From the bestselling author of The Circle, a hilarious & heart-warming misadventure through modern America: it`s time for the family vacation... Josie`s life is falling apart
- lawsuits raining down, her business down the drain & a feckless husband long gone
- so she gathers up her two kids & lights out for the wilderness. The Alaskan wilderness, to be specific. This is a story about the trip of a lifetime. It involves one battered old RV, one highly sensitive eight year old boy, one fearless & hyperactive five year old girl, several forest fires, a large supply of pinot noir, & a deeply misguided sense of optimism. It may well be that things don`t turn out quite as Josie expected
- but then again, some of the best places in the world are found at the end of a road you didn`t mean to take... Heroes of the Frontier is an uproariously funny portrait of modern America & the modern family, an entirely contemporary novel gleaming with Dave Eggers` trademark intelligence & originality.


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` For the past five weeks I`d prayed that I`d never see my brother`s name spelt out in poppies. In the weeks that followed I often wished I had.` Jammy & Sonny Mc Gann are brothers, but that`s where the similarities end. One is calm when the other is angry; one has a plan while the other lives purely in the moment. When Jammy returns from Afghanistan a very different man to the one who left, it`s Sonny who is left to hold things together. But just how far will he go to save the brother who always put him first? Inspired by S.E. Hinton`s ” The Outsiders” & by the battles facing young soldiers all over the world, this is a devastating novel about brotherhood & sacrifice, from the award-winning author of ” Being Billy” & ” Saving Daisy”. ” Being Billy” won the 2012 we Read Book Award, & was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children`s Book Prize & Branford Boase Award. Phil Earle was born, raised & schooled in Hull. His first job was as a care worker in a children`s home, an experience that influenced the ideas behind ” Being Billy” & ” Saving Daisy”. He then trained as a drama therapist & worked in a therapeutic community in south London, caring for traumatized & abused adolescents. After a couple of years in the care sector, Phil chose the more sedate lifestyle of a bookseller, & now works in children`s publishing. Phil lives in south-east London with his wife & children, but Hull will always be home. ...

` They were the war`s bravest women, devoted to defeating the Nazis yet reluctant ever to reveal their heroic pasts. Now a new book tells their intrepid tales.` Daily Express Britain`s war in the shadows of male spies & subterfuge in the heart of occupied France is a story well known, but what of the women who also risked their lives for Britain & the liberation of France? In 1942 a desperate need for new recruits, saw SOE turn to a previously overlooked group
- women. These extraordinary women came from different backgrounds, but were joined in their idealistic love of France & a desire to play a part in its liberation. They formed SOE`s F Section. From the famous White Mouse, Nancy Wake, to the courageous, Noor Inayat Khan, they all risked their lives for King, Country & the Resistance. Many of them died bravely & painfully, & often those who survived, like Eileen Nearne, never told their stories, yet their secret missions of intelligence-gathering & sabotage undoubtedly helped the Resistance to drive out their occupiers & free France. Here, for the first time is the extraordinary account of all forty SOE F women agents. It is a story that deserves to be read by everyone. Squadron Leader BERYL E. ESCOTT served in the RAF & is one of the foremost experts on the women of SOE.
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Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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Scots like to smoke or salt them. The Dutch love them raw. Swedes look on with relish as they open bulging, foul-smelling cans to find them curdling within. Jamaicans prefer them with a dash of chilli pepper. Germans & the English enjoy their taste best when accompanied by pickle`s bite & brine. Throughout the long centuries men have fished around their coastlines & beyond, the herring has done much to shape both human taste & history. Men have co-operated & come into conflict over its shoals, setting out in boats to catch them, straying, too, from their home ports to bring full nets to shore. Women have also often been at the centre of the industry, gutting & salting the catch when the annual harvest had taken place, knitting, too, the garments fishermen wore to protect them from the ocean`s chill. Following a journey from the western edge of Norway to the east of Engl&, from Shetland & the Outer Hebrides to the fishing ports of the Baltic coast of Germany & the Netherlands, culminating in a visit to Iceland`s Herring Era Museum, Donald S. Murray has stitched together tales of the fish that was of central importance to the lives of our ancestors, noting how both it
- & those involved in their capture
- were celebrated in the art, literature, craft, music & folklore of life in northern Europe. Blending together politics, science, history, religious & commercial life, Donald contemplates, too, the possibility of restoring the silver darlings of legend to these shores.

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Scots like to smoke or salt them. The Dutch love them raw. Swedes look on with relish as they open bulging, foul-smelling cans to find them curdling within. Jamaicans prefer them with a dash of chilli pepper. Germans & the English enjoy their taste best when accompanied by pickle`s bite & brine. Throughout the long centuries men have fished around their coastlines & beyond, the herring has done much to shape both human taste & history. Men have co-operated & come into conflict over its shoals, setting out in boats to catch them, straying, too, from their home ports to bring full nets to shore. Women have also often been at the centre of the industry, gutting & salting the catch when the annual harvest had taken place, knitting, too, the garments fishermen wore to protect them from the ocean`s chill. Following a journey from the western edge of Norway to the east of Engl&, from Shetland & the Outer Hebrides to the fishing ports of the Baltic coast of Germany & the Netherlands, culminating in a visit to Iceland`s Herring Era Museum, Donald S. Murray has stitched together tales of the fish that was of central importance to the lives of our ancestors, noting how both it
- & those involved in their capture
- were celebrated in the art, literature, craft, music & folklore of life in northern Europe. Blending together politics, science, history, religious & commercial life, Donald contemplates, too, the possibility of restoring the silver darlings of legend to these shores.

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Sometimes the less complicated something is the better it is & this high quality throw is a perfect example. It is handmade from cotton in an attractive herringbone weave with thick tassels along two edges. It looks good, it feels sublime & it is simply gorgeous. ...

Sometimes the less complicated something is the better it is & this high quality throw is a perfect example. It is handmade from cotton in an attractive herringbone weave with thick tassels along two edges. It looks good, it feels sublime & it is simply gorgeous. ...

Hersbruck in a series of GPS compatible recreational editions of the Bavarian topographic survey at 1:25, 000, with waymarked hiking trails & cycling routes, campsites & youth hostels, etc. Coverage

Includes:: Alfeld, Pommelsbrunn, Happurg, Lauterhofen, Neukirchen b. Sulzbach-Rosenberg. Contours used in this map vary between 5 to 20m according to the terrain, with 20m interval predominantly used for hilly areas. Varied colouring show different types of landscape: woods, vineyards, fields etc. Maps in this series feature extensive overprint highlighting local & long-distance footpaths & cycle routes, including King Ludwig Way or different variants of the Way of St James, indicating their waymarking. Symbols highlight different types of accommodation (campsites, youth hostels, refuges, etc), sport & recreational facilities, various places of interest, etc. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid. Map legend & all the text are in German only. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link.

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