by Sue Beasley and Ruth Clark (1983)
*The Really Easy Guide To Home Computing - Electron* Mike and Rose are the Magic Micros and together with Inspector Key they help to unravel the mysteries of the Electrn's keyboard. This enjoyable and instructive book takes the absolute beginner to computing through all the concepts central to programming in BASIC on the Electron. With tremendous ease, you will learn how to use all the facilities of the keyboard, how to create a program and make it work, together with editing, program control, simple loops and numeric variables, and how to understand syntax and error messages. You will also learn how to control the placing of text and pictures on the screen, how to use colour and movement and how to produce sound effects. Achieving your programming skills is above all great fun. In the company of Mike and Rose and your Electron, whatever your age, you will discover the magic of micros. "A splendid new, large format book... aimed at the beginner ... the book uses zany cartoon characters to help unravel the mysteries of the micro in a lighthearted, but effective way." - The Times on the Spectrum edition
Daisy Meadows
"When Jess and Lily return to Friendship Forest, Grizelda casts a spell to make little Olivia Nibblesqueak the hamster think she's a messy creature--just like Grizelda's new helpers! Can Jess and Lily find a way to make Olivia herself again?"--Amazon.com.
Magnus Flyte
A music student working in Prague cataloging Beethoven's manuscripts discovers clues that her deceased mentor may not have committed suicide and becomes involved with a time-travel drug, a 400-year-old dwarf, a handsome Prince and a powerful U.S. senator.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Never before published in a single volume, Tolkien's four novellas (Farmer Giles of Ham, Leaf by Niggle, Smith of Wootton Major, and Roverandom) and one book of poems (The Adventures of Tom Bombadil) are gathered together for the first time, in a fully illustrated volume. This new, definitive collection of works -- which had appeared separately, in various formats, between 1949 and 1998 -- comes with a brand-new foreword and endmatter, and with a series of detailed pencil illustrations by Alan Lee.
Donna Marie Robb
Fourteen-year-old orphan Remmi Clearwater has a secret that could get her killed. For years, she has lived in the cavern lands of Penumbra, the dreariest land in a parallel world called Dreamearth, which people from Realearth visit while they sleep. All her life, she had successfully hidden her multiple magical abilities out of fear that someone would discover the truth about her. These amazing talents strongly hint that she's a Halfling, the child of a Dreamearth mother and a Realearth father. Such mixed heritage isn't only taboo, it's a death sentence. Halflings in the past have caused disasters in both worlds. When Remmi's magic is exposed, she is forced to flee Penumbra, only to find that her newfound freedom comes with its own set of risks.