New Releases by John Peel

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart never could work out what to do with Evans. He never got on with the troops, was always shirking responsibility. So a reassignment to Imber was in order, and a whole new training programme under the watchful eye of Captain Younghusband... Also included is the bonus short story ''Time and Again'' by Robert Mammone. This is a sequel to the 1985 Doctor Who television serial Timelash and prequel to the forthcoming spin-off series, Travers & Wells.

"Embark on a riveting and unconventional journey across America with John Peele in ''From North Carolina to Southern California Without a Ticket and How I Did It.'' Penned in the early 20th century, this memoir provides readers with a firsthand account of Peele''s daring and exciting experiences as he traverses the country as a hobo. As Peele navigates the challenges of his nomadic lifestyle, encounters with fellow wanderers, and the unpredictability of the open road, ''From North Carolina to Southern California'' is more than a memoir—it''s a literary expedition that captures the spirit of adventure and resilience in the face of adversity. Join John Peele on this literary journey where each page unveils a new chapter of his hobo escapades, making ''From North Carolina to Southern California Without a Ticket and How I Did It'' an essential read for those captivated by tales of unconventional travel and the pursuit of freedom on the road."

Seventy years ago, an Ivy League-educated lawyer, his wife from a prominent Midwestern media family, and their four children moved to a small town in Southwestern Colorado. They bought two struggling newspapers, melded them into one and started building a legacy – one issue at a time. Arthur and Morley Ballantine not only made Durango their home, they helped mobilize their fellow business owners and neighbors to transform that sleepy little community into a thriving center of education, culture, enterprise, and philanthropy. The Durango Herald quickly became known as an award-winning publication staffed with hard-working, industrious journalists who wouldn’t shy from an important story, no matter who might want it quashed. This is the story of a community-minded family with deep connections in the highest levels of government and education. It is the story of how their newspaper has kept its subscribers informed of important issues and news stories big and small. It is a reminder of local newspapers’ unique role as the glue that binds and enlightens the people of their towns. The Ballantines: Building Community Issue by Issue not only traces the history of a remarkable family, but also reminds us of the vital role that quality journalism plays as the underpinning of a community.

Dracula''s Bedlam is the second novel in the StokerVerse series, conceptualised and brought to life by writers Chris McAuley and Dacre Stoker, the great-grandnephew of Dracula author Bram Stoker. Guest writer John Peel also contributes to this excellent addition to the series. It is a mixed media presentation with both story content and graphic novel elements from Frederick B. Roseman, along with an introduction from author of the Horror series Deadknobs and Doomsticks and much-loved UK personality Joe Pasquale. Is there a place more enthralling than that of the Asylum? The insane lurk in the shadows with gibbering mouths and twisted minds… Dr. Seward''s asylum is particularly interesting; a serial killer has his mind peeled back, a mysterious nurse walks the halls with a sweet smile and devious mind… and, of course, there''s the enigmatic Mr. Renfield… Set between the cracks of the original Dracula novel, the StokerVerse series hopes to shed a little light into the dark areas which were not wholly explored by author Bram Stoker. Familiar figures from Dracula and original characters created specifically for the StokerVerse appear in these dark and twisted tales. Dracula''s Bedlam is the perfect read for a dark Halloween night… if you dare!

Many an incredible story may have been told about young courageous men and women cycling the globe in search of adventure, covering vast distances at speed each day with not a care in the world, sleeping wherever they could pitch a tent or find someone willing to give them a free meal and bed for the night, who intentionally looked bedraggled to resemble famous adventurers of old, with men sporting wild hair and beards that could clear dusty streets as they cycled through. Well, this incredible story is a little different. It is an astonishing story about a 350-pound middle-aged, disabled, working-class husband and father. I was never a regular cyclist, and I knew nothing about bicycle maintenance and repair. And yet, without a single day of bicycle touring practice, I loaded up my shiny new bike with everything I thought I’d need and cycled out of Cheshire to see the world. Solo, self-financed, with no support network and without any fixed route plan other than, “I’m going that way.” What could go wrong? I wondered

Now with a fresh design, this fifth edition of the bestselling authoritative guide for hikers in Southwestern Colorado features new and updated trails, clear maps, and beautiful color photographs. Used by beginner and seasoned hikers alike for years now, Hiking Trails of Southwestern Colorado shares the best nature-walking excursions around Durango, Silverton, Vallecito, and the Colorado Trail areas. Taking you everywhere from the refreshing waters of Ice Lakes Basin to the glorious views of Engineer Mountain, this new edition of the guidebook includes: More than 60 trails and climbs plus 12 new hikes, accompanied by corresponding maps and color photographs Distance, elevation, difficulty rating, and duration for each hike General overview of the trail as well as quick but important details on the route Options to other paths and trails for the wandering adventurer Enjoy the natural landscape and wild beauty of Southwestern Colorado with this comprehensive guide to Southwestern Colorado’s favorite trails.

Australia, in 1962 committed 30 Army instructors to train the emerging Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) with the aim of enhancing a military alliance with the United States of America. The training task continued for 10 years and involved 990 Australians and 10 New Zealanders as the war escalated. This account reflects the experiences of an unlikely member of the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) who became the last Australian Warrant Officer to serve with the highly regarded 1st ARVN Regiment. With the benefit of hindsight the author describes the culture and character of the ARVN Soldier against a background of military and religious distinctiveness which characterised the 2nd Battalion of the famous Regiment. Using readily available research through the filter of personal experience he points out that ill-informed, sometimes corrupt decisions impacted heavily on the ARVN soldier and his family as Washington and Saigon went their separate ways. The US Army withdrawal was preceded by one of the biggest battles of the Vietnam War Lam Son 719, which had inconclusive results, even though the ARVN and the PAVN achieved their objectives. However the US Army suffered an unbelievably high loss of helicopters and equipment and the death of outstandingly brave aviators during a 45 day period. These losses were sufficient to require a total review of US Air Cavalry tactics. For the people of South Vietnam the shock of the high casualty rate was great but even worse, for the first time ARVN soldiers bodies could not be extracted and were left on the battlefield which for family members was inexcusable. Losses for the Peoples Army of Viet Nam more than doubled the ARVN casualty rate. Despite the fighting qualities of the ARVN it was the soldier who became the eventual victim of the political war. The highly regarded Australian, Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Daly, KBE, CBE, DSO; wrote that members of the AATTV could walk tall in any company, so too can the members of the 1st ARVN Regiment.

Score, Helaine et Pixel ont réussi à se rendre à Rawn, une planète plus près du centre du Diadème. Leur magie y est plus puissante, mais aussi les forces inconnues qui essaient de les détruire. Confrontés à un ennemi qu''ils ne peuvent voir, affrontant un danger qu''ils ne peuvent déterminer, tout ce que Score, Helaine et Pixel savent avec certitude est que les apparences sont trompeuses dans cet endroit perfide. Et seul un magicien à la forme changeante peut leur ouvrir le portail du prochain monde et de la prochaine étape de leur voyage, à condition qu''ils puissent la trouver et qu''elle ne s''approprie pas leurs pouvoirs et les tue.

Score est un gamin des rues de New York, Helaine est une guerrière féroce de Ordin, une planète médiévale, et Pixel vit dans la réalité virtuelle du monde futuriste de Calomir. Abandonnés dans un monde dangereux de magie et de trahison, la survie du trio dépend de leur découverte de qui ou quoi les entraîne vers le centre du Diadème. Seul, chacun des trois sera sûrement détruit. Unis, ils ont peut-être une chance de s''en sortir, Mais sont-ils capables de se faire assez confiance pour arriver vivants à la prochaine dimension? John Peel est l''auteur de nombreux romans à succès pour jeunes adultes, notamment des livraisons des séries Star Trek, Are You Afraid of the Dark? et Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Il est également l''auteur de nombreux romans de science fiction, d''épouvante et à suspense, très appréciés par le public. M. Peel habite les confins extérieurs du Diadème, sur une planète appelée communément Terre.

Dans le Diadème, le danger n''est jamais conjuré, il change tout simplement de forme. Une force du mal inconnue vise maintenant Score qu''une attaque magique meurtrière risque d''emporter. Déterminés à sauver leur ami, Helaine et Pixel décident de le ramener à sa ville natale, New York, de la planète Terre, située sur le cercle extérieur. Mais Score n''est pas en état de les aider et les pouvoirs magiques de Helaine et de Pixel sont considérablement réduits sur ce monde singulier et inconnu. Les trois amis réussiront-ils à découvrir qui est cet être sinistre - humain ou magique - qui semble résolu à détruire Score, et le vaincre?

Score, Helaine et Pixel se rapprochent du centre puissant du Diadème; ils sont maintenant sur Dondar, une belle planète où le ciel est de couleur pourpre et l''herbe bleue et où vivent des licornes intelligentes. C''est là aussi qu''habite un magicien hostile et ses monstres magiques, qui sont résolus à détruire les trois jeunes magiciens. Mais la bataille suprême que doit engager le trio est à venir lorsqu''ils doivent affronter la Triade, les maîtres du Diadème qui cachent un secret atroce et qui ne veulent rien de moins que l''âme du trio.

Après son départ précipité du royaume de son impitoyable de père pour fuir un mariage arrangé à un homme qu''elle ne pouvait supporter, Helaine, résolue à arranger les choses, retourne au château de sa famille à Ordin. Pixel et Score se rallient à sa décision surprenante et l''accompagnent à son monde antérieur, une planète médiévale de nobles hautains, de paysans désespérés et de batailles incessantes au sujet des terres. Avec l''aide de deux licornes loyales et de Jenna, une jeune guérisseuse qui a été chassée de son village, le trio magique combat des créatures sinistres, des soldats saccageurs et même la propre famille de Helaine, tout en essayant d''empêcher une guerre sanglante et de résoudre un mystère mythique vieux de 500 ans.

On est bien chez soi, particulièrement lorsque le chez soi est dans la réalité virtuelle. Pixel, Score, Hélaine et Jenna partent pour Calomir, la planète d’attache futuriste de Pixel s’attendant à un agréable retour au pays. Mais ils ne rencontrent que perfidie, esclavage et tromperie ainsi qu’un lourd secret du passé de Pixel. Les quatre magiciens peuvent-ils retrouver la famille de Pixel et libérer les Automates réduits en esclavage? Même s’ils y parviennent, ils doivent vaincre la force du mal qui contrôle Calomir et veut aussi conquérir le Diadème...

Le Diadème est en péril. Nantor, l’un des Trois qui règnent, s’est échappé de Joyau et a pris possession du corps de Pixel. Pixel est toujours en vie, enfermé dans une petite cellule de son propre esprit, mais l’esprit fort de Nantor est sur le point de l’engloutir. C’est à Score, Hélaine et Jenna de sauver Pixel et le Diadème, mais comment? Jenna est coincée sur Rawn. Score a été banni à une planète habitée par des plantes meurtrières. Hélaine est piégée sur Calomir par l’Esprit supérieur. Et même Shanara et Oracle semblent avoir trahi les jeunes utilisateurs de magie. À des mondes l’un de l’autre et sans amis, s’en est-il finalement fait de Score, Hélaine, Pixel et Jenna?

Pixel a été fait prisonnier sur Zarathan, monde où l''on plonge dans ses pires cauchemars et où s''endormir entraîne la mort. Score et Helaine doivent surmonter leurs peurs les plus sourdes pour secourir Pixel de l''une des planètes les plus dangereuses du Diadème. Alors que Helaine et Score combattent des squelettes féroces, des cadavres encore vivants et des fantômes buveurs de sang, ils doivent affronter un nouveau problème épineux: comment tuer une chose qui est déjà morte? Score, Helaine et Pixel ne le savent pas encore, mais leur cauchemar ne vient que commencer...

Le mal rôde partout et, dans le Diadème, le danger se cache sous divers masques... Score, Helaine et Pixel sont convoqués à nouveau à Dondar pour aider leurs alliées les licornes à lutter contre Tychus, la mystérieuse licorne voyou. Dans leur quête de rétablir Tonnerre à la place qui lui revient comme chef des licornes, le trio devra affronter la magie noire, des dragons de glace et une force des ténèbres inconnue. Et il leur faut agir vite car le sort du Diadème est en jeu.

Dangerous assignments come in pairs when Captain Picard and his crew are confronted with two desperate missions on two different worlds. On the planet Buran, newly linked to the Fedration, a mysterious disease devastates the population-and turns them against the visitors from the U.S.S. Enterprise. Meanwhile, on nearby lomides, a renegade Federation observer has disappeared, intent on violating the Prime Directive by preventing a tragic political assassination. While Dr. Crusher struggles to find a cure for the plague ravaging Buran, Commander Will RIker leads an Away Team to lomides. Their forces divided, Picard and his crew find themselves the only hope of two worlds.

John Peel is best known for his four decades of radio broadcasting. His Radio 1 shows shaped the taste of successive generations of music lovers. His Radio 4 show, Home Truths, became required listening for millions. But all the while, Peel was also tapping away on his beloved Olivetti typewriter, creating copy for an array of patient editors. He wrote articles, columns and reviews for newspapers and magazines as diverse as The Listener, Oz, Gandalf''s Garden, Sounds, the Observer, the Independent and Radio Times. Now for the first time, the best of these writings have been brought together - selected by his wife, Sheila, and his four children. Music, of course, is a central and recurring theme, and he writes on music in all its forms, from Tubular Bells to Berlin punk to Madonna. Here you can read John Peel on everything from the perils of shaving to the embarrassments of virginity, and from the strange joy of Eurovision to the horror of being sick in trains. At every stage, the writing is laced with John''s brilliantly acute observations on the minutiae of everyday life. This endlessly entertaining book is essential reading for Peel fans and a reminder of just why he remains a truly great Briton.

It all began the day Chrissie Scott looked into the mirror and saw somebody else''s reflection. A boy who looked exactly like her. Nothing would ever be the same again... Suddenly Twins! Chrissie thought she had troubles -- until she fell through the mirror into her double''s life. He said his name was Chris, and his world was the mirror image of hers. His world was ruled by magic -- and about to be destroyed by the sorceress Lori Lee! Chris is desperate. He has cast a powerful spell and sees the evil plot. Chrissie is the only one he can trust. Together they must save his world before it''s too late. But is Chrissie about to be lost forever in the universe beyond the mirror?

John Peel, the most influential DJ in rock history, was beloved by millions as an unstinting champion of musical talent on BBC''s Radio 1 and as the host of the wildly popular Radio 4 show "Home Truths."

When Pixel, Jenna, Score, and Helaine journey back to Calomir, Pixel''s home planet of virtual reality to meet his parents, the four magic users find treachery, slavery, and deceit instead of the happy homecoming they were expecting.

In the continuing adventures of Score, Helene, Pixel and Jenna, they find that Pixel is possessed by Nantor, his evil "other" self, which causes a misbalance of the magic throughout all of the Diadem.

The first and second editions of this authoritative guide to Colorado''s hiking paradise has been a best-seller among seasoned and beginning hikers for years. This completely revised third edition includes: seventy trips of varying length with corresponding maps; directions to conquer six of Colorado''s 14,000-foot peaks; sixteen new maps providing alternative trail access and updated routes. Whether you enjoy afternoon excursions around the city trails of Durango or exploring the Colorado Trail, this third edition remains the most comprehensive guide to world-renown hiking.

When Oracle suggests a comforting vacation through a portal to a world of water, he fails to mention that it is also a world inhabited by pirates.

The chosen three of the Diadem must be quick and strong or Score will perish.

When the evil wizard Destiny kidnaps Pixel, Score and Helaine must rescue him from the planet Zarathan, where nightmares come true and those who fall asleep die.

With the help of a young healer and two unicorns, Helaine, Score, and Pixel try to prevent a bloody war and solve a legendary 500-year-old mystery on Helaine''s medieval planet of Ordin.

Score, Renald, and Pixel are snatched from different worlds and taken by Bestials to the planet Treen, where they are to be offered as a sacrifice.