A Jeeves & Wooster collection A classic collection of stories featuring some of the funniest episodes in the life of Bertie Wooster gentleman & Jeeves his gentleman's gentleman
- in which Bertie's terrifying Aunt Agatha stalks the pages seeking whom she may devour while Bertie's friend Bingo Little falls in love with seven different girls in succession (including the bestselling romantic novelist Rosie M. Banks). & Bertie with Jeeves's help hopes to evade the clutches of the terrifying Honoria Glossop... At its heart is one of Wodehouse's most delicious stories ' The Great Sermon Handicap.'
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The long-awaited beginning of the fourth story arc
- Sword of the Canon
- in the epic fantasy series the Wars of Light & Shadow.

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Sex with a mysterious stranger aboard a train leads Rita Holly to an initiation into the exclusive & secretive Mount club. Sophisticated & deviant rituals await Rita as do the endless intrigues & power struggles deep within the heart of the organization. ...

The Rough Diamonds are a close knit team. Kev Mc Govern their captain makes sure they work hard & play hard. Kev is stunned when he discovers that Dave has to cope with epilepsy. When he suffers a major attack the victory the Rough Diamonds are so desperate to win hangs in the balance. ...

This title is shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2013. In 1986 Kris Maharaj a British businessman living in Miami was arrested for the brutal murder of two ex-business associates. His lawyer did not present a strong alibi; Kris was found guilty & sentenced to death in the electric chair. It wasn't until a young lawyer working for nothing Clive Stafford Smith took on his case that strong evidence began to emerge that the state of Florida had got the wrong man on Death Row. So far so good
- except that as Stafford Smith argues here so compellingly the American justice system is actually designed to ignore innocence. Twenty-six years later Maharaj is still in jail. Step by step Stafford Smith untangles the Maharaj case & the system that makes disasters like this inevitable. His conclusions will act as a wake-up call for those who condone legislation which threatens basic human rights & at the same time the personal story he tells demonstrates that determination can challenge the institutions that surreptitiously threaten our freedom.
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Mortal affections & faery rivalries continue to collide in the town of Huntsdale as New York Times bestselling author Melissa Marr takes urban fantasy to new heights. After suffering a terrible trauma at the hands of her brothers dealer friends Leslie becomes obsessed with the idea of getting a tattoo -- its the one thing that will allow her to reclaim her body renew her self-confidence. & when Rabbit her local tattoo artist shows her a secret book of his own designs she finds one of them irresistible. Soon her back is adorned with a pair of mysterious eyes framed by black wings. Leslie feels good -- more than good. Nothing bad can touch her. But what she doesnt know is that her new tattoo binds her tightly to the faery whose symbol she chose: Irial the exquisitely dangerous king of the Dark Court! ...

Life in the Inkworld has been far from easy since the extraordinary events of Inkspell when the story of Inkheart magically drew Meggie Mo & Dustfinger back into its pages. With Dustfinger dead & the evil Adderhead now in control the story in which they are all caught has taken an unhappy turn. Even Elinor left alone in the real world believes her family to be lost
- lost between the covers of a book. But as winter comes on there is reason to hope
- if only Meggie & Mo can rewrite the wrongs of the past & make a dangerous pact with death.

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Meggie loves books. So does her father Mo a bookbinder although he has never read aloud to her since her mother mysteriously disappeared. They live quietly until the night a stranger knocks at their door. He has come with a warning that forces Mo to reveal an extraordinary secret
- a storytelling secret that will change their lives forever.
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Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program Fourth Edition is the guide to the Inkscape program. With coverage of versions 0.47 & 0.48 this authoritative introduction & reference features hundreds of useful illustrations. Using Inkscape you can produce a wide variety of art from photorealistic drawings to organizational charts. Inkscape uses SVG a powerful vector-based drawing language & W3C web standard as its native format. SVG drawings can be viewed directly in browsers such as Firefox Opera Chrome Safari & Internet Explorer 9. A subset of SVG has been adopted by the mobile phone market. Inkscape is available free for Windows Macintosh & Linux operating systems. Systematic coverage of the entire Inkscape program begins with twelve tutorials ranging in difficulty from very basic to highly complex. A new tutorial introduces the use of interactive SVG in HTML5. The remainder of the book covers each facet of Inkscape in detail with an emphasis on practical solutions for common problems. The book is filled with valuable tips & warnings about the use of Inkscape & SVG. Find dozens of Inkscape illustrations from the book in the online color supplement available at http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/. Updated for Inkscape version 0.48 this edition

Includes:: complete coverage of new features including the new Spray Tool updated Node & Text tools enhanced bitmap image import La Te X export for PDF/EPS/PS added extensions including the Jessy Ink extension for web-based presentations the adaptive UI & the new Glyphs dialog. Complete Coverage of New & enhanced Inkscape 0.4 8 Features * Live Path Effects for tasks such as adding patterns along a path while maintaining complete editability* More than two hundred pre-built SVG filters for adding textures manipulating color & so forth* A tiling tool to create complex tilings with thirteen different symmetries* Clipping & Masking objects* An integrated spell checker* Built-in bitmap-to-vector tracing* The ability to export to more than a dozen graphics formats including PDF & Post Script* The ability to import from more than two dozen graphics formats including PDF Adobe Illustrator Corel Draw Auto Cad & XFig Graphics* Complete vector drawing program supporting the W3C SVG standard* Three path-drawing tools (Pencil Pen Calligraphy)* Five shape-drawing tools (Rectangles Ellipses Stars Spirals 3D Boxes)* Linear & Radial Gradients* Pattern fills* Tweak Tool for fine adjustment of paths & colors* Spray Tool* Eraser Tool with both Vector & Bitmap modes* Sophisticated snapping for precision drawing & aligning objects* Extendable through scripting; more than one hundred scripts included

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Although a year has passed not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of the extraordinary events of Inkheart & the story whose characters strode out of the pages & changed her life for ever. But for Dustfinger the fire-eater torn from his world of words the need to return has become desperate. When he finds a crooked storyteller with the magical ability to read him back he sets in motion a dangerous reversal that sees the characters of Inkheart transported to a charmed Inkworld about to be fought over by rival rebels & princes. ...