For many people, the downside of eating healthily is the thought of having to spend hours preparing & cooking meals.



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This book is for those who want to cook more home-made meals; to save money by using cheaper cuts of meat; & to save time preparing a meal after the working day. You can literally fill your slow cooker with your chosen ingredients, turn it on, & walk away for the day, returning to a flavour filled dish. It's as simple as that. But as well as saving time & money you also want to make sure you eat healthily. In this book nutritionist Sarah Flower takes her favourite, tastiest, slow cooker recipes & gives them a healthy twist. You can now create thrifty, delicious & wholesome meals with the minimum of effort
- & lead a healthier lifestyle too.
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Award-winning picture book star Oliver Jeffers explores themes of love & loss in this life-affirming & uplifting tale. Once there was a girl who was full of wonderment at how the world worked. She shared all her dreams & excitement with her father, who always had the answer to every question. That is until one day when his chair was empty, not to be filled again
- how would she find the meaning of life now?
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Stan & Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of economic & social collapse. Living in their car,

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Sheriff Devin Mac Kade had always had his eye on Cassie. For twelve years he d watched over her & her children. Twelve years of being the dependable friend, of seeing the woman he would ve cherished suffer. Now Cassie was free...but vulnerable. Devin knew he d have to be calm, move slowly. But he d waited long enough. If Cassie wasn't careful, he might just carry her off. & he wasn't sure either of them was quite ready for that yet... ...

My name is Niquette Delongpre & on the night before my mother's forty-seventh birthday, my entire family vanished without a trace. Everyone assumed the swamp swallowed them. They were wrong... Deep in the swamps outside of New Orleans, Niquette Delongpre & her family uncover a well on their property
- a well that has roots all the way down into the soils of the Mississippi River. A well that brings ancient things to the surface
- things that should have stayed buried. When Niquette is exposed to a small parasite, it triggers in her mysterious & dangerous powers. As she tries to come to grips with these new abilities & what they might mean for her future, she realises that she is not alone. Someone else, someone who was exposed to the same mysterious parasite during a clandestine visit to the swamp, is also discovering his new talents, & he's not as nice as she is...

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If there's one distinctive feature of the British countryside, it has to be the hedgerow. In fact, hedgerows are such an established part of our landscape that sometimes we take them for granted. But take a closer look, & the diversity & variety of plant species that form them is little short of wondrous. & it is not only plant life that thrives in abundance in the hedgerow
- native wild animals, birds & insects are protected & nourished by them. We know that at least 65 species of birds live in our hedgerows & that they are crucial to the survival of moths, bats & dormice. Hedgerows can provide a great fund of fresh, wild food for us, too, & this is partly what this book is about. In The Hedgerow Handbook Adele Nozedar reintroduces the wild & natural hedgerow ingredients that our grandmothers used on a regular basis
- but gives them a fresh & contemporary twist. From angelica to ash & bird cherry to borage, from pineapple weed to plantain & wild garlic to wimberries, each entry is accompanied by an exquisite full colour illustration to help you identify each plant or flower, along with its history & folklore, & culinary & medicinal uses. You won't find yet another recipe for blackberry pie nor nettle soup here, however
- this is not your run-of-the mill hedgerow book. Instead, why not try Adele's Spicy Ash Key Pickle, her Beechnut Turron, Red Clover Lemonade or Wild Raspberry Vodka? The Hedgerow Handbook is much more than a foraging book
- it is an inspiration & a trigger for a new experience of our countryside & for memories: of a summer filled with hot sunny days; or of the time you got drenched in a sudden rain shower miles away from the warmth & dryness of your car or home, which made those blackberry muffins even more enjoyable.



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He thinks he’s safe up there. But he’ll never be safe from you. 

The Heights is a tall, slender apartment building

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A DARK ENEMY. AN ANCIENT WAR. A NEW CHAMPION. Young Malian is being trained to rule. Her people garrison the mountain range known as the Wall of Night against an ancient enemy, keeping a tide of shadow from the rest of their world. Malian is expected to uphold this tradition, yet she's known little of real danger until the enemy attacks her fortress home & the Keep of Winds becomes a bloodbath. Malian flees deep into the Old Keep
- & when the danger is greatest her own hidden magic flares into life. But if she accepts its power, she must prepare to pay the price. ' The Heir of Night by Helen Lowe is a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery & conflicting loyalties, set in a well realized world'
- Robin Hobb ' Dark & magical... The Heir of Night is a grand entrance' The Book Bag.co.uk The start of an incredibly addictive new fantasy series
- perfect for readers of Trudi Canavan, Karen Miller & Brent Weeks.


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Classic drama based on the novel ' Washington Square' by Henry James & starring Montgomery Clift & Olivia de Havill&. Catherine Sloper (de Havilland) is a naive young woman & heiress to a considerable fortune, who is swept off her feet by the charm ...