Marco Polo maps feature completely up-to-date digitally generated mapping. The high quality cartography with distance indicators & scale converters aid route planning. A fold-out overview map is ideal for route planning & 7 self-adhesive Marco Polo mark-it stickers can be used to pin-point a destination or route for future reference. Scenic routes & places of interest are highlighted
- ideal for touring holidays. The maps also contain a comprehensive index & city plans of Catania Messina & Palermo. Map Scale
- 1: 200 000.

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It would seem that even a pretend engagement cannot keep Lady Rose Summer from trouble. Bored with endless parties teas & balls she befriends Dolly Tremaine a beautiful young girl newly arrived from the country & overwhelmed by the demands of the Season. Their friendship is cut tragically short however when Dolly is found dead in the river with flowers in her hair & blood on her breast. Rose immediately summons her fiance investigator Captain Harry Cathcart to help solve the mystery of Dolly's death
- & to keep her from becoming the murderer's next victim.
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' You kept my secret. I know yours now. That makes us even.' PAUL has been led into a life of crime by his schoolyard protector Daniel. Now at nineteen he must bear witness against his friend to avoid imprisonment. LOUISA who years ago fled from her own dark secrets spends her days renovating the grounds of a crumbling Elizabethan mansion. A relationship develops between them & Louisa starts to believe she can finally experience the happiness she had given up on; but it soon becomes apparent that neither of them can outrun their violent past.. . ...

Hermann Hesse's moving & inspirational chronicle of spiritual evolution Siddhartha"

Includes:: a new introduction

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Harry is the best & technically the only at what he does being the lone professional wizard PI in the Chicago phonebook. So when the Chicago PD has cases that transcend mortal capabilities they come to him for answers. For the everyday world is actually full of strange & magical things
- & most of them dont play well with humans. Yet despite his precautions Harry tends to stumble from crisis to drama in his dealings with the supernatural world
- call it an occupational hazard. Here he unfailingly manages to get on the wrong side of werewolf fae & vampires alike. & thats where his own rather special powers come into play.. . These bite-sized stories are tremendously entertaining & will leave you itching to explore more of Harry Dresdens world. & as well as eight short stories this collection will include an all-new Dresden Files novella.

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Mick Walker
- leading authority on all forms of motorcycle sport
- sets out to cover the worlds leading sidecar competitors

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Formerly Jailed Congressman Discusses Boehner & Others in New Book Out of the ashes of the Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal rises Bob Ney the former Congressman of Ohio who went to prison for his role in the event. In his new book Sideswiped: Lessons Learned Courtesy of the Hit Men of Capitol Hill (Changing Lives Press; March 2013) Ney shares his side of the story naming names along the way & explaining why the US Congress hasnt learned any lessons from the scandal. In 2006 Ney pled guilty to federal charges of corruption & falsification of federal documents in connection with Jack Abramoff a Washington super lobbyist-turned criminal. As a six-term member of congress Ney found himself caught up in a culture of greed backstabbing & corruption that eventually destroyed his career. In Sideswiped Ney recounts the events leading up to his resignation his own guilt & how a powerful member of congress & the Bush Administration officials played leading roles in both the Abramoff scandal & Neys own downfall. One such figure is current Speaker of the House John Boehner who Ney says persuaded Ney to step down as Congressman in exchange for a comparable job" & legal defense money offers that Ney says were never fulfilled." ...

Midsummer approaches & Wallander prepares for a holiday with the new woman in his life hopeful that his wayward daughter & his ageing father will cope without him. But his summer is ruined when a girl commits suicide before his eyes & a former minister of justice is butchered in the first of a series of apparently motiveless murders. Wallanders hunt for the girls identity & his furious pursuit of a killer who scalps his victims will throw him & those he loves most into mortal danger. ...

Midsummer approaches & Inspector Kurt Wallander prepares for a holiday with the new woman in his life hopeful that his wayward daughter & his ageing father will cope without him. But his restful summer plans are thrown into disarray when a teenage girl commits suicide before his eyes & a former minister of justice is butchered in the first of a series of apparently motiveless murders. Wallander's desperate hunt for the girl's identity & his furious pursuit of a killer who scalps his victims will throw him & those he loves most into mortal danger. This title is the winner of the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger. ...

Why does elf + elf = fool? How many meals will Miss Mush the lunch teacher have to cook for the food to taste as bad as it smells? These Sideways Arithmetic problems may look puzzling at first but you can use real maths to solve them & the answers are right there in the book. There are lots of clues & hints; plus all the answers are in the back of the book. Best of all all the kids you read about in the other books about Wayside School are here to help you! Try solving this & more than fifty other maths brainteasers along with the kids from Mrs Jewlss class. Youll learn a lot about maths but youll be laughing too much to notice! ...