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The Dark Tower VI: The Song of Susannah |
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Sunday, 15 November 2009 11:34 |
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 The Dark Tower—it is, quite simply, Stephen King’s magnum opus. This extraordinary epic series starring Roland the Gunslinger combines fantasy, horror, suspense, Western, and science fiction thrills into spellbinding entertainment. Now, in the Dark Tower VI, Roland Deschain discovers the key to the quest that defines his life. The Song of Susannah weaves magic and mystery on a journey from Manhattan to Maine, from past to present, from fantasy to reality, and beyond. Jake, Father Callahan and Oy are on an urgent mission to break Susannah’s dangerous liaison with destiny…and a demon-mother named Mia in contemporary New York City. Meanwhile, to save someone else, Roland and Eddie harness supernatural forces to travel to East Stoneham, Maine, where it’s the summer of 1977. How wild is this story? At one point, the Dark Tower gang meets up with Stephen King himself. And how does it end? With “the biggest cliffhanger of King’s career,” says Publishers Weekly. Who’d miss that?
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In the Footsteps of Marco Polo |
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Sunday, 15 November 2009 08:19 |
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 Marco Polo’s overland journey to China stands as one of the most remarkable adventures in the annals of exploration. This illustrated companion volume to the public television film chronicles the remarkable two-year expedition of explorers Denis Belliveau and Francis O’Donnell as they retraced Polo’s entire path by land and sea without resorting to helicopters or airplanes. With the explorer’s epic book, The Travels of Marco Polo, as their guide, they journeyed over 25,000 miles, surviving deadly skirmishes and capture in Afghanistan, and becoming the first Westerners in a generation to cross its ancient forgotten passageway to China, the Wakhan Corridor. Their camel caravan on the southern Silk Road encountered the singeing sands of the Taklamakan and Gobi deserts. They lived with the Bronze Age Mentawai tribes of Sumatra, where Polo was stranded waiting for trade winds, and became among the first Americans granted visas to enter Iran, where Polo had fulfilled an important mission for Kublai Khan. Accompanied by 200 full-color photographs, and mirrored by remarkably similar descriptions from Polo’s account of his own travels, In the Footsteps of Marco Polo recounts an adventure like no other..
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Sunday, 15 November 2009 08:25 |
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 In the publishing phenomenon The Da Vinci Code, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon went up against the Priory of Sion and unraveled one of the greatest mysteries of all time. In Angels & Demons, he followed a 400-year-old trail of ancient symbols that led to the lair of the secretive Illuminati. Now, in this hugely anticipated follow-up, he’s back in a high-stakes quest that pits him against an exhilarating new challenge…and tests him in a way he’s never been tested before…. The latest novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol is a frantically paced thriller that weaves together five years’ worth of research and crams them into an edge-of-your-seat adventure that all takes place within a 12-hour timeframe. Showcasing Brown’s prodigious talent for keeping us guessing, it begins with a bang and never lets up as Langdon is drawn into a world of intrigue, racing desperately against time in an effort to crack the mystery of the lost symbol. Packed with secret codes, shadow conspiracies and unexpected twists, this is vintage Dan Brown—a mind-bending tale where danger lurks around every corner and only one thing is certain: Nothing is ever as it seems.
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Last Updated on Sunday, 15 November 2009 08:32 |
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Sunday, 15 November 2009 08:15 |
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 “Of all the towering figures of the twentieth century, Winston Churchill was the most valuable to humanity,” writes historian Paul Johnson. In Churchill, Johnson introduces us to a soldier, parliamentarian, prime minister, orator, painter, writer and husband—in short, one of the most complex and fascinating personalities in history. We meet Churchill the soldier, beginning with his adventures as a young cavalry officer in the service of Empire, and as a battalion commander in WWI, where he saw action in the trenches. His exploits in battle—and his flair for writing about them—allowed him to return to London a hero. By 26 he was the best-known young man of his generation and a member of the House of Commons. We meet Churchill the politician, follow his many rises and falls, and witness his staunch opposition to Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement policy toward Hitler in the late 1930s. Churchill, of course, turned out to be right, and after the famous “Norway Debate” in Parliament in May 1940, with WWII well underway and Hitler’s blitzkrieg overrunning Europe, Churchill replaced the discredited Chamberlain as prime minister.
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After a series of setbacks, singer, actress and diva supreme Yancey Braxton is ready to prove that she’s got more dazzle than ever before and decides what better way to showcase these than on her own reality series? The only obstacle standing in the way of her comeback is her competitive mama dearest, Ava, whose stint in prison for attempted murder has done little to quell her own ruthless ambition. And speaking of motherhood… there’s another obstacle that’s going to take Yancey by surprise. Madison B., now the hottest ticket in the music industry thanks to the popular show American Star, also happens to be the daughter Yancey gave up long ago. Filled with sex, secrets and betrayal, Mama Dearest is E. Lynn Harris at his finest!