By Dennis Pagen

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This all-new ebook is sure to turn into the normal paragliding handbook all over the world. It offers an in depth step by step education strategy with the most recent innovations and follows the USHGA education application.

Whether you're new to paragliding or desire to take a refresher direction to shine your talents, this publication is certain to supply a goldmine of data.

By Linda Davies

A stunningly interesting and dramatic tale set within the wilds of the Welsh mountains, the place the courageous and gorgeous Merry Owen, the Longbow woman, travels again in time to the autocratic nation of King Henry VIII to avoid wasting her ancestors.

Steeped in heritage, historic lore and crackling with rigidity among the critical characters Merry and James, Longbow woman explores the subjects of who we're and who we will be able to develop into while battling for these we like and for our very lives. Are we prisoners of our heritage or will we separate from? do we turn into all that we have to be to fulfill the last word problem of existence and demise within the King’s match and within the dungeons of the Black fortress?

By Catherine Asaro

Whilst the shipwrecked stranger washed up, approximately drowned, at the seashore close to learn scientist Samantha Bryton's domestic, she used to be unaware that he was once whatever greater than human: an scan carried out via Charon, a infamous legal and practitioner of unlawful robotics and android study. the guy acknowledged his identify used to be Turner Pascal-but Pascal used to be useless, killed in a motor vehicle destroy. Charon is experimenting with copying the minds of people into android brains, implanted in human our bodies to flee detection, and plans to make his personal military of slaves that may stick with his orders with no query. Samatha and Turner quick discovered themselves at the run around the kingdom, pursued via the main ruthless legal of the twenty-first century. In desperation, Samatha determined to hunt support from dawn Alley, an underground association of AIs and androids that had long past rogue. yet those cybernetic outlaws have been rumored to have their very own hidden schedule, now not inevitably congruent with humanity's welfare, and Samatha was hoping that her merely desire wouldn't turn out a forlorn one...

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By Steven Gould

Steven Gould returns to the area of his vintage novel Jumper within the exciting sequel Impulse.

Cent has a mystery. She lives in isolation, along with her mom and dad, hiding from the folks who took her father captive and tortured him to achieve keep an eye on over his skill to teleport, and from the govt. firms who are looking to use his expertise. Cent has obvious the area, yet purely from the protection of her parents’ palms. She’s teleported greater than someone on the earth, aside from her mom and dad, yet she’s by no means been in a position to do it herself. Her existence hasn't ever been in danger.

Until the day whilst she went skiing with no permission and brought on an avalanche. whilst the snow and ice thundered down on her, she unexpectedly discovered herself in her personal bed room. That was once the 1st time.

By David Pilling

It's the yr 568 advert. From his monastic shelter in Brittany, King Arthur’s elderly grandson, Coel, starts off to write down the terrific tale of his existence. Now a monk, he's made up our minds to accomplish his chronicle earlier than loss of life overtakes him.

His story starts off presently after the demise of his well-known grandfather on the conflict of Camlann. Britain is plunged into chaos, and Coel and his mom are pressured to escape their fatherland. They take with them Arthur’s well-known sword, Caledfwlch, as soon as possessed by way of Julius Caesar. recognized to the Romans because the purple demise, it really is acknowledged to own unearthly powers.

When he grows to maturity, Cleo enlists within the Roman military below common Flavius Belisarius, the main recognized soldier of the age, and serves within the Roman invasion of Africa. He makes an enemy of the corrupt Empress of the East, Theodora, and falls into the clutches of Gelimer, the mad King of the Vandals.

Caesar's Sword (I): The purple demise follows the adventures of a British warrior of recognized descent within the glittering, deadly global of the past due Roman Empire. From the riotous streets of Constantinople, to the racetrack of the Hippodrome and the bloodstained deserts of North Africa, he needs to struggle to recuperate his birthright and his delight.

By Tim Slessor

Why now not? in spite of everything, no-one had ever performed it ahead of. it'd be one of many longest of all overland trips – part method around the international, from the English Channel to Singapore. They knew that numerous expeditions had already attempted it. a few had bought so far as the desrts of Persia; a number of had even reached the plains of India. yet nobody had controlled to move on from there: over the jungle clad mountains of Assam and throughout northern Burma to Thailand and Malaya.

Over the final 3,000 miles it appeared there have been ‘just too many rivers and too few roads’. yet no-one quite knew …In truth, their difficulties all started a lot previous to that. As mere undergraduates, that they had no funds, no vehicles, not anything. yet with a funky audacity, which was once to develop into attribute, they started working – wheedling and cajoling. First, they coaxed the BBC to come back up with a few movie for a potential television sequence.

They then lightly persuaded the brands to lend them factory-fresh Land Rovers. A writer was once even sweet-talked into giving them an strengthen on a e-book. by the point they have been able to move, their sponsors (more than eighty of them) ranged from whiskey distillers to the makers of collapsible buckets. In overdue 1955, they set off.

Seven months and 12,000 miles later, very weary Land Rovers, escorted by means of police outriders, rolled into Singapore – to flash bulbs and poo. Now, fifty years on, their booklet, ‘First Overland’, is republished – with a foreword through Sir David Attenborough. in spite of everything, it used to be he who gave them that movie.

By Andersen Prunty

"Dreams are hopes, and echoes of hope." --Neil Gaiman
Like Terry Gilliam at his so much surreal, directing a re-imagination of Hansel and Gretel.
After ten years, Hansel not anything returns to his boyhood domestic, not able to recollect whatever that has occurred to him considering that he left. again domestic, he remains in Zerostrata, a treehouse within the yard. The not anything relations is as dysfunctional and depressed as ever. His mom retains a cat on her head and frequently munches prescription drugs. His father has left the home to pursue a occupation as a superhero. His brother desires to be the dad's superhero sidekick and thinks he can fly.
Hansel's lifestyles is modified endlessly whilst he meets Gretel, a free-spirited lady who runs bare in the course of the woods each evening. She teaches him a few global of magic and wonder. They go back and forth to the moon jointly through a rope ladder, sail again to earth in an air balloon, and wander via a graveyard that enables them to view the goals of the useless all whereas attempting to get away Gretel's evil Grandmother.
that includes: a gingerbread apartment surrounded by way of undergo traps, lettuce pirates, the superb Dr. Blast, a one-legged pogo stick guy, an enormous orange trampoline, and difficult the cigarette smoking cat who lives on Hansel's mother's head.

By Hiram Rogers

"Exploring the Black Hills and Badlands" beneficial properties journeys for hikers, skiers, mountain motorcycle riders and equestrians. This totally revised version has been increased to incorporate each mountaineering path within the quarter, delivering greater than 800 miles of trails and off-trail routes to discover. The consultant positive aspects all new, updated USGS topographical maps, together with approximately a dozen new to this version. one other new addition is a piece concentrating on family members hikes and different info beneficial to relations teams. what's unchanged is the wealth of fascinating heritage, pointers on multi-use actions, and willing insights into the region’s ordinary and geologic positive factors that experience made "Exploring the Black Hills and Badlands" the main helpful and useful year-round consultant to this stunningly attractive and greatly renowned zone.