In 1779 driven out of his home Calum Mac Donald sets sail from the Scottish Highlands with his extensive family After a long terrible journey he settles his family in 'the land of trees' & eventually they become a separate Nova Scotian clan red-haired & black-eyed with its own identity its own history It is the 1980s by the time our narrator Alexander Mac Donald tells the story of his family a thrilling & passionate story that intersects with history with Culloden where the clans died & with the 1759 battle at Quebec that was won when General Wolfe sent in the fierce Highlanders because it was 'no great mischief if they fall' ...

<p> The story of a school shooting & its awful aftermath; a psychologically convincing study of grief loss & guilt & their effects on young lives<p> 280 pages Anna Seidl ...

Theodore Honey is a shy inconspicuous aircraft engineer whose eccentric interests in quantum mechanics & spiritualism are frowned upon in aviation circles But when a passenger plane crashes in unexplained circumstances Honey must convince his superiors that his unorthodox theories are correct before more lives are lost ...

The autobiography of West Indies fast-bowling legend turned Sky pundit Michael Holding As one of the fastest bowlers the world has seen Michael Holding went by the haunting nickname ' Whispering Death' claiming 249 Test wickets Despite having not laced his bowling boots since 1989 it remains a fitting sobriquet As a commentator & administrator Holding has delivered his views on cricket in the same manner that he played the game he speaks softly with a rich Jamaican rhythm & is calculated in either criticism or compliment NO HOLDING BACK charts his effortless transition from one of the great players to one of the great pundits Holding graphically describes his days as a player looking back at how he tried to deliberately hurt batsmen on the wastelands of Kingston & his first match for Jamaica when he almost collapsed from exhaustion
- after only four overs! There is time too to divulge what it was like to tour with the West Indies & unmissable insights about sharing a dressing room with other legends of the game like Clive Lloyd Sir Viv Richards & Malcolm Marshall Holding does not shirk the big issues as he discusses how the West Indies have slipped following their halcyon days openly assesses Brian Lara & laments the hypocrisy over the state of the game in the region The controversy surrounding the Allen Stanford 20m spectacle the ICC's handling of the abandoned England v Pakistan match player power illegal bowling actions & the threat of Twenty 20 to the Test game are all subjects which Holding tackles with characteristic knowledge & class
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Award-winning author of The Nowhere Men & Living on the Volcano is back to complete his football trilogy with a new book that tells the inside story of becoming a professional footballer What's your dream son?A six year-old boy head bowed mumbles the eternal answer Be a footballer Steadman Scott football's most unlikely talent scout smiles indulgently & takes him in from the street He knows the odds Only 180 of the 15 million boys who play organised youth football in England will become a Premier League pro That's a success rate of 0012 per cent How & why do the favoured few make it? What separates the good from the great? Who should they trust
- the coach the agent or their parents? Michael Calvin provides the answers on a journey from non-league grounds to hermetically sealed Premier League palaces via gang-controlled sink estates & the England team's inner sanctum He interviews decision makers behavioural specialists football agents & leading coaches He shares the hopes & fears of players & their parents He exposes bullying & a black economy in which children are commodities but remains true to the dream
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The New York Times & Sunday Times Bestseller' An ordinary person's guide to hope Read this book' Arundhati Roy' As accessible as it is brilliant' Owen Jones' An absolute must-read This book is inspiring & energy-giving Like a little sun' Emma Thompson Naomi Klein
- award-winning journalist bestselling author of No Logo The Shock Doctrine & This Changes Everything scourge of brand bullies & corporate liars
- gives us the toolkit we need to survive our surreal shocking age' This is a look at how we arrived at this surreal political moment how to keep it from getting a lot worse & how if we keep our heads we can flip the script' Remember when love was supposed to Trump hate? Remember when the oil companies & bankers seemed to be running scared? What the hell happened? & what can we do about it? Naomi Klein shows us how we got here & how we can make things better No Is Not Enough reveals among other things that the disorientation we're feeling is deliberate That around the world shock political tactics are being used to generate crisis after crisis designed to force through policies that will destroy people the environment the economy & our security That extremism isn't a freak event
- it's a toxic cocktail of our times From how to trash the Trump megabrand to the art of reclaiming the populist argument Naomi Klein shows all of us how we can break the spell & win the world we need Don't let them get away with it' Who better than Naomi to make sense of this madness & help us find a way out? A top-of-the-stack must read' Michael Stipe' Naomi Klein's new book incites us brilliantly to interweave our No with a programmatic Yes A manual for emancipation' Yanis Varoufakis' Magnificent a courageous coruscating counterspell' Junot Diaz


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Artists No Joy Label Mexican Summer Format Vinyl 12 Album Tracks 1 Remember Nothing 2 Everything New 3 Hollywood Teeth 4 Moon in My Mouth 5 Burial in Twos 6 Corpo Daemon 7 Bolas 8 Chalk Snake 9 Rude Films 10 I Am an Eye Machine 11 Judith ...

Published in the centenary year of the 1917 Russian Revolution No Less Than Mystic is a fresh & iconoclastic history of Lenin & the Bolsheviks for a generation uninterested in Cold War ideologies & stereotypes Although it offers a full & complete history of Leninism 1917 the Russian Civil War & its aftermath the book devotes more time than usual to the policies & actions of the socialist alternatives to Bolshevism
- to the Menshevik Internationalists the Socialist Revolutionaries (SRs) the Jewish Bundists & the anarchists It prioritises Factory Committees local Soviets the Womens' Zhenotdel movement Proletkult & the Kronstadt sailors as much as the statements & actions of Lenin & Trotsky Using the neglected writings & memoirs of Mensheviks like Julius Martov SRs like Victor Chernov Bolshevik oppositionists like Alexandra Kollontai & anarchists like Nestor Makhno it traces a revolution gone wrong & suggests how it might have produced a more libertarian emancipatory socialism than that created by Lenin & the Bolsheviks The book broadly covers the period from 1903 (the formation of the Bolsheviks & Mensheviks) to 1921 (the suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion) & explains why the Bolshevik Revolution degenerated so quickly into its apparent opposite & continually examines the Leninist experiment through the lens of a 21st century de-centralised ecological anti-productivist & feminist socialism Throughout its narrative it interweaves & draws parallels with contemporary anti-capitalist struggles such as those of the Zapatistas the Kurds the Argentinean " Recovered Factories" Occupy the Arab Spring the Indignados & Intersectional feminists attempting to open up the past to the present & points in between We do not need another standard history of the Russian Revolution This is not one
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A lively mixture of action & comedy with George Formby starring as a chimney sweep's assistant who has dreams of winning the Isle Of Man TT Races ...

Michael Phelps is one of the greatest competitors the world has ever seen From teen sensation in Sydney to bona fide phenomenon in Athens he is now
- after the Beijing Games
- a living Olympic legend With an unprecedented eight gold medals & seven world-record times his performance at the 2008 Games set a new standard for success He ranks among the most elite athletes in the world & is both an inspiration & a role model to millions In No Limits Phelps reveals the secrets to his remarkable success from his training regimen to his mental preparation & finally to his performance in the pool Having been raised by a single mother & diagnosed with ADHD Phelps's success is imbued with defeating obstacles & earning one's way & No Limits explores the hard work commitment & sacrifice that go into reaching any goal Filled with anecdotes from family members friends team mates & his coach No Limits gives a behind-the-scenes look at the makings of a real champion & reveals a step-by-step guide to realizing one's dream

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