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  Surrey Landscapes

  Nick Oakley

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  More people than ever are feeling the need to get out into the countryside and enjoy the space and freedom it offers. For some this is a new experience, for others it is a familiar retreat.
  Surrey Landscapes is the first book of its kind to explore the natural spaces of the county through stunning photography, providing not only a greater appreciation of what it has to offer, but also the inspiration for others to enjoy it more.The images take you on a journey through the scenic and seasonal wonders of Surrey, showcasing both the iconic locations with big vistas that attract countless visitors each year and those intimate views that are less well known and off the beaten track.
  Design: The book has been designed with a contemporary feel, photographs printed across the double page to draw the viewer into the moment. Each image is accompanied by a title, location and short caption that offers greater understanding of the photograph as well as the countryside through details about the local history, geology or geography.
  Foreword: The foreword has been written by one of the world's leading landscape photographers, Charlie Waite. He is a prodigious author, founder of the Landscape Photographer of the Year competition, and founder of the Light and Land photography tour company.

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  Weird Circle The: Mad Monkton

  Wilkie Collins

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  An excellent ghost story; ancient prophesy and the unburied dead.

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  Music Lessons

  Bob Wiseman

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  Bob Wiseman believes most things in life are universal or, as Lauryn Hill says, everything is everything. Bearing in mind that advice, Wiseman writes about finding the link between music and daily life, like what is common between Mary Margaret O’Hara, hiding around the corner with the lights turned off in order to record herself and his 5-year-old insisting he stop hurrying to her dance lesson and marvel at the fluff ball she is blowing toward the ceiling. Each entry is unique and compellingly written, but the themes throughout — on improvisational music, life lessons, and conflict — are ubiquitous.

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  Faces of the Confederacy - An...

  Ronald S. Coddington

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  “Extensive research, fascinating characters . . . The author has done an admirable job of literally placing a face on the ordinary Confederate soldier.” —The Journal of Southern History 
   
  “The history of the Civil War is the stories of its soldiers,” writes Ronald S. Coddington in the preface to Faces of the Confederacy. This book tells the stories of seventy-seven Southern soldiers—young farm boys, wealthy plantation owners, intellectual elites, uneducated poor—who posed for photographic portraits, cartes de visite, to leave with family, friends, and sweethearts before going off to war. Coddington, a passionate collector of Civil War-era photography, conducted a monumental search for these previously unpublished portrait cards, then unearthed the personal stories of their subjects, putting a human face on a war rife with inhuman atrocities. 
   
  The Civil War took the lives of twenty-two of every hundred men who served. Coddington follows the exhausted survivors as they return home to occupied cities and towns, ravaged farmlands, a destabilized economy, and a social order in the midst of upheaval. This book is a haunting and moving tribute to those brave men. 
   
  Like its companion volume, Faces of the Civil War: An Album of Union Soldiers and Their Stories, this book offers readers a unique perspective on the war and contributes to a better understanding of the role of the common soldier. 
   
  “With his meticulous research and a journalist’s eye for good stories, Ron Coddington has brought new life to Civil War photographic portraits of obscure and long-forgotten Confederates whose wartime experiences might otherwise have been lost to history.” —Bob Zeller, cofounder and president of the nonprofit Center for Civil War Photography

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  The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray...

  Robert Schnakenberg

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  The man. The movies. The life. The legend. He's played a deranged groundskeeper, a bellowing lounge singer, a paranormal exterminator, and a grouchy weatherman. He is William James "Bill" Murray, America's greatest national treasure. From his childhood lugging golf bags at a country club to his first taste of success on Saturday Night Live, from his starring roles in Hollywood blockbusters to his reinvention as a hipster icon for the twenty-first century, The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray chronicles every aspect of his extraordinary life and career.He's the sort of actor who can do Hamlet and Charlie's Angels in the same year. He shuns managers and agents, and he once agreed to voice the lead in Garfield because he mistakenly believed it was a Coen Brothers film. He's famous for crashing house parties all over New York City-and if he keeps photobombing random strangers, he might just break the Internet.Part biography, part critical appreciation, part love letter, and all fun, this enormous volume chronicles every Murray performance in loving detail, recounting all the milestones, legendary "Murray stories," and controversies in the life of this enigmatic performer.

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  The Power of Poetry in Uncertain...

  Jane Hirshfield

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  In this time of global uncertainty good poems can soften the heart and help us face another day with curiosity, wonder and hope. It gives us another lens to view the world and helps bring what is often unseen into view. Poetry opens us to feel our connection to one another and to nature. It gives us the opportunity to recalibrate our perspective on our place in the world.

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