In the relentless summer heat four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy isolated world & find their own strange & unsettling ways of fending for themselves ...

When you face a red light what can you say to turn it green? On stage needing to hook the audience? Convincing a friend over coffee? Sweating it in a job interview? The results of what you say aren't coincidence Whether you persuade or not is down to whether you use the right prompts The Centre Brain
- the body's action centre
- responds to what it hears & if the right prompts are used the brain can be persuaded to act Effective communication isn't a lottery The Centre Brain explains why your communication works or doesn't Why you prompt action or don't The result of a 20-year quest to discover what prompts action The Centre Brain offers readers a glimpse into the story behind their stories Combining psychological insight real-life experience & inspiring application this book will show how you can make your message unmissable using the Centre Brain 5 prompts to action

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When The Centurions was first published in 1960 readers were riveted by the thrilling account of soldiers fighting for survival in hostile environments They were equally transfixed by the chilling moral question the novel posed how to fight when the age of heroics is over As relevant today as it was half a century ago The Centurions is a gripping military adventure an extended symposium on waging war in a new global order & an essential investigation of the ethics of counterinsurgency Featuring a foreword by renowned military expert Robert D Kaplan this important wartime novel will again spark debate about controversial tactics in hot spots around the world ...

A celebration of the one-hundred years since British women got the vote told in their own voices by six centenarians
- The Century
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Now in its fifteenth edition this volume is an important revised & updated ceremonial manual published to guide & assist in celebrating the traditional liturgy today Today as the traditional liturgy of the Roman rite enjoys its resurgence amongst Catholics young & old the need for an up-to-date ceremonial manual for the celebration of the traditional liturgy according to the liturgical books in use in 1962 is greater than ever in the past forty years This volume in its fifteenth revised corrected & expanded edition is published to guide & to assist this celebrating the tradition liturgy today The ceremonies covered in this manual include pontifical solemn & low Mass Vespers Holy Week & the liturgical years the sacraments Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament funerals episcopal visitation & more This revised edition contains the text of the recent motu proprio by Pope Benedict XVI a new chapter on music in the liturgy among other things ...

Tracklist This Feeling Beach House Hope Somebody Side Effect Sick Boy Everybody Hates Me Siren You Owe Me Save Yourself ...

The Chakra Bible is a guide to understanding every aspect of chakras the energy-centres in our body that have a profound effect on health energy & well-being The book features a detailed guide to each of the chakras their associated colour Indian deity healing stone & emotional & physical actions It also

Includes:: step-by-step yoga exercises & meditations to strengthen & heal each chakra plus a guide to aura reading & healing closely connected with chakras

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Three complete novels of mystery in space from Grand Master Robert Silverberg explode back into print for the first time in decades in this thrilling new Planet Stories collection! These extremely scarce tales originally appeared in the legendary Ace Double novel series & represent a future multiple Hugo & Nebula Award-winning author bridging the explosive action-oriented science fiction adventures of the early pulps with more introspective themes of the new wave that swept sci-fi in the 1960s In The Chalice of Death a human from the far edge of space must track down the legendary planet that birthed his race tens of thousands of years ago For the legends hold that the long-forgotten Earth holds the Chalice of Life & the Chalice of Life holds immortality! In Starhaven interplanetary fugitive Johnny Mantell flees authorities to the artificial pirate world known as Starhaven sanctuary for the criminals & misfits of space There he finds a new home for himself
- as well as questions about his past his future & his identity! In Shadow on the Stars deep space colonist Baird Ewing returns to Earth for the first time in the thousand years since his ancestors first departed seeking aid against the aliens who seek to destroy his colony But the weapon he finds upon the ancient Earth can save only one planet & Ewing must choose between his two home worlds
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MORE THAN 7 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is not like other policemen His methods appear unorthodox in the extreme he doesn't search for clues; he ignores obvious suspects & arrests people with cast-iron alibis; he appears permanently distracted In spite of all this his colleagues are forced to admit that he is a born cop When strange blue chalk circles start appearing overnight on the pavements of Paris only Adamsberg takes them
- & the increasingly bizarre objects found within them
- seriously & when the body of a woman with her throat savagely cut is found in one only Adamsberg realises that other murders will soon follow Winner of The Crime Writers' Association Duncan Lawrie International Dagger

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IF YOU ONLY READ ONE BOOK THIS YEAR MAKE IT THIS ONE THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A tense gripper with a leave-the-lights-on shock ending' Sunday Times' There are shades of Stephen King when the reality bends into the sinister & a deliciously creepy finale' Daily Mail--------------------- You can feel it in the woods in the school & in the playground; you can feel it in the houses & at the fairground You can feel it in most places in the small town of Anderbury the fear that something or someone is watching you It began back in 1986 at the fair on the day of the accident That was when twelve-year-old Eddie met Mr Halloran
- the Chalk Man He gave Eddie the idea for the drawings a way to leave secret messages for his friends & it was fun until the chalk men led them to a body Thirty years later Ed believes the past is far behind him until an envelope slips through the letterbox It contains a stick of chalk & a drawing of a figure Is history going to repeat itself? Was it ever really over? Will this game only end in the same way?'I haven't had a sleepless night due to a book in a long time The Chalk Man changed that' Fiona Barton bestselling author of The Widow & The Child'A must-read' Daily Express ' Deliciously creepy with a side order of Eighties nostalgia' Good Housekeeping' Plenty of plot twists & an evocative portrait of small-town-life in the 1980s a riveting read' Guardian Now in chilling audio narrated by the acclaimed actor ANDREW SCOTT known for his roles in Spectre & Sherlock ASA BUTTERFIELD known for Hugo & The Boy in Striped Pyjamas also stars as twelve-year-old Eddie
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