Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the
bright shining river. But the corrupted wood stands on the border, full
of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life.
Her people rely on the cold, ambitious wizard, known only as the Dragon,
to keep the wood's powers at bay. But he demands terrible price for his
help: one young woman must be handed over to serve him for ten years, a
fate almost as terrible as being lost to the wood.
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here.
In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz
explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the centre of a
sophisticated civilisation: the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central
Turkey, the Roman vacation town of Pompeii on Italy's southern coast,
the medieval megacity of Angkor in Cambodia, and the indigenous
metropolis Cahokia, which stood beside the Mississippi River.
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here.
Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias meet
Dracula in this Southern-flavoured supernatural thriller set in
the '90s about a women's book club that must protect its suburban
community from a mysterious and handsome stranger who turns out to be a
blood-sucking fiend.
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here.