Peter Hessler`s previous book River Town was a prize-winning, poignant & deeply compelling portrait of China. Now, in Oracle Bones, Hessler returns to the country, excavating its long history & immersing himself in the lives of young Chinese as they migrate from the traditional Chinese countryside to the booming ever-changing cities & try to cope with their society`s modern transformation. ...

Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in Brooklyn & buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, & for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank book, trapped inside a world of eerie premonitions & bewildering events that threaten to destroy his marriage & undermine his faith in reality. Paul Auster`s mesmerizing eleventh novel reads like an old-fashioned ghost story. But there are no ghosts in this book
- only flesh-&-blood human beings, wandering through the haunted realms of everyday life. ” Oracle Night” is a narrative tour de force that confirms Auster`s reputation as one of the boldest, most original writers at work in America today.
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Detailed street map at 1:12, 500. Contours to show the relief. Notable buildings & places of interest are highlighted. A range of symbols denotes many specific features e.g. hotels, markets, sport & leisure facilities, museums, filling stations, car parks, etc. Many locations are numbered & listed with the index on the reverse. The city centre is shown in greater detail at 1:8, 000. Further insets show an overview of the area surroundings the city at 1:480, 000 & street maps of the Episcopia Bihor area at 1:12, 500 & of Baile Felix at 1:9000. Map legend

Includes:: English.

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Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

One of the titles in a series of topographic maps covering much of north-west Africa, produced as part of the IMW* project in 1960’s. Each map covers an area spanning 6° in longitude & 4° in latitude. There is some variation in colouring & the depiction of terrain, but hill-shading, spot heights & contours are used to show the general relief. Additional graphics show features such as dunes, rock outcrops, cliffs, sand areas, escarpments, marshes, seasonal lakes & watercourses, & areas liable to flooding. Bathymetric contours are also included. Communications detail

Includes:: roads, major trails & railways, although there is some inconsistency in colouring & the extent of classification, e.g. not all maps distinguish seasonal roads. On most maps intermediate road distances are indicated on main routes. Symbols show airports, mosques, mines, oil & gas fields, lighthouses, ruins & significant isolated buildings. Administrative boundaries are marked & latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 1° intervals, with further margin ticks at 1’ intervals. The map legend is in French only on some sheets, & in English & French on others.* The International Map of the World was a project conceived in the early 20th century to compile a world map series at 1:1, 000, 000 through the efforts of participating nations. The value of the program has declined since 1970 & the IMW is no longer regarded as an active international series.

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These noir stories take readers on a hard-boiled tour behind the Orange curtain where a reclusive rock star has lived way too long in his own head, a crooked judge uses the court for illicit means, a cab driver prowls the streets with more than the ticking meter on his mind, where cultures clash, housewives want more than the perfect grout cleaner & nobody is who they seem to be.

Includes:: contributions from Edgar Award winner Susan Straight, Hammett Award nominee Robert Ward, LA Times bestseller Barbara De Marco-Barrett & Nero Wolfe Award winner Dick Lochte.

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Orange County South: Mission Viejo
- San Clemente area of California on an indexed street plan from Rand Mc Nally in their extensive
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The utter simplicity of this beautiful picture book is breathtaking. By rearranging just four words, Emily Gravett creates a series of playful images which are a sheer joy -- & intensely satisfying. The loose energy of the pencil & watercolour pictures will be irresistible to adults & children alike. ...

A 298km long cycle route associated with the House of Orange-Nassau. Detailed maps show the route & its variants & extensive information is conveyed by symbols, indicating road surface, campsites & other accommodation, repair workshops, recreational facilities, places of interest, etc. A list of various types of accommodation facilities is included.IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE: ALL THE TEXT IN THIS TITLE IS GERMAN ONLY. MAP LEGEND

Includes:: ENGLISH, please see our sample image, & the information provided on the maps is sufficient to use this title without any knowledge of German, particularly in the absence of a similar product in English from other publishers. There is currently no English edition this title available in this series. About the series: All the titles have been meticulously researched & are highly regarded in their native Germany. Most titles, as indicated in their individual descriptions, also include a separate section listing selected accommodation, from hotels to campsites, youth hostels & rooms in private houses, all with addresses, telephone numbers & price range. Information on towns along each route

Includes:: a list of places of interest, with opening hours, etc. Several of the guides also have street plans.




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Not cool enough, not clever enough, not street enough for anyone to notice me. I was the kid people looked straight through. NOT ANY MORE. NOT SINCE MR ORANGE. Sixteen-year-old Marlon has made his mum a promise
- he`ll never follow his big brother, Andre, down the wrong path. So far, it`s been easy, but when a date ends in tragedy, Marlon finds himself hunted. They`re after the mysterious Mr Orange, & they`re going to use Marlon to get to him. Marlon`s out of choices
- can he become the person he never wanted to be, to protect everyone he loves?

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