The Kingdom of Portugal was created as a by-product of the Christian Reconquest of Hispania. With no geographical raison d’être and no obvious roots in its Roman, Germanic, or Islamic pasts, it for long remained a small, struggling realm on Europe’s outer fringe. Then, in the early fifteenth century, this unlikely springboard for Western expansion suddenly began to accumulate an empire of its own, eventually extending more than halfway around the globe.

High in their fortified city, protected by brutal mercenaries, the Sarkites live in magnificient luxury. Below them, in the eternal Spring of Florina, the most beautiful planet in the Galaxy, the native Florinians labor ceaselessly in dire poverty to produce the precious kyrt fiber that brings wealth to their masters, the Squires of Sark. Suddenly there is a cryptic warning from space.

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Color Made Easy

Decorating a home that reflects who you are begins with color. Yet for most of us, making color choices can be daunting. Paint displays offer thousands of hues, fabrics beckon in myriad patterns, and suddenly, basic beige looks safe and easy. That is where this book can help. The goal of this issue is to fire our imagination and infuse color into our rooms.

Sally's Phone (Oxford Bookworms-Starter)

Sally is always running - and she has her phone with her all the time: at home, on the train, at work, at lunchtime, and at the shops.

But then one afternoon suddenly she has a different phone . . . and it changes her life.

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Mark Jackson is on holiday in Turkey. He visits the old city of Troy and finds a yellow stone. ‘I know this stone,’ he thinks. ‘It comes from … from ...’ Suddenly Mark goes back in time. He can see a beautiful city, soldiers and a big wooden horse.

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