Alice Hoffman is at her electrifying best in this fairy tale for grown-ups The story begins with a little girl who makes a wish one snowy night & ruins her life She grows up with a splinter of ice in her heart until one day standing by her kitchen window she is struck by lightning Instead of killing her this cataclysmic event sparks off a new beginning She seeks out Lazarus Jones a fellow lightning survivor He is her opposite a burning man whose breath can boil water & whose touch scorches As an obsessive love affair begins between them both are forced to hide their most dangerous secrets
- what turned one to ice & the other to fire The Ice Queen is a haunting story of passion loss second chances & the secrets that come to define us if we're not careful
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The Oslo Detectives are back in another slice of gripping dark Nordic Noir & their new colleague has more at stake than she's prepared to reveal 336 pages Dahl Kjell Ola ...

One of Sarah's daughters died But can she be sure which one? THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING NOVEL A terrifying psychological thriller perfect for fans of THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN A year after one of their identical twin daughters Lydia dies in an accident Angus & Sarah Moorcraft move to the tiny Scottish island Angus inherited from his grandmother hoping to put together the pieces of their shattered lives But when their surviving daughter Kirstie claims they have mistaken her identity
- that she in fact is Lydia
- their world comes crashing down once again As winter encroaches Angus is forced to travel away from the island for work Sarah is feeling isolated & Kirstie (or is it Lydia?) is growing more disturbed When a violent storm leaves Sarah & her daughter stranded Sarah finds herself tortured by the past
- what really happened on that fateful day one of her daughters died?


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The Icebound Land is the third thrilling book in John Flanagan's Ranger's Apprentice series
- over eight million sold worldwide
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From its beginnings in the 1920s until its demise in the 1980s Bell Labs-officially the research & development wing of AT&T-was the biggest & arguably the best laboratory for new ideas in the world From the transistor to the laser from digital communications to cellular telephony it's hard to find an aspect of modern life that hasn't been touched by Bell Labs In The Idea Factory Jon Gertner traces the origins of some of the twentieth century's most important inventions & delivers a riveting & heretofore untold chapter of American history At its heart this is a story about the life & work of a small group of brilliant & eccentric men-Mervin Kelly Bill Shockley Claude Shannon John Pierce & Bill Baker-who spent their careers at Bell Labs Today when the drive to invent has become a mantra Bell Labs offers us a way to enrich our understanding of the challenges & solutions to technological innovation Here after all was where the foundational ideas on the management of innovation were born ...

From Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen The Idea of Justice is a refreshing alternative approach to mainstream theories of justice Is justice an ideal for ever beyond our grasp or something that may actually guide our practical decisions & enhance our lives? At the heart of Sen's argument is his insistence on the role of public reason in establishing what can make societies less unjust But there are always choices to be made between alternative assessments of what is reasonable & competing positions can each be well defended Rather than rejecting these pluralities we should use them to construct a theory of justice that can accommodate divergent points of view Sen also inspiringly shows how the principles of justice in the modern world must avoid parochialism & address vital questions of global injustice The breadth of vision intellectual acuity & striking humanity of one of the world's leading public intellectuals have never been more clearly shown than in this remarkable book 'A major advance in contemporary thinking' John Gray Literary Review ' The most important contribution to the subject since John Rawls's A Theory of Justice' Hilary Putnam Harvard University ' Sen writes with dry wit a feel for history & a relaxed cosmopolitanism a conviction that economists & philosophers are in business to improve the world burns on almost every page' Economist ' Sen's magisterial critique of the dominant mode of liberal political philosophy confirms him as the English-speaking world's pre-eminent public intellectual' New Statesman Books of the Decade Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor at Harvard He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 & was Master of Trinity College Cambridge 1998-2004 His most recent books are The Argumentative Indian Identity & Violence & Development as Freedom His books have been translated into thirty languages ...

With an introduction by Evie Wyld The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville is a funny & touching romance between two people who've given up on love Set in the eccentric little backwater of Karakarook New South Wales pop 1374 it tells the story of Douglas Cheeseman a gawky engineer with jug-handle ears & Harley Savage a woman altogether too big & too abrupt for comfort Harley is in Karakarook to foster ' Heritage' & Douglas is there to pull down the quaint old Bent Bridge From day one they're on a collision course But out of this unpromising conjunction of opposites something unexpected happens sometimes even better than perfection ...

In his classic book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni laid out a groundbreaking approach for tackling the perilous group behaviors that destroy teamwork Here he turns his focus to the individual revealing the three indispensable virtues of an ideal team player In The Ideal Team Player Lencioni tells the story of Jeff Shanley a leader desperate to save his uncle s company by restoring its cultural commitment to teamwork Jeff must crack the code on the virtues that real team players possess & then build a culture of hiring & development around those virtues Beyond the fable Lencioni presents a practical framework & actionable tools for identifying hiring & developing ideal team players Whether you re a leader trying to create a culture around teamwork a staffing professional looking to hire real team players or a team player wanting to improve yourself this book will prove to be as useful as it is compelling ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Written & directed by Academy Award winner George Clooney & starring Ryan Gosling The Ides Of March is an electrifying tale of ambition betrayal & revenge As up & coming press secretary Stephen Myers (Ryan Gosling) battles tirelessly for Governor Mike Morris (George Clooney) in a frantic election race he becomes distracted by sexy young intern Molly (Evan Rachel Wood) Whilst concealing their affair he agrees to meet the opposition&s campaign manager (Paul Giamatti) who offers him a job on his staff Stephen neglects to inform his boss of the meeting & as his silence is revealed he discovers a dirty personal secret that could sink Morris& political career Stephen must then decide whether to enact revenge or use it to his advantage Boasting a stellar cast including George Clooney Marisa Tomei Jeffrey Wright Philip Seymour Hoffman Paul Giamatti & Evan Rachel Wood this seductive award-winning thriller will leave audiences guessing until the very last moment Actors Ryan Gosling George Clooney Philip Seymour Hoffman Paul Giamatti Evan Rachel Wood Marisa Tomei Jeffrey Wright Max Minghella Jennifer Ehle Gregory Itzin Michael Mantell Yuriy Sardarov Bella Ivory Maya Sayre & Danny Mooney Director George Clooney Certificate 15 years & over Year 2011 Languages English ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOODREADS BEST SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY BOOK AWARDMotion sickness Nightmares Forgetting people's names Why did I walk into this room?? For something supposedly so brilliant & evolutionarily advanced the human brain is pretty messy fallible & disorganised In The Idiot Brain neuroscientist Dean Burnett celebrates the imperfections of the human brain in all their glory & the impact of these quirks on our daily lives Expertly researched & entertainingly written this book is for anyone who has wondered why their brain seems to be sabotaging their life & what on earth it is really up to ...