This title helps you learn the most important aspects of tennis training. In Championship Tennis" world-class coach & regular Grand Slam clinician Frank Giampaolo & long-time Tennis Magazine editor Jon Levey bring you expert instruction & professional insights to eliminate unforced errors increase winning percentage & improve your overall game. Add a copy of " Championship Tennis" to your bookshelf & turn those errors into winners & three-set losses into straight-set wins. This is a must-have resource for players & instructors alike." ...

Championship Yo-Yo Tricks" is a great kit for older children teens & adults. It contains a 64-page paperback book full of yo-yo tricks plus two brilliant yo-yos
- a plastic one that lights up & a traditional wooden one. Approx. 40 tricks are described in the book. Each comes with full instructions & clear illustrations. The tricks are ranked from beginner to Olympic level so you can start off with the easy ones & then master increasingly challenging tricks as you progress through the book. By the end you will be a true Yo-Yo Champ & the envy of all your friends!"
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Inver Brass: a group of high-minded & high-placed intellectuals. They see a monstrous threat to the country in Hoovers unethical use of his scandal-ridden private files. & so they decide to do away with him
- quietly efficiently with no hint of impropriety. Until bestselling thriller writer Peter Chancellor stumbles upon information that makes his previous books look like harmless fairy tales. Now Chancellor & Inver Brass are on a deadly collision course spiralling across the globe in an ever-widening arc of violence & terror. They are hurtling towards a showdown that will rip Washingtons intelligence community apart leaving only one damning document to survive: The Chancellor Manuscript...
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The stunning new summer besteller from Freya North. Vitas nursing a broken heart. Olivers heart belongs to the past. They should ...

Do you secretly dream of whirling across the dance floor in a dress more glamour personified than Joan Collins circa 1955? Are you still waiting for the love of your life to materialise (your boyfriend just doesnt know it yet)? Do you love Strictly Come Dancing? Ava Dunne is trapped in a floundering relationship with Salisburys most unromantic boyfriend. Her domineering sister Laurens plans for a grand wedding are threatening to take over her existence & thoughts of the hideous dress Laurens chosen for her to wear on the big day offer little distraction from monotonous village life. Until she joins a local dance class. OK so its not exactly Strictly her number one favourite TV show but its a start. But then a handsome stranger from the neighbouring village joins the class & Avas life gets a whole lot more exciting. Will she finally get the Big Romance that has so far eluded her with this charming dance partner or should she just count her blessings & settle with pragmatic Rob? As the latest series of Strictly Come Dancing draws closer her boyfriend becomes ever more tedious & the dance classes become an increasingly alluring diversion Ava must make a decision that will change the direction of her life forever. Prepare to be whisked off your feet with the second long-awaited Strictly Come Dancing novel. ...

Sixteen-year-old Chanda Kabelo living in sub-Saharan Africa knows only too well the truth behind the secret people are trying to keep hidden: that all around her people are dying because of AIDS. When her young stepsister dies Chanda takes charge organising the funeral for her grief-stricken mother. But Chanda remains a girl like any other with hopes worries & secrets of her own. Can she stay strong while helping her family to survive in the face of this tragedy? ...

Chanels combination of tradition originality & style has always made it the most seductive of brands. Here the House of Chanel opens its private archives revealing a galaxy of brilliant designs created by Coco Chanel from 1920 onwards. Dazzling clothes intricate accessories beautiful models & timeless design leave no doubt as to the lasting fame of the brand & embody everything that has come to symbolize the magic of Chanel. ...

Gabrielle Coco Chanel was without doubt the most influential designer of the 20th century. This book honours her influence by celebrating the key elements that defined & still define her style through inspired pairings of classic & contemporary photographs. Juxtaposing fashion plates from Chanels own time with the most recent creations by Karl Lagerfeld such as Cecil Beatons portrait of Coco Chanel presented alongside one of Cate Blanchett by Lagerfeld himself the resonance between archive & contemporary photographs becomes sharp vibrant & telling. The vocabulary of Chanels style the little black dress baroque inspirations androgynous chic is revealed in eleven chapters that compare original forms in the 1920s with the full range of their later expressions through every fashion era. Chanels legendary fashion house continues to captivate a huge audience with an insatiable appetite for one of fashions undisputed style perennials. ...

In Chanel: An Intimate Life" acclaimed biographer Lisa Chaney tells the controversial story of the fashion icon who starred in her tumultuous era. Coco Chanel was many things to many people. Raised in emotional & financial poverty she became one of the defining figures of the twentieth century. She was mistress to aristocrats artists & spies. She broke rules of style & decorum seducing both men & women yet in her work expected the highest standards. She took a plaything & turned it into a global industry which defined the modern woman. Filled with new insights & thrilling discoveries Lisa Chaneys " Chanel" provides the most defining & provocative portrait yet. " Chaneys research is laudable uncovering fresh details of Chanels well-trodden rag trade to riches story". (" Evening Standard"). " An unflinching examination of the historically inscrutable designer". (" Vogue"). Lisa Chaney has lectured & tutored in the history of art & literature made TV & radio broadcasts on the history of culture & reviewed & written for journals & newspapers including " The Sunday Times" the " Spectator" & the " Guardian". She is the author of two previous biographies: " Elizabeth David" & " Hide-&-Seek With Angels: The Life of J.M. Barrie"." ...

By the time Wendy Lawless turned seventeen shed known for quite some time that she didnt have a normal mother. But that didnt stop her from wanting one... Georgann Rea didnt bake cookies or go to PTA meetings; she wore a mink coat & always had a lit Dunhill plugged into her cigarette holder. She had slept with too many men & some women & she didnt like dogs or children. Georgann had the ice queen beauty of a Hitchcock heroine & the cold heart to match. In this evocative darkly humorous memoir Wendy deftly charts the highs & lows of growing up with her younger sister in the shadow of an unstable fabulously neglectful mother. Georgann a real-life Holly Golightly who constantly reinvents herself as she trades up from trailer-park to penthouse suffers multiple nervous breakdowns & suicide attempts while Wendy tries to hide the cracks in their fractured family from the rest of the world. Chanel Bonfire depicts a childhood blazed through the refined aeries of The Dakota & the swinging townhouses of London while the girls beautiful but damned mother desperately searches for glamour & fulfilment. Ultimately they must choose between living their own lives & being their mothers warden. ...