HERE ARE MANY MANY THINGS THAT NOBODY KNOWS Why are so many giraffes gay? Has human evolution stopped? Where did our alphabet come from? Can robots become self-aware? Can lobsters recognize other lobsters by sight? What goes on inside a black hole? Are cell phones bad for us? Why can't we remember anything from our earliest years? Full of the mysteries of life the universe & everything The Things that Nobody Knows is a fascinating & unputdownable exploration of the limits of human knowledge of our planet its history & culture & the universe beyond ...

The million-copy bestseller which is a ground-breaking meditation on war memory imagination & the redemptive power of storytelling The Things They Carried' is on its surface a sequence of award-winning stories about the madness of the Vietnam War; at the same time it has the cumulative power & unity of a novel with recurring characters & interwoven strands of plot & theme But while Vietnam is central to The Things They Carried' it is not simply a book about war It is also a book about the human heart
- about the terrible weight of those things we carry through our lives
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France February 1944 Arianne knew Luc as a child of course she did Everyone in Samaroux knows each other But he's been away & five years really makes a difference to a boy A young man As they fall headily into love their world starts to crumble around them German forces are closing in & the village is torn between cooperating to save themselves or putting up resistance & entering unknown danger How far will Arianne & Luc go to protect what they believe in? & what will they do for love?A gorgeous new edition of this devastating story of resistance heartbreak & betrayal for the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two ...

Just because you can't remember doesn't mean you can't love Anna Forster is thirty-eight years old & has started to suffer from the early stages of Alzheimer's She knows that her family is doing what they believe to be best when they take her to an assisted living facility But best can still hurt What she also knows is that there's just one other resident her age at the facility
- Luke As her disease steals more & more of her memory Anna fights to hold on to all that's left What remains are her feelings for Luke Before long the pair fall in love despite the forces that are set against them But when a tragic incident occurs Luke & Anna's families decide to separate them There is one person at the facility who can help the pair but only if she's willing to risk everything for them
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When their tragic past begins to resurface can he help her remember the things she can't? After her mother's death twelve years ago Lynette Carlisle watched her close-knit family unravel One by one her four older siblings left their Nantucket home & never returned All seem to blame their father for their mother's death but nobody will talk about that tragic day & Lynette's memory only speaks through nightmares Then Nicholas Cooper returns to Nantucket bringing the past with him Once Lynette's adolescent crush Nick knows more about her mother's death than he lets on The truth could tear apart his own family-and destroy his fragile friendship with Lynette the woman he no longer thinks of as a kid sister As their father's failing health & financial concerns bring the Carlisle siblings home secrets surface that will either restore their shattered relationships or separate the siblings forever But pulling up anchor on the past propels them into the perfect storm powerful enough to make them question their faith their willingness to forgive & the very truth of all the things they thought they knew ...

How do we talk about feelings to children who are cut off from feeling? How do we raise hope & a sense of safety in despairing & terrified children without offering false hope? How do we reach the unreachable child & interest the hardened child? The Thinking Heart is a natural sequel to Live Company Anne Alvarez' highly influential & now classic book about working with severely disturbed & damaged children Building on 50 years experience as a child & adolescent psychotherapist Alvarez uses detailed & vivid clinical examples of different interactions between therapist & client & explores the reasons why one type of therapeutic understanding can work rather than another She also addresses what happens when the therapist gets it wrong In The Thinking Heart Alvarez identifies three different levels of analytic work & communication the explanatory level
- the why
- because the descriptive level
- the whatness of what the child feels the intensified vitalizing level
- gaining access to feeling itself for children with chronic dissociation despairing apathy or 'undrawn' autism The book offers a structured schema drawing on & updating some of her classic work It is designed to help the therapist to find the right level of interpretation in work with clients & provides particular help with the unreachable child It will be of use to Psychotherapists Psychoanalysts Clinical & Educational Psychologists Child Psychiatrists Social Workers Special needs teachers & carers of disturbed children Anne Alvarez is a Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist & is retired Co-Chair for The Autism Service at the Tavistock Clinic London She is currently a visiting teacher & lecturer for the Tavistock Clinic & a Lecturer on the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society Child Programme



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Tracklist Wake The Dead Procession For Eric The Blasted Tower Controlled Demolition That's Why Do The Crawl ...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IAN THOMSONThe Third Man is Graham Greene's brilliant recreation of post-war Vienna a 'smashed dreary city' occupied by the four Allied powers Rollo Martins a second-rate novelist arrives penniless to visit his friend & hero Harry Lime But Harry has died in suspicious circumstances & the police are closing in on his associates The Fallen Idol is the chilling story of a small boy caught up in the games that adults play Left in the care of the butler & his wife whilst his parents go on a fortnight's holiday Philip realises too late the danger of lies & deceit But the truth is even deadlier ...

' Davis's prose is a lively joy & Flavia's Rome is sinister & gloriously real' The Times on Saturday Flavia Albia's day-old marriage is in trouble
- her new husband may be permanently disabled & they have no funds So when Palace officials ask her to expose a traitor in their midst she is ready for the task Ever since the Emperor Nero committed suicide in AD 68 Rome has been haunted by reports that he is actually alive & ready to reclaim his throne Two Nero pretenders have emerged from the East & met grisly fates But now a new pretender has been smuggled into Rome by the traitor Flavia must negotiate with spies dodge assassins & reveal this third Nero before he can make his move Will she act in time or will Rome once more be plunged into civil war?
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THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERMitch Rapp the CIA's top counterterrorism operative is sent on his final mission to eliminate a European industrialist who has been selling sensitive equipment to one of terrorism's most notorious sponsors But he doesn't know that the ultimate target of this mission is himself Set up by forces within the US who do not want the next Director-elect of the CIA to take over & therefore need a disaster for the present regime Mitch refuses to die the conspirators have made an awful miscalculation They have enraged one of the most lethal & efficient killers the CIA has ever produced Now they will pay AMERICAN ASSASSIN book one in the series is soon to be a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Dylan O' Brien (Maze Runner) Taylor Kitsch (True Detective) & Michael Keaton Praise for the Mitch Rapp series ' Sizzles with inside information & CIA secrets' Dan Brown 'A cracking uncompromising yarn that literally takes no prisoners' The Times ' Vince Flynn clearly has one eye on Lee Child's action thriller throne with this twist-laden story instantly gripping' Shortlist ' Action-packed in-your-face adrenalin-pumped super-hero macho escapist fiction that does exactly what it says on the label' Irish Independent ...