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Begin your journey into Middle-earth.
A new legend begins on Prime Video, in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, the new prequel series to J. R. R. Tolkien’s epic adventure THE LORD OF THE RINGS. Now is the time to get your hands on the original trilogy again, continuing with The Two Towers.
The Fellowship is scattered. Some prepare for war against the Dark Lord. Some fight against the treachery of the corrupt wizard Saruman. Only Frodo and Sam are left to take the accursed Ring to be destroyed in the fires of Mount Doom.
Mount Doom lies in the very heart of the Dark Lord's realm. Their only guide on the perilous journey is Gollum, a deceitful and obsessive creature who once possessed the Ring and longs to wield its power once again. As dark forces assemble, the fate of Middle-earth rests with two lonely hobbits - but is Gollum leading them to their deaths?
A teenage girl, called Mina, survives a horrific event in which
both her parents are killed. She is in a state of a deep shock and
cannot accept that. Deeply traumatised, she faints and embarks on a
journey of self-discovery, sinking into the imaginary world of her
subconscious mind. In order to find out what happened to her
parents, she has to pass through the eight gates. At the last gate,
the most challenging of all, Mina has to make a life-threatening
decision...Will she have enough strength to face the truth?
'Send me an Angel and Selected Prose, Poetry and Songs' is an
eclectic inspirational montage of writing. The short story 'Send me
an Angel' is based on a true person who is touched by the spirit.
Reuben has become homeless and has an addiction; his life is turned
around when he meets the sweet Somona, a girl who is a devout
Christian. He falls in love and changes his life for the better.
His family life is restored. The poetry, prose and songs are
award-winning titles from Kerry Susan Drake's journals.
Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and
almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a
foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death,
Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley
and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not
reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later
as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible
revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic
and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a
complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely
moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make
this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.
Young, handsome and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby appears to have it
all, yet he yearns for the one thing that will always be out of his
reach, the absence of which renders his life of glittering parties
and bright young things ultimately hollow. Glamorous, dangerous,
hopeful and desperately in love, Gatsby's naive dreams can only
lead to destruction.
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Papa Hamlet 2021
(Paperback)
Arno Holz, Johannes Schlaf; Translated by James J. Conway
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R257
Discovery Miles 2 570
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"Edith Wharton's first novel, The Valley of Decision, is one of her
most important and distinguished novels, yet it has received
relatively little (and mostly superficial) attention, in spite of
its initial popularity. Set in northern Italy in the late
eighteenth century, it concerns the decisions that must be made by
Odo Valsecca, a young man of liberal ideas who inherits a dukedom
during the years of the French Revolution." -- The Cambridge
Companion to Edith Wharton.
A heart-tugging tale of shattered trust, growing faith, and love
that endures . . . all in a romantic seaside setting. Samantha
Owens' estranged stepfather has died, leaving her his cottage in
Nantucket-a place she fled years ago, never planning to return. As
a single mom, Samantha can't afford to pass up a financial windfall
like ocean-front property. So she travels home to fix up the house
and sell it . . . never suspecting that Landon Reed still lives two
doors down. As their long-dormant romance begins to bud again,
Samantha must face a past that separated her from the God of her
childhood. And she must tell Landon why she fled the island in the
first place-a secret that could tear them apart. Is Landon's love
really as unconditional as he claims? And will Samantha finally
realize that the God she found all those years ago never abandoned
her? Full-length, standalone Clean romance Happily ever after
Praise for Surrender Bay: "No one can write a story that grips the
heart like Denise Hunter . . . If you like Karen Kingsbury or
Nicholas Sparks, this is an author you'll love." -Colleen Coble,
USA TODAY bestselling author
Including brand-new paintings, this is a fully illustrated new
edition of the forerunner to The Lord of the Rings, telling the
earlier history of Middle-earth, recounting the events of the First
and Second Ages, and introducing some of the key characters, such
as Galadriel, Elrond, Elendil and the Dark Lord, Sauron. The
Silmarillion is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative writing, a
collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of
Middle-earth, through the Second Age and the rise of Sauron, to the
end of the War of the Ring. They are set in an age when Morgoth,
the first Dark Lord, dwelt in Middle-earth, and the Elves made war
upon him in his impenetrable fortress in Angband for the recovery
of the Silmarils, three jewels containing the last remaining pure
light of Valinor, seized by Morgoth and set in his iron crown.
Accompanying these tales are several shorter works. The Ainulindale
is a myth of the Creation and in the Valaquenta the nature and
powers of the gods is described. The Akallabeth recounts the
downfall of the great island kingdom of Numenor at the end of the
Second Age and Of the Rings of Power tells of the great events at
the end of the Third Age, as told in The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien
could not publish The Silmarillion in his lifetime, as it grew with
him, so he would leave it to his son, Christopher, to edit the work
from many manuscripts and bring his father's great vision to
publishable form, so completing the literary achievement of a
lifetime. This special edition presents anew this seminal first
step towards mapping out the posthumous publishing of Middle-earth,
and the beginning of an illustrious forty years and more than
twenty books celebrating his father's legacy. Also included is a
letter by J.R.R. Tolkien written in 1951 which provides a brilliant
exposition of the earlier Ages, and almost 50 full-colour paintings
by Ted Nasmith, including some which appear here for the first
time.
A weekly dinner party Ten amateur sleuths The Tuesday Night Club
murders On a quiet Tuesday in St Mary Mead, a group of friends
gather for dinner. A policeman, a clergyman, a solicitor, an
author, an artist, and an unassuming lady with a shrewd gaze - Miss
Jane Marple. Conversation naturally turns to crime. Each recounts a
seemingly unsolvable mystery. Each thinks they know the answer. But
it's the one they least expect who understands the true nature of
each wicked act... Never underestimate Miss Marple 'Billions of
readers can't be wrong.' Dreda Say Mitchell 'The plots are so good
that one marvels . . . most of them would have made a full-length
thriller.' Daily Mirror
A Room of One's Own (1929) has become a classic feminist essay and
perhaps Virginia Woolf's best known work; The Voyage Out (1915) is
highly significant as her first novel. Both focus on the place of
women within the power structures of modern society. The essay lays
bare the woman artist's struggle for a voice, since throughout
history she has been denied the social and economic independence
assumed by men. Woolf's prescription is clear: if a woman is to
find creative expression equal to a man's, she must have an
independent income, and a room of her own. This is both an acute
analysis and a spirited rallying cry; it remains surprisingly
resonant and relevant in the 21st century. The novel explores these
issues more personally, through the character of Rachel Vinrace, a
young woman whose 'voyage out' to South America opens up powerful
encounters with her fellow-travellers, men and women. As she begins
to understand her place in the world, she finds the happiness of
love, but also sees its brute power. Woolf has a sharp eye for the
comedy of English manners in a foreign milieu; but the final
undertow of the novel is tragic as, in some of her finest writing,
she calls up the essential isolation of the human spirit.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved,
essential classics. '...we call them dumb animals, and so they are,
for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less
because they have no words.' When his beloved owners are forced to
sell him, Black Beauty leaves his life as a young, care-free colt
behind him and embarks on a working life of misery. Cruelly treated
by his new masters, Anna Sewell rails against animal mistreatment
in this poignant tale of a horse whose spirit can not be broken.
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