Patrick Matthews

It is testing day, and twelve-year-old Al has scored a zero--but as he flees the cullers he begins to realize that being a zero actually means that he is a threat to the vicious dragons who rule his people.

Dragon Run

Much has happened ssince Al has left home. He has grown, physically and emotionally. His talents range from sailing, to fighting dragons to defeating assassins. Now, he only longs to go home. Home. Home too has changed. Will Al have the courage and strength to fight for all he holds true.

The Boy With The Sword

What exactly happens when you get stoned? Why does your mouth dry up and why do you become so interested in food and sex? Why can some people work when they're stoned and others can't? What are the tobacco companies' plans for exploiting the potential legal market? How come there's so much cannabis found in prisons and how does it get there? Who brings it across national borders? CANNABISCULTURE answers all these questions and more. Thirty years after THE TIMES ran an advertisement calling the law against cannabis 'immoral in principle and unworkable in practice', the drug's legalisation has become a live political and social issue. But there is surprisingly little information available on the drug: from its medicinal properties to its function as a commodity which is traded on a global scale, its role in various religions to the many ways in which it can be cultivated and its effect on the body and mind.

A Journey Through Disputed Territory

Cannabis Culture

Any number of guides offer to make wine a pleasant, predictable and unthreatening experience for the average British drinker. This is not one of them. Instead The Wild Bunch ventures beyond the clean, fruity and -- let's face it -- bland bottles which cram today's supermarket shelves to introduce a whole spectrum of unexpected flavours. In this provocative survey of what he calls 'the unreported wine revolution' Patrick Matthews encounters a new wave of growers and producers who are taking wine back to its regional roots. They are opinionated, perfectionist and unpredictable -- obsessed with authenticity and purity rather than high technology and marketing. And as they are at work all over the wine world, not just in the top-notch regions, they can provide startingly good value. At a time when drinkers are defying marketing wisdom with their enthusiasm for diversity and regional character, this is an entertaining and necessary guide to wines which have something to say -- wines with a story to tell. Book jacket.

Great Wines from Small Producers

The Wild Bunch

CURSED WITH MAGIC Abigail has a powerful magic inside her, one that will turn her into a monster if she's not careful. She's not the only one cursed. There are other children just like her, sleeping in a cave deep underground. Abigail keeps them safe, draining their power just as she drains away her own, desperately searching for a cure. But what if there is no cure? What if her cave is a prison, and not a place of healing? How can she save the sleepers when she's not even sure how to save herself?

Abigail's Dragons

The Hunters are Coming The first time a hunter came for him, Bradley Nash was only nine years old. That was three years ago. Now, he lives with his family in a Florida trailer park. He doesn't remember the attack, doesn't know anything about hunters, or dragons, or even magic. As his twelfth birthday approaches, however, his peaceful life starts falling apart. The hunters are coming, and if Bradley doesn't figure out exactly who and what he is, everything he's ever known will be destroyed.

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