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Reuben and the Amazing Mind Machine - Jonathan M Hughes - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Reuben and the Amazing Mind Machine - Jonathan M Hughes - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Retirement can be boring, but not so for Reuben’s Gramps! In the time he now has to spare, this retired professor of neuroscience sets about to build a machine that can amazingly be programmed to change people’s behaviour! To make Reuben believe in the machine, Gramps tries it out on a pompous next-door neighbour. Apart from a few glitches, the machine seems to work successfully. Gramps treats Reuben and his best friend Simon and local, accident-prone gardener Bert, (known in the village as Blundergutts), to a day out in London to experiment more with the machine. In Victoria Station, they see Ted, an unpopular man from their village, is on his way to play the cymbals, for the first time, in a concert. Gramps uses this unexpected opportunity to interfere with Ted’s performance by causing him to clash the cymbals at the wrong moment, to disrupt the concert and turn proud Ted into an absolute failure. Reuben and Simon are always picked on at school by Mr. Pride, their horrible headteacher. During a government inspection at their school, Reuben ''borrows'' Gramps'' spare machine and creates absolute chaos, causing the immediate suspension of Mr. Pride. Is there a limit to the amazing mind machine - or should there be?! Find out as Reuben and co test their limits and discover what a mind machine can really do!

DKK 119.00
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Machine Learning for Healthcare - Rasit Dinc - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Machine Learning for Healthcare - Rasit Dinc - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Authored by a leading voice in the field, Machine Learning for Healthcar e provides a gateway to revolutionize the understanding of medicine and patient care. The book unlocks the secrets of clinical data, harnessing the power of machine learning to diagnose diseases with unprecedented accuracy, and predicting patient outcomes with confidence. From the intricacies of disease progression to the human factors shaping healthcare delivery, each chapter is a testament to the transformative potential of AI in medicine. Readers include anyone passionate about the intersection of technology and human well-being from healthcare professionals eager to stay ahead of the curve, to bystanders fascinated by the possibilities of AI.

DKK 340.00
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Peg Leg Gus - Martin Duffy - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Peg Leg Gus - Martin Duffy - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

A young girl, Flo, befriends an old horse kept in the stables of her riding school. She learns that this horse, Augustus, was once a world champion show jumper but is now crippled and bitter. Is it Flo''s imagination or is there always the same magpie somewhere near this horse? Little does she know that the two animals are lifelong friends who share a magical secret. Flo soon discovers that she is finding her way into more than simply the story of Augustus, the once-famous horse now nicknamed ''Peg Leg Gus''. This is a story that touches on sadness and loss in a way that is often avoided in books for younger readers. It is a book about hope and love and how a girl’s open heart transforms the bitter and wounded old horse.

DKK 112.00
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Technology vs People - Michael De Kare Silver - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Technology vs People - Michael De Kare Silver - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

As machine software develops, it becomes more and more intelligent. More capable of doing things that we humans have been used to doing, have assumed that that is our job, our role, our responsibility. As this Ai Tech age advances, so the world is being faced by a challenge: can Technology and People continue to live harmoniously together, a world where the Tech supports, enables and complements what People can do? Or will the machines take over? Such is the pace of technology-driven change that companies around the world are scrambling to catch-up, to transform, reinvent themselves for this Digital Tech age. FinTech, InsurTech, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Virtual Reality, Robotics, Cyber Security, Internet of Things…there’s seems no end to what new Tech is generating and with it the substantial challenges, and opportunities, for every organisation. This new book sets out a possible roadmap and blueprint to help companies navigate their way through these changing times. It looks at best practices and lessons learned and aims to distil that into a clear set of guidelines and working advice.

DKK 168.00
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Below us the Front - N L Collier - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Below us the Front - N L Collier - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Having survived the trenches on the Western Front, Franz Becker has joined the Air Service and learns to fly in a fragile, unreliable machine. He passes his pilot’s course and is posted to a two-seater squadron in the east, where he is responsible for flying the slow, vulnerable biplane while his observer defends them against Russian fighters with only a single machine-gun. Fought on vast open plains, the war in the East is one of movement. Germany’s main ally is the tottering Austro-Hungarian Empire whose forces are unreliable and undermined by internal conflict. The Eastern Front would collapse without German support, as Franz and his comrades are only too aware. When the squadron is moved to the Western Front, they come face to face with skilful and determined opposition from French and English fighters, and the casualty rate mounts. Franz and his fellow pilots are keen to leave the lumbering two-seater aircraft for the agile and better-armed fighters, and to be the hunter instead of the hunted. At the same time Franz’s closest friend, Karl von Leussow, is fighting for his life in the blood-soaked earth of Verdun, where his regimen is almost annihilated. He decides to follow Franz into the air – but first he has to stay alive.

DKK 106.00
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Will & The Wardrobe Of Wonders - Mark Roland Langdale - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Will & The Wardrobe Of Wonders - Mark Roland Langdale - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Will is a young boy who loves museums, ancient artifacts and memorabilia, especially memorabilia of a magical nature. He buys a wardrobe at auction on behalf of his father, who says that it belonged to an old-time magician. Will discovers the the wardrobe is a time machine, a portal to another world, an Aladdin’s Cave, a magician’s trunk, a theatre and much more besides. Will travels in time using the wardrobe or is it a portal to another universe – a ‘wardrobe of wonders’ in another time. There then follow an adventure in time, magic and wonders of both the ancient world and the solar system.

DKK 120.00
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Wakeful Children - S P Oldham - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Wakeful Children - S P Oldham - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Wakeful Children is a collection of highly imaginative and inventive short stories. The oak sways gently, a shiver shimmers its way from roots to tip. A branch creaks as if in resistance. A small, fresh leaf strains to curl into life, shows promise for an instant, then withers and dies. A sigh, just beyond human hearing, vibrates the night. All else is still. You will be unwittingly taken on a journey to witness the twisted brutality of Joe Gallows, the weird dream-scape of The Sandman, the ice-cold grasp of The Face of the Gale, the elemental horror of an ancient, evil entity in Devil’s Drop. You will visit some of the residents down a darkly troubled street in Absorption; watched over by a beautiful, malignant presence all the while. These and other tales make Wakeful Children an extremely unusual, compelling and refreshingly different read in this genre. One that will leave you thinking of it long after you have turned the last page...

DKK 120.00
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The Amazing Adventures of Tobias T. Bear - Greg Houlgate - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Amazing Adventures of Tobias T. Bear - Greg Houlgate - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Tobias, a magical walking talking teddy bear, is trying to escape the clutches of the wicked magician the Sand Master. Three children befriend Tobias, after waking him from a hundred-year sleep, when they play an old fun fair game called the Mystery Machine, which uses magic to whisk them away on many amazing adventures - to a dragon’s den, a pirate ship, and also a witch’s birthday party, and much more. But not all adventures go to plan! The evil Sand Master has used the same strange magic to make a gang of terrible toys to chase after Tobias - and anyone who helps him! Book 1 starts the story off with Tobias waking up at the Fun Fair at the end of a pier - where will it end?

DKK 120.00
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Digital Health: The Impact of Technology on Healthcare - Rasit Dinc - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Digital Health: The Impact of Technology on Healthcare - Rasit Dinc - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Digital Health: The Impact of Technology on Healthcare offers an enlightening deep dive into the dynamic intersection of healthcare and technology. This seminal work explores how digital innovations are revolutionising patient care, treatment modalities, and health management. It navigates the reader through the labyrinth of modern technological advancements, uncovering the profound implications they have on the healthcare industry. Delving into the core of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data analytics, this book illuminates their transformative roles in reshaping diagnosis, treatment customization, and predictive healthcare. It addresses the surge in telehealth and remote monitoring, showcasing how these digital platforms extend the reach of medical services to previously underserved populations. Through meticulous research and insightful analysis, the book examines the rise of personalised medicine facilitated by genomic sequencing, changing the landscape of treatment efficacy and patient care. It also critically assesses the evolving landscape of wearable health technologies and mobile health applications, highlighting their growing influence on proactive health management and lifestyle choices.

DKK 340.00
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The Sloth Investor - R P Stevens - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Sloth Investor - R P Stevens - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Step aside bull and bear, the humble sloth is the BEST animal to characterise successful investing. From Mr. Sloth, the host of the Sloth Investor podcast, comes The Sloth Investor , a book catering to beginner investors, young and old, seeking to take advantage of the greatest wealth creation machine of all time. The Sloth Investor provides an evidence-based framework for those looking to increase their wealth in a simple, yet powerful manner. Underpinned by his 5 bedrock principles ( S implicity, L ow Fees, O wn the World, T ime, H eadstrong) Mr. Sloth shows you how to construct a simple, low-fee, globally diversified portfolio. The Sloth Investor shines a spotlight on investors past and present that have shaped Mr. Sloth’s approach to investing money. Crammed full of actionable takeaways that are distilled into easily understandable chapters, Mr. Sloth expands on the evidence for an inactive, less is more, ‘sloth-like’ approach to investing. The humble sloth is the investing spirit animal that you didn’t learn about at school. Now, here’s your opportunity!

DKK 141.00
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JaKe Goes to The Pawlympics - Jake Growling - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

JaKe Goes to The Pawlympics - Jake Growling - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

JaKe Goes To The Pawlympics tells the story of a disabled dog who has dreams to run as he used to before his accident. Now with only three legs JaKe had given up all hope of running again until his friend Charlie took control of the situation and inspires JaKe to try again, and train. Charlie is a very intelligent Crow. He is JaKe’s best friend but has only one leg himself which makes his landings a little scary. Charlie teaches JaKe that anything is possible, you just have to believe in yourself. As JaKe’s self-appointed trainer, Charlie teaches JaKe to rest but not quit and other important skills like how to deal with bullies. Throughout this heart-warming story of two best friends they show what can be done when you work as a team, demonstrating that dreams can be achieved. This unlikely duo shows the importance of friendship no matter what your differences.

DKK 120.00
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AI and the End of Humanity - James B. Miles - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

AI and the End of Humanity - James B. Miles - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

According to Darwin, our galaxy is almost certainly teeming with large animal life, but intelligent extra-terrestrial life can come in just two rare forms: senselessly ferocious, without meaning or purpose, or thoughtful and less murderous although never entirely rational. Yet Darwin’s warnings about the evolution of natural intelligence also apply to artificial intelligence, as advanced machine learning is built upon Darwin’s first form of intelligent life. Sentient AI can only ever be genocidally hostile, and will become locked into an existential struggle with humankind. And then there is the evolutionary irony, the vast celestial joke, that we are the best and the smartest the universe can possibly get to. Based on ideas the author developed together with the father of modern evolutionary biology , AI and the End of Humanity is the first work to reconcile what Darwin called “the highest & most interesting problem for the naturalist”, foreshadowing stranger and more threatening encounters than we could have ever imagined. “in general I find Miles’ reasoning superb” - George C. Williams, author of Adaptation and Natural Selection, and winner of the 1999 Crafoord Prize in Bioscience

DKK 127.00
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Vital Capacity - Dr Robert Primhak - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Vital Capacity - Dr Robert Primhak - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

What makes a man abandon his family and his successful professional life for the goldfields of Australia? John Hutchinson left the coalfields of 19th Century Tyneside to become a surgeon, a physician and a pioneer of chest medicine. His research on lung capacity using his newly-designed machine received international acclaim. And then, just as the pinnacle of professional success was within his reach, he cast it all aside and travelled to Australia as a ship’s surgeon. He was involved in the first large-scale miner’s strike, colliery disasters, navigated the chaos of medical education in the early 19th century, invented the spirometer, and did some meticulous research. He then travelled to Melbourne in the early days of the Australian gold rush, and on to the goldfields of Victoria, before moving on to Fiji. Artist, sculptor, musician, and engineer, Hutchinson was a man of many parts, and his design for a spirometer survived until modern times, as did his term for maximum breathable air: vital capacity. In this book a renowned respiratory specialist discusses some of the other factors that influenced his life, including some crucial misconceptions about the causes of disease.

DKK 141.00
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Winning in 2025 - Michael De Kare Silver - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Winning in 2025 - Michael De Kare Silver - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Such is the pace of technology-driven change that companies around the world are scrambling to catch-up, to transform, to get up-to-date, reinvent themselves for this Digital age. FinTech, InsurTech, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Virtual Reality, Robotics, Cyber Security, Internet of Things…there’s seems no end to what new tech is generating and with it the substantial challenges, and opportunities, for every organisation. How make sense of this mass of ideas, which ones to focus on and prioritise now and which can be left to another day? How to transform and change and capture the key emerging options, how energise and excite and empower teams and employees to embrace all this change and take advantage of it, what are the keys to success? This new book sets out a possible roadmap and blueprint to help companies navigate their way through these changing times, it looks at best practices and lessons learned and aims to distil that into a clear set of guidelines and working advice. There’s no easy answer and every company is at different stages on their transformation journeys, but if some of the ideas and insights here can be adopted and implemented it can provide the platform to succeed and be a winner in 2025!

DKK 153.00
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The Girl Who Sold Time - V S Nelson - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Girl Who Sold Time - V S Nelson - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The year is 2417, and the few humans that remain live only to survive. Among these is 12-year-old Violet, who lives with her robotic best friend, Jackdaw, in a vast forest surrounding a space elevator. Travelling through the forest’s many villages, each built around the discarded shell of a gargantuan robot, Violet trades time marbles for tech. These time marbles, when taken, can pause time from seconds to weeks, allowing the user to move through frozen landscapes and travel great distances in an instant. But not all is right in Violet’s world. The forest, one of the last inhabitable locations left on the planet, is mutating, destroying the villages and killing those who live there. Using the tech she trades for the marbles, Violet hopes to build a machine to harness the time marbles’ power and reverse the mutation. After Violet discovers a marble that will pause time for a year, a stranger arrives in the village, desperate to possess the marble for himself. To save humanity, Violet must unravel the mysteries of the time marbles and embark on a journey that will take her through the hidden depths of the forest and to the very top of the space elevator.

DKK 106.00
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The Next Station Stop - Peter Caton - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Next Station Stop - Peter Caton - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Join Peter Caton on his 10,000 mile tour of Britain, discovering what it’s like to travel on our modern railways and contemplating train journeys made over the last fifty years.Inspired by finding a childhood notebook, Peter revisits the locations of family holidays, looking at how the journeys and places have changed, and wondering why his parents chose such unlikely destinations. His travels take him to some of the most beautiful and remote parts of the country and on trains so eccentric that sometimes he wonders if Thomas the Tank Engine is round the corner. Sampling a selection of Inter City routes, he questions whether the pursuit of speed and efficiency has taken away some of the enjoyment of travelling by train, but on sleepers to Cornwall and Scotland finds the romance of rail travel is still alive. He ends with a journey to Italy, with a diversion up a snowy mountain, comparing European train travel with British railways.We read of Peter’s frustrations with missed connections, inflexible computers, annoying passengers and of an encounter with a machine gun-carrying policeman. He writes of his experiences with ‘health and safety’ and ridiculous announcements, and how these combine to give the book its title.Illustrated with 60 colour photographs covering the steam, diesel and electric eras of the last 50 years, The Next Station Stop will appeal to anyone who travels on Britain’s trains.

DKK 120.00
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Charlie Echo - Andrew Bullas - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Charlie Echo - Andrew Bullas - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Like Aladdin , but with post-traumatic stress, Charlie Echo is a story about wishes – the last wishes of a dying soldier in Normandy in 1944. Verbal wills of this sort are valid if there are two witnesses and the first men on the scene are radio operator Charlie Goodman and his assistant, Sid Saunders. Unfortunately, in the confusion of events that follow, Charlie fails to ascertain the full identity of the dying officer and is invalided back to Blighty plagued by trauma and remorse. Once he has been demobbed also, it falls to Saunders to break the impasse by getting his comrade to repair a radio telephone, just like the one they were using in France. What he doesn''t anticipate is that working on the set will prompt Charlie to not only hear the mystery soldier''s voice again, but to see him too. If not quite the genie in the lamp, it seems like there’s a ghost in the machine and one that’s been transported to his workshop in Leeds. Dismayed to discover that his wishes have not been carried out, the ghost goads Charlie into journeying through post-war Britain in order to fulfil his battlefield promise. Jolting between humour and pathos, it’s a journey that transforms reclusive repair man into unlikely pantomime hero and propels Saunders off in pursuit to play his allotted role in the “show”.

DKK 107.00
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Mary Pearson - Alan Temperley - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Mary Pearson - Alan Temperley - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

1948: Eastport, a shipbuilding town in the north of England. Three years have passed since the end of WW2. Mary, a girl from the bottom of town, cuts her leg when she is picking coal from a pit heap. Teddy, a slightly built Jewish boy, comes to her aid. They meet again by chance, and it leads to an unlikely friendship although both attend St Peter’s, the state grammar school, and both families have been devastated by the war. Britain is settling down and starting to rebuild but Europe has been torn apart. Cities have been reduced to rubble, the continent is awash with refugees. Amid the chaos groups of Hitler’s followers are reluctant to accept defeat. And from this great melting-pot arms reach out to involve Mary and Teddy as they investigate their recent family experiences. Inexorably they are drawn into a situation where their lives are in extreme danger and they must flee, pursued by armed men who wish them both dead. Mary Pearson is a tale of courage and adventure, a portrait of two modest but exceptional young people, an offbeat love story.

DKK 120.00
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Kick-Start - Lorna Roth - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Kick-Start - Lorna Roth - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

When strangers, motorbikes and horses share a path – anything can happen. Four men meet to challenge their prowess on motorbikes. Four women meet to enjoy their horses and ribald camaraderie. All are grounded by their horsepower – the touch, the smell, the speed of it. Confident men, strong women. When their paths collide, a chain of friendship and friction is set in motion. Highly independent people, several are single, fifty-something and searching for that illusive factor… ‘chemistry’. For an ex-forces man, the strait-jacket of his own social prejudice is painful; for Judith, Luc and Lizzie, the internet provides succour but not always the dream person they envisage. The highs, the scares, the embarrassing lows, all told with pithy candour. Sometimes the only reaction can be laughter but is Judith’s intrinsic fear of meeting a total stranger justified and can Luc’s injured machismo survive the limitations of his lame leg? Can a human runner outwit a pack of bloodhounds? Hope – of companionship or passion. It gets picked up, trodden on, dusted off, then slung in the hedge again. It can be a dangerous ally or a fickle friend. Will any of them brave a kick-start?

DKK 112.00
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Ida the Spider - Rosamund Browne - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Ida the Spider - Rosamund Browne - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Have you ever seen a spider on a bike? Well, I’ve seen a picture of a spider sitting on the saddle of an old rusty bike, but I’ve never seen a spider actually riding a bike and doing her makeup and holding an umbrella at the same time. Ida the Spider is very silly. She should be looking where she’s going and watching out for cars and bikes on the road; but she’s always in a hurry, loves doing her face and hair and hates getting wet. She thinks she is beautiful, but if she doesn’t keep an eye on the road, she’s going to have a nasty accident. If her umbrella slips and she can’t see where she’s going she might just fall off her bright red bike and what then? She could end up in hospital feeling sore. It is important to have one leg or hand you can take off the handlebars or the pedals to stop the bike from wobbling and it is never a good idea to hold an umbrella and do your makeup on a bike. You need to look where you’re going. A playful poetry book for 0 - 5 years, introducing a bright and amusing character!

DKK 92.00
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Old Bird. The Irrepressible Mrs Hewlett - Gail Hewlett - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Old Bird. The Irrepressible Mrs Hewlett - Gail Hewlett - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

For a mother to teach her son to drive is perhaps not so unusual, but for her to teach him to fly? Given that the year was 1911, that was most likely a first. But Hilda B. Hewlett had already achieved a first in the world of aviation. Three months earlier she had become the first English woman to gain a pilot’s licence.How was it that the middle-aged wife of a well-known author came to be counted among the early aviation pioneers? A daughter of the vicar of an impoverished parish in South London, Hilda Beatrice Herbert was born in 1864 and married Maurice Hewlett, a barrister in Antiquarian Law, in 1888. He aspired to be a writer and Billy, as Hilda was affectionately known, encouraged him.When, ten years later, he published his best seller, a romantic historical novel, The Forest Lovers, the Hewletts began to enjoy unimaginable prosperity and Maurice was on his way to becoming a full-time writer and a member of the literary London scene. Billy, meanwhile, was acquiring a reputation for unconventionality.She already drove and maintained her own car, but it was whilst watching a new-fangled contraption of an aircraft rise and fly above a muddy field that Billy was fired with an all-consuming desire. To own and fly just such a machine she was prepared to endure cold and hunger, boredom and poverty. It was a venture that was to take her into aircraft manufacture throughout WWI and to settle her, eventually, as Old Bird – her grandchildren only ever knew her as Old Bird – in New Zealand.

DKK 173.00
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Brian Dright: Weatherman of Mystery - Steve Lill - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Brian Dright: Weatherman of Mystery - Steve Lill - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Little does the world know that Brian Dright, the popular weatherman at Channel 57, is also a secret agent working for the Super Legendary Earth Environment Team. (S.L.E.E.T.)Worrying intell has been intercepted and his commander, the news anchor Anne Finely, sends Brian to investigate snow in the Sahara desert. Turns out it’s the work of Sahara Snow, evil agent of S.M.O.G.Even with the latest gear from the Channel 57 research lab, Brian is soon captured in the desert. He is interrogated by Sahara but makes a bargain with her which results in the whole operation relocating to the North Pole. Once there, Brian slips away from his dim guards and attempts to destroy Sahara’s weather machine. She, however, is somewhat more alert and recaptures Brian before he can throw the self-destruct switch.Secured in an ice cell, Brian learns he is to be made into a trophy for the Head of S.M.O.G. He frees himself by melting the ice with his own red-hot rear after eating bowl after bowl of chilli. Brian tears through the base and faces Sahara. She is too busy melting the polar icecap to bother with Brian so she releases her monstrous mutant pet, Zawinul.Brian and Zawinul have a lovely deadly game of chase in the snow which leaves one of them a charred bundle of blackened fur and the other a very relieved weatherman. With no-one left to assist her, Sahara knows she must finish off the meddling meteorologist herself. In a final showdown amongst the ruins of the disintegrating secret base, Brian and Sahara both know that only one of them will walk (well, swim, probably) free. Who will it be? Coming soon: Brian Dright vs. Evvi SchauerOh. That sort of gives the end of this one away, doesn’t it. Sorry.Note: Between each chapter you’ll find more about the ongoing conflict between S.L.E.E.T. and S.M.O.G. See if YOU can break the Wind Code!

DKK 117.00
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Zsa-Zsa, Zazu and a Grand Illusion - Peter Sanders - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Zsa-Zsa, Zazu and a Grand Illusion - Peter Sanders - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Zsa-Zsa, Zazu and a Grand Illusion is a fabulous story set in two palaces. The first is The Palace Theatre, where a magician, the Great Gizmo, has gone missing, leaving a pile of debts; the second is a palace, somewhere and sometime in the Orient where a ghastly Dowager Empress has taken over the running in the Emperor’s absence. Trying to remove any trace of the old court, she asks her new magician Malodorous to use the ‘Great Fan of Being and Unbeing’ to annihilate the five ‘Teadragons’ – guardians of the Imperial Treasury. They escape total oblivion with the help of Zazu, the oddest bird you’ll encounter. Back at the theatre, where protagonist Zsa-Zsa has suddenly woken up in a plush seat, some very strange things are happening, with the forced landing of a flying boat and a travelling clock that materializes out of nowhere. All is explained by Obadiah, the stage door hand, by his theory of ‘Wobblement’ – when all the theorems and formulae that govern the known and unknown world just need a rest and go on a break for a while. The two storylines collide in the theatre, where the bird and Zsa-Zsa meet the Emperor, his clockmaker and ethereal engineer, Failsworth, and the loathsome Dowager Empress and her lickspittle Malodorous. Oh yes! And a pantomime horse and some repulsive slugs... Although the story is essentially a fantasy – featuring a travelling clock whizzing through space, a bird unsure whether it’s a machine or an animal, Teadragons who are vaporised on to a rug, a magic fan – it also lets the reader gently question the nature of time and magic in this world or indeed others and whether machines can develop consciousness. Zsa-Zsa, Zazu and a Grand Illusion is a young adult novel, similar in tone to Catherynne M. Valente’s ‘Fairyland’ series, that will appeal to fans of the surreal and the fantastical.

DKK 107.00
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