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Caroline Paul was recovering from a bad accident (she had been flying a plane when it happened) & thought things couldn't get worse. But then her beloved cat Tibia disappeared. She & her partner illustrator Wendy Mac Naughton anxiously waited for his return before resigning themselves to their loss. But weeks later Tibia waltzed back into their lives. His owners were overjoyed. They might also have been a bit jealous. All right they were very jealous! Where had their sweet anxious cat disappeared to? Had he become a swashbuckling cat adventurer? Did he love someone else more? His owners were determined to find out. Using methods as diverse as GPS technology cat cameras psychics the web & animal communicators they embarked on a quest to discover what their cat did when they weren't around. Writer Caroline Paul tells the warm & poignant story of their discoveries alongside Wendy Mac Naughton's elegant & hilarious full-colour watercolours. Lost Cat is a book for animal lovers pet owners & anyone who has ever done anything desperate for love. ...
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When she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952 Philomena Lee was sent to the convent at Roscrea in Co. Tipperary to be looked after as a fallen woman. She cared for her baby for three years until the Church took him from her & sold him like countless others to America for adoption. Coerced into signing a document promising never to attempt to see her child again she nonetheless spent the next fifty years secretly searching for him unaware that he was searching for her from across the Atlantic. Philomena's son renamed Michael Hess grew up to be a top Washington lawyer & a leading Republican official in the Reagan & Bush administrations. But he was a gay man in a homophobic party where he had to conceal not only his sexuality but eventually the fact that he had AIDs. With little time left he returned to Ireland & the convent where he was born: his desperate quest to find his mother before he died left a legacy that was to unfold with unexpected consequences for all involved. The Lost Child of Philomena Lee" is the tale of a mother & a son whose lives were scarred by the forces of hypocrisy on both sides of the Atlantic & of the secrets they were forced to keep. A compelling narrative of human love & loss Martin Sixsmith's moving account is both heartbreaking yet ultimately redemptive." ...
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Lost Christmas
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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. ...
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Lost Christmas
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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
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Lost City Of Faar
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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. ...
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Lost City Of Z
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Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett the inspiration behind Conan Doyles novel The Lost World was among the last of a legendary breed of British explorers. For years he explored the Amazon & came to believe that its jungle concealed a large complex civilization like El Dorado. Obsessed with its discovery he christened it the City of Z. In 1925 Fawcett headed into the wilderness with his son Jack vowing to make history. They vanished without a trace. For the next eighty years hordes of explorers plunged into the jungle trying to find evidence of Fawcetts party or Z. Some died from disease & starvation; others simply disappeared. In this spellbinding true tale of lethal obsession David Grann retraces the footsteps of Fawcett & his followers as he unravels one of the greatest mysteries of exploration. ...
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Lost Coast Of Norfolk
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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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Lost Continent
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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
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Lost City

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 and 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. And 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 and 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" and "The Treasure of Khan" and co-author Paul Kemprecos unravel a tangled web of conspiracy and 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 and 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 and 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" and "The Storm"."
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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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Gold - A precious highly conductive metal
White - A colour combining all colours
Ice - Frozen water, the solid state of water.
Blue - A primary colour
team - A group of people or animals linked by a common purpose.
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Fire - the release of energy through heat and light.
Ice - Frozen water, Ice is cold to the touch and forms when water reaches 0 degrees centigrade.
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