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?
When David is assigned an essay on the history of dragons, there is only one thing he knows for sure---he wants to win the prize of a research trip to the Arctic.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Fiction literature | 7 December 2011
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Helen (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
Among the legends of ancient Greece, there is perhaps no story more compelling than that of Helen. Her surpassing beauty was said to have launched the Greek fleet of a thousand ships to Troy. No woman was so adored and so hated. She was seen as both prize and scapegoat, the promise of bliss and the assurance of doom.
Psychobiologist Dr Paul Virag has been dragged from his experimental station in Tobago at the whim of an heiress who requested that he chaperon her two prize monkeys across the Atlantic. But what has been an incovenience to his calm life takes an unexpected turn into a sinister mystery.
