Offers a collection that is by turns a voice & a chorus: a hyper-vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables & tall tales. The author creates world after world, peculiar yet always particular, where the only certainty is the unexpected. ...

Hwei Min, the only daughter of the emperor of China, has been blind since she was born. Her father offers a reward to anyone who can find a cure for the little girl. It seems that no one, from magicians to physicians, can help her. Then one day, a wise old man with a mysterious seeing stick visits the princess. ...

Ever wondered whether more people own a car in England than in France, or which country gives the most to charity? In this book, readers can discover a wealth of facts about each country across many topical subjects, including: Cancer survival; Childhood ...

This collection of Seamus Heaney's work, especially in the series of 12-line poems entitled Squarings, shows he is ready to re-imagine experience & to credit marvels. The title poem is typical in that it begins with memories of an actual event, then moves towards the visionary. ...

' Seeing True' is that which lies on the other side of our blindness; & the only path out of blindness is learning to see. This title offers a guide & workbook for dispelling our illusions. It contains ninety contemplations, as well as a few simple questions to consider. ...

When fate throws Crystal Brook into the path of Xav Benedict, the personality clash is explosive. It's hate at first sight. As their families gather in Venice, a powerful enemy seizes the opportunity to attack. Xav & Crystal must unite to save their loved ones, discovering a secret that entwines them forever.. . ...

On the 7th of February 1829 the notorious Irish mass murderer & 'resurrectionist' William Hare (of Burke & Hare infamy) was freed from a Scottish gaol, put on a coach to Carlisle, left on the roadside there & subsequently disappeared from human view as if he had never existed. His fellow conspirator & provider of fresh 'meat' for the Edinburgh surgeons' operating tables had earlier been hanged, but fearing the mob's vengeance, the authorities had freed Hare hoping he would vanish for ever, little knowing that his name along with the nature of his terrible crimes would reverberate & live on even if his subsequent history did not. Seeking Mr Hare takes up the story where our pariah flees his past through the Northern English countryside & finally across to Irel&. Joining forces with Hannah, a young mute farm-girl, on the way, the pair travel from one adventure in survival to the next, all the while pursued by Percy Speed, a retired London enquiry agent hired by his noble employer to track down a life-mask of Hare for his private cabinet of curiosities. However when Lord Beckford loses interest in the quest, Speed doggedly carries on, determined to come face to face with his cunning & elusive quarry, no matter what the quest costs & where it leads him. ...

In 1972 Nixon amazed the world by going to China. The first trip ever by a US President was an immense gamble but a brilliant stroke of policy. It marked the end of deep freeze in Sino-American relations & changed the international balance of power for ever. This book deals with the story of Nixon, Mao & the week that changed the world. ...

Outpirating the pirates with one of the most interesting men alive: Max Hardberger recounts his adventures repossessing ships & sneaking them out of lawless, third-world countries, often under threat of death or imprisonment. His journeys lead him from corrupt ports in the Caribbean to the ice-bound docks of Vladivostok. ...

For almost four desperate years, from 1939 to mid-1943, the British & American navies fought a savage, losing battle against German submarine wolfpacks. The Allies might never have turned the tide without an intelligence coup. The race to break the German U-boat codes is one of the greatest untold stories of World War II. Kahn expertly brings this tale to life in this newly-updated edition of his classic book. Soon after war broke out, Hitler s U-boats began to sever Allied lifelines. In the gray wasteland of the North Atlantic, submarines prowled; at night, the sky lit up with the flames of exploding tankers. To meet the growing crisis, ingenious amateurs joined the nucleus of dedicated professionals at Bletchley Park. As the Battle of the Atlantic raged, they raced to unlock the continually changing German naval codes. Their mission: to read the U-boat messages of Hitler s cipher device, the Enigma. Critical to their success was a series of raids at sea. U-110, captured intact in the mid-Atlantic, yielded the Enigma machine itself & also a trove of secret documents. The weather ship Lauenburg seized near the Arctic ice pack provided codesettings for an entire month. In the Mediterranean, two sailors rescued a German weather cipher than enabled the team at Bletchley to solve the Enigma after a year-long blackout. 23.4 x 16.2 x 3.8 cm, pages 387 ...