Showcasing prominent commercial structures & the architects who brought them to life, this book features pictorial histories that contain photographs of some of the leading cities in the United States. It offers insight into the diversity & progression of metropolitan architecture. ...

Do you yearn for a tranquil retreat in busy surroundings, a healing sanctuary, or a convenient stage for entertaining, dining & family gatherings? A garden in town can provide any or all of these.

City Garden explores the challenges & the advantages of gardening in built-up surroundings & shows you how to make the most of your urban space.

Andi Clevely provides clear guidance on such essentials as: organizing ground space; being inventive with levels; steps, slopes, shelves, balconies & hanging gardens; enhancing the view; making use of borrowed features; real & false perspectives; storage & utilities; plants & planting; making the most of the increased warmth & shelter offered by a garden in town.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9780711227859
• Author: Andi Clevely
• Publisher: Frances Lincoln
• Format: Hardback
• Pages: 112
• Dimensions: 23 x 23 x 1.5cm











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Haunted by her past, Clary is dragge deeper into New Yorks terrifying underworld of demons & Shadowhunters
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Sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is an ordinary teenager, who likes hanging out in Brooklyn with her friends. But everything changes the night she witnesses a murder, committed by a group of teens armed with medieval weaponry. The murderous group are Shadowhunters, secret warriors dedicated to driving demons out of this dimension & back into their own. Drawn inexorably into a terrifying world, Clary slowly begins to learn the truth about her family
- & the battle for the fate of the world.
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Get a behind-the-scenes look at the making of The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones movie with this official companion book. You'll learn about how the actors embodied & connected to the characters like Clary & Jace. You'll read about the makeup department's extreme use of fake fingernails for the nefarious vampires. & you'll see how important the fans of the book were in bringing this film to life. From the casting decisions to the director's infectious enthusiasm to the innovative use of special effects, this is an all-access pass to this summer's hottest movie. This captivating book

Features:
- Full-colour photos from the set in Toronto
- The visionary sketches from director Harald Zwart
- Interviews with cast & crew
- Details of how the worldwide literary sensation went from the book to film





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The dragons & their keepers have discovered Kelsingra but so far only Heeby has succeeded in flying over the river to enter the fabled city. The other dragons, with their deformed wings & feeble muscles, are afraid to risk failure & humiliation. But wondrous things await in Kelsingra, a city built for dragons & their Elderling keepers. Alise, overwhelmed by the treasures she sees there, records her finds for posterity. Once the rest of the world knows about the riches the city contains, nothing will ever be the same again. Already, rumours of the city's discovery have floated down the Rain Wild River & reached envious ears in Bingtown & beyond. Adventurers, pirates & fortune hunters are coming in droves to pillage what they can from the city. As is Hest Finbok, Alise's husb&..... Meanwhile, Selden Vestrit finds himself a prisoner of the ailing Duke of Chalced, who believes him to be some sort of dragon-man whose flesh & blood work miracle cures. Where is Tintaglia, the great sapphire-blue dragon, when all have such need of her? Has she really abandoned her beloved Shelden & the fledgling dragons forever? Or will she return to seek the wonders of Kelsingra? ...

Grace Ozmian, missing daughter of a tech billionaire has been found. Her head is still missing.

Lieutenant CDS Vincent

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The Mortal War is over, & sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is back home in New York, excited about all the possibilities before her. Shes training to become a Shadowhunter &
- most importantly of all
- she can finally call Jace her boyfriend. But nothing comes without a price. Someone is murdering the Shadowhunters who used to be in Valentines Circle, provoking tensions between Downworlders & Shadowhunters that could lead to a second, bloody war. & when Jace begins to pull away from her without explaining why, Clary is forced to delve into the heart of a mystery whose solution reveals her worst nightmare: she herself has set in motion a terrible chain of events that could lead to her losing everything she loves. Even Jace.

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The third book in this gritty, sexy, urban fantasy trilogy. Rogue spirits & psychopomps are terrorising people, & now someone is planning to open the gates to the City of Ghosts & unleash the dead on humanity. Faced with her greatest challenge yet, Chess has to travel to the spirit city to finally lay all her ghosts to rest? Chess Putnam has a lot on her plate. Mangled human corpses have started to show up on the streets of Downside, & Chesss bosses at the Church of Real Truth have ordered her to team up with the ultra-powerful Black Squad agency to crack the grisly case. Chess is under a binding spell that threatens death if she talks about the investigation, but the citys most notorious crime boss ? & Chesss drug dealer ? gets wind of her new assignment & insists on being kept informed. If that isn?t bad enough, a sinister street vendor appears to have information Chess needs. Only hes not telling what he knows, or what it all has to do with the vast underground City of Eternity. Now Chess will have to navigate killer wraiths & a lot of seriously nasty magic ? all while coping with some not-so-small issues of her own. & the only man she can trust to help her through it all has every reason to want her dead. ...

Sebastian Morgenstern is on the move, systematically turning Shadowhunter against Shadowhunter.

When one of the greatest

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