The fantastic new collection of stories from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ' The Shipping News' & ' Brokeback Mountain'. ' Fine Just The Way It Is' marks Annie Proulx's return to the Wyoming of ' Brokeback Mountain' & the familiar cast of hardy unsentimental prairie folk. The stories are cast over centuries & capture the voices & lives of the settlers this sagebrushed & weatherworn country has known from the native Indian tribes to the modern day ranch owners & politicians & their cowboy forebears. In 'A Family Man' an old man nearing the end of his life unburdens himself of the weighty family secrets that were his father's unwelcome legacy. ' Them Old Cowboy Songs' follows Archie & Rosie a young pioneer couple & their hardships in their attempt to homestead in the exposed wintry expanses of the prairie & ' Testimony of the Donkey' finds a young international couple Marc & Caitlin struggling with much more modern concerns & confronting uncertainty as their relationship comes to its end. These are stories of desperation & hard times often marked by an inescapable sadness set in a landscape both brutal & magnificent. Enlivened by folk tales flights of fancy & details of ranch & rural work they juxtapose Wyoming's traditional character & attitudes
- confrontation of tough problems prejudice persistence in the face of difficulty
- with the more benign values of the new west. These are bold elegant & memorable pieces & once more confirm Annie Proulx as one of the most talented unique short story writers in the language.

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Based on a true story A Fine Line is a heart rendering tale of severe childhood abuse where survival was against the odds & to the amazement of the police & medical professionals. Each chapter reveals another layer where once bitten into you want to reach the core. ...

Fine Motor Skills" contains over 40 photocopiable activities designed to improve childrens fine motor control pencil grip & h&-eye coordination. Carefully differentiated tasks enable children to progress effectively through the varied & challenging activities which include finger-painting colouring-in following mazes & paths overdrawing & dot-to-dots. Find your way around a haunted house join the dots to complete the rocket finger paint all the colours of the rainbow & take part in many other exciting adventures! Written by the same experienced authors of the popular " Cutting Skills" book (2002; ISBN 1-85503-349-6) the activities are so enjoyable children will improve their motor control without even noticing! It

Includes:: Teachers Notes with sections on vocabulary & observation. It gives full instructions detailing the objectives & targets for each activity: Finger Painting; Colouring In; Overdrawing; Dot-to-Dot; & Mazes & Paths. It complies with the National Curriculum Key Stage 1 & Stage 2."

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The updated & expanded 2nd edition of Fine Motor Skills in Children with Down Syndrome" continues to be a popular practical guide to understanding fine motor skills in children with Down syndrome & helping them develop these skills from birth through early adolescence. The first edition won a Parent's Choice Award in 1999. The author an occupational therapist who has worked extensively with children with Down syndrome is also the parent of a teenager with Down syndrome. She offers parents & professionals dozens of easy home-and school-based activities illustrated with black & white photos which help children gradually acquire the skills they need for fine motor development. Readers learn how to incorporate work on fine motor skills into everyday activities & routines & to emphasise tasks that children can use throughout life
- play self-help printing cutting with scissors & computer use. New to this edition is a chapter on sensory processing & how the sensory system affects behaviour & learning in children with Down syndrome. Parents learn strategies that can help children handle various sensory problems so they can continue to learn daily living skills. Bruni

Includes:: new information on determining when a child is ready for 'pre-printing' activities (things a child can do to prepare for trying to print letters) & how to introduce related concepts (up & down; top & bottom; start & stop; left & right). The 2nd edition also

Includes:: more information on ways to help children learn self-help skills such as dressing using a fork & spoon & becoming potty trained. This new & enhanced edition gives parents & professionals the expertise & confidence they need to help children build fine motor abilities & become more independent. This book is useful for parents of children with Down syndrome early intervention specialists occupational & physical therapists & teachers."




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The death of a gangster draws super-spy Paul Chavasse into a breathtaking adventure on the high seas
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In the heart of the leafy Cotswolds a body is found. A teenage girl probably local somebodys daughter who went out one evening & didnt come back. It is not long before she is identified: fifteen-year-old Lynne Wills who habitually drank underage in The Silver Bells pub & one the night of her death was seen leaving with an unknown man. Chief Inspector Markbys friend Meredith Mitchell has been befriended by another troubled young local girl Katie Conway. On the surface Lynne & Katie have nothing in common except their age & home town. But could the insights Katie gives Meredith into her difficult family background
- an unstable aristocratic mother a doting father at the end of his tether & a scheming resident secretary
- throw some light on the other young girl? & given that forensic evidence now points to Lynne Willss murder having taken place in the Devaux family mausoleum on her murder too.. .?

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Living on the crest of a highly successful career he was moving too fast to realise that he had everything
- except what he wanted
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If you have a Wild Unruly or Undisciplined Daugher two Ladies of Genteel Birth offer to Bring Out said Daughter & Refine what may have seemed Unrefinable. We can make the Best of the Worst. When Amy & Effie Tribble two charming but impoverished spinster sisters lose out on an inheritance they place this advertisement in The Morning Post" & hire themselves out as professional chaperones. Vowing to prepare even the most difficult misses for marriage the Tribble sisters will spend a London season on each client educating them in their School for Manners. Lovely wealthy & well bred Clarissa Vevian has been unable to find a suitable husband because of her terrible clumsiness. Her petite & fastidious mother has tried to mould Clarissa into a dainty miss to fit the fashion
- but all her efforts are doomed to failure. & when Clarissa enters the Tribble sisters home they fear that their reputation for matchmaking success may be destroyed
- along with their carpets & furniture!"

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Pre-eminent military historian Max Hastings presents Winston Churchill as he has never been seen before. Winston Churchill was the greatest war leader Britain ever had. In 1940 the nation rallied behind him in an extraordinary fashion. But thereafter argues Max Hastings there was a deep divide between what Churchill wanted from the British people & their army & what they were capable of delivering. Himself a hero he expected others to show themselves heroes also & was often disappointed. It is little understood how low his popularity fell in 1942 amid an unbroken succession of battlefield defeats. Some of his closest colleagues joined a clamour for him to abandon his role directing the war machine. Hastings paints a wonderfully vivid image of the Prime Minister in triumph & tragedy. He describes the 'second Dunkirk' in 1940 when Churchill's impulsiveness threatened to lose Britain almost as many troops in north-west France as had been saved from the beaches; his wooing of the Americans & struggles with the Russians. British wartime unity was increasingly tarnished by workers' unrest with many strikes in mines & key industries. By looking at Churchill from the outside in through the eyes of British soldiers civilians & newspapers -- & also those of Russians & Americans -- Hastings provides new perspectives on the greatest Englishman. He condemns as folly Churchill's attempt to promote mass uprisings in occupied Europe & details ' Unthinkable' -- his amazing 1945 plan for an Allied offensive against the Russians to liberate Pol&. Here is an intimate & affectionate portrait of Churchill as Britain's saviour but also an unsparing examination of the wartime nation which he led & the performance of its armed forces. ...

Sunday Times bestseller JANET EVANOVICH author of PLUM SPOOKY & SMOKIN SEVENTEEN delights with yet another Stephanie Plum adventure. Recipe for disaster: Celebrity chef Stanley Chipotle comes to Trenton to participate in a barbecue cook-off & loses his head
- literally. Throw in some spice: Bail bonds office worker Lula is witness to the crime & the only one shell talk to is Trenton cop Joe Morelli. Pump up the heat: Chipoltes sponsor is offering a million-dollar reward to anyone who can provide information leading to the capture of the killers. Stir the pot: Lula recruits bounty hunter Stephanie Plum to help her find the killers & collect the moolah. Add a secret ingredient: Stephanie Plums Grandma Mazur. Enough said. Bring to a boil: Stephanie Plum is working overtime tracking felons for the bonds office at night & snooping for security expert Carlos Manoso a.k.a. Ranger during the day. Can Stephanie hunt down two killers a traitor & five skips keep her grandmother out of the sauce & solve Rangers problems & not jump his bones?
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