Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) is encouraged by a mysterious voice to build a baseball pitch on his l&. According to the celestial guide, this unusual step will result in the appearance of the ghost of his father's hero, the baseball legend Sh ...

At the centre of this collection, which

Includes:: groups of elegies & love poems, there is a short sonnet

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The history of sport is littered with tales of exemplary courage: sportsmen & women pushing their bodies through the pain barrier, or defying career-threatening injuries, in quest of victory. From the goalkeeper who played in a FA Cup Final with a broken neck to the batsman who saved a Test match with his arm in plaster, their heroics have inspired generations of schoolchildren. But courage is as much a moral as a physical attribute. Some of the most inspiring chapters in sport feature men & women of principle who have challenged authority, fought prejudice or simply had the guts to confess to weaknesses that went against the grain of their profession. Ben Hogan, Jackie Robinson, Marcus Trescothick, Billie-Jean King, Eric Lidell... Max Davidson's cavalcade of sporting heroism celebrates virtues that transcend winning & losing -- & explains why sport at its best is so inspirational. The size of this book is 19.8cm in height & 12.7cm wide with 272 pages. ...

Dive into the roar-some world of lovable, friendly Dragons!

Touch some shiny scales, jagged tails & stoke a soft tickly

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When media baron Rod Mc Cain (Kevin Kline) buys Marwood Zoo in Engl&, he sends over his son Vince (also Kline) & the sexy Willa Weston (Jamie Lee Curtis) to ensure that it turns over a 20% profit. The zoo is being run by Mc Cain employee Rollo Lee (John ...

Exiled from his beloved Scotl&, Jamie Fraser is at last possessed of the land he has longed for. His wife, Claire is blessed with the gift of the knowledge of what is to come. In the past, that knowledge has brought danger & deliverance to them. Now it could be a flickering torch that will light their way through the perilous years ahead. ...

Hemingway's first novel, set in 1920s Paris, a city of Pernod, parties & expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with the aristocratic, beautiful & sensuous Brett Ashley, & the couple are drawn towards the dazzle & excitement of the Spanish fiesta. ...

Draws on science, spiritual values, psychology, the cutting edge of management thought with leading companies which employ Fifth Discipline methods. This edition contains more than 100 pages of material about how companies are actually using & benefiting from Fifth Discipline practices. ...

Charley Davidson may not look like your everyday, run-of-the-mill grim reaper, but she has vowed to reap grimness wherever she goes despite this unfortunate fact. Sadly, she gets sidetracked when the sexy, sultry son of Satan, Reyes Farrow, moves in next door. As he is the main suspect in her arson case, she has vowed to stay away from him until she can find out the truth. However, when dead women start appearing in her apartment
- lost, confused & terrified beyond reason
- Charley has no choice but to ask for Reyes's help, especially when it becomes apparent that her own sister Gemma is the serial killer's next target. With his ability to observe incorporeally, surely he can find out who's responsible. & even if he can't, he is the one man alive who could protect Gemma no matter who or what came at her. But he wants something in return: Charley. All of her
- body & soul. & to keep her sister safe, it is a price she might be willing to pay...


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Accident or suicide? That's the question put to Inspector Michael Green when a derelict stranger falls to his death from an abandoned church tower. But when the victim turns out be a long lost son of a local farm family cursed in recent years by tragedy, madness & death, Green begins to suspect something far more sinister is at work. ...