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  Storm Pegs - A Life Made in...

  Jen Hadfield

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  This audio edition is read by the author and was recorded in a remote studio in Shetland. 'Storm Pegs perfectly captures the knotting of language and landscape. I was transported.' - Katherine May, Sunday Times bestselling author of WinteringFrom the winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Highland Book PrizeWhat if the answer to ‘Where am I?’ is ‘heaven’?In her late twenties, celebrated poet Jen Hadfield moved to the Shetland archipelago to make her life anew. A scattering of islands at the northernmost point of the United Kingdom, frequently cut off from the mainland by storms, Shetland is a place of Vikings and myths, of ancient languages and old customs, of breathtaking landscapes and violent weather. It has long fascinated travellers seeking the edge of the world.On these islands known for their isolation and drama, Hadfield found something more: a place teeming with life, where rare seabirds blow in on Atlantic gales, seals and dolphins visit its beaches, and wild folk festivals carry the residents through long, dark winters. She found a close-knit community, too, of neighbours always willing to lend a boat or build a creel, of women wild-swimming together in the star-spangled winter seas. Over seventeen years, as bright summer nights gave way to storm-lashed winters, she learned new ways to live.In prose as rich and magical as Shetland itself, Hadfield transports us to the islands as a local; introducing us to the remote and beautiful archipelago where she has made her home, and shows us new ways of living at the edge.

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  Mountain Walks Helvellyn - 15...

  Tina Codling

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  Mountain Walks Helvellyn by Tina Codling is a guide to walking routes to the summit of Helvellyn in the Lake District National Park. Alongside the summit routes, there are also lower-level alternatives for mixed weather or shorter days and those new to mountain walking.
  Among the 15 inspiring routes, the classics are all included, such as Helvellyn summit via the iconic Striding Edge and Swirral Edge, and even those who are familiar with the area will find new and imaginative route ideas to discover. Whether you aspire to climb Helvellyn on the most straightforward route from Thirlmere, or you're looking for a bigger adventure, this is the only guidebook you need.
  Together with stunning photography, each route features: Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 maps; easy-to-follow, detailed directions; downloadable GPX files; essential info about public transport and safety advice; details about the terrain and navigation; and facilities, refreshments and points of interest.

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  Dorm Room Dining: A Guide To...

  Gina Meyers

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  "So you are getting ready to go off to college. You desire it to be a smooth transition full of peace and harmony. You have your mini refrigerator, your checking account, a part time job, pencils, your ipad, a new wardrobe and a new life. With Dorm Room Dining, you not only get well balanced meals that are easy to prepare in your dorm room, but you also get a bonus, a Feng Shui guide. Feng Shui is the ancient art of placement. There is a place for everything in your dorm room and when you have a clean living space, no matter how big or small, you can produce peace and harmony in your new environment. Dorm Room Dining presents quick, inexpensive, and easy to prepare meals that are healthy and have the comforts of home. Easy and healthy meals that are yummy. You can eat healthy and on the run. As an added bonus, the Feng Shui guide gives you quick fixes to cure your troubles and improve every area of your life. You might want to put a small plant in the corner of your room, a sea shell or even a red envelope. When you’ve added elements to your environment that you find pleasing, you will enhance your life and make significant changes without a lot of effort or hassle."

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  Once Upon a Villa - Adventures...

  Andrew Kaplan

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  In this wise, warm-hearted, witty, and LOL hilariously funny true account, New York Times bestselling author Andrew Kaplan tells what it’s like when he, his wife, and two-year-old son decided to chuck it all and live the fantasy in a villa by the sea in that extraordinary corner of the world – part international café society, part billionaires’ playground, part provincial France – that is the French Riviera. 
  Whether it’s matching wits with French bureaucracy, searching for the perfect bouillabaisse, encounters with con men, eccentric ex-pats, and Monaco’s royal family, partying with the international set on Onassis’ yacht, playing chess with a philosophical police chief, or adventures and friendships with the rich and famous and the presumably standoffish French, Once Upon a Villa will transport you to a fascinating and shrewdly-observed world that you will savor like your first-morning bite of pain au chocolate. 
  So pour yourself a glass of wine, open the book, and Santé!

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  Mickey - The Cat Who Raised Me

  Helen Brown

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  A witty and warm memoir about growing up with the help of a very special cat—from Helen Brown, internationally bestselling author of Cleo and other tales of the beloved cats in her life . . . 
   
   
   
  Who was the first pet you ever loved? 
   
   
   
  The youngest daughter of an eccentric engineer and a musical theater fanatic, Helen Brown grew up in the New Zealand coastal town of New Plymouth in a crumbling castle overrun by nature, and overshadowed by nearby, beautiful Mount Taranaki. It's 1966, the Pacific islands are being used for atomic bomb testing, and her parents and siblings are swept up in their own lives. Twelve years old, struggling in school, and facing eye surgery—for the second time—Helen feels lonely and lost . . . 
   
   
   
  Until her father gives her a three-month-old, gray-and-brown tiger-striped tabby with extra toes on each paw. Noticing an M design on the cat's forehead, Helen names her new companion Mickey. Inquisitive, rambunctious, clever, and skittish, Mickey disrupts the already quirky household with his mischief. But Helen finds love, joy—and herself—in learning what it means to care for a living creature who needs her as much as she needs him.

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  Thrilling Cities - Fourteen...

  Ian Fleming

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  A CAPTIVATING JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD FROM THE CREATOR OF JAMES BOND 
  Ian Fleming’s world travels and interests, as well as his journalism and wartime experiences, lent authority to everything he wrote. In 1959, the Sunday Times commissioned Fleming to write a series of dispatches from the world’s most beguiling locales. The result was Thrilling Cities, a masterpiece of well-observed travelogue that stands ably alongside the author’s Bond canon. 
  From Hong Kong to Honolulu, New York to Naples, he left the bright main streets for the back alleys, abandoning tourist sites in favor of underground haunts, and mingling with celebrities, gangsters and geishas. The result is a series of vivid snapshots of a mysterious, vanished world from a twentieth century Western perspective. 
  Just like his most famous fictional creation, Ian Fleming was a well-traveled man of the world who knew where to go to find excitement, adventure…and danger. In Thrilling Cities, he takes us along on a journey of international intrigue worthy of James Bond.

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