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If you haven't, then here's what you need to know. These four books center around a good-aligned drow elf named Drizzt, who is now wandering the surface of Faerun. If you've never read about Drizzt before, be advised that these four books are not first in chronological order of Drizzt's life; you'll be given some backstory to understand who Drizzt is, but you'll also know pretty much everything that happened in all the earlier novels, which may lessen your enjoyment of them when you eventually read...

A British unit is subjected to a three-month siege by rebels during the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857. The irony of Farrell`s view is that, under the strain, the stiff-upper-lip British gradually come to resemble the "uncivilized" natives.

US$ 15.95 (+ tax) New York Review of Books; June 2010 376 pages; ISBN 9781590173732 Download in EPUB ... more Winner of the Booker Prize. India, 1857—the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of convulsion is the subject of J. G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur, widely considered one of the finest British novels of the last fifty years. Farrell's story is set in an isolated Victorian outpost on the subcontinent. Rumors...

Back before I got into Blu-ray I bought a copy of In the Name of the King on DVD. That officially marks the last time I buy a movie without reading up on it first. I typically like all fantasy genre movies, even some of the older cheesier ones, but this movie makes even Dungeons and Dragons look like a Shakespearean work. This movie was based off of the Dungeon Siege video games so I had low expectations going into it, but it still disappointed. Jason Statham is best left to action movies, mainly...

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The original novel on which Sam Peckinpah's controversial movieStraw Dogswas based, and which has now been made into a brand-new movie by Rod Lurie, starring Alexander Skarsgaring;rd and Kate Bosworth - due for release in September 2011. American professor George Magruder, his wife Louise and their daughter rent an old, isolated house known as Trencher's Farm in Cornwall, so George can finish his book. When George accidentally runs over a convicted child killer on the loose from a mental asylum,...

Called "elegantly, starkly beautiful" by The New York Times Book Review, The Siege is Helen Dunmore's masterpiece. Her canvas is monumental -- the Nazis' 1941 winter siege on Leningrad that killed six hundred thousand -- but her focus is heartrendingly intimate. One family, the Levins, fights to stay alive in their small apartment, held together by the unlikely courage and resourcefulness of twenty-two-year-old Anna. Though she dreams of an artist's life, she must instead forage for food in the ever...

After years as a Ranger's apprentice, Will is now the protector of his first fief. Not long into his service, everything that can go wrong does: Keren, a renegade knight, has taken over Castle Macindaw, a strategic gateway to the North?poisoning the royal family in the process?and is holding Will's friend Alyss captive. The situation grows direr when Will uncovers Keren's secret alliance with the Scotti, who have plans to plunder Araluen. Time is of the essence, and Will must recruit a motley crew...

The kingdom is in danger. Renegade knight Sir Keren has succeeded in overtaking Castle Macindaw and is now conspiring with the Scotti. The fate of Araluen rests in the hands of two young adventurers: the Ranger Will and his warrior friend, Horace. Yet for Will, the stakes are even higher. For inside the castle, someone he loves is being held hostage. And now the time has come for this onetime apprentice to grow up.

Robin’s more used to breaking into castles, not defending them. But he also knows this castle - he was apprentice to its lords many years ago. A great family brought to ruin by recent, cruel times... No one has dared set foot within these walls since then.

The Siege of Constantinople: The End of the Middle Ages, 1453

Jared just wants to be a normal kid; play in the woods, climb trees, build forts... But there are the awful unbidden seizures that rack his body, the strangers who meet in secret with his father, the cache of firearms that fill the basement... ...and the bees. When his house is surrounded by ATF agents, Jared's world is turned upside down, and he doesn't know whom to trust; his father, the ATF, or the undulating swarms that only he can see.

Twelve-year-old Daniel cheered when American colonists dumped English tea into Boston Harbor to protest taxes. But King George sends soldiers to punish the rebellious colonists, and friends turn on one another to protect themselves. Daniel works in the family tavern and spies on Redcoat officers after his father leaves to fight with the Patriots. He soon learns how to slip vital information across British lines to his father and General Washington. He must face his fear and put his life in danger...

School Library Journal - 04/01/2009 Gr 7–9— In this sequel to Corydon & the Fall of Atlantis (Knopf, 2007), Corydon Panfoot is living in the desert with Azil, Bin Khamal, and Sikandar. The friends drift from place to place, herding goats and camels that they have stolen and, occasionally, raiding for more. One major theft drives the boys to the city of Tashkurgan. There Sikandar must choose the fairest among three goddesses, two of whom destroy the city when they aren't selected. Corydon vows that...

Provocative and entertaining study of sieges in history Commentary on the nature and evolution of combat across the centuries Bruce Allen Watson examines seven sieges: Jerusalem at the end of the First Crusade in 1099, Malta in 1565, Sebastopol during the Crimean War, Kut-al-Amara in World War I, Singapore in World War II, Dien Bien Phu, and the 1991 Gulf War.