Willard

GILBERT, Stephen

Lancer

Literature & Fiction

HarperCollins Distribution Services

Ratman's Notebooks

Viking Adult

Helps familiarize new users with Java and its APIs by providing programming exercises and end-of-section quizzes as well as includes an instructional Website that provides test and programming exercise material not found in the book. Original. (Beginner/Intermediate).

Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 Online in Web Time (The Teach Yourself Series)

Computers & Technology

McCarty, Bill

Programming

Sams.

1st Michael Joseph 1968 edition hardcover as new fine book in fine dw In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Ratman's notebooks

Michael, Joseph

The first critical biography of the master of television playwriting, whose brilliant "The Singing Detective" endures as an international cult sensation. of photos.

The Life and Work of Dennis Potter

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Abrams Press

In most ways, Robert is a typical sixteen year old boy growing up in the small village medieval village of Masden.  He attends school, goes fishing with friends, and increasingly, has been learning his father's trade as stable master.  As the story begins though, he's frustrated because his father seems to demand so much more from him than his friends' fathers want from their sons.  He studies longer and reads more than anyone else.  Strangest of all, his father has been teaching him to read, write, and speak in the old tongue, the forbidden language spoken by the nobility.  Late one night, his life is turned upside down.  He's awakened by loud pounding on the door and is stunned when he pokes his head over the railing of the loft, to see armed soldiers in chain mail pouring into the living room.  Suddenly, his father leaps out with his own sword, turning the house into a battle zone.    After his father is killed, Robert and his mother flee for their lives.  Later, she takes out an old wooden box, opens it, and hands him a heavy ruby ring.  "This belonged to your father.  Now, I suppose it's yours."  Mixing magic, swordplay, and adventure, The Ruby Ring - Casting The Die is the first in a series that follows Robert's search for his true identity.

The Ruby Ring: Casting The Die

Children's Books

Science Fiction & Fantasy

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The first book of the Ruby Ring series, Casting The Die, tells the story of Robert, a sixteen year old boy from the village of Masden, who learns that the life he has been living has been a disguise. He wakes one night, to find that his home has been invaded by soldiers, sent by Duke Henry to capture him and his father. During the ensuing battle, Robert's father is killed and his twin sister kidnapped. Robert and his mother escape and go into hiding in a cave beneath an old hill fort. Several days later, his friend Johnny Tuppence, along with his family, also escape to the cave, bringing food and other supplies. They talk, and Robert discovers that his father was far more than the stable master of Masden, and that his legacy for his son is a large ruby ring that glows mysteriously whenever Robert slips it onto his finger. Johnny's father, Albert, refuses to say more, instead sending him with Johnny to hike across country to the port of Waterton, where they meet with one of his father's old friends, Andrew Jameson. After a harrowing escape from Waterton, Jameson tells Robert that his father was actually Prince Gerald, son of the murdered king. When Robert refuses to believe him, Jameson has him put on the ring, which lights the room in a ruby glow. "It's the ring of kingship. It only glows when worn by the rightful King of Bonterra." Later, during one of his conversations with Johnny, Robert learns that Johnny's family has always been a part of the king's court, as wizards. Robert scoffs at the idea until Johnny provides examples of his strange 'voice.' The book ends with Robert forming a small group of followers, determined to restore his family to the throne. This book, Seizing The Crown, continues where the first leaves of. The book follows Robert and Johnny, as they work on enlisting allies in their cause. It also tells the story of his sister Marie, imprisoned in the duke's dungeon, and of the people she meets in her struggles to escape and join her brother. The first book introduces Frederick, Duke Henry's son, and the heir to his throne. Frederick becomes a major, and malevolent character in this book, and ultimately, he, Robert, and Marie battle for the throne of Bonterra. This is a story of adventure, swordplay, magic, intrigue, and betrayal. In the end, all of the characters are tarnished, and only one will claim the throne.

Seizing The Crown: Ruby Ring Series (The Ruby Ring)

Teen & Young Adult

Designed for those new to programming, Object-Oriented Programming in Java provides step-by-step lessons that cover OOP (object-oriented programming) and the Java language comprehensively with clear examples, code and figures. You'll use Java's built-in-objects to create applets. Design your own classes and assemble them into sophisticated, complete programs that run inside an HTML browser or as stand-alone applications. Create objects using the simple ideas of sequence, selection and iteration. You'll delve into Java's Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) to create full-color, multimedia Java applets, components and containers. Explore Java's versatile input/output streams and utility classes.

Object-Oriented Programming in Java (Mitchell Waite Signature Series)

Waite Group Pr

'Horrific, grisly and truly frightening . . . a masterpiece of terror.' - Washington Star 'One of the more terrifying, deliciously scary thrillers.' - New York Magazine 'This is a beastly business that will make your flesh creep. A magnificently malignant horror story to which you will be unavoidably committed.' - Kirkus Reviews 'You'll wish you never started reading the damn thing in the first place but you'll keep reading till the bitter end . . . it is low-key and deadpan . . . a compelling tour de force.' - Chattanooga Times 'Malevolent Gothic whimsy . . . the rat ride is entertaining.' - The Atlantic When his nagging mother discovers a rat infestation, the anonymous writer of these notebooks sets out to drown the pests, but finds himself unable to go through with it. Instead, he befriends the rats, learning to train and communicate with them. Before long he has the idea of using the rats for revenge against a world in which he has been a failure. His target is his hateful boss, Mr. Jones, who treats him with supreme disrespect and plans to fire him and replace him with someone less expensive. The narrator records his plans in chilling detail as his campaign for vengeance progresses from vandalism to robbery to the most horrific of murders . . . The basis for the 1971 film Willard and its 2003 remake, Stephen Gilbert's bestseller Ratman's Notebooks (1968) returns to print in this edition, the first in 40 years. This edition features a new introduction by Kim Newman, who argues that the success of Ratman's Notebooks demonstrated the viability of horror as a mainstream literary genre and paved the way for the horror publishing boom of the 1970s and the early novels of Stephen King and James Herbert.

Contemporary

Valancourt Books

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