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Two-hundred years after its first publication, Ivanhoe remains both a timeless classic and a revered example of chivalric romance. With a fanciful and extravagant view of 12th century England, join Wilfred of Ivanhoe in Sir Walter Scott’s classic medieval romance novel as he battles rivals, faces off with nobles, and wins the heart of Lady Rowena. After being disowned by his father, Wilfred returns from the third crusade to an England in strife. Descendants of Saxons and families of Norman nobles all vie for control, with treachery and conflict rife.

Drawing on three of the greatest works of Russian literature, this sweeping collection breathes new life into Leo Tolstoy’s legacy, providing contemporary listeners with an easy, accessible way to discover and enjoy this great Russian author’s literary talents. With gripping prose and profound philosophical insights, listeners will be transported to the battles of the Napoleonic era in War and Peace, explore the trials and tribulations of upper-class Russian life and love in Anna Karenina, and uncover a controversial reflection on Russian culture.

Prince Dmitry Ivanovich Nekhlyudov, having fulfilled his duty on a jury, unexpectedly recognizes a woman named Katerina Maslova. She was once a maid he had seduced and subsequently abandoned, leaving her pregnant. His aunt cast her out, and she eventually found herself drawn into a life of prostitution, eventually becoming entangled in a crime. As he observes her unjust trial and subsequent imprisonment, Nekhlyudov becomes consumed with guilt and a desire for redemption.

The arrival of a newborn baby is an experience that will not only be unforgettable but will forever change your life as an expectant parent. You will soon see and hold your baby for the first time after nine long months of waiting. It can be very new and frightening for newborn babies and their proud parents in the first few weeks after birth. 

Most babies are not decent sleepers necessarily, however they can be! This practical guide contains valuable fundamental knowledge about the essence of sleep and the development of natural sleep and body cycles during infancy that all parents should know. This book is full of (personally) tested techniques that allow your child to feel calm and comfortable all nights.

The opening of The Princelings and the Pirates, the second book in the series, finds Fred and George happily pursuing their interests and enjoying the hospitality of Castle Buckmore. When Prince Lupin of Buckmore announces his unhappiness with the wine, they set off to discover what has gone wrong at the winery. Captured by pirates, shipwrecked, and in danger for their very lives, the heroes are drawn into the Battle of Dimerie, where Fred meets his true love and George gets more than he bargained for. 

Thurston Ridgely has been told stories all his life of the magic that exists just around the corner, for those bold and daring and believing enough to find it. When one fateful night his friends challenge him to a bet to prove the stories true, it will start him on a journey that will change his life forever. For there may well have been some truth to his mother’s old stories, and he is teetering on the edge of a world beyond his wildest imagination.  

This is an auto-biography from the eyes of a six to a 40 year old man. It is set in much of South Carolina. I attempted to shield you from deeper truths, but failed. If anything these low country peregrinations are shocking comedic adventures. This is a buck shot 12. Gauge shotgun approach to hit your mental target. For all of you who love Charleston, and South Carolina, you willl not be disappointed with these dark with pink lemonade skylines.

When the King's birthday feast is ruined by an unnatural power drain, our Princeling heroes leave their scientific experiments to set out in search of answers. They encounter the enigmatic businessman Hugo, the impressive Prince of Buckmore, the wise Lady Nimrod, and the irrepressible barkeeper Victor, but find themselves threatened by those with vested interests. The scene shifts from a rural, feudal setting to the towers and heights of the curious Isle of Hattan, but where, or when, are they?

Training a puppy can look like tons of fun, but it can be a head-scratching and difficult experience if you don't know what you're doing. It can be frustrating enough to resort to using spanking, yelling, and other less-than-ideal training methods to get your puppy to behave, which often makes the problem worse. In this guide, Alexander Ward shows you everything you need to know about house-training even the most energetic and rambunctious of puppies and getting them to listen to your commands.

There are some very good reasons why a law-abiding citizen should master and learn how to pick a lock. We all lock our doors to keep our loved ones safe at night and also to secure our possessions in the day. Lock-picking opens our eyes to the full light of security. This is a step-by-step guide on how to pick locks like a professional.

Do you easily gain weight, do you naturally have a bigger body shape, do you easily get tired and get hungry easily? Then you are an endomorph. Losing weight can feel like an intimidating task when your efforts do not translate into results and thus it is vital to know your individual body type as well as the particular challenges faced by an endomorph to help you drop pounds and become fit again.

It is always wonderful and fun to make crochet flowers; crochet roses are the most amazing and wonderful flowers of all of them. We all feel special after receiving a rose, irrespective of if it is a red rose for love or a different color for celebration, joy, and friendship. Crochet rose patterns can be used for appliques that can be used as gift tags, jewelry, and bunting as well as rose patterns for home decoration or accessories for clothing. This is a step-by-step guide on how to crochet a rose to ensure you are able to follow through and make your crochet rose today.

I should know better, six years old and drinking a vodka orange juice. I should know better, falling through an inner tube, drowning and praying for a hand up. I should know better, hanging around my older sisters, while they toke and drink up. But I am six, and don’t know shit. I go with the flow. My mom is a schizophrenic, and visits Columbia Mental Ward like an amusement park. They fry her brain, and every time she gets back, she is reset, but not. They kill more of her with the shock therapy. "It Is No Quarter" plays faint in the house of Herman Langdord, on Caldwell Street.

Glasgow, Scotland, 1981. The McLachlan family have dominated the criminal underworld for more than a decade. Masters in extortion, murder, and heroin trafficking, they hold the city in their iron fist. But a war is coming to Glasgow; a war unlike anything the McLachlans have known before. Over the course of one night, they will discover the wrath of one man: Jack "Gorilla" Grant, former spy and now freelance assassin. And he plays by his own set of violent, unforgiving rules.

In a world devastated by corruption, Father Darcy has lost his faith. After letting down the very people he pledged to protect, he decides to take a pilgrimage across the dangerous English countryside in an attempt to find his mission again. There, he meets men hungry for his blood. A vicious, relentless landscape. And two boys more dangerous than anything he has ever seen before. But can he save these children, or will they change his cause forever? 

In a small town in southern England, a chance encounter triggers a catastrophic series of events from which no one will emerge unchanged. When Sebastian Briggs meets Ella she needs his help. The type of help required, however, is far from what he had expected; dragging him down a path of lust and violence. As a married father of three, Sebastian must fight between his loyalty to his family and the desire he feels for another woman, a woman full of secrets and with sinister intentions.

In Nature, Emerson put forth the foundation of transcendentalism, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of nature. Transcendentalism suggests that the divine, or God, suffuses nature, and suggests that reality can be understood by studying nature. Self Reliance contains the most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes: the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow their own instincts and ideas. 

When Grace’s teacher asks her to write about the future, it’s the perfect opportunity to build her own time machine! Join Grace, and her pet monkey, Bobo, as they set off on a thrilling adventure to a strange land, and learn a valuable lesson from the creatures they meet. 

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a Gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. The work is also known as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde. The novella's impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the very phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" entering the vernacular to refer to people with an unpredictably dual nature.