From the outside Laura Templeton's life looks charmed: the daughter of a wealthy family married to the man of her dreams & the mother to two beautiful daughters. But her dreams are short-lived & it all collapses when Peter doesn't prove to be the kind of husband or father material Laura has dreamed of. With her best friends Margo & Kate recently married & starting their own families Laura feels isolated. Then her brother's friend bad boy Michael asks to rent her stables & she reluctantly agrees. Laura finds him disturbingly attractive but Michael is a man who has never stayed long with any project or commitment. Dare she lay her heart open once again? ...

Dax Jones is an ordinary schoolboy.. .until something extraordinary happens one day. Whilst frightened for his life he inexplicably changes into a fox! Before long both a government agent & an ambitious young journalist are on his tail. The agent tells him that he is one of several children with special powers & hes been offered a place at a secret government school where he can develop & learn to control these powers. If Dax accepts on no account can he tell anybody especially not the journalist. Dax jumps at the chance of attending the boarding school. His home life is unhappy & he would do anything to escape it. & when he gets to the school he is amazed to find himself amongst kids with all sorts of talents from the ability to levitate to the ability to move things using only the mind. Dax immediately feels at home. But first the journalist tracks him down. & then he begins to wonder who exactly is behind the school & what they want from the pupils there. Suddenly Daxs fox senses are on high alert.. . ...

A stunning new look for Jenny Valentine's debut novel winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize The mini cab office was ...

Ken Robinson author of the international bestseller The Element" & the most viewed talk on TED.com offers a practical guide to discovering your passions & natural aptitudes & finding the point at which the two meet: " Finding Your Element". Through a range of stories from his own experience & those of people from all walks of life Ken Robinson explores the diversity of intelligence & the power of imagination & creativity. For some finding their element has brought fame & success like Ellen Mc Arthur's unusual journey from growing up in a landlocked ex-mining town to achieving sailing glory. However many of the inspiring stories are of ordinary people who read the first book & were moved to share how its principles have transformed their lives like the man who found fulfilment as a magician after years of working as a computer engineer. This book also provides the tools techniques resources & advice you need to discover the depth of your abilities & identify opportunities for change. It looks at the conditions that enable you to find yourself: why it's so important to connect with people who share your element & why your attitudes may be holding you back. " Finding Your Element" shows that age & occupation are no barriers to discovering what makes us happiest & that once we have found our path we can help others to do so as well. Sir Ken Robinson Ph.D is an internationally recognized leader in the development of creativity innovation & human potential. He advises governments corporations education systems & some of the world's leading cultural organizations. His 2008 talk on how schools kill creativity is still the most watched video on TED.com with over 13.5 million views to date. Lou Aronica is the author of two novels & coauthor of several works of nonfiction including " The Culture Code" (with Clotaire Rapaille) & " The Element"." ...

Examining the mind-body connection in specific relation to the chakras & feet this treatment manual will appeal to both holistic professionals & dabblers. Key issues & ailments are listed for each particular aspect of the foot along with further explanations & case histories-including overall shape shoes broken nails calluses footprints & bunions. The format & illustrations allow for quick reference as well as in-depth insight when required. ...

It is the day before Christmas Eve & there is lots to do but disaster strikes when Pettson sprains his ankle. How can they celebrate Christmas now with no tree ham meatballs or gingerbread? For all their resourcefulness Findus & Pettson are close to giving up when suddenly there is a knock on the door... ...

As Sandro gets to grips with the dispiriting realities of life as a private detective touting for business among old contacts & following errant teenagers an old case comes back to haunt him... Once the subject of a routine investigation back in Sandros early days as an investigator Loni Meadows
- the glamorous charming & ruthless director of an artistic Trust based in a castle in the hills outside Florence
- is found dead in circumstances Sandro cannot convince himself are accidental. However inconvenient his suspicions might be both to Sandro
- whose marriage appears to be disintegrating
- & to Meadowss erstwhile employers at the Trust he presses ahead with the case. & as Sandro attempts to uncover the truth of Loni Meadowss violent & lonely death he finds himself drawn into the lives of the castles highly strung community & the closed world they inhabit in the Casentinos isolated hills.""



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A Fine & Private Place: Jesmond Old Cemetery tells the remarkable story of Newcastles own necropolis since its opening in 1836. This Highgate of the North contains a wealth of social history. From merchants to murder victims from philanthropists to fever fatalities Alan Morgan also describes over 100 of the famous
- & not so famous
- who lie in Jesmond Old Cemetery. John Dobson the founder of Fenwicks Bainbridges Malings the Hancock Museum & many others who helped shape the city we know today found their last resting place here. The haunting beauty of the cemetery & some extraordinary examples of the monumental masons art are celebrated in fine photography.

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For carvers or crafters looking to create something different this gorgeous book offers the novel & romantic idea of a lovespoon
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Set in mid-1970s India A Fine Balance is a subtle & compelling narrative about four unlikely characters who come together in circumstances no one could have foreseen soon after the government declares a ' State of Internal Emergency'. It is a breathtaking achievement: panoramic yet humane intensely political yet rich with local delight; & above all compulsively readable. ...