Alms for Oblivion" is a series of ten novels all telling separate stories but at the same time linked together by the characters they have in common: schoolboys & businessmen writers & soldiers prostitutes & patient wives actresses & models. In the first four novels Ravens wayward band of upper-class anti-heroes lurch from debauched parties to rehearsals for nuclear war; from blackmail to murder; from marriage to adultery & back again. Volume 1
Includes:: " The Rich Pay Late" " Friends in Low Places" " The Sabre Squadron" & " Fielding Gray"."
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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking horse riding & off-road cycling. The series provides complete GB coverage & can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer Map
- Active a tough versatile version of the OS Explorer Map.
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Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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The first book in the Detective D.D. Warren series from The Sunday Times & New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner. YOU HAVE A SPLIT SECOND TO MAKE YOUR DECISION. As he watches a potentially fatal hostage situation unfold through the scope of his sniper rifle Massachusetts State Trooper Bobby Dodge knows that he may be all that stands between life & death. But from the moment Bobby pulls the trigger killing an armed man holding his own wife & child hostage it may be Bobbys own life that is lost. Detective D. D. Warrens investigation into the shooting leads her to the impossibly beautiful young widow Catherine Rose Gagnon & the darkness in her past. Even as the truth behind the facade of this wealthy Boston familys life is revealed the body count rises. & with a sadistic vengeful killer newly released from prison everyone must be on their guard. For he strikes the solitary wanderer
- & no one can stay protected forever...IF YOU DONT SHOOT WILL HE?
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Jasmine is thrilled when she gets to catsit for her neighbours while theyre away on holiday for Christmas. She adores looking after the beautiful Star & only wishes she could keep her forever! Star loves playing with Jasmine & soon the pair are inseparable. But what Jasmine doesnt know is that Star has a secret. Although it is cold & dark outside the time has come for Star to leave Jasmine & her warm safe home & find a place to hide. ...

How far would you go to find yourself? The lyrical life-affirming new novel from the bestselling author of Private Peaceful There were dozens of us on the ship all up on deck for the leaving of Liverpool gulls wheeling & crying over our heads calling good-bye... That is all I remember of Engl&. When six-year-old orphan Arthur Hobhouse is shipped to Australia after WWII he loses his sister his country & everything he knows. Overcoming enormous hardships with fellow orphan Marty Arthur is finally saved by the extraordinary people he meets & by his talent for boat-design & sailing. Now he has built a special boat for his daughter Allie
- a solo yacht designed to carry her to England in search of his long-lost sister. Will the threads of Arthur's life finally come together? I was there on the quayside to see Allie take her out for the first time saw her dancing through the waves & I knew I'd never built a finer boat.
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On 17 January 1913 alone & near starvation Douglas Mawson leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Then Mawson plunged through a snow bridge dangling over an abyss by the sledge harness. A line of poetry gave him the will to haul himself back to the surface. Mawson was sometimes reduced to crawling & one night he discovered that the soles of his feet had detached from the flesh beneath. On 8 February he staggered back to base his features unrecognisably skeletal. Illustrated by a trove of Frank Hurley's Antarctic photographs this thrilling almost unbelievable account establishes Mawson in his rightful place as one of the greatest polar explorers & expedition leaders. ...

Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online we fall prey to the illusion of companionship gathering thousands of Twitter & Facebook friends & confusing tweets & wall posts with authentic communication. But this relentless connection leads to a new solitude. We turn to new technology to fill the void but as MIT technology & society specialist Sherry Turkle argues as technology ramps up our emotional lives ramp down. Alone Together is the result of Turkle's nearly fifteen-year exploration of our lives on the digital terrain. Based on interviews with hundreds of children & adults it describes new unsettling relationships between friends lovers parents & children & new instabilities in how we understand privacy & community intimacy & solitude. ...

The spectacular international bestseller that introduced Washington-based homicide detective Alex Cross & launched James Patterson's career as one of the fastest-selling thriller writers in the world -- now reissued in striking new cover style. He had always wanted to be famous. When he kidnapped two well-known rich kids it was headline news. Then one of them was found -- dead -- & the whole nation was in uproar. For such a high-profile case they needed the top people -- Alex Cross a black detective with a Ph D in psychology & Jezzie Flanagan an ambitious young Secret Service agent -- yet even they were no match for the killer. He had the unnerving ability to switch from blood-crazed madness to clear-eyed sanity in an instant. But was he the helpless victim of a multiple-personality disorder -- or a brilliant cold-blooded manipulator? ...