The hugely popular Gareth Malone recounts the heart-warming stories & transformations behind the award-winning BBC2 series The Choir including the new series Sing While You Work. 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 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 lifetime's 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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They are the Choirboys
- the patrol squad of the LA Police attempting to stay sane in an insane world. The Choirboys are five sets
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Victor Mancini has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mothers hospital care: pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant & the person who saves you will feel responsible for you for the rest of their lives. Multiply that a couple of hundred times & you generate a healthy flow of cheques week in week out. Victor also works at a theme park with a motley group of losers cruises sex addiction groups for action & visits his mother whose Alzheimers disease now hides what may be the startling truth about his parentage. ...

In the tradition of Steven Pinker's How the Mind Works" popular psychologist Sian Beilock an expert on performance & brain science reveals the astonishing new science of why we choke under pressure. She explains what happens in the body & mind when everything clicks & the perfect golf swing tricky mathematical problem or high-pressure business pitch suddenly become easy. With surprising insights on every page Beilock examines how: attention & working memory guide human performance; how experience & practice innate factors & brain development interact to create our abilities; how these interconnected elements react to stress
- explaining counterintuitive realities like why the cleverest students do worst on standardized tests; why we may learn foreign languages best when we're not paying attention; why early childhood athletic training can backfire; & how our emotions can make us both smarter & dumber. The mind & body are in even closer communication than was ever thought
- & breaks new ground on top of 30 years of integrative health investigations."

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'I have something you've lost ' the voice said. ' Your daughter.' HE WILL THREATEN HER he honeymoon is over for newlywed criminologist Marina Esposito. Her house is in flames. Her cop husband is in a coma. Her baby daughter is missing. & then her phone rings.. .HE WILL CONTROL HER The voice on the other end wants to play a game. If Marina completes a series of bizarre tasks within three days she wins her daughter's life. If she fails her little girl dies. The clock starts now. HE WILL PUSH HER TO THE EDGE In a desperate race against time Marina begins to suspect that the madman is someone she knows
- someone with a past as troubled as her own. But the truth is far darker than she imagines.. . Perfect for fans of Karin Slaughter & Tess Gerritsen the twisting terrifying new thriller from the bestselling author of Cage of Bones will leave you breathless with suspense.
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Wahoo Cray has grown up with a zoo in his backyard
- alligators snakes rats monkeys parrots but it's his dad who's the unpredictable
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Through tunnels rattling at stations stopping. Clickety clack! Off they go! This noisy busy bestselling book with fun rhyming text & bright bold artwork is jam-packed with trains planes racing cars sailing boats & more! Perfect for machine-mad little ones! ...

Through tunnels rattling at stations stopping. Clickety clack! Off they go! This board book edition of a noisy busy bestselling book with fun rhyming text & bright bold artwork is jam-packed with trains planes racing cars sailing boats & more! Perfect for machine-mad little ones! ...

Whether applying for a job writing a letter of complaint or simply talking with colleagues or friends the people who get listened to are those with a confident command of language. Choose the Right Word is a fun guide to using English effectively & to avoiding common mistakes. It is both a valuable work of reference & an enjoyable read. While plotting a path through a minefield of rules & conventions the book acknowledges that English is an ever-changing language & points out those rules that can at times be broken. 70 light-hearted quizzes show you how to use words that will make your point powerfully & usage tips set you right on contextual issues. Curio Corners tell the fascinating stories behind dozens of everyday words & phrases. Whats the difference between affect & effect; abjure & adjure? Does AD for Anno Domino come before or after the year
- & the century? Should you write all right or alright; adviser or advisor? How did the word alcohol come into our language? Just how sure are you about your apostrophes?
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