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By Patricia C. Wrede

These depraved wizards are back—and they've turn into highly intelligent. (Sort of.) They intend to take over the Enchanted woodland as soon as and for all… until Cimorene unearths how to cease them. and a few humans imagine being queen is easy.

By Mary Pope, Boyce, Natalie Pope Osborne

Whilst Jack and Annie acquired again from their experience in Magic Tree condominium #48: an ideal Time for Pandas they'd plenty of questions. What do pandas devour? the place do they stay? Why are snow leopards so scarce? How will we aid? discover the solutions to those questions and extra as Jack and Annie song the evidence. full of updated details, images, illustrations, and enjoyable tidbits from Jack and Annie, the Magic Tree condominium truth Trackers are the correct manner for children to determine extra in regards to the subject matters they found of their favourite Magic Tree condo adventures.

By H. J Burlingame

By Keith R. A. DeCandido

A Supernatural novel that finds a formerly unseen event for the Winchester brothers, from the hit CW series!

When renegade angel Castiel indicators Sam and Dean to a sequence of fairly brutal killings in San Francisco's Chinatown, they recognize the guts of the Dragon, an historical evil of unspeakable energy, is again! John Winchester confronted the terrifying spirit twenty years in the past, and the Campbell relatives fought it two decades earlier than that - can the men be successful the place their mom and dad and grandparents failed?

By Stuart MacDonald

EPUB eISBN: 9780857907943
Original booklet: 2002 (Tuckwell Press)
Electronic book: 2014 (Birlinn Limited)

Along the coast of Fife, in villages like Culross and Pittenweem, old markers and pamphlets now comprise the truth that a few ladies have been done as witches inside of those burghs. nonetheless the truth of what occurred the evening that Janet Cornfoot was once lynched within the harbour is tough to know as one sits within the harbour of Pittenweem staring at the fishing boats dump their capture and the excitement boats emerging with the tide. How may well humans do that to an previous girl? Why was once no-one ever delivered to justice? And why may an individual safeguard one of these lynching? the duty of the historian is to aim to make occasions long ago come alive and appear much less unusual. this is often rather precise relating to the historian facing the witch-hunt. the main points are interesting. many of the anecdotes are unusual. the fashionable reader unearths it difficult to visualize ailment being blamed at the malevolence of a beggar girl denied charity. it truly is obscure the industrial failure of a sea voyage being attributed to the village hag, now not undesirable climate. Witch-hunting used to be regarding rules, values, attitudes and political occasions. It used to be a sophisticated strategy, concerning non secular and civil professionals, village tensions and the fears of the elite. The witch-hunt in Scotland additionally came about at a time while one of many major agendas was once the construction of a righteous or godly society. accordingly, spiritual experts had keep an eye on over features of the lives of the folks which appear every piece as unusual to us this present day as may well any ideals approximately magic or witchcraft. That the witch-hunt in Scotland, and in particular in Fife, must have occurred at present was once no longer unintentional. This ebook tells the tale of what happened over a interval of a century and a part, and provides a few rationalization as to why it occurred.

About the Author
Stuart Macdonald teaches at Knox university, Toronto, Canada.

By J. K. Rowling

A replica of wonderful Beasts & the place to discover Them is living in virtually each wizarding loved ones within the state. Now, Muggles too have the opportunity to find the place the Quintaped lives, what the Puffskein eats, and why it's best to not go away milk out for a Knarl.

By Daniel Stashower

While Harry Houdini is framed and jailed for espionage, Sherlock Holmes vows to transparent his identify, with the 2 becoming a member of forces to tackle blackmailers who've designated the Prince of Wales.

It's a case that calls for all in their talents -- either psychological and actual. Can the bold duo remedy what everyone is calling "The Crime of the Century"?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's undying construction returns in a brand new sequence of handsomely designed detective tales. From the earliest days of Holmes' profession to his staggering encounters with Martian invaders, the additional Adventures sequence encapsulates the main diversified and exciting instances of the worlds' maximum detective.

By Trudi Canavan

By Debora Geary

Elorie Shaw, steeped within the traditions of the Nova Scotia witching group, yet now not a witch. The fetching spell should have goofed this time... or did it? 
Travel to Fisher's Cove, Nova Scotia, the place Moira is matriarch and the previous methods are nurtured and handed to the following iteration. the place a crotchety outdated witch makes babies cry and builds partitions round the silent soreness in his middle. And the place Elorie - sea-glass artist, hotel proprietor, and Moira's granddaughter - makes her home. The outdated magics are powerful the following. that's all superb and solid until eventually the fetching spell pulls Elorie into Witches' Chat. simply because she's now not a witch. Or at the least no longer any form of witch the outdated methods recognize... A Hidden Witch is the sequel to a latest Witch, the most desirable e-book in modern myth. whereas each one publication tells an entire tale, you'll benefit from the characters way more in the event you commence first and foremost of the series. Debora Geary is engaged on a number of extra books anticipated out in 2012, if the children don't spill from now on water on her machine.

By Steve McHugh