For the 70s child, summer holidays didn`t mean the joy of Centre Parcs or the sophistication of a Tuscan villa. They meant being crammed into a car with Grandma & heading to the coast. With just a tent for a home & a bucket for the necessities, we would set off on new adventures each year stoically resolving to enjoy ourselves. For Emma Kennedy, & her mum & dad, disaster always came along for the ride no matter where they went. Whether it was being swept away by a force ten gale on the Welsh coast or suffering copious amounts of food poisoning on a brave trip to the south of France, family holidays always left them battered & bruised. But they never gave up. Emma`s memoir, The Tent, The Bucket & Me, is a painfully funny reminder of just what it was like to spend your summer holidays cold, damp but with sand between your toes. ...

His parting gift to her was a new beginning... Julia Lovat walks away from her seven-year affair with Michael with a broken heart & a book of secrets. Her book tells the true story of Cat Tregenna, kidnapped by Barbary pirates & sold into slavery in Morocco four hundred years ago. When Julia travels to Morocco to discover Cat`s fate, she is quickly lost in an exotic & vibrant l&. Yet her guide is Idriss, a man so charismatic & beguiling that their meeting feels like destiny. & so, in the heat & dust, two love stories, separated by four centuries, entwine & blossom... The Tenth Gift is an enthralling story of secrets & discovering love where you least expect it. ...

In a prison in Occupied France one in every ten men is to be shot. The prisoners draw lots among themselves
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Eliza Griswold`s ” The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Faultline between Christianity & Islam” charts the struggle over who speaks for God in the latitudes where rival beliefs come to blows. The tenth parallel
- the line of latitude seven hundred miles north of the equator
- is the front line where Christianity & Islam collide. Here, from Nigeria, Sudan & Somalia to Indonesia, Malaysia & the Philippines, both religions are experiencing huge & sometimes violent reawakenings. Award-winning journalist Eliza Griswold has spent the past seven years travelling this area & meeting its people, asking where belief ends & secular conflict begins, & examining how encounters between faiths will shape the future. ” Her dispatches are compelling. She writes beautifully.. .and explains, more than any newspaper headline, what has gone wrong”. (Michael Binyon, ” The Times”). ”A fascinating journey.. .full of arresting stories woven around a provocative issue, which Griswold investigates through individual lives rather than caricatures or abstractions”. (Linda Robinson, ” The New York Times”). ” The author brings to her book a sharp eye for telling details & a keen sense of place.. .she visits some of the riskiest places on the planet & tracks down terrorists, warlords, renegade priests & aspiring Christian martyrs”. (Michael Mewshaw, ” Washington Post”). ” Her book is a richly textured fugue that dramatizes the dizzying interplay between notions
- faith, morality, identity
- & nations”. (Julie Cline, ” Los Angeles Times”). Eliza Griswold, a fellow at the New America Foundation, received both the first Robert I. Friedman Award for investigative reporting & a 2010 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. Her journalism has appeared in ” The Atlantic”, ” The New Yorker”, ” The New York Times Magazine”, & ” Harper`s Magazine”, among others. A collection of her poems, ” Wideawake Field”, was published by FSG in 2007.



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In his bestselling book Tequila Mockingbird, Tim Federle combines delicious cocktail recipes with beloved classic novels & witty humor. Existing readers, newcomers, & drink enthusiasts of every persuasion will love this clever, portable kit, which

Includes:: 15 cocktail recipe cards (plus five cards with tips for perfect drinks every time), a stainless steel bartender`s jigger, & 4 cocktail stirring sticks.

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The Terracotta Dog opens with a mysterious tete-a-tete with a Mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist, & some dying words that lead Inspector Montalbano gives to a secret grotto in a mountain cave where two young lovers dead fifty years ago & still embracing are watched over by a life-size terracotta dog. Montalbano`s passion to solve this old crime takes him, heedless of personal danger, on a journey through the island`s past & into a family`s dark heart amid the horrors of World War II. ...

The Terracotta Army of Qin Shihuangdi, the First Emperor of China, is one of the most spectacular & best-known finds in world archaeology. It was discovered by surprise in 1974 by peasants digging a well, an 8, 000-man garrison in battle-ready formation, spread across four pits. Here were life-size warriors made over two thousand years ago from fired clay (originally brightly painted), carrying real weapons: cavalry, archers & infantry; lowly foot soldiers & high-ranking officers; horses & war chariots. But who was this powerful Emperor of the Qin Dynasty who needed an army to guard him in the afterlife? How were the figures made? How could they have been manufactured on such a vast scale? The astonishing facts behind the figures are revealed in this little book's fascinating introduction. Individual pieces are then examined in detail to illustrate the amazing nature of the Terracotta Army. Not only are there figures of different ranks & units, but each head is unique: every racial group in China seems to be represented; facial expressions & hairstyles vary; ages & characters are different. Atmospheric photography & extended captions bring the Army to life & make this book a perfect introduction to what has often been described as the eighth Wonder of the World. ...

Eight people take part in an ecological experiment in 1990s Arizona. Inspired by real events, The Terranauts places human behaviour under the microscope to spellbinding effect Linda is desperate to be one of the lucky eight chosen to take part in the world`s most ambitious ecological experiment. She knows that she can survive for two years under the glass dome of Ecosphere II, set in the Arizona desert. Competition is fierce between the hopefuls, among them smooth-talking PR man Ramsay, & Dawn, a na� ve beauty. Inside the humid microcosm, the terranauts` labours over crops & livestock, their battles with creepy crawlies, their hostilities & sexual dalliances are all observed by tourists who come to gawp, Mission Control`s cameras & the watchful eye of the media. As they struggle to control nature, & hunger sets in, the snake in this Eden starts to look unmistakably human. ...

Maxwell Sim seems to have hit rock bottom: separated from his wife & daughter, estranged from his father, & with no one to confide in even though he has 74 friends on Facebook. He's not even sure whether he's got a job until suddenly a strange business proposition comes his way which involves a long journey to the Shetland Isles
- & a voyage into his family's past which throws up some surprising revelations. Jonathan Coe's new book is a story for our times: Maxwell finds himself at sea in the modern world, surrounded by social networks but unable to relate properly to anyone. Yet as he delves into his family history he manages to find the resources to survive.
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Charming, hilarious & super-inventive comic strip adventures from Gary Northfield, creator of ” Derek the Sheep”. Is it possible to fly to the moon in a bubble of snot? Can you really have an argument with a cloud? Are there bogey monsters at the bottom of the garden? All these questions & more are explored in an hysterical & charming collection of comic strip adventures, following a teeny tiny gang of dinosaurs as they wind each other up & muddle their way through the myths & mysteries of prehistoric life. It offers seven short & entertaining stories that will engage young girls & boys. The book combines storytelling with fun games, laugh-out-loud gags & unforgettable comic book characters. ” Beano” whizz Gary Northfield is creating comics at the very height of his powers & this book is an absolute must-have for all the family. ...