White Pawn on Red Square


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At the height of the Cold War a Russian girl plots to steal the mummified body of Lenin and use it as a hostage to free her dissident brother and others from a Siberian gulag. She recruits five people, each with a motive for settling scores with Lenin; she lures an English diplomat, who loves her, into the conspiracy. But someone is a traitor; two plotters die and four others land in the notorious Lubyanka prison before one of the group hatches a plan to outwit the KGB. DonOCOt miss this exciting tale of love, scheming, and Russian terror and torture. Boson Books also offers The Bent Pyramid and Rogues in the Gallery by Hugh McLeave. For an author bio, photo, and a sample read visit bosonbooks.com."




Looking Glass Land


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Wonderland!


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Wonderland is a warm and engaging relationship drama revolving around four couples at very different stages of life; the star-crossed singles, blissful newlyweds, hot new lovers and long-term marrieds. We join them as they navigate the light-hearted and sometimes painful minefield of love and friendship.




GMG Chess Booklet 3


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The books includes chess tactics: double attack, attacking the pinned piece, removing the defender, mate in 2, threats defending, drawmixed. Also with Pawn Endgames (Opposition and Rule of the Square) and illustrative games.




Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia


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Through the Looking Glass


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In the country beyond the looking glass, where everything is reversed, Alice meets the red queen and other chessmen. Sequel to "Alice in Wonderland". Grades 4-7. 1915.




The Red King


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Alice’s time in Wonderland is long behind her, but an old enemy is painting London’s streets with blood in this dark fantasy horror series opener. There is nothing deadlier than a little girl’s dreams . . . Alice Liddell had adventures in Wonderland many years ago. Now she is grown-up, married and living a respectable life in Edwardian London. But her dreams have come back to haunt her... A serial killer stalks the streets. Children and adults are being brutally murdered and drained of blood. The Red King is on a quest for revenge against the seven-year-old girl who humiliated him years ago. Alice joins forces with Dorothy Gale, who had adventures of her own in a land called Oz. Together they hunt the Red King before he can enslave the world. But Alice discovers that the Red King’s rampage may be all her own fault—fighting her own dreams isn’t easy. The Red King is the first of Alice’s adventures concerning the mysterious Jabberwocky Book she discovered in Looking-Glass Land, a book that holds the key to the survival of four linked worlds.




Hoyle's Games Modernized - Cards, Board Games and Billiards


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Originally published in London in the 1920s as a revised and enlarged edition based on Hoyle's early works of the 1700s. The book is an illustrated compendium of over eighty games and their varieties including card, billiard and board games. These are fully explained with rules and advice on play. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.




Psychotherapy With Children of Divorce


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A comprehensive treatise on the dynamic and adaptive problems which children and families encounter in their experiences of separation and divorce. The book offers guidelines for therapeutic treatment of these problems.




Individual and Group Therapy and Work with Parents in Adolescent Psychotherapy


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Part of a series that aims to collectively produce the most comprehensive statement on the psychotheraputic treatment of adolescents. This volume dicusses every aspect of individual and group therapy, and work with parents.