But the machine men have a long-term plan to regain everything they’ve lost. They will slip away into the wider galaxy from their secret base on Tyche in the Oort cloud. They will go to a nearby star system to rebuild and return stronger than ever.The Sunbeam can’t reach into the Oort cloud. A spaceship will take three years to reach the cyborg base. Despite the distance, Marten Kluge orders Task Force 7 to make the lonely trek.In the Oort cloud, the cyborgs spring a trap. Now, in the darkness far from home, the last Space Marines enter their insertion pods for the methane-icy surface. They plan to sell their lives if they must in order to end the cyborg menace forever.Previously published in the anthology Planetary Assault.

    Lord of Hawkfell Island/Lord of Raven's Peak/Lord of Falcon Ridge/Season of the Sun.

    Besides containing some of the most sensitive literary criticism ever written (especially of Moli�re), the book is an excellent introduction to the principles of classical political thought. It demonstrates the paradoxes of Rousseau's thought and clearly displays the temperament that led him to repudiate the hopes of the Enlightenment.

    From the Knights Templars and English knighthood to the crusades and chivalry, The Knight in History, by acclaimed medievalist Frances Gies, bestselling coauthor of Life in a Medieval Castle, paints a remarkable true picture of knighthood—exploring the knight’s earliest appearance as an agent of lawless violence, his reemergence as a dynamic social entity, his eventual disappearance from the European stage, and his transformation into Western culture’s most iconic hero.

    

    The duchy, independent since the time of Rollo, is now part of France. Becket de Montbryce is fated to be the first of his line to inherit the family’s lands and titles as a Frenchman. Ironically, he was in command of the Norman troops who fought alongside the French. A dangerous secret.Having escaped the besieged castle in the guise of a nun, Marguerite d’Aigremont must find a way to get back to her native England—without anyone discovering she is King John’s cousin. She despises the Normans who sided with their age-old enemy to bring about king John’s ouster as Duke of Normandy. But she is dependent on Becket if she’s to have any hope of returning to England. Despite their differences, Becket and Marguerite are drawn to each other.Will the Montbryce Dynasty survive intact when King Philip of France discovers the family has aided King John’s cousin?

    Its fans tend to be fanatical, congregating at 'Lebowski Conventions' in bowling alleys across American and Britain, and even dressing up as characters from the film. Among the funniest films of the last twenty-five years, and one of the high-water marks of 1990s genre recycling and pastiche, The Big Lebowski is also littered with playful and subversive references to film history, especially to Raymond Chandler's world of hardboiled detective classics and the world of film noir. The Big Lebowski is the rarest kind of film, a comedy whose jokes become funnier with repetition. The same goes for its multitudinous jukebox-like references to other films, many of which open up vistas for intertextual interpretation. Underneath the film's breakneck pacing and foul-mouthed characters, a farcical collection of flakes, losers, and phonies, is a surprisingly humane account of what fools we mortals be. It is one of the oddest buddy films ever made, with extraordinary performances by Jeff Bridges and John Goodman. In this study, The Big Lebowski is set into the context of 1990s Hollywood cinema, anatomised for its witty relationship with the classics which it satirises, and discussed in terms of its key theme: the hopeless flailing of ridiculously unmanly men in the world of discombobulated, mixed-up, or put-on identities that is Los Angeles.

    This title shows what criteria admissions committees use to evaluate applicants, their qualifications, and how to showcase their talents in personal essays, letters of recommendations, and preselection interviews.

    But Myrdin transfroms her - into a lady goddess, a boy warrior, and a spy. Without Gwyna, Myrddin will not be able to work the most glorious transformation of all - and turn the leader of a raggle-tagglear-band into King Arthur, the greatest hero of all time.

    When her favourite writer, Peter Lovesey, is due to appear at the Emirates Literature Festival, she is beyond thrilled. What will she do then when her husband changes their plans at the last minute?

    Based on the remarkable story of `The U-boat that lost its Nerve'(formerly a radio play by James Follett) , U-700 is an account of the surrender of a U-boat (actually U-570) to an RAF Hudson during World War II and the subsequent illegal court martial of the U-boat's first officer by his fellow officers in a POW camp.

    

    

    No Dork Diaries collection is complete without this boxed set of Dork Diaries #7, #8, and #9!Books seven, eight, and nine in the wildly popular New York Times, USA TODAY, and Publishers Weekly bestselling Dork Diaries series are all available in one dorktastic boxed set!This boxed set includes Dork Diaries 7: Tales from a Not-So-Glam TV Star, Dork Diaries 8: Tales from a Not-So-Happily Ever After, and Dork Diaries 9: Tales from a Not-So-Dorky Drama Queen.

    S. Parker for your reading pleasure.Four complete series included plus Book 1 of the upcoming MS Parker series, Dom X. Only available for a limited time.Get lost in the sexy world of MS Parker tonight.The series include: Dom X - Book 1, Sinful Desires Book 1 - 5, Casual Encounter Book 1-5, Twisted Affair Book 1 - 5 and Exotic Desires Book 1-3