If You Dont Know Me By Now " " The Love I Lost " " The Soul Train Theme " " Then Came You " " Aint No Stoppin Us Now"--the distinctive music that became known as Philly Soul dominated the pop music charts in the 1970s. In A House on Fire John A. Jackson takes us inside the musical empire created by Kenny Gamble Leon Huff & Thom Bell the three men who put Philadelphia Soul on the map. Here is the eye-opening story of three of the most influential & successful music producers of the seventies. Jackson shows how Gamble Huff & Bell developed a black recording empire second only to Berry Gordys Motown pumping out a string of chart-toppers from Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes the Spinners the OJays the Stylistics & many others. The author underscores the endemic racism of the music business at that time revealing how the three men were blocked from the major record companies & outlets in Philadelphia because they were black forcing them to create their own label sign their own artists & create their own sound. The sound they created--a sophisticated & glossy form of rhythm & blues characterized by crisp melodious harmonies backed by lush string-laden orchestration & a hard-driving rhythm section--was a glorious success producing at least twenty-eight gold or platinum albums & thirty-one gold or platinum singles. But after their meteoric rise & years of unstoppable success their production company finally failed brought down by payola competition a tough economy & changing popular tastes. Funky groovy soulful--Philly Soul was the classic seventies sound. A House on Fire tells the inside story of this remarkable musical phenomenon." ...

Life was good for Liz & Jack Sutherl&. In eighteen years of marriage they had built a family a successful law practice & a warm happy home near San Francisco in a house on Hope Street. But one Christmas morning in the midst of joy & children's laughter tragedy strikes & Liz is left alone facing painful questions in the face of unbearable loss. How can she go on without her husband her partner her best friend? The months pass & Liz finds the strength to return to work & tend to her children. Then a devastating accident sends her oldest son to hospital
- & brings a doctor called Bill Webster into her life. As the long days of summer blend into autumn a new relationship offers new hope. With the anniversary of her husband's death approaching Liz will face one more crisis before she can look back at a year of mourning & change
- & ahead to the beginning of a new life in the house on Hope Street.

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Athens 1942
- two sisters divided by politics & tragedy... In 2008 Antigone Perifanis returns to her old family home in Athens
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One woman's quest to discover the dark secret at the heart of a family. Actor Gwydion Morgan's dramatic appearance at Jessica Mayhew's psychotherapy practice coincides with a turbulent time in her own life
- her husband has just revealed that he's spent the night with a much younger woman. Gwydion son of the famous Evan Morgan is good looking & talented but mentally fragile tormented by an intriguing phobia. Jessica is determined to trace the cause of his distress. So when his mother phones to say he is suicidal Jessica decides to make a house call. The Morgans live in a grand cliff-top mansion overlooking a rocky bay with its own private jetty. It's a remote & somewhat sinister place. On her visit Jessica finds out that an au pair who looked after Gwydion as a child drowned in the bay in mysterious circumstances. Could it be that Gwydion witnessed her death? In her quest to help her client Jessica finds herself becoming embroiled in the Morgans' poisonous family dynamic. At the same time she has to deal with the demands of her own domestic life: her struggle to keep her marriage intact as well as her older daughter's increasingly defiant behaviour. & then of course there is the growing attraction she feels towards her new client...
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Dick Young stays in his friend Professor Magnus Lanes house in Cornwall on the understanding he will be a guinea-pig for a new drug that Magnus has developed. As a result of the experiment he is transported back to fourteenth century Cornwall. With each trip he becomes more & more involved with medieval intrigue adultery & murder. Is it merely hallucination; a subconscious escape from his own complicated life or a real journey into the past? He becomes obsessed with the world he visits & past & present eventually become inextricably & perilously mixed. ...

The warm engrossing new novel from the No. 1 bestseller Cathy Kelly Welcome to Avalon: a quaint sleepy town on the Irish coast. Nothing has changed here for generations
- least of all the huge mansion on Willow Street; the house in which sisters Tess & Suki Power grew up. Now years later Tess is trying to save her marriage protect her glamorous sister Suki who has come back home dreams shattered. Similarly Mara Wilson is seeking refuge from a broken heart at her Aunt Danae's house. & Danae the inscrutable postmistress is hiding some dark memories of her own. Now that the big house is up for sale change is blowing on the cold sea wind. But before they can look to the future these four women must face up to the past...
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The House Plant Expert has been the indoor gardening bible since its introduction in 1960. Over the years it has become the best-selling plant book the world has ever known & there are now more than 14 000 000 copies in print. Updates have appeared at regular intervals & now at last the long-awaited sequel has been published. A host of new house plants have appeared during the last ten years. These plants are in the shops but they are not in the books
- until now. There are in-depth features on bonsai orchids bromeliads Christmas flowers herbs & many more. Roomscaping is introduced
- the way to use house plants alone or in groups as decorative features rather than as green or coloured pets. The problem section answers the main difficulties with indoor plants
- why they don't flower why they die how much to water & much more. There's even a miscellany
- a collection of bits & pieces from the lucky bamboo story to the easy way to measure humidity. Over 200 million house plants are sold every year in the UK & sales have increased 200% over the last decade (source: The Times). Millions of people everywhere rely on the House Plant Expert for the straightforward reliable advice it contains. Now there is The House Plant Expert: Book Two for the millions who want to know more. There are lots more plants to buy lots more ideas.



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Rabbit is a worrier. He even worries in his sleep. One night a particularly bad dream wakes him with a start. & when it is quickly followed by a terrible CRASH he is quite sure that he & all the other house animals are DOOMED. Join Rabbit as he bravely leads the other animals to safety & discovers the source of the noise... ...

Jacob Hunt is a teenager: brilliant at maths wicked sense of humour extraordinarily organised hopeless at reading social cues. & Jacob has Aspergers. He is locked in his own world
- aware of the world outside & wanting to make a connection. Jacob tries to be like everyone else but doesnt know how. When his tutor is found dead all the hallmark behaviours of Jacobs syndrome
- not looking someone in the eye odd movements inappropriate actions
- start looking a lot like guilt to the police. & Jacobs mother must ask herself the hardest question in the world: is her child capable of murder?


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In a city full of vampires trouble never sleeps. At the tender age of 27 Merit became a sword-wielding vampire. Since then shes become the protector of her House watched Chicago nearly burn to the ground & seen her Master fall & rise. Now shell see her mettle
- & her metal
- tested like never before. It started with two... Two rogues vanishing without a trace. Someone is targeting Chicagos vampires & anyone could be next. With their house in peril Merit & her Master the centuries old Ethan Sullivan must race to stop the disappearances. But as they untangle a web of secret alliances & ancient evils they realize their foe is more familiar & more powerful than they could have ever imagined.

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