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Meet Stewart He's geeky gifted & sees things a bit differently to most people His mum has died & he misses her all the more now he & Dad have moved in with Ashley & her mum Meet Ashley She's popular cool & sees things very differently to her new family Her dad has come out & moved out
- but not far enough & now she has to live with a freakazoid step-brother Stewart can't quite fit in at his new school & Ashley can't quite get used to her totally awkward home which is now filled with some rather questionable decor & things are about to get a whole lot more mixed up when these two very different people attract the attention of school hunk Jared
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In his new book Charles Saatchi looks at hard-to-believe bewildering facts Amongst the startling images these mystifying hidden stories are explained in Saatchi's entertaining succinct style His previous bestselling books include Holy Cow! Beyond Belief The Golden Age of Madison Avenue Known Unknowns Dead A Celebration of Mortality Naked Eye Be The Worst You Can Be & My Name Is Charles Saatchi & I'm An Artoholic in which he answered questions from journalists critics & members of the public with brutally frank candour " This extraordinary new bookfacts & truths about our strange colourful eye-popping world" Daily Mail ...

All families are different
- & yet in many ways the same! This book uses a gentle rhyming text to follow eight different families
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'A total page-turnervery moving & touching' JACQUELINE WILSONA brilliantly funny & wonderfully warm-hearted story about love family & what it means to be different Sydney thinks her mum Amy is the best mum in the world
- even if she is a bit different When everyone else kept growing Amy got to four feet tall & then stopped right there The perfect height in Sydney's opinion big enough to reach the ice cream at the supermarket small enough to be special Sydney's dad died when she was only five but her memories of him her mum's love & the company of her brave big sister Jade means she never feels alone But when the family are forced to move house things get tricky Sydney & Jade must make new friends deal with the bullies at their new school & generally figure out the business of growing up in a strange new town And Sydney doesn't want to grow up
- not if it means getting bigger than her mum

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In November 1970 a plane carrying almost the entire Marshall University football team its staff & fans crashed killing 75 people in all & devastating the small town of Huntington West Virginia WE ARE MARSHALL directed by Mc G (THE OC FASTLANE) tells the tragic true story of how the university & the citizens of Huntington rebuilt the football program & dealt with the loss of so many of their own The universitys president Donald Dedmon earnestly portrayed by David Strathairn (GOOD NIGHT & GOOD LUCK) hires the only willing coach to take on such a daunting task Jack Lengyl (Matthew Mc Conaughey) With the help of the lone Marshall football coach Red Dawson (Matthew Fox) & the three remaining players who werent on the plane Coach Lengyl sets out to restructure Marshalls team & spirit But for some in the community its still too soon including Paul Griffen (Ian Mc Shane) who lost his football-star son They fear that moving on so quickly is disrespectful to those who died & to the loved ones who still mourn The film emphasizes this issue illustrating the struggle of that harrowing time at Marshall & in college football history Although WE ARE MARSHALL contains a similar theme to other sports movies rising from adversity the tragedy of so many lives lost in a small community & the painful recovery sets this film apart Strong performances by Mc Conaughey (FAILURE TO LAUNCH)
- whose wit & energy adds much needed doses of comic relief
- Fox (LOST) & Mc Shane (DEADWOOD) successfully help bring the historical & inspiring story of Marshall University to the big screen a must-see for all sports fans

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Devastated by the series of terrorist attacks that killed 130 people
- the deadliest attacks on France since World War II
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Pronunciation governs our regional & social identity more powerfully than any other aspect of spoken language No wonder then that it has attracted most attention from satirists In this intriguing book David Crystal shows how our feelings about pronunciation today have their origins in the way our Victorian predecessors thought about the subject as revealed in the pages of the satirical magazine Punch In the sixty years between its first issue in 1841 & the death of Queen Victoria in 1901 jokes about the fashions affecting English usage provide one of Punch's most fruitful veins of humour from the dropped aitches of the Cockney accent to the upper-class habit of dropping the final g' (huntin' & fishin') For ' We Are Not Amused' David Crystal has examined all the issues during the reign of Queen Victoria & brought together the cartoons & articles that poked fun at the subject of pronunciation adding a commentary on the context of the times explaining why people felt so strongly about accents & identifying which accents were the main source of jokes The collection brings to light a society where class distinction ruled & where the way you pronounced a word was seen as a sometimes damning index of who you were & how you should be treated It is a fascinating provocative & highly entertaining insight into our on-going amusement at the subject of how we speak ...

The frogs always beat the toads at long jump but the toads don't mind
- anything for a quiet life But then the children & Mutt
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARDNOMINATED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZENAMED A NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMESA stunning heartbreaking debut
- We Are Not Ourselves' is both the intimate story of a family & an epic of the American Century Eileen Leary wants more Raised in a downtrodden area of new York by hard-drinking Irish immigrant parents she dreams of another life a better job a bigger house more respectable friends a happy family When she meets Ed Leary a brilliant young scientist she thinks she's found the perfect partner to pursue & share her American Dream with An indefatigable love enters Eileen's life
- but so too does a pervasive darkness & a loss that will last a lifetime

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