After a failed suicide attempt & recovery in the mad house Martha is heading for France to be reunited with the one true love of her life. Father Ralph Fitzgerald rescued her from the streets when she was sixteen & was the first person to show Martha true love & affection. But their relationship threatened his vocation & he eventually fled to Africa to take up missionary work. Martha never got over losing him & now after nearly twenty years he has made contact again. She sets off on a mission to find him & uncover his motives for getting in touch. Does he still love her? Has he left the priesthood? Is he now free to marry her? She needs to know what the future is going to hold. ...

In this latest instalment of Martha Long's real-life account of abuse deprivation & cruelty at the hands of her mother's partner & the establishment Martha is now 16 & her time at the convent school is up. In Ma It's a Cold Aul Night an I'm Lookin for a Bed" she leads us through her first months of freedom. With no home to go to Martha leaves the convent carrying her suitcase & a burning ambition to shake off her impoverished past. Hungry to become a person who will blend in with the middle classes Martha yearns to be accepted as someone who can be loved respected & one day have a home of her own where she will be safe. But this is 1960s Dublin where poverty is rife & the Church works together with the Irish government to keep the poor & the ignorant in their place. Martha first finds work as a home help with a loving lively family which leads her to a job in a shop an Italian fish & chip cafe then as a skivvy in a miserable household where she is reminded of the terror Jackser brought into her life. Chance meetings with brothers & old friends from the convent lift Martha's spirits but soon she is back on the streets searching for work & a warm bed to call her own. Martha is not often deterred when fate deals her a blow. ' Life is a bowl of cherries!' she reasons. But heartache awaits as people turn her away & predators lurk in the shadows." ...

At 16 Martha collapses on the streets suffering from starvation & exposure. She has reached rock bottom but after Martha is taken to hospital Lady Luck smiles kindly on her & she is given the opportunity to get off the streets for ever. Before long Martha is on the way to leading the normal life she has so long dreamt of. She makes friends begins to put the misery of her past behind her & even experiences her first taste of love. For her love is a powerful feeling. She has never experienced real affection before & is now plunged into the complex world of love between a man & a woman. The intense emotion consumes her for this is a forbidden love that can never be requited. After all Ralph Fitzgerald is a priest & he will never break his vow of chastity. This love brings heartbreaking consequences & changes the direction of Martha's life for ever... ...

I cannot be killed indoors he said nor out of doors; I cannot be killed on horseback nor on foot. Well she said how can you be killed? Celtic mythology Arthurian romance & an intriguing interpretation of British history
- these are just some of the themes embraced by the anonymous authors of the eleven tales that make up the Welsh medieval masterpiece known as the Mabinogion. They tell of Gwydion the shape-shifter who can create a woman out of flowers; of Math the magician whose feet must lie in the lap of a virgin; of hanging a pregnant mouse & hunting a magical boar. Dragons witches & giants live alongside kings & heroes & quests of honour revenge & love are set against the backdrop of a country struggling to retain its independence. This new translation the first for thirty years recreates the storytelling world of medieval Wales & re-invests the tales with the power of performance. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more.
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The bestselling Mac guide updated for the latest Mac OS X & now in full color! Mac OS X Lion represents a new era in the Mac operating system. This friendly guide is fully updated for the latest Mac OS X & provides everything new Mac users & users upgrading to Mac OS X Lion need to know. A bestseller in previous editions Mac OS X Lion For Dummies covers all the cool stuff & prepares you for the quirks. So whether its your first Mac or just an OS upgrade youll learn to tame your Lion with the expert advice of Bob Dr. Mac" Le Vitus & Dummies. Covers using the Finder customizing Lion adding widgets to the Dashboard organizing & managing files & folders searching with Spotlight & working with Spaces Explores browsing the web with Safari using Apple Mail & i Cal connecting a printer performing backups with Time Machine troubleshooting & setting up a network Walks readers through the new features of Mac OS X Lion including Face Time Photo Booth Launchpad Mission Control Full-screen apps & more Gets you up & running with i Tunes downloading fun apps from the Mac App Store & staying entertained with videos photos & other multimedia Youll make your Lion roar with the friendly advice in Mac OS X Lion For Dummies. " ...

With Lion Apple has unleashed the most innovative version of Mac OS X yet
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Bestselling & incredibly popular Daily Mail cartoonist MAC has tickled readers funny bones for over thirty years & in this collection he aims his sights on golfers. With his usual wit & one-liners MAC captures all the highs & lows of the game. From tee to bunker puts to shanks & wedgies to bogeys fans of the sport will be laughing out loud at MACs hilarious hole-in-one. MAC on Golf
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Pierre Herme is universally acknowledged as the king of French pastry with shops in Tokyo Paris & London. He is the best & has even been described as a couturier of pastry. This is a man at the top of his art & there is no question his macarons are in a league of its own. Macarons are the aristocrats of pastry; these brightly coloured mini meringues daintily sandwiched together with gooey fillings have become a holy grail for cookery fanatics & there are even food blogs dedicated to them. Now for the first time all the macaron recipes from this most celebrated French patissier are published in English. The French language edition has been one of the much sought after cookbooks of recent years. & just like Pierre Herme's famous macarons it would be difficult for any macaron book to surpass this one. There are 200 pages of recipes & beautiful food photography & because making macarons is mostly about technique rather than just a standard recipe readers will appreciate the 32-step-by-step photo-illustrated instructions for making shells & fillings. All the classics are here like dark chocolate praline coffee & pistachio but others feature the more unusual macarons that Herme is justly famous for: Isfahan is one with lychee rose & raspberry Arabesque with apricot & pistachio Satine with passion fruit orange & cream cheese Mandarin & pink pepper black truffles balsamic vinegar as well as a bright-green macaron filled with fresh mint. Anyone interested in making macarons will find Pierre Herme's the best book in print. ...

This book is full of all your favourite macaroons & biscuits as well as biscotti & slices. It's the sort of book you'll refer to again & again you'll teach your children how to make biscuits from it & they'll teach their children. There are recipes for plain biscuits iced biscuits biscuits with creamy fillings slices & biscotti. Everything you expect to find is here: shortbread chocolate chip cookies melting moments caramel slice coconut slice macaroons. Each recipe is explained simply so even a beginner will have immediate success. ...

Thomas Babington Macaulays History of England" was a phenomenal Victorian best-seller defining a nations sense of self its triumphant rise to a powerfully homogenous nation built on a global empire & its claim to be the modern nation marking the route to civilization for all others. In this book Catherine Hall explores the emotional intellectual & political roots of Zachary Macaulay the leading abolitionist & his son Thomas visions of race nation & empire. The contrasting moments of evangelical humanitarianism & liberal imperialism are read through the writings & careers of the two men." ...