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Action novel for teenagers: fifteen-year-old Aiden Chase has to decide whether to become part of the dark and mysterious world of Lucerin when he discovers that he has superpowers which define his true identity. Very positive reviews from teenage test readers around the UK.

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Among the radical sects which flourished during the tumultuous years of the English Revolution, the early Quakers were particularly aware of the power of the written word to promote their prophetic visions?and unorthodox beliefs.

This collection of new essays by literary scholars and historians looks at the diversity of seventeenth-century Quaker writing, examining its rhetoric, its polemical strategies, its purposeful use of the print medium, and the heroism and vehemence of its world vision.

It was 1845 in Ireland when the potato famine struck. Its impact on two of the many Irish families was devastating. All they had was the potato, it was their provider until the blight came that is, then starvation and disease followed and with it the deaths of thousands of fellow Irish cottiers. To survive would be a task many would fail, but for others severe challenges lay ahead as they attempted to escape to the new world. Yet many did survive only to be confronted by further ordeals awaiting them as they crossed the sea, then in Canada and America as loved ones became separated. Would...

In the summer of 1929, Carl and Helen Bradley bring their teenage children, Logan and Penny, to vacation at the Hotel Monterey in Highland County, Virginia. Despite the beauty of meandering streams and wandering flocks of sheep, the two young people fear there will be little of the excitement they have known in visits to the Atlantic beaches. They see no warning of the mystery-shrouded questions they will encounter or the danger they will face in the search that Jefferson "Topper" Fuller warns them not to begin.

For Penny and Logan, their parents, and Topper, honesty in the presence of...

A New Companion to Milton builds on the critically-acclaimed original, bringing alive the diverse and controversial world of contemporary Milton studies while reflecting the very latest advances in research in the field.

• Comprises 36 powerful readings of Milton's texts and the contexts in which they were created, each written by a leading scholar
• Retains 28 of the award-winning essays from the first edition, revised and updated to reflect the most recent research
• Contains a new section exploring Milton's global impact, in China, India, Japan, Korea, in...

Blue Spring, last of the Senedo Indian tribe, and Dylan Jones, the Wolf Killer, are caught in the struggle between European conquerors and Native Americans in the land of Eighteenth Century Virginia. A massacre brings these two people of different worlds together, and they vow to build a life that spans their differences.

Will the struggle for land and power between the Colonial leaders of early Augusta, and the opposition of the Native Americans who live on the land, leave room for the dreams of thousands of Indians and settlers?

Join this lone survivor of massacre, meet the ones she...

Blue Spring, last of the Senedo Indian tribe, and Dylan Jones, the Wolf Killer, are caught in the struggle between European conquerors and Native Americans in the land of Eighteenth Century Virginia. A massacre brings these two people of different worlds together, and they vow to build a life that spans their differences.

Will the struggle for land and power between the Colonial leaders of early Augusta, and the opposition of the Native Americans who live on the land, leave room for the dreams of thousands of Indians and settlers?

Join this lone survivor of massacre, meet the ones she...

The phenomenon of pain presents problems and puzzles for philosophers who want to understand its nature. Though pain might seem simple, there has been disagreement since Aristotle about whether pain is an emotion, sensation, perception, or disturbed state of the body. Despite advances in psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, pain is still poorly understood and multiple theories of pain abound.

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Pain is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems, and debates in this exciting and interdisciplinary subject and is...