0in 0in 0pt" No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete textof The Merchant of Venice on the left-hand page, side-by-side withan easy-to-understand translation on the right. Each No FearShakespeare contains The complete text of the original play A line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everydaylanguage A complete list of characters with de*ions Plenty of helpful commentary
Grubbs Grady has so far escaped the family curse, but when hebegins to experience alarming symptoms at the onset of the fullmoon, he is scared that the jaws of fate are opening and about toswallow him whole. He has cheated death, defeated demons,moved on with his life. But Grubbs is torn between the world ofmagic and his wolfen genes. Can he fight the beast inside or willhe fall victim to his tainted blood?
Miracle McCloy comes from an unusual family: Her father, Daneis a prodigy who published his first book at age thirteen; hergrandmother, Gigi, is clairvoyant; and her mother was dead when her"miracle" daughter was pulled from her womb. Having been raisedaccording to a set of mystical rules and beliefs, Miracle is unableto cope in the real world. Lost in a desperate dance among litcandles, she sets herself afire and comes to in a hospital. There,a young psychiatrist helps her navigate her painful struggle totake charge of her life. "Includes a reader's guide and aninterview with the author."
As demonic Fomorii ravage their land, Bec and a band of warriorcompanions leave their devastated rath to answer a plea for help.An orphaned priestess-in-training, Bec hopes the journey will helpher solve the mysteries of her birth. But fighting demons has asteep price...
地球正在遭受入侵,只是没有人知道这件事情。 杰克、瑞秋、托比亚、卡西和马可偶然遇到一艘失事飞船和一个垂死的飞行员。 没想到,因为这次偶遇,他们被赋予了一种神奇的力量——他们可以变成任何他们碰到的动物。 也因为这个神奇的力量,他们变成了动物变形人,在这个隐蔽的战争中保护美丽的星球。 但是,他们的敌人也非常强大。敌人可以变成任何一个他们想要变成的人,甚至是杰克他们亲密的人。 在这一次次战争中,动物变形人们能否胜出呢? 独特的故事视角,丰富的想象力,惊险刺激的故事情节,小读者们爱不释手。
Readers today are still fascinated by "Nat," aneighteenth-century nautical wonder and mathematical wizard.Nathaniel Bowditch grew up in a sailor"s world—Salem in the earlydays, when tall-masted ships from foreign ports crowded thewharves. But Nat didn"t promise to have the makings of a sailor; hewas too physically small. Nat may have been slight of build, but noone guessed that he had the persistence and determination to mastersea navigation in the days when men sailed only by "log, lead, andlookout." Nat"s long hours of study and observation, collected inhis famous work, The American Practical Navigator (also known asthe "Sailors" Bible"), stunned the sailing community and made him aNew England hero.
Fire! It's all around me, fierce, intense, out of control. Ifeel the hair on my arms singe and know I have only seconds beforeI burst into flames. Total panic. There's a horrible shriekingsound, piercing and destructive. My eardrums and eyeballs shouldburst. "It's hell!" I moan. One boy's life ripped to shreds before hiseyes... One wrathful demon master hell-bent onrevenge... An army of grisly Demonata on the rampage... It's the end of the world as we know it.
在美国的佛罗里达州,有一个叫雅各布的男孩。在他小的时候,爷爷让他看了几张奇异的照片,还给他讲了照片上人物的奇异故事,但他只是半信半疑。 雅各布十六岁那年,爷爷很蹊跷地死去了。在爷爷死亡的现场,只有他看见了一个恐怖怪异的生命体。爷爷在弥留之际告诉他,这个世界很危险,只有一个遥远的小岛能保护他。爷爷来不及告诉他小岛的具体位置,只说了几个词:一只大鸟,一个圆圈,在老人墓的另一边,爱默生,一封信,1940年9月3日。 爷爷死去之后,雅各布陷入了病态,每日噩梦连连,而且反复做着同一个噩梦。他的家人把他强制送到了精神病诊所。为了寻求真相,雅各布逃脱出来,按图索骥踏上了前往神秘海岛的探索之旅,但他没有想到,真相远远比爷爷讲的还要离奇可怖…… A mysterious island.An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collect
Lights. Camera. Slawter! Grubbs Grady and his half-brother Bill-Eare thrilled to join their uncle Dervish as onset consultants forthe newest movie by cult horror producer David A Hayms. Shot in adeserted town renamed Slawter, the demon-themed movie is to beHayms's masterpiece. But as strange incidents disrupt the set,Grubbs begins to wonder whether more than filming is afoot.
Kernel Fleck has always known he's weird. He sees lights.Strange, multi-colored patches of light, swirling through the air.But it's not until a window opens into a demon world, with horrificconsequences, that Kernel discovers his powers. As a Disciple, hismission is to hunt vicious, powerful demons to the death...
杰克、瑞秋、托比亚、卡西和马可偶然遇到一艘失事飞船和一个垂死的飞行员。 因为这次偶遇,他们被赋予了一种神奇的力量——他们可以变成任何他们碰到的动物。 也因为这个神奇的力量,他们变成了动物变形人,在这个隐蔽的战争中保护我们美丽的星球。 同时,敌人也非常强大。敌人可以变成任何一个他们想要变成的人,甚至是杰克他们亲密的人。 马可从来不想成为动物变形人,他并不想成为保护地球的战士。 他的朋友们知道其中的原因,那就是马可非常担心自己的父亲。父亲是马可世上的亲人了,如果马可遇到了不测,那么他的父亲在这世上该是多么的孤单呀。 谁想到,之后发生的一件大事彻底改变了马可的想法,而马可也终于知道了自己该为星球战斗的理由…… 独特的故事视角,丰富的想象力,惊险刺
The wildly popular series by K.A. Applegate is back! The first six books of Animorphs return, with striking new lenticular covers that morph. It was bad when Jake found out his brother was one of them. A Human-Controller. A slave. But that was nothing compared to this. When the Animorphs decide to visit the Yeerks' new base, it seems simple. But then they get caught and Jake falls -- just for a moment -- into the Yeerk pool. Now they're out, and his friends can't see it. To them he's just like normal. But Jake is screaming for help. His worst fear has finally come true. He's become the enemy.
In this deeply affecting novel Scott O’Dell envelops thereader in the heroic world of the conquistadors—a world that is atonce somber and many-colored. Though they may have been ruthless,these steel-helmeted young men of Spain lived their lives on thevery edge of eternity with style and uncommon courage.
0in 0in 0pt" No Fear Shakespeare gives you the completetext of The Tempest on the left-hand page, side-by-side with aneasy-to-understand translation on the right. 0in 0in 0pt" Each No Fear Shakespeare contains
Partly autobiographical, this is first of the internationallyacclaimed trilogy by Judith Kerr telling the unforgettable story ofa Jewish family fleeing from Germany at the start of the SecondWorld WarSuppose your country began to change. Suppose that withoutyour noticing, it became dangerous for some people to live inGermany any longer. Suppose you found, to your complete surprise,that your own father was one of those people.That is what happenedto Anna in 1933. She was nine years old when it began, too busywith her schoolwork and toboganning to take much notice ofpolitical posters, but out of them glared the face of Adolf Hitler,the man who would soon change the whole of Europe – starting withher own small life.Anna suddenly found things moving too fast forher to understand. One day, her father was unaccountably missing.Then she herself and her brother Max were being rushed by theirmother, in alarming secrecy, away from everything they knew – homeand schoolmates and well-loved toys – right out o
The valiant night elves have been shattered by the loss of theirbeloved general. The black dragon, Neltharion, has claimed theDemon Soul and scattered the mighty dragonflights to the winds.Above all, the demonlord, Archimonde, has led the Burning Legion tothe very brink of victory over Kalimdor. As the land and itsdenizens reel from this unstoppable evil, a terror beyond allreckoning draws ever nearer from the Well of Eternity'sdepths... In the final, apocalyptic chapter of this epic trilogy, thedragon-mage Krasus and the young druid Malfurion must riskeverything to save Azeroth from utter destruction. Banding togetherthe dwarves, tauren and furbolg races, the heroes hope to spark analliance to stand against the might of the Burning Legion. For ifthe Demon Soul should fall into the Legion's hands, all hope forthe world will be lost. This then, is the hour...where past andfuture collide!
杰克、瑞秋、托比亚、卡西和马可偶然遇到一艘失事飞船和一个垂死的飞行员。 因为这次偶遇,他们被赋予了一种神奇的力量——他们可以变成任何他们碰到的动物。 也因为这个神奇的力量,他们变成了动物变形人,在这个隐蔽的战争中保护我们美丽的星球。 同时,敌人也非常强大。敌人可以变成任何一个他们想要变成的人,甚至是杰克他们亲密的人。 拥有超能力但不意味着你可以无限制的使用它。杰克他们的变形能力也是一样,每一次变形不可以超过2小时。 但是,这一次托比亚却打破了时间限制,他在里面呆了超过两个小时,而这意味着他将被永远陷在鹰的身体中! 当托比亚发现了外星人的重要秘密时,托比亚知道他必须尽全力去破坏它。 但是,这样做的话就意味着他必须控制他的身体,毕竟他现
Film tie-in edition of the bestselling classic work of fantasy of Bilbo Baggins’ adventures in Middle-earth, featuring the complete story as shown in the film trilogy, with a striking cover image from Peter Jackson’s film adaptation and drawings and maps by J.R.R. Tolkien. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an unexpected journey ‘there and back again’. They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon… The prelude to The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit has sold many millions of copies since its publication in 1937, establishing itself as one of the most beloved and influential books of the twentieth century.
As the mysterious Shadow builds an army of demons, GrubbsGrady and his team search desperately for answers. But when theyfollow up a new lead, it takes them to an old, unexpected foe - theLambs. "We spot the werewolves as we skim the treetops. Mutated,vicious, hairy monstrosities, all fangs, claws and muscles. Thebeast within me tries to force its way to the surface, howlingsilently at its warped brethren. I've never rid myself of thewolf..."
《指环王1:魔戒现身》故事由魔戒持有者佛罗多起始,他在不知情的情况下得到一枚戒指,但这是一枚法力神奇的魔戒,事关魔王索伦实现一统天下的野心。自此,他也成为善恶两大势力争夺的对象,他在百般纠结中费尽周折,决定带着由远征队护卫的魔戒,向索伦的领地摩多进发,为的是在末日火山摧毁这枚成为了罪恶之根的戒指。 相关系列图书请点击: The Hobbit [Audiobook, Abridged][霍比特人] [平装] The Hobbit, Film Tie-in Edition[霍比特人,电影版] The Silmarillion[精灵宝钻] [精装] The Lord of the Rings[魔戒]