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Publisher
Australian Traveller Media
Language
English
Description
Australian Traveller magazine's special edition, A Parents' Guide to Our Amazing Aussie Cities, has all the secrets to a fantastic family city holiday. With specially themed family-oriented city guides, this special edition of Australian Traveller magazine covers all eight capitals with must-see attractions for 5-9 year olds (10 Things to do Before you Turn 10) and sure fire suggestions for 10-15 year olds (Independence Day). Get the key
...Publisher
Haymarket Media Group Ltd
Language
English
Description
The annual curtain raiser gets the new 2012/13 season under way and to celebrate, we've got a programme packed with exclusive content. Interviews include the managers plus Gary Cahill, Branislav Ivanovic, Yaya Toure and Joleon Lescott. We have expert analysis, historical features from both teams and more!
5) Babycakes
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 4
Language
English
Description
When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there's more to making a baby then meets the eye. Help arrives in the form of a grieving gay neighbor, a visiting monarch, and the dashing young lieutenant who defects from her yacht. Bittersweet and profoundly affecting, Babycakes was the first work of fiction to acknowledge the arrival of AIDS.
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 3
Language
English
Description
The calamity-prone residents of 28 Barbary Lane are at it again in this deliciously dark novel of romance and betrayal. While Anna Madrigal imprisons an anchorwoman in her basement, Michael Tolliver looks for love at the National Gay Rodeo, DeDe Halcyon Day and Mary Ann Singleton track a charismatic psychopath across Alaska, and society columnist Prue Giroux loses her heart to a derelict living in San Francisco park.
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 2
Language
English
Description
The tenants of 28 Barbary Lane have fled their cozy nest for adventures for afield. Mary Ann Singleton finds love at sea with a forgetful stranger, Mona Ramsey discovers her doppleganger in a desert whore-house, and Michael Tolliver bumps into a certain gynecologist in a seedy Mexican Bar. Meanwhile, their venerable landlady takes the biggest journey of all'without ever leaving home.
8) Sure of you
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 6
Language
English
Description
A fiercely ambitious TV talk show host finds she must choose between national stardom in New York and a husband and child in San Francisco. Caught in the middle is their longtime friend, a gay man whose own future is even more uncertain.
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 1
Language
English
Description
For more than three decades Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City has blazed its own trail through popular culture--from a groundbreaking newspaper serial to a classic novel, to a television event that entranced millions around the world. The first of six novels about the denizens of the mythic apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane, Tales is both a sparkling comedy of manners and an indelible portrait of an era that changed forever the way we live.
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 7
Language
English
Description
Michael Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in Armistead Maupin's classic Tales of the City series, lives on in this novel about growing older joyfully. Almost twenty years after ending his saga of San Francisco life, author Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero, letting the 55-year-old gardener tell his own story. Having survived the plague that took so many of his friends and lovers, Michael has learned to embrace the random pleasures of life,...
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 5
Language
English
Description
Tranquillity reigns in the ancient redwood forest until a women-only music festival sets up camp downriver from an all-male retreat for the ruling class. Among those entangled in the ensuing mayhem are a lovesick nurseryman, a panic-stricken philanderer, and the world's most beautiful fat woman.
Author
Series
City of a hundred rows volume 1
Publisher
Watkins Media
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
THEY CALL IT "THE CITY OF A HUNDRED ROWS".
City of Dreams & Nightmare is the first in a series of novels set in one of the most extraordinary fantasy settings since Gormenghast - the ancient vertical city of Thaiburley. From its towering palatial heights to the dregs who dwell in The City Below, this is a vast, multi-tiered metropolis, and demons are said to dwell in the Upper Heights...
Having...
City of Dreams & Nightmare is the first in a series of novels set in one of the most extraordinary fantasy settings since Gormenghast - the ancient vertical city of Thaiburley. From its towering palatial heights to the dregs who dwell in The City Below, this is a vast, multi-tiered metropolis, and demons are said to dwell in the Upper Heights...
Having...
Author
Series
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stroll the Magnificent Mile and more with fifty Chicago walking tours.
Explore Chicago like a native with this convenient ebook offering maps and information to guide you through numerous enjoyable and enlightening walks that highlight both the history of this Midwestern city and the shopping, dining, and nightlife it offers.
Discover landmarks like Millennium Park, the Loop, the Magnificent Mile, and Navy Pier—along with the many...
Explore Chicago like a native with this convenient ebook offering maps and information to guide you through numerous enjoyable and enlightening walks that highlight both the history of this Midwestern city and the shopping, dining, and nightlife it offers.
Discover landmarks like Millennium Park, the Loop, the Magnificent Mile, and Navy Pier—along with the many...
Author
Series
Frank Miller's Sin City volume 2
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
206 p. : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 8
Language
English
Description
Twenty years have passed since Mary Ann Singleton left her husband and child in San Francisco to pursue her dream of a television career in New York. Now a pair of personal calamities has driven her back to the city of her youth and into the arms of her oldest friend, Michael "Mouse" Tolliver, a gardener happily ensconced with his much-younger husband. Mary Ann finds temporary refuge in the couple's backyard cottage, where, at the unnerving age of...
16) Rome: city guide
Author
Series
Publisher
Lonely Planet
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
324 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lonely Planet Rome. Peer through a keyhole for perfectly framed views of St Peter's Basilica -- Rome's finest optical trick ; Find out how Rome's cityscape influences the futuristic style of internationally renowned architect Massimiliano Fuksas ; Solve the debate of fruit versus cream by adding a dollop of panna to your ice cream ; Meet Fellini beneath the stars at a romantic island outdoor cinema ; In This Guide: Two resident authors, 5840 days...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The first volume of the crime-comic megahit that introduced the now-infamous Marv and spawned a blockbuster film returns in a newly redesigned edition, with a brand-new cover by Frank Miller-some of his first comics art in years! It's a lousy room in a lousy part of a lousy town. But Marv doesn't care. There's an angel in the room. She says her name is Goldie. A few hours later, Goldie's dead without a mark on her perfect body, and the cops are
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Series
City of a hundred rows volume 2
Publisher
Watkins Media
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
A SECOND VISIT TO THAIBURLEY: THE CITY OF DREAMS, THE FABLED CITY OF A HUNDRED ROWS.
Dark forces are gathering in the shadowy depths, and the whole city is under threat. The former street-nick, Tom, embarks on a journey to discover the source of the great river Thair, said to be the ultimate power behind all of Thaiburley. Accompanying him are the assassin Dewar and the young Thaistess Mildra. It soon becomes evident that their journey...
Dark forces are gathering in the shadowy depths, and the whole city is under threat. The former street-nick, Tom, embarks on a journey to discover the source of the great river Thair, said to be the ultimate power behind all of Thaiburley. Accompanying him are the assassin Dewar and the young Thaistess Mildra. It soon becomes evident that their journey...
Author
Series
City of a hundred rows volume 3
Publisher
Watkins Media
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
The monstrous Rust Warriors are back!
In a land struggling to cope with the onset of the fatal bone flu, street-nick Tom and Kat - the leader of the Tattooed Men - must find a way to despatch both threats. Meanwhile, the Soul Thief is still at large, and still killing...
File Under: Fantasy [ Sick Society | Dejected Leaders | Secret Powers | Rust Warriors! ]
e-book ISBN: 978-0-85766-191-3
In a land struggling to cope with the onset of the fatal bone flu, street-nick Tom and Kat - the leader of the Tattooed Men - must find a way to despatch both threats. Meanwhile, the Soul Thief is still at large, and still killing...
File Under: Fantasy [ Sick Society | Dejected Leaders | Secret Powers | Rust Warriors! ]
e-book ISBN: 978-0-85766-191-3
20) Paris city guide
Author
Series
Publisher
Lonely Planet
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
432 p. : col. ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Visit the Eiffel Tower at dusk and pay homage to an icon that is more Parisian than Paris itself. Assemble a gourmet picnic of bread, cheese and fruit at the open-air Marche Bastille. Unwind as Parisians do with a stroll or a snooze at the Jardin du Luxembourg. Sample North African tajine and contemplate Moorish architecture at the Mosquee de Paris. In This Guide:
Three expert authors, over 700 hours of in-city research, 32 detailed maps, five walking...
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