Test your powers of observation with over 285 puzzles full of hidden words. 

With an incredible variety of subjects,

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Two & a half millennia ago, the Excession, a perfect black sphere, appeared in a remote corner of space. It did nothing, then disappeared. Now it is back, & someone who saw it the first time has information on its staggering potential, but she is living out her death in the Sleeper Service. ...

Unravels the painful experiences of animals in this life & past lifetimes & makes readers aware of their companionship as they try to assist our healing
- even manifesting our disease in their own bodies. This book examines the past life connections between humans & animals & the healing potential for us.
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Dr Atkins' low-carb diet is here to stay because it works. If you have been through his two-week crash diet & lost 171b as I have, you want to continue
- trust me! But there's a problem. If you love good food & European cooking, then the ongoing diet isn't interesting enough. All of Dr Atkins' devotees will be looking for this kind of information, to help them preserve their lifestyle values while living the good Doctor's regime. Carolyn Humphries, being trained as a nutritionist before becoming a restaurateur & cookery writer, has the right credentials to square this circle. She's done it brilliantly.
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Maybe a phrase, a line, a hint somewhere would reveal a reason, any reason, for the elderly couples disappearance. They?d saved everything... there was even a copy of the ?certificate of living existence?, that nadir of bureaucratic imbecility... What was the ?protocol?, to use a word dear to government offices? Did one simply write on a sheet of paper something like: ?I, the undersigned, Salvo Montalbano, hereby declare myself to be in existence?, sign it, & turn it in to the appointed clerk? A young Don Juan is found murdered in front of his apartment building early one morning, & an elderly couple is reported missing after an excursion to the ancient site of Tindari ? two seemingly unrelated cases for Inspector Montalbano to solve amid the daily complications of life at Vig?ta police headquarters. But when Montalbano discovers that the couple & the murdered young man lived in the same building, his investigation stumbles onto Sicily's brutal ? New Mafia?, which leads him down a path more evil & more far-reaching than any he has been down before. Praise for Andrea Camilleri: ?A joy to read? The Times ? This savagely funny police procedural proves that sardonic laughter is a sound that translates ever so smoothly into English? New York Times ...

Excuse my French! arose out of a culture clash between a Frenchman & an English woman. Life together in a bi-lingual relationship for Rachel & Jean-Christophe created many miscomprehensions, amusing mistranslations & often sheer bewilderment.

This book offers a way out of the conversational confusion & comprises of 700 expressions in English & in French, divided into 13 chapters, which cover all the essential topics in life
- including food & drink, money, business work & sex. Excuse my French! teaches the essential idioms & metaphors of the other language in a fresh, light-hearted way that wont feel like youre back in a classroom.

Packed with quizzes, glossaries & interesting detail on the historical contexts for how phrases were coined, & illustrated with line drawings, it will improve language skills & promote the Entente Cordiale between tourists, students & business associates, a




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Every day on the job, you face common challenges. & you need immediate solutions to those challenges. The Pocket Mentor Series can help. Each book in the series is packed with handy tools, self-tests, & real-life examples to help you identify your strengths & weaknesses & hone critical skills. Whether you're at your desk, in a meeting, or on the road, these portable, concise guides enable you to tackle the daily demands of your work with speed, savvy, & effectiveness. The latest volume in the series: Executing Strategy That strategy you've defined for your group is brilliant--promising better market share, higher profits, or some other impressive business result. But your strategy won't deliver the expected outcomes if you & your group don't execute it that is, if you don't put it into action by implementing the right strategic initiatives. This volume helps you master the challenging art of strategy execution. You'll learn how to: -Craft action plans for the strategic initiatives required to meet your goals -Keep your action plans on course despite the inevitable setbacks & surprises -Cultivate employees' sense of ownership & accountability for your plans -Create a group culture in which everyone views strategy as their job ...

Judicial hanging is regarded by many as being the quintessentially British execution. However, many other methods of capital punishment have been used in this country; ranging from burning, beheading & shooting to crushing & boiling to death. This title explores these types of execution. ...

Inside a Los Angeles church, on the altar steps, lies the blood-soaked, decapitated body of a priest. Carefully positioned, legs stretched out, arms crossed over the chest, the most horrifying thing of all is that the priest's head has been replaced by that of a dog. Later, the forensic team discover that, on the victim's chest, the figure 3 has been scrawled in blood. At first, Detective Robert Hunter believes that this is a ritualistic killing. But as more bodies surface, he is forced to reassess. All the victims died in the way they feared the most. Their worst nightmares have literally come true. But how could the killer have known? & what links these apparently random victims? Hunter finds himself on the trail of an elusive & sadistic killer, somone who apparently has the power to read his victims' minds. Someone who can sense what scares his victims the most. Someone who will stop at nothing to achieve his twisted aim. This book has 472 pages & is 17.8 x 11.3 x 3.3 cms ...

Treason, witchcraft, robbery & murder, just a few of the crimes that could incur the penalty of death in the early days of Britain's justice system. Domestic violence was rife & alcohol was often the fuel that culminated in the murders of a wife or sweetheart. DNA, blood grouping & fingerpinting are now used to place a person at the scene of a crime. Before the use of forensics, evidence was often circumstantial & there is no doubt that in some cases an innocent person would have been hanged. ...