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Unchecked after the collapse of the USSR, a Soviet scientific team conducts experiments in time travel, hoping to rewrite history and thus cultivate a Russian superpower.

Join Tempus and Niko where a young girl trembles between love and sorcerous obsession, a prince's flaws betray him, and a city of immortals learns that Death has not forgotten it. Beneath a warlock's citadel, swords and courage face the jaws of demons -- with a girl's life and a god's vengeance resting on the outcome.

Fantasy heroes endure. They are embedded in our cultural fabric, dwarfing other literary figures and the mere men and women of history. Achilles and Odysseus, Gilgamesh and Beowulf. King Arthur and Robin Hood, Macbeth and Sherlock Holmes, Conan and Luke Skywalker. They dominate our legends, and tower over popular culture. The stories we tell each other begin and end with fantasy heroes, and the 21st Century is as thoroughly captivated with them as ever. From Batman to Gandalf, Harry Potter to Tyrion Lannister, the heroes of fantasy speak to-and for-whole generations. But what makes a fantasy hero? How do the best writers create them, and bring them to life on the page? In WRITING FANTASY HEROES some of the most successful fantasy writers of our time--Steven Erikson, C.L. Werner, Brandon Sanderson, Janet & Chris Morris, Cecelia Holland, Alex Bledsoe, Jennifer Brozek, Ian C. Esslemont, Orson Scott Card, Ari Marmell, Cat Rambo, Howard Andrew Jones, Paul Kearney and Glen Cook--pull back the curtain to reveal the secrets of creating heroes that live and breathe, and steal readers' hearts. Whether you're an aspiring writer or simply a reader who loves great fantasy and strong characters, this book is for you.

The Sacred Band of Thebes lives on, a world away, in this mythic novel of love and war in ancient times. Forty-six Thebans, whose bones will never lie in the mass grave that holds their 254 brothers, join with the immortalized Tempus and his Sacred Band of Stepsons, consummate ancient cavalry fighters, to make new lives in a faraway land and fight the battle of their dreams where gods walk the earth, ghosts take the field, and the angry Fates demand their due.

The city is called Redoubt, and as far as anyone knows, it is the last. Seven decades ago, there were cities upon cities; kingdoms and nations, the remains of ancient empire. Cultures at war, cultures at trade. Humans, dwarves, elves, and others. Magic and monsters, rare but real. Regions of desolation, but also regions of plenty. So it was for millennia, until the world ended. Most call it the Fall, but whatever term a given people choose to use, it marked the point where everything changed. Nations crumbled. Races died. Magic sputtered. Nature sickened. The Dead woke. Tales of the Lost Citadel is a shared-world anthology of fifteen horror-fantasy stories by noted authors such as Brian Hodge, Mercedes M. Yardley, Jess Hartley, Damien Angelica Walters, and many more.

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This series of books will provide an add-on series of photocopiablebooks that link with the Themes for Early Years series.The ideaswill provide a collection of ready-made photocopiable activity ideas that link in with popular themes and cover all areas ofthe Desirable Outcomes. The activities will be supported by teachers' notes.this book will include chapters on: Traditional Stories, Fairy Tales, nursery Rhymes and Action and Counting Rhymes; each chapterfocusing on six specific stories or rhymes.Practise ideas includemoving like different-sized goats, building a castle for Sleeping beauty, and making Humpty Dumpty a get-well card.The ideasaim to extend children's skills in all areas of the curriculum and are based on the Early Learning Goals.