Beautiful dark-haired Lily has been abandoned in a Birmingham slum as a tiny child. With few clues as to her identity she endures a childhood of loneliness & loss. At eighteen she applies for a post as nanny with the family of a Captain Fairford a soldier in Ambala north India & his highly strung wife Susan. Lily is drawn into the emotional life of the Fairford family & adores her charge two year old Cosmo. When in 1907 Captain Fairford orders a new Daimler car it is brought out by a young motor mechanic Sam Ironside. Sam & Lily fall deeply in love & it is only later that Lily learns that Sam is married & feels utterly betrayed. When Cosmo is later sent home to school Lily finds another post with a Dr. Mc Bride & his invalid wife in a beautiful Himalayan hill station. The place is idyllic & Lily settles for a quiet life. However she is unprepared for the pain & misunderstandings that follow & force her to run from everything she has known... Where Earth Meets Sky" takes us from Edwardian England & the British Raj through the darkness of the Great War to the glamour of Brooklands Race Track in the 1920s. Spanning two continents it is a story of enduring friendships & two hearts which cannot be kept apart." ...

From every angle our daughters are bombarded by messages about looks & sexuality they are too young to underst&. Pressure to conform to a thin sexy" ideal can lead to self-destructive behaviour anxiety & low self-esteem. Until now there has been no practical help for parents on how to fight back against the Lolita Effect. Parenting author & mother of two young girls Tanith Carey has written the first hands-on guide for parents which will show you how to: * Screen out damaging messages about body image & sex from the internet & media * Build your daughters self-esteem so she is strong enough to deal with peer pressure * Say the right things at the right time so she is inoculated against the worst influences of the X-rated society Essential advice to help you safeguard your daughters childhood
- so she can grow into the healthy confident woman she deserves to be."
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Pauline Quirke was a skinny child a slim teenager a curvy woman then
- according to her bathroom scales (curse them)
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Pauline Quirke was a skinny child a slim teenager a curvy woman then
- according to her bathroom scales (curse them)
- just

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You see there was a time when litle Tickbird got lost. & none of the animals could find her anywhere. Eagle leads the search party in this bold & colourful Tinga Tinga" sticker book. Young readers can join the hunt by adding lots of special stickers." ...

Start Reading is a new series of highly enjoyable books for beginning readers at KS1. They have been carefully graded to correspond to the Book Bands now widely used in schools. This enables readers to be sure that they choose books that match their own ability. There is very careful & gentle graduation from Band to B&. The books can be shared with an adult or read independently. They promote the enjoyment of reading through reading real satisfying stories with a beginning a middle & an end. This is a series of 4 books at band 3 of the Start Reading programme. Pips Pets is about Pip & his pets- Coco the cat Digby the Dog Sid & the snake & the perfect pet. ...

Gemma Duncan & the boys are back in their Notting Hill house & enjoying a quiet spring in London when Gemma receives a plea for help from her friend & neighbor Erika Rosenthal. Erika has never shared much of her past other than telling Gemma that she & her husband came to London before the war as refugees from the emerging Nazi regime in Germany. Her husband was a historian & was found murdered in a local park. His death was never solved. Now Erika tells Gemma that a necklace from her past has come up for auction -- a necklace which was taken from her. Now Erika asks Gemma to find out where the necklace came from. As Gemma works backwards interviewing the staff at the auction house & looking into the records of David Rosenthals death her viewpoint is interwoven with Erikas vivid memories of her life as a young woman in London during & after the war. Then a young woman at the auction house is murdered & suddenly the case becomes very much centred in the present. ...

This is your wake up call. You either answer it now or pay for it for the rest of your life. The choice is yours Duane Dog Chapman is the worlds most famous bounty hunter. During his hard-hitting & often controversial career he has rounded up over six thousand criminals & inspired & entertained millions on his top-rated TV show Dog the Bounty Hunter. But his job doesnt end when the cuffs go on... Having been on the wrong side of the law himself
- abuse addiction crime gangs prison
- & turned his life around to become an American icon Dog knows how to get fugitives back on the straight & narrow. & he makes it his business to help. This is an action-packed account of life on the front line bringing dangerous criminals to justice. It is also the incredible story of a man who has struggled with his own flaws & made the transition from hell-raiser to peacekeeper.

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' This is your wake up call. You either answer it now or pay for it for the rest of your life. The choice is yours.' Duane ' Dog' Chapman is the world's most famous bounty hunter. During his hard-hitting & often controversial career he has rounded up more than 6 000 criminals & inspired & entertained millions on his top-rated TV show DOG THE BOUNTY HUNTER. But his job doesn't end when the cuffs go on... Having been on the wrong side of the law himself
- abuse addiction crime gangs prison
- & turned his life around to become an American icon Dog knows how to get fugitives back on the straight & narrow. & he makes it his business to help. This is an action-packed account of life on the front line bringing dangerous criminals to justice. It is also the incredible story of a man who has struggled with his own flaws & made the transition from hell-raiser to peacekeeper.

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Pippa loves staying with her Aunty Peggy. She loves going for walks whether it's sunshiney or cold
- long wandering walks where
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