The fully revised & updated 2012 edition of The Everton Miscellany is essential reading for fans in the blue half of Liverpool. Written by lifelong Everton devotee Mark OBrien editor of the popular fanzine When Skies Are Grey this goldmine of information reveals all manner of facts feats & stories from the proud history of one of English footballs most prestigious clubs. A rich source of quirky trivia the book explains how Everton actually started life at what is now the home of their arch-rivals in Anfield & why they came to be known as the Toffees as well as tracing the origin of the clubs famous crest. In addition it also tells the story of the referee who scarred a generation of Evertonians reveals Howard Kendalls not-so-diplomatic exchange with the Bayern Munich bench & explains how the club played its part in the birth of a famous terrace saying which still rings around football grounds across the country today. Alongside these meticulously researched entries are biographical sections on club heroes like Dixie Dean Graeme Sharp Neville Southall Duncan Ferguson & David Moyes as well as detailed season-by-season records to satisfy even the most ardent of statisticians. With its extensive array of facts feats & anecdotes to chew over this labour of love is the perfect Christmas present for the Everton fan in your life
- young or old. Beautifully printed on imitation cloth.
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Short listed for the Best Football Book in the 2010 British Sport Book Awards The way Britain develops its top football talent is a hot topic of debate. The failure of all four of the UK's national teams to reach the 2008 European Championships & the ever-increasing reliance of England's top clubs on foreign talent underlines an undisputable fact: that Britain now lags well behind the world's top countries in producing the best footballers despite having the wealthiest league in the world & untold riches at the game's disposal. Every Boy's Dream: England's Football Future on the Line investigates why
- despite unprecedented expenditure on a huge overhaul of youth development in the past decade
- British football continues to fail to nurture top-class football talent. With some 10 000 boys in the system at any time
- & less than one per cent of those boys likely to make it as professional footballers
- there is a real need for a long hard look at our domestic football development system. Who funds the system? How are the boys recruited? Who is responsible for their coaching & what qualifications do they have for the job? Who looks after their welfare ensuring they are enjoying the sport & still keeping up with their schooling while under the clubs' stewardship? What happens when the boys don't make the cut & are released by the clubs? Every Boy's Dream does not pull any punches. It lays the blame at the doors of the authorities in charge of youth football. But rather than just listing the faults of system
- which are many as the hard-hitting real-life examples demonstrate
- it provides tales of inspiration & a blueprint for the future of the national game. It is the most thorough book ever written about football youth development & cracks through the age-old veneer of perceived wisdom that has stifled debate on the subject.





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Its the eve of wealthy philanthropist Cecil Wyatts eightieth birthday but all the money in the world wont bring back his missing grandson William Wyatt. & the only thing that seems clear so far is that foul play was involved. The family the police the media
- all have tried in vain to discover the young mans fate. Now suspicion has turned shockingly toward Williams own half-brother the cool & enigmatic Mitchell Wyatt. Kate Donovan never dreamed that a chance romantic encounter on a tropical island paradise would lead to her being named as a suspect in a high-society murder case. But after Kate tangles with the darkly charismatic Mitchell Wyatt she finds herself in serious trouble. As the Chicago police tighten their net it will take all of Kates ingenuity to clear her name & the help of a man who may or may not be a dangerous catch...
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A feel-good book packed with uplifting"ations & good advice perfect for looking on the bright side during testing times" If you're already walking on thin ice you might as well dance. --Proverb """A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against & not with the wind." --John Neal """ Perserverance is failing nineteen times & succeeding the twentieth." --Julie Andrews" Never mind that your favorite jeans don't quite fit any more your mother-in-law has decided to stay another week & the local bar has stopped karaoke night--every cloud has a silver lining! There's good advice for every occasion to be found within the black-&-white pages of this tiny inspirational tome." ...

' If you were to ask me to tell you about my wife I would have to warn you at the outset that I don't know a great deal about her. Or at least not as much as I thought I did...' Alex is in his thirties a solitary man who has finally found love in the form of his beautiful & vivacious wife Rachel. When Rachel is brutally murdered one Midsummer Night by the lake in the grounds of their alma mater Worcester College Oxford Alex's life as he knew it vanishes. He returns to Oxford that winter & through the shroud of his shock & grief begins to try to piece together the mystery surrounding his wife's death. Playing host to Alex's winter visit is Harry Rachel's former tutor & trusted mentor who turns out to have been involved in some way in almost every significant development of their relationship throughout their undergraduate years. In his exploration of Rachel's history Alex also turns to Evie Rachel's self-centred & difficult godmother whose jealousy of her charge has waxed & waned over the years. & then there are her university friends Anthony & Cissy who shared with Rachel her love of Browning & a taste for the illicit. As Alex delves deep into the past to uncover shocking secrets & constantly shifting versions of the truth it is with these virtual strangers as his guides that he begins to confront the terrifying reality that neither his life nor his love are the things he thought them to be. ...

Ill say it was always dark. I never saw your face. Is that a promise? Are you going to keep your word if I trust you? YES! Will Booker stood up. You know I think I believe you Missy. Just so you believe me... The gunshot came as a surprise. Missy heard the echo crackling back from the trees as she was gasping at the incredible pain in her cheat. She tasted mud her scream strangling in her throat. The next bullet jolted her hitting below the ribs. She heard the second echo from the trees. She saw the smoke rising oddly from Wills jacket pocket. Ten years ago sleepy Shiloh Springs was shaken as five teenagers were clubbed & shot to death & a sixth left for dead. But now the killers conviction has been overturned after allegations that his rights were violated on his arrest. Rick Trueblood is a careworn private investigator working for the Shiloh County prosecutors office; a veteran loner still grieving for a daughter murdered eight years ago- a crime he has never been able to solve. The judge has allowed just sixty days for the prosecutors office to find enough evidence to retry the case. But as Rick struggles to re-investigate a trail long gone cold he starts to uncover a rats nest of intrigue & duplicity with ramifications that lead closer to home than he could have possibly imagined. Booker in the meantime is out on bail. All he wants with his freedom is to kidnap & murder the two adolescent daughters of the minister who brought him to faith. When Booker finally snatches the girls the local authorities follow procedures & file reports. Rick on the other hand has learned something about the way Booker thinks. In the desperate hours that follow Rick recovers his instinct for the hunt & with it quite unexpectedly a renewed passion for life. ...

The title comes from research that shows people are happiest on Fridays. Pastor Joel Osteen shares how we can generate this level of contentment & joy every day of the week. Known as a man who maintains a constant positive outlook in spite of circumstances Osteen has described this message as a core theme of his ministry. Combining his personal experiences with scriptural insights & principles for true happiness he shows listeners how every day can hold the same promise & opportunities for pure joy that they experience at five oclock on Friday. ...

From the author of the Man Booker prize-winners Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies comes a story of suburban mayhem & merciless hilarious revenge. Barricaded inside their house filled with festering rubbish unhealthy smells & their secrets the Axon family baffle Isabel Field the latest in a long line of social workers. Isabel has other problems too: a randy untrustworthy father & a slackly romantic lover Colin Sidney history teacher to unresponsive yobs & father of a parcel of horrible children. With all this to worry about how can Isabel begin to understand what is going on in the Axon household? ...

Tormented & racked with guilt over the brutal slaying of his wife & daughter Charlie Parker ex-cop with the NYPD agrees to track down a missing girl. It is a search that will lead him into an abyss of evil. At the same time he is warned by an old black woman in Louisiana that The Travelling Man is about to strike again. Multiple strands converge with a horrific confrontation in which hunter & hunted are intimately connected by guilt. ...

In todays increasingly competitive & insecure economic environment we often question the reason for work: why am I doing this? Why is it so hard? & what can I do about it? Work may seem just a means to an end: we do it to earn the money to enjoy life outside the workplace. Here Timothy Keller argues that Gods plan is radically more ambitious: he actually created us to work. We are to work together to make the world a better place to help each other & so to find purpose for our lives. Our faith should enhance our work & our work should develop our faith. With deep insight Timothy Keller draws on essential & relevant biblical wisdom to address our questions about work. There is grace available if we have taken the wrong attitude idolising money & using our careers to glorify ourselves rather than God. Keller shows how through excellence integrity discipline creativity & passion in the workplace we can impact society for good. Developing a better attitude to work releases us to serve others humbly to worship God everyday & leaves us deeply fulfilled. ...