Keats accused Newton of destroying the poetry of the rainbow by explaining the origin of its colours, thus dispelling its mystery. In this book, the author argues that Keats could not have been more mistaken & shows how an understanding of science in fact inspires the human imagination & enhances our wonder of the world. ...

In a society where unwanted & troublesome teens are salvaged for their body parts, Connor, Risa & Lev continue to fight against the system that would 'unwind' them. Thanks to their high-profile revolt at the Happy Jack Harvest Camp, people can no longer turn a blind eye to unwinding. Ridding society of so-called troublesome teens might be convenient, but its morality has finally been brought into question & a new law passed. However, unwinding has become big business, & there are powerful political & corporate interests, not to mention the illegal ' Parts Pirates', that want to see it not only continue, but exp&. Connor, Risa & Lev each struggle to rescue as many AWOL teens as possible & offer them sanctuary. But life at the Graveyard is hard, rivalries bubble under the surface & the cracks are beginning to show. & then there is Cam, a teen who does not exist. Made entirely out of parts from one hundred other 'unwinds', Cam is a 21st century Frankenstein, a rewound, struggling to find a true identity & meaning, & a place in society. But when a sadistic bounty hunter who takes "trophies" from all the 'unwinds' he captures starts to pursue Connor, Lev & Risa, Cam finds his own fate inextricably bound with theirs... ...

Munch rejoices in her job as a car mechanic but it's tough when people from her old life surface. One such person is Lisa, who has bolted from a Witness Protection Programme with her two daughters & needs Munch's help. But, 15-year-old Charlotte goes missing & her mum, Lisa, lands in jail. Munch must unravel the mystery before it's too late. ...

Connor's parents want to be rid of him because he's a troublemaker. Risa has no parents & is being unwound to cut orphanage costs. Lev's unwinding has been planned since his birth as part of his family's strict religion. Brought together by chance, & kept together through desperation, these three unlikely companions make a harrowing cross-country journey, knowing all the while that their lives are hanging in the balance. If they can survive until their eighteenth birthdays, they can't be harmed. But when every piece of them, from their hands to their hearts, are wanted by a world gone mad, eighteen seems far, far away... ...

This is an investigation of the current expansion of Christmas at a time of decline in other festivals. It compares the Christmas phenomenon to other celebrations &

Includes:: discussion of Christmas & materialism, Christmas & the family, & Christmas in the context of various cultures.

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Life for the Gervase Phinn is about to become not unlike the rambling hills of the Dales themselves
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Sizzling chemistry, a page turning will they/won’t they romance & the hottest twist on one of your favourite movies…



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Kerry's life in recent years has been bedevilled by problems with gambling, drugs &, worst of all, a prison sentence in 2015 after he was convicted of grievous bodily harm following a fight in a pub. At that point, one of football's golden boys finally hit rock bottom. This book is the honest, unflinching account of his rise & fall, & of the new life he is now slowly & patiently building. His memories of playing in a more robust era of the game, before the days of multi-million-pound salaries & all the rest of the modern football circus, will appeal to plenty of nostalgic football fans, as well as to all those who remember him as one of the game's all-time greats.

Equally, his unflinching recollections of his darkest days, culminating in his time in prison, are about as far from the Beautiful Game as anyone can imagine. The world is all too familiar with tales of once-famous footballers falling from grace. Up Front, however, is unique at once for its flashes of humour in adversity, its clear-eyed reflections on a different age of football, when leading players could all too easily be treated as disposable, & finally for its humility. For Kerry Dixon, as this often moving autobiography shows, the only way is up.

This paperback book has 238 pages & measures: 19.8 x 12.8 x 1.6cm



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Please note this book contains content of an adult nature. After Max Phillips recounts a lifetime of his previous sexual adventures to his young virginal wife, Marcia Edmunds, at her request he possesses his bride in a wild tour de force that demonstrates all the acrobatic sexual skills he has described. This book has 160 pages & is 17.5cm x 10.5cm x 1.1cm ...

New York, 1961. One young woman from Essex has come to The Big Apple to begin a career that will change the course of her life. At the age of 22, Betty Riegel was plucked from more than a thousand eager young British women who had applied to be part of the Pan Am programme & was sent to New York to learn the art of being the perfect stewardess. Growing up in a working-class family with parents who struggled to make ends meet, Betty spent the first six years of her life hiding in air-raid shelters as bombs dropped around her & her dad fought for his country. In her early twenties, she saw an advert in the local newspaper & secured herself an interview for the Pan Am training programme. She was weighed & measured, & declared 'desirable' enough to earn a coveted place. Having never left her home town before, Betty said goodbye to her parents & her high-school sweetheart, boarded her first plane to New York, & landed in Manhattan
- a city full of noise, traffic, towering skyscrapers & promise. Under the watchful eye of her housemother, Dottie, Betty was taught deportment, geography, safety, make-up application & how to charm the passengers. But nothing prepared her for the rollercoaster of life in the air
- preparing five-course Parisian cuisine from scratch in the galley of the plane, mixing cocktails at an open bar, serving lobster thermidor & two-foot-long fillets of beef to each passenger's

Specification. Scrambling 280 eggs for breakfast in severe turbulence & teaching the mashed potato dance to a Saudi Prince
- Betty lived the dream.




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