David Davies
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Sir David and the Green Card maps a journey through the twists of today's U.S. immigration system, with all its surreal demands and medieval burdens. From a dark beginning in cold British traffic to the seared highways of California, these poems recount a ten-year quest for permanence and the motley characters - real and imagined - met along the way. Join a vibrant tour through machinery suspected-yet-unknown, a story of remaining human inside political...
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As Cuauhtemoc: Descendant of the Jaguar opens, he is now the Greatest Mayan and rules Maya with wisdom and love.
He learns more of his own personal history and much more about his father and grandfather and in the end discovers what it means to be The Chief Jaguar Priest.
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Starts with Cuauhtemoc's flight down to the City of the Emperors, the eagles he meets along the way, a truly memorable landing wherein he tries desperately to keep from flying into his Emperor, his destruction of three pirate ships, his eventual marriage to beautiful young girls and eventual promotion to Emperor. Not all on the same day, of course!
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Sleepy rustic Carmarthenshire was secretly a hotbed of debauchery, violence and drunkenness according to Russell Davies in a new edition of his very successful book, 'Secret Sins'. Behind the facade of idyllic rural life, there was a twilight world of mental illness, suicide, crime, vicious assaults, infanticide, cruelty and other assorted acts of depravity. This almost anecdotal historical study is often funny, sometimes disturbing, always revealing....
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Deception and Treason is the final of four books; It covers from when Maya first becomes a known world power; touches on their developments of a mechanically powered ship; covers the deceptions and treasons among many nations, including: the pirates; England; Maya and other times and places.
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Book one; Descending Eagle, covers from his birth, through his first few years as a child, his flight down to the birdman's school where he learns to fly; his encounters with other peoples: some positive, some negative; his actions and reactions in each case. It ends p with his first battle with pirate raiders and his being sent to the City of Emperors with messages for the Emperor; it stops as he leaves the Commander. Is continued in "Cuauhtemoc:...
7) The sight
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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In Transylvania during the Middle Ages, a pack of wolves sets out on a perilous journey to prevent their enemy--an embittered lone wolf named Morgra--from calling upon the legendary Evil One that will give her the power to control all animals.
8) Fire bringer
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 25
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840L
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There is a prophecy among the deer. One day, a fawn will be born with the mark of an oak leaf upon his forehead. His courage will lead the deer to freedom; his strength will defeat their greatest enemy. Rannoch was born on the night his father was murdered. In a herd where hunger for power has destroyed all that is good, he must escape to survive.
9) Fell
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2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 22
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940L
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In Transylvania during the Middle Ages, Fell, a lone wolf with unusual abilities, learns that his destiny is entwined with that of one human, fifteen-year-old Alina, whose mysterious origins have villagers believing she is a changeling.
10) The telling pool
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
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870L
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Relying on true courage and true love, as well as some surprising connections to the Arthurian legends, a young Welsh teenager named Rhodri embarks on a quest to remove an ancient curse from Great Britain during the reign of Richard the Lionheart.
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The sixth novel in the Detective Johnny (One Eye) Hawke series. Two laser-sharp detectives, two thought-provoking cases and two skilful plots. Featuring private investigator Johnny (One Eye) Hawke, and his one-time colleague in the police force Detective David Llewellyn. Llewellyn is investigating the chilling crimes of a top psychiatrist and his scheming patient who the doctor believes has knuckled under his authority. In the meantime, Hawke is on...
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In The Shadows: Weird Tales that Chill and Shock
By David Stuart Davies
Settle into your easy chair, but be sure to leave the lights on! This collection of twenty-five tales of the macabre and uncanny will keep you up at night.
As a child, were you ever worried that someone, or something, was watching you from a shadowy corner of your bedroom? What if that earnest stage magician is more than a mere illusionist? Have you ever been unsettled...
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Forests of the Night introduces the intrepid John Hawke, an exciting new detective operating in London during the Blitz.
When World War II breaks out in London, young policeman John Hawke enlists in the army. His dreams of fighting for his country, however, are cut short after he loses an eye in rifle training. Invalided out of the army and offered a desk job with the police, John sets up as a private investigator in London instead, hoping for...
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Introducing Rupert Wilde, the smart and sophisticated new sleuth in the first of his Golden Age mysteries. Having survived the First World War and been decorated for his efforts, Rupert Wilde is now back in civvy street wondering what to do with his life. On a whim he accepts his Aunt Julia's invitation to a Christmas house party at Pelham House in the wilds of rural Norfolk. He takes with him his newly appointed assistant Kishen, a young Oxford...
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A brutal game devised by three intelligent but bored teenagers escalates into murder. Led by the charismatic and cunning Laurence, the trio of 'brothers' meets once a year to carry out untraceable, motiveless murders - for fun. Until, years later, they must murder in order to protect one of their own, leaving themselves vulnerable to discovery. This killing is investigated by Detective Inspector Paul Snow, a complex man with a secret of his own which...
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Forests of the Night introduced the intrepid John Hawke, an exciting new detective operating in London during the Blitz. Now Johnny Hawke is back in this atmospheric, thrilling sequel.
Set in 1942, Without Conscience finds Rachel Howells in London for the first time, trapped in a web of violence. Her companion, army deserter Harryboy Jenkins, will stop at nothing-not even murder-to enjoy his illicit freedom. Meanwhile, private detective Johnny Hawke...
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A Rupert Wilde Golden Age Murder Mystery. It is the 1920s and Ambrose De Lacy is the doyen of mystery writers and founder of The Murder Club, an exclusive social club for successful authors of crime fiction. He receives death threats by post and so consults private detective Rupert Wilde and his Indian assistant Kishen Chabra to get to the bottom of this sinister matter. However, the case proves to be more complex than it first appears. Wilde discovers...
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This exciting anthology brings together the work of two much admired Sherlock Holmes writers. In these stories Holmes and Watson are engaged in daring exploits applying their razor-sharp intelligence in new cases. By David Stuart Davies: The Reichenbach Secret; The Adventure of the Brewer's Son; The Secret of the Dead; Murder at Tragere House. By Matthew Booth: The Dragon of Lea Lane; The Fairmont Confession; The Mornington Scream; The Riddle of Satan's...
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Canada From Afar is the fruit of the remarkable flowering of obituary writing in the London Daily Telegraph during the past ten years. These lively portraits of Canadians are informed, witty, sometimes quirky, occasionally iconoclastic. They include royal courtiers, politicians, businessmen, soldiers, sailors, airmen, scientists, explorers, novelists, artists, and even journalists. Among the prominent Canadians viewed from afar are persons such as...