Twelve-year-old Bobby Nusku is an archivist of his mother. He catalogues traces of her life & waits for her to return home. Bobby thinks that he`s been left to face the world alone until he meets lonely single mother Val & her daughter Rosa. They spend a magical summer together, discovering the books in the mobile library where Val works as a cleaner. But as the summer draws to a close, Bobby finds himself in trouble & Val is in danger of losing her job. There`s only one thing to do -- & so they take to the road in the mobile library.. . Quirky, dark, magical & full of heart, Mobile Library by David Whitehouse is both a tragicomic road trip & a celebration of the adventures that books can take us on. It`s a love-letter to unlikely families & the stories that shaped us. ...

Mobile Phone Case (Brown) has been designed to hold most modern mobile phones. The case is made from tough rip-stop brown fabric, with a pink stitched flower motif & has a zipped entry that provides increased security & ease of access. A fleece lining helps prevents scratches & an integral belt loop means you can attach the case to either your waist or rucksack. ...

Mobile in Alabama on an indexed street plan from Rand Mc Nally in their extensive range of maps covering cities in the United States. Rand Mc Nally street plans provide coverage of cities with their outer suburbs, clearly indicating main traffic arteries: highways (distinguishing between free & toll access), plus primary & secondary routes. Road numbers and/or names are clearly displayed & exit numbers are indicated. Locations of service & rest areas are marked & one way streets are shown. Longer streets are annotated with block numbers for easier identification of addresses. The maps show railway, bus &, where appropriate, metro stations. A range of symbols indicate various places of interest including cultural & academic institutions, various municipal facilities, golf courses, etc. The plans have extensive street indexes, supplemented by lists of points of interest, parks & recreational areas, shopping malls, stations, schools, etc. ...

Mobile in Alabama on an indexed street plan from Universal Map, with an enlargement presenting the downtown area in greater detail. Main traffic arteries are highlighted &, where appropriate, show their road numbers. Streets are annotated with block numbers. Colouring indicates parks & golf courses, shopping centres, etc. The plan also shows zip code boundaries & numbers. The index

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Captain Ahab is an eerily compelling madman who focuses his distilled hatred & suffering (and that of generations before him) into the pursuit of a creature as vast, dangerous & unknowable as the sea itself. More than just a novel of adventure, this is a haunting social commentary populated with some of the most enduring characters in literature. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby Dick is a profound & timeless inquiry into character, faith & the nature of perception. ...

Includes: THE TRUE STORY THAT INSPIRED MOBY-DICK When Ishmael sets sail on the whaling ship Pequod one cold Christmas
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Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that 'reaped' his leg. The quest is an obsession & the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic. But it is also a hymn to democracy. Bent as the crew is on Ahab's appalling crusade, it is equally the image of a co-operative community at work: all hands dependent on all hands, each individual responsible for the security of each. Among the crew is Ishmael, the novel's narrator, ordinary sailor, & extraordinary reader. Digressive, allusive, vulgar, transcendent, the story Ishmael tells is above all an education: in the practice of whaling, in the art of writing. ...

Harper Collins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ` Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell`s heart I stab at thee; for hate`s sake I spit my last breath at thee...` Few literary masterpieces cast quite as awesome a shadow as Herman Melville`s Moby Dick. Captain Ahab`s quest for the white whale is a timeless epic
- a thrilling tale of vengeance & obsession, & a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity. Inspired by true events, Moby Dick is a work of astonishing psychological depth. It is perhaps the greatest sea story ever told & one of the great classics of literature.
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Join Captain Ahab, an eerily compelling madman, as he pursues an unholy war against a creation as vast, dangerous & unknowable as the sea itself. In his monumanical quest, Ahab focuses his distilled hatred & suffering
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- against one single creation, & pursues it relentlessly.

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When Donovan Hohn first heard the remarkable story of how 28, 904 bath toys spilled into the Pacific en route to the US from China & have been washing up along beaches throughout the world ever since, he decided to find out more & assumed he would interview a few oceanographers, talk to some beachcombers & read up on Arctic science & geography. ` But questions can be like ocean currents: wade in too far, & they carry you away.` Setting out on a series of journeys to track the renegade rubber ducks, Moby-Duck is an adventure into the heart of the sea through science, myth, the global economy & some of the worst weather imaginable, & the riveting story of an accidental odyssey which pulled Hohn into the secretive world of shipping conglomerates, the daring terrain of Arctic researchers, the lunatic risks of maverick sailors, & the shadowy domain of Chinese toy factories. With each new discovery, Hohn learns of another loose thread, & with each successive chase he comes closer to understanding where his castaway quarry comes from (and where it is heading...). In the grand tradition of Tony Horwitz & David Quammen, Moby-Duck is a compulsively readable narrative of whimsy & curiosity for anyone who is interested in obsession, travel, plastic, & that great American novel, Moby-Dick. ...