Once there was a lighthouse keeper called Mr Grinling At night time he lived in a small white cottage perched high on the cliffs & in the daytime he rowed out to his lighthouse to clean & polish the light When Mr Grinling decides he needs a hobby he tries everything from baking to birdwatching But one morning a stroll along the beach inspires Mr Grinling to take up something very different & before too long Mr Grinling surprises everyone by learning to surf! The first Lighthouse Keeper story THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER'S LUNCH was published over thirty years ago & his adventures have been loved by children ever since It is now a modern picture book classic ...

An exciting new edition of Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors & the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds Whenever I smell salt water I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors' wrote Robert Louis Stevenson in 1880 When the lights come out at sundown along the shores of Scotland I am proud to think they burn more brightly for the genius of my father!' Robert Louis Stevenson was the most famous of the Stevensons but not by any means the most productive The Lighthouse Stevensons all four generations of them built every lighthouse round Scotland were responsible for a slew of inventions in both construction & optics & achieved feats of engineering in conditions that would be forbidding even today The same driven energy which Robert Louis Stevenson put into writing his ancestors put into lighting the darkness of the seas The Lighthouse Stevensons is a story of high endeavour beautifully told; indeed this is one of the most celebrated works of historical biography in recent memory ...

The perfect holiday read; 'A beautiful novelfull of unexpected twists' DAILY MAILElizabeth's eyes have failed She can no longer read the books she loves or see the paintings that move her but her mind remains sharp & music fills the vacancy left by her blindness When her father's journals are discovered on a shipwrecked boat she enlists the help of a delinquent teen Morgan to read to her As an unlikely friendship grows between them Elizabeth is carried back to her childhood home
- the isolated lighthouse on Porphyry Island Lake Superior
- & to the memory of her enigmatic twin sister Emily But for Elizabeth the faded pages of her father's journals reveal more secrets than she anticipates & provide the key to a moment she has never understood The day when she found a grave marked with her own name

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' To risk my life had to mean something Otherwise what was it all for?' Gulwali Passarlay was sent away from Afghanistan at the age of twelve after his father was killed in a gun battle with the US Army Smuggled into Iran Gulwali began a twelvemonth odyssey across Europe spending time in prisons suffering hunger making a terrifying journey across the Mediterranean in a tiny boat & enduring a desolate month in the camp at Calais Somehow he survived & made it to Britain no longer an innocent child but still a young boy alone In Britain he was fostered sent to a good school won a place at a top university & was chosen to carry the Olympic torch in 2012 Gulwali wants to tell his story
- to bring to life the plight of the thousands of men women & children who are making this perilous journey every day One boy's experience is the central story of our times This memoir celebrates the triumph of courage & determination over adversity
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This is a story of two young people who fall in love
- & then life gets in the way Ursula is part dreamer part radical in the making
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The Like Switch is packed with all the tools you need for turning strangers into friends whether you are on a sales call a first date or a job interview As a Special Agent for the FBI's National Security Division's Behavioural Analysis Program Dr Jack Schafer developed dynamic & breakthrough strategies for profiling terrorists & detecting deception Now Dr Schafer has evolved his proven-on-the-battlefield tactics for the day-to-day but no less critical battle of getting people to like you In The Like Switch he presents these techniques for how you can influence attract & win people over Learn how to think & react like your favourite TV investigators from Criminal Mindsor CSIas Dr Schafer shows you how toimprove your LQ (Likeability"ient) spot the lie both in person & online master nonverbal cues that influence how people perceive you & turn up or turn down the intensity of a relationship Dr Schafer cracks the code on making great first impressions building lasting relationships & understanding others' behaviour to learn what they really think about you With tips & techniques that hold the key to taking control of your communications interactions & relationships The Like Switchshows you how to read others & get people to like you for a moment or a lifetime ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The collected surviving episodes of the classic British sitcom starring Rodney Bewes & James Bolam as working class northern lads Bob & Terry While Bob is trying to better his life Terry is content to live it to the full pursuing the ladies & supporting the local team The set

Includes:: all eight surviving episodes from the 1960s series & The Likely Lads& plus the 26 episodes from the two series of & Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads& from 19734 & the 1974 Christmas special

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Still traumatised by her brush with a psychopath Detective Cassie Maddox transfers out of the Murder squad & starts a relationship with fellow detective Sam O' Neill When he calls her to the scene of his new case she is shocked to find that the murdered girl is her double What's more her ID shows she is Lexie Madison
- the identity Cassie used years ago as an undercover detective With no leads no suspects & no clues to Lexie's real identity Cassie's old boss spots the opportunity of a lifetime send Cassie undercover in her place to tempt the killer out of hiding to finish the job
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An original graphic novel where newly dead people in Limbo await their fate at a bar while surrounded by bored interlopers from hell This trippy surreal full-color adventure brings us from the hot swirling sands of hell to the colorfully bizarre “ Limbo Lounge” filled with the recently deceased as well as bored oddball interlopers from hell Meet flower-headed freaks Bud & Lou Root for their new friend a spry elderly nun Sister Eunice as she works remotely in Limbo continuing to rid earth of despicable dirtbags & by all means avoid the knife-wielding little pageant-princess-gone-bad as she plots for anything she can get at anyone’s expense About the Author Artist Dave Calver&s rich evocative surreal work has been featured in Vanity Fair Rolling Stone Playboy & The New York Times Other clients include the New York Rangers Random House & United Airlines Taschen recently chose him as one of their favorite 100 illustrators in the world! In the Huffington Post’s review of Taschen’s “100 Illustrators” they singled out Dave as their 1 top favorite The Limbo Lounge is Dave&s first graphic novel ...

Seeing double rows of elegant lime trees around the main square of his hometown of Colonel Pringles our narrator
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