From the bestselling author of The Hypnotist comes the second high-octane thriller featuring Detective Inspector Joona Linna Stockholm, Sweden: the lifeless body of a young woman is discovered on an abandoned boat. Later, a man is found hanging alone in his apartment. Should the deaths be treated as suicide or murder? Only four people know the answer. & one man wants them dead. Can Detective Inspector Joona Linna keep them alive long enough to find out the truth? ...

This lavishly produced hardback book is the perfect keepsake gift to treasure. Fully illustrated in colour throughout by acclaimed illustrator Tony Ross, The Nights Before Christmas has twenty-four classic festive tales, songs & stories to read throughout Advent or keep as a family Christmas anthology. There are festive extracts from much-loved books including A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott & The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame; yuletide poems (`A Visit from St. Nicholas`) & carols (` Good King Wenceslas`), together with traditional tales from Hans Christian Andersen & the Brothers Grimm. This is the ultimate gift for Christmas. ...

This accessible volume looks at the centrality of the Nile to Egyptian history
- how the people of Egypt have relied on it for
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The Nile in the Step by Step series by Insight Guides focuses on providing tailor made walks & tours around the city. The guide features eighteen route recommendations that link up better known sights & take you off of the more beaten track; they are written by local experts who have personally selected places to eat & drink en-route & who offer insider tips on culture, shopping & nightlife. The guide has an array of colour photographs which help bring to life the background & descriptive information provided for destinations & attractions. An overview chapter opens the guide & reviews geography, customs & culture, history, food & drink, shopping, culture & entertainment. Next feature the selected itineraries for walks and/or tours, each of which have a good amount of accompanying information & come with a simple route plan. A user friendly alphabetical directory lists practical information to do with day to day basics & listings of h&-picked hotels & restaurants are provided to suit different budgets & tastes. The publisher ...

From Herodotus`s day to the present political upheavals, the steady flow of the Nile has been Egypt`s heartbeat. It has shaped its geography, controlled its economy & moulded its civilisation. The same stretch of water which conveyed Pharaonic battleships, Ptolemaic grain ships, Roman troop-carriers & Victorian steamers today carries modern-day tourists past bankside settlements in which rural life
- fishing, farming, flooding
- continues much as it has for millennia. At this most critical juncture in the country`s history, foremost Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes us on a journey up the Nile, north from Lake Victoria, from Cataract to Cataract, past the Aswan Dam, to the delta. The country is a palimpsest, every age has left its trace: as we pass the Nilometer on the island of Elephantine which since the days of the Pharaohs has measured the height of Nile floodwaters to predict the following season`s agricultural yield & set the parameters for the entire Egyptian economy, the wonders of Giza which bear the scars of assault by nineteenth-century archaeologists & the modern-day unbridled urban expansion of Cairo
- & in Egypt`s earliest art (prehistoric images of fish-traps carved into cliffs) & the Arab Spring (fought on the bridges of Cairo)
- the Nile is our guide to understanding the past & present of this unique, chaotic, vital, conservative yet rapidly changing l&.



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The charming tales of one mischievous cat from War Horse author & former Children`s Laureate Michael Morpurgo. A cat`s nine lives are full of adventure & excitement & none more so than Montezuma, the farmyard cat. From a young kitten to a grand old cat, he is cunning & proud while establishing his kingdom, but to Matthew, he`s always loving & adorable. A great read that kids aged 9+ will love. Michael Morpurgo, again demonstrates why he is considered to be the master storyteller with this collection of stories. Famed for animal stories such as Little Foxes, Shadow, The Butterfly Lion & An Eagle in the Snow, The Nine Lives of Montezuma is every bit as enthralling. Michael Morpurgo has written more than one hundred books for children & won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Award, the Circle of Gold Award, the Children`s Book Award & has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal four times. ...

” Spies should be glamorous
- James Bond in a Savile Row suit rather than Harry Palmer in a grubby mac.. . In those terms, Otto
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Look past the legends & learn about the REAL ninjas of feudal Japan with this entertaining, illustrated ninjutsu guide. Ninjutsu, the least understood of the Japanese martial arts, is an ancient fighting style emphasising natural movement, responsiveness to adversaries, & absolute practicality. In feudal Japan, ninja were feared for their skill in espionage &, particularly, assassination. Masters of weaponry, stealth, & martial techniques, ninja were credited with supernatural powers because of the near-invincibility of their unique & deadly art. In The Ninja & Their Secret Fighting Art, Black Belt Hall of Fame member, Stephen K. Hayes, reveals the secrets that lead to the perception of the ninja as warriors of almost sorcerous skill the art of invisibility, special tools & weapons, & psychological training enabling the ninja to gain advantage in any situation. Chapters include: Perspective Origin; Organization; Training; At the Height of Power; The Decline; Ninjutsu in the Modern World Search for the Ninja Unarmed Combat The Ninja Fists; Fighting Postures; Other Factors Weaponry Chains & Cords; Sticks & Staffs; Canes with Concealed Weapons; The Ninja Sword; Throwing Blades The Way of Invisibility Sense Deception; Phantom Steps; Reconnaissance; Blending with the Night; Attacking the Eyes; The Art of Disguise Shadow Warriors Espionage; Commando Tactics The Realm of the Spirit Psychological Warfare; The Force of the Killer; The Great Harmony ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 KIRKUS PRIZEFrom the National Book Award-winning author comes a luminous, deeply humane novel about three generations of an Irish immigrant family in 1940s & 1950s Brooklyn
- for fans of Anne Tyler, Anne Enright & Colm Toibin On a gloomy February afternoon, Jim sends his wife Annie out to do the shopping before dark falls. He seals their meagre apartment, unhooks the gas tube inside the oven, & inhales. Sister St. Saviour, a Little Nursing Sister of the Sick Poor, catches the scent of fire doused with water & hurries to the scene: a gathered crowd, firemen, & the distraught young widow. Moved by the girl`s plight, & her unborn child, the wise nun finds Annie work in the convent`s laundry
- where, in turn, her daughter will grow up amidst the crank of the wringer & the hiss of the iron. In Catholic Brooklyn in the early part of the twentieth century, decorum, superstition & shame collude to erase Jim`s brief existence; & yet his suicide, although never mentioned, reverberates through many generations
- testing the limits of love & sacrifice, of forgiveness & forgetfulness. In prose of startling radiance & precision, Alice Mc Dermott tells a story that is at once wholly individual & universal in its understanding of the human condition. Rendered with remarkable lucidity & intelligence, The Ninth Hour is the crowning achievement of one of today`s finest writers.


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` The best new writer of fiction in America. The best.` John Irving Meet Samuel: stalled writer, bored teacher at a local college, obsessive player of online video games. He hasn`t seen his mother, Faye, in decades, not since she abandoned her family when he was a boy. Now she has suddenly reappeared, having committed an absurd politically motivated crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the Internet, & inflames a divided America. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high-school sweetheart. Which version of his mother is true? Two facts are certain: she`s facing some serious charges, & she needs Samuel`s help. As Samuel begins to excavate his mother`s
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- history, the story moves from the rural Midwest of the 1960s, to New York City during Occupy Wall Street, back to Chicago in 1968 &, finally, to wartime Norway, home of the mysterious Nix. Samuel will unexpectedly find that he has to rethink everything he ever knew about his mother
- a woman with an epic story of her own, a story she has kept hidden from the world.


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