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Explore the wonderful city of San Francisco with the help of this genuinely pocket-sized map. Small in size yet big on detail this compact dependable map will ensure you dont miss a thing. *

Includes:: 2 Pop Out maps
- a detailed street map of Downtown San Francisco & an overview map of the whole city including Golden Gate Park * Additional maps of Fishermans Wharf & Pier 30 the San Francisco Bay area & a transit map are also included * Ingenious self-folding map is small enough to fit in your pocket yet offers extensive coverage of the city in an easy-to-use format * Thorough street index is also featured & cross-referenced to the map so you can easily find your destination * Key places of interest are listed offering you advice on the best things to see


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Portugal 1705. In the dungeons of a Templar castle a dying old man bequeaths an ancient half-burnt book to his young inquisitor. Keeping one step ahead of those who would kill to wrench the book's secret from his hands the inquisitor turns his back on his calling & sets off on an impossible journey to complete the old man's quest. Baghdad 2003. A military unit makes a horrifying discovery: a hidden state-of-the-art lab where dozens of men women & children have died. The scientist they were hunting is believed to be working on a bio weapons programme. But the man known only as the hakeem
- the doctor
- has escaped taking with him the startling truth about his work.. .

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Nora Roberts
- The World's Greatest Storyteller Successful photographer Jo Ellen Hathaway thought she'd escaped the house called
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Sanctuary: British Artists & their Studios" gives a rare & privileged insight to the studios & inspirations of nearly 120 of Britains greatest living artists working today both in Britain & abroad. Sanctuarys stellar cast of artists encompasses many different ways of thinking about & making art. This lavish large-format book brims with specially commissioned photographs portraits images at work places of inspiration & incisive interviews: the artists open their minds as much as their studio doors. The book is full of insights revelations & thoughts on the modern art world & contemporary art practice giving a vivid sense of what it means to be an artist at work today. It features a stellar cast of characters including Frank Auerbach Ron Arad Fiona Banner Peter Blake Jake & Dinos Chapman Martin Creed Tracey Emin Gilbert & George Susan Hiller Howard Hodgkin Polly Morgan Cornelia Parker Grayson Perry Paula Rego Juergen Teller Gavin Turk Keith Tyson Rachel Whiteread & more the list is extraordinary. Iwona Blazwick gives an A-Z of studios with a twist; Richard Corks Studio Visits gives a personal & vivid tour around the studios of Francis Bacon Lucian Freud Bridget Riley & more; Tom Mortons Field Notes on British Art in the Third Millennium is an intelligent sketch of the wider wilder world that all artists now inhabit." ...

November 1194. Appointed by Richard the Lionheart as the first coroner for the county of Devon Sir John de Wolfe an ex-Crusader rides out to the lonely moorland village of Widecombe to hold an inquest on an unidentified body. On his return to Exeter the coroner is incense to find that his own brother-in-law Sheriff Richard de Revelle is intent on thwarting the murder investigation particularly when it emerges that the dead man is a Crusader & a member of one of Devon's finest & most honourable families. ...

The bestselling thriller debut of 2011
- the apocalyptic conspiracy thriller that has set the world alight...REVELATION OR DEVASTATION?
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Rosie Goodwins engaging addition to Catherine Cooksons series. Despite her success as a writer Maisies life has never been easy. But with the help of Hamilton the imaginary horse she conjures up to escape harsh reality her humour & courage pull her through. Now married to Tommy Maisies hopes of happiness are shattered when he becomes jealous & controlling
- threatening even her relationship with her beloved adopted son Harold. After a tragic accident Maisie reluctantly agrees to move back to her home town of Fellburn Tyneside for a fresh start. But her husbands behaviour becomes increasingly erratic & one of his new employees a strange man nicknamed the Sand Dancer strikes fear into her heart every time she meets him. Maisie begins to avoid his place of work little realises that Tommy is concealing something so terrible it could destroy everything she holds dear...
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One windy summer day an artist makes a horse sculpture out of the sand on the beach at St Ives. It takes him the whole day & all the beach people admire it. But when everyone goes in at the end of the day the Sand Horse can hear the white horses in the surf calling to him: ' Come with us to Sennen Land's End & Longships Light! ' & he longs to join them. This haunting story was Ann Turnbull's first for Andersen Press beautifully interpreted by Greenaway Medal Winner Michael Foreman. ...

It is 1947 & Evie & Martin Mitchell have just arrived in the Indian village of Masoorla with their five-year-old son. But cracks soon appear in their marriage as Evie struggles to adapt to her new life & Martin fails to bury unbearable wartime memories. When Evie finds a collection of letters concealed deep in the brickwork of their rented bungalow so begins an investigation that consumes her allowing her to escape to another world a hundred years earlier & to the extraordinary friendship of two very different young women. & as Evies fascination with her Victorian discoveries deepens she unearths powerful secrets. But at what cost to her present already fragile existence? ...