There is a green comet in the sky & things are getting strange. Every day fantasy & reality are getting harder to tell apart. Witches in bottles warmongering cabbages from the planet Pluto & a pterandon roosting on the Eiffel Tower. Or is it a pterodactyl? Jack Ember is caught between two very unreliable mentors. Talisin is a two-thousand year old wizard or an escaped madman
- or possibly both. The Kind Gentleman is the sort of fairy godfather who will grant you three wishes you cant refuse. Both of them have plans for Jack whos spent his life dreaming of adventure & now is about to get rather more of it than he bargained for. This is an epic full-colour graphic novel drawn from the pages of Random Houses weekly comic The DFC". It is a delightful fantasy adventure for all ages from 10 years & up."
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It is New Years Eve when the storm of the century hits northern California. For Quinn Thompson what happens in the storms wake will bring down a barrier he has built around himself since his wifes death. For neighbor Maggie Dartman it will spark friendship at a time when she needs it most. & for Jack Adams a carpenter who will repair Quinns & Maggies homes the storm brings an opportunity: to help two people & to be repaid with the greatest gift of all. Then something extraordinary begins to happen... Maggie still grieving a loss slowly comes alive again
- & Jack finally shares a painful secret he has hidden for years. But Quinn a man who has scaled heights of success in business is now adrift waiting as builders put the finishing touches on his newest passion a 180-foot yacht he plans to sail around the world. Looking back at all he missed with his family while he built his empire Quinn is consumed by guilt focused only on escaping to the sea. But as his plans near completion & his friendship with Maggie begins to change Quinn faces a choice
- between a safe haven & an adventure of the heart.

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Golf fans will not forget the 39th Ryder Cup in a hurry. Staged at the Medinah Country Club just outside of Chicago the 2012 event has already gone down as the most remarkable competition in its 85-year history. The American team had home advantage & a golf course unapologetically set up to suit its own players. Supported by tens of thousands of loud & proud fans the USAs star-studded line-up dominated the first two days & ended the Saturday with a seemingly unassailable 10-6 advantage. No away team had ever won the Ryder Cup from such an unpromising position. Sunday was singles day traditionally the forte of American teams. The situation looked bleak especially when European team member & number 1 golfer in the world Rory Mc Ilroy very nearly missed his tee-off time. Yet slowly but surely the European team
- who had top-loaded their line-up in one last throw of the dice
- started to turn the scoreboard blue. With inspirational captain Jose Maria Olazabal stiring European blood with thoughts of the late Ryder Cup magician Seve Ballesteros (whose silhouette was emblazoned on the players sweaters & bags) the tide turned & the previously dominant American players started to crumble in the face of the onslaught. Suddenly European players were holing miraculous putts to win holes out of the blue. Something very special was happening. When German Martin Kaymer sank his putt on the eighteenth green to clinch the point that retained the Ryder Cup the most astonishing comeback in the events long & distinuished history was complete. Miracle at Medinah is the compelling narrative of those amazing three days in Illinois a fitting chronicle of an unbelievable sporting story.

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It has never occurred to Precious Ramotswe that there might be disadvantages to being the best-known lady detective in Botswana. But when she receives a threatening anonymous letter she is compelled to reconsider her unconquerable belief in a kind world & good neighbours. While she ponders the identity of the letter-writer Mma Ramotswe has a further set of problems to solve both professional & personal. There is an adopted childs poignant search for her true family & Mr J. L. B. Matekonis pursuit of an expensive miracle for their own foster daughter Motholeli. With these latest developments on Tlokweng Road Alexander Mc Call Smith reveals with all his brilliant storytelling skill that there are very few troubles that cannot be solved with kindness & very few dry seasons that do not end with welcome rain. ...

Take two-they're small. & they perform miracles. Suffering a career-ending potentially crippling injury to her back & right leg a young dancer named Elaine Petrone tried everyone from orthopedists to yogis to turn her pain & prognosis around. Nothing worked-until she healed herself through a unique program of therapy & exercise based around the use of two small squishy balls. From there she turned her passion into a mission that is helping the thousands of people who visit her classes conquer pain stress & injury. Now for relief for sufferers everywhere comes The Miracle Ball Method " a healing kit containing two miracle balls & a fully illustrated book all packaged together in an attention-getting clear plastic cylinder. The work itself is simple. Take a sore back: By resting your aching back on the grapefruit-sized balls & letting your body sink into them you're unworking the muscles that hurt. Pain & tension drain out of the body. Petrone shows how proper breathing (which she demonstrates) works in conjunction with a range of unexercises that call for placing the balls under the back head knees hip elbow-wherever there's pain-and then resting rolling or rotating on them. She points out that relief can come in surprising ways: Lower back pain may be helped by placing the ball under your neck or a bad knee might be helped by hip work. It's a revolutionary program of relief from head to toe." ...

Cobens second novel
- now back in print. They were looking for a miracle cure.. . Sara & Michael. The ideal celebrity couple darlings
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When Nando Parrado took off on a flight from Uruguay to Chile with his rugby team-mates he was looking forward to an enjoyable weekend break & had invited his mother & sister along for the trip. Then disaster struck as their plane crashed into a mountain. Miraculously many of the passengers survived but Nandos family died & he was unconscious for three days. Stranded 11 000 feet up on an inhospitable glacier the survivors had almost no food or suitable equipment to withstand temperatures as low as -40C. Meagre supplies rapidly diminished & soon they heard on the radio that the search for them had been called off. It was then that they realised the only food for miles around was the bodies of their dead friends... In a final desperate bid for safely Nando & one of his friends set off on an impossible journey climbing 17 000 feet-high mountains facing death at every step. Finally on the twelfth day of their journey & 72 days after the crash they saw a hill farmer & the survivors found rescue. ...

After 20 years off the major European football stage Liverpool FC under new Spanish manager Rafael Benitez faced utter humiliation at half-time in the 2005 Champions League final in Istanbul. Three goals down to the brutally efficient & talented AC Milan the inexperienced new Liverpool
- an uneasy mix of local heroes young Spaniards & soon-to-be-outcasts
- was staring down the barrel of a possible record European Cup final defeat in front of 40 000 of its own fans & a global TV audience of hundreds of millions. That is until six extraordinary minutes of second-half carnage allied to Red courage & resolve changed the very course of European football history & mapped a new direction for the future of a club with a magnificent European past. The Miracle of Istanbul" offers an insight into the many foreign highs & domestic lows of the amazing 2004-05 Liverpool season as well as mapping out key connections between the great Liverpool European legacy of the 1970s & 80s & the new Benitez era
- via a detour of the ultimately doomed Gerard Houllier period of initial Continental Liverpool management. It also looks at some of the key players of the recent successful European campaign
- Gerrard Hamman Carragher & the erratic Jerzy Dudek among them
- & at the music & football cultures in the city that have uniquely shaped what is still known locally as the Liverpool Way. The book compares the new Liverpool manager with his key rivals: his Iberian cousin Jose Mourhino at Chelsea & the fiercely competitive David Moyes at neighbours Everton. But it ends
- as it must
- on that glorious night of 25 May in Istanbul with fans recollections & memories. It also asks: exactly what does the 2005 European triumph mean for the city of Liverpool & for the future direction of Liverpool football club under its modest but impressive new Spanish leadership?"






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In this beautifully written book Buddhist monk & Nobel Peace Prize nominee Thich Nhat Hanh explains how to acquire the skills of mindfulness. Once we have these skills we can slow our lives down & discover how to live in the moment
- even simple acts like washing the dishes or drinking a cup of tea may be transformed into acts of meditation. Thich Nhat Hanh's gentle anecdotes & practical exercises help us to arrive at greater self-understanding & peacefulness whether we are beginners or advanced students. Irrespective of our particular religious beliefs we can begin to reap the immense benefits that meditation has been scientifically proven to offer. We can all learn how to be mindful & experience the miracle of mindfulness for ourselves.
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Written by an experienced doctor who is also a trained cook The Miracle of Olive Oil" is packed with helpful information on everything from food preparation to health & beauty. With an A-Z section of ailments against which olive oil has proved effective a collection of 32 delicious recipes & tips on how to use this wondrous oil to enhance hair nails & skin this is an essential guide for anyone interested in eating--and living--well." ...