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  • A Tintagel Tale
    Robert Porter
    Eleven-year-old Tillie expects a family holiday in Cornwall to mean windswept ruins, rainy afternoons and listening to her archaeologist mother and historian father debate what the past can really prove.She does not expect to find Jowan.Hidden beneath a stone at Tintagel Castle is an injured, sharp-tongued Cornish piskie with no wings, a talent for trouble and very definite opi...
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    15,95 €

  • The Devil’s Ring
    Robert Porter
    For more than seven hundred years, the Porter family has guarded a secret.Twenty-two-year-old Ele Porter has spent most of her life knowing her father from a distance. Robert Porter provided for her, watched over her and remained almost entirely absent from her life.Then he dies.Ele inherits his secluded ancestral estate, a collection of unanswered questions-and an ancient gold...
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    20,43 €

  • The Last Person Who Remembers You
    Robert Porter
    When archivist María Álvarez builds an ofrenda for her late grandmother, she adds one photograph she cannot identify.By morning, the woman in the picture has crossed back into the world of the living.There is only one problem.Nobody remembers who she is.Not María. Not the historical records. Not even Santa Muerte.For María, every mystery should leave a trace: a name in a regist...
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    22,77 €

  • Sunday & Two-Step
    Robert Porter
    Harlem, 1933. Prohibition is coming to an end-but for Isaiah 'Sunday' Freeman and Leonard 'Two-Step' Booker, going legitimate may prove more dangerous than breaking the law ever was.For years, Sunday and Two-Step have made their living running bootleg whiskey through a city where survival depends on knowing when to talk, when to keep quiet, and when to drive. They are good at w...
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    26,40 €

  • Tentōmushi
    Robert Porter
    Shirakawa-gō, Japan, 1783.Fourteen-year-old Chiyo has spent her life beneath the steep thatched roofs of an isolated mountain village, where survival depends upon family, duty and the ancient bonds between neighbours. Winters are merciless, food is precious, and every household understands that no one survives alone.Then Chiyo begins to notice the ladybirds.The villagers call t...
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    23,11 €

  • HUMAN?
    Robert Porter
    A cure was supposed to end the pain. Nobody asked what it might begin.When researchers develop a radical new treatment for fibromyalgia, the results appear extraordinary. Patients who have spent years living with relentless pain begin to recover. Lives once defined by exhaustion and limitation open again.But scientist Dr Eleanor 'Nell' Mercer has been asking a question nobody w...
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    21,23 €

  • Under the Clock
    Robert Porter
    An ordinary novelist. A second-hand desk. A secret that should have stayed buried.Daniel Mercer is forty-eight, reclusive, spectacularly ordinary and perfectly content with a life consisting of dark-fantasy novels, an increasingly musty flat and Ernest, the goldfish who listens to everything Daniel says and understands absolutely none of it.Then his therapist suggests he should...
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    20,92 €

  • Myths & Lemons
    Robert Porter
    What if dragons were never imaginary-only misunderstood?For more than thirty years, historian and author Arthur Belmont has built his career studying the stories people once believed. Dragons, sea serpents, monsters and supernatural creatures belong to folklore, not zoology. Every legend has an explanation. Every mystery eventually yields to evidence.At least, that is what Arth...
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    15,04 €

  • The Continuity Engine
    Robert Porter
    Some people buy immortality. Some people have to die for it.Detective Mark Mathews has a problem: people are disappearing.There are no bodies. No ransom demands. No obvious connection between the missing. Just a growing stack of cases that refuse to make sense.Then the trail leads to Elysian Systems.Behind its immaculate public image, Elysian is developing something extraordina...
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    21,94 €

  • Dog’s Life
    Robert Porter
    What does the world look like when you experience it four paws first?Dog doesn’t know he is a blond cockapoo. He doesn’t understand why Humans give everything names, why chocolate is forbidden despite smelling magnificent, or why a perfectly good piece of cheese sometimes contains a disgusting chalky pill.He does know the important things.Mum is warm. Cheese is ten out of ten. ...
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    17,08 €

  • FATHERS’ RIGHTS THE FACTS
    Robert Porter
    When a relationship ends, being a father doesn’t.Separation can leave you facing questions you never expected to ask. Can I still see my children? Do fathers actually have rights? What is parental responsibility? What happens if contact stops? How does child maintenance work? Do I need mediation, a solicitor or family court? And what am I supposed to do tonight?Fathers’ Rights:...
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    16,97 €

  • A Field Guide to the Dead II
    Robert Porter
    Sixteen years after the world ended, survival is no longer something Alicen is learning. It is something she has become very good at.The infected still roam the ruins. Stranger things have emerged from the changed world. Food is scarce, clean water can mean the difference between life and death, and other survivors can be more dangerous than anything recorded in the Field Guide...
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    18,27 €

  • RESERVED
    Robert Porter
    Nearly a year has passed since Jan Vale returned to Penraven, and life has finally settled back into something resembling normal. The library has found its familiar rhythm, another Christmas has come and gone, Jan has another birthday approaching, and Moss-older, greyer and supposedly wiser-is enjoying retirement, three walks a day and every treat he can persuade someone to giv...
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    18,44 €

  • UNPUBLISHED
    Robert Porter
    A mother will do anything for her son. Jan Vale just happens to be rather good at asking questions.When Jan Vale receives an urgent call from her son Daniel, she leaves Penraven behind and travels with Moss to the Kent coast. Daniel has discovered the body of a woman he has been seeing-and the police have questions.The woman Daniel knew as Sophie was not who she claimed to be.A...
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    13,15 €

  • Withdrawn
    Robert S Porter
    Fourteen years ago, something was hidden inside Penraven Library. Now a death has begun pulling the past back into the light.At sixty-three, librarian Jan Vale has settled back into the rhythms of life in her small Cornish community. Christmas has come and gone, another birthday has been endured, and Moss-a retired working dog with an impressive appetite and very definite opini...
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    17,84 €

  • A Field Guide to the Undead
    Robert S Porter
    The world didn’t end all at once.It changed.The dead stopped staying dead. Animals became things nobody had names for. Familiar streets became hunting grounds, safe places became traps, and the rules of survival changed faster than anyone could write them down.Fortunately, Alicen has been trying.Thirteen-year-old Alicen has spent years crossing a ruined Britain with her father,...
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    28,57 €

  • RETURNED
    Robert Porter
    In Penraven, everybody knows everybody.Jan Vale knows what they borrow.At sixty-two, widowed librarian Jan Vale has settled into the familiar rhythms of life in Penraven, a picturesque Cornish town by the sea.She knows the regulars, the holidaymakers and the children who would rather be anywhere than staring at another screen. She knows which borrowers mistreat their books, whi...
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    15,94 €

  • The Repercussion
    Robert S Porter
    The Repercussion: The Weight We CarryWhat if every cruel act carried a consequence-and someone had the power to decide where that consequence landed?Jonathan Calder has spent twenty-three years surrounded by beautiful things at Vesper & Rowe, one of London’s most exclusive department stores. Immaculate, observant and controlled, he has learned that expensive surroundings do not...
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    19,64 €

  • The UK Platform Staff Operational Reference Guide
    Robert S Porter
    The UK Platform Staff Operational Reference Guide is a practical professional guide for people working on, supervising or managing railway platforms across the UK.Drawing on real operational experience, Robert Porter explores the responsibilities, judgement and safety awareness required in one of the railway’s most visible and safety-critical working environments. The book exam...
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    22,32 €

  • The Railway Interview
    Robert S Porter
    Getting a railway job is not simply about giving a confident interview. It is about providing credible evidence that you can think, communicate, learn and make responsible decisions in a safety-conscious environment.The Railway Interview: Applications, Assessments and Safety-Critical Selection is a practical guide for candidates preparing to enter, return to or progress within ...
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    24,48 €

  • The Railway Presentation Playbook
    Robert S Porter
    Railway presentation is not 'just cleaning'. It is operational care made visible.The Railway Presentation Playbook: Train, Station and Platform Cleaning, Safety and Service Quality is a comprehensive practical reference for the people responsible for presenting trains, stations and platforms safely, consistently and professionally.Written by Robert Porter, the book approaches p...
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    26,67 €

  • The Railway Control Centre Communication Playbook
    Robert S Porter
    Railway control is about far more than answering a telephone or passing information. When the person making the decision cannot physically see the situation, communication itself becomes an operational control.The Railway Control Centre Communication Playbook is a practical professional guide to remote operational control, passenger assistance, safety-critical communication, di...
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    22,30 €

  • The Railway Welfare and Occupational Health Playbook
    Robert S Porter
    Railway welfare requires compassion - but it also requires evidence, professional boundaries and sound judgement.The Railway Welfare and Occupational Health Playbook is a practical professional guide to managing welfare, health and fitness-for-work issues within the demanding environment of the UK railway.Written from an operational management perspective, Robert Porter examine...
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    18,91 €

  • Men and Women (Cram Edition)
    Charlotte (Charlotte Endymion) Porter / Helen A. (Helen Archibald) Clarke / Robert Browning
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Men and Women pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Explore the complexities of human connection in Robert Browning’s 'Men and Women,' a cornerstone of Victorian poetry. This collection delves into the multifaceted dynamics of love and relationships, exploring th...
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    25,15 €

  • Home Planting for Boys and Girls
    J.P Porter / Robert M Adams / New York State College of Agriculture
    'Home Planting for Boys and Girls' is a classic instructional guide designed to introduce young readers to the rewarding world of horticulture and landscape design. Developed by experts from the New York State College of Agriculture, including Robert M. Adams, J.P. Porter, and Joseph Oskamp, this work provides a comprehensive overview of how to plan, plant, and maintain a home ...
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    15,82 €

  • Industrial Cuba; Being A Study Of Present Commercial And Industrial Conditions, With Suggestions As To The Opportunities Presented In The Island For American Capital, Enterprise, And Labour
    Robert P. Porter
    A vivid portrait of an island on the brink of transformation Industrial Cuba unlocks the commercial heart of early-20th-century Cuba and the possibilities it held for American enterprise.In this authoritative economic study of Cuba, Robert P. Porter maps Cuban industrial conditions, the Cuban labor market, and the business prospects in Cuba with meticulous data and on-the-gro...
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    24,22 €

  • Men and Women
    Charlotte (Charlotte Endymion) Porter / Helen A. (Helen Archibald) Clarke / Robert Browning
    Explore the complexities of human connection in Robert Browning’s 'Men and Women,' a cornerstone of Victorian poetry. This collection delves into the multifaceted dynamics of love and relationships, exploring the nuances of human interaction through dramatic monologues and lyrical verses. Browning’s keen observations and psychological insights paint vivid portraits of individua...
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    21,09 €

  • The Dental Assisting Handbook
    Robert E. Porter
    Written by second-generation dentist Robert E. Porter, DDS this informative guide provides detailed and salient tips for success in dental assisting. Dr. Porter, with insight from fellow dentists, explains the foundational concepts of dentistry, common workplace expectations, and effective professional behaviors for dental assisting. This guide will empowerprospective dental as...
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    15,14 €

  • Robert’s Short Stories
    Robert Porter
    This is Robert Porter’s third book. This includes a wide range of short stories from children to adults.This book was written not only for children but for anyone who like to sit down on the couch at home or the bed and read a book that will take you in places you dream about. Or take children into the life of their favorite animal Friends. ...
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    16,41 €

  • Robert’s Short Stories
    Robert Porter
    This is Robert Porter’s second book. This includes a wide range of short stories from children to adults.This book was written not only for children but for anyone who like to sit down on the couch at home or the bed and read a book that will take you in places you dream about. Or take children into the life of their favorite animal Friends. ...
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    17,05 €


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