The "" Solid Silver 60s Tour"" has been running in the UK for the last 30 years to hundreds of thousands of sixties music fans Original artists such as Gerry & The Pacemakers The Searchers Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich Lulu Hermans Hermits & The Troggs have delighted audiences performing their vast array of hits This album is not only a celebration of the artists that have featured in the show but also a collection of music that encapsulates the joy of the 1960’s music scene ...

Twelve-year-old Hans Thomas lives alone with his father a man who likes to give his son lessons about life & has a penchant for philosophy Hans Thomas' mother left when he was four (to 'find' herself) & the story begins when father & son set off on a trip to Greece where she now lives to try to persuade her to come home En route in Switzerland Hans Thomas is given a magnifying glass by a dwarf at a petrol station & the next day he finds a tiny book in his bread roll which can only be read with a magnifying glass How did the book come to be there? Why does the dwarf keep showing up? It is all very perplexing & Hans Thomas has enough to cope with with the daunting prospect of seeing his mother Now his journey has turned into an encounter with the unfathomableor does it all have a logical explanation? ...

Don't let the idea of travelling alone stop you from living out your dreams Packed with tips & advice for before & during your travels The Solo Travel Handbook gives you the confidence & know-how to explore the world on your own whether you're planning a once-in-a-lifetime adventure or short city break 168 pages No Lonely Planet ...

Matt Pearl has worked in local television news for more than a decade & is regarded as one of the top multimedia journalists in the country He received his degree at Northwestern University with a BS In Journalism & has since gone on to win numerous awards for his work including a number of regional Emmys Currently he is a news reporter for WXIA-TV in Atlanta Georgia a position he has held since 2009 His experience

Includes:: working at many different news stations & speaking at conferences regarding being a multimedia journalist He has been named multiple times the national Solo Video Journalist of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA)

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BENEATH THE WAVES A SECRET LIESIn the clear blue waters of the Solomon Islands the ruins of an ancient city have lain undisturbed for hundreds of years
- until now GUARDED BY AN ANCIENT CURSE Legend
- even recent history
- tells of a terrible fate befalling anyone foolish enough to venture near Visitors do not return alive OR SOMETHING MORE DEADLY? But when treasure-hunting team Remi & Sam Fargo dive to investigate the city they find more than ancient monuments & lost artefacts Because someone is using the legends to hide their own dark & grisly secret & the closer Remi & Sam get to discovering the truth the closer they come to being the curse's next victims ' Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail ' The Adventure King' Sunday Express ' Nobody does it better nobody!' Stephen Coonts ' Just about the best storyteller in the business' New York Post ' Oceanography's answer to Indiana Jones Exotic locations ruthless villains & many narrow escapes-Cussler's fans come for swashbuckling & he delivers' Associated Press


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The Somerset & Dorset Railway known as the S&D (said to also stand for Slow & Dirty' or Serene & Delightful') ran from Bath across the Mendip hills to Bournemouth on the south coast Never a high-speed line the main traffic for the Somerset & Dorset during the winter months was freight & local passenger traffic In the summer however there was heavy traffic as Saturday holiday services from the northern industrial towns passed along the line In 1962 John Betjeman travelled along the Somerset & Dorset from Evercreech Junction to Highbridge & Burnham-on-Sea making a BBC documentary called Branch Line Railway in which he pleaded for the line to be spared from the Beeching cuts However despite an active campaign to save it & the promise by the new Labour government that there would be no more railway cutbacks on 7 March 1966 the whole line was closed 2016 will see the fiftieth anniversary of the closure of this much-mourned railway; here in this well-illustrated book the history of the line is preserved ...

'A lively entertaining blend of murder mystery & supernatural adventure' George R R Martin Should you find yourself in need of a discreet investigation think of Jesperson & Lane For several years Miss Lane was companion collaborator & friend to the lady known to the Psychical Society only as Miss X
- until she discovered that Miss X was actually a fraud Now Miss Lane works with Mr Jasper Jesperson as a consulting detective but the cases are not as plentiful as they might be & money is getting tight
- until a wife's concern for her husband's nocturnal ramblings piques their interest & mediums begin to disappear all over London There is only one team with the imagination & intelligence to uncover the nefarious purpose behind the vanished psychics & the somnambulist's wanderings Jesperson & Lane at your service

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES starring Pierce Brosnan & co-written by Philipp Meyer The critically acclaimed New York Times-bestselling epic a saga of land blood & power follows the rise of one unforgettable Texas family from the Comanche raids of the 1800s to the oil booms of the 20th century Eli Mc Cullough is just twelve years old when a marauding band of Comanche storm his Texas homestead brutally murder his mother & sister & take him captive Despite their torture & cruelty Eli
- against all odds
- adapts to life with the Comanche learning their ways & language taking on a new name finding a place as the adopted son of the band's chief & fighting their wars against not only other Indians but white men too which complicates his sense of loyalty his promised vengeance & his very understanding of self But when disease starvation & westward expansion finally decimate the Comanche Eli is left alone in a world in which he belongs nowhere neither white nor Indian civilized nor fully wild Deftly interweaving Eli's story with those of his son Peter & his great-granddaughter JA The Son maps the legacy of Eli's ruthlessness his drive to power & his lifelong status as an outsider even as the Mc Cullough family rises to become one of the richest in Texas a ranching & oil dynasty that is as resilient & dangerous as the land they claim Yet like all empires the Mc Culloughs must eventually face the consequences of their choices Panoramic deeply evocative & utterly transporting The Son is a masterpiece American novel
- part epic of Texas part classic coming-of-age story
- that combines the narrative prowess of Larry Mc Murtry with the knife-edge sharpness of Cormac Mc Carthy ' Stunning a book that for once really does deserve to be called a masterpiece' Kate Atkinson ' Magnificent Mc Carthy's Border Trilogy is a point of reference as is There Will Be Blood but it is not fanciful to be reminded of certain passages from Moby-Dick
- it's that good' The Times ' Brilliant a wonderful novel' Lionel Shriver




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OVER 33 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDESONNY'S ON THE RUN Sonny is a model prisoner He listens to the confessions of other inmates & absolves them of their sins HE'S BEEN LIED TO HIS WHOLE LIFE But then one prisoner's confession changes everything He knows something about Sonny's disgraced father SONNY WANTS REVENGE He needs to break out of prison & make those responsible pay for their crimes WHATEVER THE COST ...

The SECOND title in this number one bestselling spin-off series from Percy Jackson creator Rick Riordan This crazy messed up world of gods & monsters is Percy Jackson's reality which pretty much sucks for him Percy Jackson son of Poseidon God of the Sea has woken from a very deep sleep & come face to face with two snake-haired ladies who refuse to die But they're the least of his problems Because Percy finds himself at a camp for half-bloods which doesn't ring any bells for him There's just one name he remembers from his past Annabeth Only one thing is certain
- Percy's questing days aren't over He & fellow demigods Frank & Hazel must face the most important quest of all the Prophecy of Seven If they fail it's not just their camp at risk Percy's old life the gods & the entire world might be destroyed
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