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The feisty and adventurous Kit is in a coma after being poisoned in
China by her arch enemies the Baker Brothers. On board a ship to
England, her friends are desperate for a cure. When they hear about
an inventor who is working on electricity and Electro Therapy, the
group change route to Tombstone, Arizona, western America, to find
him. Luckily Kit is cured in time but it's not long before she is
in mortal danger once again; one of the dastardly Baker Brothers
has turned into a shape shifting Skinwalker and has cursed Kit. The
gang must now travel to the Grand Canyon and enlist the help of a
Shaman medicine man. But the Wild West is full of dangerous
outlaws: ruthless cowboys and highway robbers. Can they navigate
though the dangerous Wild West and make it to the Grand Canyon in
time? An enthralling journey into the heartland of America filled
with danger and discovery.
There's no doubt about it, London has always attracted a better
class of royal killer. But just how bloody were they? Among other
favorite royal baddies, in this book you'll find Henry
VIII--Husband from Hell, or just a man with a big heart?; Richard
III--Murdering uncle or misunderstood softie?; Elizabeth
I--Vengeful harpie or brilliant babe?; King John--Rotten ruler or
just a shortie with a height complex? With body counts and torture
tallies for each king and queen, you can decide for yourselves
which one was the capital's most murderous monarch.
How would you spot a witch or a wizard? And how exactly would you
describe one? Do they all wear pointy hats, use wands, and sport
pointy beards, or are they more difficult to detect? Are they
simply misguided hippies or do they really exist? Make up your own
mind as you read about London's witching times, including stories
about the real Philosopher's Stone, Elizabeth I's favorite wizard,
the witch-hunting craze that swept Britain, and how being a lonely
old lady with a fondness for pets could be your undoing.
From the dark and dangerous alleys of Tudor London to the busy
streets of today's city, spies have always found plenty of work. In
this book, you can read about how the Gunpowder Plot was uncovered,
who the highest-ever paid spy was, Elizabeth I's wily spymaster Sir
Francis Walsingham, the code-cracking boffins of World War II, and
the real James Bond.
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