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A New York Times bestseller for twenty-one weeks upon publication, Unfinished Tales is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring, and further relates events as told in *The Silmarillion *and The Lord of the Rings. The book...

Although diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome, six-year-old Haley Haralson could read and write so well that he skipped the first and second grade. Before he was out of elementary school, he could repair computers and do complicated math problems in his head. Before long, he had his own computer-repair...

A charming new pocket edition of one of Tolkien’s major pieces of short fiction, and his only finished work dating from after publication of The Lord of the Rings. What began as a preface to The Golden Key by George MacDonald eventually grew into this charming short story, so named by Tolkien to...

Never before published in a single volume, Tolkien’s four novellas (Farmer Giles of Ham, Leaf by Niggle, Smith of Wootton Major, and Roverandom) and one book of poems (The Adventures of Tom Bombadil) are gathered together for the first time. This new, definitive collection of works — which had...

Bilbo’s Last Song is considered by many to be Tolkien’s epilogue to his classic work The Lord of the Rings. As Bilbo Baggins takes his final voyage to the Undying Lands, he must say goodbye to Middle-earth. Poignant and lyrical, the song is both a longing to set forth on his ultimate journey and...

This revised and expanded edition of Tolkien’s own Hobbit-inspired poetry includes previously unpublished poems and notes, and is beautifully illustrated by Narnia artist Pauline Baynes. ‘Here is something that no devotee of the Hobbit epic can afford to miss, while awaiting a further instalment...

This is the second edition of  the book “The cadet life of Prince Harry” written in 2008. It is a story about the journey of a royal cadet: Prince Harry, who spent 44 weeks at R.M.A. Sandhurst . The purpose of this book is to provide an overview of Prince Harry’s adventures as...

BnF collection ebooks - "M. Taine a eu de nombreux précurseurs. A peine l'étranger avait-il pénétré dans Paris, que les insulteurs se levaient de toute part, pour accabler de leurs invectives le chef de la Grande Armée, le défenseur de la grande nation. De 1814 à 1830, tout a été mis...

Among the various types of software, Embedded Software is a class of its own: it ensures critical missions and if wrongly designed it can disturb the human organization, lead to large losses, injure or kill many people. Updates are difficult and rather expensive or even impossible. Designing Embedded...

The last financial crisis revealed a gap between business practice and ethics. In Value Economics, Griffiths and Lucas examine some of the reasons for this ethical gap and discuss the resulting loss of confidence in the financial system. One of the reasons has been hazy or inadequate thinking about...

Dans une jolie maison, habite Rat. Mais la propriétaire le trouve dégoûtant et le chasse. Il décide donc de s'en aller. Il erre longtemps, jusqu'à ce qu'il arrive au Village des animaux moches qui font un petit peu peur... Ne supportant plus les hurlements injustes de la propriétaire, Rat part...

Les Mythics vous emmènent cette fois au Mexique à la rencontre de Miguel, l'enfant des bidonvilles devenu héros. LA nouvelle série imaginée par les auteurs des Légendaires et de La Rose écarlate . Il y a longtemps, alors que le Mal répandait sa toute puissance de destruction, six héros dotés...

Il est le bourreau de Paris. La justice de Dieu. Aucun coupable ne peut lui échapper. Jusqu'au jour où... Entre récit historique et super-héros, la nouvelle saga du scénariste de La Licorne. Paris, dans un Moyen Âge finissant... À l'instant et à l'endroit de son choix, ils viendront tous,...

Four short stories of horror, occult and the paranormal. "Infected" - Jacob begins to feel and act strangely after a chance encounter with an attractive young woman the night before. "Harry" - Harry can't remember how he got to the scene of the accident, or what he...