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Ten-year-old Sandy's childhood ends when his mother sells him to a farmer who half-starves and beats him. So he runs away for good, away from the farm and from home. Alone on the road, penniless, Sandy is lucky to find friends: Spot and Patch, two drover's dogs, who are making their way home all by themselves. With no idea where they are going, Sandy joins them, following them across Scotland, through a wild landscape of loch and mountain, t...

Kenelm is an Atheling, a prince of the Blood-Royal. A descendent of the god, Woden. His uncle is the King. Kenelm had thought to live his life as a warrior: fighting, feasting and marrying a beautiful princess. But his uncle gave him to a monastery, to live and die as a Christian monk. Kenelm feels betrayed but is bound by his oath of loyalty to his king. So he digs the monastery's vegetable garden and dreams of the life he might have had. The...

You love me, don't you, Jonnie?" The Industrial Revolution blackens the countryside. Women and children hack at coal underground and drag loaded tubs like animals. "You'd better love me." Rattle is a dirty, pipe-smoking, swearing collier-wench who dresses and swaggers like a boy. She's in love with Jonathan Turner, a young farmer and a prim, God-fearing Methodist. "I love you, Jonnie. I'll never let you go." Rattle is determined to have Jona...

ELFGIFT. The elf's get and the Goddess' darling fights to keep his throne. If he loses, he loses everything: crown, love and life. Elfgift's Christian half-brother, Unwin, will never be satisfied until Elfgift is dead. He vows that, on capturing Elfgift, he will hand him to his Danish allies, to be sacrificed to Odin. The sacrifice of the Blood-Eagle. It's a gruelling war, but Elfgift is sustained by the love of the Goddess he fights for -- ...

The young witch, Shingebiss, believes she can 'spell' the Czar and make him save her beloved Northlands from destruction. In her innocence, she little understands that the Imperial Palace is a place of treachery and murder, ruled by a madman with a mind like 'a broken mirror, reflecting all things crookedly.' At first the Czar takes Shingebiss for an angel, sent to him by God, and welcomes her. But none of her spells seem able to blunt his g...

This stunning Carnegie-winning classic YA tale takes us to a world of darkness and ice, where a shaman and a prince fight for their freedom. In the darkest hour of a freezing Midwinter, a night-walking witch adopts a newborn baby and carries her off in her house on chicken legs. She names her Chingis and teaches her the Three Magics. She grows into such a powerful witch that she rouses the jealousy of Kuzma, the bear-shaman.>The Czar of this c...

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Azalin's class go on a school trip to another planet. The planet Earth. Once on Earth, Azalin runs away. Her dream is to be a 'tronic when she grows up: one of the special people who maintain the systems keeping the man-made planet of Newarth alive. But just before leaving for Earth, she was told that Newarth already has all the 'tronics it needs. She will have to be a store-keeper instead. And she is to be 'sporting' about it. Azalin doesn't ...

Midsummer midnight: the endless white night of the far north. Malyuta, slave and hunter, names his first born son 'Ambrosi' because it means 'Immortal.' Then comes Kuzma, the bear-shaman, who claims the baby as his apprentice. He promises Malyuta riches or even the return of his youth, if he will give up his new-born son. Malyuta refuses, throughout the long night. The bear-shaman leaves, at last, declaring that keeping the baby will bring Mal...

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Young and Irish at the turn of the twentieth century, will this fierce daughter of immigrants carve out a place for herself in America?Chicago, 1890. Catherine Margaret "Kitty" Flanagan was born with a fighting spirit. So after her mother died tragically, the grieving twelve-year-old stepped up to pull the household out of chaos and raise her younger siblings. Until, at age eighteen, the plucky girl faced the choice of service to others or a l...

In this engaging travel memoir, Susan reminds the 85-year-old Jim of their 1992 adventure in northern Pakistan and Islamic western China -- a journey both harrowing and hilarious. A must-read for lovers of middle-age rejuvenation and discovery.They took off for Central Asia without really thinking it through. There was a highway after all, between Rawalpindi, Pakistan, and Kashgar, China. It would take them to the largest Sunday market in all ...

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Hauntings: nine spooky stories written by an award-winning, expert story-teller.Stories written to haunt, 'to be poignant and evocative, persistently and disturbingly present.'Praise for HAUNTINGS'Susan Price understands well that the ghost story form may be used to move readers and question their prejudices about the nature of appearance, as well as to frighten delightfully. She never settles for cheap effects and writes beautifully of relati...

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All roads lead to Thailand, where the lovers of ancient treasure tangle with international black markets. In this complex landscape of protectors and predators, we meet Martin Moon and Delia Rivera. Both have been defeated by the dark powers of the art-trade netherworld. Together, they seek to rise again-to escape the sudden silence of lives extinguished and loves lost. But the savage forces that nearly destroyed them before are still at large...

Praise for Nightcomers from Philip Pullman.'Every tale shows the quality of the imagination, and the accuracy of the telling. What most impresses is the authority of Susan Price's voice: exact, rich or spare when necessary, able to evoke the Past without falsity, and the present without effort.'(The Guardian.)Nightcomers...The beautiful and the uncanny...A beautiful Englishman drives his Italian mistress to suicide - but she pursues him even a...

I'll see you home, " said the dog.Old Mr. Grimsby collects stories as a hobby. He writes down stories told him by his maid and by her grandmother, Mrs Naylor. He listens to stories at the bedside of the dying Mrs. Riley.A hero of Waterloo, Sergeant Lamb, will tell him stories if paid with pairs of old trousers.Because everybody has a story.Walking home late one night, Mr. Grimsby finds the Churchyard Grim pacing at his side- the Grim, the ghos...