Sara, a therapist, always thought her husband Mike died in Afghanistan
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Joel Burns has always believed his father is still alive. His mother Jackie has long been glad to know Gilberto is dead. When a sighting on a news report from Rio de Janeiro suggests Joel might be right, he travels to Brazil determined to find his long-lost father. Nelson, a down-&-out musician guided by the spirits of Jesus, Yemanja & his late Aunt Zila, helps Joel retrace his childhood steps
- & face up to the contrast between his rosy memories of Gilberto & his mother`s accounts of the man`s cruelty. Back at home in Brighton, Joel`s trip stirs up Jackie`s own recollections of her life in Rio
- from the beautiful early years, when Gilberto was trying to make it in the Bossa Nova scene, to the violent times following his arrest & imprisonment by the military authorities. Invisibles spans two cities by the sea & four decades of music, torture & romance. From the streets of Brighton to the bars of Rio, Ed Siegle weaves the rhythms of Brazil & the troubles of his characters into an absorbing story of identity, love & loss. At once familiar & foreign, this sweet, sad & compulsively readable first novel throngs with visceral memory & unbreakable ordinary heroes.

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A nine-year-old boy is found murdered at the bottom of a well near a popular beach resort in southern Italy. In what looks like a hopeless case for Guido Guerrieri, counsel for the defence, a Senegalese peddler is accused of the crime. Faced with small-town racism fuelled by the recent immigration from Africa, Guido attempts to exploit the esoteric workings of the Italian courts. More than a perfectly paced legal thriller, this relentless suspense novel transcends the genre. A powerful attack on racism, & a fascinating insight into the Italian judicial process, it is also an affectionate portrait of a deeply humane hero. ...

Exceptionally detailed & informative topographic map at 1:100, 000 of the Inylchek area in the Tien Shan Mountains in Kyrgyzstan, prepared by the German Alpine Club using data from the Kyrgyz national survey organization plus satellite imagery. Topography is shown by contours at 50m intervals with relief shading, plus numerous spot heights & peak names. Colouring & graphics indicate different types of vegetation (woods, meadows, swampy grassl&, etc.) & soil cover (rocky outcrops, individual isolated rocks with height, caves, moraine, glaciers, etc.). Passes are classified according to the difficulty of traverse. Rivers & creeks indicate their width. The map shows local roads (paved, country lanes, dirt roads & forest tracks) & footpaths, as well as settlements & isolated buildings, bridges passable by vehicles or on foot, fuel & water tanks, etc. Assent & descent routes, base camp & possible camp sites are highlighted. The map has a UTM grid with latitude & longitude margin ticks at 5` intervals. Map legend is in English, German & Russian. Also included are tri-lingual notes on using this map with GPS units. ...

Ioannina Province
- Ioannina Street Plan in a series of detailed road maps of provinces, some with street plans of their administrative
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Map No. 48, Iona & West Mull, in the Ordnance Survey Landranger series at 1:50, 000, covering the south-western part of the Isle of Mull with Iona, Erraid, Ulva, Gometra, Staffa, Little Colonsay, & the Treshnish Isles, including Kilninian, Ballygown, Salen, Gruline, Balanahard, Carsaig, Bunessan & Uisken, with Aros, Loch Frisa, Loch Ba, Ardmeanach, Ben More, Loch Fuaron, Loch Poit na h-l, Loch Assapol, Malcolm ...

Map No. 48, Iona & West Mull, in the waterproof & tear-resistant OS Active version of the Ordnance Survey Landranger series at 1:50, 000, covering the south-western part of the Isle of Mull with Iona, Erraid, Ulva, Gometra, Staffa, Little Colonsay, & the Treshnish Isles, including Kilninian, Ballygown, Salen, Gruline, Balanahard, Carsaig, Bunessan & Uisken, with Aros, Loch Frisa, Loch Ba, Ardmeanach, Ben More, Loch Fuaron, Loch Poit na h-l, Loch Assapol, Malcolm ...

Map No. 48, Iona & West Mull, in a waterproof & tear-resistant version of the Ordnance Survey Landranger series at 1:50, 000, covering the south-western part of the Isle of Mull with Iona, Erraid, Ulva, Gometra, Staffa, Little Colonsay, & the Treshnish Isles, including Kilninian, Ballygown, Salen, Gruline, Balanahard, Carsaig, Bunessan & Uisken, with Aros, Loch Frisa, Loch Ba, Ardmeanach, Ben More, Loch Fuaron, Loch Poit na h-l, Loch Assapol, Malcolm ...

A detailed topographic map of Iona, Staffa & Ross of Mull from the Ordnance Survey Explorer series. Edition A1; Publication date January 2007 About this series: These highly detailed maps show all the administrative boundaries, settlements as small as isolated farms, the road network down to unfenced roads & country tracks, & field boundaries (hedges & drystone walls) which make navigation across the countryside much easier. Steep gradients on roads are indicated. Various landmarks, e.g. powerlines, archaeological sites, windmills, churches & lighthouses are shown & additional graphics indicate natural terrain features such as cliffs, scree, mud & vegetation variations. The contour interval is 5 metres in the lower parts of the country & 10 metres in the uplands, & spot heights are marked. Each map covers an area of 30 x 20km (i.e. approx. 19 x 12 miles), with some double-sided maps covering more, as indicated in the individual descriptions. The maps are fully GPS compatible, with the National Grid shown at 1km intervals & latitude & longitude indicated by margin ticks at 1'. The Explorer series has replaced the earlier, green-cover Pathfinder maps. The Explorer series is now complete & covers all of Engl&, Wales & Scotl&. Some sheets for popular areas like the National Parks are still branded as Outdoor Leisure (OL) maps, but are now included in this series as the cartography is the same as that in the Explorer Maps. The Explorer maps offer a substantial improvement on the Pathfinder series, with greater use of colour, larger area per map, & stronger emphasis on information for ramblers & tourists. This series is ideal for walking & other outdoor pursuits & each map shows a large amount of information for ramblers & tourists. Public rights of way are shown (except in Scotland), together with other routes with public access: National Trails & Recreational Paths, permitted paths & bridleways, & selected cycle routes. Open access land created under the Countryside & Rights of Way Act 2000 is marked. Tourist information

Includes:: caravan & camp sites, Park & Ride locations, recreation/leisure/sport centres, museums, historic buildings, English Heritage & National Trust sites, rural pubs, etc. The map legend is in English only, except for the tourist information content which is also in French & German.

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Laminated waterproof edition of a detailed topographic map of Iona, Staffa & Ross of Mull from the Ordnance Survey Explorer series, Edition A1; Publication date January 2007 About this series: These highly detailed maps show all the administrative boundaries, settlements as small as isolated farms, the road network down to unfenced roads & country tracks, & field boundaries (hedges & drystone walls) which make navigation across the countryside much easier. Steep gradients on roads are indicated. Various landmarks, e.g. powerlines, archaeological sites, windmills, churches & lighthouses are shown & additional graphics indicate natural terrain features such as cliffs, scree, mud & vegetation variations. The contour interval is 5 metres in the lower parts of the country & 10 metres in the uplands, & spot heights are marked. Each map covers an area of 30 x 20km (i.e. approx. 19 x 12 miles), with some double-sided maps covering more, as indicated in the individual descriptions. The maps are fully GPS compatible, with the National Grid shown at 1km intervals & latitude & longitude indicated by margin ticks at 1'. The Explorer series has replaced the earlier, green-cover Pathfinder maps. The Explorer series is now complete & covers all of Engl&, Wales & Scotl&. Some sheets for popular areas like the National Parks are still branded as Outdoor Leisure (OL) maps, but are now included in this series as the cartography is the same as that in the Explorer Maps. The Explorer maps offer a substantial improvement on the Pathfinder series, with greater use of colour, larger area per map, & stronger emphasis on information for ramblers & tourists. This series is ideal for walking & other outdoor pursuits & each map shows a large amount of information for ramblers & tourists. Public rights of way are shown (except in Scotland), together with other routes with public access: National Trails & Recreational Paths, permitted paths & bridleways, & selected cycle routes. Open access land created under the Countryside & Rights of Way Act 2000 is marked. Tourist information

Includes:: caravan & camp sites, Park & Ride locations, recreation/leisure/sport centres, museums, historic buildings, English Heritage & National Trust sites, rural pubs, etc. The map legend is in English only, except for the tourist information content which is also in French & German.

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