Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind school headmaster & model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils & family with facts he bans fancy & wonder from any young minds. As a consequence his obedient daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman & bully of humanity Mr Bounderby & his son Tom rebels to become embroiled in gambling & robbery. & as their fortunes cross with those of free-spirited circus girl Sissy Jupe & victimized weaver Stephen Blackpool Gradgrind is eventually forced to recognize the value of the human heart in an age of materialism & machinery. ...

Lucile Garrett is just thirteen when she meets Clint Palmer a charismatic stranger who will forever change her life. The year is 1934 & as the windblown dust of the Great Depression rakes the Oklahoma plains Palmer offers Lucile & her father homeless & hungry the irresistible promise of a better future. But when they follow Palmer to Texas Lucile's father mysteriously disappears launching man & girl on an epic journey through the American Southwest: a spree of violence & murder that culminates in one of the most celebrated criminal trials of the era. Based on a true story Hard Twisted is a chilling tale of survival & redemption & a young girl's coming of age in a world as cruel as it is beautiful. ...

This student cookbook stands out from all the others on the market. It doesnt feature baked beans & its packed with truly mouthwatering easy nutritious recipes. Betsy Bell wrote this book for her children & their friends when they were heading to university. She realised that they all knew little (or nothing) about culinary survival but that their sophisticated tastes went beyond the standard macaroni cheese & beans on toast recipes that feature in other student cookbooks. So Hard Up & Hungry

Includes:: recipes that students will want to make; that are tempting enough to keep them away from the nearest pizza outlet or chip shop. It

Includes:: Spaghetti with Fennel & Smoked Bacon Spinach Frittata Cod with Olives & Sweet Peppers Southwestern Burgers Italian Rice & Beans & sweet treats (including American pancakes & Vodka Jelly). Betsy doesnt forget the basics either: the ultimate Bacon Butty Boiled Eggs & Baked Potatoes all feature too. The book is also packed with advice on how to store & shop for food inexpensively (including alternatives to supermarkets & the pros & cons of online shopping). Illustrated throughout with hip black & white photographs & wiro bound this is the ultimate cookbook for students & anyone who wants to cook fantastic food on a budget.



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A narrative particle-accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey & Bob Dylan unicorn skulls & voracious librarians John Coltrane & Lord Jim. Science fiction detective story & post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring novel Hard-boiled Wonderland & the End of the World is the tour de force that expanded Haruki Murakami's international following. Tracking one man's descent into the Kafkaesque underworld of contemporary Tokyo Murakami unites East & West tragedy & farce compassion & detachment slang & philosophy. The result is a wildly inventive fantasy & a meditation on the many uses of the mind. ...

When V.I. Warshawski is asked to find a man whos been missing for four decades a search that she thought would be futile turns lethal. Old skeletons from the citys racially charged history rise up to force her back with a vengeance
- a nun who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. dies without revealing crucial evidence & on the citys South Side people spit when she shows up. The elderly sisters who hired her are also keeping important information to themselves. Then V.I. finds that her family is keeping secrets of their own. A young cousin whom shes never met arrives from Kansas City to work on a political campaign but disappears under mysterious circumstances. Afraid to learn that her adored father might have been a bent cop deception & corruption following her at every step V.I. finds all her certainties under threat but takes the investigation all the way to its frightening end.
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In this valuable book Tubal Cain takes the reader beyond the superficial or the simply practical with explanations of the composition of steel its additives & the effects of different temperatures on its constituents. With a grasp of what changes are actually taking place in the metal the care needed in following the practical processes described becomes understandable & will lead to better & more consistent results. Flame salt bath & furnace heating are detailed with information on accurate measurement or recognition of temperature levels. For the average small workshop operative or model engineer the discourses on tool material hardening & tempering will be of most use & in this connection this book replaced the authors earlier Hardening & Tempering Engineers Tools providing a broader-based more detailed & up to date examination of the subject. ...

This title is part of four new titles in the fantastic First Reading" series aimed at children who are beginning to read. luxurious ...

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. WINNER OF THE 2010 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD. 264 wood & ivory carvings none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment. When he later inherited the 'netsuke' they unlocked a story far larger & more dramatic than he could ever have imagined. From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de siecle Paris from occupied Vienna to Tokyo Edmund de Waal traces the netsuke's journey through generations of his remarkable family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century. ' You have in your hands a masterpiece' Frances Wilson Sunday Times. ' The most brilliant book I've read for years...A rich tale of the pleasure & pains of what it is to be human' Bettany Hughes Daily Telegraph Books of the Year. 'A complex & beautiful book' Diana Athill. ...

This is the definitive illustrated edition of the international bestseller with gorgeous new photography of the celebrated netsuke collection & sumptuous full-colour images h&-picked by Edmund de Waal from his family archive 264 Japanese wood & ivory carvings none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great-uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment. When he later inherited the 'netsuke' they unlocked a story far larger & more dramatic than he could ever have imagined. From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de siecle Paris from occupied Vienna to post-war Tokyo Edmund de Waal traces the netsuke's journey through generations of his remarkable family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century. ...

JUST ONE LOOK: Grace Lawson is living a happy straightforward life in the suburbs with her husband Jack & two young children. But that security is about to come to a brutal end. When Grace picks up a set of holiday snaps among them is one shot that doesnt

Fit: a faded image of a life that Grace doesnt recognise & of her husband as she never knew him. Within twelve hours Jack has disappeared a brutal hitman is stalking her family & the safe world she knows has been turned upside down. & all Grace can see is that the past is coming back to haunt the present & people are getting hurt...THE INNOCENT: Matt Hunters life has already been blown apart once. A fight a friend in trouble & the dull crack of someones skull on the concrete cost him four years in jail & a small sliver of his soul. When Matt got out he rebuilt his life getting a job as a lawyer & falling in love with a beautiful woman. The break in the road seemed only to have made him a stronger person. But now someone is following him & Matt realises that his new existence is under threat. Suddenly Matt cant trust anybody
- least of all those he loves...P ROMISE ME: The phone rings at 2am a young frightened girl who has called the one adult who promised to help her if she ever got into any trouble
- Myron Bolitar. He races down to pick up her up from a cold street corner & take her back to safety. But young Aimee Biel persuades him to drop her at an address in the suburbs. Its a mistake Myron lives to regret as Aimees wave from a darkened porch is the last time anyone will see her. Driven by guilt Myron gets involved in the search a decision that will mean facing his past. Myron must choose once & for all who he is & what he will stand up for if he is to have any hope of rescuing both Aimee & himself.



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