No one appreciates the detail of being alive more than the dead In Lisbon a man encounters his mother sitting on a park bench who laughs with the impudence of a schoolgirl She has been dead for fifteen years In Krakow market he recognises Ken his passeur the most important person in his life between the ages of eleven & seventeen They last met when Ken was sixty-five
- forty years ago The number of lives that enter any one life is incalculable In this nomadic & playful book which travels through fictions across Europe seemingly disparate stories reveal themselves to be linked mislaid objects find their place & sensual memories penetrate the present
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In the crazy cat-collecting game Here Kitty Kitty! your neighborhood has a cat problem the problem being that the cats don&t all belong to YOU! Unfortunately you can&t just grab them for yourself as everyone in the neighborhood wants to claim those adorable kitties Outwit your fellow feline fiends as you lure cats onto your property move cats into your house & steal cats from your neighbors All&s fair in love & cat-collecting! In the game each player chooses a Property board which contains three zones the Yard the Porch & the House At the end of the game cats in the House are worth 5 points each cats on the Porch are worth 3 points each & cats in your Yard are worth 0 points However having cats in your Yard does have advantages for special scoring conditions such as having the most cats of a single color or the most cats overall All 40 cat miniatures are placed in the center of the table & represent the Neighborhood Each player is dealt 2 or 3 cards depending on the number of players in the game On each player&s turn they perform two Actions moving a cat playing a card or discarding cards Cats can be moved 1 space for 1 Action by picking up the cat & putting it in the next zone of the property For example a cat can be moved from the Neighborhood to the Yard for 1 Action or from the Yard to the Porch or from the Porch to the Yard (and vice versa) Playing cards may allow a player to move multiple cats at once to move cats multiple spaces to steal cats from opponents or to make opponents give up cats A player may also choose to discard 1 2 or 3 cards as an Action Once both Actions have been taken the player draws back up to a full hand & play passes to the person to the left If an Instant card (red border) is drawn it is played immediately & affects the entire group The player then draws a replacement card for the Instant card until a full hand is achieved The final round is triggered when a player draws the last card from the draw pile From that point every player including the player who drew the last card has one final turn to maximize their score Then the cats are counted & a winner is lauded for their purr-procurement proficiency Age 10 Playing time 30 minutes Players 3-6 ...

Gwyna is just a small girl a mouse when she is bound in service to Myrddin the bard
- a traveller & spinner of tales But Myrddin
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Kelley (Chris Klein) is a rich public school student who refuses to have anything to do with the local residents in the village where his school is based But when he takes his new Mercedes out for a drive he gets caught up in a race with local boy Jasper (Josh Hartnett) & the pair of them crash into the diner where Jasper&s girlfriend Samantha (Leelee Sobieski) works Their punishment is to help rebuild the diner & as the days pass Kelley falls in love with Samantha & a romantic triangle ensues ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Kelley (Chris Klein) is a rich public school student who refuses to have anything to do with the local residents in the village where his school is based But when he takes his new Mercedes out for a drive he gets caught up in a race with local boy Jasper (Josh Hartnett) & the pair of them crash into the diner where Jasper&s girlfriend Samantha (Leelee Sobieski) works Their punishment is to help rebuild the diner & as the days pass Kelley falls in love with Samantha & a romantic triangle ensues ...

When was the last time you visited your dentist? Perhaps one day you might like to become a dentist too? In this book you will meet our dentist Paul
- & his team
- & see what he does at work every day FInd out about the special tools he uses & the surgery he works in Here to Help is a brilliant introductory series books for very young readers (aged 5 & up) that follow real professionals around their place of work to give a flavour of what it means to work in a particular job Additional question boxes encourage the reader relate the information they are reading to their own experiences Each book concludes with some advice on the type of person suitable for each job & the education & training you will need to qualify Specially commissioned photographs of real professionals ensure the books are accurate & a true representation of what it is like to work in a range of public-facing jobs

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When was the last time you visited your doctor? Perhaps one day you might like to become a doctor too? In this book you will meet Doctor Mani
- & his team
- & see what he does at work every day FInd out about the special tools he uses & the surgery he works in Brilliant introductory books for very young readers that follow real professionals around their place of work to give a flavour of what it means to work in a particular job Perfect for readers aged 5 & up

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What's it like to be a firefighter? Perhaps one day you might like to become a firefighter too? In this book you will meet our firewoman Leanne
- & some of her colleagues
- & see what she does at work every day Find out what it is like to ride in a fire engine all about the kit she uses & what happens when they attend fires & accidents Here to Help is a brilliant introductory series books for very young readers (aged 5 & up) that follow real professionals around their place of work to give a flavour of what it means to work in a particular job Additional question boxes encourage the reader relate the information they are reading to their own experiences Each book concludes with some advice on the type of person suitable for each job & the education & training you will need to qualify Specially commissioned photographs of real professionals ensure the books are accurate & a true representation of what it is like to work in a range of public-facing jobs

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What's it like to do a job where you help people every day? Follow each of our professionals for a day & find out! 24 pages Blount Rachel ...

1 New York Times Bestseller & 1 TIME Best Book of the Year for 2017! The exquisite & thought-provoking new book from the multi award-winning internationally best-selling picture book creator of Lost & Found Oliver Jeffers Well hello And welcome to this Planet We call it Earth Our world can be a bewildering place especially if you've only just got here Your head will be filled with questions so let's explore what makes our planet & how we live on it From land & sky to people & time these notes can be your guide & start you on your journey & you'll figure lots of things out for yourself Just remember to leave notes for everyone else Some things about our planet are pretty complicated but things can be simple too you've just got to be kind Here We Are is the utterly heartfelt new book from Oliver Jeffers We're glad you found it An optimistic snapshot of contemporary life this heartfelt hug of a book ought to become a classic The Guardian ...