Winnie and Wilbur love the high life! But zooming through the skies can be a risky affair. Broomsticks can be difficult to steer, magic carpets can be tricky to catch, and getting pumpkins off the ground can be quite a challenge. Three wonderful stories in one.[...]
Join Winnie the witch and her cat Wilbur in two delicious stories with short chapters. In Winnie Goes Batty, Winnie gets some unexpected help from her bat friends when her bossy sister comes round for tea. In Winnie Grows Her Own, she finds out that growing all the food for a picnic isn't as easy as[...]
Join Winnie and Wilbur in two funny stories with short chapters. Have fun as Winnie joins the circus and enters a fancy-dress race!This Read with Oxford Stage 5 book is for children who are beginning to read independently.Read with Oxford offers an exciting range of carefully levelled reading books [...]
Hazel Bannock is the heir to the Bannock Oil Corp, one of the major oil producers with global reach. While cruising in the Indian Ocean, Hazel's private yacht is hijacked by African pirates. Hazel is not on board at the time, but her nineteen year old daughter, Cayla, is kidnapped and held to ransom[...]
Hazel Bannock is the owner of the Bannock Oil Corp, one of the major global oil producers. While cruising in the Indian Ocean, her yacht is hijacked by Somalian pirates and her nineteen year old daughter Cayla is kidnapped. Major Hector Cross is an ex-SAS operative and the man behind Cross Bow Secur[...]
When Hector Cross's life is overturned, he immediately recognizes the ruthless hand of an enemy he has faced many times before. A terrorist group has re-emerged - like a deadly scorpion from beneath its rock. Determined to fight back, Hector draws together a team of his most loyal friends from his f[...]
Poet John Hollander surveys the schemes, patterns, and forms of English verse in this classic text, illustrating each variation with an original and witty self-descriptive example. In new essays for this fourth edition, J. D. McClatchy and Richard Wilbur each offer a personal take on why the book ha[...]
In a new Egyptian epic by the best-selling author of River God and Blue Horizon, the banks of the Nile are torn by an unprecedented war during which a charismatic new religious leader traps hundreds of people in the capital city of Khartoum. Reprint.[...]
Dramatically depicts the lives of those involved in the power struggles over the control of South Africa's wealth, featuring the ambitious Rod Ironsides, for whom success may come at an insurmountably high price, and the manipulative genius Manfred Steyner. Reprint.[...]
In late nineteenth-century South Africa, Sean Courteney follows his destiny to the gold mines of Pretoria, while his twin, Garrick, bitterly plots revenge against his brother for the shooting accident that crippled him. Reprint.[...]
The year is 1899. The British Empire is at the height of its power. But in South Africa, proud Dutch colonists defy the Queen and her army--and a lush, wild world is torn apart by guns, spears, and swords.
Sean Courtney had been tragically separated from his family, but the Boer War has brought [...]
Mark Anders returns from World War I to his native South Africa to find that his grandfather has been murdered, his land confiscated, and he has become the target of the rogue scion of the powerful Courtney clan. Reprint.[...]
In search of the father they barely remember, Zouga and Dr. Robyn Ballentine board Mungo St. John's magnificent clipper bound for Africa, but if Robyn can bring hope and healing to Africa's fever-riddern shores, Mungo, a lawless trader in human cargo, will possess any man--or woman--he chooses. Repr[...]
Zouga Ballantyne's dream begins in the danger and drudgery of the diamond pits and ends on the rich grasslands of Matabeleland, but not before a king and a proud warrior nation have paid the price of history. Reprint.[...]
On a continent of breathtaking beauty and bitter suffering, two vastly different cultures clashed, mingled, and recoiled. Here, amidst mist-shrouded mountains and gold-studded plateaus, ancient tribesmen lived close to the earth, as white men dug fortunes out from beneath them and laid plans for a n[...]
In Manhattan, Craig Mellow is the toast of the literary world, a young writer whose bestselling novels and larger-than-life adventures are fueled by natural-born charisma. But Craig lost a limb and a legacy in Africa. And his heart still clings to the land.
A representative of the World Bank rec[...]
Sasha Courtney was groomed by his French-born mother to take control of the Courtney Mining and Finance Company, whose font of wealth was sown deep beneath African soil. But Sasha's brother, Manfred, had been trained by his renegade father to be a hunter--of lions, and of men.
As the two boys be[...]
The relationship between half-brothers Manfred De La Rey and Shasa Courtney explodes as South Africa is torn by racial conflict, and the Courtney family is torn by Tara's forbidden love. Reprint.[...]
A recreation of the grandeur of ancient Egypt follows the fortunes of the clever and scheming eunuch Taita; the beautiful Lostris, a lord's daughter; and Tanus, an ambitious soldier. Reissue.[...]