An inspiring novel; a philosophical love story; a moving ode to a woman as joyful & celebratory as it is elegiac. The narrator is a man in his forties a scholar of ancient Greek philosophy known as Hoo. He has been given the nickname by Mellie the woman he addresses in this book while exploring his memories of their years together & apart. The two of them have known each other since high school in New York in the 1950s
- & perhaps Hoo thinks much longer than that. Only as the novel unfolds do his reasons for writing to her & the full nature of their relationship become clear.
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It's Queen Titania's & King Oberon's 1000th jubilee & the seven Party Fairies are in charge of making the celebratory party extra-special! However naughty Jack Frost has decided to sabotage the celebrations by hosting his own party & in order to make his bigger & better than the kings & queen's he has sent his naughty goblins to steal each of the seven Party Fairies' magical party bags...if he succeeds the Fairyland celebrations will be ruined! Can Kirsty & Rachel help Melodie the Music Fairy to rescue her party bag so that the party can be filled with musical delights...? ...

Melody Logan knew her beautiful mother Haille was unhappy in their blue-collar mining town but with her fathers unwavering love Melody always felt safe
- until a terrible mining accident ripped her from her familys moorings. Still devastated by her fathers death Melody leaves West Virginia with her mother to follow Hailles dreams of becoming a model or actress. But first they make a stopover in Cape Cod to visit Melodys fathers family for the first time. Melody knows only that her grandparents disowned her father when he married her mother
- but now moments after Melody first sets eyes on her dour Bible-spouting Uncle Jacob nervous Aunt Sara & her cousins handsome Cary whose twin sister Laura has been killed in a sailing accident & sweet deaf little May Haille announces that Melody is going to live with them. Sleeping in her dead cousin Lauras room Melody knows nothing of the dark deceptions that are soon to surface the sad shocking truth about her parents
- & the devastating betrayals that she is about to face.


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Berklee Guide Melody is a subject too often neglected in the teaching of music. This unique resource gives melody that attention it deserves & proves that melody writing is a skill that can be learned. Through proven tool & techniques you will learn to write interesting melodies how melodic rhythm influences rhyme what makes harmony progress & the many dynamic relationships between melody & harmony. This clear & comprehensive approach to songwriting unlocks the secrets of popular songs revealing what really makes them work. Examples of great songs by such notable songwriters as Lennon & Mc Cartney Diane Warren Robert Palmer & more provide a close-up illustration of the songwriting techniques employed by these masters of the industry. This is the book used in Songwriting classes at Berklee College of Music. The exercises provided make it a wonderful self-teaching manual & a great addition to any general theory course of any level. Use the tools presented in this book to help fine-tune your craft & start writing hits! ...

One of the brightest talents reinventing ice cream's image is Claire Kelsey of Ginger's Comfort Emporium who serves her irresistible creations from her show-stopping retro van or at festivals & events across the UK. In Melt Claire brings us more than 60 of her favourite recipes ranging from Easy Berry Ripple to Vanilla in a Chocolate Brownie Sandwich & from crunchy Marmalade on Toast to Olive Oil & Smoked Sea Salt. This is a grown-up ice-cream book with a sense of playfulness. There are naughty flavours exotic flavours daring flavours
- all perfectly pitched to be genuinely lip-lickingly gorgeous. There are comforting curl-up-on-the-sofa recipes & let's-try-this-one unusual combinations so readers will want to sample one ice cream after another. Throughout the book Claire demystifies the process revealing how making ice cream from the familiar to the extraordinary can be simple & fun.
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A lethal new drug with devastating side effects known as Meltdown is threatening to destabilize society. Dudley knows that the security services have to act fast & when his 4 x 4 arrives at their remote hideout in the Canadian lakes eighteen-year-old Danny & his grandfather ex-SAS hero Fergus Watts are once again sucked into a deadly undercover operation & a race against time. Their search for the mastermind behind a pair of murderous gangland twins takes them from the clubs of Manchester to Spain & Germany & Danny needs all his newly learned expertise when he comes up against an old adversary
- someone he hoped never to encounter again. & this time when the battle is joined it is a battle to the end.
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For amiable City trader Jimmy Corby money was the new Rock n' Roll. His whole life was a party adrenalin charged & cocaine fuelled. If he hadn't met Monica he would probably have ended up either dead or in rehab. But Jimmy was as lucky in love as he was at betting on dodgy derivatives so instead of burning out his star just burned brighter than ever. Rich pampered & successful Jimmy Monica & their friends lived the dream bringing up their children with an army of domestic helps. But then it all came crashing down. & when the global financial crisis hit Jimmy discovers that anyone can handle success. It's how you handle failure that really matters. ...

Frances Angel drunk & disgruntled arrives in Italy to attend the I Zingari Art School leaving behind her dazzling career as a successful theatrical impresario & returning to a distant & painful past. She falls into an eclectic group of performance artists ex soldiers & a housewife who really just wants to paint something to match her settee. In the village a scale replica of the La Scala opera house becomes the setting for the great drama of Francis past to be played out on the worlds smallest stage. Francis expected to find some answers but what she didnt expect was romance & quite so much farce. ...

Rich. Beautiful. Damned. Sumptuously evoking the Golden Age of Hollywood a time when money is built on greed & love can be a trick of the light Daisy Waugh's stunning new novel is a compelling portrait of love fame & survival. It is the blistering summer of 1929 & Hollywood's glamorous set appear to have it all. Everybody everywhere is living the Hollywood dream including the elegant & charming high-society couple actor & actress Maximilian & Eleanor Beecham. But beneath the sophistication & glamour their insecure & unhappy marriage is on the brink of divorce & their finances are teetering on a knife's edge after a series of failed films. When the creditors come in to take possession of the house it seems all is lost & they have nowhere to turn but into the arms of their waiting lovers. But when they receive an invitation to one of the legendary weekend house parties at Hearst Castle
- which they know will be filled every Hollywood big-shot around
- they cannot resist one last shot of making it in the film industry. With gossip glamour scandal & decadence the party is the epitome of the Golden Era but for Maximilian & Eleanor the time has come to make a decision that will change their future. Will they sacrifice everything for fame & fortune or can Eleanor & Maximilian learn to love each other again?

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Famous for pork pies & Stilton cheese the other side of Melton Mowbray is also revealed in this fascinating collection of more than 200 photographs
- a playground for royalty & the aristocracy. Here amongst the finest foxhunting country in the land the future King Edward VIII met Mrs Wallis Simpson & Count Zborowski the creator of Chitty Bang Bang grew up. This selection contains archive images of a working market town its stately lodges Queen Victoria & Prince Albert with the Belvoir Hunt
- & the day the Marquis of Waterford & his fellow huntsman quite literally painted the town red. The institutions events & people of the town
- the Christmas Cheer Committee of 1911 W.G. Grace turning out for the home team in 1872 notorious local rogue Guss Wortley
- are all captured in this an essential tribute to the towns heritage. With the majority of these images dating from the Second World War Melton Mowbray" offers the reader a unique glimpse of an era that is fast becoming the nostalgic memory of the few."



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