Encompassing all six districts of Cannaregio, San Polo, Dorsoduro (including the Giudecca), Santa Croce, San Marco (including San Giorgio Maggiore) & Castello
- ” The Secrets of Venice” gives the reader a virtual tour of one of the most mesmerizing cities in the world. With stunning photography & informative text highlighting the well known sights as well as the more secret corners of the city, from the impressive Grand Canal & the opulent Saint Mark`s Basilica to the legendarily romantic Bridge of Sighs & the unbelievably picturesque & winding network of narrow canals, be inspired to visit or celebrate this wonderful city.
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It`s the summer of AD 79 & Flavia Gemina & her friends, Jonathan, Nubia & Lupus, set sail for the Bay of Naples where they are going to stay with Flavia`s uncle near Pompeii. Once they arrive, they are soon absorbed in a quest to solve a riddle that may lead to treasure. But then tragedy strikes: Mount Vesuvius erupts & the friends must flee for their lives! Not just a mystery
- this is an absolutely thrilling action adventure that brings history to life!
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Sinead Moriarty`s delicious tenth novel, The Secrets Sisters Keep, is the story of three sisters, three life-altering problems & one eternal truth: nobody knows you quite like a sister! Sinead`s writing mixes the worldly wit of Jane Green with the down-to-earth warmth & insight of Marian Keyes & will remind people just how important their sisters
- & their friends-who-are-like-sisters
- are to them. The Devlin sisters rely on each other
- but some things are just too painful to share, even when your sisters are your best friends... Mum-of-four Julie thought that if her family had more money, life would be easier. But now that they`ve inherited a fortune, her problems are only starting. Lawyer Louise is used to having life go exactly as she wants it to. So accepting that she cannot control everything in her world is beyond her. & former model Sophie can just about cope with getting older
- that`s until her ex-husband finds a younger model. All three women think that some battles are best fought alone. Maybe they need to think again... Praise for Sinead: ” Moving, disarmingly honest & at times laugh-out-loud funny”. (Sunday Times).” One of the brightest voices in modern women`s fiction”. (Bella). ” Sinead Moriarty can bring readers from hilarity to heartbreak with great deftness”. (Sunday Independent). ” Touching, warm, funny & emotional. She has the gift of telling a very emotive story with grace & empathy”. (Woman`s Way). Sinead Moriarty lives with her family in Dublin. Her previous titles are: The Baby Trail; A Perfect Match; From Here to Maternity; In My Sister`s Shoes; Keeping It In the Family (also titled Whose Life is it Anyway?); Pieces of My Heart; Me & My Sisters; This Child of Mine & Mad About You.



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What secrets are hiding in your family tree? Great Aunt Oleander is dead. To each of her nearest & dearest she has left a seed pod. The seed pods might be deadly, but then again they might also contain the secret of enlightenment.. .A complex & fiercely contemporary tale of inheritance, enlightenment, life, death, desire & family trees, The Seed Collectors is the most important novel yet from one of the world`s most daring & brilliant writers. ...

Book 2 of The Spiderwick Chronicles in which Mallory, Simon & Jared ask many questions & discover the fate of the missing cat. With the aid of a seeing stone the true nature of the secret world around them is now revealed. Its important the Grace kids tell their story but the faeries will do everything to stop them... Its up to you to spread the word about their discovery. But heed their warnings, wear some red, turn your clothes inside out
- all anti-faerie devices
- & get ready to enter a world that you never knew existed... Its closer than you think!

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction 2016 Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award 2016 & the 2016 Man Booker Prize. A biting satire about a young man`s isolated upbringing & the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. Born in the `agrarian ghetto` of Dickens on the outskirts of Los Angeles & raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist, the narrator of The Sellout spent his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. He was led to believe that his father`s pioneering work will result in a memoir that will solve his family`s financial woes. But when his father is killed in a police shoot-out, he realizes there never was a memoir. All that`s left is the bill for a drive-thru funeral. Fuelled by this deceit & the general disrepair of his hometown, the narrator sets out to right another wrong: Dickens has literally been wiped off the map to save California from further embarrassment. Enlisting the help of the town`s most famous resident
- the last surviving Little Rascal, Hominy Jenkins
- he initiates the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery & segregating the local high school, which lands him in the Supreme Court. In his trademark absurdist style, which has the uncanny ability to make readers want to both laugh & cry, The Sellout is an outrageous & outrageously entertaining indictment of our time.

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A biting satire about a young man`s isolated upbringing & the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. Born in Dickens on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles, the narrator of The Sellout spent his childhood as the subject in his father`s racially charged psychological studies. He is told that his father’s work will lead to a memoir that will solve their financial woes. But when his father is killed in a drive-by shooting, he discovers there never was a memoir. All that’s left is a bill for a drive-through funeral. What’s more, Dickens has literally been wiped off the map to save California from further embarrassment. Fuelled by despair, the narrator sets out to right this wrong with the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery & segregating the local high school, which lands him in the Supreme Court. In his trademark absurdist style, which has the uncanny ability to make readers want to both laugh & cry, The Sellout is an outrageous & outrageously entertaining indictment of our time. ...

The Selous Game Reserve in southern Tanzania is Africa`s oldest & largest protected area. Proclaimed in 1896 & bigger than Switzerl&, the Selous is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Selous remains one of Africa`s largest & greatest undisturbed ecosystems, teeming with life including one of the two largest elephant populations remaining on the African continent, probably half of all of the wild dogs in Africa, vast herds of buffalo as well as more lions than any other protected area on the continent as reported by National Geographic in August 2013. The game reserve is becoming more important by the day as the pressure on elephants & other species grows
- problems that are addressed here in this book. New York-born photographer Rob Ross has spent much of the past four years photographing in this vast & difficult to access reserve. He has compiled more than 100, 000 images showing all aspects of the reserves varied landscapes, seasons, flora & large & small fauna. The spectacular large-format photography book features a selection of the very best images including landscapes, wildlife portraits & behaviour, night photography, impressionist style work & breath-taking aerials.
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A vodka-soaked tragicomedy of bribes, backhanders & a certain ex-president of Russia going catastrophically awry. Former Russian president, Vladimir P, is going senile, marooned in a world of memories from his years in power. To get him out of the way, he has been exiled to his luxury dacha, where he is served by a coterie of bickering house staff. Only Sheremetev, the guileless nurse charged with Vladimir`s round-the-clock care, is unaware that everyone else is busily using every means at their disposal to skim money from their employer`s inexhaustible riches. But when the nurse suddenly needs to find cash for a bribe or see his nephew rot in jail, the dacha`s chef lets him in on the secret world of `commissions` going on all around him. Yet surely Sheremetev wouldn`t think to steal from his ailing patient? & surely, in the upstanding modern Russia that Vladimir P created, no one would actually let him... ...

As a former president of Russia loses his marbles, those around him get down to losing their morals. Former Russian president, Vladimir P, is going senile, marooned in a world of memories from his years in power. To get him out of the way, he has been exiled to his luxury dacha, where he is served by a coterie of bickering house staff. Only Sheremetev, the guileless nurse charged with Vladimir`s round-the-clock care, is unaware that everyone else is busily using every means at their disposal to skim money from their employer`s inexhaustible riches. But when the nurse suddenly needs to find cash for a bribe or see his nephew rot in jail, the dacha`s chef lets him in on the secret world of `commissions` going on all around him. Yet surely Sheremetev wouldn`t think to steal from his ailing patient? & surely, in the upstanding modern Russia that Vladimir P created, no one would actually let him... ...