On Saturday 9th September 1922 the victorious Turkish cavalry rode into Smyrna the richest & most cosmopolitan city in the Ottoman Empire. What happened over the next two weeks must rank as one of the most compelling human dramas of the twentieth century. Almost two million people were caught up in a disaster of truly epic proportions. PARADISE LOST is told with the narrative verve that has made Giles Milton a bestselling historian. It unfolds through the memories of the survivors many of them interviewed for the first time & the eyewitness accounts of those who found themselves caught up in one of the greatest catastrophes of the modern age. ...

When Amber Peppers jeweller boyfriend Hugh asks her to join him on a business trip to the paradise islands of Tahiti shes not keen
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Christine Summers is a pretty young teacher in a country school in the 1930s & the apple of more than one man's eye. Christine has no intention of sacrificing her independence to marry anyone least of all Charley Noonan the rough-tongued young farmer who has been pursuing her for years. When she meets lonely widower Alan Kelso however Christine finds herself falling in love. Alan has also caught the eye of pony breeder Beatty Mc Call. Passionate experienced & unscrupulous Beatty wants is willing to offer him more it seems than Christine can ever hope to match. But sometimes all it takes to fall in love is dancing to the Paradise Waltz.. . Rich in tangled affections & intriguing characters in THE PARADISE WALTZ Jessica Stirling captures all the pain & humour of life a small gossip-ridden village in the time between two world wars when wireless & the cinema were changing everyone's ideas about romance. ...

Cooking in Cafe Paradiso the internationally-renowned restaurant in Cork Ireland Denis Cotter has gained a reputation for innovation in his approach to food & for the quality & personal style of his menus. Paradiso Seasons represents Denis Cotter's personal journal through the eternally shifting seasons focussing on his favourite vegetables at their prime moment & from them creating sumptuous & thoughtful recipes. Featuring over 140 original recipes prefaced by informative & witty introductions Paradiso Seasons offers a practical & inspirational approach to cooking & eating seasonal food (the section on 'outdoor cooking' will be a godsend to anyone who wants to cook vegetables creatively during the summer 'barbeque' season!). ...

Featuring recipes selected from the award winning Paradiso Seasons A Paradiso Year offers a practical & inspirational approach to cooking & eating seasonal food. Autumn arrives with its solid crops of vegetables. Is there anything more solid than a pumpkin? Just as spring has a dramatic effect on our cooking after the heaviness of winter autumn reins it in again slows it down. Then we come to winter when the available produce is dominated by hardy greens & the many edible roots: carrots turnips parsnips celeriac predominantly. These are foods that are perfect for dishes we love need even to eat in the cold dark days. Stews soups rich bakes & roasts slow braises. ...

Kristin Hersh was a preternaturally bright teenager starting university at fifteen & with her band Throwing Muses playing rock clubs she was too young to frequent. By the age of seventeen she was living in her car unable to sleep for the torment of strange songs swimming around her head
- the songs for which she is now known. But just as her band was taking off Hersh was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. Paradoxical Undressing chronicles the unraveling of a young womans personality culminating in a suicide attempt; & then her arduous yet inspiring recovery her unplanned pregnancy at the age of 19 & the birth of her first son. Playful vivid & wonderfully warm this is a visceral & brave memoir by a truly original performer told in a truly original voice.
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Create a home tweet home" for this colorful lively bird This plain-English guide helps readers find the right parakeet & offers expert advice on feathering his nest from setting up the cage & selecting foods to keeping messes at bay. Readers will discover how to groom a parakeet recognize the symptoms of illness & keep a parakeet safe from other pets. They will also see how to teach a parakeet to talk understand parakeet behavior & find an avian veterinarian." ...

These eight stories by leading 20th century French writers offer fascinating insights into French life & literature & are accompanied by a parallel English text making them valuable for both French & English language students. Among the diverse & entertaining stories in the collection are the wistful masterpiece Green Tobacco" by Clair Sainte-Soline; the exuberant tale of " The Ants" by the post-war king of cafe society Boris Vian & a suspense in the nineteenth-century erotic tradition from Andre de Mandiargues." ...

From the bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible" Michio Kaku's " Parallel Worlds" takes us to the frontiers of scientific knowledge to explain the extraordinary nature
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- where our universe is just one of countless parallel worlds some strangely familiar some almost unimaginable. & that when planet earth finally runs down to a cold dark wasteland we will be able to escape into these new worlds & start again. Michio Kaku's thrilling guide to the galaxy shows us how it could happen sooner than we think
- & the future for intelligent life is one of endless possibilities. " This book is absolutely impossible to put down.. .if & when we do find out what the universe is & how it was created it's going to be absolutely mind-blowing". (" Independent on Sunday"). " One of the gurus of modern physics". (" Financial Times"). " An exhilarating read.. .nobody who reads this book can be anything less than amazed by the possibilities it presents". (" Scotland on Sunday"). " The journey he takes the reader on is so picturesque & the conclusions so startling that you are gripped". (" Sunday Telegraph"). Michio Kaku is a leading theoretical physicist & one of the founders of string theory widely regarded as the strongest candidate for the 'theory of everything'. He is also one of the most gifted popularizers of science of his generation. His books published by Penguin include " Parallel Worlds" " The Physics of the Future" & " The Physics of the Impossible". He holds the Henry Semat Professorship in Theoretical Physics at the City University of New York where he has taught for over twenty-five years."



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Israeli Daniel Barenboim one of the finest musicians of our times & Palestinian Edward Said eminent literary critic & leading expert on the Middle East have been close friends for years. Parallels & Paradoxes" is a series of discussions between the two friends about music politics literature & society Barenboim & Said talk about among other subjects the differences between writing prose & music; the compromising politician versus the uncompromising artist; Beethoven as the ultimate sonata composer; Wagner (Barenboim is considered by many to be the greatest living conductor of his work); great teachers; & the power of culture to transcend national differences. Illuminating & deeply moving " Parallels & Paradoxes" is an affectionate & impassioned exchange of ideas." ...