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Operation Red Jericho
This first of three tales begins the story of a sister and brother, who, while searching for their missing parents in 1920s Shanghai, uncover a mysterious secret society. Includes maps, documents, four full-color gatefolds, and extensive appendices and notes.
Operation Typhoon Shore
Get ready for Book II of the thrilling, novelty-packed Guild of Specialists trilogy. After being lashed by a typhoon on their uncle's ship, THE EXPEDIENT, intrepid siblings Becca and Doug MacKenzie want nothing more than to escape from the volcanic island on which they're stranded and resume the search for their parents. But their uncle, Captain MacKenzie, seems more concerned with the missing gyrolabe than their missing mother and father, and he refuses to discuss the role the mysterious Guild of Specialists played in their disappearance. As the formidable Kalaxx warriors close in on their hidden cove, Becca and Doug unearth a riddle linked to a 1533 painting, which may hold the key to the Guild's dark secrets and to finding their parents. But how can they possibly solve the puzzle and escape with their lives -- before their enemies attack?
Operation Storm City
Mystery fiction. Adventure fiction. Book III of The Guild Trilogy: the adventure continues and the stakes are higher than ever. Becca and Doug are back at their old family home in Lucknow, India, where they discover research papers containing clues to their missing parents' expedition route and to the location of Ur-Can - the fabled Storm City. Soon they are on a perilous journey to the Takla Makan desert, racing against the enemy by steam train, riverboat, and airship across the Himalayas. But the race is on to take control of Ur-Can - ancient source of power and threat to the security of the planet. Can Becca, Doug and the Guild get there in time? And has their quest taught them enough to solve the final mystery of Storm City, or will they find their parents only to lose them again for ever?
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The best fiction for the Key Stage 3 classroom New Longman Literature
The Great Space Race
A crazy world domination conspiracy is uncovered and foiled by the most unlikely family on Earth in this highly entertaining and madcap adventure. The Crankshaws have finally hit rock bottom. The family are stony broke, their belongings have been snaffled by the bailiffs and their house, The Mill, is about to be re-possessed. And although Dad's Soviet fighter jet-propelled BBQ may well be the planet's most innovative solution to fast food (extra fast food), it is not the family's ticket out of financial doom and gloom. Not yet...So it is that fourteen-year-old Ace Crankshaw devises a secret money-making scheme of his own - the answer to all their problems, he thinks - a grandiose plan that will at last lift the Crankshaw's curse.
Foundling
Having grown up in a home for foundlings and pssessin a girl's name, Rossamünd sets out to report to his new job as a lamplighter and has several adventures along the way as he meets people and monsters who are more complicated that he previously thought. Includes glossaries and maps.
The Devil's Engine: Hellraisers
Marlow Green's a high school boy in New York who's always in trouble for vandalism and acting out, and who one day stumbles into the middle of a battle with a demon and learns about The Devil's engine--an ancient machine which can grant anything you wish for--in exchange for your soul.
Singular Women
Contemporary art historians - all of them women - probe the dilemmas and complexities of writing about the woman artist, past and present. These 13 essays address the work and history of specific artists, beginning with the Renaissance and ending with the present day.
Leonardo and the Flying Boy
Zoro is the pupil of the painter, sculptor, scientist and inventor, Leonardo da Vinci. He works hard in Leonardo's workshop, but he is never allowed inside the secret locked room, where Leonardo spends hours working on a mysterious invention. Then one day a mischievous boy steals the keys.
Biosorption of Heavy Metals
This state-of-the-art volume represents the first comprehensively written book which focuses on the new field of biosorption. This fascinating work conveys essential fundamental information and outlines the perspectives of biosorption. It summarizes the metal-sorbing properties of nonliving bacterial, fungal, and algal biomass, plus highlights relevant metal-binding mechanisms. This volume also discusses the aspects of obtaining and processing microbial biomass and metal-chelating chemicals into industrially applicable biosorbent products. Microbiologists, chemists, and engineers with an interest in new technological and scientific horizons will find this reference indispensable.
