Embark on a breathtaking journey through the world of dragon riders, where courage, friendship, and the power of flight unite to shape destinies. Feel the rush of battle, the agony of loss, and the triumph of spirit as each rider discovers what it truly means to soar. Whether defending their homelands from dire threats or exploring uncharted territories, each tale invites you to mount the scaled backs of majestic dragons and take to the skies. Thirteen authors bring you thirteen stories about the bond between rider and dragon!

Pav is an ordinary bloke who goes on a quest to save the people and home he loves. He battles against evil with the help of some newly discovered and very odd friends (and a frying pan.) Will he succeed? Will he survive? What's he doing with a frying pan? Read on to find out!

This prize-winning novel looks beyond Caribbean beaches and into the heart of a people and their struggle

Includes the plays Worlds Apart, This Other Eden and International Café All the plays in this second volume of Paul Sirett's collected plays focus on dislocation and the clash of civilisations. Set in an airport immigration office, Worlds Apart interweaves the fates of five detainees and the officers handling them, with the Tibetan folk tale of Sukyi Nyima. In Crusade a group of Western tourists break down in the West Bank, reacting in different ways to their situation. This Other Eden portrays the disastrous personal and political divisions within a classical string quartet. The collection ends with the short play International Café which brings together the stories of a restaurant's staff and customers, and was specifically written to be performed in restaurants.

WINNER OF THE 2014 SAINSBURY'S CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD Here begins a tale of two sisters - Eliza, who dreams of becoming a swashbuckling hero, and Lavender, whose greatest wish is to be a pampered princess. When Lavender gets kidnapped in the Forest of Toothy, Vicious and Flatulent Dragons, the sisters must face a host of deadly enemies. Hairy-faced villains. Ominous turnips. A witch called Boris. And a moat-dragon who is just a little bit peckish for a tasty child-sized snack. Will Eliza and Lavender ever escape? Why is their goat, Gertrude, so depressed? Whose side is Bonnet, the smallest giant in the world really on? And what day is it today? This book will answer some, but not all, of these questions . . . Buckle and Squash and the Monstrous Moat-Dragon by Sarah Courtauld is a brilliantly funny debut for fans of How to Train Your Dragon and Mr Gum.

"During routine night operations off Southern California, an F/A-18 from the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln is inexplicably blown from the sky. The Pentagon wants to throw a blanket over the incident; but then another navy fighter jet is mysteriously destroyed in midair. The president orders an investigation to find out who is responsible for the attacks and why."--Jacket.

How do women set up institutions? How has higher education helped or hindered women in the world of dance? These are some of the questions addressed through interviews and researched by the educators and dancers Sharon E. Friedler and Susan B. Glazer in Dancing Female . In dealing with some of the tensions, joys, frustrations, and fears women experience at various points of their creative lives, the contributors strike a balance between a theoretical sense of feminism and its practice in reality. This book presents answers to basic questions about women, power, and action. Why do women choreographers choose to create the dances they do in the manner they do? How do women in dance work independently and organizationally?

CONTENTS.--pt. 2. 1700-1729, edited with a critical introd. by E. L. Avery.

In a nightmarish, post-holocaust world, an ancient evil roams a devastated America, gathering the forces of human greed and madness, searching for a child named Swan who possesses the gift of life.