Love & happiness
- hatred & despair... Life seems to alternate between periods of stunning happiness for pretty seventeen-year-old
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Liverpool 1926. Patsy Doyle is settling into her role as live-in maid in the Tanner household but her new job is not going smoothly. Caught between the warring Tanner spouses Patsy becomes an unwilling confidante & a keeper of more secrets than she'd care to acknowledge. Joy Kirk is busy planning her wedding. When her first love was killed in the war she vowed she'd never fall in love again. Now a little older & wiser Joy realises that there could be some benefits to being a wife & having spent many years working as Robbie Bennett's cook & housekeeper she finally accepts his proposal of marriage. But is she letting herself in for more than she bargained for? ...

Molly Bennett & Nellie Mc Donough have been best mates for over twenty years with never a cross word between them. When times were bad & money scarce they kept their families together with love & laughter. & they were always there to help anyone in trouble. So when they hear about a mother who hasn't seen her son for years the two friends know they have a job to do... ...

In 2012 over 6.5 million viewers watched Shelina triumph in the Master Chef final: with her instinctive spicing & intense flavours she brought Mauritian food to TV for the first time inspiring legions of home cooks to try out her recipes at home. Mauritius is a melting pot of cultures & Shelina's food reflects that encompassing Creole French Indian African British & Chinese influences. From Gajaks street food such as chilli cakes & daal puri (flatbreads with split peas) to vegetarian chickpea & sweet potato curry & black lentil fricassee there is an emphasis on freshness & subtle spicing. The island's French heritage can be seen in classic Mauritian dishes such as Lamb ' La Daube' aubergine toufe & king prawn rougaille. Many of the curries pulses & rice dishes are vegetarian & gluten-free. Plus from the ' Mango Queen' there are enticing desserts including mango creme brulee & spiced tea rum baba. Sunshine on a Plate showcases the food of this beautiful island in Shelina's unique home cooking. With family-friendly time-saving recipes & beautiful photography on location in Mauritius this book will make Shelina a true star of the cookery world. ...

With customary charm & deftness Alexander Mc Call Smith gives us another installment in this popular series now running in its eighth season in The Scotsman. Anything could happen to Bertie & the gang especially with an invitation to one of Scotlands premier jazz festivals - ...

The observatory on the moon has the proof. Life on earth will be incinerated in April 2037 by a massive solar flare. It is building down & it is unstoppable. With only 18 months until doomsday mankind must unite & embark on the most ambitious engineering project ever: the construction at the La Grange point between the sun & the earth of a deflecting mirror the diameter of our home planet. The price of failure? Extinction. One scientist an expert on the sun predicted the flare. One person who knew nothing about the sun nevertheless knew the exact date that life on earth would come to an end. She had witnessed the bizarre time dislocations brought by the eyes. She knows who is responsible. This is hard SF in the grand tradition of the genre ...

Two pioneers in health--Dr Deepak Chopra & Prof Rudolph E. Tanzi one of the world's foremost experts on the causes of Alzheimer's--share a bold new understanding of the brain & a prescriptive plan for how we can use it to achieve physical mental & spiritual well-being. In his bestselling books Ageless Body Timeless Mind & Reinventing the Body Resurrecting the Soul Deepak Chopra reveals 'the forgotten miracle'
- the body's infinite capacity for change & renewal. Now Chopra focuses his attention on a part of the body undergoing intense study & radical reevaluation: the brain. No one is better able to share the latest breakthroughs in neuroscience than preeminent neurologist Rudolph E. Tanzi & together Chopra & Tanzi present a new vision of the human brain together with a practical plan for how to use it to achieve higher levels of success & fulfilment. They contend that by using techniques & skills such as mindfulness intention & meditation we can create new neural pathways in the brain. Thus we can transform it into our most powerful tool for achieving health happiness & enlightenment.
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Throughout history there have been references & examples in literature art & philosophy of an increased awareness of life while under the influence of extreme emotions
- these have become known as Peak Experiences. Soon after Colin Wilson became aware of this phenomena in the 1960s he wondered about its history & how its power could be harnessed thus began a 40 year investigation. In SUPERCONSCIOUSNESS" we see how such luminaries as Yeats Blake Satre Nietzche & Robert Graves were all effected by PE's & how on the opposite side it has long been noted that we are least insightful when we are at our lowest ebb. By looking in detail through the different areas where this phenomena has occurred & offering anecdotes & examples of how many people in history (as well as himself) were effected Wilson reveals a pattern of insight with emotions. He ends the book with an instructional section on achieving power consciousness for yourself."
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Cripes! Planet Earth is in danger! It's on a fatal collision course with Planet Pea! If they crash then Planet Pea will explode into a gazillionpillionkillion peas & that means only one thing.. .there'll be peas.. .with everything!!!! The fate of dinner-times world wide rests with Super Daisy. This is a super-fun action-packed story with flaps split pages & pull tabs. Readers will love taking control of the action: Pull a tab to reveal the 'horror' of peas with pancakes lemonade chocolate mousse & trifle! Flip a flap to find out just how 'super' Super Daisy is. Turn the page to watch Super Daisy wreak havoc on all peas with a KER-POW WHIZ-PING & BANG-SPLAT. With bold illustrations & fun novelties this book will provide hours of fun again & again. ...

George & Harold (the co-stars of the enormously popular Captain Underpants series) are in big trouble again! Their mean principal Mr. Krupp has demanded that they stop making comics about poop. Always resourceful the boys decide to create an all-new epic novel about a totally different subject: Pee! Illustrations. ...