Engl&, 1605. 12-year-old Tom must save his father from hanging. He falls in with a mysterious stranger
- the Falcon
- who promises

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Laforgue felt his body tremble. What can be keeping them? Has the Commandant refused? Why has he not sent for me? Is this God`s punishment for my lie about my hearing? Father Laforgue, an idealistic Jesuit, embarks on a desparate mission to relieve an isolated priest in danger of his life in the wilds of seventeenth-century New France. Black Robe is a tautly suspenseful tale of physical & spiritual adventure, & a meditation on good & evil in the human heart. With an introduction by Colm Toibin. ...

Celia's mother died bringing her into the world
- when one soul flies in, another flies out, her aunt Tassi says. So she lives
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Terrifying secrets, torn loyalties, love versus duty, the gripping story of a young actress caught up in highly dangerous events in 1930s Berlin... Berlin, 1933. Warning bells ring across Europe as Hitler comes to power. Clara Vine, an attractive young Anglo-German actress, arrives in Berlin to find work at the famous Ufa studios. Through a chance meeting, she is unwillingly drawn into a circle of Nazi wives, among them Magda Goebbels, Anneliese von Ribbentrop & Goering`s girlfriend Emmy Sonnemann. As part of his plan to create a new pure German race, Hitler wants to make sweeping changes to the lives of women, starting with the formation of a Reich Fashion Bureau, instructing women on what to wear & how to behave. Clara is invited to model the dowdy, unflattering clothes. Then she meets Leo Quinn who is working for British intelligence & who sees in Clara the perfect recruit to spy on her new elite friends, using her acting skills to win their confidence. But when Magda Goebbels reveals to Clara a dramatic secret & entrusts her with an extraordinary mission, Clara feels threatened, compromised, desperately caught between her duty towards
- & growing affection for
- Leo, & the impossibly dangerous task Magda has forced upon her.

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Already an international hit, a sly, sizzling mystery set in the Italian Alps, the first in a sensational crime series. The dark flanks of the Alps tower over everything. Wind whistles through the fir trees. An expanse of ice & snow with no end in sight. A growing stain. A mess of flesh & blood. A corpse buried six inches under the snow. Enter Rocco Schiavone, Deputy Police Chief & a man who has more beautiful women in his bed than sensible shoes under it. He`s stuck in this backwards Alpine town after getting on the wrong side of the wrong people & longs for the fritto misto, cobbled streets & lucky breaks of his beloved Rome. He hates this place & the provincial locals almost as much as his superiors for their petty rules & for exiling him here. On top of that, he`s got a body to deal with & this mangled corpse is ”a pain in the ass, number 10 on the scale, summa cum laude”... There is blood on the black run & nothing to identify the victim but a tattoo of Luisa Pec, owner of a bar popular with the locals & a pair of blue eyes popular with Rocco. Was it a crime of passion? Or of jealousy? & how are the mafia involved? Rocco Schivone is on the case, the first in a sensational new crime series. ...

The Black Sea coast of Russia & the Ukraine at 1:700, 000 on a double-sided road map from Merkury in a series covering the central part of European Russia & the adjoining regions of its western neighbours. All place names are in the Cyrillic alphabet only. On one side is the Ukrainian coast with Crimea, extending west to the Romanian border & inland to Krivoy Rog & Zaporozhye. The reverse side also

Includes:: the Crimean Peninsula, extending along the coast to Sochi & the border with Georgia, plus north-east across the Azov Sea beyond Rostov-na-Donu. Roads are graded into 13 different types according to their width & official administrative status. Fuel or car repairs stations as well as weight/dimension checkpoints are clearly marked. Driving distances are shown on most small local roads. The map also

Includes:: the railway network, shows locations of regional airports & sea ports, & indicates administrative boundaries of the constituent republics. Picturesque towns are highlighted & other places of interest are marked. The terrain is indicated only by colouring for forested areas & graphics for swamps
- no relief information or geographical coordinates are provided. The maps are not indexed. Map legend

Includes:: English.IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE: Supplies of all maps published in Russia are very irregular & we cannot guarantee a definite delivery time for titles not in stock. If a title is currently out of stock, it may be advisable to choose an alternative publication.







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Black Sea is a homage to an ocean & its shores & a meditation on Eurasian history, from the earliest times to the present. It explores the culture, history & politics of the volatile region which surrounds the Black Sea. Ascherson recalls the world of Herodotus & Aeschylus; Ovid`s place of exile on what is now the coast of Romania; the decline & fall of Byzantium; the mysterious Christian Goths; the Tatar Khanates; the growth of Russian power across the grasslands, & the centuries of war between Ottoman & Russian Empires around the Black Sea. He examines the terrors of Stalinism & its fascist enemy, both striving for mastery of these endlessly colourful & complex shores, & investigates the turbulent history of modern Ukraine. This is a story of Greeks, Scythians, Samatians, Huns, Goths, Turks, Russians, Ukrainians & Poles. This is the sea where Europe ended. It is the place where `barbarism` was born. It is updated with a new foreword by the author. ...

`` The next best thing to actually travelling with Caroline Eden
- a warm, erudite & greedy guide
- is to read her. This is

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The Black Sheep Guides
- Travel for Food – offer a pocket sized itinerary to the best places, restaurants, café’s & bars for
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Richard Stephens became the focus of international media attention in 2009 for his research on the psychological benefits of swearing as a response to pain. Now, fresh from winning the 2014 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize, Richard`s first popular science book uncovers other pieces of surprising & occasionally bizarre scientific enquiry showing that what we at first perceive as bad can, in fact, be good. More pub conversation than science book, Richard`s writing style is very accessible
- both engaging & humorous. Think wasting time is bad? Not always! Research shows that taking time out can help you solve difficult problems. & if you can`t be bothered tidying up, well fine, research shows that people are more creative in a messy environment. Swearing is rude but research shows that in some situations it can be a form of politeness. Swearing can also be used as a tool of persuasion. Black Sheep casts a slant on a range of human experiences from life to death, sex to romance, from speed thrills to halting boredom & from drinking alcohol (in moderation) to headily excessive bad language. This is a fascinating left-field tour of the world of psychological science. Get ready for the many hidden benefits of being bad that you really won`t have seen coming.
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