This is the first title in Jean Ures acclaimed series of humorous delightful & poignant stories written in the form of diaries & letters which make them immediately accessible to children. Cherrys mother has just re-married much to Cherrys disgust. The worst thing about her step-father is his name: Roland Butter. Can you imagine? Cherrys best friend Skinny Melon is a sounding board for all Cherrys angsts
- Rolands allergies for one
- who wants a wimpy step-father all sniffly & red-eyed? All this & curried compost school dinners to contend with. But when Roland starts sending Cherry coded messages her curiosity is aroused. Will she ever learn to live with & even like Roland Butter?

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Losing weight has never been so easy! With so many conflicting diets around its no wonder people find it hard to shed the pounds & keep them off. At last heres a weight-loss plan that is clear logical & easy
- no gimmicks no fads just a no-nonsense way to get thin. Bob Harper is a renowned fitness trainer & is the star of The Biggest Loser USA. Bob has used his vast knowledge of nutrition weight-loss strategy & human nature to devise twenty simple principles that will enable you to step into a newly thin lifestyle. His rules are as easy as: Dont Drink Your Calories; Eat Protein at Every Meal & No Carbs After Lunch. Bob doesnt stop at just teaching you the rules either. He also shows you how to integrate them into your everyday life by supplying menu plans & 90 delicious rule-abiding recipes for breakfast lunch & dinner. If that wasnt enough there are also tips for what to stock in your fridge & meals you can prepare ahead in case you dont have time to cook during the week. With Bob as your coach & mentor you can & will lose weight
- whether you want to shed two pounds or two hundred. Its the surefire way to a thin new you!

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This title comes from the creators of Smoothie Web.com the Number 1 smoothie website 101 recipes for healthy & delicious smoothies that are low in calories & high in nutritional value. Smoothies are not only delicious & fun to drink but they are also a great way to get your daily requirements of fruits & vegetables lose weight & detoxify your body. Skinny Smoothies" will contain 101 "skinny" & healthy smoothie recipes that are low in fat & calories & high in nutritional value-making them the perfect food for someone who wants to lose weight without feeling deprived. Some will possess detoxifying properties as well making them ideal for readers who want to eliminate harmful toxins from their bodies. Each smoothie recipe will include the ingredient list nutritional information & substitution suggestions. Information about the detox process will be provided along with what factors can cause an overload of toxins in the system. We believe in moderation good health & smart decisions so we do not advocate a "cleanse" or fasting detox plan; instead we provide information on foods & substances that should be avoided & the foods & supplements that help the body rid itself of harmful toxins along with interesting facts about our chosen ingredients. Our goal is to provide a book full of helpful & healthy smoothie recipes & to share general health tips that will help readers live a healthier happier life." ...

A revelatory new healthy eating book of two halves from bestselling author Gizzi Erskine Skinny Weeks & Weekend Feasts will leave you amazed at what you can eat rather than being disappointed by what you can't! Part One Skinny Weeks gives you a delicious easy-to-stick-to recipe plan for 6 days of the week perfect for a 1
- 2lb weight loss per week. Mouthwatering dishes such as Blackened Mackerel with Roast Tomatoes & Kaffir Lime Leaves Korean Beef & Glass Noodles & Pancetta & Chilli Baked Beans on Sourdough demonstrate that healthy food needn't be boring or mean sacrificing bold exciting flavours. In Weekend Feasts Gizzi shows you how to let your hair down & treat yourself to the food you love to eat. Choose from a Friday night feast a long leisurely brunch a proper Sunday lunch or an indulgent afternoon tea & enjoy some truly decadent food safe in the knowledge that you've earned it. Throughout Gizzi reveals the secrets of eating the right way day in day out
- demonstrating how a bit of forethought & preparation can go a long way towards eating healthily & enjoying astonishingly satisfying flavoursome food with just a fraction of the expected calories. Sensible achievable & utterly delicious Skinny Weeks & Weekend Feasts will show you how to have your cake & eat it.. .

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Perhaps one of the most reviled yet misunderstood of all the youth subcultures the skinhead look & lifestyle has now rightly returned to the very forefront of contemporary youth culture. While celebrities & sportsmen shave their heads for the red carpet the underbelly of British youth culture has rediscovered the look via acclaimed films such as 2007s award-winning This Is England". The look is now more fashionable than it has ever been. The single most important photographic record of this unique subculture is Gavin Watsons " Skins" now proudly released as a brand new edition on Independent Music Press complete with over 30 new & previously unpublished photographs. The scores of black & white shots offer a fascinating glimpse into a skinhead community that was multi-cultural tightly knit & above all else fiercely proud of their look. These are classic photographs of historical value." ...

On the sunlit Greek island of Skios the Fred Toppler Foundation's annual lecture is to be given by Dr Norman Wilfred the world-famous authority on the scientific organisation of science. He turns out to be surprisingly young & charming
- not at all the intimidating figure they had been expecting. The Foundation's guests are soon eating out of his h&. So even sooner is Nikki the attractive & efficient organiser. Meanwhile in a remote villa at the other end of the island Nikki's old school-friend Georgie waits for the notorious chancer she has rashly agreed to go on holiday with & who has only too characteristically failed to turn up. Trapped in the villa with her by an unfortunate chain of misadventure is a balding old gent called Dr Norman Wilfred who has lost his whereabouts his luggage his temper & increasingly all normal sense of reality
- everything he possesses apart from the flyblown text of a well-travelled lecture on the scientific organisation of science...

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This quick reference guide contains all the navigational information & practical seamanship needed by skippers or crew. The accessible & concise presentation makes it absolutely ideal for instant reference at sea & its splashproof pages & spiral binding enable it to stand up to the demanding marine environment. Invaluable for experienced sailors as an aide-memoire as well as for beginners & RYA students it covers a wide range of topics such as seamarks buoyage pilotage lights boat handling anchoring & mooring ropes & knots heavy weather sailing man overboard grounding fire aboard distress signals & VHF radio. A brilliant aide-memoire or instant revision for exams Kelvin Hughes An ideal companion above or below decks Practical Boat Owner A handy reference...one of the most comprehensive guides that I have seen Lifeboat A lot of good information...a useful aid to have on board Gaffers Log ...

Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded shops no corny office parties no fruitcakes no unwanted presents. Thats just what Luther & Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that just this once theyll skip the holiday altogether. Theirs will be the only house on the street without a rooftop Frosty the snowman; they wont be hosting their annual Christmas Eve bash; they arent even going to have a tree. They wont need one because come December 25 theyre setting sail on a Caribbean cruise. But as this weary couple is about to discover skipping Christmas brings enormous consequences
- & isnt half as easy as theyd imagined. A classic tale for modern times Skipping Christmas" offers a hilarious look at the chaos & frenzy that has become part of our holiday tradition."
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Paul Murray's Skippy Dies" is a tragicomic masterpiece about a Dublin boarding school. It is longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010. Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies include very difficult maths & the Search of Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Daniel ' Skippy' Juster is his roommate. In the grand old Dublin institution that is Seabrook College for Boys nobody pays either of them much attention. But when Skippy falls for Lori the frisbee-playing siren from the girls' school next door suddenly all kinds of people take an interest
- including Carl part-time drug-dealer & official school psychopath...A tragic comedy of epic sweep & dimension " Skippy Dies" scours the corners of the human heart & wrings every drop of pathos humour & hopelessness out of life love Robert Graves mermaids M-theory & everything in between. " That rare thing a comic epic... Murray is a brilliant comic writer but also humane & touching & he captures the misery & elation joy & anxiety of teenage life". (David Nicholls " Guardian"). " Novels rarely come as funny & as moving as this utterly brilliant exploration of teenhood & the anticlimax of becoming an adult.. .one of the finest comic novels written anywhere". (Eileen Battersby " Irish Times"). "I loved " Skippy Dies".. .three novels fused into one ignited tragicomic tour de force". (Ali Smith " Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year"). " An unforgettably exuberant saga set in an Irish boys' school. The insulting repartee is Shakespearean the minor characters hilarious & Murray captures the fleeting joys & lasting sorrows of adolescence perfectly". (Emma Donoghue " Daily Telegraph"). "A triumph.. .brimful of wit & narrative energy". (" Sunday Times"). " The sprawling brilliance of Paul Murray's darkly comic second novel works on many different levels... When you finish the last page you may be tempted to start all over again". (" Metro"). Paul Murray is the author of " An Evening of Long Goodbyes" shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award in 2005 & " Skippy Dies" longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010."
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Ideas of separation & divorce--the geographical divides of borders the separation of the dead & the living the movement from childhood to adulthood & the end of relationships--drive this poetry collection from one of Great Britains rising young talents. The collection revolves around the poems Y Gaer" & " The Hillfort " the titles themselves suggesting the linguistic divide in Wales from poems concerned with childhood a Welsh landscape & family to an outward-looking vision that is both geographic & historic." ...