Winner of England's Booker Prize and a literary sensation Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and a triumphant love story. As a pair of young scholars research the lives of two Victorian poets, they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire - from spiritualist sences to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany. What emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passion and ideas.
The French and Indian War was over. The great battle for possession of North America had been won by England, but the French flag still floated over many Western outposts. It remained for the English to take possession of these posts. This was not an easy task or a safe one. Their way lay through trackless forests filled with hostile Indians.
Jack and the Beanstalk is an English fairy tale, closely associated with the tale of Jack the Giant Killer.
The story tells of a boy named Jack who was sent to market one day by his mother to sell their last possession, the cow. As Jack was on his way he met a stranger who offered to trade five "magic" beans for the cow...
Bruised and battered, Jack Fletcher wakes up in a roadside inn wrapped only in a dirty kimono. He has lost everything, including his memory of what happened.Determined to discover the truth, Jack goes on a quest to retrieve his belongings his precious swords, his friend Akiko's black pearl and, most important of all, his father's prize possession.Relying on his samurai and ninja training, Jack realizes The Ring of Water is the key to his survival.But with only a washed up ronin a masterless samurai for help, what will Jack manage to find? What will he lose? And what will he have to sacrifice?
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