One typical morning Sarah Nickerson a woman in her mid-thirties is late for work racing in her car after dropping her kids off at school & daycare. She tries to phone in to a meeting she should already be at when she takes her eye off the road for a second too long. In that blink of an eye all the rapidly moving parts of her over-scheduled life come to a screeching halt. Sarah suffers a traumatic head injury. Her memory & intellect are intact but she has lost all interest in & the ability to perceive information coming from the left side of space. The left side of her world has gone. Sarah only eats the food from the right side of her plate. She can't see her watch or her engagement diamond or her wedding ring. She tries to use a wheel chair but can only spin in circles as her left arm dangles by her side. ...

Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculees family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months & claimed the lives of nearly a million Rwandans. Incredibly Immaculee survived the slaughter. For 91 days she & seven other women huddled silently together in the cramped bathroom of a local pastor while hundreds of machete-wielding killers hunted for them. The triumphant story of this remarkable young womans journey through the darkness of genocide will inspire anyone whose life has been touched by fear suffering & loss. This is Immaculees first book. ...

The new novel from the author of ' Little Children' asks what if one day some of us simply vanished? How would the rest of us cope? Following the sudden disappearance of thousands of citizens Kevin Garvey Mapleton's new mayor wants to bring a sense of hope to his traumatised community but his family has fallen apart in the wake of disaster. Kevin's wife has joined a homegrown cult & his son is a disciple of the prophet Holy Wayne. Only Jill Kevin's daughter remains & she's no longer the sweet student she once was. Written with a rare ability to illuminate our everyday struggles ' The Leftovers' is a startling novel about love connection & loss. ' An American Nick Hornby' Newsweek ...

The waste this book tackles is not just of food & money but of really good eating opportunities. With this book youll discover delicious ways of making the most of every scrap of food available without being forced into the cycle of buying more ingredients just to use up leftovers. There are hundreds of suggestions for imaginative ingredient-inspired cooking. Never again leave food to fester because you cant think what to do with it. Take advantage of special offers & discover the many ways they can be enjoyed. Find out which ingredients can be substituted for others to vary a basic recipe. Use even small amounts of food to create a cooks treat or as a tasting sample. Enjoy the freedom of impromptu cooking with the ultimate list of essential store cupboard fridge & freezer basics
- you wont have to hit the shops in order to use up what you have. Be inspired by 100s of fun & useful tips; e.g. how to turn a lonely bacon rasher into Bacon Salt to sprinkle on poached eggs roast tomatoes cheese on toast or any number of things. DID YOU KNOW? The most wasted food is bread & yet there are so many delicious dishes that can be made with it even when stale; from French Toast & Bread Pudding to Panzanella & Skordiala. This book gives 22 basic ideas for using up bread
- with numerous variations often using other leftovers! What do you do with the 1.6 million untouched bananas that are wasted annually? You peel them freeze them & dip them in chocolate!

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On the marriage of Julius von Felden & Melanie Merz the fortunes of two families are somewhat fatally entwined. In A Legacy Sybille Bedford depicts their vastly different worlds the wealthy bourgeois life of the Merzes in Berlin & the aristocratic eccentricity of the von Felden dynasty in rural Baden. Portrayed with exquisite wit & acute observation their personal upheavals & tragedies are set against the menacing backdrop of a newly unified Germany combined with Prussian militarism in the decades before the First World War. ...

The unimaginable has happened
- Longevity the drug that is supposed to guarantee eternal youth isn't working. A virus is
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Hugh is a hard-drinking lion of the Welsh Valleys. His daughter Evelyn lost her heart to a travelling gypsy. & handsome prizefighter Freedom was saved from the gallows to do battle for the heavy weight championship of the world. From the poverty of the Welsh pit valleys to the glories of the prize ring from the dangers of prohibition America to the terrors of Britain at war Lynda La Plante delves into the lives of a remarkable family & its fortunes & the curse that forged their names. ...

Holly Cathers is not the same person she was almost a year & a half ago. After discovering her connection to an ancient legacy of witches Holly has accepted her destiny as a descendant of the House of Cahors. Determined to end an intergenerational feud that has plagued her family for centuries Holly will have to overcome unworldly obstacles as she battles to protect her loved ones
- including Jer a member of the rival House of Deveraux & her one true love. A war of magical proportions is being waged & Holly is at the centre of it all. Lives will be lost & sacrifices will have to be made...
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All-powerful brilliant decisive ruthlessly effective...this is the image of the CIA as portrayed in countless films & novels. It is wrong. This shocking book based on thousands of declassified documents & interviews with agents at all levels shows the reality behind the glamorous myth: a blundering chaotic & dangerously incompetent organization so ineffective it was nicknamed Cant Identify Anything by Nato forces. In a story of botched coups missed targets lost operatives & fatal errors Tim Weiner shows how the CIA now poses a threat not only to the security of the US but the world. ...

Davina Fletcher had a comfortable life & a comfortable boyfriend until the death of her uncle changed all that. As her home & artist's studio were in the grounds of his house it was always assumed she would inherit everything. Instead she finds she has a new landlord in the shape of tall dark & handsome Jay Prescott an American lawyer with a taste for Davina's paintings
- & soon for Davina herself. If she is to continue living at the house Davina must be obliging towards Jay but she soon realises he has an unconventional way of collecting the rent. In order to keep her home she must be a player in his games but the power he wields over her is far stronger than just that of landlord.. .
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