THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. For readers new to The Dark Tower THE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE is a st&-alone novel & a wonderful introduction to the series. It is a story within a story which features both the younger & older gunslinger Roland on his quest to find the Dark Tower. Fans of the existing seven books in the series will also delight in discovering what happened to Roland & his ka tet between the time they leave the Emerald City & arrive at the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis. This Russian Doll of a novel a story within a story within a story visits Mid-World's last gunslinger Roland Deschain & his ka-tet as a ferocious storm halts their progress along the Path of the Beam. (The novel can be placed between Dark Tower IV & Dark Tower V.) Roland tells a tale from his early days as a gunslinger in the guilt ridden year following his mother's death. Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter a 'skin man ' Roland takes charge of Bill Streeter a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter. Roland himself only a teenager calms the boy by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime ' The Wind through the Keyhole'. 'A person's never too old for stories ' he says to Bill. ' Man & boy girl & woman we live for them.' & stories like these they live for us. The back cover of the UK hardcover edition features some 8 000 faces of those who entered the Stephen King Faces competition. These faces are indiscernible to the naked eye on the actual covers but they can be found & identified with the zoom mechanism on http://www.stephenkingfaces.com/ ...

Toru Okada's cat has disappeared & this has unsettled his wife who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. As this compelling story unfolds the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague & blameless life spent cooking reading listening to jazz & opera & drinking beer at the kitchen table are turned inside out & he embarks on a bizarre journey guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters each with a tale to tell. ...

All the thrills & spills of the Grand Prix are in this book! With three sturdy tracks embedded in the pages the two accompanying wind-up racing car toys can be raced overtaking one another crashing & swerving to be the first to reach the finish line. It contains all sorts of information & fun facts about motor racing including pit stops overtaking & getting ready to race. This is a perfect gift for young racing enthusiasts. ...

You think youre having a bad day? Joanne Baldwin has lost her job as a Weather Warden & saving the world doesnt usually come with a decent pension plan. It also doesnt come with any guarantees of landing a day job that wont suck or finding a mystical cure for her critically ill Djinn lover. Burdened with a difficult sister in need of rescue accused of weather-related murder & finding herself in the middle of a Djinn civil war A...well Joannes bad times are just getting worse. With enemies approaching from all sides not to mention mounting credit card bills (Manolos dont come cheap you know) Joanne is praying for a windfall. But the mother of all hurricanes approaching the Florida coast isnt quite what she had in mind. ...

Cassia Fallon has been married to her doctor husband for seven years when her godmother leaves her a fortune. She is determined to be sensible to stay in control. Suddenly for the first time in her life she is able to do exactly as she likes. She starts to question her marriage her past her present & future. The money gives her confidence & her husband Edward can only look on resentfully as she resumes her medical career sheds some of her domestic burdens & re-forms old relationships
- one of them of a most dangerous kind. But where did her legacy really come from & why? Too soon the windfall has become a corrupting force. One that Cassia cannot resist...
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Sidney Sheldons eighth novel repackaged to accompany his memoirs The Other Side of Me. The world is on the brink of mutual destruction between the East & the West & Mary Ashley beautiful talented intelligent has been chosen to represent America as Ambassador to Romania. Thrust from her comforting homely life in Kansas she finds herself lost amongst the political turmoil in a foreign country where she is seen as the enemy & no-one is to be trusted. Then someone starts to threaten Mary & her children. Who can want her to leave so desperately & why? & can Mary decide who she can trust when her life is on the line? Sidney Sheldon is at his gripping best in this thrilling political page-turner. ...

A wordless visually compelling look at our changing environment featured on a government reading list for schools. A mother & baby look through a window at a view of wilderness & sky as far as the eye can see. With each page the boy grows & the scene changes. At first in a clear patch of forest a single house appears. A few years pass & there is a village in the distance. By the time the boy is twenty the village has developed into a city. The young man gets married has a child of his own & moves to the country where father & child look through the window of their new home at the undeveloped wilderness outside. Illustrated with elaborate & gorgeous collage constructions Window is a wordless picture book that speaks volumes. ...

All new artwork for an all-new generation of window artists. An update to the popular Window Art Book. Trace the artwork & fill in the colours
- peel up & you have gorgeous window stickers. This new set has new illustrations to trace a fresh palatte of colours
- including sparkly glitter paint
- plus two large-scale projects to try.


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A revised expanded & illustration edition of Penelope Bennetts popular guide to growing fruit vegetables & herbs in a tiny space. In a space that measures only 5 x 2.5m (16 x 8 ft) outside her kitchen window high up on a London rooftop Penelope Bennett cultivates a garden that

Includes:: artichokes beans peas tomatoes peppers alpine strawberries raspberries herbs (and saffron) 31 kinds of potato & six different fruit trees. With Window-box Allotment as your guide you can make your outdoor space however tiny equally prolific. & as you learn how to do it you will be endlessly entertained.

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A showcase of the most exciting innovative & successful window displays worldwide this book offers inspiration & guidance to visual merchandisers & retailers who need to create eye-catching window designs that will increase sales. Stores have to deliver their merchandise in a competitive imaginative & distinctive style & never more so than now when consumers have less to spend. The challenge is not only to grab customers attention & encourage them to shop but to promote a stores brand & keep shoppers informed of fashion trends. Seven chapters cover key topics for the visual merchandiser each with a gallery of photographs of stores in Belgium Spain Italy & Hong Kong as well as London & New York demonstrating how & why each window is successful. Colour is a great tool to promote a trend Seasonal Windows exploit the key shopping seasons & encourage the buying of gifts while following Trends in fashion food or homewares & translating them quickly into a window display is a key skill for a visual merchandiser. Graphics & Photography are cost-effective & efficient tools for delivering a message or inform the customer or use Lighting to add drama whether spotlighting products or flooding an entire window. Theatre shows off exuberant & avant-garde displays created to wow an audience of passers-by. Quirky Windows allow the merchandiser to realise their wildest ideas with spectacular results. ...