On a summers day in 1922 Cora Carlisle boards a train from Wichita Kansas to New York City leaving behind a marriage thats not as perfect as it seems & a past that she buried long ago. She is charged with the care of a stunning young girl with a jet-black fringe & eyes wild & wise beyond her fifteen years. This girl is hungry for stardom & Cora for something she doesnt yet know. Cora will be many things in her lifetime
- an orphan a mother a wife a mistress
- but in New York she is a chaperone & her life is about to change. It is here under the bright lights of Broadway in a time when prohibition reigns & speakeasies with their forbidden whispers behind closed doors thrive that Cora finds what she has been searching for. It is here in a time when illicit thrills & daring glamour sizzle beneath the laws of propriety that her life truly begins. It is here that Cora & her charge Louise Brooks take their first steps towards their dreams.

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Charlie Chaplin grew up in & around the music hall. His parents aunt & their friends all earned their precarious livings on the stage & Chaplin himself started out his career touring music halls with a dance troupe. His experiences of the culture of the music hall were a major influence shaping his style of acting & the films he made most famously Limelight which tells the story of a failing variety performer & which evoked painful memories of his own past. Chaplin was horrified to see how performers lives were ruined when their audience turned against them & he was relieved to exchange the stresses of live performance for screen comedy. Barry Anthony here tells the story of the lives & careers of Chaplins family & their music-hall circle
- from dashing Eva Lester to the great Fred Karno & from Chaplins parents Hannah Hill & Charles Chaplin to The Great Calvero himself. He reveals the difficult & often-tragic lives of Londons variety community in the late-Victorian & Edwardian years a time of great change in the music hall & entertainment scene & in doing so sheds important new light on the inspiration behind Chaplins genius providing a fascinatingly fresh perspective on this popular cultural icon of the twentieth century.
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The long-established galactic order is passing. The Honoured Matres ruthless & all-conquering have destroyed the planet Dune. In opposition hard-pressed but still fighting back the Bene Gesserit sisterhood co-ordinate their resistance from their as-yet undiscovered home world Chapter House. Now as a new Scattering is planned they still have one carefully nurtured asset: the sandworms offspring of the only giant worm salvaged from Dune. Chapter House is to about to turn into a barren wasteland: Chapter House will be the new Dune. ...

Character Cake Toppers: Learn how to make amazing fondant cake topper designs with over 65 fun ideas for sugar characters bases & accessories. Whether its a pirate with his treasure chest & parrot or a kitten with a comfy cushion & a ball of yarn to play with each cake topper design has three unique features for you to make
- use these individually or mix & match from different designs to create your own unique cake toppers! Basic cake decorating techniques are explained with clear illustrated step-by-step instructions so everyone can make fun cake toppers for birthdays weddings & any occasion! From Maisie Parrish author of the bestselling Fun & Original series!
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The great game of charades has been redesigned for kids from 4 years old & upward to play & enjoy. Children can have fun looking at the cards & acting out things such as dogs chickens trains & acting out things such as opening a present & frying a pancake. There is great fun as the whole family try to guess before the egg timer runs out. Requires 3 or more players. Carries EU Toy Safety Directive not suitable for children under 4 years ...

In The Charge world renowned motivational speaker & bestselling author Brendon Burchard argues that in the hyper-digitized world in which we are living the time has come to revise the classic 'hierarchy of needs'
- which places the basic needs of safety & sustenance at the bottom. Burchard makes the case that it's time to re-examine what it takes to feel alive & fulfilled in a stressful chaotic world. Using pioneering studies from the fields of positive psychology & neuroscience as well as great stories from his own experience Burchard identifies the ten simple drives of human emotion & happiness: Control Competence Congruence Caring Connection Change Challenge Creative expression Contribution Consciousness. He shows how the 10 Cs which you can use to evaluate all your thoughts feelings & behaviour from the past 10 days -- & in every moment of your life -- are the gateways to your psychological health & happiness. The Charge provides the keys to understanding & activating these drives in clear & concrete ways that will inspire & help everyone find the one thing we all are searching for: more life in our lives.
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Welcome to the Cretaceous! This prehistoric world is pretty amazing as Jamie & Tom discover when they follow the fossilized footprints & end up in a land of real-life dinosaurs. Together with their little dinosaur friend Wanna the boys set off to explore the Cretaceous. They spy a triceratops but know they have nothing to fear
- after all this giant beast is a herbivore. But when there are lots of triceratops & theyre spooked by something its best not to get in their way.. .as the boys discover when they end up in the middle of a triceratops charge! This is the second book in the hugely popular Dinosaur Cove series which has now sold over a million copies. This new edition

Includes:: a set of Cretaceous collector cards.


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When Jamie moves to Dinosaur Cove with his father hes looking forward to doing some fossil hunting on the beach. But when he & his friend Tom discover a forgotten cave with fossilised dinosaur footprints it takes them to another world.. .a world of dinosaurs. Jamie & Tom return to their secret dinosaur world & find their friend Wanna the Wannanosaurus waiting for them. They spot what looks like a village in the distance & set off to investigate. On the way they meet a herd of Triceratops & it seems the only way to avoid being trampled is to hitch a ride on their backs. But as they approach the village the boys realize too late that what they thought were huts are in fact termite hills. With insects swarming all over them the Triceratops charge! Can the boys hang on? Will they fall under the feet of the giant dinosaurs? & how can they get away from the huge biting termites? ...

September AD 80. Flavia & her friends go to Rome to celebrate the Festival of Jupiter at Senator Cornixs town house. When a famous racehorse goes missing Nubia sets out to recover it. The four friends find themselves caught up in a plot against one of the rival factions the Greens. Who is trying to sabotage the charioteers? Could it be an inside job or someone with a grudge from long ago? & how many men & horses will die before the killer is caught? ...

An expert in the fields of charisma & leadership Olivia Fox Cabane has lectured at Stanford Yale Harvard MIT & the United Nations. A frequent keynote speaker & executive coach to the leadership of major companies she helps people increase their ability to influence persuade & inspire others. In The Charisma Myth" Fox Cabane breaks charisma down into its fundamental components revealing the secrets to what charisma really is & how it works. From a base of thorough behavioral science Fox Cabane extracts practical tools for business giving you the charisma-enhancing techniques she originally developed for Harvard & MIT." ...