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Around the World in Eighty Days

Phileas Fogg makes a £20,000 wager that he can travel around the world in only eighty days and, alongside his faithful valet Passepartout, sets out on a misadventure that seems to take him off course at every turn.

Army of God: Joseph Kony's War in Central Africa

Joseph Kony is the most dangerous guerilla leader in modern African history.It started with a visit from spirits. In 1991, Kony claimed that spiritual beings had come to him with instructions: he was to lead his group of rebels, the Lord's Resistance Army, in a series of brutal raids against ordinary Ugandan civilians. Decades later, Kony has sown chaos throughout Central Africa, kidnapping and terrorizing countless innocents—especially children. Yet despite an enormous global outcry, the Kony 2012 movement, and an international military intervention, the carnage has continued. Drawn from on-the-ground reporting by war correspondent David Axe and starkly illustrated by Tim Hamilton, Army of God is the first-ever graphic account of the global phenomenon surrounding Kony—from the devastation he has left behind to the long campaign to defeat him for good.

Arms and the Man (The World At War)

“Arms and the Man” is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw, whose title comes from the opening words of Virgil's Aeneid, in Latin: Arma virumque cano ("Of arms and the man I sing"). (Excerpt from Wikipedia)

Arms and the Man

In the opening scene of Arms and the Man, which establishes the play's embattled Balkan setting, young Raina learns of her suitor's heroic exploits in combat. She rhapsodizes that it is "a glorious world for women who can see its glory and men who can act its romance!" Soon, however, such romantic falsifications of love and warfare are brilliantly and at times hilariously unmasked in a comedy that reveals George Bernard Shaw at his best as an acute social observer and witty provocateur. First produced on the London stage in 1894, Arms and the Man continues to be among the most performed of Shaw’s plays around the world. The play is reprinted in its entirety here from an authoritative British edition, and is complete with Shaw's stimulating preface to Volume II of Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant.

Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse

At Moson, the river Danube ran red with blood. At Antioch, the Crusaders- their saddles freshly decorated with sawed-off heads-indiscriminately clogged the streets with the bodies of eastern Christians and Turks. At Ma'arra, they cooked children on spits and ate them. By the time the Crusaders reached Jerusalem, their quest-and their violence- had become distinctly otherworldly: blood literally ran shin-deep through the streets as the Crusaders overran the sacred city. Beginning in 1095 and culminating four bloody years later, the First Crusade represented a new kind of warfare: holy, unrestrained, and apocalyptic. In Armies of Heaven, medieval historian Jay Rubenstein tells the story of this cataclysmic event through the eyes of those who witnessed it, emphasizing the fundamental role that apocalyptic thought played in motivating the Crusaders. A thrilling work of military and religious history, Armies of Heaven will revolutionize our understanding of the Crusades.

Archived, The (The\archived Ser.)

he Archive, an otherworldly library, contains the bodies of everyone who has ever died. But when the Archive is compromised from within, sixteen-year-old Mackenzie Bishop must use her skills as a Keeper to identify the traitor and prevent violent Histories from escaping into our world. The first in a dark, dazzlingly inventive YA fantasy series from the author of The Near Witch.

The Archived (The Archived #2)

The Archive, an otherworldly library, contains the bodies of everyone who has ever died. But when the Archive is compromised from within, sixteen-year-old Mackenzie Bishop must use her skills as a Keeper to identify the traitor and prevent violent Histories from escaping into our world. The first in a dark, dazzlingly inventive YA fantasy series from the author of The Near Witch.

Archenemies (Renegades #2)

A story of superheroes, villains, vengeance and forbidden love, Archenemies by Marissa Meyer is the fabulous sequel to Renegades. Time is running out.Together, they can save the world.But they are each other’s worst nightmare.Nova’s double life is about to get a lot more complicated:As Insomnia, she is a fully-fledged member of the Renegades, a syndicate of powerful and beloved superheroes. As Nightmare, she is an Anarchist - a group of of villains who are determined to destroy the Renegades. Nova wants vengeance against the so-called heroes who once failed her when she needed them most.But as Nova, her feelings for Adrian are deepening, despite the fact that he is a Renegade and the son of her sworn enemies and, unbeknownst to Nova, he has some dangerous secrets of his own.The line between good and evil has been blurred, but too much power could mean the end of their city – and the world – as they know it.

Arabian Nights: A Selection

Probably one of the original 'story within a story' books, Arabian nights is a selection of stories told by a young girl on her wedding night to a prince who has sworn to kill any girl who marries him. Her clever stories serve as 'cliff-hangers' and keep him from murdering her night after night. This collection is where classic fairy tales such as Aladdin and Ali Baba and the Forty Theives come from as well as well-known moral tales and metaphors.The use of djiins, magic and an evocation of Oriental splendour makes Arabian Nights dazzle. A 'must read' book and the perfect counter point to western fairy tales such as Hans Christian Anderson and the Brothers Grimm.

The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

"Destined to become a classic" (Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking), this harrowing memoir of life inside North Korea was the first account to emerge from the notoriously secretive country -- and it remains one of the most terrifying. Amid escalating nuclear tensions, Kim Jong-un and North Korea's other leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party state, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for "re-education." Kang Chol-Hwan is the first survivor of one of these camps to escape and tell his story to the world, documenting the extreme conditions in these gulags and providing a personal insight into life in North Korea. Sent to the notorious labor camp Yodok when he was nine years old, Kang observed frequent public executions and endured forced labor and near-starvation rations for ten years. In 1992, he escaped to South Korea, where he found God and now advocates for human rights in North Korea.Part horror story, part historical document, part memoir, part political tract, this book brings together unassailable firsthand experience, setting one young man's personal suffering in the wider context of modern history, giving eyewitness proof to the abuses perpetrated by the North Korean regime.

AQA GCSE Physics 9-1 For Combined Science Grade 5 Booster Workbook (GCSE Science 9-1 Series)

AQA GCSE Maths Grade 5-7 Workbook: (PDF) (Collins GCSE Maths Series)

Exam Board: AQA Level & Subject: GCSE Maths First teaching: September 2015 First exams: June 2017 •Written and reviewed by GCSE maths experts, this workbook is fully up to date for current GCSE Maths specifications •Perfect for students who are aiming for or need extra practice at grades 5, 6 and 7 •Focus on building a mastery mindset, with ramped practice to give students the confidence to achieve without limitation •Targets the skills and topics that will have most impact for students looking to maximise their potential at Higher Tier, informed by the latest examiner reports •Prepares students to answer new-style reasoning and problem-solving questions confidently •Organised by strand for easy integration into any teaching programme •Exam practice papers allow students to test their GCSE readiness with calculator and non-calculator papers

AQA GCSE Combined Science Trilogy Higher All-in-One Revision and Practice (Collins GCSE 9-1 Revision) (PDF)

Exam board: AQA Level & Subject: GCSE 9-1 Combined Science: Trilogy Higher First teaching: September 2016 First exam: June 2018 Revision that Sticks! Collins AQA GCSE Grade 1-9 Combined Science Trilogy Higher Complete All-in-One Revision and Practice, uses a revision method that really works: repeated practice throughout. A revision guide, workbook and practice paper in one book! With clear and concise revision for every topic, plus seven practice opportunities, Collins offers the best revision at the best price. Includes: • quick tests as you go • end-of-topic practice questions • topic review questions later in the book • mixed practice questions at the end of the book • audio download to practice listening • more topic-by-topic practice in the workbook • a complete exam-style paper • free Q&A flashcards to download online • an ebook version of the revision guide

AQA GCSE Chemistry 9-1 For Combined Science Grade 5 Booster Workbook (GCSE Science 9-1)

AQA GCSE 9-1 Poetry Anthology: Power and Conflict Revision Guide (PDF) (Collins Gcse Revision And Practice Ser.)

Exam Board: AQA Level: GCSE Grade 9-1 Subject: English First Teaching: September 2015, First Exams: June 2017 Revision that Sticks! Collins AQA GCSE Grade 9-1 Power and Conflict Poetry Anthology Complete All-in-One Revision and Practice, uses a revision method that really works: repeated practice throughout. A revision guide, workbook and practice paper in one book! With clear and concise revision for every topic, plus seven practice opportunities, Collins offers the best revision at the best price. Includes: • quick tests as you go • end-of-topic practice questions • topic review questions later in the book • mixed practice questions at the end of the book • audio download to practice listening • more topic-by-topic practice in the workbook • a complete exam-style paper • free Q&A flashcards to download online • an ebook version of the revision guide

AQA GCSE 9-1 Design & Technology All-in-One Revision and Practice (Collins GCSE 9-1 Revision) (PDF)

Exam Board: AQA Level: GCSE Subject: Design & Technology First Teaching: September 2017; First Exams: June 2019 Revision that Sticks! Collins AQA GCSE 9-1 Design and Technology Complete All-in-One Revision and Practice, uses a revision method that really works: repeated practice throughout. A revision guide, workbook and practice paper in one book! With clear and concise revision for every topic, plus seven practice opportunities, Collins offers the best revision at the best price. Includes: • quick tests as you go • end-of-topic practice questions • topic review questions later in the book • mixed practice questions at the end of the book • audio download to practice listening • more topic-by-topic practice in the workbook • a complete exam-style paper • free Q&A flashcards to download online • an ebook version of the revision guide

AQA GCSE 9-1 COMBINED SCIENCE TRILOGY FOUNDATION ALL-IN-ONE REVISION AND PRACTICE (Collins GCSE 9-1 Revision)

xam Board: AQA Level & Subject: GCSE Grade 9-1 Combined Science: Trilogy Foundation First Teaching: September 2016, First Exams: June 2018 Revision that Sticks! Collins AQA GCSE Grade 9-1 Combined Science Trilogy Foundation Complete All-in-One Revision and Practice uses a revision method that really works: repeated practice throughout. A revision guide, workbook and practice paper in one book! With clear and concise revision for every topic, plus seven practice opportunities, Collins offers the best revision at the best price. Includes: • quick tests as you go • end-of-topic practice questions • topic review questions later in the book • mixed practice questions at the end of the book • audio download to practice listening • more topic-by-topic practice in the workbook • a complete exam-style paper • free Q&A flashcards to download online • an ebook version of the revision guide

AQA GCSE 9-1 Combined Science Revision Guide: Ideal For The 2024 And 2025 Exams (Collins GCSE Grade 9-1 Revision Ser.)

AQA Gcse (GCSE Science 9-1 Series)

Apples

Out of the bleakness of their Middlesbrough housing estate, fuelled by cheap plonk, porn and dysfunctional families, Adam and Eve narrate this dazzling, tragicomic love story of adolescence in all its fucked-up glory. '[An] unbelievably good, affecting, unpretentious debut novel . . . more than anything, Apples feels truthful: whether the drugs, the sex, the boozing or the brutal insecurities of adolescence, it all smacks beautifully of the real thing.' Jon Elek, Time Out 'Wonderful . . . Apples is unlike any other novel I've read. Who knows? We may have discovered our J.D. Salinger early.' John Sutherland, Financial Times'Crass, graphic, funny and unnerving . . . Well constructed and streaming with gorgeous language, it's a frighteningly recognisable glimpse into a particular experience of adolescence.' Catherine Taylor, Guardian 'A retelling of Paradise Lost set on a Middlesbrough housing estate, Apples is . . . experimental, fearless, funny and frightening.' Sarah Hughes, Observer'Electrifying.' Melissa Katsoulis, The Times

Apples (Oberon Modern Plays)

Adapted for stage, Apples is set on a Middlesbrough council estate, this astonishing piece of writing by 23 year old Richard Milward, is an electrifying collision of Irvine Welsh and Virginia Woolf. Streams of poetic, impassioned and often hilarious words pour from five fifteen year olds as they negotiate a world where the adults are absent, drugs are everywhere, sex is desperate and life is both terrifying and thrilling. A dazzling, tragicomic love story of adolescence based on the astonishing debut novel by Richard Milward. Shameless, ruthless and intensely poetic, Apples articulates what it is like to be young.Apples was the winner of the coveted Bank of Scotland Herald Angel Award at the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The prize is awarded for excellence in the Edinburgh Festival.

An Appetite for Miracles

Award-winning author Laekan Zea Kemp&’s heart-wrenching novel-in-verse follows two teens who must come together to heal the pain from their pasts, perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo and Nicola Yoon. Danna Mendoza Villarreal&’s grandfather is slowly losing himself as his memories fade, and Danna&’s not sure her plan to help him remember through the foods he once reviewed will be enough to bring him back. Especially when her own love of food makes her complicated relationship with her mother even more difficult. Raúl Santos has been lost ever since his mother was wrongly incarcerated two years ago. Playing guitar for the elderly has been his only escape, to help them remember and him forget. But when his mom unexpectedly comes back into his life, what is he supposed to do when she isn&’t the same person who left? When Danna and Raúl meet, sparks fly immediately and they embark on a mission to heal her grandfather ... and themselves. Because healing is something best done together—even if it doesn&’t always look the way we want it to.

Apex: A Hunter Novel (A\hunter Novel Ser. #3)

Being a member of the Elite Hunter Command imperils Joy in more ways than one. In their latest clash with Othersiders, the army of monsters nearly wiped them out. Apex City is safe? For now. But within the city barriers, Joy must wage a different kind of war. The corrupt and powerful PsiCorps is determined to usurp the Hunters as chief defenders of Apex City and Joy is now squarely in their crosshairs. Unused to playing political games, she has very few people she can truly trust-not even Josh, her first friend in Apex City, who broke up with her when it became too dangerous for a Psimon to be dating a Hunter. Then Josh comes to Joy for help. He fears that Abigail Drift, the head of PsiCorps, will soon use him in her twisted experiments designed to empower PsiCorps and render Hunters superfluous -- a scheme that's already killed off dozens of Psimons. Joy manages to smuggle Josh to safety, but he cannot evade Drift forever? As Joy faces ever more powerful Othersiders, she is helped by the most surprising ally imaginable -- the same Folk Mage she once met in battle on the train to Apex City. But can Joy trust the most cunning and treacherous of all Othersiders? In the thrilling finale to Mercedes Lackey's #1 New York Times bestselling trilogy, Joy must risk everything to end a brutal war?before she loses all she's ever loved.

Anything But Ordinary

Bryce remembers it like it was yesterday. The scent of chlorine. The blinding crack and flash of pain. Blood in the water. When she wakes up in the hospital, all Bryce can think of is her disastrous Olympic diving trial. But everything is different now. Bryce still feels seventeen, so how can her little sister be seventeen, too? Life went on without her while Bryce lay in a coma for five years. Her best friend and boyfriend have just graduated from college. Her parents barely speak. And everything she once dreamed of doing?winning a gold medal, traveling the world, falling in love?seems beyond her reach. But Bryce has changed too, in seemingly impossible ways. She knows things she shouldn't. Things that happened while she was asleep. Things that haven't even happened yet. During one luminous summer, as she comes to understand that her dreams have changed forever, Bryce learns to see life for what it truly is: extraordinary.

Antigone

In his long life, Sophocles (born ca. 496 B.C., died after 413) wrote more than one hundred plays. Of these, seven complete tragedies remain, among them the famed Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus. In Antigone, he reveals the fate that befalls the children of Oedipus. With its passionate speeches and sensitive probing of moral and philosophical issues, this powerful drama enthralled its first Athenian audiences and won great honors for Sophocles.The setting of the play is Thebes. Polynices, son of Oedipus, has led a rebellious army against his brother, Eteocles, ruler of Thebes. Both have died in single combat. When Creon, their uncle, assumes rule, he commands that the body of the rebel Polynices be left unburied and unmourned, and warns that anyone who tampers with his decree will be put to death.Antigone, sister of Polynices, defies Creon's order and buries her brother, claiming that she honors first the laws of the gods. Enraged, Creon condemns her to be sealed in a cave and left to die. How the gods take their revenge on Creon provides the gripping denouement to this compelling tragedy, which remains today one of the most frequently performed of classical Greek dramas.