Nobody knows southwest England like Lonely Planet. Whether youre after subdued beaches or countryside walks subtropical gardens or ancient monuments a romantic hotel or a top restaurant this book gives you everything you need for an unforgettable trip. Tailor-make the perfect trip with our h&-picked inspiring itineraries. Immerse yourself: local tips & insights get you to the heart of the region. Detailed maps & driving tours make independent exploration easy. ...

It's amazing what one county has to offer with its rolling green hills stunning beaches & quaint villages Devon is a goldmine ...

Discover the darker side of Devon with this remarkable collection of true-life crimes from across the county. Legendary north Devon highwayman Tom Faggus (featured in the classic novel Lorna Doone) east Devon smuggler Jack Rattenbury (known as ' The Rob Roy of the West') south Devon murderer John Lee (' The Man They Could Not Hang') & west Devon fraudster Charles De Ville Wells (immortalised for his gambling exploits in the music hall song ' The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo') are featured among the infamous rogues rascals & reprobates in this veritable who's who of the county's most notorious villains. Drawing on a wide variety of historical sources & containing many cases which have never before been published Devon Villains will fascinate everyone interested in true crime & the history of Devon. ...

The story of the Devonshires is the story of Britain. William Cavendish the father of the first Earl dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess his second wife was gaoler-companion to Mary Queen of Scots during her long imprisonment in Engl&. Arbella Stuart their granddaughter was a heartbeat away from the throne of England & their grandson Lord General of the North fought to save the crown for Charles I. Fifty years later the First Duke of Devonshire conspired to depose James II & make William of Orange king. For the next two centuries the Devonshires were at the heart of fashionable society & the centre of political power. The Fourth Duke became prime minister & Georgiana wife of the Fifth scandalised even the Regency. Spencer Compton the last of the great Devonshires was three times offered the preimership & three times refused it. Even the Devonshire servants made history. Joseph Paxton was their gardner & Thomas Hobbes was the family tutor. With the help of previously unpublished material from the Chatsworth archives The Devonshires reveals how the dynasty made & lost fortunes fought & fornicated built great houses patronised the arts & pioneered the railways made great scientific discoveries & in the end came to terms with changing times. It is popular history at its very best. ...

If youre a developer trying to figure out why your application is not responding at 3 am you need this book! This is now my go-to book when diagnosing production issues. It has saved me hours in troubleshooting complicated operations problems." -Trotter Cashion cofounder Mashion Dev Ops can help developers QAs & admins work together to solve Linux server problems far more rapidly significantly improving IT performance availability & efficiency. To gain these benefits however team members need common troubleshooting skills & practices. In Dev Ops Troubleshooting: Linux Server Best Practices award-winning Linux expert Kyle Rankin brings together all the standardized repeatable techniques your team needs to stop finger-pointing collaborate effectively & quickly solve virtually any Linux server problem. Rankin walks you through using Dev Ops techniques to troubleshoot everything from boot failures & corrupt disks to lost email & downed websites. Youll master indispensable skills for diagnosing high-load systems & network problems in production environments. Rankin shows how to * Master Dev Ops approach to troubleshooting & proven Linux server problem-solving principles* Diagnose slow servers & applications by identifying CPU RAM & Disk I/O bottlenecks* Understand healthy boots so you can identify failure points & fix them* Solve full or corrupt disk issues that prevent disk writes* Track down the sources of network problems* Troubleshoot DNS email & other network services* Isolate & diagnose Apache & Nginx Web server failures & slowdowns* Solve problems with My SQL & Postgres database servers & queries* Identify hardware failures-even notoriously elusive intermittent failures" ...

London in 1856 is gripped by a frightening obsession. The specimen-collecting craze is growing & discoveries in far-off jungles are reshaping the known world in terrible & unimaginable ways. When the glamorous Lady Bessingham is found murdered in her bedroom surrounded by her vast collection of fossils & tribal masks Professor Adolphus Hatton & his morgue assistant Albert Roumande are called in to examine the crime scene
- & the body. In the new & suspicious world of forensics & autopsy examinations Hatton & Roumande are the best. But the crime scene is not confined to one room. In their efforts to help the infamous Scotland Yard detective Inspector Adams track down the Ladys killer Hatton & Roumande uncover a trail of murders connected to a packet of seditious letters that if published would change the face of society & religion irrevocably. D.E. Merediths measured prose & eye for exquisite detail moves seamlessly from the filthy docks on the Isle of Dogs to the jungles of Borneo & the drawing rooms of Londons upper class. Her slow-burning mystery builds to a shocking conclusion consuming Victorian London
- & victims
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It's a warm & windy day
- perfect for kite-flying. Or so Buttercup & Poppy think. They race up to the top of the hill trailing
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When Rose wakes up in the night because it is so quiet she's sure there is something wrong. With Buttercup's help she soon discovers that Owl has stopped hooting but what she doesn't know is why? Join Rose Buttercup & the other Dewdrop Fairies as they try to find Owl's lost hoot! ...

On the coldest morning of the year Vicki Myron found a tiny bedraggled kitten almost frozen to death in the night drop box of the library where she worked & her life -- & the town of Spencer Iowa -- would never be the same. Vicki was a single mother who had survived the loss of her family farm & an alcoholic abusive husb&. But her biggest challenge as the new head librarian in Spencer was to raise the spirits of a small out-of-the-way town mired deep in the farm crisis of the 1980s. Dewey as the townspeople named the kitten quickly grew into a strutting adorable library cat whose antics kept patrons in stitches & whose sixth sense about those in need created hundreds of deep & loving friendships. As his fame grew people drove hundreds of miles to meet Dewey & people all over the world fell in love with him. Through it all Dewey remained a loyal companion a beacon of hope not just for Vicki but for the entire town of Spencer as it slowly steadily pulled itself up from the worst financial crisis in its long history. Dewey won hearts & proved to everyone he encountered that unconditional love comes in many forms. ...

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World was a blockbuster bestseller & a publishing phenomenon. It spent more than seven months on the New York Times bestseller list nearly the entire time in the top five. It has sold nearly a million copies spawned three children's books & will be the basis for a movie starring Meryl Streep that is in the works. No doubt about it this is one beloved cat. But he's more than just a bestselling franchise: Dewey has created a community. Dewey touched readers everywhere who realized that no matter how difficult their lives might seem or how ordinary their talents they can
- & should
- make a positive difference to those around them. Dewey's Nine Lives continues the formula that made Dewey so successful: inspiring funny & heart-warming stories about cats told from the perspective of ' Dewey's Mum ' librarian Vicki Myron. The amazing felines in this book include Dewey of course whose further never-before-told adventures & amazing legacy are chronicled but several others who Vicki found out about when their owners reached out to her. Vicki learned through extensive interviews & story sharing what made these cats special & how they fit into Dewey's community of perseverance & love. From a divorced mother in Alaska who saved a drowning kitten on Christmas Eve to a post-traumatic stress-disorder
- suffering veteran whose heart was opened by his long relationship with a rescued cat these Dewey-style stories will inspire readers to laugh cry care & most importantly believe in the magic of animals to touch individual lives.


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