Return to the Dark Valley tells the stories of four immigrants united by their need to return to their place of origin & exact vengeance in some form. Manuela Beltrán, haunted by a troubled childhood she tries to escape through books & poetry; Tertuliano, an Argentine preacher who claims to be the Pope`s son, ready to resort to extreme methods to create a harmonious society; Ferdinand Palacios, a Colombian priest with a dark paramilitary past now confronted with his guilt; Juana & the consul, central characters in Gamboa`s Night Prayers, who are united in a relationship based equally on hurt & need. & Rimbaud, the precocious, brilliant poet whose life was incessant exploration. These characters animate Gamboa`s richly imagined portrait of a turbulent world where liberation is found in perpetual movement & determined exploration. ...

Over eighty years since Winnie-the-Pooh first delighted readers, David Benedictus takes us back to the Hundred Acre Wood for more adventures with A. A. Milne`s Winnie-the-Pooh. The rumours are true
- Christopher Robin is back in the Hundred Acre Wood. From the excitement of Christopher Robin`s return to the curious business of learning to play cricket, Return to the Hundred Acre Wood allows readers to spend a few more treasured hours with the Best Bear in All the World. David Benedictus`s authorized sequel to A. A. Milne`s original Winnie-the-Pooh stories are splendidly illustrated by Mark Burgess in the style of the original E. H. Shepard artwork. All of the old friends are in attendance
- from Pooh, to Piglet, Eeyore to Owl & Tigger to Eeyore. Enjoy the sights, sounds & smells of the Hundred Acre Wood 80 years after since it was first discovered. There`s still plenty of fun to be had in this forest.

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Six women forever joined by a little cafe in Kabul Sunny, former proprietor of the Little Coffee Shop & new owner of the Screaming Peacock vineyard. Can she handle the challenges of life on her own? Yasmina, the young mother who now runs the cafe, until a terrifying event strikes at the heart of her family & business... Layla & Kat Afghan teenagers in America, struggling to make sense of their place in the world... Zara, about to be forced into a marriage which will have devastating consequences... These women are about to learn what Halajan, Yazmina`s rebellious mother-in-law, has known all along: when the world as you know it disappears, you find a new way to live. Reuniting us with the much-loved cast of the international bestseller, The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul. Deborah Rodriguez tells an inspiring story of women`s strength & courage in a changing world. ...

After sixteen months of travelling round the Mediterranean in search of the ancient secrets of the olive tree, Carol returns to her beloved olive farm in the south of France, to her husband Michel & his burgeoning family. However, the homecoming celebrations are overshadowed by disturbing discoveries. The plight of the honey bee has become an international crisis & Carol is faced with unsettling news about the hives on her own olive farm. While the multinational companies are pushing for `bigger, better, bumper` crops, a small band of farmers & ecologists are calling for a halt to many of the modern farming malpractices that are endangering the planet. Carol is amongst them. But it puts her own farm, her idyll, under threat. At what point do you turn your back on all that you believe in & all that you have been fighting for? This is the story of how Carol & Michel struggle with some difficult choices, & how they decide to deal with the unavoidable disappointments & inevitable responsibilities that come with running an organic farm. ...

Return to Frances Hodgson Burnett`s timeless classic, The Secret Garden, in this magical sequel by bestselling author Holly Webb. It`s 1939 & a group of children have been evacuated to Misselthwaite Hall. Emmie is far from happy to have been separated from her cat & sent to a huge old mansion. But soon she starts discovering the secrets of the house
- a boy crying at night, a diary written by a girl named Mary, & a garden. A very secret garden.
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Fourteen years after fleeing Kenya with her baby daughter, Corinne returned in the summer of 2004 to meet Lketinga & his family again in their village, Barsaloi. Nervous as she was, & uncertain as to how he would react on seeing her again, she found to her relief that she was welcomed unreservedly by all those who remembered her
- by Lketinga, who still thought of her as his `wife number one`, by his brother, James, now a schoolteacher & especially by Lketinga`s mother, who had looked after Corinne with such care all those years before. Corinne Hofmann revisits an area of a country which she cares about passionately, describing in her immensely readable style the changes she saw after her time away, & once again bringing to life the atmosphere & characters in the Masai village.
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Reunion on a topographic survey at 1:25, 000, published by the Institut Géographique National in Paris, on six contoured, GPS compatible maps with hiking routes, campsites & mountain refuges, etc. The maps have contours at 10m intervals with bold relief shading enhancing the presentation of the terrain. In addition to the usual information shown on topographic surveys at this scale, the maps also indicate different types of vegetation (woodlands, brushwood, orchards, sugar cane or banana plantations, etc). Road network indicates sections with no access to motorized traffic & car parks. Railways are shown with stations. An overprint highlights both waymarked walking routes, including the GR long-distance footpaths, & other interesting hiking trails, indicating difficult passages. Bridle paths are also marked. Symbols indicate various types of accommodation (campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, shelters), various recreational facilities (climbing sites, riding centres, h&-gliding sites, water sports, golf-courses, etc), marinas & anchorage, etc. Towns & locations of interest are prominently highlighted. The maps are GPS compatible with UTM grid lines drawn at 1km intervals. Map legend

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The sixth volume in this high-impact series captures 2012 in over 330 powerful photos. The book is organized into four sections representing the four quarters of the year. The images cover the full range of news reporting politics, commerce, conflict, accidents & disasters, the environment, faith & festivities, entertainment, celebrity & lifestyle. Succinct captions summarize the story behind each image. Witness features in each chapter present powerful, in-depth photo-essays from around the world. An introduction explains in the photographers own words the events & approaches that lead to spectacular photojournalism. Like the previous Our World Now volumes, this is a book that consistently packs an emotional punch: spectacular, moving, hard-hitting, at times even funny. This highly successful series has built to become an indispensable visual record of our times, with over 100, 000 copies now sold worldwide. ...

The 1:50, 000 topographic map gives a more general picture of the ground features than a basic map. It shows settlements, houses, roads, cultivated areas, waterways, cutting areas, mires, rock exposures, & relief. One map sheet covers an area of 30 x 40 km & one centimetre corresponds to 500 metres on the ground. The 1:50, 000 topographic map is also an ideal complement to nautical charts as it provides useful information about the land areas adjacent to waterways. For example, all Finnish sea areas are covered by 1:50, 000 topographic map sheets. ...

Spring, 1543. King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife. Archbishop Cranmer & the embattled Protestant faction at court are watching keenly, for Lady Catherine is known to have reformist sympathies. Matthew Shardlake, meanwhile, is working on the case of a teenage boy who has been placed in the Bedlam insane asylum, before his terrifying religious mania leads to him being burned as a heretic. When an old friend is horrifically murdered Shardlake vows to bring the killer to justice. His search leads him to Cranmer & Catherine Parr
- & to the dark prophecies of the Book of Revelation. As London's Bishop Bonner prepares a purge of Protestants Shardlake, together with his assistant, Jack Barak, & his friend, Guy Malton, investigate a series of horrific murders which are already bringing frenzied talk of witchcraft & demonic possession
- for what else would the Tudor mind make of a serial killer?

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