"The story moves on with a tremendous narrative rush to its climax… extraordinarily imaginative work, part saga, part allegory, and wholly exciting." Daily Telegraph

'The English-speaking world is divided into those who have read The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit and those who are going to read them.' Sunday Times 'A story magnificently told, with every kind of colour and movement and greatness.' New Statesman 'Masterpiece? Oh yes, I've no doubt about that.' Evening Standard

False memory syndrome provides the core of bestseller Grafton's intriguing 21st crime novel featuring wry PI Kinsey Millhone (after T Is for Trespass). In 1988, Kinsey takes on client Michael Sutton, who claims to have recovered a childhood memory of men burying a suspicious bundle shortly after the unsolved disappearance of four-year-old Mary Claire Fitzhugh in 1972. But Sutton has a track record of unreliability, and Kinsey must untangle and reconfigure his disjointed recountings to learn if they are truth or fiction. Chapters told from the point of view of other characters in other time periods add texture, allowing the reader to assemble pieces of the case as Kinsey works on other aspects. A subplot involves Kinsey wrestling with conflicting information about her estranged family. Though whodunit purists may be a bit disappointed that the culprit is revealed well before book's end, both loyal Kinsey fans and those new to the canon will find much to like.

24 lectures (each lecture 30 minutes long) on 6 Audio CDs with Course Guidebooks; ENTIRE Comparative Religion course in 2 parts Course Lecture Titles 1. Comparative Religion Who, What, Why, How 2. Exploring Similarities and Differences 3. The Sacred, the Holy, and the Profane 4. Sacred Time, Sacred Space, Sacred Objects 5. Sacred People Prophets, Sages, Saviors 6. Sacred People Clergy, Monastics, Shamans 7. Sacred Signs, Analogues, and Sacraments 8. Creation Myths and Sacred Stories 9. From Sacred Stories and Letters to Doctrine 10. Sacred Texts The Bible and the Qur'an 11. Sacred Texts for Hindus and Buddhists 12. Polytheism, Dualism, Monism, and Monotheism 13. From Birth to Death Religious Rituals 14. Daily, Weekly, Annual Religious Rituals 15. Ritual Sacrifice in the World's Religions 16. The Human Predicament How to Overcome It 17. The Problems of Sin and Forgetfulness 18. Breaking through the Illusion of Reality 19. The Goals of Religious Life 20. The Way of Faith and the Way of Devotion 21. The Way of Action and the Way of Meditation 22. The Way of the Mystics 23. The Evolution of Religious Institutions 24. Religious Diversity in the 21st Century

The adventures of Luke Skywalker, from his early days on Tatooine to the final defeat of the Emperor, come to life in gift-set collection of the entire Star Wars Trilogy, all complemented by extraordinary sound effects and John Williams's award-winning music.

This startling new edition of Dutch Jewish teenager Anne Frank's classic diary?written in an Amsterdam warehouse, where for two years she hid from the Nazis with her family and friends?contains approximately 30% more material than the original 1947 edition. It completely revises our understanding of one of the most moving and eloquent documents of the Holocaust. The Anne we meet here is much more sarcastic, rebellious and vulnerable than the sensitive diarist beloved by millions. She rages at her mother, Edith, smolders with jealous resentment toward her sister, Margot, and unleashes acid comments at her roommates. Expanded entries provide a fuller picture of the tensions and quarrels among the eight people in hiding. Anne, who died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945, three months before her 16th birthday, candidly discusses her awakening sexuality in entries that were omitted from the 1947 edition by her father, Otto, the only one of the eight to survive the death camps. He died in 1980. This crisp, stunning translation provides an unvarnished picture of life in the "secret annex." In the end, Anne's teen angst pales beside her profound insights, her self-discovery and her unbroken faith in good triumphing over evil.

The bestselling science fiction series of all time continues! In this third installment, the sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the galaxy, is gone. But for the children of Dune, the very blossoming of their land contains the seeds of its own destruction. The altered climate is destroying the giant sandworms, and this in turn is disastrous for the planet’s economy. Leto and Ghanima, Paul Atreides’s twin children and his heirs, can see possible solutions—but fanatics begin to challenge the rule of the all-powerful Atreides empire, and more than economic disaster threatens…

In 1965 Frank Herbert published Dune. After it was heralded as a masterpiece of science fiction, he wrote the briefer Dune Messiah in 1969, concentrating eponymously on Paul Atreides, and then, sensing the sales potential, added sequels. They were continued by his son, culminating in the just published finale, Sandworms of Dune. Now, 38 years after its publication, four narrators capture Dune Messiah on discs, while listeners, with no glossary, try to recall the meaning of its esoteric nomenclature. The audio gets off to a lively start as the book opens with nearly all conversation, playing up the camaraderie between the narrators who have partnered on several other readings of classic sci-fi novels. While the cast works well together, some of the male narrators emphasize a stately dullness. Kellgren, the sole feminine voice, supplies real emotion and a true sense of awe.

This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence.

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