Moon Santa Barbara & the Central Coast (2nd ed)Travel writer Stuart Thornton introduces you to the best of Santa Barbara and California's Central Coast from Santa Barbara's stunning Spanish architecture to Ventura's treasure filled thrift shops. A longtime resident of the Central Coast Thornton has plenty of unique trip strategies to offer as well as helpful tips on the best beaches cheap eats campgrounds and more. Complete with inside information on enjoying the California Avocado Festival

This is not a cookbook that will just look pretty on a shelf

After negotiations beak down at the Randall Corporation headquarters

the novelists Aldous Huxley and Michael Arlen (who characterised her as Iris Storm in his best-selling novel The Green Hat)

Although it is the first time Oscar and Bertie have met

Still haunted by his last case

the book also traces a parade of statesmen who championed balanced budgets and financial market discipline including Carter Glass

The Icepick Surgeon fuses the drama of scientific discovery with the illicit thrill of a true-crime tale

and pleasure

Unfortunately for Ravi Boz his brilliant ex-con cousin seems determined to make his life difficult - not least by her experiments with forbidden technology

drinkers and dreamers

where a nightmare awaits her

The culprit