Salsa Around the World is a unique collection of hip-shaking salsa tracks from unexpected places. The intoxicating rhythms & joyful melodies of Latin American salsa have traveled the globe, earning new followers & influencing artists from Haiti to Helsinki. CD Track listing:1 Salsa Celtica, ' El Sol de la Noche' (Scotland) 2 Havana Mambo, ' Malani ...

Salsa Around the World is a unique collection of hip-shaking salsa tracks from unexpected places. The intoxicating rhythms & joyful melodies of Latin American salsa have traveled the globe, earning new followers & influencing artists from Haiti to Helsinki. CD Track listing:1 Salsa Celtica, ' El Sol de la Noche' (Scotland) 2 Havana Mambo, ' Malani ...

` These were the nights when the German bombers growled through the sky, their bellies full with steel & cordite. When the moon was low their dark shapes & still darker shadows came over the coast. Several hours later they`d return again, wearily, lighter in weight, fewer in number, dropping the occasional bomb on the forgotten land of creeks & channels beneath them. On one of those nights it all began for me
- war, after all, starts many things, & even though I wasn`t born for another twenty-five years, my story began there.` It is May 1945 & as church bells ring out Victory in Europe over the Norfolk saltmarshes, Goose`s daughter Lil is born. But as Lil enters Goose`s world, her father leaves it, in a makeshift boat bound
- or so the story goes
- for Germany, his home. Forty years later it is Lil`s son, Pip, who begins to make sense of his family`s fragmented history. Who was his grandfather, who fell from the sky into Goose`s life & then disappeared as suddenly as he came? What was the truth of his mother, Lil, who lived & lost her way between the creeks & the samphire? & what does it all mean for Pip, whose heritage of flood, fireworks, fish & clouds, has left him ill-prepared for life beyond the marshes?


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For the sake of salt, Rome created a system of remuneration (from which we get the word salary), nomads domesticated the camel, the Low Countries revolted against their Spanish oppressors, & Gandhi marched against the tyranny of the British. Through the ages, salt has conferred status, preserved foods, & mingled in the blood, sweat, & tears of humanity. Today, chefs of haute cuisine covet it in its most exotic forms -- underground salt deposits, Hawaiian black lava salt, glittery African crystals, & pink Peruvian salt from the sea carried in bricks on the backs of llamas. From proverbs to technical arguments, from anecdotes to examples of folklore, chemist & philosopher Pierre Laszlo takes us through the kingdom of white gold. With enthusiasm & freshness (Le Monde) he mixes literary analysis, history, anthropology, biology, physics, economics, art history, political science, chemistry, ethnology, & linguistics to create a full body of knowledge about the everyday substance that rocked the world & brings zest to the ordinary. Laszlo explains the history behind Morton Salt's slogan When it rains, it pours! & looks into the plight of the salt miner, as well as spectroscopy & nuclear magnetic resonance. Salt is a tour de force about a chemical compound that is one of the very foundations of civilization. ...

In apartheid southern Africa, a three-year-old girl named Koba is snatched from her Kalahari desert tribe after witnessing her parents' brutal murder by white farmers. A hunting party discovers the Bushman group poaching on their property, & a white farmer is killed by a poisoned arrow. The orphaned child is taken in by a liberal white woman called Marta, & Koba finds herself trapped in a terrifying new world. She slowly learns to adapt & survive in a cave isolated from the farm's dangerous but beautiful environment. Koba grows up quickly & as a teenager learns 'white' ways alongside Marta's son, Mannie, a boy her own age, while never forgetting the pull of her own desert people. One weekend though, when Marta & her husband are away, a passionate love affair develops between Mannie & Koba which questions all their assumptions & loyalties, bringing down upon them all the force of the law. ...

The Rain Shakers are novelty, cloud shaped salt & pepper pots. Season your dishes with a downpour from the flat-bottomed grey & white clouds & be your own culinary weather man... Salt moving in on a Siberian wind from the east? Or pepper ominously looming in on the Gulf Stream? A cruet set to get dinner conversation going. ...

By the acclaimed winner of the Women`s Prize for Fiction 2018 The Dard-e-Dils are characterised by their prominent clavicles & love of stories. Aliya may not have inherited her family`s patrician looks, but she is prey to their legends that stretch back to the days of Timur Lang. There is a sting to most of these tales, for the Dard-e-Dils consider themselves cursed by their `not-quite` twins. Amidst her growing attraction to a boy from the wrong side of the tracks, Aliya begins to believe that she is another `not-quite` twin, linked to her scandalous aunt Mariam in a way that hardly bodes well... ...

`A part of me will always live at Salt Creek though it is on the far side of the world...` The comfortable & respectable life Hester Finch now leads in Chichester, Engl&, could not be further from the hardship her family endured on leaving Adelaide for Salt Creek in 1855. Yet she finds her thoughts drawn back to that remote, beautiful & inhospitable outcrop of South Australia & the connections she & her siblings forged there, far from the city society in which they had been raised: encounters with the few travellers passing along the nearby stock route & the local indigenous people
- in particular a boy, Tully, whom Hester`s father seeks to educate almost as his own son
- would change the fates of the Finches forever; nor would life ever be the same again for those who had long called the area home.

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`A piercingly elegant novel... with the power to both break & mend your heart.` Ru Freeman, author of On Sal Mal Lane` Epic in scope & uniquely relevant in its concern for displacement. Particularly well-suited for our times, then.` Red Where do you go when you can’t go home? On the eve of her daughter Alia’s wedding, Salma reads the girl’s future in a cup of coffee dregs. Although she keeps her predictions to herself that day, they soon come to pass in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967. Caught up in the resistance, Alia’s brother disappears, while Alia & her husband move from Nablus to Kuwait City. Reluctantly they build a life, torn between needing to remember & learning to forget. When Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait, Alia & her family yet again lose their home, their l&, & their story as they know it. Scattering to Beirut, Paris & Boston, Alia’s children begin families of their own, once more navigating the burdens & blessings of beginning again. ...

Where do you go when you can`t go home? On the eve of her daughter Alia`s wedding, Salma reads the girl`s future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia & her children; she also sees travel, & luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is uprooted in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967. Salma is forced to leave her home in Nablus; Alia`s brother gets pulled into a politically militarised world he can`t escape; & Alia & her gentle-spirited husband move to Kuwait City, where they reluctantly build a life with their three children. When Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait in 1990, Alia & her family once again lose their home, their l&, & their story as they know it, scattering to Beirut, Paris, Boston, & beyond. Soon Alia`s children begin families of their own, once again navigating the burdens (and blessings) of assimilation. Spanning fifty years, Salt Houses is a devastating & lyrical debut about one family in the wake of war, about needing to remember, & learning to forget. ...