Poison, Shadow & Farewell is the concluding part in Javier Marias spy trilogy masterwork, Your Face Tomorrow.



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Poison, Shadow & Farewell is the concluding part in Javier Marias spy trilogy masterwork, Your Face Tomorrow.



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Many of us dream of running our own business, but inexperience & poor entrepreneurial skills can prevent people from making that first step. In the BBC TV series Dragons' Den, entrepreneurs are put on the spot in front of a panel of potential investors. Given only minutes to pitch their idea, the pressure is on
- some simply frazzle in the fiery breath of the dragons, others sweat it out, make it through & see the money on the other side.

Using case studies from the series, punchy"es & insider advice from the dragons themselves, including Duncan Bannatyne & Peter Jones, this handbook will guide you through the hazardous process of finding your product, identifying your market, maximising your business acumen & pitching skills & finding the right partner. This sound advice, peppered with excellent"es & stats from the show will teach you to close the deal when you do find it.


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Best friends fast approaching forty in the small Minnesota town of Flame Lake, Devera & Bi Di, were recently voted ' Least Changed' at their twentieth high school reunion
- a label neither one finds very appealing. For each craves a change in her life: Devera wants a break from her humdrum marital routine; Bi Di longs to reconnect with her distant fourteen-year-old daughter (the only girl on the high-school hockey team), not to mention jump-starting a sex drive stuck in neutral.

So when Devera's husband decides to fulfil his longtime dream of opening a nightclub in his basement, Your Oasis on Flame Lake arrives not a moment too soon. Nothing fancy, it's just a BYOB joint where you can hang out, sing, dance, tell jokes & be yourself. But then an unexpected crisis throws both families into chaos, forcing them all to take stock of their lives
- & learn the power of forgiveness.



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In a remote, piney wood in Finland stands a convalescent hospital called Suvanto, a curving concrete example of austere Scandinavian design. It is the 1920s, & the patients, all women, seek relief from ailments real & imagined. On the lower floors are the stoic Finnish women; on the upper floors are foreign women of privilege ...

In a remote, piney wood in Finland stands a convalescent hospital called Suvanto, a curving concrete example of austere Scandinavian design. It is the 1920s, & the patients, all women, seek relief from ailments real & imagined. On the lower floors are the stoic Finnish women; on the upper floors are foreign women of privilege ...