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Postsecret.com founder Frank Warren is back with an irresistible addition to his hugely popular Post Secret series. For The Secret Lives of Men & Women Warren has selected a never-before-seen collection of postcards bearing the explosive confessions & captivating revelations of men & women everywhere. Created using photographs collages illustrations & more the handmade cards offer a compelling dialogue on some of todays most provocative topics from marriage & infidelity to parenting office politics repressed fantasies & even abortion; daring us to consider how well we really know our friends family even ourselves. ...
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A half-Inuit albino & heir to a huge Northern Irish manor Light has never exactly blended in. Since her fathers mysterious disappearance in the Arctic shes felt more alone than ever. Yet as she mourns for the father who was her whole family Light starts to notice unexpected presences all around... Suddenly the mysterious world in which her father moved invades young Lights life with a bang. The Inuit folklore she vaguely knows comes alive all around her; the inscrutable violent & sometimes horrific beings of the North seem to believe she has a role to play & along with her tattoed butler & their new shark-headed friend Tupilak Light is drawn into an age-old intrigue between Setna the ruler of the sea & Frost king of the cold. Soon Light is aboard an ice-breaker bound for Nunavut having been promised help in searching for her father now suspected of being stolen away by the cruel & heartless Frost. Yet she scarcely realises the power of those who have chosen her for their enemy
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Morse sought to hide his disappointment. So many people in the Haworth Hotel that fateful evening had been wearing some sort of disguise -- a change of dress a change of make-up a change of partner a change of attitude a change of life almost; & the man who had died had been the most consummate artist of them all.. . Chief Inspector Morse seldom allowed himself to be caught up in New Year celebrations. So the murder inquiry in the festive hotel had a certain appeal. It was a crime worthy of the season. The corpse was still in fancy dress. & hardly a single guest at the Haworth had registered under a genuine name.. . ...
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Secret Museum

The Secret Museum is a unique treasure trove of the most intriguing artifacts hidden away in museum archives from all over the world - curated brought to light and brought to life by Molly Oldfield in a beautifully illustrated collection. Who knows what's hidden from view? Locked away in cabinets secure storage and aircraft hangars. Most of a museum's collection never gets seen. It sits in the quiet dark of an archive waiting for a treasure hunter or obsessive researcher to root out its very existence. Under the streets of Manhattan priceless books are shelved; brick outbuildings in London's East End house drawers of Victorian embroidery remembering foundlings long ago dead; body bags in Washington clothe space suits covered in real moon dust and in an unvisited aircraft hangar sits
Auguste Piccard's extraordinary invention the balloon gondola...This and many other extraordinary inventions legacies discoveries and artefacts have been visited and curated by Molly Oldfield into a Secret Museum. Rich in atmosphere and anecdote suffused with the surprising emotion of a personal discovery but grounded in fascinating factual detail this is a unique and beautifully illustrated book. The Secret Museum reveals sixty unknown artefacts and stories from all five continents from Rome to Rio and Boston to Berlin. And like the very best mornings spent at a museum it promises to be idiosyncratic surprising and enormously good fun. The Artefacts in the book include: An original Gutenberg Bible printed on vellum Harrison Schmitt's Space Suit A piece of Newton's Apple Tree Van Gogh's
Sketchbooks The original drawings of Wimbledon's Centre Court Dickens' letter opener Three pieces of Mars and much more...
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    The Secret Museum is a unique treasure trove of the most intriguing artifacts hidden away in museum archives from all over the world
    - curated brought to light & brought to life by Molly Oldfield in a beautifully illustrated collection. Who knows what's hidden from view? Locked away in cabinets secure storage & aircraft hangars. Most of a museum's collection never gets seen. It sits in the quiet dark of an archive waiting for a treasure hunter or obsessive researcher to root out its very existence. Under the streets of Manhattan priceless books are shelved; brick outbuildings in London's East End house drawers of Victorian embroidery remembering foundlings long ago dead; body bags in Washington clothe space suits covered in real moon dust & in an unvisited aircraft hangar sits Auguste Piccard's extraordinary invention the balloon gondola... This & many other extraordinary inventions legacies discoveries & artefacts have been visited & curated by Molly Oldfield into a Secret Museum. Rich in atmosphere & anecdote suffused with the surprising emotion of a personal discovery but grounded in fascinating factual detail this is a unique & beautifully illustrated book. The Secret Museum reveals sixty unknown artefacts & stories from all five continents from Rome to Rio & Boston to Berlin. & like the very best mornings spent at a museum it promises to be idiosyncratic surprising & enormously good fun. The Artefacts in the book include: An original Gutenberg Bible printed on vellum Harrison Schmitt's Space Suit A piece of Newton's Apple Tree Van Gogh's Sketchbooks The original drawings of Wimbledon's Centre Court Dickens' letter opener Three pieces of Mars & much more...

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    Balloon - A inflatable bag filled with a type of gas commonly helium, hydrogen or air
    embroidery - The art of decorating fabric with a needle and thread or yarn.
    Dust - A general term used for micro particles in the atmosphere
    Dark - A colour which absorbs visable ligt so apears less light than objects that reflect light
    World - A physical grouping, commonly used to describe earth and everything associated with ti
    Fun - Something that provides amusement or enterainment
    Mars - A planet fourth from the sun. Around half the size of the planet earth it has a distinctive surface colour due to high levels of iron.
    Embroidery - A thread based symbol.
    Personal - Something that belongs more to an individual due to it affecting them more by relating to them.
    Museum - A building which exhibits old artefacts for viewing of people who show interest.

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