The Scandal is published in America as BEARTOWN... AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The Scandal tells of a terrible crime that fractures a town & all of the people in it. When a bad thing happens, who will have the courage to stand against everyone else? ` As popular Swedish exports go, Backman is up there with ABBA & Stieg Larsson.` The New York Times Book Review ` Late one evening towards the end of March, a teenager picked up a double-barrelled shotgun, walked into the forest, put the gun to someone else`s forehead & pulled the trigger. This is the story of how we got there.` Beartown is a small town in a large Swedish forest. For most of the year it is under a thick blanket of snow, experiencing the kind of cold & dark that brings people closer together
- or pulls them apart. Its isolation means that Beartown has been slowly shrinking with each passing year. But now the town is on the verge of an astonishing revival. Everyone can feel the excitement. A bright new future is just around the corner. Until the day it is all put in jeopardy by a single, brutal act. It divides the town into those who think it should be hushed up & forgotten, & those who`ll risk the future to see justice done. At last, it falls to one young man to find the courage to speak the truth that it seems no one else wants to hear. With the town`s future at stake, no one can stand by or stay silent. Everyone is on one side or the other. Which side would you be on?
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Bearback – The World Overland is the story of two GPs, one motorcycle & a remarkable four-year trip around the world. Downing stethoscopes & filling a 41-litre pannier with their life, Dr Pat Garrod & his wife escaped the rat race & set off to circumnavigate the globe. The couple travelled unsupported across the deserts of Africa, over the mountains of the Andes, deep into the jungles of Indochina, & beyond the Arctic Circle, clocking up 100, 000 miles through six continents & 64 countries. Bearback is a story of high adventure, determined resourcefulness & personal discovery, it is also a tale of freedom & love
- capturing not only the beauty & diversity, but also the eternal spirit of our fast-changing world.
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In this book Matthias Breiter takes us on a fascinating journey through an entire year in the life of North America`s great bears
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An exquisite new picture book from renowned illustrator, Emma Chichester Clark, creator of Blue Kangaroo. A magical story of friendship to power the imagination & encourage children (and bears!) towards a lifelong love of reading. ” That`s just silly!” said his sister. ” Bears don`t read!” George isn`t happy doing the usual bear things like chatting & fishing. But what else is there? Then one day, he finds a book beneath a tree & knows... More than anything he wants to learn to read! But, arriving in town, George soon discovers that it`s not easy to be a bear at school! If only he could find someone to teach him the alphabet & change his life forever... Perhaps a little girl called Clementine can help? A feel-good story of determination & friendship
- sure to encourage a lifelong love of books.
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Follow the epic journey of wildlife conservationist & bear biologist Chris Morgan as he travels by motorcycle across Alaska while filming the PBS Nature documentary Bears of the Last Frontier. From thick forests to the icy arctic, his immersion into the bears` world reveals, as never witnessed before, an astonishingly intimate portrait of North America`s three bear species: brown bears, black bears, & polar bears. Morgan treks deep into the wild & magical habitat of brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula, grizzly bears in the Denali National Park, & polar bears on the sea ice & uncovers the mystery & beauty of these awe-inspiring animals as well as the native people who live in the same landscape. The book also follows the PBS TV crew as they travel more than 4, 000 miles around Alaska, & it details the hardships & challenges that come with filming a nature documentary. Packed with gorgeous colour photographs of bears in their natural habitats, Bears of the Last Frontier is a keepsake for anyone interested in wildlife conservation. ...

Bearwood in 1903 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the Bearwood & Rotton areas, west of Birmingham & south of Smethwick. Coverage stretches from Warley Road & Abbey Road eastward to Rotton Park Road, & from Edith Road southward to Hagley Road. Features include Thimblemill Pool, Lightwoods, Old King`s Head pub, St Mary`s church, Bell House, stretch of LNWR Harborne Branch with Rotton Park Road & Hagley Road stations, Upper Edgbaston Reservoir, canal feeder, etc. On the reverse are street directory extracts for Bearwood Road, Gillott Road, Lightwood`s Road, Poplar Avenue & Poplar Road. The map

Includes:: parts of Warwickshire sheet 13.07 & Worcestershire sheet 5.07. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.

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Rabbit loves adventure stories, Hedgehog adores happy endings, & Mouse & Fox enjoy reading together. So when the friends discover a mysterious house full of books, it`s a dream come true! But
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- these books belong to a very grumpy bear! Bear`s House of Books is a new book with a classic feel
- perfect for bookworms big & small! Featuring beautiful & heart-warming illustrations from Alison Edgson (Waiting for Santa & Me & My Dad), this picture book is perfect for teaching little ones about the joys & rewards of sharing with others.


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Bear likes to keep his house clean & tidy. In fact, the only thing Bear loves more than cleaning is taking care of his small stuffed friend, Henry. Then Bear sees a sticky spiderweb.. . & where there`s a web, a spider can`t be far behind! But when Bear & Henry go looking for their messy guest, what they discover might just be an unlikely friend. Opposites attract in this charming, stunningly illustrated story about kindness & acceptance, where new friends come in all shapes & sizes. ...

Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:25, 000 published by the Centro Nacional de Información Geograficá, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 10m intervals & colouring and/or graphics to show different types of vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information shown on topographic maps at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, with margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.PLEASE NOTE: our grid for the whole of Spain is in preparation
- in the meantime, for areas other than those shown on the attached grid please use CNIG’s topographic survey at 1:50, 000 by searching for ‘SI00000832’. Each 25K map covers one quarter of the corresponding 50K map, with the numbering system: I = NW quarter, II = NE quarter, III = SW quarter & IV = SE quarter. CNIG maps in the Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 survey & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K or 25K title in more detail. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series grid
- for map numbers not yet listed on our website please contact us by email.

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What kind of man am I? I wonder what I think about that now that I have spent a year here, watching the layers peel off, stripping myself back... Beast plunges you into the world of Edward Buckmaster, a man living alone on a west-country moor. What he has left behind we don`t quite know; what he faces is a battle with himself, the elements & with the animal he begins to see in the margins of his vision. A creature that will become an obsession... ...