Leaf By NigglePublished for the very first time in its own volume, Tolkiens remarkable tale about a painter whose obsession with detail prevents him from finishing his great work. Niggle is a painter. Not a very successful one, partly because he has so many other things to do. For some time he has been obsessed with one particular canvas a curious picture of a tree with a vast landscape stretching out behind it. The painting keeps getting bigger and bigger, but

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The Hero Faces a New Formidable Foe”Environmental Degradation

When he and three friends crawl out of the wreckage they discover a city in chaos

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In VITAL SIGNS Xandria Williams explains why current medical treatments for cancer are having so little effect

which included senators and congressmen

This is a book of considerable breadth and elegance that will appeal to all curious readers of philosophy and literature

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working motherhood can sometimes seem like an impossible balancing act

There's the only Test player ever to be executed for murder the only first-class cricketer to die on the Titanic and the only bestselling author to catch fire while playing at Lord's

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