Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant from her beginning as a naive carefree country girl before the war through to her wry & trenchant old age in the year 2020 We follow her bruising experience in marriage her probing of male truths her adventures in motherhood & in China & we cannot fail to be moved by the questions she asks of life & the often unsatisfactory answers it provides ...

Over the past quarter century Irvin Yalom has established himself as the world's leading group psychotherapist In STARING AT THE SUN he explores how the knowledge of our own mortality affects the unconscious mind of every human being Tackling the effect of mankind's fear of death
- both conscious & unconscious
- on life & how we might live it Yalom explains how we find ourselves in need of the comfort of therapy At age 70 & facing his own fear of death which he discusses in a special afterword Dr Yalom tackles his toughest subject yet & finds it to be the root cause of patients' fears stresses & depression If therapists are to deliver 'the gift of therapy' they must confront the realities of life for themselves & their practice as must we all

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Ruling over Winterfell in the north House Stark is one of the great houses of Westeros Now Game of Thrones fans have the chance to properly prepare for the coming of winter with this deluxe House Stark candle The pillar candle features a sculpted h&-painted Stark sigil-a must-have decoration for any Game of Thrones fan! The candle comes gift-wrapped in a carboard box Size 15 cm tall 10 cm diameter ...

Light up your home with this exquisite Hogwarts candle Experience the magic of HOGWARTS School of Witchcraft & Wizardry with this deluxe candle This gorgeous large pillar candle features a sculpted h&-painted emblem of the Hogwarts crest
- a must-have decoration for any HARRY POTTER fan! Size 20 cm tall 13 cm diameter
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(Lloyd Webber &amp Stilgoe)&nbsp Featuring P P Arnold Charlotte Avery Richard Bodkin Bobby Collins Mark Davis Danny J Jules Koffi Missah Paul Reeves Frances Ruffelle Lon Satton Jeff Shankley Ray Shell Michael Staniforth Voyd Debbie Wake 1 Rolling stock 2 Call me Rusty 3 A lotta locomotion 4 Pumping iron 5 Freight 6 ACDC 7 He whistled at me 8 The race 9 There&s me 10 Poppa&s blues 11 Belle the sleeping car 12 Starlight Express 13 The rap 14 UNCOUPLED 15 C B 16 Right place right time 17 I am the Starlight 18 Race the final 19 No comeback 20 One rock &n& roll too many 21 Only he 22 Only you 23 Light at the end of the tunnel ...

Starlight Stage is a card game in which players produce newcomer idols who have various talents into top celebrity idols & collect popularity points There are three types of card decks on the table Idol cards have combinations of three talent types (note diamond & heart) & popularity points Produce cards have popularity points Event cards have special resources necessary to get more talented idol cards Each player have three initial idol cards of single talent of each type The start player plays one of idol cards to either (1) take a lesson & acquire a single talent chip (2) get an event card only for this action multiple idol cards can be played (3) get a produce card (4) replace the played idol card by a new idol card from the table Each card has acquire costs which is paid by talents of played idol card resources from previously acquired event cards & additional talent chips Then the next player plays his idol card When every player take turns the round ends & each player reclaim played idol cards & the next round begins with the start player shifted to the next player At the end of round when the produce card deck is expired the game ends & the player with the most popularity points from hisher idol cards & produce cards combined wins the game ...

Starlight Stage Shining Star an expansion for Starlight Stage

Includes:: 13 idol cards 14 fame cards 27 event

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" It&s sentimental & honest romantic & sincere completely unabashed in its nostalgic reverence for old fashioned pulp In doing something different Millar has created one of his best books yet"
- IGN " the book is on its way to being an inter-stellar hit & I&m definitely strapping up for the ride"
- Bleeding Cool Forty years ago Duke Mc Queen saved an alien world from destruction Back on earth nobody believed his story Now his kids are grown his wife has passed on & life has little to offer Until the day a strange boy from the world he once saved makes an appearance coaxing Duke to join him on one last adventure Can Duke handle the leap from has-been to hero? Collects Starlight 1-6

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he Empress of Earth Finest passenger liner in the galaxy Brightest link in the chain that binds the starflung civilization of the 23rd century Six thousand lives in a single hull trembling through multiple universes to land on raw often violent worlds each with its own history & wonder The Empress of Earth Neutral pawn in an interstellar war! When hostile necessity knows no law Ran Colville & the rest of the complement of the Empress of Earth must bring home their ship & the passengers entrusted to them From the Captain on his bridge to the Cold Crewmen who work in conditions that differ from Hell only by name they&ll have their work cut out for them this voyage! Meet the Author David Drake was attending Duke University Law School when he was drafted He served the next two years in the Army spending 1970 as an enlisted interrogator with the 11th Armored Cavalry in Vietnam & Cambodia Upon return he completed his law degree at Duke & was for eight years Assistant Town Attorney for Chapel Hill North Carolina He has been a full-time freelance writer since 1981 His books include the genre-defining & bestselling Hammer’s Slammers series the nationally bestselling RCN series including In the Stormy Red Sky The Road of Danger The Sea without a Shore & Death&s Bright Day ...

Remember Sparrow? The art-book series pioneered by Ashley Wood featuring some of the most acclaimed painters & artists in the world & printed on amazing paper stock? Yep this is like that only this series is even larger in size & features all-new pieces from again some of the best artists in existence Up first the series& creator Ashley Wood! ...