The bloody battle to rule Japan has begun: the Iga & the Kouga clan are locked in a fight to the death. Driven by a centuries-old hatred the clans will do anything to annihilate each other. The Kouga clan is engaging in a little espionage & has planted a shapeshifter disguised as an Iga ninja in the Iga palace. Meanwhile the Iga clan turns to its last best hope: their new leader Oboro who alone can defeat the Kougas formidable leader Gennosuke. But is Oboro willing to kill the man she loves? As the war grows more desperate true love may be the next casualty... ...

Thanks to the machinations of Ieyasu Tokugawa the age-old truce between the Kouga & the Iga clans is no more
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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. ...

Now in it's 3rd edition with over 130 000 sold learn to play & coach basketball with the experts! Learning & teaching basketball skills & tactics can be challenging. Executing them in competition can be troubling. Mastering them can be a career-long quest. Is it possible that a single book can provide all the instruction you need to conquer these basketball roadblocks? First you must know exactly how the skill or tactic is properly performed. Then you need to attempt it again & again with corrective advice through those trials until you get it right. Next comes practice. Lots of practice with drills designed to make performance of the skill or tactic efficient & effective. In Basketball: Steps to Success" Coach Hal Wissel covers the entire progression of technical & tactical development needed to become a complete player." ...

This book is aimed at basketball players serious about improving their game as well as coaches looking to improve team play & incorporate new drills into their practices. It combines detailed instruction & practice drills to establish & reinforce the fundamentals of individual & team play. It covers essential topics such as basic positioning moving without the ball ballhandling shooting passing perimeter moves post moves defence & rebounding. Tactics such as out-of-bounds play & offensive & defensive systems are incorporated to provide players & coaches with a comprehensive resource for the development of basketball skills. This is a more comprehensive approach to teaching basketball basics including expanded concepts critical cues teaching tips skill assessment & troubleshooting. ...

They are a mythical people almost an imagined people writes Kurlansky. Signs of their civilization exist well before the arrival of the Romans in 218BC. Their forbidden tongue is equally mysterious it is related to no other but today the Basques are enjoying what may be the most important cultural renaissance in their long existence. ...

The first major account of the history of reggae black music journalist Lloyd Bradley describes its origins & development in Jamaica from ska to rock-steady to dub & then to reggae itself a local music which conquered the world. There are many extraordinary stories about characters like Prince Buster King Tubby & Bob Marley. But this is more than a book of music history: it relates the story of reggae to the whole history of Jamaica from Colonial Island to troubled independence & Jamaicans from Kingston to London. ...

Longlisted for the 2008 Orange Fiction Prize Elif Shafaks The Bastard of Istanbul" is a tale of an extraordinary family curse & clashing cultural identities in the mystical & mysterious city of Istanbul. One rainy afternoon in Istanbul a woman walks into a doctors surgery. I need to have an abortion she announces. She is nineteen years old & unmarried. What happens that afternoon will change her life. Twenty years later Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul. Due to a mysterious family curse all the Kaznci men die in their early forties so it is a house of women among them Asyas beautiful rebellious mother Zeliha who runs a tattoo parlour; Banu who has newly discovered herself as clairvoyant; & Feride a hypochondriac obsessed with impending disaster. & when Asyas Armenian-American cousin Armanoush comes to stay long hidden family secrets connected with Turkeys turbulent past begin to emerge. " Wonderfully magical incredible breathtaking...will have you gasping with disbelief in the last few pages." (" Sunday Express"). "A beautiful book the finest I have read about Turkey." (" Irish Times"). " Heartbreaking...the beauty of Islam pervades Shafaks book. " (" Vogue"). Elif Shafak has emerged as one of the most distinctive voices in both English & Turkish contemporary literature; her novels " The Flea Palace" " The Forty Rules of Love" " The Gaze" & " Honour" are consistently at the top of bestseller lists across the globe. Elif Shafaks examination of national identity " The Happiness of Blond People" is available as part of the " Penguin Specials" series
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Harry is out of his depth. Detective Harry Hole is meant to keep out of trouble. A young Norwegian girl taking a gap year in Sydney has been murdered & Harry has been sent to Australia to assist in any way he can. He's not supposed to get too involved. When the team unearths a string of unsolved murders & disappearances nothing will stop Harry from finding out the truth. The hunt for a serial killer is on but the murderer will talk only to Harry. He might just be the next victim. Appearing in English for the first time The Bat" is the legendary first novel from the worldwide phenomenon Jo Nesbo." ...

Harry is out of his depth. Detective Harry Hole is meant to keep out of trouble. A young Norwegian girl taking a gap year in Sydney has been murdered & Harry has been sent to Australia to assist in any way he can. He's not supposed to get too involved. When the team unearths a string of unsolved murders & disappearances nothing will stop Harry from finding out the truth. The hunt for a serial killer is on but the murderer will talk only to Harry. He might just be the next victim. Appearing in English for the first time The Bat" is the legendary first novel from the worldwide phenomenon Jo Nesbo." ...