John visits his ageing mother Mary in her nursing home by the sea & mourns the slow fading of her mind. Hoping to shore up her memory he prompts her with songs photographs & questions about the 1940s when she was a young woman & he a child in a small Cumbrian town. But he finds that most of all it is her own mother she longs for
- Grace the mother she barely knew. John sets out to recreate their buried family history delving into the secrets & silences of Mary's fractured childhood as he imagines the life of her spirited mother. Reaching from the late 19th century to the present this becomes a deeply moving reflective elegy on three generations linked by a chain of love loss & courage.
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John visits his ageing mother Mary in her nursing home by the sea & mourns the slow fading of her mind. Hoping to shore up her memory he prompts her with songs photographs & questions about the 1940s when she was a young woman & he a child in a small Cumbrian town. But he finds that most of all it is her own mother she longs for
- Grace the mother she barely knew. John sets out to recreate their buried family history delving into the secrets & silences of Mary's fractured childhood as he imagines the life of her spirited mother. Reaching from the late 19th century to the present this becomes a deeply moving reflective elegy on three generations linked by a chain of love loss & courage.
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Like many young women Grace Barnum's life is a precarious mix of sensible choices & uncomfortable compromise. She dutifully edits children's textbooks that she fears may be more harmful than helpful. She is engaged to a patent attorney with whom she has a reliable relationship. She's wary of her fascinating father a renowned New York painter & she prefers her mother slightly drunk. Always organised always a planner Grace carries her life around in a handbag
- that is until the responsibility-challenged Tyler Wilkie shows up with his warm eyes & a smile that makes Grace drop things. Worst of all he writes tender loving devastating songs
- about her. Tyler reaches something in Grace something she needs but can't admit to. Something she wants but won't succumb to. Falling in love with him would ruin everything. & yet...

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A Hollywood biopic about the life of computer pioneer Grace Murray Hopper (1906--1992) would go like this: a young professor abandons the ivy-covered walls of academia to serve her country in the Navy after Pearl Harbor & finds herself on the front lines of the computer revolution. She works hard to succeed in the all-male computer industry is almost brought down by personal problems but survives them & ends her career as a celebrated elder stateswoman of computing a heroine to thousands hailed as the inventor of computer programming. Throughout Hoppers later years the popular media told this simplified version of her life story. In Grace Hopper & the Invention of the Information Age Kurt Beyer reveals a more authentic Hopper a vibrant & complex woman whose career paralleled the meteoric trajectory of the postwar computer industry. Both rebellious & collaborative Hopper was influential in male-dominated military & business organizations at a time when women were encouraged to devote themselves to housework & childbearing. Hoppers greatest technical achievement was to create the tools that would allow humans to communicate with computers in terms other than ones & zeroes. This advance influenced all future programming & software design & laid the foundation for the development of user-friendly personal computers. ...

An illustrated celebration of Grace Kelly one of Hollywoods brightest stars is already long overdue. This book will also coincide with two significant anniversaries: 2006 sees 50 years since she married Prince Rainier & 2007 is the 25th anniversary of her death. The book will include a detailed biography & over 160 pictures & contact sheets many of which are reproduced for the first time. H&-written documents & famous"es on & from Grace Kelly complement impressive iconographic research (family pictures national archives private collections press agencies newspapers). Also included are images & contact sheets from prestigious photographers all of which give us a highly individual portrait of a cinematic legend. ...

It's Queen Titania's & King Oberon's 1000th jubilee & the seven Party Fairies are in charge of making the celebratory party extra-special! However naughty Jack Frost has decided to sabotage the celebrations by hosting his own party & in order to make his bigger & better than the kings & queen's he has sent his naughty goblins to steal each of the seven Party Fairies' magical party bags...if he succeeds the Fairyland celebrations will be ruined! Can Kirsty & Rachel help Grace the Glitter Fairy to rescue her party bag so that the king & queen's party can be full of magical sparkles & glitter? ...

When Sophie Walkers daughter Grace was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome her world unravelled. Her high-powered job was in disarray she couldnt sleep often woke in tears & felt hopeless & useless in her role as a mother. One day she realised she hadnt done any exercise for months
- neglecting her physical health as well as her mental wellbeing. Previously a keen runner she set herself the challenge of running the London Marathon to raise awareness of Asperger Syndrome & make herself physically strong enough to support her daughter. Invigorated by the physical challenge she had set herself Sophie began a blog
- Grace Under Pressure
- writing about both day-to-day life raising Grace alongside training for the marathon. The combination caught the imagination of readers & the blog took off garnering praise from a wide range of sources. Now transformed into a book Grace Under Pressure is a moving story that charts the highs & lows of raising a child with Asperger Syndrome & the physical challenge of training for a long-distance running event.


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In a world where people born with an exceptional skill known as a Grace are feared & exploited Katsa carries the burden of a skill even she despises: the Grace of killing. She lives under the command of her Uncle Randa King of the Middluns & is expected to carry out his dirty work punnishing & torturing anyone who displeases him. Breaking arms & cutting off fingers are her stock-in-trade. Finding life under his rule increasingly unbearable Katsa forms an underground Council whose purpose is to combat the destructive behaviour of the seven kings
- after all the Middluns is only one of the Seven Kingdoms each of them ruled by their own king & his personal agenda for power. When the Council hears that the King of Liend's father has been kidnapped Katsa investigates.. .and stumbles across a mystery. Who would want to kidnap him & why? & who was the extraordinary Graced fighter who challenged her fighting skills for the first time as she & the Council rushed the old man to saftey? Something dark & deadly is rising in the north & creeping across the continent & behind it all lurks the shadowy figure of a one-eyed king.. .
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In a world where people born with an exceptional skill known as a Grace are feared & exploited Katsa carries the burden of a skill even she despises: the Grace of killing. She lives under the command of her Uncle Randa King of the Middluns & is expected to carry out his dirty work punnishing & torturing anyone who displeases him. Breaking arms & cutting off fingers are her stock-in-trade. Finding life under his rule increasingly unbearable Katsa forms an underground Council whose purpose is to combat the destructive behaviour of the seven kings
- after all the Middluns is only one of the Seven Kingdoms each of them ruled by their own king & his personal agenda for power. When the Council hears that the King of Liend's father has been kidnapped Katsa investigates.. .and stumbles across a mystery. Who would want to kidnap him & why? & who was the extraordinary Graced fighter who challenged her fighting skills for the first time as she & the Council rushed the old man to saftey? Something dark & deadly is rising in the north & creeping across the continent & behind it all lurks the shadowy figure of a one-eyed king.. .
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Collins New GCSE Maths Edexcel Linear Grade C Booster Workbook provides extra support for students to achieve a Grade C in mathematics. The write-in format with answers in a tear-out section makes it easy to use & revise. * Written by a trusted maths teacher & author Collins New GCSE Maths Edexcel Linear Grade C Booster Workbook is perfect for students on the D / C borderline who want to make sure they get their Grade C. * Lots of questions at Grade C (with some Grade D & some Grade B) help students focus on the key topics required to get their grade. * Assess how well students are doing with Grade progression maps that clearly show how to move from a Grade D toC. * More in-depth questions assess students understanding & test problem-solving & functional maths skills * Perfect for revision booster classes retakes intervention groups. ...