Despite being from opposite sides of the world, Ruslan & Sarah are brought together in the aftermath of the tsunami. Sarah is sailing with her family when the giant wave hits their boat, flinging the family apart. Her mother is killed, & alone with her younger brother, Sarah begins to search for their missing father. Ruslan`s father, a mechanic, was supposed to have been working on a ship when the tsunami struck, but all is not as it seems. It turns out that he had been using the job as a cover to travel to the rebel area of Bergang. In order to find his father, Ruslan must therefore undergo a dangerous journey through rebel territory. In the midst of widespread destruction, Sarah & Ruslan`s paths cross, & their lives are changed forever. ...

Emily`s dad is accused of murdering a teenage girl in the woods behind her house, the place she played in as a child. She`s sure he`s innocent, but what did happen? Determined to find out
- & afraid of what she might discover
- Emily seeks out the boyfriend of the murdered girl. He also knows these woods. Maybe they could help each other. But Damon Hillary has his own secrets about the dangerous games that are being played in the dark.

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The Kimberley region in northern Western Australia, between the border with Northern Territory & Broome, including the Great Northern Highway, described by Moon Adventure Publication in a spiral-bound guide slightly larger than A5, illustrated with numerous maps. An introductory section to the area, covering its history & fauna/flora, is followed by advice on planning & preparation. The region is then described in seven chapters: Around Halls Creek, Eastern Kimberley, Mitchell Plateau & Northern Kimberley, Gibb River Road, East along the King Leopold Ranges. Derby to Fitzroy Crossing, plus Broome & its Surrounds. Each chapter is accompanied by map (s) of its interesting area (s), showing the road network including 4WD tracks with symbols indicating local facilities. Where useful, accompanying text provides GPS coordinates for road junctions, camping grounds & recreational sites, etc. Descriptions of locations include advice on recreational possibilities, accommodation, etc, & include useful website addresses and/or contact details for 4WD tours, recreational sites/providers, accommodation, etc. The index lists both locations & accommodation, sites for recreational pursuits, etc. ...

The Kimberley, the northernmost part of Western Australia, on a waterproof & tear-resistant map from Hema with highlighting for the Savannah Way & an index showing locations with their GPS coordinates, plus on the reverse a map of the Gibb River Road between Derby & Kununurra with descriptions of 32 points of interest, a table of facilities in the national parks, etc. On one side is a map at 1:1, 000, 000 of the Kimberley area of Western Australia, extending south to approx. 19 ...

The Kimberley, the northernmost part of Western Australia, on a waterproof & tear-resistant map from Hema with highlighting for the Savannah Way, an index showing locations with their GPS coordinates, plus on the reverse enlargements for the Gibb River Road, Dampier Peninsula, Purnululu National Park, & the Ngamoowalen Conservarion Park area. On one side is a map at 1:1, 000, 000 of the Kimberley area of Western Australia, extending south to approx. 19°45’ & east just beyond the border with Northern Territory. Topography is well presented by relief shading & graphics for swamps, salt flats, deserts, etc, plus plenty of names of mountain ranges, peaks, etc. National parks & other protected areas are prominently highlighted & the map also shows the boundaries of various types of Aboriginal Lands & restricted entry zones. Presentation of roads & tracks indicates sealed or unsealed roads, tracks are graded according to difficulty, & the map highlights the course of the Savannah Way from the NT/WA border to Broome plus its continuation southwards along the Great Northern Highway. A wide range of symbols indicate various services & facilities including fuel & drinking water supplies, camping & other overnight accommodation, vehicle repairs, etc. For many locations the map also provides a phone number for the main tourist facility (accommodation, visitors’ centre, a store, etc). Many locations are annotated with brief notes. The map has latitude & longitude lines at 30’ intervals plus & index listing locations with their GPS coordinates. On the reverse, the alternative route from Derby to Kununurra along the Gibb River Road is shown in more detail at 1:900, 000 with 29 locations cross-referenced to their descriptions. Three more panels show the Dampier Peninsula (1:350, 000), Purnululu NP (1:200, 000), plus the Ngamoowalen Conservation Park & the surrounding area between Kununurra & Wyndham (1:300, 000). The title also

Includes:: a table of facilities in the region’s national parks, a list of useful contact details, plus general notes about the whole region. To see other titles in Hema’s series of detailed regional road maps of Australia please click on the series.

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Dr Max Aue is a family man & owner of a lace factory in post-war France. He is an intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, & classical music. He is also a former SS intelligence officer & cold-blooded assassin. He was an observer & then a participant in Nazi atrocities on the Eastern Front, he was present at the siege of Stalingrad, at the death camps, & finally caught up in the overthrow of the Nazis & the nightmarish fall of Berlin. His world was peopled by Eichmann, Himmler, Goring, Speer &, of course, Hitler himself. Max is looking back at his life with cool-eyed precision; he is speaking out now to set the record straight. ...

Lonely Planet`s _ The Kindess of Strangers_ collects 26 true stories from top travellers about moments of human kindness & generosity displayed around the world. From extraordinary acts to simple gestures, the unexpected acts of strangers around the world can transform a day, a journey or a place. Taken together, these tales
- from celebrated travel writers like Jan Morris, Simon Winchester & Dave Eggers
- constitute a meditation on the virtue of kindness, & show that human empathy & generosity can transcend boundaries of geography or culture. Featuring new material from some of the leading contemporary travel writers, & a preface by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, this book is inspiring, uplifting &, at times, humbling.

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Kate Adie`s story is an unusual one. Raised in post-war Sunderl&, where life was `a sunny experience, full of meat-paste sandwiches & Sunday school`, she has reported memorably & courageously from many of the world`s trouble spots since she joined the BBC in 1969. The Kindness of Strangers encompasses Adie`s reporting from, inter alia, Northern Irel&, the Middle East, Tiananmen Square &, of course, the Gulf War of 1991. It offers a compelling combination of vivid frontline reporting & evocative writing & reveals the extraordinarily demanding life of the woman who is always at the heart of the action. Although an intensely private person, Kate Adie also divulges what it`s like to be a woman in a man`s world
- an inspiration to many working women.
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Travel is the only thing you can buy that makes you richer Travel opens our minds to the world; it helps us to embrace risk & uncertainty, overcome challenges & understand the people we meet & the places we visit. But what happens when we arrive home? How do our experiences shape us? The Kindness of Strangers explores what it means to be vulnerable & to be helped by someone we`ve never met before. Someone who could have walked past, but chose not to. This is a collection of stories by accomplished travellers & adventurous souls like Sarah Outen, Benedict Allen, Ed Stafford & Al Humphreys, who have completed daring journeys through challenging terrain, adventuring from the Calais Jungle to the Amazon, from Land`s End to the Gobi Desert, from New Guinea to Iran & many other places in between. Each has a story to tell of a time when they were vulnerable, when they were in need & a kind stranger came to their rescue. These are stories that make our hearts grow, stories that will restore our faith in the world & remind us that, despite what the media says, the world isn`t a scary place
- rather, it is filled with Kind Strangers just like us. All royalties go directly to fund Oxfam`s work with refugees.
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- launched to great acclaim & instant buzz in 2010
- is an independently owned quarterly magazine about understated,

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