A lost legacy puts one of England’s great families in mortal peril.

Lazen Castle, home to the much-envied Lazender

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When Blaire Wynn's mother passed away, Blaire's life changed in an instant. Having cared for her sick mother for the last three years, suddenly Blaire has to leave the small farmhouse in Alabama they shared, to move in with her father & his new wife in their sprawling beach house along the Florida gulf coast. But what she isn't prepared for is the lifestyle change that comes with the move, & she knows she'll never fit into the new world of luxury & extravagance that suddenly surrounds her. Even worse, her father has run off to Paris for the summer with his wife, leaving her stranded with Rush, her new stepbrother, who's irritating, arrogant and? seriously sexy. Rush is as spoiled as he is gorgeous; his famous father's guilt money, his mother's desperation to win his love, & his charm are the three reasons he has never been told no. Blaire knows he is anything but good for her, but somehow she can't fight the attraction she's feeling, especially when she starts to think the attraction might be mutual? Rush is jaded & has secrets Blaire knows she may never uncover but even knowing all of that Blaire just may have fallen too far. ...

' Falling Angel' pits tough New York private eye Harry Angel against the most fearsome adversary a detective ever faced
- one Louis
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More than twenty years ago, Jon Kabat-Zinn changed the way we think about awareness in everyday life with his now-classic introduction to mindfulness, Wherever You Go, There You Are.

He followed that up with 2005s Coming to Our Senses, the definitive book for our time on the connection between mindfulness & our well-being on every level, physical, cognitive, emotional, social, planetary, & spiritual.

Now, the original text of Coming to Our Senses is being repackaged into 4 smaller books, each focusing on a different aspect of mindfulness, & each with a new foreword written by the author.

In this second of these books, Falling Awake (which was originally published as Part III & Part IV of Coming to Our Senses), Kabat-Zinn focuses on the "how" of mindfulness
- explaining how meditation brings us into intimate relationship with all our senses, how to establish a formal meditation practice, & how to overcome some of the common obstacles to incorporating meditation into daily life in an age of perpetual self-distraction.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9780349421094
• Author: Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Publisher: Little Brown
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 184
• Dimensions: 23.5 x 15.5 x 1.5cm














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Packed with festive romance & fun, these two seasonal stories will melt any heart this Christmas. A Cedar Cover Christmas
- Mother-to-be
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A story of an unwanted Chinese daughter growing up during the Communist Revolution, blamed for her mother's death, ignored by her millionaire father & unwanted by her Eurasian step mother. It is a story of greed, hatred & jealousy; a domestic drama that is played against the extraordinary political events in China & Hong Kong. ...

In the opening scene of Falling Man, Keith Neudecker emerges from the smoke & ash of the burning tower where he worked, & makes his way to the apartment of his ex-wife & young son uptown. Throughout this bold & haunting novel, De Lillo traces the way the events of September 11 kindled or rekindled relationships, reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory, & our perception of the world. Falling Man is a direct encounter with the enormous force of history, yet the story is told through the intimate lives of a few people immediately affected. It is beautiful, heartbreaking &, ultimately, redemptive. Read by John Slattery ...

A classic game of skill & action that's easy to learn & great fun for all the family!

Just roll the coloured dice,

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Falling Upwards tells the story of the enigmatic group of men & women who first risked their lives to take to the air, & so discovered a new dimension of human experience. Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, & how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet in wholly unexpected ways is its subject. In this heart-lifting book, the Romantic biographer Richard Holmes floats across the world following the pioneer generation of balloon aeronauts, from the first heroic experiments of the Montgolfiers in 1780s to the tragic attempt to fly a balloon to the North Pole in the 1890s. It is a compelling adventure story of the kind that only Holmes could tell. Dramatic sequences move from the early Anglo-French balloon rivalries, the crazy firework flights of beautiful Sophie Blanchard; the revelatory ascents over the great Victorian cities & sprawling industrial towns of Northern Europe; & the astonishing long-distance voyages of the American entrepreneur John Wise, & the French photographer Felix Nadar. Later we find balloons used to observe the horrors of modern battle during the American Civil War (including a memorable flight by General Custer); the legendary tale of sixty balloons that escaped Paris during the Prussian siege of 1870; & the terrifying high-altitude flights of James Glaisher FRS who rose above seven miles without oxygen, helping to establish the new science of meteorology as well as the environmental notion
- so important to us today
- of a 'fragile' planet. Besides the aeronauts themselves, readers will also discover the many writers & dreamers
- from Mary Shelley to Edgar Alan Poe, from Charles Dickens to Jules Verne
- who felt the imaginative impact of flight & allowed it to soar in their work. Through all these adventures, the narrative continually lifts off in unexpected literary & scientific directions, exploring the interplay between technology & science fiction, the understanding of the biosphere, & the metaphysics of flight itself. Most of all, through the strange allure of the great balloonists, Holmes offers another of his subtle portraits of human endeavour, recklessness & vision.



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Lowri Vaughan is in need of refuge
- where better to find it than Badgers Brook?

Rumours abound that her father

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