrete to practice. You finishneither a believer nor a debunker, but a discerning user who k...

Magic will burn you up.Sent to stay with her aunt in Prague and witness the humble life of an artist, Ilana Lopez—a biracial Jewish girl—finds herself torn between her dream of becoming a violinist and her immigrant parents’ desire for her to pursue a more stable career.When she discovers a forgotten Jewish cemetery behind her aunt’s cottage, she meets the ghost of a kindhearted boy named Benjamin, who died over a century ago. As Ilana restores Benjamin’s g...

“Don’t be afraid to look into the eclipse!”-JeeRune Hartsmund is on the verge of pitching the game of his life and making baseball history when there is an attempt on his life from somewhere behind the stadium lights. Miraculously, he is saved by a young boy who runs onto the field just before the bullet strikes home. He soon finds out that his savior, Jee, is a 600-year-old Japanese deity, reincarnated in the body of ...

"Arem's Portal" is an insightful journey into a character testing forest of symbolism, foreshadowing, adventure and poetry. It is a modern Hebraic rendering of the classic Indo-Greco kidnap myth. The author's mesmerizing play of time-space sequences and moments of deep pathos make for an original and thought provoking thriller. Notwithstanding a fast paced story, the attention to details within the book are meticulous and artfully presented. The narrative conveys a timely statement about l...

Like other British motor manufacturers, the Rover Company spent World War II helping the war effort rather than building cars. Bombed out of its original home in Coventry during the Blitz in 1940, it was fortunate in 1945 to be able to move into the new factory at Solihull that it had been managing on behalf of the Air Ministry. The Solihull factory was not only new: it was huge. Its size presented Rover with a welcome opportunity for expansion, but first the company had to get back into t...

Join the young and upcoming warrior Rinn on an epic adventure through a perilous world filled with danger around every corner! From dangerous beasts of legend to dark forces plotting the destruction of the very world, will Rinn and his companions be able to survive in this unforgiving world? Will he be able to protect the love of his life from all the unseen dangers? Can a mere commoner truly protect the world? Find out in this thrilling tale as we follow our hero to his true destiny!

From start to finish. The author, Raheim Wilson, uses New York as his canvas andintricately paints each tale through the lens of an educated man, who purposefully weaves in hisknowledge and love for New York along with the dark, underground world during thelate 90's and early millennium. Wilson takes readers into a real time look at the underside ofsociety...the side where most of us would not dare to travel. Tales is a book about life. From thegang-...

Tolkien’s acclaimed modern classic ‘fairie’ tale, read by Derek Jacobi.Smith of Wootton Major journeys to the Land of Faery thanks to the magical ingredients of the Great Cake of the Feast of Good Children.

From zombies to cannibals to star-crossed, shapeshifting lovers, this cross-genre anthology written by superstar YA authors from across the Latin American diaspora offers bold new thrills for every monster fan.In these fifteen original short stories, bloodthirsty vampires are hunted by a quick-witted slayer; children are taken from their beds by “el Viejo de la Bolsa” while a military dictator steals their parents; and anyone you love might be a monster waiting to ...