The head of Trinity College asks Archie Costello the leader of The Vigils a secret society that rules the school to sell 20 000 boxes of chocolates in the annual fund-raising effort. Archie sees the chance of adding to his power but newcomer Jerry Renault refuses to sell them. Enormous mental & physical pressure is put on him but he will not give in
- the result is an inevitable explosive tragedy. The story continues in Beyond the Chocolate War". As the school year closes many students look forward to leaving but Carter & Obie leading members of The Vigils cant contemplate the future until they have destroyed Archie Costello. Robert Cormiers hard-hitting novels make compulsive reading."
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The headmaster of Trinity College asks Archie Costello the leader of the Vigils a secret society that rules the school to help with the selling of 20 000 boxes of chocolates in the annual fund-raising effort. Archie sees the chance of adding to his power
- he is the Assigner handing out to the boys tasks to be performed if they are to survive in the school. Freshman Jerry Renault a newcomer to the corrupt regime refuses to sell chocolates. Enormous mental & physical pressure is put on him but he will not give in
- the result is an inevitable explosive tragedy.

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The delicious true story of the early chocolate pioneers by the award-winning writer & direct descendant of the famous chocolate dynasty Deborah Cadbury In Chocolate Wars bestselling historian & award-winning documentary maker Deborah Cadbury takes a journey into her own family history to uncover the rivalries that have driven 250 years of chocolate empire-building. In the early nineteenth century Richard Tapper Cadbury sent his son John to London to study a new & exotic commodity: cocoa. Within a generation Johns sons Richard & George had created a chocolate company to rival the great English firms of Fry & Rowntree & their European competitors Lindt & Nestle. The major English firms were all Quaker family enterprises & their business aims were infused with religious idealism. In America Milton Hershey & Forrest Mars proved that they had the appetite for business on a huge scale & successfully resisted the English companies attempts to master the American market. As chocolate companies raced to compete around the globe Quaker capitalism met a challenge that would eventually defeat it. At the turn of the millennium Cadbury the sole independent survivor of Englands chocolate dynasties became the worlds largest confectionary company. But before long it too faced a threat to its very survival & the chocolate wars culminated in a multi-billion pound showdown pitting independence & Quaker tradition against the cut-throat tactics of a corporate leviathan. Featuring a colourful cast of savvy entrepreneurs brilliant eccentrics & resourceful visionaries Chocolate Wars is the story of a uniquely alluring product & of the evolution for better & worse of modern business. ...

Life is sweet for chocolate maker Chloe Lyon... In the picture-perfect Lancashire village of Sticklepond Confectioner Chloe dispenses inspirational sweet treats containing a prediction for each customer. If only her own life was as easy to forecast
- perhaps Chloe could have foreseen being jilted at the altar... But when a new Vicar arrives in the village the rumour mill goes into overdrive. Not only is Raffy Sinclair the charismatic ex-front man of rock band Mortal Ruin hes also the Chloes first love & the man who broke her heart. Try as she might Chloe cant ignore this blast from her past. Could now be the time for her to make a wish
- & dare to believe it can come true? A charming novel for chocoholics everywhere perfect for fans of Katie Fforde Jill Mansell & Carole Matthews.

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The comprehensive guide to chocolate & candy making for professionals & serious home cooks Chocolate & candy making is more popular & accessible than it has ever been. This book combines artisan confectionery techniques with straightforward explanations of the theory science & formulas at work. Fundamental information

Includes:: ingredient function & use chocolate processing & artisan production techniques. Professionals & home enthusiasts will find formulas & variations for gorgeous & delectable confections including dairy-based centers crystalline & non-crystalline sugar confectionery jellies nut centers & aerated confections. Expanding on the award-winning first edition this new revision provides the same comprehensive content foolproof formulas & step-by-step instructions readers expect along with the very latest information & guidelines. Revised to include 30 percent new recipes & formulas more than 250 photos & 27 illustrations Features new sections on opening a professional bakeshop packaging & marketing & American-style layered candy bars Written by Certified Master Baker Peter Greweling one of the world's top names in confections & author of Chocolates & Confections at Home with The Culinary Institute of America from Wiley

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Sometimes the choice is too hard to bear... Nikki Grant is only twenty-one when she discovers she's pregnant. Despite her parents' disappointment & anger she welcomes the news with joy. The baby will complete the happy home she shares with the man she adores Spencer James. Baby Zac arrives & is perfect in every way. & with Spencer's career taking off they are ready to make the big move to London. & then on a day like any other Nikki suddenly finds her life turned upside down by tragedy. As she becomes evermore embroiled in a world she cannot escape the love between Nikki & her son is put to the kind of test no mother should ever have to face... ...

Travis Parker has everything a man could want: a good job; loyal friends; his dream home in small-town North Carolina. In full pursuit of the good life he believes that a serious relationship with a woman would only cramp his style. That is until Gabby Holland moves in next door. Despite Traviss attempts to be friendly she seems to have a chip on her shoulder about him. But something compels Travis to get to know his new neighbour. His persistent efforts lead them both to make tough decisions the consequences of which neither could have foreseen. The Choice confronts us with that most heart-wrenching question of all: how far would you go to keep the hope of love alive? ...

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The hugely popular Gareth Malone recounts the heart-warming stories & transformations behind the award-winning BBC2 series The Choir For the first time Gareth reveals everything he has learned from working with so many groups of memorable people including the record-breaking Military Wives & latest series of The Choir being shown this Autumn. Gareth was an unknown Choirmaster when he arrived on British TV screens five years ago. Boyish irrepressible & determined Gareth took on a collection of kids from the most unlikely comprehensive & turned them into a talented performing choir. This was the beginning of a national love affair with a bow-tied & undeniably charming young man & it was also the start of a national rediscovery of the joy to be found in choirs. Since then each series of The Choir has gone on to even more demanding challenges taking young offenders to Glyndebourne regenerating disparate & far from affluent communities & finally in an extraordinarily emotional journey Gareth took a group of women whose partners were serving in Afghanistan to a Christmas Number One. This Autumn in a new four-part series The Choir: Sing While you Work Gareth will be challenging four new Choirs to compete against each other. This is his memoir of a period in which he transformed the lives of thousands but also gained a lifetimes worth of experience in human frailty & strength. Written with real joy emotion & amusement the twenty chapters each deal with an individual moment
- both break-throughs & disasters
- or an individual character that has contributed to this extraordinary adventure. Whether he is explaining the importance of biscuits or the role of the elderly in a community undertaking remembering the scrappy kid who never quite delivered or the mother who had most to prove this is an incredibly moving journey. It is his adventure...and ours.

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In the gentle precinct of Aldminster Cathedral crisis loomed. The urbane & worldly Dean (Purdey guns & the regular arrival of a delivery van from Berry Brothers) wanted nothing so much as to restore & beautify his beloved Cathedral
- even if it meant sacrificing the Choir School to pay for it. Alexander Troy Headmaster of the school a conscientious man somewhat out of his depth with his elusive & poetical wife (once seen walking barefoot in the dew across the Cathedral Close) was determined that nothing & no-one
- certainly not the overbearing Dean
- should destroy the Choir. As the rift widened into machiavellian

Dimensions many others found themselves caught in the schism
- Leo Beckford brilliant but wayward organist repelling the adoration of the Dean's dreadful daughter
- the gentle left-wing Bishop trying to soothe the angry protagonists
- Sally Ashworth mother of the leading chorister fighting loneliness & an erring & absent husb&. Each frail & human dilemma took its part in the greater turmoil of Chapter & Close & the final battle for the survival of the Choir.







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