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One For Sorrow, Two For Joy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

One For Sorrow, Two For Joy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-12-26
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  • Publisher: Penguin

“An epic tale in the tradition of Watership Down and Lord of the Rings.”—Alan Yentob, BBC Director of Drama and Entertainment Darkness has fallen over the realm of Birddom. The skies rain blood, no nest is safe, and the winds are thick with fear, pain, and death. Driven by an unslakable desire to kill and conquer, the black-feathered magpies—aided by their brutish cousins, the crows—have hunted down and slaughtered countless species of smaller birds into extinction. Led by the malevolent, power-mad Slyekin and his sadistic assassin, Traska, their reign of terror has laid waste to the beauty and freedom that was once Birddom. Now Slyekin is preparing to launch his final assault agai...

Seven for a Secret
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 286

Seven for a Secret

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: Viking

Man and nature are at war with each other. Evil flaps its black wings once more, and casts dark shadows. But which is the darker? Evil from without - or from within? Besieged from all sides, the ancient tawny owl, Tomar, battles to keep Birddom pure and whole. He still has friends to help him, though far fewer than before, allies in an unequal fight between good and evil. But, sometimes, good cannot prevail, and, when all hope is gone, there is no other recourse but to turn to seven for a secret - a secret that could yet save them all. Seven for A Secret is the eagerly awaited sequel to Clive Woodall's One for Sorrow Two for Joy.

The Third Witch
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 322

The Third Witch

Rebecca Reisert's mesmerizing first novel re-imagines Macbeth, Shakespeare's classic tragedy of power and madness, through the eyes of a mysterious young woman on a dangerous quest for vengeance. For the girl called Gilly, life in the wilds of Birnam Wood is little more than a desperate struggle for survival. Seven long years have passed since she was first taken in and sheltered by Nettle and Mad Helga, the hut-dwelling wise-women whose inscrutable powers of alchemy and prophecy are feared and reviled throughout good King Duncan's kingdom. Living under the threat of deadly persecution by witch-hunting villagers, the threesome ekes out a life by peddling potions and elixirs, scavenging for f...

Heartless
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

Heartless

A princess's heart is the prize in this Tolkein-esque world of dragons and knights; a blend of fantasy with a love for the ages.

The Electric Black
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 142

The Electric Black

The Electric Black is a horror series set in an antique shop that travels through time and space delivering cursed objects to unsuspecting customers. written and Illustrated by Joseph Schmalke and Rich Woodall published quarterly by Black Caravan a Scout Comics Imprint. The Electric Black is a cursed antique shop, appearing in any time or space, soliciting customers it hungers to corrupt or devour. The mysterious Julius Black is the store's demonic proprietor and narrator. He, along with his psychopathic employees, regularly manipulates patrons for their own devious purposes. Inside the eerie emporium, all of the forbidden objects have secrets to unlock. The poor souls that enter never leave without something. It's dark light will shine on macabre mysteries, grisly murders, and other frightful occurrences. Dare you step within its sinister halls?

Darkwing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 379

Darkwing

Before there were bats like Shade, Marina or even Goth, there was a young chiropter—a small arboreal glider—named Dusk. . . . It is 65 million years ago, during a cataclysmic moment in the earth’s evolution, and Dusk, just months old, has no way of knowing he will play a pivotal role in creating a new world. What he does know is that he is different from the other newborn chiropters. Not content to use his large sails to glide down from the giant sequoia tree, Dusk discovers that if he flaps quickly enough, he can fly. But this strange gift that makes him feel like an outcast from the colony will also make him its saviour. After most of the colony is savagely massacred by the felids—...

Broken Wings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Broken Wings

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-05
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  • Publisher: Unknown

It is many years since the cataclysmic, man-made event which drove all life from Birddom. Recovery has been slow but Nature always finds a way and now a paradise is on offer for those brave enough to make the attempt.Just such a bird is Spindle, an unhappy young heron who has lost all his family and is bullied mercilessly by others of his kind. Hearing of this far-off Eden and believing that he has nothing to lose, he sets off in search of a new home in a place he decides to call Ardea - after the first heron flock that the Creator brought to life.On arrival, he finds that everything is even better than he has been told. The large island is a beautiful and beneficent utopia with no predators...

Butterworth's Wills, Probate and Administration Service
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 9500

Butterworth's Wills, Probate and Administration Service

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1996-01-26
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Designed to provide practical solutions to your day-to-day problems, this looseleaf work contains clear, step-by-step guidance on all areas of probate and administration law and practice, from planning and drafting a will, through administration of the estate and taxation, to after-death variations, family provision and litigation. Combining narrative text with precedents and source materials to make a single comprehensive reference service, it offers commentary and advice from leading experts. It includes precedents, fully annotated and presented clause by clause where appropriate, worked examples and the text of all relevant statutory materials. Tax considerations are emphasised throughout.The service is now also available online and on CD-ROM as part of the Butterworths Wills and Probate Library, bringing users the added benefits of electronic delivery such as enhanced search facilities and hypertext links.Two looseleaf volumes, four service issues per year (invoiced separately on publication).

Son of Rosemary
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 217

Son of Rosemary

Return to the dark and haunting world of Rosemary’s Baby in Ira Levin’s beguiling sequel, Son of Rosemary. Levin’s Rosemary’s Baby, one of the best-selling books of all time, is the iconic classic that ushered in the era of modern horror. This shocking and darkly comic sequel is set well after the harrowing events of the first book, and is just as compelling and suspenseful. It is now 1999, and Rosemary Woodhouse awakens from a decades-long coma to find herself in a drastically changed world. She soon discovers her son is already thirty-three years old, an a charismatic spiritual leader worshipped the world over, preaching a message of tolerance and peace. But is “Andy” the savior the troubled world so desperately needs, or is he his father’s son—the Antichrist? Master of suspense Ira Levin’s sardonic and thought-provoking exploration of good and evil, Son of Rosemary, finds Rosemary and her child reunited in a battle of wills that could determine not just the course of the new millennium—but the very fate of humankind.

The Mongoliad: Book One Collector's Edition
  • Language: en

The Mongoliad: Book One Collector's Edition

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-11-13
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  • Publisher: 47north

In 1241, warriors try to stop the Mongols from invading Europe; in the nineteenth century, a group of martial artists provide a language expert with lost manuscripts to translate that chronicle their ancestors' thirteenth century battles.