You have a picture in your head. A picture of yourself with your practically perfect dog. Youve always preferred big dogs & your ideal dog is sturdy strong & energetic. At the same time you envision a dog who is gentle & completely in tune to your needs your whims & your every move. That perfect dog is likely a Labrador Retriever. After all the Labrador Retriever is the most popular dog in the United States according to American Kennel Club registrations. Labs are beautiful friendly adaptable easygoing brave loyal dependable & intelligent. What could be better? Labrador Retrievers For Dummies is a useful guide to have if youre thinking of getting a Lab or even if you already own one. Perhaps youre just curious about this popular breed. This handy reference is for you if you want to * Find out if a Lab suits your lifestyle * Know what to look for in Lab pups * Determine if a breeder meets high standards * Understand health & nutrition needs * Handle emergencies with a cool head * Train your dog with the lure-&-reward technique * Show off your Lab in competitions You can live a fulfilling life with your Lab by making sure she is socialized healthy & well trained. What better task for humans & dogs than to be great companions for each other? However you may need some help in knowing how to get the most out of your relationship with your Lab. This friendly guide offers that help with the following topics & more: * Exercising your pup & older Lab * Choosing the right veterinarian * Exploring spaying/neutering * Keeping your Lab beautiful with good grooming * Helping your dog deal with divorce a new baby moving * Managing barking & whining * Housetraining your new puppy * Traveling to dog-friendly vacation destinations * Choosing a pet sitter or boarding kennel * Volunteering your lab as a therapy dog Labrador Retrievers are big energetic & sometimes boisterous (especially as puppies) & they dont take care of themselves. They need you. Dont let them need you unless youre ready to be needed. ...

July 1209: in Carcassonne a seventeen-year-old girl is given a mysterious book by her father which he claims contains the secret of the true Grail. Although Alais cannot understand the strange words & symbols hidden within she knows that her destiny lies in keeping the secret of the labyrinth safe... July 2005: Alice Tanner discovers two skeletons in a forgotten cave in the French Pyrenees. Puzzled by the labyrinth symbol carved into the rock she realises she's disturbed something that was meant to remain hidden. Somehow a link to a horrific past
- her past
- has been revealed.

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When Dr Alice Tanner discovers two skeletons during an archaeological dig in southern France she unearths a link with a horrific & brutal past. But its not just the sight of the shattered bones that makes her uneasy; theres an overwhelming sense of evil in the tomb that Alice finds hard to shake off even in the bright French sunshine. Puzzled by the words carved inside the chamber Alice has an uneasy feeling that she has disturbed something which was meant to remain hidden... Eight hundred years ago on the night before a brutal civil war ripped apart Languedoc a book was entrusted to Alais a young herbalist & healer. Although she cannot understand the symbols & diagrams the book contains Alais knows her destiny lies in protecting their secret at all costs. Skilfully blending the lives of two women divided by centuries but united by a common destiny LABYRINTH is a powerful story steeped in the atmosphere & history of southern France. ...

July 1209: in Carcassonne a young girl is given a mysterious book by her father which he claims contains the secret of the true Grail. Although Alais cannot understand the strange words & symbols hidden within she knows that her destiny lies in protecting it. It will take great sacrifice & faith to keep the secret of the labyrinth safe
- a secret that stretches back thousands of years to the deserts of Ancient Egypt.. . July 2005: Alice Tanner stumbles upon two skeletons during an archaeological dig in the mountains outside Carcassonne. Inside the hidden tomb where the bones lie crumbling she experiences an overwhelming sense of malevolence as well as a creeping understanding that however impossible it seems she can somehow understand the mysterious ancient words carved into the rock. Too late Alice realises she's set in motion a terrifying sequence of events that she cannot control & that her destiny is inextricably tied up with the fate of the Cathars 800 years before. Read by Anton Lesser & Emilia Fox. Anton Lesser has played many of the principal roles for the Royal Shakespeare Company including Petruchio Romeo & Richard III. His film work

Includes:: Charlotte Grey Eroica & The River Queen. He is active in radio & spoken word audio with a range from Paradise Lost & Homer to Hamlet. He is particularly known for recording the novels of Charles Dickens having won a Spoken Word Award for Great Expectations. Emilia Fox appeared in the BBC's PRIDE & PRJUDICE whilst still at university & has gone on to star in REBECCA DAVID COPPERFIELD BBC's 2009 MERLIN series & in 2012 starred as Lady Portia Alresford in UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS. She also reads regularly on Radio 4 & has taken over the role as Dr Nikki Alexander in the TV series SILENT WITNESS. Emilia has read numerous audiobooks including the MAGICAL CHILDREN series THE SWEETNESS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PIE by Alan Bradley & SECRETS OF THE TIDES by Hannah Richell for Orion.


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Over two hundred years ago Bookholm the City of Dreaming Books" was destroyed by a catastrophic firestorm. Optimus Yarnspinner who witnessed this disaster has since become Zamonia's greatest writer & is resting on his laurels at Lindworm Castle. Spoilt by his monumental success & basking in adulation he one day receives a disturbing message that finally reinvests his life with meaning: a cryptic missive that lures him back to Bookholm. Rebuilt on a magnificent scale the city is once more a vibrant literary metropolis & Mecca of the book trade teeming with book fanatics of all kinds. On the track of the mysterious letter that brought him there Yarnspinner has scarcely set foot in the city before he falls prey to its spirit of adventure. He is reunited with old friends like Inazia Anazazi the Uggly & Ahmed ben Kibitzer the Nocturnomath but he also encounters the city's new marvels which include the mysterious Biblionauts the warring Puppetists & the city's latest craze the Invisible Theatre. Yarnspinner strays ever deeper into the " Labyrinth of Dreaming Books" which seems to wield a strange power over Bookholm's destinies. He is eventually drawn into an irresistible maelstrom of events far more sensational than any of the adventures he has previously embarked upon." ...

A journalist is murdered in Jerusalem's Armenian Cathedral & Detective Arieh Ben-Roi is spoilt for leads. But one seems out of place
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What if Jacques Lacan--the brilliant & eccentric Parisian psychoanalyst--had worked as a police detective applying his theories to solve crimes? This may conjure up a mental film clip starring Peter Sellers in a trench coat but in Lacan at the Scene Henry Bond makes a serious & provocative claim: that apparently impenetrable events of violent death can be more effectively unraveled with Lacans theory of psychoanalysis than with elaborate technologically advanced forensic tools. Bonds exposition on murder expands & develops a resolutely i ekian approach. Seeking out radical & unexpected readings Bond unpacks his material utilizing Lacans neurosis-psychosis-perversion grid. Bond places Lacan at the crime scene & builds his argument through a series of archival crime scene photographs from the 1950s--the period when Lacan was developing his influential theories. It is not the horror of the ravished & mutilated corpses that draws his attention; instead he interrogates seemingly minor details from the everyday isolating & rephotographing what at first seems insignificant: a single high heeled shoe on a kitchen table for example or carefully folded clothes placed over a chair. From these mundane details he carefully builds a robust & comprehensive manual for Lacanian crime investigation that can stand beside the FBIs standard-issue Crime Classification Manual. ...

Which one of you bitches is my mother?" Four elegant successful & sophisticated women in their forties are called to New Yorks Pierre Hotel to meet Lili
- a beautiful young & notoriously temperamental Hollywood movie star. None of the women knows exactly why she is there; each has a reason to hate Lili & each of them is astonished to see the others. They are old friends who share a guilty secret & who have for years been doing their best to keep that secret quiet. Their lives are changed forever however when Lili suddenly confronts them. When the women refuse to answer her Lili proceeds to travel around the world through the playgrounds of the rich & famous seeking to answer the question that has obsessed & almost destroyed her. LACE Shirely Conrans frank scandalous novel follows a group of women from adolescence to adulthood as they negotiate the world of work broken engagements heartbreak & lasting friendship."
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Lacey Carmichael leads a solitary life. To her neighbours she is the mad old woman who lives at the end of the lane crazy but harmless. Until she is arrested on suspicion of murder. When Rachel Moore arrives in the village escaping her own demons the two women form an unlikely bond. Unravelling in each other tales of loss & heartache they become friends. Rachel sees beyond the rumours believing in her innocence but as details of Lacey's life are revealed Rachel is left questioning where the truth really lies. ...

Alice Lacey couldnt be more different from her sister-in-law Cora. Alice is married to John Cora to his hapless younger brother Billie. Both women give birth to sons on one chaotic night in 1940. It is Coras jealousy & resentment that prompts her to swap her puny baby for Alices beautiful son. With Alices marriage in tatters she borrows money from Cora in order to purchase the lease of the tiny hairdresser where she works. Alice is talented; the business thrives & a chain of salons becomes Laceys of Liverpool. The relationships between the cousins Cormac & Maurice their parents Alices three girls & their eventual husbands & children combine to give a unique picture of Liverpool in the last sixty years of the twentieth century. ...