For anyone who wants to start meditating but has been struggling to get to the cushion here are all the motivation & tools you need to achieve greater balance better health & a more panoramic perspective of life. David Michie explains the nuts & bolts of meditation. As a busy professional as well as long-term meditator he also gives a first-hand account of how to integrate this transformational practice into everyday life. ...

In her captivating follow up to Glasshopper Mail on Sunday Novel Competition winner Isabel Ashdown explores the treacherous territory of teenage friendships & traces across the decades the repercussions of a dangerous relationship. Its more than two decades since Sarah Ribbons last set foot inside her old high school a crumbling Victorian-built comprehensive on the south coast of Engl&. Now as she prepares for her school reunion 39-year-old Sarah has to face up to the truth of what really happened back in the summer of 1986. August 1985: Sarah celebrates her fifteenth birthday in the back garden of the suburban seaside house she shares with her ageing father. As she embarks on her fifth & final year at Selton High School for Girls Sarahs main focus is on her erratic friendships with Tina & Kate her closest allies one moment her fiercest opponents the next. When Sarahs father is unexpectedly taken ill Sarah is sent to stay with Kates family in nearby Amber Chalks. Kates youthful parents welcome her into the comfort of their liberal family home where the girls can eat off trays & watch TV in Kates bedroom. Theyve never been closer
- until a few days into her stay events take a sinister turn & Sarah knows that nothing will ever be the same again.
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Since its inception in 1893 the Hurtigruten continues to fascinate & attract travellers from all over the world sailing along a coastline which has no equal with over half of the journey north of the Arctic Circle. It is an intriguing tale about a unique transport artery which has a mission & a duty extending far beyond tourism the Hurtigruten being an integral part of the coastal community from which it gains its livelihood. Lavishly illustrated it draws together all the threads from the past 120 years & more which make the Hurtigruten what it is today with its core business still to provide a daily lifeline for the 34 communities served along its 1 352 nautical mile route between Bergen & Kirkenes albeit with modern purpose built ships to cruise liner standards. ...

Three years ago something terrible happened to Naomi Jenkins
- so terrible that she never told anybody. Now Naomi has another secret
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Let the hunt begin.. . Lisa Madison wants a husband & she has just the candidate in mind: Robert Langley. Trouble is the infuriating man insists on seeing her as the impish girl she once was--even as every other gentleman in London has taken notice of her womanly... charms. When her beauty lands her in danger its Robert who comes to the rescue only to announce his affections are not of the romantic kind! Robert saw enough sorrow in his parents union to know he wants nothing to do with marriage which is exactly what hell be trapped into if he acts on his desire for the irksome siren. & then Lisa does what Robert least expects: gives up on him! As feigned indifference gives way blistering passion burns at last. But just before the pair can succumb to hard-won bliss an enemy with unfinished business lurks threatening to destroy them both. ...

A witty & insightful look at relationships & whether you can ever escape your past from Adele Parks the bestselling author of ABOUT LAST NIGHT. Love triangles are always complex but in Bella's case things are particularly so as she is married to both men in her triangle. She plans never to reveal her first marriage to husband number two Phillip
- after all Stevie is no longer part of her life. That is until inconveniently her best friend introduces her new man to Bella & it's none other than husband number one. Could things get more complicated? Well only if Bella & Stevie fall for one another again...*
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Nora's never been particularly attracted to the boys at her school. Not until Patch came along. With his easy smile & eyes that seem to see inside her she is drawn to him against her better judgement. But after a series of terrifying encounters Nora's not sure who to trust. Patch seems to be everywhere she is & knows more about her than her closest friends. And when she tries to seek some answers she finds herself near a truth that is way more unsettling than anything Patch makes her feel. For Nora is right in the middle of a centuries-old battle between the immortal & those that have fallen
- & sooner or later she's going to have to pick sides...
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A sacred oath a fallen angel a forbidden love... This darkly romantic story features our heroine Nora Grey a seemingly normal teenage girl with her own shadowy connection to the Nephilim & super-alluring bad boy Patch now her deskmate in biology class. Together they find themselves at the centre of a centuries-old feud between a fallen angel & a Nephilim... Forced to sit next to Patch in science class Nora attempts to resist his flirting though gradually falls for him against her better judgment. Meanwhile creepy things are going on with a mysterious stalker following her car breaking into her house & attacking her best friend Vi. Nora suspects Patch but there are other suspects too
- not least a new boy who has transferred from a different college after being wrongly accused of murdering his girlfriend. & he seems to have taken a shine to Nora... Love certainly is dangerous...and someone is going to have to make the ultimate sacrifice for it.
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Bob Mould Grant Hart & Greg Norton formed Husker Du in 1979 as a wildly cathartic outfit fueled by a cocktail of anger volume & velocity. Heres the first book to dissect the trio that countless critics & musicians have cited as one of the most influential bands of the 1980s. Author Andrew Earles examines how Husker Du became the first hardcore band to marry pop melodies with psychedelic influences & ear-shattering volume. Readers witness the band create the untouchable noise-pop of LPs like New Day Rising Flip Your Wig & Candy Apple Grey not to mention the sprawling double-length Zen Arcade. Few bands from the original American indie movement did more to inform the alternative rock styles that breached the mainstream in the 1990s. Husker Du truly were visionaries. ...

The adventure of a lifetime is just beginning.. . It has lain lost & forgotten for fifteen hundred years in the ancient heartland of England -- a scrap of glass & metal melded by fierce fire. It is the lost core of a flawless Sphere made by the greatest of the Anglo-Saxon Craeft Lords in memory of the one he loved. Her name was Spring & contained in the very heart of this work is a spark from the Fires of Creation. But while humans have lost their belief in such things the Hydden -- little people existing on the borders of our world -- have not. Breaking the silence of centuries they send one of their own a young boy Jack to live among humans in the hope that he may one day find what has been lost for so long. His journey leads him to Katherine a girl he rescues from a tragic accident -- its a meeting that will change everything. It is only through their voyage into the dangerous Hyddenworld that they will realize their destiny find love & complete the great quest that will save both their worlds from destruction. Their journey begins with Spring.. . ...