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The Company of the Ring is sundered.

Betrayed by her ex-husband, who has absconded with her family's fortune, Elizabeth Stanton, in desperate need of money to save her home, makes a scandalous deal with millionaire Maxwell Reardo

The ten stories gathered together in "The Tomorrow-Tamer" are Margaret Laurence's first published fiction.

he story takes place in Montreal, principally in the poor neighbourhood (at that time) of Saint-Henri, between February 1940 and May 1940, during the Second World War, when Quebec is still sufferin

On her way to England from Nantucket aboard a British man-o'-war, Dido has many adventures when the ship is diverted to the land of New Cumbria in the southern hemisphere.

Central to Farley Mowat's writing is his quest to understand the often-forgotten native people of the vast arctic wilderness.

Just a few short decades ago, Inuit families roamed one of the harshest climates on the planet, communing with nature and living in uncluttered harmony with their environment.

When Nora Tamsin arrives in Australia she finds herself under the guardianship of the terrifying but irresistibly fascinating Charles Herrick, known as the Lynx.

The Hardy boys are called on to help investigate the strange happenings at the dam and reservoir on Skull Mountain and what is causing the water to disappear every night.

Vincenzo has a huge problem. He wants to be just like his friends, but he is also quite proud of his Italian heritage.

Three children spend a summer at Green Knowe and somehow magic seems to turn everyday activities into strange adventures.

James Lovelock, one of the giants of environmental thinking, argues passionately and poetically that, although global warming is now inevitable, we are not yet too late to save at least part of hum