A Mulliner collection In the Angler's Rest drinking hot scotch & lemon sits one of Wodehouse's greatest raconteurs Mr Mulliner his vivid imagination lubricated by Miss Postlethwaite the barmaid has fabulous stories to tell of the extraordinary behaviour of his far-flung family in particular there's Wilfred inventor of Raven Gypsy face-cream & Snow of the Mountain Lotion who lights on the formula for Buck-U-Uppo a tonic given to elephants to enable them to face tigers with the necessary nonchalance Its explosive effects on a shy young curate & then the higher clergy is gravely revealed Then there's his cousin James the detective-story writer who has inherited a cottage more haunted than anything in his own imagination & Isadore Zinzinheimer head of the Bigger Better & Brighter Motion Picture Company Tall tales all
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It's every woman's fantasy to pack a bag & leave everything behind Meet Maribeth Klein a harried working mother who is so busy taking care of her husband & twins that she doesn't even realise that she has had a heart attack But her recuperation seems to be an imposition on those who rely on her So Maribeth does the unthinkable
- she packs a bag & leaves Maribeth has always wondered who she is & where she comes from & now's the time to find out Now far from the demands of family & career she is finally able to own up to the secrets she has been keeping from herself & those she loves From the bestselling author of If I Stay & I Was Here comes a stunning new novel for Forman's adult readers an unflinching portrait of a woman confronting the joys & sorrows of marriage motherhood & friendship Readers love Leave Me ' Leave Me reminds you that we are all fragile human beings imperfect & all a work in progress & above all it reminds us that life is complex & frightening but not impossible' The Bookbag Read it as they say & weep' Daily Mail ' When I reached the end of this book I was in tears because of how honest & raw it was This book will really make you think very deeply about your deepest desires' Twenty-Three Pages ' An appealing fairy tale for the exhausted & underappreciated' Kirkus ' Deftly explores the domestic struggles of 21st-century bourgeois life This is an insightful ode to-and cautionary tale for-the overburdened working mother' Book Page ' With humor & pathos Forman depicts Maribeth's complicated situation & her thoroughly satisfying arc leaving readers feeling as though they've really accompanied Maribeth on her journey' Publishers Weekly
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Based on Peter Rock&s novel My Abandonment LEAVE NO TRACE revolves around a teenage girl (Thomasin Harcourt Mc Kenzie) & her father (Ben Foster) who have lived undetected for years in Forest Park a vast wood on the edge of Portland Oregon A chance encounter leads to their discovery & removal from the park & into the charge of a social service agency They try to adapt to their new surroundings until a sudden decision sets them on a perilous journey into the wilderness seeking independence & forces them to confront their conflicting desire to be part of a community or a fierce need to live apart Actors Ben Foster Directors Debra Granik Language English Subtitles Czech Slovak Portuguese Polish Croatian Arabic Italian Hebrew Slovene Bulgarian Hungarian Icelandic Romanian Greek Turkish Spanish English Serbian Dubbed Italian Hungarian Spanish Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Audio Description English Number of discs 1 ...

LEAVE YOUR MARK isn't an advice book -- it's a mentorship in 288 pages Aliza Licht -- global fashion communications executive AKA fashion's favorite 'PR girl' & Twitter phenomenon -- is here to tell her story complete with The Devil Wears Prada-like moments & insider secrets Drawing invaluable lessons from her experience Licht shares advice inspiration & a healthy dose of real talk in LEAVE YOUR MARK She delivers personal & professional guidance for people just starting their careers & for people who are well on their way With a particular emphasis on communicating & building your personal brand something she knows a thing or two about Aliza is your sassy knowledgeable guide to the contemporary working world where personal & professional lines are blurred & the most important thing you can have is a strong sense of self ...

A collectible new Penguin Classics series stunning clothbound editions of ten favourite poets which present each poet's most ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Tim Blake Nelson writes & directs this offbeat comedy about pot poetry philosophy & coming to terms with the past Edward Norton plays two identical twin brothers both highly intelligent but diametrically opposite Bill is an Ivy League classical philosophy professor who has worked hard to distance himself from his down-at-heel small-town upbringing while his marijuana-dealing brother Brady still lives in their hometown in Oklahoma When Brady tricks Bill into returning home for the first time in 20 years Bill is furious & threatens to take the next plane back to the East Coast However he ends up staying long enough to visit his estranged mother (Susan Sarandon) & fall under the spell of free-spirited local teacher Janet (Keri Russell) ...

The sequel to Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight In her twenties Alexandra Fuller embarked on a new journey into a long tempestuous marriage to Charlie Ross the love of her life In this frank personal memoir she charts their twenty years together from the brutal beauty of the Zambezi to the mountains of Wyoming
- the new adventures the unexplored paths the insurmountable obstacles & the many signals that they missed along the way
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London 1933 Some two months after an Indian woman Usha Pramal is found murdered in a South London canal her brother turns to Maisie Dobbs to find the truth about her death Not only has Scotland Yard made no arrests but evidence indicates they failed to conduct a full & thorough investigation Before her death Usha was staying at an ayah's hostel a refuge for Indian women whose British employers had turned them out As Maisie learns Usha was different from the hostel's other lodgers But with this discovery comes new danger
- soon another Indian woman who was close to Usha is found murdered before she can speak out As Maisie is pulled deeper into an unfamiliar yet alluring subculture her investigation becomes clouded by the unfinished business of a previous case & at the same time her lover James Compton gives her an ultimatum she cannot ignore
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Adam Gordon is a brilliant if highly unreliable young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid struggling to establish his sense of self & his attitude towards art Fuelled by strong coffee & self-prescribed tranquillizers Adam's 'research' soon becomes a meditation on the possibility of authenticity as he finds himself increasingly troubled by the uncrossable distance between himself & the world around him It's not just his imperfect grasp of Spanish but the underlying suspicion that his relationships his reactions & his entire personality are just as fraudulent as his poetry ...

This book is a record of the people who visited Lebanon from between 1800 BC to the last summer; & of the Lebanese themselves writing about their homeland their religions their joys their wars & their sorrows The passages have been selected & presented by Ted Gorton & Andree Feghali Gorton Ted first came to Lebanon in 1967 to study Arabic at the American University of Beirut AUB; there he met his archaeologist wife Andree They describe their book as a labour of love in it the visitor to Lebanon will discover a country that is infinitely richer more diverse & perennial than the headlines of the last few decades might suggest A Lebanese reader will delight in the familiar as well as discovering new treasures of description analysis & literature ...