Fourteen-year-old Trixie Jackson hoped she had a future to look forward to. But when she is sacked from the local factory she is forced to work as a housekeeper for one of her father's friends
- a man she instinctively dislikes. Kept under lock & key her life soon becomes a living hell. But in her haste to escape she injures herself & ends up in hospital. However her troubles are only just beginning. When her mother is involved in a tragic accident & dies Trixie & her younger sister Cilla are left at the mercy of their bullying father. All too quickly he brings his mistress Daisy into the house. & she will stop at nothing to make the girls' lives utter misery.
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The top-selling book on intervention Love First" has helped tens of thousands of families friends & professionals create a loving & effective plan for helping those who suffer from addiction. Dispelling two damaging myths
- that an addict has to hit bottom & that intervention must be confrontational
- Jeff & Debra Jays proven approach puts love first & shows families step by step what to do. This new & updated edition adds to the core material in the Jays classic book
- identifying enabling behaviors building the team writing an intervention letter choosing a treatment center
- with the most up-to-date scientific information & intervention techniques available. New chapters on psychiatric gambling eating & other disorders give family members & other concerned people the knowledge & tools to face the important people in their lives who are dealing with a range of self-destructive illnesses. New material on meeting the specific needs of adolescents aging adults & professionals is also included."



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France 1918. Sophia the rebellious daughter of a distinguished German general is on her way to the town of Douai to elope with the man of her dreams
- a young army officer
- against her parents wishes. On her way she witnesses a dramatic battle in the skies that leaves an English pilot without a plane & under the misapprehension that Sophia is on his side. She has no choice but to agree to assist him in his attempt to avoid capture & he joins her in the family car she has stolen trailed by both the German Army & a staff officer under strict instructions from Sophias father to bring her home. With their pursuers hot on their heels how will Sophia explain her behaviour protecting a man she is supposed to hate? & after sharing so many adventures will she be able to turn the flying officer in when the time comes?

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France 1918. Sophia the rebellious daughter of a distinguished German general is on her way to the town of Douai to elope with the man of her dreams
- a young army officer
- against her parents' wishes. On her way she witnesses a dramatic battle in the skies that leaves an English pilot without a plane & under the misapprehension that Sophia is on his side. She has no choice but to agree to assist him in his attempt to avoid capture & he joins her in the family car she has stolen trailed by both the German Army & a staff officer under strict instructions from Sophia's father to bring her home. With their pursuers hot on their heels how will Sophia explain her behaviour protecting a man she is supposed to hate? & after sharing so many adventures will she be able to turn the flying officer in when the time comes?

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This is a Greek (island) tragedy? When Poppy & Graham are whisked off to a Greek island to watch musician Bill Strummer marry his much younger girlfriend in the celebrity wedding of the year they are expecting sun sea & a hint of scandal. But things begin to turn sour when Bill's distressed ex-wife turns up proclaiming that he's still in love with her. Then wedding guests start to die of 'natural causes' & Poppy & Graham are forced to investigate. It would seem that one member of the wedding party will stop at nothing to disrupt the celebrations... ...

In one of the wittiest novels of them all Nancy Mitford casts a finely gauged net to capture perfectly the foibles & fancies of the English upper class. Set in the privileged world of the county house party & the London season this is a comedy of English manners between the wars by one of the most individual beguiling & creative users of the language. ...

Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China where she enjoys a passionate following both on the mainland & in Taiwan. At the heart of Changs achievement is her short fiction
- tales of love longing & the shifting & endlessly treacherous shoals of family life. Written when she was still in her twenties these extraordinary stories combine an unsettled probing utterly contemporary sensibility keenly alert to sexual politics & psychological ambiguity with an intense lyricism that echoes the classics of Chinese literature. Love in a Fallen City" the first collection in English of this dazzling body of work introduces readers to the stark & glamorous vision of a modern master."
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' At the age of thirteen I knew I was destined to marry John Travolta. One day he would arrive on my North London doorstep fall madly in love with me & ask me to marry him. Then he would convert to Islam & become a devoted Muslim.' Shelina is keeping a very surprising secret under her headscarf
- she wants to fall in love. Torn between the Buxom Aunties romantic comedies & mosque Imams she decides to follow the arranged-marriage route to finding Mr Right Muslim-style. Shelina's captivating journey begins as a search for the One but along the way she also discovers her faith & herself. A memoir with a hilarious twist from one of Britain's leading female Muslim writers Love in a Headscarf is an entertaining fresh & unmissable insight into what it means to be a young British Muslim woman. Shelina Janmohamed is a columnist for the Muslim News & EMEL magazine & regularly contributes to the Guardian. the BBC & Channel 4. She is much in demand as a commentator on radio & television & has appeared on programmes including Newsnight & The Heaven & Earth Show. Her award-winning blog Spirit 21 is hugely popular. Love in a Headscarf is her first book.
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Bestselling author Jean Sasson tells the dramatic true story of a young woman caught up in Saddam Husseins genocide of the Kurdish people of Iraq. One morning Joanna a young bride living in the Kurdish mountains of Iraq was surprised to see dead birds drop silently out of the clear sky. They were followed by sinister canisters falling to the ground bringing fear & death. It was 1987 & Saddam Hussein had ordered his cousin Chemical Ali to bombard Joannas village Bergalou with chemical weapons. Temporarily blinded in the attack Joanna was rescued by her husband a Kurdish freedom fighter. After being caught in another bombardment & left for dead in the rubble they managed to flee over the mountains in a harrowing escape. Now living in the UK & working for British Airways Joanna has told the story of her eventful life to Jean Sasson the bestselling chronicler of oppressed womens lives in the Princess trilogy & Mayada. Love in a Torn Land" is published while the world watches the trial of the notorious Chemical Ali Saddam Husseins most bloodthirsty henchman for crimes including the genocide of the Kurdish people." ...

From her sweeping novels to her searing journalism Penny Vincenzi has been writing all her life & this is a collection of her work brought together in a single edition for the first time. As well as ten stunning short stories Penny also shares some of her thoughts on a huge range of subjects from love & relationships to work & families & gives us a peek at the tantalising first chapter of her new novel
- making LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON & OTHER DELIGHTS a must-have for any Vincenzi fan.
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