The Train Giant is an exciting mixture of city building & traffic management simulation As CEO of a train company the player has to operate positively by erecting businesses & expanding the railway network Through the expansion of freight & passenger traffic more & more Companies will become customers In this way a small town will change into a prosperous city The player has to manage all the details from the timetable to the expansion of the rail network to be a railway superstar Sophisticated ecological system with many details Over 50 carefully modelled trains 30 maps & city layouts 120 different types of buildings Well known buildings

Includes:: the Eiffel Tower Big Ben & the Empire State Building Stock-market with 120 companies Day & night phases Extensive in game-help Plenty of management features

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Climb aboard for a rhythmic train ride through the country There's lots to see & someone very special waiting at the end!A little girl & her mother board the train in town & set off on a journey through the countryside As they travel the girl looks out of the window asking What shall I see? What shall I see? & what does she see? Sheep cows horses & much more! ...

Suzy is surprised to find a troll building a railway through her house
- especially when a gigantic steam train crashes into her
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When Suzy hears a strange noise in the night she discovers a train roaring through her house But this is no ordinary train This is the magical delivery express for the Union of Impossible Places Whisked on board Suzy's world is turned upside down & she suddenly realizes the fate of the Impossible Places is in her hands 384 pages Bell P G ...

' Amazing' Guardian From the on-screen experts for BBC2's Cat Watch & based on their groundbreaking research
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SOMETIMES you come across a lofty railway viaduct marooned in the middle of a remote country landscape Or a crumbling platform from some once-bustling junction buried under the buddleia If you are lucky you might be able to follow some rusting tracks or explore an old tunnel leading towell who knows where? Listen hard Is that the wind in the undergrowth? Or the spectre of a train from a golden era of the past panting up the embankment? These are the ghosts of The Trains Now Departed They are the railway lines & services that ran on them that have disappeared & gone forever Our lost legacy

Includes:: lines prematurely axed often with a gripping & colourful tale of their own as well as marvels of locomotive engineering sent to the scrapyard & grand termini felled by the wrecker's ball Then there are the lost delights of train travel such as haute cuisine in the dining car the grand expresses with their evocative names & continental boat trains to romantic far-off places The Trains Now Departed tells the stories of some of the most fascinating lost trains of Britain vividly evoking the glories of a bygone age In his personal odyssey around Britain Michael Williams tells the tales of the pioneers who built the tracks the yarns of the men & women who operated them & the colourful trains that ran on them It is a journey into the soul of our railways summoning up a magic which although mired in time is fortunately not lost for ever THIS EDITION REVISED & UPDATED TO INCLUDE MAPS

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She fell for the enemy Now she must pay the price The gripping second novel from the 1 bestselling author in the Mitchells & O' Haras trilogy The Mitchells & the O' Haras have been enemies for years One a gangland family the other travellers they resort to violence to solve problems between them So when Frankie Mitchell fell for Jed O' Hara it was only going to be a matter of time before all hell broke loose Clever ruthlessly attractive to women & slippery as a snake Jed O' Hara has Frankie exactly where he wants her
- pregnant & estranged from her family Even Eddie Mitchell Frankie's terrifying father is no threat
- he's in prison awaiting trial for murder But Frankie is not a Mitchell for nothing & when she begins to suspect the extent of Jed's treachery she puts together a lethal plan The Mitchells & O' Haras Trilogy

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Events are building to a climax in Sachaka as Lorkin returns from his exile with the Traitor rebels The Traitor Queen has given Lorkin the huge task of brokering an alliance between his people & the Traitors Lorkin has also had to become a feared black magician in order to harness the power of an entirely new kind of gemstone magic This knowledge could transform the Guild of Magicians
- or make Lorkin an outcast forever THE TRAITOR QUEEN is the triumphant conclusion to the Traitor Spy trilogy which began with THE AMBASSADOR'S MISSION & continued with THE ROGUE
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I'll not ask you to be mine I will never seek to blunt the fury in you never & will honour your will as my own What say you? Can you be a soldier's wife? New England 1673 Martha Allen a young woman reviled by her family because of her refusal to marry is packed off to be a servant in her cousin's home She takes charge of the neglected household & annoys everyone around her
- including a mysterious Welshman who works for the family a man whose forceful nature matches her own As they both gradually let their guard down a fragile uneasy friendship grows between the pair Meanwhile on the other side of the Atlantic a band of assassins driven by the will of Charles II charter a ship to the New World They have a single aim to capture Thomas Morgan the killer of Charles I & bring him back to London where he will face an excruciating death The Royalists want to see his head on a spike outside the Tower of London As Martha begins to fall for the tall Welshman he reveals a little of his past It soon becomes clear that his life is in grave danger As the threat of the assassins grows closer can Martha find it in herself to be a traitor's wife? Praise for The Heretic's Daughter Absolutely compelling' Daily Mail A very fine novel a remarkably accomplished telling of a truly shocking tale' Daily Express
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Ten years after Unicron attacked Cybertron the planet is seemingly at peace with most of the Decepticons absorbed into the community However Optimus Prime is still not happy & fears another attack from Unicron The High Council are skeptical of this However events soon lead Optimus to realize that not only is Unicron still functioning but is on his way to a rich seam of Energon on Earth! ...