One Saturday night, in a city surrounded by desert & oversaturated with glitter is Newell Ewing. With his older, socially maladjusted mate Kenny, the two embark on Newell`s first Saturday night out on the town in Vegas. Newell is twelve years old. Before the sun rises Newell has disappeared, never to be seen again. Newell`s suburbanite parents, Lincoln & Lorraine, are racked with mounting grief as their marriage begins to unravel during the unfathomable year that follows his disappearance. Bing Biderbixxe is an illustrator on a professional visit to Sin City on a hot summer day. He meets Cheri Blossom, a stripper known for her eye-popping pyrotechnic stage performance. Offstage, her drug- & porn-running boyfriend, Pony Boy, is cheating on her. With exacting suspense & original technique, Bock`s panoply of Vegas dispossessed quietly exert their influence on Newell`s fate. From the new suburban shimmer of the Ewing home, to the gaudy misery of Vegas strip clubs, to the desperate holes & punk-rock desert parties where an underclass of the marginal & meek are ignored & forgotten, Charles Bock takes us on a trip to the dark heart of America. Beautiful Children mines the humanity of its characters as it rushes head on towards a spectacular tragedy & powerful redemption. ...

Is falling in love the beginning... Or the end? In Ethan Wate`s hometown there lies the darkest of secrets. There is a girl. Slowly, she pulled the hood from her head. Green eyes, black hair. Lena Duchannes. There is a curse. On the Sixteenth Moon, the Sixteenth Year, the Book will take what it`s been promised. & no one can stop it. In the end, there is a grave. Lena & Ethan become bound together by a deep, powerful love. But Lena is cursed & on her sixteenth birthday, her fate will be decided. Ethan never even saw it coming. Don`t miss the Warner Brothers & Alcon Entertainment blockbuster movie of Beautiful Creatures directed by Richard La Gravenese (P.S. I Love You) & featuring an all star cast including Emma Thompson, Jeremy Irons, Viola Davies & hot young Hollywood talent Alice Englert, Alden Ehrenreich & Emmy Rossum. Praise for Beautiful Creatures: ” This novel has been generating Twilight-level buzz”. (Teen Vogue). About the authors: @kamigarciais a superstitious American southerner who can make biscuits by hand & pies from scratch! She attended George Washington University & is a teacher & reading specialist. She lives in Los Angeles, California with her family. @mstohlhas written & designed many successful video games, which is why her two beagles are named Zelda & Kirby. She has degrees from Yale & Stanford Universities in the US & has also studied in the prestigious creative writing department at UEA, Norwich. She lives in Santa Monica, California with her family. Also available in the Beautiful Creatures series: Beautiful Darkness, Beautiful Chaos & Beautiful Redemption. Don`t miss the brand new Dangerous Creatures series, set in the world of Beautiful Creatures. Exclusive ebook novellas also available: Dream Dark Dangerous Dream. ...

Beautiful Darkness is the second bewitching instalment in the bestselling love story Beautiful Creatures
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Each book in this series contains 30 different postcards featuring the finest champion breeds or models, all perforated for easy removal. They are perfect quirky cards for sending to friends of family, or you may fall in love with them & just keep them for yourself. ...

Beautiful, constantly changing yet endangered: this is what our planet looks like from the skies. Beautiful Earth offers a completely new viewpoint on our well-known globe. From fascinating cloud formations caught by weather satellites to erupting volcanoes, sand storms or urban developments with all environmental issues they cause, no activity on our planet can be hidden from the ”heavenly eyes.” This book pays tribute both to the splendour of Earth with its ever-changing facets, & to human genius, which made the observation of each & every corner of the planet possible. Beautiful Earth does not only contain captivating & intriguing pictures, it also provides a wealth of information on how to predict the weather, use data in aviation, geophysics, nutritional predictions, & many other sciences. ...

”I love London society! I think it has immensely enhanced. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots & brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.” An Ideal Husb&, OSCAR WILDEBeautiful Idiots & Brilliant Lunatics is based on the popular London history website nickelinthemachine.com” Another Nickel in the Machine pretty much justifies the internet`s existence all on its own”
- DANNY BAKER” Brilliantly researched”
- STEPHEN FRYEntertaining & engagingly written, Beautiful Idiots & Brilliant Lunatics explores fascinating stories from London in the twentieth century. From the return to South London of local hero Charlie Chaplin to the protests that blighted the Miss World competition in 1970, the book covers the events & personalities that reflect the glamorous, scandalous, political & subversive place that London was & is today. Learn about, among many other captivating tales, exactly where & how the spies Guy Burgess & Donald Maclean spent their last ever day in London, the grisly murder of Stan the Spiv & the unlikely death of a defrocked girl-crazed priest. A cast of suffragettes, fascists, `nancy-boys`, showgirls, prostitutes, terrorists, Nippies & beauty queens features in stories containing a myriad of unexpected tangents & untold facts that cover the width & breadth of the world`s greatest city.

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An atmospheric collection of wonderful photographs showing the beauty & diversity of Ireland`s landscape in a handy travel-size, ideal for tourists. It
Includes:: * Glendalough * The Giant`s Causeway * The Burren * The Skelligs * Mizen Head * Lough Derg * Rock of Cashel * Glen of Aherlow * Clew Bay * Killary Harbour * The Slieve Bloom Mountains & many more.
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This little piggy went to market, & this little piggy went to the catwalk.. . And what wonderful models our porcine friends turned out to be! The result is this stunning collection of portraits of pigs strutting their stuff as only creatures weighing up to 500lb apiece can. Featuring commissioned studio photography of championship breeds styled to perfection prior to competition, the animals here just love to hog the limelight. The top breeds from around the world are represented
- from the graceful Large Black to the aristocratic Tamworth & the much-travelled Kune-Kune
- with graphic charts containing all the essential breed information. There`s also a potted history of pigs, plus reportage photography oif the behind-the-scenes primping & preening at the agricultural shows, to capture the care that is lavished on the prizewinning pigs & the nail-biting judging process. This is a book to gladden the hearts of pig-lovers, be they city dwellers with a trotter in the country or country dwellers with a dozen trotters in the farm yard. Packed with visual & textual breed information, it is a unique gift book to make every reader feel, well, happy as a pig in muck...

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The No. 1 New York Times Bestseller Jess Walter`s Beautiful Ruins is a gorgeous, glamorous novel set in 1960s Italy & a modern Hollywood studio. The story begins in 1962. Somewhere on a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea & views an apparition: a beautiful woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an American starlet, he soon learns, & she is dying. & the story begins again today, half a world away in Hollywood, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio`s back lot searching for the woman he last saw at his hotel fifty years before. Gloriously inventive, funny, tender & constantly surprising, Beautiful Ruins is a novel full of fabulous & yet very flawed people, all of them striving towards another sort of life, a future that is both delightful & yet, tantalizingly, seems just out of reach. ” Magic...A monument to crazy love with a deeply romantic heart”. (New York Times). ”A novel shot in sparkly Technicolor”. (Booklist). ” Hilarious & compelling”. (Esquire).” Beautiful Ruins is a novel unlike any other you`re likely to read this year”. (Nick Hornby, The Believer). Jess Walter is the author of the National Book Award finalist The Zero & the Edgar Award-winning Citizen Vince. His previous book The Financial Lives of the Poets was published in the UK by Penguin. ...

Meet Leela: nineteen, charismatic & fearlessly outspoken. With her sharp wit & stubborn optimism, she is the best paid bar dancer on Bombay`s notorious Mira Road. Leela has a `husband` (who is already married), a few lovers whose names she can`t remember, an insufferable mother camping out in her flat & an adored best friend, Priya
- the most beautiful woman she has ever seen. But when the dance bars are banned, Leela`s proud independence faces its greatest test. In a city where everyone is certain that someone, somewhere, is worse off than them, Leela fights to survive
- & win.

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