Since its inception in 1893 the Hurtigruten continues to fascinate & attract travellers from all over the world sailing along a coastline which has no equal with over half of the journey north of the Arctic Circle. It is an intriguing tale about a unique transport artery which has a mission & a duty extending far beyond tourism the Hurtigruten being an integral part of the coastal community from which it gains its livelihood. Lavishly illustrated it draws together all the threads from the past 120 years & more which make the Hurtigruten what it is today with its core business still to provide a daily lifeline for the 34 communities served along its 1 352 nautical mile route between Bergen & Kirkenes albeit with modern purpose built ships to cruise liner standards. ...

Three years ago something terrible happened to Naomi Jenkins
- so terrible that she never told anybody. Now Naomi has another secret
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Let the hunt begin.. . Lisa Madison wants a husband & she has just the candidate in mind: Robert Langley. Trouble is the infuriating man insists on seeing her as the impish girl she once was--even as every other gentleman in London has taken notice of her womanly... charms. When her beauty lands her in danger its Robert who comes to the rescue only to announce his affections are not of the romantic kind! Robert saw enough sorrow in his parents union to know he wants nothing to do with marriage which is exactly what hell be trapped into if he acts on his desire for the irksome siren. & then Lisa does what Robert least expects: gives up on him! As feigned indifference gives way blistering passion burns at last. But just before the pair can succumb to hard-won bliss an enemy with unfinished business lurks threatening to destroy them both. ...

violet Brantford has always longed for the passionate embrace of Adrian Winter the wealthy Duke of Raeburn. Problem is he's set to marry violet's vivacious more socially polished twin sister Jeannette. But when Jeannette refuses to go through with the ceremony mere minutes before it is to begin soft-spoken violet finds herself walking down the aisle & taking vows in her sister's place in order to avoid a scandal. But keeping up the pretence with a man as divine as the Duke will take all of violet's skills. As for Adrian his marriage of convenience has just got very interesting in deed... The first part in Tracy Anne Warren's bestselling ' Trap' Trilogy of Regency romances. Other titles in this series are The Wife Trap & The Wedding Trap. Rouge Romance
- your first stop for romance books
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A witty & insightful look at relationships & whether you can ever escape your past from Adele Parks the bestselling author of ABOUT LAST NIGHT. Love triangles are always complex but in Bella's case things are particularly so as she is married to both men in her triangle. She plans never to reveal her first marriage to husband number two Phillip
- after all Stevie is no longer part of her life. That is until inconveniently her best friend introduces her new man to Bella & it's none other than husband number one. Could things get more complicated? Well only if Bella & Stevie fall for one another again...*
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A sacred oath a fallen angel a forbidden love... This darkly romantic story features our heroine Nora Grey a seemingly normal teenage girl with her own shadowy connection to the Nephilim & super-alluring bad boy Patch now her deskmate in biology class. Together they find themselves at the centre of a centuries-old feud between a fallen angel & a Nephilim... Forced to sit next to Patch in science class Nora attempts to resist his flirting though gradually falls for him against her better judgment. Meanwhile creepy things are going on with a mysterious stalker following her car breaking into her house & attacking her best friend Vi. Nora suspects Patch but there are other suspects too
- not least a new boy who has transferred from a different college after being wrongly accused of murdering his girlfriend. & he seems to have taken a shine to Nora... Love certainly is dangerous...and someone is going to have to make the ultimate sacrifice for it.
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Bob Mould Grant Hart & Greg Norton formed Husker Du in 1979 as a wildly cathartic outfit fueled by a cocktail of anger volume & velocity. Heres the first book to dissect the trio that countless critics & musicians have cited as one of the most influential bands of the 1980s. Author Andrew Earles examines how Husker Du became the first hardcore band to marry pop melodies with psychedelic influences & ear-shattering volume. Readers witness the band create the untouchable noise-pop of LPs like New Day Rising Flip Your Wig & Candy Apple Grey not to mention the sprawling double-length Zen Arcade. Few bands from the original American indie movement did more to inform the alternative rock styles that breached the mainstream in the 1990s. Husker Du truly were visionaries. ...

The adventure of a lifetime is just beginning.. . It has lain lost & forgotten for fifteen hundred years in the ancient heartland of England -- a scrap of glass & metal melded by fierce fire. It is the lost core of a flawless Sphere made by the greatest of the Anglo-Saxon Craeft Lords in memory of the one he loved. Her name was Spring & contained in the very heart of this work is a spark from the Fires of Creation. But while humans have lost their belief in such things the Hydden -- little people existing on the borders of our world -- have not. Breaking the silence of centuries they send one of their own a young boy Jack to live among humans in the hope that he may one day find what has been lost for so long. His journey leads him to Katherine a girl he rescues from a tragic accident -- its a meeting that will change everything. It is only through their voyage into the dangerous Hyddenworld that they will realize their destiny find love & complete the great quest that will save both their worlds from destruction. Their journey begins with Spring.. . ...

This work is an account of the pioneering days of hydro-electricity in Scotl&. It shows how each hydro project brought its own set of technical challenges underlining the remarkable engineering achievements involved in bringing hydro-electric power to the wild glens of the Scottish Highlands. It concludes by looking at the future of hydro-electric power worldwide. Is hydro-electric power the sustainable technology of choice in a new century already riven with ecological angst. ...

The Scavenger species are circling. It is truly the End Days for the Gzilt civilization. An ancient people organized on military principles & yet almost perversely peaceful the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier & were very nearly one of its founding societies deciding not to join only at the last moment. Now theyve made the collective decision to follow the well-trodden path of millions of other civilizations; they are going to Sublime elevating themselves to a new & almost infinitely more rich & complex existence. Amid preparations though the Regimental High Command is destroyed. Lieutenant Commander (reserve) Vyr Cossont appears to have been involved & she is now wanted
- dead not alive. Aided only by an ancient reconditioned android & a suspicious Culture avatar Cossont must complete her last mission given to her by the High Comm&. She must find the oldest person in the Culture a man over nine thousand years old who might have some idea what really happened all that time ago. It seems that the final days of the Gzilt civilization are likely to prove its most perilous.
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