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120 Movie Taglines - The Ultimate Quiz Book
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How well do you know your movies? Do you think you could recognise a film just from its tagline? If so, then this is the quiz book for you! From classics that everyone should know all the way up to rarities that will test the world's greatest film critics, this fantastic book will be fun for the whole family.There are 120 questions contained within, organised into easy, medium and hard sections. All you have to do is identify which movie it is from the tagline provided. Sounds like a piece of cake? It might not be the walk in the park that you think...
Modern Wizard
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A fantastic crime novel by American writer and orthodontics and root canal therapy specialist (!) Rodrigues Ottolengui.Bacteriology and hypnotism are woven into this narrative, with the first part of the book centering upon the possible inoculation of one of the characters with the cultures of the microbe of diphtheria, and the following chapters leading to the bacillus of insanity!
Introduction to Shakespeare
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A broad but comprehensive look at the life and works of the matchless Bard, as well as the world he lived and worked in.
Eye for an Eye
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Anthony Trollope's classic novel from 1879 follows the trials of Fred Neville, a lieutenant in the cavalry and heir to the earldom of Scroope, who is caught up in scandal when he seduces Kate O'Hara, a poor, beautiful Irish girl.
Jeanne d'Arc
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A fascinating biography of Jeanne d'Arc, better known as Joan of Arc, the heroine of France. Said to have been guided by Divine providence, she led the French army to victory during the Hundred Years' War, only to be burned at the stake when she was only nineteen years old.
Saskias
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Richie continues to come to terms with being Saskia - and the two Saskias continue to come to terms with being the SuperTwins. Their friendship with James and Lydia Robinson continues to grow, especially when James enlists their aid in a charity project. This friendship becomes somewhat strained when the Saskias have to reveal their secret to the Robinsons. But James forgives them somewhat when he gets a knighthood after their help with his affairs. Saskia celebrates a birthday, with an amazing birthday outing that far exceeds the expectations of all her friends - and herself. But this stands her in good stead when the other Saskia's school end of term production is at risk of failure. Both Saskias try to help wherever they can, several people being rather happier after their assistance. Their trip to Florida sees them protect many people - but at great personal cost to themselves.
Plato's Apology, Crito and Phaedo of Socrates
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Three of Plato's dialogues on the philosophies of Socrates, the Apology, the Crito and the Phedo, translated into English.
King Alfred's Viking
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A fantastic historical novel about the first English fleet, written at the end of the 19th century by Reverend Charles Watts Whistler.
King Olaf's Kinsman
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A fantastic historical novel from The Reverend Charles Whistler, set circa 1000 AD, about the last Saxon struggle against the invading Danes.
Tale of the Great Plague
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A fantastic classic novel set during the Great Plague of London (1665-1666).
Batman Allies Quiz Book
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Over the years, Batman has accumulated many allies in his never ending battle against the worst Gotham has to offer. Inside this quiz book are 100 questions spanning the ten most recognizable of them. So prepare to test your knowledge on characters that have been helping Batman since near the start of his existence like Commissioner Gordon through to more recent additions like Damian Wayne. How much do you know about those that help the Dark Knight in his role as one of the premier heroes in all of comics.
Sherlock Holmes and The Scarlet Thread of Murder
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson feature in three brand new and exciting adventures that you won't want to miss.The Scarlet Thread of Murder: Three seemingly separate crimes, three detectives. A mysterious stalker is on the loose in London known only as the Goblin Man and his sights are set on a wealthy businessman, David Daniels. A horrific explosion rips through Whitechapel Underground Station and the prime suspect is a Jewish anarchist. And a Mrs Clara Edwards is searching for her missing lover, Philias Jackson. What connects these three? It's a dangerous and complex game that links Sherlock Holmes, Investigator Martin Hewitt, and former Ripper investigator and head of H Division Edmund Reid.A Scandal in America: In 1888 Mr Sherlock Holmes was beat by Irene Adler aka the Woman. After her marriage to Godfrey Norton she left London. Two years later her husband is found dead in his New York office, apparently having committed suicide. Irene Adler believes it to be staged, unable to accept Norton capable of such an end. There is one person, if any, who she can turned to: Sherlock Holmes. Holmes and Watson are headed to America where they must dive into the mysterious life of Godfrey Norton to learn how and why he died. No one is ready for what they learn.The Allegro Mystery: Someone lurks in the shadows and is sending mysterious and haunting letters to the beautiful ballerina, Mademoiselle Dipin. Believing her life to be endangered by a ghost from her past, she bursts into the study of 221b to plead with Sherlock Holmes for aid. Can Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson find and expose her ghost before something terrible happens to their client?The game is afoot.
Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
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Sherlock Holmes, the world's "e;only unofficial consulting detective"e;, was first introduced to readers in A Study in Scarlet published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. It was with the publication of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, however, that the master sleuth grew tremendously in popularity, later to become one of the most beloved literary characters of all time.In this book series, the short stories comprising The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes have been amusingly illustrated using only Lego(R) brand minifigures and bricks. The illustrations recreate, through custom designed Lego models, the composition of the black and white drawings by Sidney Paget that accompanied the original publication of these adventures appearing in The Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. Paget's iconic illustrations are largely responsible for the popular image of Sherlock Holmes, including his deerstalker cap and Inverness cape, details never mentioned in the writings of Conan Doyle.This uniquely illustrated collection, which features some of the most famous and enjoyable cases investigated by Sherlock Holmes and his devoted friend and biographer Dr. John H. Watson, including A Sandal in Bohemia and The Red-Headed League, is sure to delight Lego enthusiasts, as well as fans of the Great Detective, both old and new.In this story Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the curious discovery of a blue carbuncle in the crop of a Christmas goose abandoned by a man during a scuffle with some street ruffians. Holmes makes a series of deductions concerning the owner of a tattered old hat recovered along with the goose and thus sets out on the trail of the audacious thief who stole the precious stone five days previously.
You Buy Bones
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"e;Mr. Holmes is an amateur, Hopkins."e; Lestrade was smiling around the stem of his pipe as he spoke. Hopkins could hear it. "e;Not a man who works well in teams, he. He still trusts Dr. Watson not to lie to him... and Dr. Watson's pulled some whoppers to save his skinny neck in the past."e; Lestrade was still smiling. "e;Not that that's not the most interesting thing about those fellows. I could tell you some stories about them, Stanley... oh, I could tell you stories...'"e;. Meet Sherlock Holmes through the eyes of his fellow lodger once again... and meet both through the eyes of the Yard - especially those who saw them the most: Inspectors Lestrade, Gregson, and Bradstreet. From Montague Street to a supposedly straightforward case of smuggling in Cornwall, Scotland Yard saw more than the disconcerting and dazzling private detective; it also saw an admirable and steadfast British soldier who shared their need for justice. Doctor John Watson may call himself unremarkable, but the Yard would disagree...
MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part I
￥132.34
Part One of a record breaking three-volume collection, bringing together over sixty of the world's leading Sherlock Holmes authors. All the stories are traditional Sherlock Holmes pastiches. This volume covers the years from 1881 to 1889, including contributions from:John Hall, Hugh Ashton, Adrian Middleton, David Marcum, Jayantika Ganguly, Denis O. Smith, Amy Thomas, Kevin David Barratt, Luke Benjamen Kuhns, Summer Perkins, Deanna Baran, Shane Simmons, C.H. Dye, Mark Mower, Derrick Belanger , Daniel D. Victor, Steve Mountain, Stephen Wade, John Heywood, Will Thomas, Daniel McGachey, Martin Rosenstock, Craig Janacek, (and a poem from Michael Kurland). The authors are donating all the royalties from the collection to preservation projects at Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's former home, Undershaw.
MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part II
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Part Two of a record breaking three-volume collection, bringing together over sixty of the world's leading Sherlock Holmes authors. All the stories are traditional Sherlock Holmes pastiches. This volume covers the years from 1890 to 1895, including contributions from: Ann Margaret Lewis, Vincent W. Wright, William Patrick Maynard, Matthew Booth, J.R. Campbell, Robert V. Stapleton, Sam Wiebe, Jeremy Branton Holstein, Bill Crider, Peter Calamai, Lyndsay Faye, Marcia Wilson, Jack Grochot, Bert Coules. Christopher Redmond, Mike Hogan, Carl Heifetz, Wendy C. Fries, Dick Gillman (and a poem from Carole Nelson Douglas).
Shadowwraith
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In a new novel of supernatural adventure, Sherlock Holmes faces his greatest challenge, to locate and defeat the wraith of a powerful wizard. With the assistance of an incorruptible saint, an immortal librarian, a troupe of ghosts, a Scotland Yard Inspector, and, of course, Dr. Watson, Holmes finds himself in a race against time to protect both the human world and the Shadows from 'the most evil man who ever lived.'Why does a beautiful woman receive jewelry delivered to her pillow every night?How do impossible actors bloody the stage of the Lyceum Theatre?Why do dead men ramble the streets of Whitechapel?Why are Palermo's restless spirits whispering the name of Sherlock Holmes?Just returned from their American adventure, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are quickly entangled in this web of seemingly unrelated events. With his innate knowledge of the secret world of the supernatural, Holmes quickly recognizes that these incidents hold dire portents: a powerful enemy, "e;the most evil man who ever lived,"e; has emerged from the dark realm of the Shadows. A close call with this foe sends Holmes in search of a missing spell, which is written on a page of the infamous Devil's Bible. Should Holmes's enemy reach this incantation first, his power will increase and both the mortal world and the Shadows could fall.Holmes and Watson race against time to defeat their deadliest opponent to date, enlisting new helpers from the realms of spirits and shades. But their enemy also has an apprentice whose unnatural gifts may exceed Holmes's powers. The darkness is closing in on Holmes and Dr. Watson senses that his friend may no longer be able to balance his mortal nobility against his Shadow inheritance.From the comfortable Baker Street sitting room to the dark streets of Whitechapel and the terrifying crypts of Palermo, the chase is on to save the world...and the soul of Sherlock Holmes.
Adventure of the Speckled Band
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Sherlock Holmes, the world's "e;only unofficial consulting detective"e;, was first introduced to readers in A Study in Scarlet published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. It was with the publication of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, however, that the master sleuth grew tremendously in popularity, later to become one of the most beloved literary characters of all time.In this book series, the short stories comprising The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes have been amusingly illustrated using only Lego(R) brand minifigures and bricks. The illustrations recreate, through custom designed Lego models, the composition of the black and white drawings by Sidney Paget that accompanied the original publication of these adventures appearing in The Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. Paget's iconic illustrations are largely responsible for the popular image of Sherlock Holmes, including his deerstalker cap and Inverness cape, details never mentioned in the writings of Conan Doyle.This uniquely illustrated collection, which features some of the most famous and enjoyable cases investigated by Sherlock Holmes and his devoted friend and biographer Dr. John H. Watson, including A Sandal in Bohemia and The Red-Headed League, is sure to delight Lego enthusiasts, as well as fans of the Great Detective, both old and new.LEGO(R) is a trademark of the LEGO Group of Companies. The LEGO Group has not been involved in nor has it in any other way licensed or authorised the publication of this book.THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND: A distraught young woman named Helen Stoner arrives at Baker Street early one morning to ask Sherlock Holmes for help as she fears that her life is being threatened by her stepfather, Dr. Grimesby Roylott. At Stoke Moran, the estate where Miss Stoner and her stepfather live, Holmes carefully inspects the recent, but unnecessary, repairs to the manor-house and in doing so exposesamurderous plot.
Sherlock Holmes and The Menacing Metropolis
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More Menacing than the Menacing Moors, the Great Metropolis harbours evil and deviltry far more sinister than Dartmoor could offer - it is not for nothing that Watson describes London as the great cesspool draining the Empire of its dregs. Its evil stems from the hearts of the most heartless of men, evil against which a group of stalwart Londoners is determined to act.Knowledge is power and forewarned is forearmed, it is said, but fore-knowledge is fragile and Sherlock must balance probability with instinct, caution with decisiveness, when warned of impending disaster for both City and Realm.Allan Mitchell's stirring stanzas of reeling rhyme once again stretch back to an earlier era to witness the never-ending battle between Sherlock Holmes and the Menacing Metropolis.
Sherlock Holmes in The Nautilus Adventure
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The game's afloat! This fascinating tale takes Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson on an amazing undersea adventure to find and rescue a famous author who has been kidnapped. Along the way there are hidden clues, lost civilizations, danger, romance, humour, a volcanic eruption, a good deal of seaweed tea, and more than one surprising plot twist... not to mention saving the world! It all begins when a tall, bearded gentleman enters 221-B Baker Street and says, "e;Hello, my name is Captain Nemo of the submersible vessel the Nautilus. I would like to engage your services in locating a missing person. His name is Jules Verne."e;
Pom-Pom Goes To Bramble Wood
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Everyone admires the new dress her mother has made for Pom-Pom. It has tiny rosebuds stitched around the hem, and Pom-Pom looks very pretty indeed in it. It is certainly not the sort of dress she ought to wear when she is meeting her friends to play in Bramble Wood. Full of fun, and bursting with energy, she cannot keep from joining in with every game. But things with Pom-Pom are apt to go wrong and soon poor Pom-Pom is in trouble again. Pom-Pom Goes to Bramble Wood is the third book in this series of rhyming stories for children.
