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Hey, are you looking for this book? Silmarillion   (Turkish)   Paperback   – 2007 Tolkien'in en onemli calismasi olarak kabul edilen Silmarillion, onun yarattigi dunyanin ozudur. Kokleri Hobbit'ten onceye uzanir ve Yuzuklerin Efendisi'nde sekillenmeye baslayan bir dunyanin yaratilis oykusunu barindirarak, tum Tolkien eserlerinin uzerine yerlesebilecegi bir yapi olusturur. Yasami boyunca uzerinde calismayi terk edemedigi ve giderek buyuyup gelisen bu eser ancak olumunden dort yil sonra oglu tarafindan yayimlanabildi. Elflerin en beceriklisi olan Feanorun yarattigi uc Silmaril'in calinmasiyla birlikte kadim dunyanin en kederli olaylari gelismeye baslar. Silmarillion, elflerin tanrilara isyan ederek Orta Dunya'ya surulmelerini; orada insanlar ve Cucelerle birleserek tanrilarin en kotusune, Morgoth'a karsi verdigi umutsuz savasi anlatir.Daha once "Guc Yuzuklerine Dair" ismiyle yayimlanan ancak Silmarillion kitabinda olmasi gereken metinde bu kitap
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Hey, are you looking for this book? Lords of Middle-Earth, Vol. 3: Hobbits, Dwarves, Ents, Orcs, & Trolls (MERP/Middle Earth Role Playing)   Paperback   – March 1, 1989 This volume describes Hobbits, the Little People often ignored in the histories; Dwarves, the Children of Aulë; Ents, the Guardians of the Forests; and Orcs and Trolls, creatures perverted by Morgoth to serve his evil ends. Each is described by appearance, motivation, characteristics, and background. Game statistics for the MERP and Rolemaster game systems are included. These stats can be easily converted to most major FRP systems.
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Hey, are you looking book "The Lord of the Rings (BBC Dramatization, Consumer Edition)"? This audio set includes: The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; and The Return of the King. Undertaking the adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's best-known work was an enormous task, but with its first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on March 8, 1981, this dramatized tale of Middle Earth became an instant global classic. Thrilling dramatization by Brian Sibley and Michael Bakewell it boasts a truly outstanding cast including Ian Holm (as Frodo), Sir Michael Hordern (as Gandalf), Robert Stephens (as Aragorn), and John Le Mesurier. Tolkiens tale relates the perilous attempt by Frodo Baggins and company to defeat the evil Saruman and dispose of the Ruling Ring. Brian Sibley wrote the opening and closing narration for the character of Frodo, played by Ian Holm, who now stars as Bilbo in the feature films based on The Lord of the Rings.
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The War of the Jewels (The History of Middle-earth) (V.2 1)   Paperback   – April 3, 1996 The second of two companion volumes which documents the later writing of The Silmarillion, Tolkien's epic tale of war. In The War of the Jewels Christopher Tolkien takes up his account of the later history of The Silmarillion from the point where it was left in Morgoth's Ring. The story now returns to Middle-earth, and the ruinous conflict of the High Elves and the Men who were their allies with the power fothe Dark Lord. With the publication in this book of all J.R.R. Tolkien's later narrative writing concerned with the last centuries of the First Age, the long history of The Silmarillion, from its beginning in The Book of Lost Tales, is completed; and the enigmatic state of the work at his death can be understood. This book contains the full text of the Grey Annals, the primary record of The War of the Jewels, and a major story of Middle-earth now published for the first t
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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence   Hardcover   – May 15, 2018 A brilliant and brave investigation by Michael Pollan, author of five  New York Times  best sellers, into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences  When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions such as depression, addiction and anxiety, he did not intend to write what is undoubtedly his most personal book. But upon discovering how these remarkable substances are improving the lives not only of the mentally ill but also of healthy people coming to grips with the challenges of everyday life, he decided to explore the landscape of the mind in the first pe
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Dawnbreaker: Legends of the Duskwalker, Book Three   Kindle Edition Wren is living in Greenstone under the temporary care of Charles and Mol, and the protection of Chapel. Unable to determine the fate of his mother and those he left behind in Morningside, Wren believes there is nothing left to do but wait for Asher’s final blow … until a man named Haiku walks into the Samurai McGann, looking for Three. After learning of Three’s fate, Asher’s ascension, and Wren’s gift, Haiku offers his help, and together they set out to find the remnants of House Eight and convince them to help. As Cass and the few who survived the fall of Morningside face overwhelming odds to escape Asher and the Weir, they realize it is impossible…until their daring and probably suicidal plan to strike turns out to have surprising results and unexpected discoveries. File Under :   Science Fiction  [ Third of Three / Nil Desperandum / Against the Weir / Charles the First ] From the Paperback edition.
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Schindler's List   Kindle Edition The acclaimed bestselling classic of Holocaust literature, winner of the Booker Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction, and the inspiration for the classic film—“a masterful account of the growth of the human soul” ( Los Angeles Times Book Review ). A stunning novel based on the true story of how German war profiteer and factory director Oskar Schindler came to save more Jews from the gas chambers than any other single person during World War II. In this milestone of Holocaust literature, Thomas Keneally, author of  Daughter of Mars , uses the actual testimony of the  Schindlerjuden —Schindler’s Jews—to brilliantly portray the courage and cunning of a good man in the midst of unspeakable evil.
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower   Kindle Edition Read the cult-favorite coming of age story that takes a sometimes heartbreaking, often hysterical, and always honest look at high school in all its glory. Also a major motion picture starring Logan Lerman and Emma Watson,  The Perks of Being a Wallflower  is a funny, touching, and haunting modern classic. The critically acclaimed debut novel from Stephen Chbosky,  Perks  follows observant “wallflower” Charlie as he charts a course through the strange world between adolescence and adulthood. First dates, family drama, and new friends. Sex, drugs, and  The Rocky Horror Picture Show . Devastating loss, young love, and life on the fringes. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it, Charlie must learn to navigate those wild and poignant roller-coaster days known as growing up. A #1  New York Times  best seller for more than a year, an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults (2000) and Best Boo
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Redemption (The Penton Vampire Legacy)   Paperback   – June 12, 2012 The world’s vampire population is on the brink of starvation since the vaccine to treat a global pandemic rendered human blood deadly to them. Their only hope for survival is a handful of rural areas that the vaccine never breached. The tiny town of Penton, Alabama, is one such enclave, where the immortal Aidan Murphy has established a community of vampires and their willingly bonded humans. Together, they live in peace—until Aidan’s estranged brother descends upon the town and begins attacking its humans. Whether the rampage is a result of his centuries-old feud with Aidan or the civil war threatening to erupt in the vampire world matters not. All that matters is the blood. Desperate to save his adopted family, Aidan breaks one of his cardinal rules, kidnapping an unvaccinated human doctor—and unexpectedly falling in love for the first time in nearly four hundred years. Sensual and thrilling,  Redemption  
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Savannah Breeze: A Novel   Paperback   – January 30, 2007 “A sheer delight and will have readers laughing out loud by the second page.” —  Daytona Beach News-Journal “The perfect mix of comedy, action and romance makes this book nearly impossible to put down.”  —  Library Journal Mary Kay Andrews takes us back to Savannah, Georgia, in  Savannah Breeze , the uproarious sequel to her blockbuster  New York Times  bestseller,  Savannah Blues .  Breeze  is the story of BeBe Loudermilk, a Southern belle who’d dearly like to get back at the handsome, two-faced con man who swindled out of everything she owns except for a broken-down 1950s-era motel on Tybee Island. Joining BeBe on a revenge-inspired road trip south to Fort Lauderdale is her junking friend Weezie, the heroine of  Blues , and a car-full of lovable misfits. Readers with a taste for the novels of  Fannie Flagg, Jennifer Crusie, Adriana Trigiani, and Emily Giffin—not to mention Rebecca Wells and Sweet Potato Queens qu
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Girls with Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero   Paperback   – February 18, 2014 A passionate call for Christian women to effectively "wield the sword" of their God-given feminine strength against any evil that threatens them and those they love. What if you discovered you have been entrusted with an invisible, invincible, and incorruptible weapon? Would you use it? In a day of worldwide trafficking, gendercide, discrimination, and other hostility against women, Lisa Bevere points to a biblical foundation to present a model of feminine strength that will empower women to live confidently. Drawing on the many references to swords throughout Scripture, the author constructs a revealing and compelling female paradigm that will impact every area of a woman's self identity, spiritual awareness, relationships, and life vision and mission. Long known for her passionate and articulate expression of biblical womanhood, Bevere presents fresh imagery--as enticing
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Deadline   Paperback   – May 1, 2006 The first book in the Ollie Chandler series, this rerelease of the Randy Alcorn bestseller is a heart-pounding murder mystery  When tragedy strikes those closest to him, Jake Woods must draw upon all his resources to uncover the truth about the suspicious accident. Soon he finds himself swept up in a murder investigation that is both complex and dangerous. Unaware of the threat to his own life, Jake is drawn in deeper and deeper as he desperately searches for the answers to the immediate mystery at hand and—ultimately—the deeper meaning of his own existence.  Deadline  is a dramatic and vivid novel of substance, filled with hope and perspective for every reader who longs to feel purpose in life.
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Aru Shah and the End of Time (A Pandava Novel Book 1) (Pandava Series)   Hardcover   – March 27, 2018 Best-selling author Rick Riordan introduces this adventure by Roshani Chokshi about twelve-year-old Aru Shah, who has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school. While her classmates are jetting off to family vacations in exotic locales, she'll be spending her autumn break at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, waiting for her mom to return from her latest archeological trip. Is it any wonder that Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and having a chauffeur? One day, three schoolmates show up at Aru's doorstep to catch her in a lie. They don't believe her claim that the museum's Lamp of Bharata is cursed, and they dare Aru to prove it.  Just a quick light,  Aru thinks. Then she can get herself out of this mess and  never ever  fib again. But lighting the lamp has dire consequences. She unwittin
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo   Hardcover   – Deckle Edge, May 8, 2018 A major literary event: a newly published work from the author of the American classic  Their Eyes Were Watching God,  with a foreword from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade—abducted from Africa on the last "Black Cargo" ship to arrive in the United States. In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation’s history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo’s firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed
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Zapata: Colors - Colores (English and Spanish Edition)   Board book   – December 21, 2014 A Lil' Libros Bilingual Book of Colors As a leading figure during the Mexican revolution, Emiliano Zapata was an extraordinary man who fought for the less fortunate. This book introduces little ones to colors and their first English and Spanish words. Ride a  caballo blanco  (white horse), wear a brown  sombrero  (hat), and walk the green pastures where Zapata once rode. Unable to find bilingual first concept books she could enjoy reading to her baby,  Patty Rodriguez  came up with the idea behind Lil' Libros. Patty and her work have been featured in the  Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, CNN Latino, Latina Magazine, Cosmopolitan, People En Espanol, Cosmo Latina,  and American Latino TV, to name a few. She is currently Sr. Producer for On Air With Ryan Seacrest|iHeartMedia, jewelry designer for MALA by Patty Rodriguez, and creator of Manolos And Tacos. Ariana Stein,  a gr
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The Lost Fleet: Dauntless     Audible Audiobook  – Unabridged The Alliance has been fighting the Syndics for a century, and losing badly. Now its fleet is crippled and stranded in enemy territory. Their only hope is a man who has emerged from a century-long hibernation to find he has been heroically idealized beyond belief. Captain John "Black Jack" Geary's legendary exploits are known to every schoolchild. Revered for his heroic "last stand" in the early days of the war, he was presumed dead. But a century later, Geary miraculously returns from survival hibernation and reluctantly takes command of the Alliance fleet as it faces annihilation by the Syndics. Appalled by the hero-worship around him, Geary is nevertheless a man who will do his duty. And he knows that bringing the stolen Syndic hypernet key safely home is the Alliance's one chance to win the war. But to do that, Geary will have to live up to the impossibly heroic "Black
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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking Hardcover   – April 25, 2017 New York Times  Bestseller Named one of the Best Books of 2017 by NPR, Buzzfeed,  The   Atlantic ,  The  Washington Post ,  Chicago Tribune ,  Rachel Ray Every Day ,  San Francisco Chronicle , Vice Munchies, Elle.com,  Glamour , Eater,  Newsday, Minneapolis Star Tribune ,  The Seattle Times ,  Tampa Bay Times , Tasting Table,  Modern Farmer ,  Publishers Weekly,  and more. A visionary new master class in cooking that distills decades of professional experience into just four simple elements, from the woman declared “America’s next great cooking teacher” by Alice Waters. In the tradition of  The Joy of Cooking  and  How to Cook Everything  comes  Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat , an ambitious new approach to cooking by a major new culinary voice. Chef and writer Samin Nosrat has taught everyone from professional chefs to middle school kids to author Michael Pollan to cook using her revolutionary, y