Small-time circus magician Oscar Diggs' life suddenly changes when he's hurled away in a hot air balloon from uneventful Kansas into the enchanting Land of Oz. The inhabitants there see Oscar as the Great Wizard & they shower him with the fame & fortune he has always imagined would be his. That is until three very powerful witches start to question Oscar's abilities. Drawn into an increasingly dangerous world Oscar must quickly figure out who is good & who is evil in order to combat the wicked forces at large. Putting his limited magical arts to use through illusion ingenuity
- & even a bit of wizardry
- Oscar transforms himself not only into the great & powerful Wizard of Oz but into a better man as well.

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Ray Mears' Outdoor Survival Handbook is a book of discovery explaining the everyday skills you need to live in & enjoy the natural world. Season by season this unique fully illustrated guide describes the resources & materials available in the wild & how to use them. Whether you want to spend a day a week or a month out of doors Ray Mears' Outdoor Survival Handbook will help you enjoy it to the full. Packed with practical tips insights into nature & respect for traditional knowledge this is a book for families groups & individual hikers & climbers
- for everyone who enjoys outdoor life.
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Film edition of One Shot Lee Child's 9th Reacher thriller to tie in with the release of the movie Jack Reacher starring Tom Cruise on Boxing Day 2012. Six shots. Five dead. A heartland city thrown into terror. But within hours the cops have it solved. A slam-dunk case. Apart from one thing. The accused gunman refuses to talk except for a single phrase: Get Jack Reacher for me. Reacher lives off the grid. He's not looking for trouble. But sometimes trouble looks for him. What could connect the ex-military cop to this psychopathic killer? ...

After reckoning with the ends of the earth in acclaimed books such as Terra Incognita" & " The Magnetic North" Sara Wheeler rediscovered America thirty-five years after her first Greyhound trip across the country. She returns in turbulent midlife to trace the steps of six women who fled various sorts of trouble in nineteenth-century England & went to the United States to reinvent themselves. Her travel companions include Fanny Trollope mother of Anthony & author of the biting " Domestic Manners of the Americans"; the actress Fanny Kemble who shocked the nation with her passionate first-hand indictment of slavery; the prolifically pamphleteering economist Harriet Martineau; the homesteader Rebecca Burlend who had never been more than twelve miles from her Yorkshire village before she sailed to the New World; the traveller Isabella Bird whose many ailments remained in check as long as she was scaling the Rockies; & the novelist Catherine Hubback niece of Jane Austen who deposited her husband in a madhouse & rode the br&-new rails to San Francisco. Tough-minded outsiders these women's truest qualities emerged in a country as incomplete & tentative as their native land was staid & settled. & they discovered second acts for themselves at a time when the world expected them to disappear politely. From the swampy heat of Georgia's Sea Islands to the icy purity of the Cascades Sara Wheeler finds their path & her own." ...

' First there was a phone call from a stranger then a letter showed up fourteen years after it was sent. That's how I learned I'd made a serious error in judgement & ended up risking my life.. .' The call comes on a Monday morning from a guy who scavenges defaulted storage units at auction. Last weekend he bought a stack. They had stuff in them -- Kinsey stuff. For thirty bucks he'll sell her the lot. Kinsey's never been one for personal possessions but curiosity wins out & she hands over a twenty (she may be curious but she loves a bargain). What she finds amid childhood memorabilia is an old undelivered letter. It will force her to re-examine her beliefs about the break-up of her first marriage about the honour of her first husband about an old unsolved murder. & it will put her life in the gravest peril. ' Grafton's fans will be thrilled with this knockout Kinsey Millhone mystery.. . One of the very best entries in a long-lived & much-loved series' Publishers Weekly ...

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If only real life was like the movies! Fleur O' Farrell seems to have the perfect life. Living in the idyllic village of Lissamore on Ireland's West Coast she has her own vintage clothes business as well as her very own Mr. Big. But when she starts to proffer anonymous advice via the internet to a young girl with a tangled love-life Fleur's big heart leads to big trouble as this act of kindness uncovers a darker side to her charmed life! Similarly newly-wed Dervla Vaughn appears to be living the dream. However with husband Christian working away more often than he's at home there's trouble in paradise. Left alone to care for her demanding mother-in-law Dervla wonders how her once-enviable life changed beyond all recognition! Surely married life should be blissful not stressful? Meanwhile the once-sleepy Lissamore is now a whirlwind of activity as the The O' Hara Affair is filmed in its picturesque surroundings. & with many locals being seduced by the glamour of the movies who knows what could happen! Take a trip to heavenly Lissamore in this warm witty read that will pull at the heartstrings. ...

O. Winston Link is Americas most celebrated railroad photographer. Link began photographing the Norfolk & Western the last major steam railroad in the United States in the mid 1950s when the N&W was converting its operations from steam to diesel. Links N&W project captured the railroad industry at a moment of transition before the triumph of the automobile & the airplane that ended passenger service on the line & before the corresponding dramatic reduction in the workforce. & just as importantly Links work reveals a small town way of life that was about to experience seismic shifts & in many cases vanish completely. The images in O. Winston Link: Life Along the Line focus on the people & communities surrounding the railroad in particular recording life in the Appalachian portion of the Norfolk & Westerns service area. The book is published in cooperation with the O. Winston Link Museum in Roanoke Virginia which holds the complete archive of Links N&W project. It replaces two previous Abrams books on Link Steam Steel & Stars & The Last Steam Railroad in America. O. Winston Link: Life Along the Line offers a broad view of the entire range of Links portfolio of the last years of the Norfolk & Western in steam including excellent examples of both the keystone work & of the photographs such as modernist images that have not been previously published. ...

1630: after long years of peace the reign of Charles I brings brutal civil war to Engl&. The clash between King & Parliament is echoed at Morland Place when Richard brings home a Puritan bride while his brother Kit joins Prince Rupert & the Royalist cavalry leaving their father Edmund desperately trying to steer a middle course between the fighting factions. As the war grinds on bitterness & disillusion replace the early fervour & the schisms between husband & wife father & son grow deeper. Edmund struggles grimly through it all in an attempt to keep the Morland fortune intact but he is thwarted by the estrangement between his sons & then alienated from his beloved wife Mary. ...

In 1991 five wannabe Mancunian musicians came together & cracked a spark that was to ignite the explosion which became Oasis. The band went from obscurity to become a global phenomenon in the space of a year achieving world-wide recognition & selling over 70 million records. Pre Oasis drummer Tony Mc Carroll joined a band called The Rain linking up with guitarist Paul Bonehead Arthurs bassist Paul Mc Guigan & singer Chris Hutton. Hutton was later replaced by Liam Gallagher who in turn brought brother Noel along. What started out as five young lads with a common dream of becoming rock stars eventually disintegrated into in-fighting clashes of egos & finanical disputes. In 1995 following the release of Definitely Maybe
- the fastest-selling debut of all time
- things came to a head & Tony left the b&. In this candid & hilarious book Tony tells one of the most in-depth rock n roll stories of modern times. He reveals the truth about the early years before the band was even formed; he tells of the drinking & drug consumption. Plus he talks of his much-publicised rift with Noel Gallagher. Tonys recollections include stories involving David Beckham Prince Eric Cantona & John Mc Enroe.

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