A follow-up to Abrams' successful Treehouse Living" " Exceptional Treehouses"

Includes:: 25 new creations by

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Two & a half millennia ago the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe. It was a perfect black-body sphere & it did nothing. Then it disappeared. Now it is back. Banks is a phenomenon.. .wildly successful fearlessly creative William Gibson Thrilling affecting & comic.. .probably the finest science fiction he has written to date New Scientist Banks has rewritten the libretto for the whole space-opera genre The Times ...

Barrie Travis is a damn good reporter stuck at a low-budget television station when the First Lady calls her. Stunned by the loss of her infant son the presidents wife hints he may have been murdered. Barrie sets out to find the truth fighting for the exclusive story with the help of Gray Bondurant a mysterious former presidential aide. But their scoop is about to test her ethics patriotism & courage. For Barrie unearths White House secrets that if exposed could topple the presidency. & now certain powerful parties want nothing more than to see the scandalous past
- & a certain young reporter
- dead & buried.

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A second chance to finish what they started... When Keri Daniels's boss finds out she used to be bestselling author Joe Kowalski's girlfriend she gives Keri a choice: get an interview or get a new job. Joe's never forgotten the girl who broke his heart so he's intrigued to hear Keri's back in town-and looking for him. He suggests a wicked plan-for every day she survives with his family on their annual camping trip Keri can ask one question. Who knew a little blackmail two weeks in close quarters a whole lot of family & some sizzling romantic interludes could make Keri reconsider the old dream of Keri & Joe together forever? ...

Maybe a phrase a line a hint somewhere would reveal a reason any reason for the elderly couple's disappearance. They'd saved everything.. .there was even a copy of the 'certificate of living existence' that nadir of bureaucratic imbecility.. . What was the 'protocol' to use a word dear to government offices? Did one simply write on a sheet of paper something like: 'I the undersigned Salvo Montalbano hereby declare myself to be in existence' sign it & turn it in to the appointed clerk? A young Don Juan is found murdered in front of his apartment building early one morning & an elderly couple is reported missing after an excursion to the ancient site of Tindari -- two seemingly unrelated cases for Inspector Montalbano to solve amid the daily complications of life at Vigata police headquarters. But when Montalbano discovers that the couple & the murdered young man lived in the same building his investigation stumbles onto Sicily's brutal ' New Mafia' which leads him down a path more evil & more far-reaching than any he has been down before. Praise for Andrea Camilleri: 'A joy to read' The Times ' This savagely funny police procedural proves that sardonic laughter is a sound that translates ever so smoothly into English' New York Times ...

We all know how strong our emotions can be
- but do we really appreciate that they can actually help us to achieve what we want?
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Excuse my French! arose out of a culture clash between a Frenchman & an English woman. Life together in a bi-lingual relationship for Rachel & Jean-Christophe created many miscomprehensions amusing mistranslations & often sheer bewilderment. This book offers a way out of the conversational confusion & comprises of 700 expressions in English & in French divided into 13 chapters which cover all the essential topics in life
- including food & drink money business work & sex. Excuse my French! teaches the essential idioms & metaphors of the other language in a fresh light-hearted way that wont feel like youre back in a classroom. Packed with quizzes glossaries & interesting detail on the historical contexts for how phrases were coined & illustrated with line drawings it will improve language skills & promote the Entente Cordiale between tourists students & business associates as well as encourage relationships to blossom between les Gaulois et les Rosbifs all over the world!
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Most people will admit to telling the odd white lie in order to wangle a day off work but only a master excuse-maker could conceive of alibis including milking a walrus contracting osmosis & FOHP (Fear of Having Peaked)
- all of which & more are presented in this surreal & off -the-wall book! CAUTION: Not recommended for use in actual workplace scenarios.
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Weve wished at one time or another that there were scripts for those tricky situations in life
- when a foot gets stuck in a mouth
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People are forever using excuses & defending those excuse patterns as if they were actually true. Such statements as It would be very difficult for me to change
- If I changed it would create family dramas
- Im too old/young to change
- & Ive always been this way
- are all excuses that are used regularly without challenging the truth of these thinking habits. When you eliminate excuses that explain your shortcomings or failures youll awaken to your infinite possibilities. In this groundbreaking work Wayne Dyer presents a compendium of conscious & subconscious excuses employed by virtually everyone along with a revolutionary concept that guides you to put those excuses to rest once & for all. Youll learn to apply specific questions to any excuse & then proceed through the steps of the Excuses Begone!" paradigm."



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