When Gooses parents are killed in a car crash on Christmas Eve his life changes utterly. Living with his increasingly senile Nan his dog Mutt is the only thing keeping him sane. His only other friend is Frank a former friend of his father. Franks own life is falling apart & he has recruited Goose to help him carry out petty theft around the city. A year to the day since the accident that changed his life Goose meets Anthony a strange man who has forgotten who he is but seems to know more about others than they know about themselves. When Mutt goes missing Goose has no choice but to rely on Anthony to help find him. In an adventure that draws in Frank whos lost his family an old lady whos lost a precious bangle an elderly doctor whos lost his wife & mother whos lost her daughter Goose follows Anthony across Manchester. But at the centre of the mystery is Anthony himself: who is he how does he know so much & can he help Goose & the others find what theyre searching for? A delight to read from start to finish David Logan takes the reader on a terrific journey through love loss & the quest for home. ...

Goose is lost. Its Christmas his parents are dead & now his dog Mutt has gone missing. Those around him arent doing much better: his uncle Franks wife has walked out & his nan is losing her mind. But then Anthony appears
- a man who seems to know everything about those he meets but nothing at all about himself. Who is he how does he know so much & can he help Goose & the others recover what theyve lost? So begins a dramatic adventure through love loss & the quest for home.
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Lost City" is a nerve-shredding "NUMA Files" novel from Clive Cussler international bestseller. Kurt Austins toughest assignment yet... The discovery of a body frozen for ninety years in a glacier high in the French Alps seems of unlikely concern to Kurt Austin & the NUMA Special Projects team. But when those on site are trapped in alpine tunnels flooding with glacial meltwater Austin can hardly ignore a cry for help. & this near tragedy proves to be no mere accident. For the body held a secret. A secret someone was prepared to kill for. Soon Austin is plunged into a mystery involving a virulent algal weed ravaging the Atlantics " Lost City" trench while he & the team face a family of astonishing greed
- who will stop at nothing to get what they want... Clive Cussler author of the best-selling " Dirk Pitt" novels " Arctic Drift" & " The Treasure of Khan" & co-author Paul Kemprecos unravel a tangled web of conspiracy & greed in " Lost City" the fifth novel of the action-packed "NUMA Files" series. Praise for Clive Cussler: " The Master is back... Cussler is in top form with this galloping tale of derring-do & world domination". (" Sunday Express"). Bestselling author Clive Cussler has kept readers on the edges of their seats for four decades with his thrilling action novels. As well as the "NUMA Files" series there are also the " Oregon Files" the " Dirk Pitt" stories (which started it all) the " Isaac Bell" adventures & the Fargo" series. The other titles in the "NUMA" files series are: " Serpent" " Blue Gold" " Fire Ice" " White Death" " Polar Shift" " The Navigator" " Medusa" " Devils Gate" & " The Storm"."
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Fresh from his adventures on Denduron Bobby Pendragon suddenly finds himself in the territory of Cloral a vast world that is entirely covered by water. Cloral is nearing disaster of huge proportions & is on the brink of all-out war. Bobby & Uncle Press must struggle to locate the legendary lost land of Faar which may hold the key to Clorals survival. ...

In 1911 Hiram Bingham a pre-historian with a love of exotic destinations set out to Peru in search of the legendary city of Vilcabamba capital city of the last Inca ruler Manco Inca. With a combination of doggedness & good fortune he stumbled on the perfectly preserved ruins of Machu Picchu perched on a cloud-capped ledge 2000 feet above the torrent of the Urubamba River. The buildings were of white granite exquisitely carved blocks each higher than a man. Bingham had not as it turned out found Vilcabamba but he had nevertheless made an astonishing & memorable discovery which he describes in his bestselling book LOST CITY OF THE INCAS. ...

The Norfolk coast is beautiful & unique treasure in our sceptred isle. However over the centuries several of its towns villages & hamlets have been lost beneath the waves or have had to migrate inland as the acres of ground once before them were gradually eaten away by the indefatigable lap & crash of the waves. This book does not just retell the story of lost settlements but

Includes:: those that remain & have been changed irrevocably by the silting up of sea channels or have developed upon the sandbars created by longshore drift. The coast is not only sculpted by natural forces it is defined by its inhabitants who have sought to embank dredge & live from sea trade & fishing on it for centuries. Over the last 200 years resorts for health & holidays have developed. The coming of the railways & the improvement of the roads changed the Norfolk coast beyond the comprehension of our forebears in a matter of a few generations. In this latest volume by Neil R. Storey we encounter some of the personalities folklore events disasters heroes & villains that have become interwoven into the rich tapestry of Norfolks coastal past. This nostalgic & thought-provoking book explores places ways of life trades local identity & communities that have been lost or are becoming increasingly endangered: a timely reminder of how much is still at risk of becoming part of the lost coast of Norfolk.

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I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to'. & as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth & drove almost 14 000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam the kind of trim & sunny place where the films of his youth were set. Instead his search led him to Anywhere USA; a lookalike strip of gas stations motels & hamburger outlets populated by lookalike people with a penchant for synthetic fibres. Travelling around thirty-eight of the lower states
- united only in their mind-numbingly dreary uniformity
- he discovered a continent that was doubly lost; lost to itself because blighted by greed pollution mobile homes & television; lost to him because he had become a stranger in his own l&. The Lost Continent is a classic of travel literature
- hilariously stomach-achingly funny yet tinged with heartache
- & the book that first staked Bill Bryson's claim as the most beloved writer of his generation.



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In THE LOST CONTINENT BBC Europe Editor Gavin Hewitt tells the story of a flawed dream a noble vision that turned dangerous & which led Europe into its gravest crisis since World War Two
- a crisis for which it was totally unprepared. A pillar of the post-war European dream was a shared currency & with it came easy money seducing some countries into a wild spending binge. After the financial crash in the United States Europe caught the cold & was left with a debt crisis that came to threaten the entire European project. THE LOST CONTINENT is rich in anecdote weaving together the stories of ordinary people with the high politics & drama of Europe in crisis to give an unparalleled & vivid portrait of a massive shift in modern history. It

Includes:: interviews with top officials & insiders & dramatic accounts of key meetings. Gavin Hewitt's THE LOST CONTINENT is a clear-eyed book by a distinguished & well-connected journalist which tells the astonishing story of how we got here & where we might be headed.


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In THE LOST CONTINENT BBC Europe Editor Gavin Hewitt tells the story of a flawed dream a noble vision that turned dangerous & which led Europe into its gravest crisis since World War Two
- a crisis for which it was totally unprepared. A pillar of the post-war European dream was a shared currency & with it came easy money seducing some countries into a wild spending binge. After the financial crash in the United States Europe caught the cold & was left with a debt crisis that came to threaten the entire European project. THE LOST CONTINENT is rich in anecdote weaving together the stories of ordinary people with the high politics & drama of Europe in crisis to give an unparalleled & vivid portrait of a massive shift in modern history. It

Includes:: interviews with top officials & insiders & dramatic accounts of key meetings. Gavin Hewitt's THE LOST CONTINENT is a clear-eyed book by a distinguished & well-connected journalist which tells the astonishing story of how we got here & where we might be headed.


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This volume contains humorous accounts of two journeys one taken across America the other a trek across Europe. The Lost Continent" is an account of one man's rediscovery of America & his search for the perfect small town. Instead he finds a continent that is doubly lost: lost to itself because it is blighted by greed pollution mobile homes & television; & lost to him because he has become a foreigner in his own country. In " Neither Here Nor There" the author journeys from Hammerfest the northernmost town on the European continent to Istanbul. In doing so he retraces his steps as a student 20 years before visiting countries including Norway France & Italy." ...