"All through the night they fought. The people in the castle quivered in their beds as the trolls' bellows roared throughout the kingdom"--Publisher.

Can their combined Magic, all the love they have and faith in all they hold dear, be enough to defeat the evil that’s sworn to destroy them all? One lone Dragon pulled from his mountain to save the Clan he’s sworn fealty to and the only family he’s ever known. One Grand Priestess, the most magical Witch of her time, the Leader of her kind, and a survivor of torture. Two powerful beings, blessed by the Goddess, destined by the Universe… a couple unlike any other. Keep your fingers crossed because Fate Will Not Be Denied and Maddox is one Dragon not even the Devil himself wants to tangle with.

After being rescued from the social welfare system, Donny hopes for normal family life on board the Chinese junk Strong Winds. However, when he tries to help Anna find her own mother, their adventures take them to semi-derelict docklands, in the darker side of East Anglia. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.

Love At First Mushroom As a result of the divine spirits’ protection, Agnes has an unusual and often embarrassing power: whenever she experiences strong emotions, she makes mushrooms sprout on people! One day, her royal fiancé, who claims to have dragon’s blood, breaks off his engagement to Agnes claiming to have found his true soulmate. Her reputation tarnished, Agnes vows to return to commoner life, when she’s unexpectedly summoned to a ball by her ex-fiancé’s cousin, a prince who is far from horrified by her mushrooming him. “This is fate! I promise you, it’s no spore-of-the-moment decision! My morels are not questionable! You and I would make the mushiest couple imaginable! Would you marry me?” Agnes has a lot to deal with: her personal “flaws”, an endless onslaught of mushrooms, and the attentions of a prince with a serious fungal fetish. Can Agnes get through this and face up to her true self, or will it all prove just a little too mush?

A compilation of memories for anyone born in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, or 1980s features more than three thousande references on everything from television shows to dolls, and features such entertaining lists as "best toys" and "all-time coolest singers." Original.

Matchbox toys were ubiquitous items for children across the Western world. Originally labelled Christmas-cracker trash by retailers and shopkeepers, the small-scale 1-75 series soon began to see unprecedented worldwide sales in the 1950s. Smaller and cheaper than most of its competitors' toys, Matchbox models were also far more accurately modelled, but the company has nevertheless seen its own share of competition and challenging times over the years. In this beautifully illustrated book, Matchbox collector Nick Jones tells the story of Matchbox and its most famous toys, from the Coronation Coach to Hotwheels dragsters, and complements the story with beautiful, previously unpublished photographs.

Five months after her sister Gloria disappeared, Kitty Seevers receives a lock of Gloria's hair in the mail. No return address. Just a cryptic message that brings Kitty to the Bamboo Lounge and into the twisted realm of ventriloquist Ronny McBane and his dummy, Piggy. Kitty descends into a haunted place where reality is frayed, where the puppetmaster and puppet seem to have reversed roles—a nightmare place where a dummy moves and speaks when his master is nowhere near him. Kitty suspects not only is there something wrong with McBane and his dummy, but a greater evil is at work as those named by the dummy are dying horrible deaths. And now she has been named by the same soul-eater that destroyed her sister.

Some films should never have been made. They are too unsettling, too dangerous, too challenging, too outrageous and even too badly made to be let loose on unsuspecting audiences. Yet these films, from the shocking Cannibal Holocaust to the apocalyptic Donnie Darko, from the destructive Tetsuo to the awfully bad The Room, from the hilarious This Is Spinal Tap to the campy Showgirls, from the asylum of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari to the circus of Freaks, from the gangs of The Warriors to the gangsters of In Bruges and from the flamboyant Rocky Horror Picture Show to the ultimate cool of The Big Lebowski, have all garnered passionate fan followings. Cult cinema has made tragic misfits, monsters and cyborgs, such as Edward Scissorhands or Blade Runner's replicants, heroes of our times. 100 Cult Films explains why these figures continue to inspire fans around the globe. Cult film experts Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik round up the most cultish of giallo, blaxploitation, anime, sexploitation, zombie, vampire and werewolf films, exploring both the cults that live hidden inside the underground (Nekromantik, Café Flesh) and the cult side of the mainstream (Dirty Dancing, The Lord of the Rings, and even The Sound of Music). 100 Cult Films is a true trip around the world, providing a lively and illuminating guide to films from more than a dozen countries, across nine decades, representing a wide range of genres and key cult directors such as David Cronenberg, Terry Gilliam and David Lynch. Drawing on exclusive interviews with some of the world's most iconic cult creators and performers, including Dario Argento, Pupi Avati, Alex Cox, Ruggero Deodato, Jesús Franco, Lloyd Kaufman, Harry Kümel, H. G. Lewis, Christina Lindberg, Takashi Miike, Franco Nero, George A. Romero and Brian Yuzna, and featuring a foreword by cult director Joe Dante, 100 Cult Films is your ultimate ticket to the midnight movie show.

From the ether, early intelligent life forms appeared. They were called the Vitqusoucians, and as they evolved, they became destructive. They selected choice stars at their whim and accelerated the natural aging process, spawning black holes. The materials captured from the black holes were harnessed for the Vitqusoucians selfish needs, without a care for the consequences suffered by other universes. Now, the orbital dimensional explorer known as Orb is out for bloodVitqusoucian bloodwith the guidance of John Dae, genius centenarian entrepreneur. One-hundred-and-thirty million years ago, one of the planets affected by the selfish and maniacal Vitqusoucians was Orbs home world, Folteriata, and it is now time for revenge. The universe needs to finish off this evil race once and for all. On Orbs way to fulfill its vengeful mission, it comes across a surprise ally with the same vendetta. Together, they must race at a feverish pace in hopes of reaching their goals and stopping the creation of yet another murderous supernova. But Orb, John, and their allies soon find their path is laden with incredible obstacles that make an easy victory impossible.