Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 6 February 2011
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Child of the Dark Star
"There was a planet once called Earth. Its people, scattered like seeds before the wind, came to rest on Agaron..." His premature birth under the dreaded Dark Star had doomed him to be banished to the marshlands, but he found himself drawn like a magnet to the glittering Temple of the White Star. There he found a girl trapped in crystal. Who was she? Could he release her? And could they, together, outwit the harsh lords of Agaron? This is the gripping story of one man's fight to free his mind from the conditioning of a restrictive and powerful system... It is the story of a love that would not accept the Law... It is a story of the last days and the first...
WAITING FOR ORDERS is a collection of the author's shorter works, written in 1929-1940 as Ambler, already a successful suspense novelist, waited for his call to military duty. Included in WAITING FOR ORDERS are "The Army of Shadows," his earliest published short story; "The Intrusions of Dr. Czissar," a collection of detective stories; and "The Blood Bargain," a short story that the author abandoned and then came back to in 1970.
An occasional collection of 10 horror stories by various readers. We aim to unsettle you a little, to cut through the pink cushion of illusion that shields you from the horrible realities of life. Here are the walking dead, the fetid pools of slime, the howls in the night that you thought you had confined to your more unpleasant dreams.
The Canterbury Tales (level 3 Penguin readers)+AUDIO
A group of pilgrims going to see the tomb of Thomas Becket in Canterbury meet at an inn in London and decide to take part in a game. The game consists in each pilgrim telling a story on their way to Canterbury. The one who tells the best story will be given a free meal at the same inn.
'It was a time when winged creatures ruled heaven and earth !' Evil King Freyne is killed in battle and young Prince Einon is badly hurt. His mother Queen Aislinn asks a dragon to save his life, promising that Einon will be a good king to his people. But he doesn't keep his promise and men and dragons are at war. Will peace ever return to the land? A magical story of good and evil set in the tenth century - a time of knights and dragons! The spectacular film of the story stars Dennis Quaid.
