Like all mothers Emily Rapp had ambitious plans for her first & only child Ronan. He would be smart loyal physically fearless level-headed but fun. He would be good at crossword puzzles like his father. He would be an avid skier like his mother. Rapp would speak to him in foreign languages & give him the best education. But all of these plans changed when Ronan was diagnosed at nine months old with Tay-Sachs disease a rare & always-fatal degenerative disorder. Ronan was not expected to live beyond the age of three; he would be permanently stalled at a developmental level of six months. Rapp & her husband were forced to re-evaluate everything they thought they knew about parenting. They would have to learn to live with their child in the moment; to find happiness in the midst of sorrow; to parent without a future. The Still Point of the Turning World is the story of a mothers journey through grief & beyond it. Rapps response to her sons diagnosis was a belief that she needed to make my world big
- to make sense of her familys situation through art literature philosophy theology & myth. Drawing on a broad range of thinkers & writers from C.S. Lewis to Sylvia Plath Hegel to Mary Shelleys Frankenstein Rapp learns what wisdom there is to be gained from parenting a terminally ill child. In luminous exquisitely moving prose she re-examines our most fundamental assumptions about what it means to be a good parent to be a success & to live a meaningful life.
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Still Single should be a marital status all of its own. Single girls today are smarter stronger & funnier & journalist Alison Taylor is the witty voice for this new generation who are looking for the one but not willing to undergo a personality lobotomy in the process. Covering twelve months in the life of one ever-hopeful (but never desperate) romantic it charts what happens before a date during a date & when there are no dates. Hanging out at music festivals bars & various capital cities we join the self-styled lovefool & friends on her quest for fun romance & someone to care about. On her travels Alison asks the tough questions like: what does that text really mean? Did you shave that yourself? Are you f***ing kidding me? The Still Single Papers" will ring true with a whole generation of cool educated & ambitious women who cant quite believe that there are so few fit single straight guys out there. But that doesnt stop them from looking & hoping & hoping & looking..." ...

Kerry Katona has been one of the most talked about celebrities of the last 12 years. Since bursting on the scene in 2000 with girl band Atomic Kitten her turbulent life has made her the subject of thousands of articles & numerous reality TV shows. Kerry released her first autobiography TOO MUCH TOO YOUNG in 2006 but since then her life has become hardly recognisable having taken many more twists & turns. This memoir will pick up from there & is above all a story of inspiration
- from drugs bad men bankruptcy armed robberies embezzlement plastic surgery weight battles booze more drugs & depression
- Kerry has survived & brought her life back from the brink to become a very together & happy mother of four. Now she has moved on regained control of her life & tackled her problems head-on
- becoming clean of drugs getting back in shape escaping her marriage & setting up a life many of us would envy. This is the remarkable & at times heartbreaking story behind how she did it.


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Kerry Katona has been one of the most talked about celebrities of the last 12 years. Since bursting on the scene in 2000 with girl band Atomic Kitten her turbulent life has made her the subject of thousands of articles & numerous reality TV shows. Kerry released her first autobiography TOO MUCH TOO YOUNG in 2006 but since then her life has become hardly recognisable having taken many more twists & turns. This memoir will pick up from there & is above all a story of inspiration
- from drugs bad men bankruptcy armed robberies embezzlement plastic surgery weight battles booze more drugs & depression
- Kerry has survived & brought her life back from the brink to become a very together & happy mother of four. Now she has moved on regained control of her life & tackled her problems head-on
- becoming clean of drugs getting back in shape escaping her marriage & setting up a life many of us would envy. This is the remarkable & at times heartbreaking story behind how she did it.


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Lilian Maeve Veronica Savage international sex kitten was born on the steps of The Legs of Man public house Lime Street Liverpool on a policeman's overcoat. Her mother the lady wrestler Hell Cat Savage had no such luxuries as gas & air. She just bit down on the policeman's torch & recovered afterwards at the bar with a large pale ale. Paul O' Grady shot to fame via his brilliant comic creation the blonde bombsite Lily Savage. In the first two parts of his bestselling & critically acclaimed autobiography Paul took us through his childhood in Birkenhead to his first teetering steps on stage. Now in Still Standing for the first time he brings us the no-holds-barred true story of Lily & the rocky road to stardom. Paul pulls no punches in this tale of bar room brawls drunken escapades & liaisons dangereuses. & that's just backstage at the Panto. Along the way we stop off at some extremely dodgy pubs & clubs & meet a collection of exotic characters who made the world a louder brighter & more hilarious place. From the chaos of the Toxteth riots & the Vauxhall Tavern police raid to the mystery of who shot Skippy & the great chip pan fire of Victoria Mansions Paul emerges shaken but not stirred. Still Standing" will make you laugh & make you cry. Some of the stories might even make your hair curl. But it stands as a glorious tribute to absent friends & to a world which has now all but vanished." ...

Actor Ron Moody has enthralled generations with his masterly performance as Fagin in both the stage & film versions of Oliver!
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When Elizabeth Stuart starts looking for a new home for herself & her son somewhere she can recover from a particularly bruising divorce Still Creek seems the answer to her dreams. Hidden in the lush Amish farmlands of Minnesota Still Creek offers a sanctuary to the splintered family who look forward to settling down there. But on their arrival the locals are distinctly cool to the newcomers. & when Elizabeth becomes involved in a murder case she realises that there is a lot more to life in Still Creek than meets the eye. ...

Eckhart Tolle's writings on the power of living in the moment fast became the most sought-after modern classic on spiritual enlightenment. Now in this new life-transforming book we are shown how to become our true selves by embracing silence & stillness. When we are no longer limited by our thinking mind suffering & pain disappears & we are able to move towards a new understanding of our relationships of nature & of the profound wisdom that is to be found in stillness. ...

Pat Traymore a brilliant investigative reporter is drawn to Washington to discover the truth about enigmatic & ambitious Senator Abigail Jennings. The Senator is tipped to be the first female Vice-President & her reputation intrigues Pat
- but she also has an ulterior motive for coming to the city. Years earlier as a child Pat was present during the violent deaths of her parents. Left damaged both mentally & physically she is seeking solace by returning to the house in which the events took place. However somebody has learned of her plans
- & is hellbent on stopping her. As the storm gathers Pat begins to suspect everyone around her
- even handsome Congressman Samuel Kingsley with whom she is madly in love. But who would want to hurt her? & how are these new events connected to the deaths of her mother & father? As Pat battles to discover more about her past & her present she realises the two are entwined more deeply than she had first thought. & as light is thrown on both secrets long buried come rushing to the surface...


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Dave Goulson has always been obsessed with wildlife from his childhood menagerie of exotic pets & dabbling in experimental taxidermy to his groundbreaking research into the mysterious ways of the bumblebee & his mission to protect our rarest bees. Once commonly found in the marshes of Kent the short-haired bumblebee now only exists in the wilds of New Zealand the descendants of a few queen bees shipped over in the nineteenth century. Dave Goulson's passionate drive to reintroduce it to its native land is one of the highlights of a book that

Includes:: exclusive research into these curious creatures history's relationship with the bumblebee & advice on how to protect it for all time. One of the UK's most respected conservationists & the founder of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust Goulson combines Gerald Durrell-esque tales of a child's growing passion for nature with a deep insight into the crucial importance of the bumblebee. He details the minutiae of life in their nests sharing fascinating research into the effects intensive farming has had on our bee populations & on the potential dangers if we are to continue down this path.

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