Mango & Bambang`s adventures continue in the third book of this charming illustrated series about a little girl & a tapir, described by The Sunday Times as having ”real charm.. . reminiscent of Paddington.” When a small but mischievous tapir guest comes to stay with Mango Allsorts & Bambang in the busy city, things soon get into a rather troublesome tangle. Tiny Tapir Trouble is Book Three in this delightful series for younger readers. ...

Manhattan at 1:12, 500 on a light, waterproof & tear-resistant street plan with a large diagram of NYC’s subway/rail network & a map of the city environs: plus on the reverse an indexed road map of the Northeastern Corridor between Washington DC & Boston extending west to the Niagara Falls & a street plan of central DC. On one side is a very clear street plan of Manhattan, extending north just beyond Central Park. Names of the various districts of the city are clearly shown, as are subway & railway stations, each indicating which lines stop there. The direction of traffic is marked, & many streets & avenues are annotated with selected house numbers for easier identification of addresses. The map shows locations of numerous hotels (shown with their names) & highlights various places of interest. Within the Broadway’s Theatre District individual venues are either named or cross-referenced to a separate list. The plan is indexed &

Includes:: a large, very clear diagram of the subway/rail network, plus an extract from it conveniently placed on the map cover showing the network within Manhattan itself. Also provided is a map of the city’s region showing road access to JFK, La Guardia & Newark International airports. On the reverse is an indexed road map at 1:1, 000, 000. Coverage extends from just north of Boston to just south of Washington DC, & inland to Cleveland & Toronto, so

Includes:: the Niagara Falls, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, etc. The map has altitude colouring to show the topography & presents the network of main highways & connecting roads. Various places of interest are highlighted. Central Washington DC, from The White House to the Capitol & the Union Station, is shown on a street plan with cartography similar to that of Manhattan. To see other regional titles from ITMB covering USA please click on the series link.



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* Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction* New York Times Bestseller * A New York Times Notable Book & a Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of 2017* Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction* Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, The Guardian, Vogue, Esquire, Kirkus Reviews, Philadelphia Inquirer, Book Page, Bustle, Southern Living, & St. Louis Post-Dispatch” Immensely satisfying...an old-fashioned page-turner, tweaked by this witty & sophisticated writer... Egan is masterly at displaying mastery...she works a formidable kind of magic.” -Dwight Garner, The New York Times The long-awaited novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father & her family. Anna observes the uniformed servants, the lavishing of toys on the children, & some secret pact between her father & Dexter Styles. Years later, her father has disappeared & the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous & exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. She is the sole provider for her mother, a farm girl who had a brief & glamorous career as a Ziegfield folly, & her lovely, severely disabled sister. At a night club, she chances to meet Styles, the man she visited with her father before he vanished, & she begins to understand the complexity of her father`s life, the reasons he might have been murdered. Mesmerizing, hauntingly beautiful, with the pace & atmosphere of a noir thriller & a wealth of detail about organized crime, the merchant marine & the clash of classes in New York, Egan`s first historical novel is a masterpiece, a deft, startling, intimate exploration of a transformative moment in the lives of women & men, America & the world. Manhattan Beach is a magnificent novel by one of the greatest writers of our time. ...

Manhattan Block by Block Street Atlas from Taurnac Maps providing very detailed, informative & easy to use coverage of the whole borough, with information on subway & bus services, house numbers, etc. The introductory section has an overview map of the whole borough naming its various neighbourhoods, plus provides notes on the use of public transport, house numbering system, changes in street names, etc. The middle section divides Manhattan into Lower, Mid, Upper including Harlem & Northern, & provides for each one separate one-page maps of streets, places of interest, subway lines, & bus routes. The main section provides detailed, block by block mapping annotated with selected house numbers for easier identification of addresses. Important buildings are named. The direction of traffic flow & restricted entry points are marked. The maps also show both bus & subway lines. The index is two sections: streets plus institutions/businesses. Also provided are overview maps of the daytime/evening bus & subway services. ...

Manhattan Block by Block Street Atlas from Taurnac Maps providing very detailed, informative & easy to use coverage of the whole borough, with information on subway & bus services, house numbers, etc. The introductory section has an overview map of the whole borough naming its various neighbourhoods, plus provides notes on the use of public transport, house numbering system, changes in street names, etc. The middle section divides Manhattan into Lower, Mid, Upper including Harlem & Northern, & provides for each one separate one-page maps of streets, places of interest, subway lines, & bus routes. The main section provides detailed, block by block mapping annotated with selected house numbers for easier identification of addresses. Important buildings are named. The direction of traffic flow & restricted entry points are marked. The maps also show both bus & subway lines. The index is two sections: streets plus institutions/businesses. Also provided are overview maps of the daytime/evening bus & subway services. ...

Manhattan on a handy-format concertina map from Taurnac Maps, presenting on one side a bus map of the borough & on the reverse a street map. The bus map shows bus routes with line numbers & colour-coded to indicate the direction of traffic (uptown, downtown, west or east). A separate inset shows the night lines. The map has indexes of both the lines & main streets or terminals. On the reverse is a street map of Manhattan. Streets are annotated with block numbers for easier identification of addresses. Main places of interest are highlighted & named, & included on a separate list in a much larger street index. ...

Best-selling suspense author Mary Higgins Clark invites you on a tour of Manhattan`s most iconic neighborhoods in this anthology of all-new stories from Mystery Writers of America, produced to commemorate its 70th anniversary. In Lee Child`s The Picture of the Lonely Diner, legendary drifter Jack Reacher interrupts a curious st&-off in the shadow of the Flatiron Building. In Jeffery Deaver`s The Baker of Bleecker Street, an Italian immigrant becomes ensnared in WWII espionage. & in The Five-Dollar Dress, Mary Higgins Clark unearths the contents of a mysterious hope chest found in an apartment on Union Square. With additional stories from T. Jefferson Parker, S. J. Rozan, Nancy Pickard, Ben H. Winters, Brendan Du Bois, Persia Walker, Jon L. Breen, N. J. Ayres, Angela Zeman, Thomas H. Cook, Judith Kelman, Margaret Maron, Justin Scott, & Julie Hyzy, Manhattan Mayhem is teeming with red herrings, likely suspects, & thoroughly satisfying mysteries. Illustrated with iconic photography of New York City & packaged in a handsome hardcover, Manhattan Mayhem is a delightful read for armchair detectives & armchair travelers alike! ...

For Porter Wren, a New York tabloid columnist, the city is the story: millionaires on the make & strippers on the clock; a woman with perfect teeth & a tragic past; a brilliant filmmaker found dead in the rubble of a demolished building. The story is always shocking but never a surprise. Until he steps over the line. A beautiful woman has entered Wren`s life, leading him into the netherworld her dead husband chronicled on secret videotapes
- & to a billionaire who wants one of those tapes badly. Suddenly Wren is on the run through the city that was once his beat, searching for the one thing that will set him free: the truth.
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A historically rich collection tracing the roots of Manhattan`s noir, back to Edith Wharton & Stephen Crane, to name but two. Mixing classic noir fiction with dark contemporary tales from bestelling authors such as Joyce Carol Oates, this is a leading light in Akashic`s hugely popular noir series. ...

Manhattan on an excellently designed, waterproof & tear-resistant map from Pocket-Pilot with on one side very clear & informative street plan of the whole borough with enlargement for the Midtown area & the 9/11 memorial, plus on the reverse more tourist information than found in some guidebooks to New York City. On one side is a street plan of the whole of Manhattan, presented in two sections from the Broadway & Henry Hudson bridges at its northern tip to the Governors Islands, Ellis Island & the Statue of Liberty in the south, with names of districts & neighbourhoods. Subway stations are shown with names & where appropriate alternative entrances. Water taxi or ferry piers & routes are marked; many are annotated with fares, transit times, etc. For drivers, the plan indicates main traffic arteries & one way streets. A wide range of icons, accompanied by colour coded names, highlights numerous places of interest from museums, theatres & other cultural institutions to selected hotels & restaurants, etc. The Midtown district & the area around the National September 11 Memorial & Museum are shown in greater detail on enlargements. Distances on all the plans are easy to work out from the indexing grid. Street index is on the reverse &

Includes:: separate lists of parks/gardens/zoos, museums/galleries, theatres/cinemas/concert halls, religious buildings, plus other landmarks. Map legend is in the form of large icons running along one side of the map. The reverse side also provides a diagram of the subway network with information panels including details of access to JKF, La Guardia & Newark Liberty International airports, a map of the surrounding boroughs & counties, plus very extensive tourist information. Panels, cross-referenced to the street plan & indicating subway access, provide photos & descriptions of 36 top sights & 16 interesting quarters. Also provided are recommendations for shopping, eating, drinking, & dancing, all with contact numbers, suggestions for four day trips, plus a panel of useful facts about NYC including festivities & public holidays, main consulates, dos & don

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