Simple street plan with no index. Symbols depict a variety of features eg. hospitals, shopping centres, hotels, places of interest. Inset maps show the international airport to the east of the main map, & the Pie de la Cuesta area to the west. Legend in Spanish only. On the reverse is a general road map at 1:1000, 000 of southern Mexico, Approx. centred on Mexico City & reaching outwards to Guadalahara in the north-west corner, Veracruz in the east & to the southern coast. The legend for this map

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Formerly beautiful & at one time betrothed to a fallen soldier, Bonaria Urrai has long held covenant with the dead. Midwife to the dying, easing their suffering & sometimes ending it, she is revered & feared in equal measure as the village`s Accabadora. When Bonaria adopts Maria, the unloved fourth child of a widow, she tries to shield the girl from the truth about her role as an angel of mercy. Moved by the pleas of a young man crippled in an accident, she breaks her golden rule of familial consent, & in the recriminations that follow, Maria rejects her & flees Sardinia for Turin. Adrift in the big city, Maria strives as ever to find love & acceptance, but her efforts are overshadowed by the creeping knowledge of a debt unpaid, of a duty & destiny that must one day be hers. Accabadora has been awarded seven major literary prizes, including Italy`s prestigious Premio Campiello. An exceptional English-language debut, it weaves a narrative of rare grace & subtlety into a sensual tapestry of local nuance, atmosphere & dialect. ...

When Maria, the fourth child of a widow, is adopted by the old & childless Bonaria Urrai, her life is instantly transformed
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Published to coincide with Sara Wheeler`s 50th birthday, Access All Areas gathers together a selection of her shorter travel pieces; both journalism & introductions to other books. As one would expect, the frozen poles of the earth feature regularly, whether she is spending the night in Captain Scott`s hut or reliving the adventures of Shackleton & Nansen. But hot places feature too
- Malawi, Kerala, Cuba & Bangladesh. Wheeler writes brilliantly of her heroes
- Mary Kingsley, Fanny Trollope, Norman Lewis, Martha Gellhorn & Sybille Bedford
- & about the pains & pleasures of writing biography. Worried that having children would end her roaming, she took her infants with her, to the Arctic, & on a brilliantly depicted cruise on the QE2. She learns to belly-dance, to strip, & to walk on the wing of a biplane at 3000 feet. This is an immensely varied & satisfying collection of Wheeler`s works, following her series of remarkable books
- Travels in a Thin Country, Terra Incognita, Cherry
- A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Too Close to the Sun & the Magnetic North.




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Access in London is an essential guide to the capital for anyone who has difficulty getting around. Aimed at people with mobility problems, including wheelchair users, elderly people, parents with young children & anyone else with limited walking ability, the book has been researched by a team of both disabled & non-disabled people & offers a guide to London ...

Moleskine's Accessories Set comprise a slip-on rubber grip to make writing more comfortable & a pen holder which carries up to three pens or pencils on the cover of any Moleskine notebook. The grip has a flexible, silicone rubber sleeve with a soft, warm finish, while the pen-holder fits most Moleskine notebook covers & has a rubberised, black & stainless steel clip. ...

Are standards of English alright
- or should that be all right? To knowingly split an infinitive or not to? & what about ending
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Dawn French, number one bestselling author of A Tiny Bit Marvellous & Oh Dear Silvia, returns with her joyously funny new novel, According To Yes. The Foreign Land of the Very Wealthy
- otherwise known as Manhattan`s Upper East Side
- has its own rigid code of behaviour. It`s a code strictly adhered to by the Wilder-Bingham family. Emotional displays
- unacceptable. Unruly behaviour
- definitely not welcome. Fun
- no thanks. This is Glenn Wilder-Bingham`s kingdom. A beautifully displayed impeccably edited fortress of restraint. So when Rosie Kitto, an eccentric thirty-eight-year-old primary school teacher from Engl&, bounces into their lives with a secret sorrow & a heart as big as the city, nobody realises that she hasn`t read the rule book. For the Wilder-Bingham family, whose lives begin to unravel thread by thread, the consequences are explosive. Because after a lifetime of saying no, what happens when everyone decides to start saying.. .yes? I adored According to YES. It`s so different to anything I`ve read in forever, so charming, wise, brilliantly written. I loved it all` Marian Keyes ` There is lots of fun to be had reading this book. It`s impossible not to warm to Rosie, a funny & open-hearted woman who acts as a salve & comfort blanket for this unhappy, inhibited family. There`s something quite joyous about the way she unashamedly romps her way through the novel, changing the lives of those around her for the better` Express ` French can spin a yarn.. .which sets According to YES apart from the usual chick-lit template. Think the vicar of Dibley, without the dog collar. YES YES YES indeed` Independent Further praise for Dawn French: `A fantastic slam-dunk pageturner. Funny, enriching.. .page after page I laughed out loud` Mail on Sunday `A hilarious snapshot of family life in the twenty-first century` Sunday Express ` Extremely funny` Sunday Times ` Dawn tackles the big ones
- love, death, grief, childhood, motherhood, parenthood
- head on` Guardian ` Makes you laugh on every page` The Times `A brilliantly observed, very funny novel of family life` Woman & Home ` Funny, really enjoyable, highly recommended. A wonderful writer
- witty, wise, poignant` Daily Mail







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The third novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ` The Shipping News`, ` Accordion Crimes spans generations, continents & a century & confirms the hallucinatory power of Proulx`s writing. Accordion Crimes is a masterpiece of story-telling that spans a century & a continent. It opens in 1890 in Sicily, when an accordion-maker & his son, carrying little more than his finest button accordion, begin their voyage to the teeming, violent port of New Orleans. Within a year, the accordion-maker is murdered by an anti-Italian lynch mob, but his instrument carries the novel into another community of immigrants: German-Americans founding a new town in South Dakota. Moving from South Dakota to Texas, from Montana to Maine, the nine instantly compelling & intricately connected sections of the novel illuminate the lives of the founders of a nation, descendants of Mexicans, Poles, Germans, Irish, Scots & Franco-Canadians. Through the music of the accordion they express their fantasies, sorrows & exuberance. ...

Street plan of Accra on a double-sided map from ITMB which also offers on the reverse a road map of southern Ghana & small street plans of Kumasi & Cape Coast. On one side is street plan showing Accra at 1:23, 000 with coverage extending east to the Mallam district, north to the West Legon Botanical Gardens & the University of Ghana, & west beyond the international airport to the Light Industry Area. The city centre is also shown in greater detail on an enlargement at 1:15, 000. Both plans indicate locations of governmental offices & other important buildings, embassies, hotels & restaurants, banks, etc. The main plan & the enlargement have separate indexes. On the reverse is an indexed road map of Southern Ghana at 1:500, 000, extending north to the upper part of Lake Volta, the Digya National Park & the Boabeng Fiema Monkey Sanctuary. Topography is shown by altitude colouring with elevation in feet. National parks & other protected areas are highlighted. Road network gives distances on main roads & indicates locations of petrol stations & border crossings. Railway lines are included & local airports/aerodromes are marked. The map also shows administrative borders & names of the provinces. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 1° intervals. Small panels provide street plans of central Kumasi & Cape Coast, naming main streets & indicating various important buildings & facilities, as on the plan of Accra. Both the street plan of the capital & the road map of Southern Ghana are annotated with notes on history, places of interest, etc. ...