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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The author shares his impressions of Central Asia and its people, landscapes, and cultures since the breakup of the Soviet Union.

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. The author shares his impressions of Central Asia and its people, landscapes, and cultures since the breakup of the Soviet Union.

Paperback. Condition: Good. "A witty and grisly gothic unlike anything I've ever read. You should absolutely read this." --Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble A new arrival at an isolated school for orphaned boys quickly comes to realize there is something wrong with his new home. He hears chilling whispers in the night, his troubled classmates are violent and hostile, and the Headmaster sends cryptic messages, begging his new charge to confess. As the new boy learns to survive on the edges of this impolite society, he starts to unravel a mystery at the school's dark heart. And that's when the corpses start turning up. A coming-of-age tale, a Gothic ghost story, and a murder mystery all in one, The Job of the Wasp is a bloodcurdling and brilliantly subversive novel about paranoia, love, and the nightmare of adolescence.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Terror has come to White Deer Park, driving panic-stricken animals before it. A killer beast is on the loose - a predator so silent and skillful that it leaves almost no trace, and has never been seen. As the deaths mount up, Owl, Fox, Badger and the elders of Farthing Wood meet to make a plan. have they now, finally, met their match.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. The author shares his impressions of Central Asia and its people, landscapes, and cultures since the breakup of the Soviet Union.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Discover the secret, intimate stories that animate the watershed events of British history, plus a new chapter on the defining event of twenty-first century Britain Brexit.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Being human is no longer enough. The fanatical Red Widows sweep destruction across the abandoned lands. Their aggression threatens to destroy the city Gerry had risked his life to save. Petal, the woman Gerry has come to love is dying. The despotic cabal, The Family, demand he brings her to them, but she's missing, running from the Widows, searching for the truth of her origins before it's too late. When their paths cross, Petal and Gerry will hold the fate of humankind in their hands-if they can survive the malevolent digital entity that stalks them from the shadows. Code Breakers: Beta is a post-apocalyptic, near-future thriller that will delight fans of The Matrix, Neuromancer, and Blade Runner. Look out for the other books in the series: Code Breakers Alpha Code Breakers Beta Code Breakers Gamma. …

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Hardback. Condition: Good. Preston is hiding - find out where, by lifting the flaps. But when you find him do not tell Mister Wolf, who is hot on Preston's tail as usual.

Condition: Good. This tape and book features Chris Barrie who reads the text in a number of different voices against a backdrop of monsterish music, noises and surprises. Chris Barrie is well-known for his television roles in Red Dwarf and The Brittas Empire.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Preston Pig is off to the seaside on holiday when he bumps into Maxine - Oomph! - and falls in love! Mister Wolf is on holiday too, in search of sunshine, sea, sand.and sausages.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Permission to speak, Sah!In the aftermath of the Second World War, over two million men were conscripted to serve in Britain's armed services. Some were sent abroad and watched their friends die in combat. Others remained in barracks and painted coal white. But despite delivering such varied experiences, National Service helped to shape the outlook of an entire generation of young British males.Historian Dr Colin Shindler has interviewed a wide range of ex-conscripts, from all backgrounds, across all ranks, and spanning the entire fourteen years that peacetime conscription lasted, and captured their memories in this engrossing book. From them, we experience the tension of a postwar Berlin surrounded by Russians, the exotic heat and colour of Tripoli in 1948, the brief but intense flashpoint of the Suez Crisis, and the fear of the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya. But we also hear about the other end of the scale, the conscripts who didn't make it outside the confines of their barracks, or in one case, beyond his home town.Through these conversations we learn as much about the changing attitudes of servicemen as war became more of a distant memory as we do about the varied nature of their experiences. We see, too, the changing face of British society across these pivotal years, which span everything from the coronation of Elizabeth II, to the birth of rock 'n' roll, to the beginning of the end of the Empire. The stories within these pages are fascinating. And they deserve to be told before they are lost forever.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Following the murder of the wife of a senior member of Tweed's staff, Tweed, Paula and Newman must find her vengeful husband. Meanwhile, the shadow of Gabriel March Walvis, international manipulator, looms over unfolding events and a mysterious female assassin eliminates those who know the truth.…

Hardback. Condition: Fair. This is the silly, but true, life of a Scilly Sergeant. Fans of The Shepherd's Life and Clare Balding will love this book.

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. Terror has come to White Deer Park, driving panic-stricken animals before it. A killer beast is on the loose - a predator so silent and skillful that it leaves almost no trace, and has never been seen. As the deaths mount up, Owl, Fox, Badger and the elders of Farthing Wood meet to make a plan. have they now, finally, met their match.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. In this book, the story of one of Britain's great sea battles is brought to life, set against a backdrop of life in Elizabethan England and the conflict between the Catholic and Protestant religions across Europe. The story of Elizabeth 1's reign is explored and her determination to keep England a protestant country. When Catholic King Philip of Spain puts together a huge armada of ships to invade England, Elizabeth's champion Sir Francis Drake sets sail and a series of sea battles ensue that will see the English fleet victorious, and Queen Elizabeth hailed as one of the greatest leaders of all time. It is a gripping, true-life drama, featuring key historical figures and essential Ket Stage 2 information.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. It started with a scream of terror from the desperate girl . . . Tweed and Paula take over the brutal murder case of two attractive women from plodding Chief Inspector Reebeck. A clue leads them to a remote rural country controlled by 'Pit Bull': human and dangerous. They meet his weird family: 'daughter' Margot: shrewd, unstable; his daughter Sable; his son Lance: well-mannered, observant; Mrs Shipton: grim housekeeper and Marius Lepke: a huge Cajun brought over by Pit Bull from New Orleans. Tweed explores the local peculiar village, meets local gossip, Mrs Grout. They visit the strange town of Gunners Gorge, bloodstained by Cromwell long ago. More murders are committed. 'NOT the work of a serial killer,' Tweed insists. 'I sense something very big . . .' Is the key isolated Findel Square in the heart of London, HQ of OTRANTO, oil giant owned by devious womanizer Neville Guile? Tweed and Paula continue their non-stop race to solve the diabolical mystery. Time is not on their side.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. To the Last City is set deep in the Peruvian Andes, where five ill-prepared travellers - men and women with different values, temperaments and motives - find themselves trekking through one of the most exacting and beautiful regions on earth.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. A headless corpse has been discovered in the Thames just outside London, the body of a man who once worked for Tweed. Three thousand miles away, on the east coast of America, another headless body is found. Sensing instinctively that there must be a connection, Tweed, Paula Grey and Bob Newman follow the tortuous trail left by the killer, from London to America and into the heart of Switzerland. Paula, haunted by nightmares of the dreadful killings, takes the lead in their desperate search to put an end to the bloodshed and puts herself in extreme danger. …

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Paperback. Condition: Good. From the author of The Unkillable Kitty O?Kane comes a gripping novel about finding the American Dream?and what it costs. In 1913, Sarah Levine leaves her small village and sails to New York to start a promising new life with her husband, Micha. But all Sarah really wants is what has come so easily to her sisters?a family of her own. Finally, in her new home, her dream comes true?but at a terrible cost. She names the baby girl Liberty after the great statue in the harbor that she saw when she first came to America. From struggling to raise Liberty in a Lower East Side tenement to building a fashion empire, the only constants in Sarah?s life are her love for her daughter and the terrible secret that she must keep. Sarah gives Liberty everything she has, but the truth cannot stay hidden forever. As Liberty grows to womanhood and the world prepares to go to war again, Sarah is asked to make one last impossible choice.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Originally published in 1993, this is a study of agricultural co-operatives. The farming structure in transition countries has shifted from dominance of large corporate farms to family smallholdings. Smallholders everywhere experience difficulties with access to market services, including sale of products, purchase of inputs, and acquisition of machinery; they suffer from credit shortages and have limited access to information and advisory services. The barriers to market access prevent smallholders from fully exploiting their inherent productivity advantages. Best-practice world experience highlights farmers' service cooperatives, created by grassroots users, as the most effective way of improving the market access of small farmers. Service cooperatives also help smallholders overcome market failures, when private business entrepreneurs are unwilling to provide services in areas that they judge unprofitable or unfairly exploit users through monopolistic practices. These difficulties and market failures are prominent in transition countries and scholars accordingly expected rapid development of agricultural service cooperatives in response to smallholder needs. The present volume explores gaps between expectations and reality.…