John The Bull Hayes is an Irish rugby legend. Keith Wood calls him a rugby giant Donncha OCallaghan calls him the heart & soul of the team but Hayes is adored as much for his down-to-earth personality & background as his legendary status on the pitch. The phenomenon that is The Bull grew up in GAA farming heartland & was a late recruit to the game only picking up a rugby ball at the age of 18. His determination on the pitch & passion for the shirt comes through in many a tale of graft & glory in the front row. Hayes relates his story of over 100 caps for his country including four Triple Crowns & a glorious Grand Slam in 2009. Two Heineken Cup-winning campaigns gild an incredible career of over 200 games for Munster. This is the story of a giant of a man & a rugby legend who is of the people. ...

It is summer & as tourists drawn by the legend of a priceless missing artifact disembark on the sun-drenched quay of Mithros the languid calm of the island is broken by the unorthodox arrival of a stranger who has been thrown overboard in the bay. Lacking money or identification he is forced for a while to remain on Mithros. But is he truly a stranger? To some his face seems familiar. The arrival of the investigator Hermes Diaktoros intrigued himself by the islands fabled bull coincides with a violent & mysterious death. This violence has an echo in Mithross recent past: in a brutal unsolved crime committed several years before which although apparently forgotten may not yet have been forgiven. As Hermes sets about solving the complex puzzle of who is guilty & who is innocent he discovers a web of secrets & unspoken loyalties & it soon becomes clear that the bull of Mithros may only be the least of the islands shadowy mysteries. ...

Having settled in a Mallorcan mountain idyll Anna Nicholas her husband the Scotsman & their son Ollie want to become as self-sufficient as possible. Anna teams up with organic farmers & smallholders to learn how to tend sheep make cheese & honey & grind flour while the Scotsman creates havoc with his friend Pep in an attempt at winemaking & tries to fathom whats troubling the wriggly inhabitants of his beloved wormery. However Anna cant quite shake off her old clients from the PR world & is persuaded by Greedy George to create a media storm for his new Spanish leather store. The story of how a giant bull ends up on a Barcelona beach is enough to make her delighted to return to Mallorca where talking to a toad & feeding porridge to her hens seems normal by comparison. ...

THE ROMAN EMPIRE 109 ADThe frontier province of Bithynia is a cesspit of sedition rotten with corruption & seething with hatred of Rome. When a rich Roman official is found dead on a desolate hillside; two riderless horses tethered in a nearby wood it is assumed he was killed as a protest against Emperor Trajan's unlimited power. But Pliny the Younger newly appointed Governor of Bithynia is not so sure. Who was the other rider? What were the two of them doing in the middle of nowhere? & what links this murder to a secret cult of the Persian sun god Mithras
- the Bull Slayer?
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The Battleground Europe series of guides is designed for both the battlefield visitor & the armchair traveller. There is extensive guidance on how to make the most of your battlefield visit. The historical significance of each site is described in detail with the aid of maps & photographs. The village of Bullecourt France was incorporated into the formidable Hindenburg Line when the Germans carried out their strategic withdrawal in February 1917. Attacked unsuccessfully as part of the Battle of Arras on 11th April 1917 it was finally captured in May after a second major assault. The book details the actions of the Australians but also

Includes:: the contributions made by the 7th 58th & 62nd British Divisions.

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The sensational new novel from the New York Times bestselling author featuring her vampire-hunting heroine Anita Blake. I am back in St Louis & trying to live a normal life
- as normal as possible for someone who is a legal vampire executioner & a US Marshal. I have my lovers my friends & their children school programs to attend. In the midst of all this ordinary happiness a vampire from my past reaches out. She was supposed to be dead but the Mother of All Darkness is the first vampire & it's hard to kill a god. The Mother of All Darkness believes that the triumvirate created by master vampire Jean-Claude with me & the werewolf Richard Zeeman has enough power for her to regain a body & to emigrate to the New World. But the body she wants to possess is already taken... And if the Mother of All Darkness can't succeed in taking over my body for herself she means to see that no one else has the use of it ever again.
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Eliot Nailles loves his wife & son to distraction; Paul Hammer is a bastard named after a common household tool. Neighbours in Bullet Park the two become fatefully linked by the mysterious binding power of their names in Cheevers sharp & funny hymn to the dubious normality of the American suburbs. ...

When you make a living solving other peoples problems
- its good to be aware of your own. In the next ten seconds several facts
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Most books about bullying tell children how to act without addressing how they feel. But the usual advice to ignore it or say something smart is doomed to fail as you cant act brave & confident if you feel stressed & helpless inside. Jenny Alexanders approach is to develop readers psychological defences. Through an entertaining mix of exercises quizzes & fictional scenarios she combines common sense with simple cognitive therapy techniques to build up childrens self esteem. Her tone is humorous & upbeat but always sensitive to the readers feelings. This new updated edition takes account of recent technologies such as texting MSN & bluejacking which are increasingly abused by bullies. ...

Angus is forced to be much more grown up than he wants to be
- he has to look after his sister & baby brother & hes only eleven.
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