Opening like an early Tom Waits barstool-tale, The Motel Life tells the story of two brothers, Frank & Jerry Lee. Taking to the road in an attempt to escape the hit & run accident caused by Jerry Lee, the novel goes back to tell the story of their unhappy lives. With intense feeling & compassion, Vlautin explores the frustrations & failed dreams of the two brothers
- one a natural storyteller, the other an artist
- & renders perfectly the sense of entrapment they feel. Will the kid`s death shock them out of their torpor or send them ever deeper into trouble? Can Annie James, a girl from their past, offer them any sort of redemption, however slim? Interspersed with drawings that come to form an integral part of the narrative, The Motel Life is a poetic, moving, beautifully naive & tragic fictional debut. Alongside such seminal works as Annie Proulx`s Postcards, Raymond Carver`s What we talk about when we talk about love & Denis Johnson`s Jesus` Son, it should come to be seen as a classic of downbeat American prose.

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Helplessly drawn like moths to the light, two girls go missing in an evocative & gripping tale.. . They called them the Moth Girls because they were attracted to the house. They were drawn to it. Or at least that is what is written in the newspapers that Mandy reads on the anniversary of when her two best friends went missing. Five years have passed since Petra & Tina were determined to explore the dilapidated house on Princess Street. But what started off as a dare ended with the two girls vanishing. As Mandy`s memories of the disappearance of her two friends are ignited once again, disturbing details will resurface in her mind. ...

In Lahore, Daru Shezad is a junior banker with a hashish habit. When his old friend Ozi moves back to Pakistan, Daru wants to be happy for him. Ozi has everything: a beautiful wife & child, an expensive foreign education
- & a corrupt father who bankrolls his lavish lifestyle. As jealousy sets in, Daru`s life slowly unravels. He loses his job. Starts lacing his joints with heroin. Becomes involved with a criminally-minded rickshaw driver. & falls in love with Ozi`s lonely wife. But how low can Daru sink? & is he guilty of the crime he finds himself on trial for?
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Press out the mother & daughter dolls, then pick which beautiful traditional costume to dress them in, using the easy fold-down tabs, before adding a hat or headdress & sticking on some accessories. From fabulous flamenco dresses to colourful kimonos, there are so many different costumes & cultures to explore. & you can learn about their different celebrations too! Discover the music & dancing at the Rocket Festival in Thail&, a lively Heritage Day barbeque in South Africa, some delicious Mid-Autumn Festival mooncakes in China, & much more. ...

Mother India at Westminster Terrace in Glasgow, has been an institution since 1996 & specialises in dishes such as ginger & green chilli fish pakora, seasoned Scottish haddock with Puy lentils, & Delhi-style Scottish lamb, all cooked fresh to order, reflecting Mother India owner Monir Mohammed`s commitment to cooking quality Indian food without pandering to the British taste for inauthentic korma or masala. The strategy has been hugely popular, allowing expansion to five outlets, including tapas, take- aways & a Mother India Cafe in Edinburgh. Mother India is regularly ranked in Herald restaurant critic Ron Mac Kenna`s top 10 Scottish restaurants. The book will incorporate a first person account of Monir`s personal culinary journey, with a photo essay of the life of one of the world`s great Indian restaurants as an integral cog in the cultural melting pot of a modern British city. Alongside this will be a collection of recipes, some of which are signature Mother India dishes, & others designed specifically for home cooking. Each recipe will draw upon Monir`s story: his beginnings as a boy from a British Asian family who started working in restaurants at 14 & his pivotal stay in the Punjab in his late teens where he learned the ancient principles of Indian home cooking from scratch. The book will tell the story of the risks he took to build a personal, authentic style of Indian cooking. There are human stories running through the recipes as well: Hajra Bibi`s Salmon was inspired by a dish his mother (Hajra Bibi) used to make them as children. ...

Set in the late 1960s, Mother Land describes life on an Aegean isl&, seen through the eyes of a nine-year-old boy. It is the first-hand account of a Greek boy, born on a Turkish isl&, trying to make sense of the escalating tension between Greek & Turk, Muslim & Christian, mother & father, & reveals with chilling clarity how violence begets violence, in even the most unexpected of people & how, despite anger & exile, reconciliation is possible. Mother Land is a compulsive page-turner & this original, humane & uplifting account keeps the reader`s interest to the very last page, as the adult Dmetri returns to his island home to extract one last story, to unearth one more secret, in the hope of making peace with the past. ...

Shortlisted for the Whitbread prize, MOTHER LONDON is a dazzling journey through the heart of a city that the author loved. Spanning generations of characters across a variety of boroughs from the Blitz to the mid-eighties, this is a book about the real London that tourists will never find, a London which is being erased by the spread of high-rise flats & shining skyscrapers. Following a group of released mental patients across the years & streets of London, Moorcock creates a vivid impressionistic portrait of the city, from its downtrodden pubs to its green parks. All of the lead characters hear voices
- but are they the murmurings of their damaged minds, or the true voice of the city?
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Madre de Dios
- ' Mother of God'
- is a place where the Andean Cloud Forest intermingles with the steaming tropical jungle at

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Madre de Dios
- ` Mother of God`
- is a place where the Andean Cloud Forest intermingles with the steaming tropical jungle at

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One of the first four titles in Barefoot Books` Early Reader series, specially created to support beginner readers with: -Simple sentences -Short, numbered chapters -Colourful illustrations -Exciting storylines -Carefully chosen vocabulary -Engaging characters ...