A personalized birth sampler complete with babys favorite cuddly critters is the perfect way to celebrate this special time. As baby grows a set of colorfully illustrated ABCs is just the thing to help with learning. Nothing brings childhood to mind quite like Mother Goose & her nursery rhymes. What fun to have these charming characters marching along in their merry parade to make up as a framed picture or a delightful bolster cushion. Youll find a fairy for girls & dragon for boys encouraging them to make a wish & follow their dreams. Imagination & wonder fill a childs room with creativity. The personalized nameplates for hanging in a childs room can also be stitched on a sweatshirt or pillow top. Finally a collection of small motifs are a perfect way to pick & choose designs for quickerprojects like cards & gift bags. All 27 designs & four alphabet charts are presented in clear black & white charts & basic cross stitch instructions are included. The palette is bright & cheerful reflecting the fun & frolic in a childs life. ...

Rules are different outside the Society. Chasing down an uncertain future Cassia makes her way to the Outer Provinces in pursuit of Ky
- taken by the Society to his certain death
- only to find that he has escaped into the majestic but treacherous canyons. On this wild frontier are glimmers of a different life & the enthralling promise of rebellion. But even as Cassia sacrifices everything to reunite with Ky ingenious surprises from Xander may change the game once again. Narrated from both Cassia's & Ky's points of view this hotly anticipated sequel to Matched will take them both to the edge of Society where nothing is as expected & crosses & double-crosses make their path more twisted than ever... This is the sensational second book in the series & follow-up to acclaimed international bestseller Matched"."

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Captain Thomas Forsyths tour of Afghanistan is cut brutally short when he is badly wounded by a roadside bomb. Returning home to his mother
- a racehorse trainer & the First Lady of racing
- Tom discovers the training business is on the edge & facing a threat far more dangerous than a run of bad form. Tom finds himself on a very different but just as deadly battlefield where his military skills are tested.. .kill or be killed?

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Ex-deniable operator Nick Stone is bodyguarding a TV crew on the streets of war-torn Basra. He seems certain to die when insurgent gunmen attack. Only a reporters swift action saves his life. When the reporter vanishes within hours presumed kidnapped Stone is asked by the Intelligence Service to find him. The trail leads from Iraq to London Dublin & Kabul
- the brutal city where governments terrorism & big business collide. Caught in the crossfire Stones nightmare is only just beginning
- for the hunter has suddenly become the hunter...

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Dr Ruth Galloway is in her late 30s. When shes not digging up bones or other ancient objects she lectures at a university in Norfolk. She lives alone but happily so in a bleak marshy area called Saltmarsh overlooking the sea & Norfolks vast skies with her cats & Radio 4 for company. Shes a salty character
- quirky. When a childs bones are found in the marshes near a dig that Ruth & her former boyfriend Peter worked on ten years before Ruth is called upon to date them. They turn out to be bronze-age bones & DCI Harry Nelson who called on Ruth for help is disappointed. He had hoped they would be the bones of a child called Lucy whos been missing presumed dead for ten years. He has been getting letters about her ever since
- odd letters with references to ritual & sacrifice & including"es from the Bible & Shakespeare. Then a second girl goes missing & Nelson gets another letter
- like the ones about Lucy. Is it the same killer? Is it a ritual murder linked in some way to the site near Ruths remote home? Then one of Ruths cats is killed & clearly shes in danger from a killer who knows that her expert knowledge is being used to help the police with their enquiries.. .


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At journeys end would a new life begin? When Liane crossed the Atlantic & arrived in Europe the future seemed bright & beautiful. Only the image of a face haunted her new life in France. Then the Second World War sent her on a fateful crossing leaving her husband far behind. Suspended between two worlds Liane was swept into a passionate affair a bright brief moment of total happiness. Would the voyage seal her love for ever or leave her stranded on the shores of heartbreak & despair? ...

Robert Jordan's epic fantasy saga The Wheel of Time is now firmly established as a classic of the genre & a world-wide bestseller. Now the series continues with the eagerly-awaited tenth volume.. . Rand al' Thor the Dragon Reborn must fight on against the Dark One in a struggle that has drawn an entire world into its vortex
- claiming the souls of friends & enemies alike. He has cleansed the taint of madness from the male half of the True Source so may now draw on its power as a weapon of awesome potential. This could tip the balance in a perilous battle against evil as Rand must gamble with himself at stake. He cannot be sure which of his allies are really enemies
- even among lifelong companions.

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Anyone who regularly tackles challenging crossword puzzles will be familiar with the frustration of unanswered clues blocking the road to completion. Together in one bumper volume Crossword Lists & Crossword Solver provides the ultimate aid for tracking down those final solutions. The Lists section contains more than 100 000 words & phrases listed both alphabetically & by number of letters under category headings such as Volcanoes Fungi Gilbert & Sullivan Clouds Cheeses Mottoes & Archbishops of Canterbury. As intersecting solutions provide letters of the unanswered clue locating the correct word or phrase becomes quick & easy. The lists are backed up with a comprehensive index which also guides the puzzler to associated tables
- e.g. when looking for Film Stars; try Stage & Screen Personalities. The Solver section contains more than 100 000 potential solutions including plurals comparative & superlative adjectives & inflections of verbs. The list extends to first names place names technical terms compound expressions abbreviations & euphemisms. Grouped according to number of letters
- up to fifteen
- this section is easy to use & suitable for all levels of crossword puzzle. At the end a further 3 000 words are listed by category along with an index of unusual words.


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Crosville Motor Services was one of the most important regional bus operators that ultimately became part of NBC. Its services dominated all of North Wales from Holyhead eastwards as far south as a line from Aberystwyth to Oswestry as well as Cheshire the Wirral Peninsula & southern Merseyside. The company was formed as the Crosville Motor Co Ltd on 27 October 1906 in Chester by George Crosland Taylor & Georges de Ville initially to manufacture cars but was to commence operating buses two years later. Taken over by the Tilling Group 20 years later Crosville was to be nationalised along with other Tilling operators in 1948 & thus became part of the National Bus Company in 1969. As a Tilling Group operator the company's fleet was largely formed of Bristol/ECW models although there were odd exceptions & after 1969 the NBC's buying policy determined that vehicles such as the Leyland National would dominate. This volume covers the period from the mid-1960s through to the mid-1980s. It focuses on the transition from Tilling Group operator through the era of the National Bus Company to the period immediately prior to Privatisation. The photographs in the book have generally not been published before & are accompanied by detailed captions. ...

Crow was Ted Hughess fourth book of poems for adults & a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it he found both a structure & a persona that gave his vision a new power & coherence. A. Alvarez wrote in the Observer Each fresh encounter with despair becomes the occasion for a separate almost funny story in which natural forces & creatures mythic figures even parts of the body act out their special roles each endowed with its own irrepressible life. With Crow Hughes joins the select band of survivor-poets whose work is adequate to the destructive reality we inhabit. ...