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Featuring varying difficulty levels, this compendium of exciting sudoku puzzles is perfect for both challenging experts and training novices. Not only fun, these puzzles are perfect for building logic
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A revised edition of the candid, sometimes shocking, biography of Rupert Brooke revealing the very different reality behind the golden-boy facade of an English literary iconParagon of youthful beauty,
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When the body of a red-haired young man is washed up on the shore of the beautiful Isle of Mull, Detective Superintendent Lorimer's tranquil holiday away from the gritty streets of Glasgow is rudely i
The planning of Holy Trinity church in Cork City began in 1825, and the building was finally completed some 60 years later. The story of its completion mirrors the turbulent history of Ireland of the
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