Blood Sugar: The Family is packed full of everyday inspiring recipes for anyone facing the challenges of diabetes & healthy living. All the family favourites are here with a twist on health. Eight years after he was diagnosed as a diabetic Michael suffered a stroke. A committed family man & still an ambitious chef a world leading cook TV personality & food commentator Michael has embarked on a campaign to help diabetics eat fabulous food. What about breakfast with a high protein iced espresso coffee ripple with tofu? Or a strawberry mojito basil lime & ginger as a pick me up. Kids love the chickpea & corn fritters with bacon & avocado as a great start to the day. Snacks include chicken nuggets with crusted buckwheat to make a low GI snack. Salads abound with flavour combinations that have every taste bud jumping. Try roasted cauliflower & haloumi salad with sumac rare tuna & kale salad with soy beans & red quinoa or the classic lemon chicken & power food salad. Diabetics don't have to stop eating exciting food & Michael ensures that the desserts are not left out. Of course he has a not-so-naughty chocolate cake that is low fat low GI high protein & low sugar
- enough said! A low fat low sugar cinnamon apple upside-down pudding is a winter warmer. Finishing with great sauces pickles & preserves Blood Sugar: The Family has everything you need to make your kitchen sing with health. The book

Includes:: a major section on The Family Kitchen & The Family Pantry with tips & ideas for substitutes to ensure you make a healthy choice of food each time.


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By 2025 there will be more than 4 million people in Britain with diabetes. Every day 400 new cases are diagnosed. In The Blood Sugar Solution Dr Mark Hyman reveals that the secret solution to losing weight & preventing diabetes
- as well as heart disease stroke dementia & cancer
- is balanced insulin levels. The Blood Sugar Solution Dr. Hyman gives us the tools to achieve this with his revolutionary six-week healthy-living programme & the seven keys to achieving wellness
- nutrition hormones inflammation digestion detoxification energy metabolism & a calm mind. With advice on diet exercise supplements & medication & options to personalise the plan for optimal results The Blood Sugar Solution teaches readers how to maintain lifelong health. Groundbreaking & timely The Blood Sugar Solution is the quickest way to lose weight prevent disease & feel better than ever.


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' Reginald Hill stands head & shoulders above any other writer of homebred crime fiction' Observer PI can mean many things but can it really mean a balding middle-agd redundant lathe operator from a high rise in Luton Beds? Joe Sixsmith thinks it can. His Aunt Mirabelle thinks you'd have to be crazy to hire him & Joe's current clients certainly fit the bill. One seems to be confessing to the brutal murder of his whole family; another thinks she's a witch. Alongside them the two heavies who believe Joe is hiding their illicit drugs seem almost normal. In the past Reginald Hill has brought wit style & compassion to police investigation. Now he does the same for the private sector &
- in perhaps his greatest feat of creation
- reinvents Luton in the process.

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Doctors believe that they can successfully treat five-year-old cancer patient Woody Swope. But Woodys parents members of a cult called The Touchers are not only refusing the treatment theyre also threatening to remove him from the hospital. Psychologist Alex Delaware is called in to talk the parents round. But before he can the Swopes are gone & so is Woody. All that remains is a savagely ransacked & bloodied motel room their teenage daughter Nona & an increasingly sinister case to solve. ...

Kismet Knight knows exactly how to handle her patients but when it comes to her love-life she's on less steady ground. That was until she met master vampire Devereux an 800-year-old hunk who not only managed to convince the entirely rational shrink that vampires really do exist
- he also convinced her to start dating him. Kismet's still having nightmares after being kidnapped by Lucifer a schizophrenic vampire. From a therapeutic perspective she finds his split personalities fascinating
- but she's constantly terrified. & Dev's become obsessed with finding Lucifer
- before he comes after Kismet again. So much for her nice ordinary life...


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A massive bestseller in its native Italy & a book that can justly be compared with Roberto Saviano's Gomorrah Blood Ties is a terrifying account of the 'ndrangheta's criminal activities over the last four decades. Originally from Calabria this sinister organization has
- like the Mafia in Sicily & the Camorra in Naples
- a vicious hold over northern Italy & much of the rest of the country too a stranglehold that is growing every day. Told to the authors by an insider Pippo di Bella a 'pentito' a former member of the gang now turned state's evidence it reveals many hitherto unknown operations as well as throwing new light on well-known cases from the past. It shows an organization which retains & strengthens its position through corruption drug smuggling gun running violence extortion & kidnapping. Visceral compelling & terrifyingly readable it paints a brutally vivid picture of the most dangerous & powerful of the Italian mafias one which demands to be read.

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The Darke Academy is a school like no other. An elite establishment that moves to an exotic new city every term its students are impossibly beautiful sophisticated & rich. This term the secretive Darke Academy has moved to New York & Cassie Bell is no longer the innocent new girl. Now she is strong determined & hiding secrets of her own. For Cassie has been introduced to the world of the Few & is struggling to come to terms with her astonishing powers a dangerous romance & the malevolent spirit inside her demanding to be fed. When an old enemy returns bent on revenge Cassie is tested to the limit. Can she rescue her friends from a horrific fate or will she end up destroying them to save herself? Wherever the Darke Academy goes death is never far behind.. . ...

It's elk season in the Rockies but this year one hunter is stalking a different kind of prey. When the call comes in on the radio Joe Pickett can hardly believe his ears: game wardens have found a hunter dead at a camp in the mountains
- strung up gutted skinned & beheaded as if he were the elk he'd been pursuing. A spent cartridge & a poker chip lie next to his body. Ripples of horror spread through the community & with a possibly psychotic killer on the loose Governor Rulon is forced to end hunting season early for the first time in state history
- outraging hunters & potentially crippling the state's income from the loss of hunting license revenue. But when the brutal murders eerily coincide with the arrival of radical anti-hunting activist Klamath Moore Pickett knows the Governor's ruling is the least of his worries. Are the murders the work of a deranged activist or of a lone psychopath with a personal vendetta? As always Joe Pickett is the governor's go-to man & he's put on the case to track the murderous hunter as more bodies
- & poker chips
- turn up.



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Lawmen dont last long in the town of Doubtful Wyoming Territory. The last one quit another ended up in a hangmans noose & one more was backshot by the hired guns at the Circle L Ranch. But the town of Doubtful has never seen the likes of the man whos known only as Cotton who aims to take the badge for $125 a month save himself a nice chunk of money over the next year & be on his way. At least thats his plan. Problem is Cotton has just stuck his nose in the biggest hornets nest in the territory. Some of the new homesteaders are stringing wire & the three large spreads in the area dont like it much. Before Cotton can say range war!" a passel of hardcases are filling the air with gunsmoke & hot lead. But Cotton wont be scared off. Hell see to it that law & order come to Doubtful
- because Cotton isnt afraid of dying. & hes not afraid of killing."
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Blood Work
- thats what Terry Mc Caleb used to call his job at the FBI. Eight weeks ago he was a dead man but now someone elses
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