Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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South Africa 1900. After his father dies nineteen-year-old David Crawfurd is sent off to South Africa to earn his living as a storekeeper in the back of beyond. A strange encounter on the journey suggests that dark deeds & treacherous intrigues are afoot
- all bound up with the mysterious primeval kingdom of Prester John. Written as a boys adventure story & set mostly in South Africa (where Buchan had worked) Prester John" was published in 1910 when Buchan was 35. Its a fast-moving thriller in the style of Robert Louis Stevenson & Rider Haggard."
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Two 19th century stage illusionists the aristocratic Rupert Angier & the working-class Alfred Borden engage in a bitter & deadly feud; the effects are still being felt by their respective families a hundred years later. Working in the gaslight-&-velvet world of Victorian music halls they prowl edgily in the background of each others shadowy life driven to the extremes by a deadly combination of obsessive secrecy & insatiable curiosity. At the heart of the row is an amazing illusion they both perform during their stage acts. The secret of the magic is simple & the reader is in on it almost from the start but to the antagonists the real mystery lies deeper. Both have something more to hide than the mere workings of a trick. ...

Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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Preston Remembered is a fascinating collection of articles written by author & Lancashire Evening Post historian Keith Johnson. Take a nostalgic journey into Prestons colourful past recalling the events that transformed this historic cotton town into a university city. Take a peep at the days of cotton mills factories public houses & endless rows of terraced homes that shaped the lives of many. Return to the traditions of Whitsuntide Easter Wakes Weeks & Christmas that continued from generation to generation. Recall the churches & chapels the streets parks & of course the people who lived & worked in Preston. Richly illustrated with over 50 pictures this nostalgic volume will appeal to everyone who knows this part of Lancashire. ...

What happens when a young woman is accidentally caught up in a dangerous murder investigation having merely been in the wrong place at the wrong time? Lacey Farrell a rising star on the Manhattan real estate scene is witness to a murder
- & to the final words of the victim. The dying woman is convinced her attacker was after her dead daughters journal which Lacey gives to the police but not before making a copy for herself. Its an impulse that later proves nearly fatal. Placed in the witness protection programme & sent to live in Minneapolis Lacey must assume a fake identity at least until the killer can be brought to trial. There she meets Tom Lynch a radio talk-show host whom she tentatively begins to date
- until the strain of her deception makes her break it off. Then she discovers the killer has traced her whereabouts. Armed with nothing more than her own courage & clues from the journal Lacey heads back to New York determined to uncover who is behind the deaths of the two women...before she is the next casualty.

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Pretending to be Normal tells the story of a woman who after years of self-doubt & self-denial learned to embrace her Asperger's syndrome traits with thanksgiving & joy. This positive & humane book provides insight into the Asperger world as well as hope & encouragement for other people with Asperger's Syndrome their families & their friends. ...

Tally has finally become Pretty. Now her looks are beyond perfect her clothes are cool her boyfriend is totally gorgeous & she's completely popular. It's everything she's ever wanted. But beneath all the fun
- the non-stop parties the high-tech luxury the total freedom
- is the nagging sense that something is very wrong. Something important. Then a message from Tally's Ugly past arrives. Reading it Tally remembers what's wrong with Pretty life & the fun stops cold. Now she has to choose between fighting to forget what she knows & fighting for her life...

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Roy Shaw is the ultimate hardman. He has cult status & commands a respect that few even in the violent world he moves in can equal. To him violence is simply an accepted part of his profession. He doesn't exaggerate it he can't excuse it & he refuses to apologize for it. His name may mean nothing to you
- he's no actor no showman no wannabe celebrity. He does however live by a merciless code & though he may not have cloven hooves & a tail if he goes after someone all hell comes with him.
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Meet The Clique the five girls who rule Octavian Country Day School.. . Theres Massie with her glossy bob & laser-whitened smile uncontested leader of the Clique. Dylan second in command spends her time sucking up to Massie. Alicia as sneaky as she is beautiful wants to be leader of the group one day
- & she just might. Then theres Kristen smart hardworking who doesnt suffer fools gladly. & Claire in by the skin of her teeth is the newest member of The Clique
- but has swapping her h&-me-down clothes for Chanel No. 19 really solved all her problems? Apparently not. When the girls at pack up their warmest cashmere coats for a trip to Lake Placid they discover that bears arent the only scary things in the woods. The Briarwood boys are staying in a cabin way to close for comfort
- & its up to Massies Underground Clinic for Kissing (MUCK) to save immaculately-made-up face.. .


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