Sid's Surprise


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Sid the snake thinks he's sick and doesn't want to play with his friends.




Valrue


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A crisis plagues the city of Valrue. An excess of majik has driven nature away, leaving a barren expanse around the city, tempting its demise. Embittered by their suffering, the People demand vengeance against Valrue's majikal inhabitants. His future as a Krijen warrior threatened, Jin suppresses his majik, unaware he treads an even more perilous path. Smothered in the safety of her wealthy family home, Aren seeks purpose, seduced by risks she should not take. The Great Kahn reigns over it all, festering in his failure to free his city until something surfaces from his past that changes everything. He devises a daring plan, endangering the ugly secret that could spell his ruin . . .




A Big Surprise


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It's Mouse's birthday--and her friends Dog, Frog, Cat, Fox, and Snake have something special in store!




Sid and Po


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Sid is a lonely eight-year-old boy who lives with his busy father and devout grandmother, who is always in the puja room. One day, he decides to get a Labrador pup but ends up with a chameleon named Po (short for Pokiman), instead. But Po is no ordinary chameleon mind you, for not only can he talk (and finds English really easy compared to pigeon language), but science is his favourite subject. Despite this, Sid's heart is still set on getting a cute little puppy with floppy ears and a tail that wags like the wind. But all the changes when Po saves him from the neighbourhood bully, Ranbir aka Rambo. Soon, Sid and Po becomes best friends and plunge into a series of funny adventures. Prashant Pinge's stories are lighthearted and engaging and bring together two unlikely characters ? a shy boy and an over-smart chameleon ? joined together by that sweet and wonderful bond, friendship.




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The Accidental Agent


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Sid, a young computer scientist who is passionate about his profession, yearns to also serve his country. Helped by his professor, Sid accepts a job at the CIA where he can do both. But the forces of avarice and ideology conspire into the design of an industrial sabotage, which thrusts Sid into a desperate adventure he surely didn't sign up for. His first job out of college takes him to India on a seemingly simple CIA assignment. But nothing is what it seems in the world of espionage. The web spread by a ruthless Washington lobbyist engulfs a Silicon Valley executive, an ideologue in the Pentagon, and a military general in the third world. Will Sid and his college sweetheart survive the web they are caught in?




The Thief of Sacred


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When the President of the United States is assassinated in a series of terrorist attacks, Vice President Zella Brooks inherits the office with a steel resolve to protect her people at any cost. But harrowing twists and surprise turns soon leave her not knowing who or what to believe. Desperate for the truth, she takes an unthinkable path, a choice that guarantees political suicide by turning Congress, the American people, and even her advisors against her. In a race against time, she must fight her enemy and go public with the evidence before the final execution of an attack so sinister it will murder millions worldwide. "A story for the time that is intimately personal, forcefully political, realistically international and frighteningly plausible. It will be the unusual reader who comes away from this experience without wishing it were possible to meet the principal players in this captivating drama, if nothing else, to cheer them on "-James Fellows, Former President, American Television Group "The Thief of Sacred is a page-turning, action-packed story full of conspiracy, intrigue, and political twists that keep you captive to the last page. It's downright eerie that Lloyd wrote this before 9/11."-Constance Luciano




Teardrop


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Tragedy strikes a young married couple living in Bradford West Yorkshire in the late 1940s. Timmothy Dove’s wife dies after prematurely giving birth to a set of triplets, two sons and a daughter. Timmothy struggles to bring up his new family on his own, he finally realises that he can no longer give them the love, attention and sustenance that they require, therefore he has no option but to put his three children into the care of the local authority. Two of the children are soon adopted, the other one Sidney unbeknown to him was named after his late grandfather just seems to be the odd one out, he is in and out of different fostering family homes and regularly returns back into the care of the local authority because of his disruptive behaviour. None of the children were to be informed of the tragic circumstances in which both their parents died, and it was agreed by the authority’s that the children’s new parents would also be given no background details of their past life.




One Cause Too Many


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Disillusioned by years of work as a civic activist, Valerie makes a bid for a fresh start with multimillionaire Sid. After she is gunned down by an unknown assailant she realizes that she cannot leave her past behind. Only when Valerie makes peace with the memory of her brother who died as a Freedom Rider for civil rights, and reaches out to her interracial son whom she gave up for adoption can she find romantic happiness. Valerie's struggle is played against the conflicting dynamics of the American South.




Machines


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In the later half of the twenty-first century, Jobe Corithese is hired to track down some missing people who are believed to have been kidnapped. He accepts this job after gaining information about the person who hired him, but the fact that he is being hunted by nearly every law enforcement agency on Earth will complicate his assignment considerably. So he decides to track down the only person he believes he can trust to help him complete the assignment, but the only problem is that this person, Sid Tyko, blames Jobe for his nearly dying during their first meeting. However, he does agree to help Jobe, but only because he is offered a large sum of money for his services. Then with Sid in tow, Jobe goes to join his assistant, who happens to be an android who prefers to be called Gus, who has been heavily modified by all of his previous owners to the point where he has developed a rather unique personality to go with his impressive set of skills. The three of them then leave Earth behind and begin their search for the missing people on a space station called The Rim that orbits Earth?s moon. Their search takes them to various places on The Rim, and then to the moon itself, where they find the people they were looking for, but also begin to uncover secrets that they are not meant to know. They soon learn that their assignment will be anything but easy, as they are pitted against criminals, soldiers, and people employed by various law-enforcement agencies, while trying to unravel a larger conspiracy that they have suddenly learned they are a part of.