Book one in this new fantasy adventure series Keeper of the Realms'I've just had a flesh-eating giant tearing around my house & now I'm in this strange land I don't know anything about!'CHARLIE KEEPER has been forced from her home by a bloodthirsty & terrifying stranger But in escaping she discovers her house holds the gateway to the REALM OF BELLANIA
- a place of myth magic & an evil Lord with a very bad attitude NOW its fate rests squarely upon Charlie's shoulders But before she can untangle the mystery that will save Bellania she needs the answer to a life-changing secret her guardian the dastardly Mr Crow has been keeping from her Just who is Charlie Keeper?
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For those who visit the UAE today staying in air-conditioned hotels & shopping in ultra-modern malls the country itself remains an enigma
- a glass & concrete creation that seems to have sprung from the desert overnight Keepers of the Golden Shore looks behind its glossy facade tracing the traditional tribal bonds of an ancient land to the society of today & casting a new & revealing light on this intriguing innovative & resilient people Across the spread of its deserts & mountains islands & seas the UAE has a rich & diverse history From the ancient people who came out of the desert to settle the land through the invasions & wars these people fought to the myth of piracy & the mystique of pearls & the arrival of the oilmen in the stifling heat Keepers of the Golden Shore tells the extraordinary story of how the Emirates & its ruling families evolved from a tribal society to become one of the richest countries on earth
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The Keepers of the Light are a congregation of Ascended Masters & divine beings who are dedicated to the peace healing & nurturing of the world These amazing masters transcend religion & go beyond time
- they are here & willing to help all of those who call on them This new Keepers of the Light oracle card deck from Kyle Gray draws together 45 Ascended Masters spiritual deities & beings from many world traditions & embraces spiritual teachings from ancient to modern times The deck balances male & female energies &

Includes:: traditional masters including Lord Buddha & Mother Mary Earth-based deities such as Gaia & Cernunnos & modern favourites including Sanat Kumara Lady Venus & Saint Germain Each card is beautifully hand drawn by visionary artist Lily Moses who paints what she sees from a deep meditative state The deck's aim is to help spiritual seekers develop their intuition & to really start trusting the messages that spirit shares


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Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another & that great paintings required no words of explanation Braque thought the ideal state would be reached when we said nothing at all in front of a painting But we are very far from reaching that state We remain incorrigibly verbal creatures who love to explain things to form opinions to argue It is a rare picture which stuns or argues us into silence & if one does it is only a short time before we want to explain & understand the very silence into which we have been plunged' Julian Barnes began writing about art with a chapter on Gericault's The Raft of the Medusa in his 1989 novel A History of the World in 1012 Chapters Since then he has written a series of remarkable essays chiefly about French artists which trace the story of how art made its way from Romanticism to Realism & into Modernism Fully illustrated in colour throughout Keeping an Eye Open contains Barnes' essays on Gericault Delacroix Courbet Manet Fantin-Latour Cezanne Degas Redon Bonnard Vuillard Vallotton Braque Magritte Oldenburg Howard Hodgkin & Lucian Freud ...

Beekeeping is a fascinating & rewarding activity & is hugely important to the survival of our declining bee population as much covered recently by the media This attractive book offers practical & informative advice on how to get started how to achieve & collect good harvests beekeeping through the seasons troubleshooting queen rearing & more It even suggests ways of encouraging bees for 'non-beekeepers' Written by well respected experts Pam Gregory & Claire Waring it provides accurate & reliable information on this increasingly popular pastime & is the ideal giftbook for the budding beekeeper ...

Providing a practical & easy to follow guide this is an ideal book for people beginning with keeping chickens covering the basics of poultry husbandry The authors are experienced smallholders & share their advice with the aim of keeping healthy happy chickens The physical & behavioural attributes of domestic chickens are discussed in detail advice on laying hens breeding & raising chicks housing feeding nutrition & health maintenance are covered along with egg production slaughter collecting eggs & poultry meat products & egg based recipes Keeping Chickens is highly illustrated & adapted from the bestselling German book in its 9th edition ...

Walter Goodfellow (Rowan Atkinson) the well meaning vicar of the parish of Little Wallop is so obsessed with writing the perfect sermon that he is oblivious to his wife Gloria’s (Kristin Scott Thomas) dalliance with her brash golf instructor Lance (Patrick Swayze); neither does he notice that his daughter Holly has a different boyfriend every week & his young son Petey is the whipping boy for the school bullies Gloria feels her life is spiralling out of control She is sick of the incessant barking of the dog next door her loveless marriage & her adolescent kids’ escapades – she prays every night for salvation Enter Grace (Maggie Smith) the answer to the family’s prayers a sweet grey haired old lady the charming & discreet new housekeeper who has her own unique definition of keeping house – & a very unusual way of solving problems ...

The Sunday Times Bestseller & 1 international bestseller Keeping My Sister's Secrets by Beezy Marsh is the heartwarming true story of three sisters & their fearless fight to survive the hardships of poverty & war
- by whatever means necessary Born into a close-knit working class family in the slums of London's Waterloo Eva Peggy & Kathleen are three remarkably different but very loving sisters Desperate to escape their violent father they find different ways to survive Beautiful Kathleen escapes into marriage with an abusive man & during the horrors of the Second World War falls in love again
- this time with an American GI Peggy serious & studious is appalled by conditions in the factories & becomes a communist desperate to help her fellow workers The rebellious sister Eva will do anything to protect her family
- even if it means breaking the law to put dinner on the table Living closely together the sisters support each other through thick & thin
- their story is a moving tale of unconditional love the one constant in a changing world



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'I seem to have banged on this year rather more than usual I make no apology for that nor am I nervous that it will it make a jot of difference I shall still be thought to be kindly cosy & essentially harmless I am in the pigeon-hole marked 'no threat' & did I stab Judi Dench with a pitchfork I should still be a teddy bear' Alan Bennett's third collection of prose Keeping On Keeping On follows in the footsteps of the phenomenally successful Writing Home & Untold Stories each published ten years apart This latest collection contains Bennett's peerless diaries 2005 to 2015 reflecting on a decade that saw four premieres at the National Theatre (The Habit of Art People Hymn & Cocktail Sticks) a West End double-bill transfer & the films of The History Boys & The Lady in the Van There's a provocative sermon on private education given before the University at King's College Chapel Cambridge & ' Baffled at a Bookcase' offers a passionate defence of the public library This is an engaging humane sharp funny & unforgettable record of life according to the inimitable Alan Bennett ...

HE HIDES HE KILLS HE KEEPS Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles is asked to attend an intriguing examination An ancient mummy has been found in a museum basement prompting great media excitement But with horror she realises that it's not as ancient as they thought A very modern bullet is showing up on the scan Detective Jane Rizzoli is called to investigate & soon discovers a second
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- mummified body Who is this killer & why does he preserve his victims so meticulously? & who will be the next to join his monstrous collection?

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