Many people learn French for years at school only to reach a plateau beyond which they never emerge. This is an effective short-cut to fluency. Better French" helps the reader by showing them the right way to use problem words. It addresses the subtleties of the language. Are donc & alors interchangeable? What about grand or gros? When do you use cest or il est? When do you pronounce the final s in plus? Learning the answers to these & a host of other questions can steer you to success." ...

Youll never run out of healthy nutritious family meals with this extensive collection of low-calorie recipes New in the Ultimate series The Ultimate Low-Calorie Meals Book offers hundreds of recipes & ideas that make eating healthy & watching your weight easy & delicious. These recipes are ideal for light & nutritious everyday meals that form the basis of a healthy lifestyle. Filled with dishes the entire family will love recipes are clearly marked with icons that let you quickly identify recipes that are ready in 30 minutes or less high in fiber & low in sodium. Packed with more than 400 delicious & nutritious low-calorie meals & hundreds of beautiful photos The Ultimate Low-Calorie Meals Book is a great resource at a great price. Features more than 400 flavorful calorie- & fat-conscious recipes including main dishes snacks sandwiches pizza desserts restaurant favorites & make-ahead meals

Includes:: more than 300 gorgeous full-color photographs that make every page inspiring & easy to follow Special Healthy Eating Basics chapter Special features include substitution charts that help make every meal more calorie-conscious up-to-date diet & nutrition advice & much more Whether youre trying to adopt new low-calorie eating habits or looking for new recipes to help you maintain your already-healthy lifestyle this is the ultimate guide to tasty healthy eating.

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Better Late Than Never is the extraordinary true story of how a man born into poverty in London's East End went on to find stardom late in life when he was chosen to be head judge on BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing. Len Goodman tells all about his new-found fame his experiences on Strictly Come Dancing & also on the no.1 US show Dancing with the Stars & his encounters with the likes of Heather Mills-Mc Cartney & John Sergeant. But the real story is in his East End roots. & Len's early life couldn't be more East End. The son of a Bethnal Green costermonger he spent his formative years running the fruit & veg barrow & being bathed at night in the same water Nan used to cook the beetroot. There are echoes of Billy Elliot too. Though Len was a welder in the London Docks he dreamt of being a professional footballer & came close to making the grade had he not broken his foot on Hackney Marshes. The doctor recommended ballroom dancing as a light aid to his recovery. & Len it turned out was a natural. At first his family & work mates mocked but soon he had made the final of a national competition & the welders descended en masse to the Albert Hall to cheer him on. With his dance partner & then wife Cheryl Len won the British Championships in his late twenties & ballroom dancing became his life. Funny & heart-warming Len Goodman's autobiography has all the honest East End charm of Tommy Steele Mike Read or Roberta Taylor. ...

It touches all our lives; our triumphs & tragedies our proudest achievements our most traumatic disasters. Alloyed of love & fear death & fire & the inscrutable acts of the gods insurance is indeed the force that binds the universe together. Hardly surprising therefore that Frank Carpenter one of the foremost magical practitioners of our age felt himself irresistibly drawn to it. Until that is he met Jane a high-flying corporate heroine with an annoying habit of falling out of trees & getting killed. Repeatedly. Its not long before Frank & Jane find themselves face to face with the greatest enigma of our times: When is a door not a door? When its a mousetrap. ...

Evil lurks on the streets of Victorian London in this gripping crime novel. As Inspector Ben Ross of Scotland Yard walks homeward one Saturday night in late October 1867 the fog that swirls around him is like a living beast. By the time it has lifted next morning a woman lies murdered in Green Park. Allegra Benedict was the beautiful Italian wife of an art dealer in Piccadilly. But what had she been doing in London that afternoon & why had she been selling her brooch in the Burlington Arcade just hours before her death? As Ben begins his investigation his wife Lizzie
- with the help of their maid Bessie
- looks into Allegra's private life & uncovers more than one reason why someone might want her dead...

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A revolution is sweeping through the homes offices & salons of black American women. Relaxers are out. Weaves are so yesterday. Tired of the expense & damage of chemical treatments & artificial enhancers women of color are going natural thanks to Nikki Walton of Curly Nikki.com the natural hair blogger & expert on online hair therapy. In Better Than Good Hair" this gifted curl whisperer educates women on how to transition from relaxed to completely natural hair with advice & styles for every length from fierce braid-n-curls to fancy faux buns. She also counsels those considering the big chop-cutting it all off at once to sport a bold & beautiful teeny weeny afro a la Viola Davis & Esperanza Spalding. Here too is essential guidance for parents of mixed-race children dealing with new & unfamiliar hair textures & styles. Combining her expansive knowledge with tips from other experts in the field " Better Than Good Hair" is full of indispensable information including: Product recommendations; Home haircare recipes; Advice on how to manage natural hair for children; How to Henna gray hair; Illustrations/step-by-step directions for nearly two dozen hairdos from Frohawks to twist-outs; advice for dealing with detractors. Featuring over 100 black-&-white photographs & line-drawings & with a foreword by Kim Wayans " Better Than Good Hair" is a must-have natural hair care bible that will help women of all ages & styles achieve their natural beauty." ...

When you think of Mick Fitzgerald you might think of his masterful ride on Rough Quest to win the 1996 Grand National or his interview with Des Lynam live on BBC afterwards: After that Des even sex is an anti-climax. You might think of his victories in the Cheltenham Gold Cup the Champion Chase the Triumph Hurdle or the Hennessy Gold Cup because as one of the most accomplished jump jockeys ever to throw his leg over a saddle Fitzgerald has just about done it all. In Better Than Sex" Fitzgerald tells his story with a candidness that is both rare & refreshing. He provides a unique insight into life as a jockey the struggles the temptations the victories the celebrations. He tells openly of his failed marriage of riding for the Queen & about how the racing game has changed irrevocably during the 19 years since he crossed the Irish Sea." ...

Hunter S. Thompson is to drug-addled stream-of-consciousness psycho-political black humor what Forrest Gump is to idiot savants Philadelphia Inquirer Since his blazing 1972 opus Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail Hunter S. Thompson has reported the election story in his truly inimitable just-short-of-libel style. In Better than Sex Thompson hits the dusty trail again -- without leaving home -- yet manages to deliver a mind-bending view of the 1992 presidential campaign in all of its horror sacrifice lust & dubious glory. Complete with faxes sent to & received by candidate Clintons top aides & 100 per cent pure gonzo screeds on Richard Nixon George Bush & Oliver North here is the most true-blue campaign tell-all ever penned by man or beast. [ Thompson] delivers yet another of his trademark cocktail mixes of unbelievable tales & dark observations.. . Packed with egocentric anecdotes musings & reprints of memos faxes & scrawled handwritten notes Los Angeles Daily News ...

The fabulously addictive new novel from No. 1 bestselling author Sheila OFlanagan. When high-flying journalist Sheridan Gray loses her job her boyfriend & her flat she knows she must pick herself up & make a new start. But how will she adjust to small-town living & local reporting? Meanwhile home-loving Nina Fallons life is shattered when the exploits of her actor husband become national news. Now shes avoiding friends as she runs Ardbawns guesthouse on her own. When Sheridan moves into Ardbawn she realises Nina holds the key to a story that will make her name as a reporter again. But as she gets closer to the truth Sheridan risks jeopardising her relationship with the man she has come to love. Is she better off going it alone? Or is love the greatest prize of all? ...

The fabulously addictive new novel from No. 1 bestselling author Sheila OFlanagan. When high-flying journalist Sheridan Gray loses her job her boyfriend & her flat she knows she must pick herself up & make a new start. But how will she adjust to small-town living & local reporting? Meanwhile home-loving Nina Fallons life is shattered when the exploits of her actor husband become national news. Now shes avoiding friends as she runs Ardbawns guesthouse on her own. When Sheridan moves into Ardbawn she realises Nina holds the key to a story that will make her name as a reporter again. But as she gets closer to the truth Sheridan risks jeopardising her relationship with the man she has come to love. Is she better off going it alone? Or is love the greatest prize of all? ...