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As a child growing up in Malaysia, Shing Yin Khor had two very different ideas of what "America" meant. The first looked a lot like Hollywood, full of beautiful people and sunlight and freeways. The second looked more like The Grapes of Wrath - a nightmare landscape filled with impoverished people, broken-down cars, barren landscapes, and broken dreams. Those contrasting ideas have stuck with Shing ever since, even now that she lives and works in LA. The American Dream? A Journey on Route 66 is...

This easy-to-use, handy A5 sized road atlas with popular lie-flat spiral binding features extremely clear route planning maps of Britain and Ireland and fits neatly into your glove box, briefcase or bag. The atlas has been fully updated for 2020. The maps of Britain are at 9.9 miles to 1 inch (1:625,000) and the whole of Ireland is covered at 15.8 miles to 1 inch (1:1,000,000). There are also a selection of more detailed urban area maps at 4.5 miles to 1 inch (1:285,000) to aid route p...

The must-have map to exploring London. This fully updated atlas features clear Collins street mapping of Central London and the surrounding area. Coverage is from Chiswick in the west to Barking in the east, and Hampstead in the north to Dulwich in the south. Scale is 1:20,000 (3.17 inches to 1 mile). Coverage of Central London is at 1:12,500 (5.1 inches to 1 mile). This neat, handy little pocket-sized atlas is an ideal purchase for resident and visitor alike. It ha...

Explore Ireland with this accurate and fully updated road atlas. Explore Ireland with this handy format route-planning atlas in full colour, complete with information on places of tourist interest. There are also fully indexed town centre plans of Belfast, Cork, Dublin, Galway, Limerick and Londonderry. Now with places of interest marked including famous film locations. This atlas, at A5 size, contains mapping of the whole of Ireland at 9 miles to 1 inch (1:570,240). The mapp...

Exciting things there is to see at an airport from the different vehicles busying around a plane before departing to the impressive passport control in the terminal building. Arranged in colour-coded groups related to the kind of places where you are likely to find things. Designed to stimulate children's observational skills, these activity and educational guides make learning fun and more enjoyable. Each i-SPY Guide is arranged in thematic colour-coded sections, to help you...

At sixteen Anne is grown up...almost. Her gray eyes shine like evening stars, but her red hair is still as peppery as her temper. In the years since she arrived at Green Gables as a freckle-faced orphan, she has earned the love of the people of Avonlea and a reputation for getting into scrapes. But when Anne begins her job a the new schoolteacher, the real test of her character begins. Along with teaching the three Rs, she is learning how complicated life can be when she meddles in someone else'...

Rilla of Ingleside is the final book in the Anne of Green Gables series, but was the sixth of the eight "Anne" novels. This book draws the focus back onto a single character, Anne, and Gilbert's youngest daughter, Bertha Marilla "Rilla" Blythe. It has a more serious tone, as it takes place during World War I and the three Blythe boys-- Jem, Walter, and Shirley-- along with Rilla's sweetheart Ken Ford, and playmates Jerry Meredith and Carl Meredith-- end up fighting in Europe.

Luisito Comunica viaja de un extremo a otro del planeta. La curiosidad es el motor de las aventuras que lo lanzan hasta los terrenos más inhóspitos y misteriosos. En lugares asombrosos. Travesías insólitas y otras maneras extrañas de conocer el mundo podrás viajar – con Luisito como compañero y guía- A los lugares más reconditos de uno, dos y más continentes: a sitios abandonados que conservan la huella de un hecho inexplicable; espacios delineados por trazos y personajes místico...