Arriving at the great houses of 1920s London fifteen-year-old Margarets life in service was about to begin... As a kitchen maid -- the lowest of the low -- she entered an entirely new world; one of stoves to be blacked vegetables to be scrubbed mistresses to be appeased & even bootlaces to be ironed. Work started at 5.30am & went on until after dark. It was a far cry from her childhood on the beaches of Hove where money & food were scarce but warmth & laughter never were. Yet from the gentleman with a penchant for stroking the housemaids curlers to raucous tea-dances with errand boys to the heartbreaking story of Agnes the pregnant under-parlourmaid fired for being seduced by her mistresss nephew Margarets tales of her time in service are told with wit warmth & a sharp eye for the prejudices of her situation. Brilliantly evoking the long-vanished world of masters & servants Below Stairs is the remarkable true story of an indomitable woman who though her position was lowly never stopped aiming high. Enormous gusto salty humour wisdom Evening Standard Shrewd unabashed wickedly funny a unique front-line report of her lifes experiences Jack De Manio BBC ...

This book follows the author through his experiences from the end of his apprenticeship in 1961 with The London Graving Dock Co. on the Isle of Dogs now generally known as Canary Wharf his time in the Merchant Navy as an engineer. Those were the days of what could be considered the last generation of hands-on engineers who maintained the ships engine rooms by the senses of sight sound & feel often with a bit of blood & always plenty of sweat. In those days the working conditions down below would have given todays health & safety brigade apoplexy. However it would be hard to find a ships engineer from those halcyon times that didnt consider his time at sea as the happiest time of his life. ...

Tell Sherry April called." A simple phone message that shakes Joe Picketts oldest daughter Sheridan & the rest of the family to the core. To Joe it doesnt seem even remotely possible that April could have survived the massacre described in Winterkill six years before. He was there & he was unable to save her. But Sheridan starts to believe theres a chance that April is still alive & her suspicions are confirmed when the person sending texts to her cellphone is able to recall family incidents only April could know. Joe however remains wary of the messages. But when the texts start to refer to "bad things " & when Marybeth discovers they come from locations throughout the West where vicious murders have taken place alarm bells go off. Desperate to discover if April is still alive & to save her from possible danger Joe Sheridan & Nate Romanowski take to the road to connect the texts with the crimes. Meanwhile a dying Chicago mobster named Stenko & a much younger girl cross the country. Hes on a mission to reconcile with his extreme environmentalist son before he dies. His son is less interested in reconciliation than in getting his father to repent for the environmental crimes hes committed during his lifetime. He wants his father to become not just carbon neutral but to reduce his carbon footprint to below zero
- as if hed never even existed. As the path of Stenko & his companions starts to cross with Joe Sheridan & Nate the question is raised: Is this young girl April or are the Picketts the victims of a cruel hoax?"
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' It's amazing how some people can light up a room just by stepping into it. Ben was twenty-one months old & full of smiles. He spread happiness simply by being there.' In 1991 Kerry & her son Ben followed Kerry's parents to live on the Greek island of Kos. On 24 July she was at work when her mum Christine arrived crying uncontrollably. Ben had been playing outside & then disappeared. Someone had taken Ben. In her heartbreaking memoir Kerry describes the agony of being initially suspected by the police which meant the closure of airport & ferry terminals were delayed the early sightings that raised their hopes & the hoaxes which dashed them completely. & the unbearable pain of knowing her baby boy was alone somewhere without his mum. Back in the UK the long years of waiting & hoping have been difficult on the whole family. Kerry has raised her daughter Leighanna while following up more than 300 leads. In 2011 they had a breakthrough when South Yorkshire Police agreed to work with the Greek authorities to reopen the case. The chance that Ben will read about himself & come home becomes more real every day. All of Kerry's royalties from the sale of this book will go toward the Help Find Ben campaign. ...

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Discover the amazing world of Ben Tennyson a 10-year-old kid who proves that anyone can be a hero! Book 2: Washington B.C. Dr. Amino is creating mutant creatures to take over Washington D.C & there is only one person who can save the city. Join Ben as he takes on the ultimate challenge! ...

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Discover the amazing world of Ben Tennyson a 10-year-old kid who proves that anyone can be a hero! In Storybook 1 find out how Ben's alien adventures begin in ' And Then There Were 10' before tackling ' The Krakken'. In Storybook 2 discover what happens when Ben Gwen & Max head into the desert in ' Permanent Retirement' then go on to read ' Side Effects' where our heroes come across one creepy guy... Also including quizzes puzzles & lots of cool stickers! ...

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