Xena Scroll Two (Lost Voyages of Xena, #2)
by Universal Studios Licensing LLC
Stargate Retribution (Stargate Series , No 3) (Stargate)
by Bill McCay
The acclaimed book that inspired Precious, the Sundance Film Festival winner from Lee Daniels"Even though the film Precious packs quite a wallop, the gritty realism of the novel upon which the movie is based is even more intense." —NPRPrecious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a second chil...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories
by F Scott Fitzgerald
The Andromeda is violently attacked while in a sinister sector of space. To save themselves, the ship slipstreams to a world called Festival. While Festival has a great party reputation, Dylan Hunt and his crew soon realize the planetary government is really a powerful militant regime that is dominating nearby planets. When the crew saves the pirated ship of Limm'ta Nax Terani, a renowned ambassador for peace, they learn from Limm'ta of the extent of Festival's powers and its desire to join the...
Hercules Serpent's Shadow
by Timothy Boggs, Jocelyn Potter, and Patricia Highsmith
A sea monster is terrifying the village of Themon. Hercules goes to help the villagers, but he finds more danger than he had expected, for his old enemy, the goddess Hera, wants to kill Hercules. Can he defeat her in time? "Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest lev...
It takes a lot to rattle Jack Irish but, as Melbourne descends into a cold, wet winter, his mood is on the same trajectory. The woman in Jack's life has reconnected with an old love-object. He has just seen a massive plunge lost, a champion horse put down. Worst of all, hijackers have robbed and brutally beaten one of the gambling team. So it's not surprising that Jack's mind is not fully on the job he's being paid to do: find Robbie Colburne, occasional barman. But when Jack does get serious, h...
As a kid growing up in San Diego, California, Adam spent most of his time surfing, skateboarding, and watching TV. But when he convinced his best friend to move to Los Angeles with him to try acting, his life began to morph into what it is today. But who said it was going to be easy? With small roles on shows like The Young and the Restless and City Guys, Adam was getting nowhere fast. Then he landed a recurring role on Gilmore Girls playing quirky musician Dave Rygalski and his career really to...
Based on the television series, these six episodes of the situation comedy, "To the Manor Born", were commissioned for broadcast on Radio 2. The episodes are "The Rhythms of the Earth", "The Grapevine", "Vive La Sport", "A Wife's Prerogative", "The Spare Room" and "The Honours List".
Immerse yourself in Middle-earth with Tolkien's classic masterpieces behind the films, telling the complete story of Bilbo Baggins and the Hobbits' epic encounters with Gandalf, Gollum, dragons and monsters, in the quest to destroy the One Ring. When they were first published, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings became instant classics. Treasured by readers young and old, these works of sweeping fantasy, steeped in unrivalled magic and otherworldliness have sold more than 150 million...
Stuart Little (Newmarket Pictorial Moviebooks (Hardcover))
by M. Night Shyamalan, Greg Brooker, and Linda Sunshine
Gaz and Dave are redundant steelworkers in Sheffield. What can they do to turn their lives around? When a visit by a male-strip group draws a frenzied response from local women, it gives them an idea! This humorous tale also has a serious side in its depiction of the effects of unemployment. The Full Monty is a hit movie starring Robert Carlyle.
During the summer of 1956, Stevens, the aging butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely motoring holiday that will take him deep into the heart of the English countryside and thence into his past.
The Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher is feeling dull. But is she bored enough to leave her identity, her home and family behind and join Farrell's Circus and Wild Beast Show? There have been strange things happening at the circus. And when Phryne is asked by her friends - Samson the Strong Man, Alan the carousel operator and Doreen the Snake Woman - to help them, curiosity gets the better of her. Peeling off her wealth and privilege, Phryne takes a job as a trickhorse-rider, wearing hand-me-down c...
Follows the life of Patrick Melrose, a member of an upper class English family, through his traumatic childhood with an abusive father, drug addiction, fatherhood, and the possible loss of his family home.
Among the emerging generation of crime writers, none is as stylish and intelligent as Michael Dibdin, who, in Dead Lagoon, gives us a deliciously creepy new novel featuring the urbane and skeptical Aurelio Zen, a detective whose unenviable task it is to combat crime in a country where today's superiors may be tomorrow's defendants.Zen returns to his native Venice. He is searching for the ghostly tormentors of a half-demented contessa and a vanished American millionaire whose family is paying Zen...