This engaging book brings together the author's expertise in Biblical studies & his extensive experience in leading tours around the Holy L&. Following the chronological sequence of the key events in Luke's gospel the book comprises previous & later history of the sites where these events occurred geographical & archaeological descriptions maps of the relevant areas a description of the sites today & full colour photography throughout. Suitable for the traveller & the 'armchair pilgrim' alike In the Steps of Jesus offers vivid insights into Jesus' life & travels. ...

In 1355 the Black Prince took an army to Bordeaux & embarked on two chevauchees (mounted military expeditions generally characterised by the devastation of the surrounding towns & countryside) which culminated in his decisive victory over King Jean II of France at Poitiers the following year. Using the recorded itineraries as his starting point the author of this book walked more than 1 300 miles across France retracing the routes of the armies in search of a greater understanding of the Black Princes expedition. He followed the 1355 chevauchee from Bordeaux to the Mediterranean & back & that for 1356 from Aquitaine to the Loire to the battlefield at Poitiers & back again to Bordeaux. Drawing on his findings on the ground a wide range of documentary sources & the work of local historians many of whom the author met on his travels the book provides a unique perspective on the Black Princes chevauchees of 1355 & 1356 & the battle of Poitiers one of the greatest English triumphs of the Hundred Years War demonstrating in particular the impact of the landscape on the campaigns. Peter Hoskins is a former Royal Air Force pilot now living in France. He combines his interest in exploration of his adopted country with his research into the Hundred Years War. ...

Ann Rule delves into the mysterious death of Ronda Reynolds a former state trooper whose death ruled a suicide ten years ago is now considered a murder. On December 15 1998 thirty-three-year-old Ronda Reynolds was living with her husband of eleven months in the small town of Toledo Washington-but she planned to leave him that night & fly to Spokane Washington where her mother brother & grandmother eagerly awaited her visit for the Christmas holidays. But as Barb Thompson Rondas mother waited in an airport amid Christmas decorations in 1998 Ronda never arrived. Ronda had sounded happy on the phone only hours before excited that she would be seeing her family. But sheer dread replaced confusion as the news of Rondas death arrived. Her husband told a 911 operator that Ronda had committed suicide. Now a decade later the only thing we can be sure of is that Ronda Reynolds died violently that night & the lies & contradictions of her husband began to unravel. Written with the complete cooperation of Barb Thompson Rondas mother this is a homicide puzzle that Ann Rule fans will find haunting & utterly captivating. ...

It's twenty years since Miranda then sixteen holidayed in Cornwall & her life changed forever. Now she's back again
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All that was left of the garage was a heap of charred & smouldering beams. In the driving seat of the burnt-out car were the remains of a body.. . An accident said the police. An accident said the widow. She had been warning her husband about the danger of the car for months. Murder said the famous detective Lord Peter Wimsey
- & proceeded to track down the killer. 'I admire her novels.. .she has great fertility of invention ingenuity & a wonderful eye for detail' P. D. James
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Imagine being able to observe with astonishing clarity a childs delicate features as they evolve over the course of a pregnancy or witness the complex behavior of new human life in utero. Now we can thanks to the advent of innovative 3D & 4D imaging technologies that provide a powerful diagnostic tool for doctors & cast vivid light on our earliest development--and a profound new way for parents to bond with their babies on a deeper emotional level. Combining more than 140 images of life-like models based on the latest science computer-generated illustrations & 3D ultrasound images with an uplifting informative text In the Womb" is a week-by-week chronicle of the mysterious magical progress from embryo to fetus to full-term infant. Each spread features a central image & information about that particular stage as well as brief commentary explaining what we know & how we know it. For example at 24 weeks we watch a fetus open & close her eyes display facial expressions resembling a grimace & a frown & stick out her tongue (no one has yet established exactly why). & during the last trimester we learn she experiences REM sleep & can hear loud noises through the fluids of her mothers body--a first hint of the world that awaits outside the womb. Based on National Geographics acclaimed television program originally aired in 2005 & soon to be supplemented with two more 2-hour segments " In the Womb" is the perfect gift for expectant parents & a fascinating perspective for anyone captivated by the miracle of life." ...

When he was twelve years old Adam Ryan went playing in the woods one day with his two best friends. He never saw them again. Their bodies were never found & Adam himself was discovered with his back pressed against an oak tree & his shoes filled with blood. He had no memory of what had happened. Twenty years on Rob Ryan
- the child who came back
- is a detective in the Dublin police force. Hes changed his name. No one knows about his past. Then a little girls body is found at the site of the old tragedy & Rob is drawn back into the mystery. Knowing that he would be thrown off the case if his past were revealed Rob takes a fateful decision to keep quiet but hope that he might also solve the twenty-year-old mystery of the woods.

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After the Second World War nationalism emerged as the principle expression of resistance to Western imperialism in a variety of regions from the Indian subcontinent to Africa to parts of Latin America & the Pacific Rim. With the Bandung Conference & the formation of the Non-Aligned Movement many of Europes former colonies banded together to form a common bloc aligned with neither the advanced capitalist First World nor with the socialist Second World. ...

Addy & Prue Fairweather live with Nell their widowed mother in a flat above her shop on the Scotland Road. The sisters however are very different. Addy is dark-haired plain & always in trouble whereas Prue is flaxen-haired blue-eyed & as angelic as her looks imply. To make matters worse Nell makes no secret of her preference for the younger girl increasing Addy's jealousy & resentment. On the other side of the coin Giles Frobisher & his twin sister Gillian live in a crumbling mansion near the sea in Devon. The family have lost most of their money in the Depression so Giles leaves university & joins the Fleet Air Arm. He meets the Fairweather girls briefly on a visit to Liverpool but they lose touch. When they meet again Addy & Prue are no longer children & Giles realises he is falling in love... ...

Utterly absorbing funny & humane. A romp through a twisted century in the heart of Europe". (Anna Funder author of Stasiland). " Eugen Ruge is to the GDR what Hans Fallada was to the Third Reich. In Times of Fading Light may be a novel as important in the whole literature of the Cold War & its aftermath as anything written by Alexander Solzhenitsyn". (Philip Kerr). In Times of Fading Light begins in 2001 as Alexander Umnitzer who has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer leaves behind his ailing father to fly to Mexico where his grandparents lived as exiles in the 1940s. The novel then takes us both forward & back in time creating a panoramic view of the family's history: from Alexander's grandparents' return to the GDR to build the socialist state to his father's decade spent in a Gulag for criticising the Soviet regime to his son's desire to leave the political struggles of the twentieth century in the past. With wisdom humour & great empathy & drawing on his own family history Eugen Ruge majestically traces the stories of both this particular family & the GDR while exploring the tragic intertwining of politics love & family under the East German regime." ...