For nature lovers (and even nature likers) who rarely find time for a major excursion, this low-commitment field guide makes exploring the outdoors easy & immediate. Fully illustrated with visual reference pages, checklists & more the journal packs in tons of drawing & writing prompts to document discoveries made as close as the front steps. ...

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When 17 year-old Alex rescues a swan caught on a wire stuck deep in the Thames mud, she finds an extraordinary bracelet. Through its disturbing & compelling powers, she meets Callum, a soul locked in a half-life of sadness & mystery following a terrible accident, & his persuasive & sinister sister, Catherine. As Alex & Callum grow closer despite the enormous obstacles to their love, the dangers mount until Alex must risk everything to save her best friend & Callum must risk everything to save Alex. ...

`A luminous & poignant novel about childhood, war, exile & identity...this is literature at its most powerful` Le Parisien Magazine Burundi, 1992. For ten-year-old Gabriel, life in his comfortable expat neighbourhood of Bujumbura with his French father, Rwandan mother & little sister, Ana, is something close to paradise. These are happy, carefree days spent with his friends sneaking cigarettes & stealing mangoes, swimming in the river & riding bikes in the streets they have turned into their kingdom. But dark clouds are gathering over this small country, & soon their peaceful idyll will shatter when Burundi & neighbouring Rwanda are brutally hit by war & genocide. A haunting & luminous novel of extraordinary power, Small Country describes a devastating end of innocence as seen through the eyes of a young child caught in the maelstrom of history. It is a stirring tribute not only to a time of tragedy, but also to the bright days that came before it. ...

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At the `small g`, a Zurich bar known for its not exclusively gay clientele, the lives of a small community are played out one summer. Rickie Markwalder is a designer whose lover Petey was brutally murdered. Rickie & his performing dog Lulu are regulars at the bar, as are vindictive Renate, a seamstress, & her teenage apprentice Luisa. Into their lives comes Teddie, impressionable & beautiful, & a catalyst for the series of events that will change everything. Patricia Highsmith`s final novel is an intricate exploration of love & sexuality, the depths of spite & the triumph of human kindness. It is a work that, in the tradition of Shakespeare`s A Midsummer Night`s Dream, shows us how bizarre & unpredictable love can be. Small g, in the words of her biographer Andrew Wilson, is an `extended fairy tale suggesting that...happiness is precarious &...romance should be embraced.` ...

A RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB 2017 PICK A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe best books make you see differently. This is one of them. The eye-opening new novel from Jodi Picoult, with the biggest of themes: birth, death, & responsibility. When a newborn baby dies after a routine hospital procedure, there is no doubt about who will be held responsible: the nurse who had been banned from looking after him by his father. What the nurse, her lawyer & the father of the child cannot know is how this death will irrevocably change all of their lives, in ways both expected & not. Small Great Things is about prejudice & power; it is about that which divides & unites us. It is about opening your eyes. SOON TO BE A MAJOR FILM STARRING VIOLA DAVIS & JULIA ROBERTS ...

Small Heath & Sparkbook in 1903 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers Small Heath area of Birmingham & also

Includes:: the eastern part of Sparkbrook & smaller parts of Bordesley & Balsall Heath. Coverage stretches from Gladstone Road eastward to Hay Barn Farm & Hay Mills, & from Kenelm Road southward to Alfred Road. Features include Victoria Park, Coventry Road area, Golden Hillock Road, Birmingham Small Arms Factory, St Cyprian`s church, Hay Hall, Warwick & Birmingham Canal, Emmanuel church, GWR railway with Small Heath station, engine shed, Westminster Works, tramways, Football Ground, Matchless cycle works, Christ Church, River Cole, etc. On the reverse are street directory entries for Anderton Road, Bolton Road, Byron Road, Golden Hillock Road, Montgomery Street & Waverley Road. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.

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