As he roams the US Mexico Morocco Paris & London Kerouac records life on the road in prose of pure poetry. Standing on the engine of a train as it rushes past fields of prickly cactus; witnessing his first bullfight in Mexico while high on opium; meditating on a sunlit roof in Tangiers or falling in love with Montmartre
- Kerouac reveals both the endless diversity of human life & his own particular philosophy of self-fulfillment.
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Rosalinda Fitzroy had been asleep for 62 years when she was woken by a kiss. Locked away in the chemically-induced slumber of a stasis tube in a forgotten sub-basement sixteen-year-old Rose slept straight through the Dark Times that killed millions & utterly changed the world she knew. Now her parents & her first love are long dead & Rose
- hailed upon her awakening as the long-lost heir to an interplanetary empire
- is thrust alone into a future in which she is viewed as either a freak or a threat. Desperate to put the past behind her & adapt to her new world Rose finds herself drawn to the boy who kissed her awake hoping that he can help her to start fresh. But when a deadly danger jeopardizes her fragile new existence Rose must face the ghosts of her past with open eyes
- or be left without any future at all.


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Rosalinda Fitzroy had been asleep for 62 years when she was woken by a kiss. Locked away in the chemically-induced slumber of a stasis tube in a forgotten sub-basement sixteen-year-old Rose slept straight through the Dark Times that killed millions & utterly changed the world she knew. Now her parents & her first love are long dead & Rose
- hailed upon her awakening as the long-lost heir to an interplanetary empire
- is thrust alone into a future in which she is viewed as either a freak or a threat. Desperate to put the past behind her & adapt to her new world Rose finds herself drawn to the boy who kissed her awake hoping that he can help her to start fresh. But when a deadly danger jeopardizes her fragile new existence Rose must face the ghosts of her past with open eyes
- or be left without any future at all.


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Here comes a thrilling addition to this exciting sticker book series for boys. Travel back in time & find out what people wore long ago from Tutankhamun's elaborate body ornaments to Louis XIV's velvet robes. This title is presented with over 150 stickers to choose from dress each figure in accurate historical costumes including medieval chain mail embroidered waistcoats & leather chaps. ...

Rose Mc Allister is waiting for her husband Steve to come home. He is a seaman often drunk & violent but Rose does her best to cope & sees that her daughters Daisy 8 & Petal 4 suffer as little as possible. Steve however realizes that war is coming & tries to reform but on his last night home her pawns the girls new dolls to go on a drinking binge. When war is declared Rose has a good job but agrees the children must be evacuated. Daisy & Petal are happy at first but circumstances change & they are put in the care of a woman who hates all scousers & taunts them with the destruction of their city. They run away arriving home on the worst night of the May Blitz. Rose is attending the birth of her friends baby & goes back to Bernard Terrace to find her home has received a direct hit & is told that the children were last seen entering the house the previous evening. Devastated she decides to join the WAAF encouraged by an RAF pilot Luke whom she has befriended.. . ...

Urszula Muskus (1903-1972) spent eighteen years as a prisoner in the Gulag Archipelago. Gradually travelling eastwards on long train journeys into Siberia she was first separated from her husband & later from her two children. Before being finally freed she entered into a state of eternal exile at Krasnoyarsk the Long Bridge of the title. Her book is rich in stories of other prisoners guards work on the steppe bandit molls escapees & their fate. In the course of these travels she learned the fate of those who had been left behind including her husb&. Her story has been translated & pieced together from the many fragments she left behind. It comes from a generous spirit who looked on the world with a uniquely accurate & unselfpitying eye. Urszulas is a unique voice speaking of terrible times that are still close to our own. ...

When a passenger check-in desk at Terminal Two Heathrow Airport shot up through the roof engulfed in a ball of orange flame the usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA then the PLO & the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement to the effect that the situation was completely under control that it was a one in a million chance that there was hardly any radioactive leakage at all & that the site of the explosion would make a nice location for a day out with the kids & a picnic before finally having to admit that it wasnt actually anything to do with them at all. No rational cause could be found for the explosion
- it was simply designated an act of God. But thinks Dirk Gently which God? & why? What God would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 to Oslo?
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Packed with straightforward information The Long Distance Cyclists Handbook details the preparation & equipment needed to take a novice from the challenge of a 50-mile charity ride to gearing up & comfortably covering 66 km in a weekend randonnee. It also tackles marathon events such as 12-hour time trials & the ultimate test
- the 3000-mile Race Across America. Fully updated this is essential reading for anyone contemplating a cycling holiday or any challenge that takes you outside your usual comfort zone. It brings you the most up-to-date information on training technique nutrition health & travel & combines the latest in sports science research with many years of experience cycling beyond the horizon.
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It's 1916: the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong & the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where have the mud blood & blasted landscape of No Man's Land gone? 2015: Madison Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive
- some said mad others dangerous
- scientist when she finds a curious gadget
- a box containing some wiring a three-way switch & a...potato. It is the prototype of an invention that will change the way Mankind views his world for ever. & that's an understatement if ever there was one... The Long Earth" is the first novel in an exciting new collaboration between the creator of Discworld Terry Pratchett & the acclaimed SF writer Stephen Baxter."


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