Braddle And The Giant


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The summer holidays have started. Alfie Foggle, happy that school has now finished, is looking forward to spending his holidays doing absolutely nothing. A world away, Braddle and every other inhabitant of Carporoo are building a new city, a new home, but people are disappearing and no one knows why. Braddle sets out to solve the mystery and puts himself and everyone he loves in danger. On a quiet summer’s morning, Alfie’s plans for doing nothing are turned upside down as he discovers Carporoo: Braddle needs help and only Alfie can give it.




Braddle And The Giant: The Siege Of Carporoo


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General Stoo has returned home at the head of vast army with his new friend, Grash, the ruler of Tredet. Carporoo is surrounded but refuses to surrender. Once again, Braddle must ask Alfie for help but Alfie has got problems of his own. Luke, Mr Nicholls’ grandson, has learned about the tiny people and now wants them for himself. In this, the third and final book of the ‘Braddle and the Giant’ series, the adventures of Braddle and Alfie come to an explosive end. Will Carporoo and their friendship survive?




Braddle And The Giant: The Escape


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General Stoo has escaped and taken Braddle hostage. He and his men are far from the city, deep in the jaggeds. His plan is to conquer Carporoo but first he must rid himself of interfering giants. For Alfie, it is the start of the new school term. As well as learning about punctuation, fractions and the enormity of the universe he also learns that his life is in danger from tiny assassins. In this sequel to Braddle and the Giant, the adventures of Braddle and Alfie take an unexpected turn. This time General Stoo does not plan to fail.




The Blue Boy And Other Stories


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A diverse range of short stories dealing with love and loss; hope and disappointment; the strange and the unexpected. This collection of 24 stories includes: A couple facing the slow transformation of humanity into something radically different and beyond reach. Do they stay with the blue boy and wait their turn or do they leave while they still can? A group of ecstatic, detached heads resurrected far in the future realising, in horror, that The Future has its own plans for the relics from the past. On a cold, dark, winter's evening, a train arrives at the end of the line. One man alights. His only thought is to get home fast but the deserted streets have other ideas. Ever gone on a first date? Well, fifteen year old Jamie is about to if only he can dodge the advice-giving relatives and get out of the house in time. An entrepreneurial crab has a great idea to make a juicy profit and learns business would be less stressful without the customers. If you like stories that deal with the extraordinary within the ordinary, aspects overlooked or forgotten, the eye in the everyday then you will enjoy this book.







Rise of the Santilectan Queen


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Under the cover of night, three armed soldiers from the City of Torsch secretly enter the deep valley of Feuterdale. They are urgently looking for Jorin Dulin, the one man whose fate is marked to change the world. The young Jorin soon learns from the strangers that his life is intricately tied to the powerful leaders of Torsch. Hearing tales of insidious evil, dark sorcery, impending war, and a shocking revelation about his own identity, Jorin s peaceful world is suddenly turned upside down. Time is running out as the powers of black magic gather strength under the control of Salairis, the Dark Queen sorceress, who seeks to destroy Jorin, or even worse claim him as her own! With his loyal friend, Oland, the reluctant Jorin leaves behind everything he has ever known and embarks on a dangerous mission to fulfill his destiny. At stake are his life, his identity, and the lives of thousands of people who face death, destruction, and enslavement from the greatest evil ever to threaten the land! Follow Jorin, and witness the immortal struggle of good against evil in a magical world of courage, mystery, friendship, danger, and power.




400 Brattle Street


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A CIA research psychological research center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been "turned around" by an foreign power waging a secret war against the United States. The center is being used to train agents to be like robots — resistant to pain, and programmed to do their bidding. As oil refineries explode, race riots begin to break out, and the stock market begins to tank, husband and wife team Tom and Marcia Pauling must investigate the attacks, track them to their source and prevent the entire nation from dropping into chaos. And the clock is ticking…




Giants of Music Education


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On the Shoulders of Giants


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With playfulness and a large dose of wit, Robert Merton traces the origin of Newton's aphorism, "If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Using as a model the discursive and digressive style of Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Merton presents a whimsical yet scholarly work which deals with the questions of creativity, tradition, plagiarism, the transmission of knowledge, and the concept of progress. "This book is the delightful apotheosis of donmanship: Merton parodies scholarliness while being faultlessly scholarly; he scourges pedantry while brandishing his own abstruse learning on every page. The most recondite and obscure scholarly squabbles are transmuted into the material of comedy as the ostensible subject is shouldered to one side by yet another hobby horse from Merton's densely populated stable. He has created a jeu d'esprit which is profoundly suggestive both in detail and as a whole."—Sean French, Times Literary Supplement




The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films


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"The entire field of film historians awaits the AFI volumes with eagerness."--Eileen Bowser, Museum of Modern Art Film Department Comments on previous volumes: "The source of last resort for finding socially valuable . . . films that received such scant attention that they seem 'lost' until discovered in the AFI Catalog."--Thomas Cripps "Endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.