This Kobo book is a game changer. Everything you need to know about Algarve to enrich your holiday experience is here at your fingers tips. You need a good beach recommendation? It's here; to choose a resort? They are all described. Entertainment for the family, country fairs, days out, car tours in the country, flora and fauna, look no further ... this guide has it all!This second edition is fully revised

When Minneapolis private investigator Lyle Dahms visits a friend who makes armor at a rural Renaissance festival instead of a day of medieval merrymaking he witnesses a grisly murder, watching helplessly as one of the friend’s colleagues is pinned to a wall by an arrow shot by an unseen assailant. Although warned to stay out of the case by the local constabulary, Dahms gets drawn in further and further as he uncovers drug dealing, crooked cops, infidelity, more deaths, and even stumbles in...

We're talking cute, but with a Calvin and Hobbes-ian twist." --Mike Wilson, features editor, St. Petersburg TimesIn the spirit of Snoopy and Charlie Brown, or Calvin and Hobbes, please welcome Sophie and Doug.Dog Eat Doug is the cartooning creation of Brian Anderson that follows the daily exploits of Sophie, a cheese-loving chocolate Lab with a nose for the nuances of sarcasm and irony, and baby Doug, a healthy, happy newborn with no conc...

This e-book brings Kefalonia right to your finger tips. It continues our very successful Landmark Visitors Guide to Kefalonia, which ran to five print editions, before the demise of the publisher. This is the full version with some modifications and is packed with information to enhance the visitor experience. Days out are suggested, car tours and even walks. Feature boxes throughout the text add cultural background and a concluding fact file covers all essential information. Kefalonia had...

This is a comprehensive guide to the Greek island of Lesvos. When the authors lived on the island for a period in the late 1980's, they fell in love with it and have been regular visitors ever since. They also authored the 'Landscapes of Lesvos' , a walking and countryside guide as well as a small booklet 'Orchids of Lesvos'.Visitors are encouraged to visit every corner of this large and unspoilt Greek island from the petrified forest in the volcanic east to the hill villages on the...

Following the death of Kris Kringle, the operation of Christmas is taken over by a shadowy organization known as the Company who shutter the toy line at the North Pole and reestablish their base in the newly minted city of Yule Tide. Suspecting their motives, the Archangelic Council recalls its liaison to Christmas—an angel named Harold. When Harold refuses to return to Heaven, he is stripped of his wings and is grounded on Earth. His influence gone, Harold is fired by the Company and beco...

Minneapolis P.I. Lyle Dahms investigates the murder of an old high school buddy. The dead man, now a highly successful software developer, is found repeatedly stabbed with swastikas carved into his corpse. Suspicion promptly falls on the dead man’s son, a high school student who had gone virtually overnight from star athlete and scholar to rebellious skinhead whose hate-filled diatribes spare no one, least of all his privileged, liberal father. Dahms soon discovers others with motives to k...

Hired by a mob-controlled pornographer to investigate a grisly murder, Minneapolis PI Lyle Dahms faces murderous gunmen, merciless gang members, and a massive ex-professional wrestler who, besotted with the dead man’s wife, insists on tagging along. The real mystery involves the pornographer’s mistress, a dark and vulnerable beauty who steals Lyle’s heart—and who may not be everything she seems. As the lies continue to mount and loyalties change like the Midwest weather, Dahms risks his li...

In his new book, Edward Carpenter: A Victorian Rebel Fighting for Gay Rights, Brian Anderson explores the life of the neglected Victorian gay icon Edward Carpenter. Using a large number of previously unpublished letters to his lovers, and friends, his tortuous journey from conforming youth to outspoken critic of Victorian society is traced.His adolescent hurts and sexual confusion, his fumbling first love affairs, the remarkable expansion of his mind at Cambridge and his t...

Many feet have trampled Rhodes over the millennia and it had served many masters until it finally gained union with Greece only in 1947, The island is rich with historical interest from the old medieval fortress town of Rhodes with its powerful connection to the Knights Hospitallers of St John to the ancient acropolis at Lindos.This book aims to bring all this into context for the discerning traveller to enrich a holiday on this fascinating island.

A Baltic cruise offers something no other cruise can, a new capital to explore virtually every day. A typical cruise programme includes Stockholm, Helsinki, St Petersburg, Tallinn, Rostock & Varnemünde, Copenhagen, Oslo and others. Organised trips from the cruise ship are invariably on offer and often good value. We are far too independent and like to organise ourselves. It turned out surprisingly easy at all of these destinations, except St Petersburg. Just pick up a day card to cover you...