In 1572 the Spanish sacked Vilcabamba the last Inca stronghold & the city was rapidly overtaken by the jungle receding for hundreds of years into legend & myth. This is the story of how Vilcabamba was founded & how the Incas held out against the Spanish for over 30 years in a savage guerrilla war. Hundreds of years later at the turn of this century an American explorer Hiram Bingham stumbled on the ruins of Machu Pichu & announced to the world that he had found Vilcabamba the lost city of the Incas. For fifty years the academic world agreed with him until in 1967 another American explorer discovered the real Vilcabamba... This is the biography of a city
- through history myth legend literature exploration & archaeology.
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WHAT IS HIS DARK SECRET? Destined for the convent Emery Montbard disguises herself as a boy & enlists the help of chivalrous knight Nicholas de Burgh. From a proud dynastic family Nicholas has a strong code of honour
- which is challenged when he notices the provocative curves of his mysterious companion. Doesn't she realise that she gives away her true identity every time she moves? But Nicholas also hides a secret
- one that lies at the very heart of him & can never be revealed...

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Good-quality colour photographs of the last days of the steam age are rare. Many of those that do exist have been published repeatedly but the 250 colour photographs featured in this book taken between 1958 & 1968 are an exception. It is believed that the photographer & author 76-year-old Gavin Morrison has Britain's largest personal collection of colour slides still in the hands of the original photographer. This attractive large-format book shows steam locomotives at work throughout the country in all weathers & in a year-by-year presentation accompanied by the author's knowledgeable commentary. ...

Elvis Coles girlfriend Lucy is out of town & she has left her young son Ben in Elviss care. Elvis & Lucy have had a few problems lately
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THE LAST DETECTIVE Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond is the last detective
- computers & spreadsheets & technology are not
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News of the untimely death of Charles Dickens reaches James R. Osgood at his American publisher. Expecting the arrival of the latest instalment of The Mystery of Edwin Drood & suspicious of unscrupulous New York publishers keen to get their hands on the novel Osgood sends his clerk Daniel Sands to await its arrival. When Daniels body is found by the docks the manuscript is nowhere to be found Osgood must embark on a transatlantic quest that leads him to the dangerous streets of London in order to unearth the rest of Dickens final mystery & solve another of his own. ...

This is the last diet youll ever need. Why? Because Dr Eva Orsmond at last gives you the truth about healthy weight loss for life. Eva has helped thousands of people lose weight through her clinics & on RTEs Operation Transformation. Now you can benefit from her easy-to-follow weight-loss steps tasty recipes & sound advice which will guide you on your way to achieving your healthy weight
- & staying there. The Last Diet is flexible balanced & realistic. It shows you how to: * Change your behaviour: replace the bad habits with good ones * Prepare for the plan with a 10-step guide * Change your life with Evas 4-phase plan * Address your emotional issues with food * Cook easy healthy low calorie meals with 90 recipes included This book will educate you about food & food choices. It will show you how to create a lifestyle change that is based on a healthy eating routine. Most of all it will offer you a real chance at achieving healthy weight loss for life.
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A mistake waiting to happen? Its been four years since infamous party girl delectable Daniella Danatello brought her powerful family the wrong sort of publicity! Danis desperate to get back in their good books & accepts a job as physiotherapist on her fathers rugby team. Theres just one thing
- one man
- standing in the way of earning back her selfrespect: the team doctor Zac Price. With killer abs & infuriatingly sexy arrogance Zac is one massive distraction
- & now shes his colleague any involvement with him would break all the rules. Danis determined to keep away...but Zacs just too tempting to ignore...


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In a corrupt world where crooked cops & desperate gamblers play dangerous games of betrayal one man has power over them all. The Last Don" is Mario Puzo at his finest
- a masterful saga of the last great American crime family the Clericuzios & their powerful reach into Hollywood & Las Vegas. Domenico Clericuzio is a wise & ruthless man who in his old age is determined to create a life free from criminal activities for his grandchildren. But as he strives to establish his heirs in legitimate society secrets from his family's past spark a vicious & bloody war between cousins..."
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I know what they see when they look at me. The charming soft-spoken dragoness bred from the most powerful of royal bloodlines. A disguise stronger than any battle shield that allows me to keep all suitors at tails length. A technique thats worked until him. Until Ragnar the Cunning handsome barbarian warlord & warrior mage from the desolate Northlands. Unlike those whove come before him he does not simply submit to my astounding charm & devastating smile. Instead he dismisses me as vapid useless & to my great annoyance rather stupid! Yet Ill allow no male to dismiss me. Soon hell learn my worth my many skills & the strength of my will. For this one challenges me enough to make me want to ruthlessly taunt him tease him & finally when the trap is set bring him to his knees. ...