Nick Hornby&s second bestselling novel is about sex manliness & fatherhood Will is thirty-six comfortable & child-free & he&s discovered a brilliant new way of meeting women
- through single-parent groups Marcus is twelve & a little bitnerdish he&s got the kind of mother who made him listen to Joni Mitchell rather than Nirvana Perhaps they can help each other out a little bit & both can start to act their age
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At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law Commissario Brunetti meets Franca Marinello the wife of a prosperous Venetian businessman He's charmed
- perhaps too charmed suggests his wife Paola
- by her love of Virgil & Cicero but shocked by her appearance A few days later Brunetti is visited by Carabinieri Maggior Filippo Guarino from the nearby city of Marghera As part of a wider investigation into Mafia takeovers of businesses in the region Guarino wants information about the owner of a trucking company who was found murdered in his office He believes the man's death is connected to the illegal transportation of refuse
- & more sinister material
- in his company's trucks No stranger to mutual suspicion & competition between rival Italian police departments Brunetti is nevertheless puzzled by the younger man's behaviour Eventually Guarino agrees to email a photo of his suspect but by the time the photograph arrives he himself is dead Was he killed because he got too close? & how is it that Franca Marinello is involved?



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Beautifully written & compelling About Grace is the brilliant debut novel from Anthony Doerr Growing up in Alaska young David Winkler is crippled by his dreams At nine he dreams a man is decapitated by a passing truck on the path outside his family's home The next day unable to prevent it he witnesses an exact replay of his dream in real life The premonitions keep coming unstoppably He sleepwalks during them bringing catastrophe into his reach Then as unstoppable as a vision he falls in love at the supermarket (exactly as he already dreamed) with Sandy They flee south landing in Ohio where their daughter Grace is born & then the visions of Grace's death begin for Winkler as their waterside home is inundated Plagued by the same horrific images of Grace drowning when the floods come he cannot face his destiny & flees He beaches on a remote Caribbean island where he works as a handyman chipping away at his doubts & hopes never knowing whether Grace survived the flood or met the doom he foretold After two decades he musters the strength to find out ...

Teachers of English need not only to have a good productive command of the language; they also need to know a good deal about the way the language works This book asks ' What is it that a teacher needs to know about English in order to teach it effectively?' It leads teachers to awareness of the language through a wide range of tasks which involve them in analysing English to discover its underlying system The book consists of 28 units each containing around ten tasks plus a diagnostic introductory unit Units start at phoneme level & progress through words phrases & sentences on to complete texts Task-types include recognition categorisation matching explanation & application tasks Throughout the book the language is illustrated wherever possible from authentic sources so that the teacher can be sure that the English being studied represents current usage ...

The immensely funny & heartwarming number one bestseller tells the story of a woman who gets a second chance in life
- but will
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A man & woman meet & try to have a romantic affair despite their personal problems & the interference of their disapproving friends ...

As a novelist essayist & cultural historian John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence & arresting insight whose work amounts to a subtle powerful critique of the canons of our civilization In About Looking he explores our role as observers to reveal new layers of meaning in what we see How do the animals we look at in zoos remind us of a relationship between man & beast all but lost in the twentieth century? What is it about looking at war photographs that doubles their already potent violence? How do the nudes of Rodin betray the threats to his authority & potency posed by clay & flesh? & how does solitude inform the art of Giacometti? In asking these & other questions Berger alters the vision of anyone who reads his work ...

Wedding co-ordinator Asaka could never forget his very first clients When he meets up once more with that very same client the man who spends his life arranging weddings for others unexpectedly learns a few things about love himself Heartwarmingly bittersweet this is the eagerly awaited English-language debut of mangaka Tomo Ootake! ...

About Our Boys was written in response to numerous requests from parents & youth workers who had read Lucinda Neall's book Bringing the Best out in Boys
- Communication Strategies for Teachers About Our Boys looks at what makes boys tick what motivates & de-motivates them & how to help them navigate the journey to manhood It is packed with practical examples of what to do & say to get boys on board to channel their energy & set boundaries
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Warren Schmidt (Nicholson) has arrived at several of life&s crossroads all at the same time as he is forced to deal with an ambiguous future as he enters retirement Soon after his wife of 42 years passes away & he must come to terms with his only daughters marriage to a man he does not care for With no job no wife & no family Warren is desperate to find something meaningful in his thoroughly unimpressive life Warren sets out on a journey of self-discovery exploring his roots across Nebraska & facing up to the failure that his life has become ...