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Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby, she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love - and its threatened loss - the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.

<b>An unmissable collection of three <i>How to Train Your Dragon </i>stories, featuring new and exclusive short story WHEN THE WINDWALKER CHANGED.</b><br/><br/>Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third is a smallish Viking with a longish name. The Hairy Hooligan tribe think he's totally useless, but Hiccup is brave enough to face his destiny, with the help of one tiny dragon.<br/><br/>This collection features three stories about Hiccup at different times in his life, including one BRAND-NEW tale:<br/><br/>1. Hiccup's dragon Toothless gives his best tips on training a human in <b>HOW TO TRAIN YOUR VIKING </b><br/><br/>2. A deadly sea dragon stalks the Isle of Berk in <b>THE DAY OF THE DREADER</b><br/><br/>3. And the BRAND-NEW <b>WHEN THE WINDWALKER CHANGED</b>, packed with action, adventure and grand reveals!<br/><b><br/>Fully illustrated with Cressida Cowell's artwork, this deluxe paperback is a perfect gift for all fans of the global phenomenon <i>How to Train Your Dragon</i>.</b><br/><br/><i>HOW TO TRAIN YOUR VIKING and THE DAY OF THE DREADER were originally published as World Book Day titles in 2006 and 2012 respectively.</i>

<b>Before she was the super hero Storm of Marvel's X-Men, she was Ororo of Cairo-a teenaged thief on the streets of Egypt, until her growing powers catch the eye of a villain who steals people's souls. An epic origin story that will blow you away, from the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Monday's Not Coming</i>.</b><br/><br/> <i>Few can weather the storm.</i><br/><br/> As a thief on the streets of Cairo, Ororo Munroe is an expert at blending in-keeping her blue eyes low and her white hair beneath a scarf. Stealth is her specialty . . . especially since strange things happen when she loses control.<br/><br/> Lately, Ororo has been losing control more often, setting off sudden rainstorms and mysterious winds . . . and attracting dangerous attention. When she is forced to run from the Shadow King, a villain who steals people's souls, she has nowhere to turn to but herself. There is <i>something</i> inside her, calling her across Africa, and the hidden truth of her heritage is close enough to taste.<br/><br/> But as Ororo nears the secrets of her past, her powers grow stronger and the Shadow King veers closer and closer. Can she outrun the shadows that chase her? Or can she step into the spotlight and embrace the coming storm?<br/><br/> In her first speculative novel, <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author Tiffany D. Jackson casts a breathtaking spell with one of Marvel's most beloved characters, and brings the superhero Storm to life as you've never seen her before.

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Percy Jackson has saved the world multiple times - battling monsters, Titans, even death himself - so graduating high school should be a breeze, right? Wrong. Percy needs three recommendation letters from the gods before his final year in high school comes to an end. And one thing Percy knows, the gods on Mount Olympus don't do anything for free. To secure his second letter, Percy and his friends Annabeth and Grover agree to a new quest - pet-sitting for the goddess Hecate while she's away over Halloween. They just need to follow her simple rules: Look after the pets like their lives depend on it (because they do)Don't touch anything - especially Hecate's magic potions!See points 1 and 2 But when Grover's curiosity gets the better of him, the trio find themselves with a giant goat, a destroyed house, and Hecate's (terrifying and potentially deadly) pets on the loose in New York City. Now the trio have twenty-four hours to find the pets and restore the mansion to order - or face the full fury of Hecate and her horrifying three-heads.

Percy Jackson has saved the world multiple times - battling monsters, Titans, even giants - but these days the modern-day son of Poseidon is hoping for a regular final year at school. Too bad the Greek gods have other plans, and three new quests for Percy to complete. First up: the cupbearer of the gods, Ganymede, is missing his golden chalice. Not only is this embarrassing (why do the gods keep losing their magical items?), it's also potentially disastrous. One sip from the cup will turn any mortal into a powerful god. And the old gods do not take kindly to newbies. Can Percy and his friends Annabeth and Grover find the chalice before it falls into the wrong hands? And even if they do, will they be able to resist its awesome power. . .?

<b>The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that captured-and transformed-the world's imagination.</b><br/><br/><b> "A masterful book driven by deep research, new insights, and powerful storytelling."-W. David Marx, author of Ametora: <i>How Japan Saved American Style</i></b><br/><br/>Japan is the forge of the world's fantasies: karaoke and the Walkman, manga and anime, Pac-Man and Pokémon, online imageboards and emojis. But as Japan media veteran Matt Alt proves in this brilliant investigation, these novelties did more than entertain. They paved the way for our perplexing modern lives.<br/><br/>In the 1970s and '80s, Japan seemed to exist in some near future, gliding on the superior technology of Sony and Toyota. Then a catastrophic 1990 stock-market crash ushered in the "lost decades" of deep recession and social dysfunction. The end of the boom should have plunged Japan into irrelevance, but that's precisely when its cultural clout soared-when, once again, Japan got to the future a little ahead of the rest of us. <br/><br/>Hello Kitty, the Nintendo Entertainment System, and multimedia empires like <i>Dragon Ball Z</i> were more than marketing hits. Artfully packaged, dangerously cute, and dizzyingly fun, these products gave us new tools for coping with trying times. They also transformed us as we consumed them-connecting as well as isolating us in new ways, opening vistas of imagination and pathways to revolution. Through the stories of an indelible group of artists, geniuses, and oddballs, <i>Pure Invention</i> reveals how Japan's pop-media complex remade global culture.