A tidal wave of pounding excitement from the first page to the last.. . Two & a half miles beneath the icy North Atlantic the mighty Titanic holds the key to the safety of the free world. The Americans want it. So do the Russians. Ace maritime troubleshooter Dirk Pitt faces one of the most stupendous tests of courage & ingenuity ever. Raise the Titanic is a spellbinding blockbuster of action & suspense. ...

Written in 1980 Raised From the Ground" was the novel with which Jose Saramago first found his distinctive voice & style. It is set in the Alentejo the rural area of Portugal where Saramagos family came from & follows the fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family (literally the Badweathers) from the beginning of the twentieth century through to its middle. While the First & Second World Wars rumble on in the background Joao Mau-Tempo suffers the suicide of his father a drunken cobbler followed by hardship as his mother tries to make ends meet in a society where the landowners are all-powerful & the life of a hired hand is unremittingly harsh. As communist ideas start to spread among the labourers Joao becomes politicised but ends up being imprisoned. Nevertheless the novel ends with optimism as in a May Day revolution the workers take over the land & form cooperatives. Highly political yet full of Saramagos characteristic humour & humanity this is a novel as full of love as it is of pain. It is a vivid moving tribute to the men & women among whom Saramago lived as a child & a fascinating insight into the early work of this literary giant." ...

First published in 1980 Saramago's prizewinning novel Raised from the Ground" follows the changing fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family
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Having a backyard garden just got a lot easier! Framed raised beds & a modular approach to growing vegetables means more production in less space & with less work. Whether you live on a small city lot or a multi-acre country estate this book has something for you. Nones shows you how to set up the raised-bed modular system & then gives in-depth descriptions of all gardening procedures: sowing seeds thinning transplanting cultivating mulching watering harvesting pest control composting crop rotation & seed saving. It s a complete gardening book for both the beginner & the experienced gardener. ...

Author Mary Lou Sullivan sat with Johnny Winter for hours of exclusive no-holds-barred interviews covering the guitar slingers entire career. From toughing it out in Texas to his appearance at Woodstock his affair with Janis Joplin his stadium-filling tours & washing out on drugs & the temptations of the road before finally fulfilling his dream of becoming a 100-per cent pure bluesman resurrecting the career of Muddy Waters & winning a Grammy Award for his effort this is a raucous roller coaster of a story. Rolling Stone" magazine has called Johnny Winter one of the greatest guitar players of all time. Ripped off & beaten down by unscrupulous managers strung out living the extreme highs & extreme lows of an uncompromising musician Johnny is a true rock n roll survivor. He has jammed with guitar heavies Hendrix Clapton & the Allman Brothers & paved the way for fellow Texas superstars Stevie Ray Vaughn & ZZ Top. Still on the road playing hundreds of gigs a year to his devoted adoring fans Johnny like this book is the real deal." ...

One of the biggest lessons we have learnt in the last few decades is that it is valuable important & effective to praise children. Children respond much better to encouragement than they do to punishment which is why praising them is considered fundamental in helping them develop self-esteem & strong self-belief. However the wrong kind of praise can do more harm than good creating children who lose all sense of rational judgement & are too readily wrong-footed when they meet difficulty. In this practical common-sense guide Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer shows parents why understanding & acknowledging boys' sensibilities is the key to knowing how to award their sons with the right sort of praise. Using insightful accessible tips she reveals: why boys need regular but small doses of positive feedback to prevent them from becoming distracted or losing focus in their work
- what makes the father/son relationship instrumental in ensuring boys receive the right praise
- why female approval may have less value in the eyes of young boys than male approval

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A word of mouth bestseller which has become one of the best loved & most successful books in the parenting field. Steve Biddulph's Raising Boys is to be re-released this month with some startling new research on what helps
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- boys. In this expanded & updated edition Steve Biddulph shares & gives practical & honest advice to parents so they can recognise the different stages of boyhood & learn how to raise happy confident & kind young men. Boys need to be parented in a different way from girls with their own very special psychological & physical make-up. Home society & education have failed boys badly
- & these failures lead to unhappy men who cannot fully become happy responsible emotionally-confident adults. While it is essential that boys spend more time learning about manhood from their fathers Biddulph updates his classic to include helpful information for mothers & single mothers with baby boys. This extended edition explores some important topics. * How ADHD may be caused by stress in the first year of life. * Whether boys should start school later than girls. * Help for single mothers raising sons. * How to choose a sport that does more good than harm. * What we can do about boys & binge drinking. * What science can tell us about teenage boys & driving
- & how we can keep our sons safe. Raising Boys offers parents real-life situations thought-provoking insights humour & help.



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Sophie Mercers first term at Hex Hall turned out to be quite eventful. First the ghost of her evil grandmother haunted her every move then her best friend was accused of murder & of course there was the discovery that Archer Cross aka the boy of her dreams was actually an undercover demon hunter
- which would probably be something she could have worked on if she hadnt also discovered that she was actually the demon Archer was hunting... So despite their issues Sophie is actually relieved to be spending the summer in London with her father. But when your father is Head of The Council of Prodigium & your summer is being spent at the headquarters of everything magical then a quiet holiday isnt really that likely. & as Sophie struggles to come to terms with her new found demon powers she finds herself thrust once again into a world of dark magic & conspiracies. The only thing that could possibly make things more complicated would be for Archer Cross to show up again which of course he wouldnt would he?
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A warm & inspiring read for parents. With contributions & foreword by Steve Biddulph author of the groundbreaking Raising Boys this book explores girls emotional & physical development from ages 1 to 16. Every parent of girls aged between 1 & 16 will enjoy reading this informative & practical book. Steve Biddulph author of the renowned bestseller Raising Boys has contributed to the book & called it The best book on parenting girls Ive ever seen. It focuses on girls emotional & physical development their education social conditioning & their relationship with parents & siblings. Psychologist & parenting author Gisela Preuschoff covers everything you need to know about girls from birth to teenage years in this easy to follow guide which

Includes:: examples from real families. The book
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- how girls & boys differ in behaviour & emotions
- nurturing a girls self-esteem & reducing fears
- breaking out of the helpless girl syndrome
- how society conditions girls
- avoiding gender stereotypes in toys etc
- girls experiences at preschool single sex or co-ed
- girls & maths & sciences
- & how parents can encourage their daughters
- teen issues & puberty
- the importance of a fathers relationship with his daughter












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A true story of death & survival in the worlds most dangerous sport cave diving. Two friends plunge 900 ft deep into the water of the Komali Springs in South Africa to raise the body of a diver who had perished there a decade before. Only one returns. Unquenchable heroism & complex human relationships amid the perils of extreme sport. On New Years Day 2005 David Shaw travelled halfway around the world on a journey that took him to a steep crater in the Kalahari Desert of South Africa a site known locally as Boesmansgat: Bushmans Hole. His destination was nearly 900 feet below the surface. On 8 January he stepped into the water. He wore & carried on him some of the most advanced diving equipment ever developed. Mounted to a helmet on his head was a video camera. David Shaw was about to attempt what had never been done before & he wanted the world to see. He descended. About fifteen feet below the surface was a fissure in the dolomite bottom of the basin barely wide enough to admit him & his equipment & the aluminum tanks slung under his shoulders. He slipped through the opening & disappeared from sight leaving behind the world of light & life. Then a second diver descended through the same crack in the stone. This was Don Shirley Shaws friend & frequent dive partner one of the few people in the world qualified to follow where Shaw was about to go. In the community of extreme diving Don Shirley was a master among masters. Twenty-five minutes later one of the men was dead. The other was in mortal peril & would spend the next 10 hours struggling to survive existing literally from breath to breath. What happened that day at Bushmans Hole is the stuff of nightmarish drama juxtaposing classic elements of suspense with an extreme environment beyond most peoples comprehension. But its also a compelling human story of friendship heroism unswerving ambition & of coming to terms with loss & tragedy. ...