When James Bowen found an injured ginger street cat curled up in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation he had no idea just how much his life was about to change. James was living hand to mouth on the streets of London & the last thing he needed was a pet. Yet James couldnt resist helping the strikingly intelligent tom cat whom he quickly christened Bob. He slowly nursed Bob back to health & then sent the cat on his way imagining he would never see him again. But Bob had other ideas. Soon the two were inseparable & their diverse comic & occasionally dangerous adventures would transform both their lives slowly healing the scars of each others troubled pasts. A Street Cat Named Bob is a moving & uplifting story that will touch the heart of anyone who reads it. ...

When James Bowen found an injured ginger street cat curled up in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation he had no idea just how much his life was about to change. James was living hand to mouth on the streets of London & the last thing he needed was a pet. Yet James couldn't resist helping the strikingly intelligent tom cat whom he quickly christened Bob. He slowly nursed Bob back to health & then sent the cat on his way imagining he would never see him again. But Bob had other ideas. Soon the two were inseparable & their diverse comic & occasionally dangerous adventures would transform both their lives slowly healing the scars of each other's troubled pasts. A Street Cat Named Bob is a moving & uplifting story that will touch the heart of anyone who reads it. ...

Unforgettable tale of an orphan in Victorian London based on the boy whose plight inspired Dr Barnardo to found his famous children's homes. When his mother dies Jim Jarvis is left all alone in London. He is sent to the workhouse but quickly escapes choosing a hard life on the streets of the city over the confines of the workhouse walls. Struggling to survive Jim finally finds some friends...only to be snatched away & made to work for the remorselessly cruel Grimy Nick constantly guarded by his vicious dog Snipe. Will Jim ever manage to be free? ...

Through a series of remarkable events Sarah de Carvalho left her glittering career in film promotion & TV production to join a missionary organisation in Brazil. There she met children from the age of seven living on the streets taking drugs stealing to survive & vulnerable to prostitution & gang warfare. This is the remarkable true story of a life transformed. It tells of the incredible work that Sarah founded in the Happy Child Mission. It is a story of immense faith suffering & love. The children whose stories are revealed in this exceptional book will change the heart of every reader. This new fully updated edition of THE STREET CHILDREN OF BRAZIL brings the story up to date. Fifteen years on Sarah celebrates the anniversary of the founding of Happy Child revisits some of the first children she worked with & reflects on all that God has done. ...

The World s Best Street Food The street is where you ll find the heart of a cuisine & its culture somewhere among the taco carts & noodle stalls the scent of wood fires & the hubbub of fellow diners. Bring the world s greatest street foods to your home with this compendium of classic recipes! 100 authentic recipes with simple clear instructions for perfect preparation Glossary of exotic ingredients with easy-to-find alternatives Evocative profiles of each dish show you where to find the best examples when you re on the road Written by food writers from around the world with an introduction by Tom Parker Bowles ...

Meetha Lassi & Bhel Puri; Paneer Tikka & masalas; chutneys biryanis & samosas. All visitors to India are greeted by a quite astonishing display of roadside snacks throughout the country: from the teeming lanes of Old Delhi to the hot & dusty streets of the remote countryside. It is painfully hard to resist the smells & sights & tastes of this roadside food prepared in front of customers eyes with the freshest ingredients & a generous helping of panache & showmanship. The acclaimed photographer Sephi Bergerson has been tracking down the very best street food in the country which has been his home for the past seven years. The resulting book is a visual celebration of this splendid everyday cuisine & a virtual feast in itself. With nearly 50 authentic & detailed recipes for the simplest & tastiest dishes in the repertoire using ingredients easily sourced in the West this serving will inspire & intoxicate in equal measure. ...

For Mack Mc Kinley & his team of Ghost Walker killing machines urban warfare is an art. But despite a hard-won knowledge of the San Francisco streets Mack knows from experience that too many things can still go wrong. Danger was just another part of the game
- & now he's come face-to-face with a woman who can play just as tough. She's Jaimie a woman with a sapphire stare so potent it can destroy a man. Years ago she & Mack had a history
- volatile erotic & electric. Then she vanished. But now she's walked back into Mack's life again as a spy with more secrets than are good for her. Against all odds she's hooking up with Mack one more time to take on an enemy that could destroy them both or bring them back together in one hot no-holds-barred adrenaline rush.

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John Peel first brought Judy's moving childhood story to light on ' Home Truths'. Abducted by her psychotic spiritualist father & kept like a dog in the backyard she went on to suffer at the brutal hands of nuns in a Manchester orphanage before living wild on the streets. An incredible heart-wrenching story of a child who refused to give up. After a childhood lived in terror in 1994 Judy was presented with an Unsung Heroes Award for her charity work with street children in South Africa. Her moving story came to light after Judy was interviewed by John Peel on BBC's ' Home Truths'. ' Street Kid' is the inspirational & heartwrenching story of her early years. At age two in postwar Manchester Judy was snatched from her mother & sisters by her psychotic father
- a spiritualist preacher. He kept her in his backyard leaving her to scavenge from bins to beat off starvation. At four she was sent to an inhumanely strict catholic orphanage before being put back in her father's cruel care. For the next three years she was treated as a virtual slave. After being taken by her father to South Africa Judy ran away to join the circus where she found her first taste of freedom & friendship
- before her father tracked her down. Weeks later Judy was alone again & living on the streets too terrified to turn to her circus friends. For 9 months 12-year-old Judy made her home in a shed behind a bottle store before collapsing in a shop doorway from near-starvation. Finally aged 17 Judy managed to pay her way back to England to find her mother & sisters. But her return to Manchester cruelly shattered any dreams of a happy reunion. Determined that her childhood experiences should in some way give meaning to her life Judy has worked tirelessly to help children in need back in South Africa in the very place she had been treated to such abuse herself. She has opened 7 centres to date.

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Michael Brock is a man in a hurry. He's in the fast lane at Drake & Sweeney a giant Washington law firm. He's a rising star with no time to waste no time to toss a few coins into the hands of beggars. No time for a conscience. But a chance violent encounter with a homeless man stops him cold. The fallout propels him onto a trail of corruption & illegality which leads straight back to Drake & Sweeney. To get to the truth Michael will have to dig deep into some of his own firm's dirtiest secrets... ...