Complete and unabridged with an afterword by David Stuard Davies. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes" contains Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's final twelve stories about his great fictional detective. Featuring crypts at midnight, strange bones in a furnace and a blood-sucking vampire, these tales explore the darker side of human nature and involve betrayal, violence and the terrible consequences of infidelity. This "Macmillan Collector's Library" edition features an afterword by David Stuart Davies - a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund and an authority on ... |
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Sometimes making the wrong choice is the right thing to do... ... Jenna is known as The Ice Cream Girl. She doesn't mind the name one bit. After all, there far worse jobs than selling ice creams by the sea. Then one hot summer's day, everything changes and Jenna faces the most difficult decision of her life. Craig spends as much time as he can at the beach hut in Everdene he rents with a few of his mates. It's the perfect break from his stressful job, and he loves to surf. But one weekend he notices a girl on the beach - for all the wrong reasons. For Jenna and Craig, it's a chance meeting which could ... |
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A new edition of the classic and timely record of refugees and migrants on the move. ... It has been almost a generation since Sebastiao Salgado first published Exodus but the story it tells, of fraught human movement around the globe, has changed little in 16 years. The push and pull factors may shift, the nexus of conflict relocates from Rwanda to Syria, but the people who leave their homes tell the same tale: deprivation, hardship, and glimmers of hope, plotted along a journey of great psychological, as well as physical, toil. Salgado spent six years with migrant peoples, visiting more than 35 countries to document ... |
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The New York Times bestseller from the Grammy-nominated indie rockstar "Japanese Breakfast", an unflinching, deeply moving memoir about growing up mixed-race, Korean food, losing her Korean mother, and forging her own identity in the wake of her loss, which brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her. In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humour and heart, she tells of growing up the only Asian-American kid at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of ... |
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A matter of life, death ... and fish. ... "What's it like, Dad - being a fish?" Grief takes many forms, and manifests itself in strange ways. Sometimes very strange indeed. When, on an ordinary morning, Dak's father suddenly dies of a heart attack, Dak's mother falls apart. Desperate to escape the atmosphere at home, Dak finds himself going to his dad's favourite place - the local aquarium. And there, to his amazement, is Dad, who it seems is alive and well as a clownfish! With his mum so ill, Dak decides that, for now, this will have to be his secret, and his alone. But he visits the clownfish ... |
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Zwei Männer werden tot aufgefunden, die Londoner Polizei ist ratlos. Sherlock Holmes hat gerade mit Dr. Watson eine Wohnung in der Baker Street bezogen. Er erkennt mit seiner verblüffenden Kombinationsgabe rasch die Zeichen, die ihn zu dem Täter führen werden. Allerdings schlägt die Geschichte zunächst einen sehr, sehr weiten Bogen ins Land der Mormonen in Utah... "Eine Studie in Scharlachrot" ist der erste Fall von Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson. Das Buch erzählt nicht nur einen hochspannenden Fall, sondern auch gibt auch Einblicke in die Anfänge einer legendären M&# ... |
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Тежкият труд, ниското заплащане и волята за оцеляване на една майка. На 28 години Стефани Ленд е готова да загърби родния си град и да тръгне в посока на мечтите си - да учи в университет и да стане писател. Но един летен флирт, прераснал в нежелана бременност, преобръща живота ѝ. Когато двете с новородената ѝ дъщеря се оказват на прага на оцеляването и са принудени да живеят в приют за бездомни, Стефани започва работа като прислужница - почиства чужди къщи с надеждата да сложи ред в собствения си живот. Физическият труд е тежък, но по-непосилна се оказва стигмата на бедността - укорителните погледи, когато ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Life in pre-revolutionary Cuba is not easy and James Wormold, a failing vacuum cleaner salesman, is struggling to fund the increasingly lavish lifestyle of his manipulative sixteen year-old daughter, Milly. So when an enigmatic Englishman offers him an extra income in return for a little spying, he is sorely tempted... But when the fake reports he's been sending to London start to come true, Havana suddenly becomes a very dangerous place indeed. Both a brilliant Cold War thriller and hilarious work of satire, "Our Man in Havana" is Graham ... |
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I was looking for the Ancient time deep into the whim of our meeting. A new whisper, I had sent araund to find you in some century. You be the Joy! Be Endless bliss without a remnant. ... |
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Laboratory Exercises in Microbiology is a workbook for students of medicine. It is designed in accordance with the approved programme in Medical Microbiology at the Faculty of Medicine, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski". Each exercise is a unit divided into three sections which include topics for home preparation and an outline of the forthcoming practical tasks and demonstrations, a Lab Report preceded by a brief overview of the topics covered in the unit and instructions on the practical tasks with opportunities to visualize the observations. At the end of each unit is a self-test with multiple choice ... |
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El Deafo meets "Inside Out" and "Back Again" in this funny, emotional illustrated middle-grade debut novel about immigrating to Australia, being upstaged by an annoying little brother, baking cakes and overcoming loss. When Jingwen moves to Australia, he feels like he's landed on Mars. School is torture, making friends is impossible, since he doesn't speak English, and he's stuck looking after his (extremely irritating) little brother, Yanghao. To distract himself from the loneliness, Jingwen daydreams about making all the cakes on the menu of the bakery his father had planned to open ... |
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A magical secret. A mythical hunt. And a love that could risk everything. In the dark, gothic town of Wickdon, Maggie Welty lives in an old creaking manor. Maggie's mother is an alchemist who has recently left town, leaving Maggie with just her bloodhound for company. But when Maggie spots a legendary ancient fox-creature on her porch, her fate is changed forever. Whoever tracks down and kills the hala in the Halfmoon Hunt will earn fame and riches - and if Maggie wins the hunt, she knows her mother will want to celebrate her. This is her chance to bring her home. But the rules state that only teams of two can join ... |
