Kirjahaku

Just as twelve year old Jake Wheeler thinks that life can't possibly get any tougher, he meets three of the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse who tell him that he might just be the person to save the world ... Accompanied by his new ghostly friends, the smartest girl in school and some very angry nuns, Jake sets out on an adventure that will change his life forever ...

This new study of Andrew Marvell offers a state-of-the-art guide to one of the most intriguing and elusive poets of the seventeenth century. Hero to the eighteenth century for his published defences of parliamentary government and religious toleration, Marvell was friend and defender of Milton, underground author of satires against the Restoration court, paradoxically, promoted by T.S. Eliot for a diametrically opposite set of qualities and achievements - poise, detachment, an ethos both world-excluding and hypercivilised, not to mention the most perfect poems we have on "the figure in the landscape". Annabel Patterson, known for her ability to make serious scholarship engaging, explains how Marvell's complex personality and beliefs produce these contradictory responses. The book provides comprehensive introductions to Marvell's different self-representations, and places the most famous poems, such as The Garden and Horatian Ode, in the dialectic they lose when read only in anthologies.

Animals are being tortured and killed by a villain whose name is talked about only in whispers ...Homes is an iPad using, stick loving dog with a craving for disguise and custard cream biscuits. After spending four years in the local dogs home he identifies wheelchair-bound Susan Queen as possessing all of the required attributes to be his owner. The pair soon find themselves with a mystery to solve. Aided by Susan's two best friends, a group of pigeons with problematical bowels and a cat who is a recovering kleptomaniac they must face a school bully and two Russian hit-men as they attempt to put a stop to the cruelty being inflicted on animals by ...Jack the Ripper! The Mysterious Case of the Mysterious Case is an extremely funny tale highlighting the importance of friendship, the impact of bullying and the fact that throwing and catching a stick can be enjoyed irrespective of one's level of intelligence!

'Sherbet Skull Scrambler' is, without doubt, the world's tastiest sweet...Unfortunately, it can also have rather worrying side-effects! When people in the town of Chalton begin to behave in extremely odd ways, Susan Queen and her know-it-all, crime-fighting dog, along with a number of his rather unusual friends, feel that they have no choice but to take action. A hugely entertaining story - this book is about the value of friendship, the need for teamwork and the importance of making the right choices...it's also about a one-eyed master-criminal, a policeman with an exceedingly long nose and a pair of very large and very lethal sheep who are desperate for the opportunity to wear extremely tight pants!