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"Explore bustling squares and funky back streets, sampling beer, chocolate, and waffle along the way. Now more then ever, count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know to travel in the Belgian towns of Bruges, Brussels, Antwerp, and Ghent. In this book, you'll find his up-to-the-minute advice alongside time-tested travel tips"--Page 4 of cover.

"Hannah Martel has narrowly escaped Nazi Germany after her fianc�e was killed in a pogrom. When her ship bound for America is turned away at port, she has nowhere to go but to her cousin Lily, who lives with her family in Brussels. Fearful for her life, Hannah is desperate to get out of occupied Europe. But with no safe way to leave, she must return to the dangerous underground work she thought she had left behind"--

Now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world's most glamorous city, Poirot reluctantly attends a sǎnce at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.

"Many years ago, before the world bloomed in magnificent colors, the Earth lay stark and gray. The animals that graced its skies and roamed its lands were the colors of dirt, clay, and stone ... until Rainbow descended to bestow her colors on the creatures of the world. Each bird asked for a bright and beautiful color: green for Parrot, red for Cardinal, and yellow for Canary. But will there be any colors left for little Gouldian Finch? He soon learns...

"Edward Manners, un joven brit�anico en busca de aires nuevos, llega a una peque�na ciudad flamenca para dar clases de ingl�es y no tarda en quedar prendado de uno de sus alumnos, Luc Altidore, un enigm�atico chico de diecisiete a�nos al que acaban de expulsar de la escuela. Mientras en Inglaterra un antiguo amante muere de sida, en la peque�na ciudad flamenca Edward conoce a una serie de peculiares personajes: Cherif, un marroqu�i...

Hercule Poirot doesn't need all his detective skills to realise something is troubling his secretary, Miss Lemon - she has made three mistakes in a simple letter. It seems an outbreak of kleptomania at the student hostel in which her sister works is distracting his usually efficient assistant. Deciding that desperate times call for desperate measures, the great detective agrees to investigate. Unknown to Poirot, however, desperation is a motive he...

From two-time Palme d'Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne comes the story of seventeen-year-old Lokita and twelve-year-old Tori, two immigrants to Belgium from Cameroon and Benin, respectively whose siblinglike bond is the only resource they can depend on in their struggle for survival on the margins of European society. The pair work as performers in a cheap trattoria, dealing drugs on the side, while balancing the demands of an indifferent bureaucracy....

Lonely Planet's Belgium & Luxembourg is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Explore Unesco-listed belfries in Bruges and Tournai, savour Belgian pralines at a Brussels chocolatier and stroll along the river gorge in Luxembourg City all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Belgium & Luxembourg and begin your journey now!

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Janet Evanovich, author of the blockbuster Stephanie Plum novels, and Lee Goldberg, writer for the Monk television show, team up once again in their New York Times bestselling Fox and O’Hare series!
Nicolas Fox, international con man, thief, and one of the top ten fugitives on the FBI’s most-wanted list, has been kidnapped from a beachfront retreat in Hawaii. What the kidnapper...

"The book is a fictional memoir based on actual events. The inspiration for the book came from hundreds of letters and other accounts written by Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur who were living in German-occupied Belgium and Italy during World War Two. Turner created a composite character, Sister Christina, who is described as an Ohio farm girl, who joined the Sisters of Our Lady of Namur to teach English and agricultural skills to young Catholic girls....