Utterly in love with Jesus Christ & living in poverty Francis of Assisi touched history. Christians followers of other religions & even those who declare they have no faith find they have something in common with him that stirs their sympathy. In 1209 as a young man from the Umbrian region he went to see the pope. He sought permission to live exactly as Jesus Christ had done: poor obedient celibate. From a distance the pope saw Francis & his eleven companions. But he had Francis sent away banishing from his presence the very man sent by providence who could have turned his hopes for the Church into reality. Later the pope recalled a dream he'd had. He had seen the Lateran basilica leaning dangerously to one side when suddenly a little monk looking like a beggar supported it with his shoulder & stopped it from collapsing. ' Of course ' the pope understood 'that monk was Francis of Assisi!' How could he not listen to him? We today can listen to him through his writings the stories & biographies that speak of him. It would be like a new dawn reversing the decline all around us into a new future. The texts in this book can all be found in the Early Documents series of the Franciscan movement published by New City in three volumes plus a fourth volume containing the index for these Early Documents. ...

Whacky poems that take a roller-coaster ride from the crazy corners of dreams to the big questions of life. Steve Turner's first collection of poetry for children is regularly in the best-seller lists. The poems make an instant impact on children & the themes & ideas in them give lots of food for thought. ...

Brian Cloughs family are among the many people who describe their personal memories of the charismatic football manager in this unique collection of tributes. Brians widow Barbara & their daughter Elizabeth have provided a rare insight into life with the man known as the Master Manager. Barbara recalls how they met in Middlesbrough & how his tremendous generosity remains one of her over-riding memories of her husb&. Elizabeths memories include travelling in her Dads car listening to Frank Sinatra songs. Brians brother Joe & sister Doreen also recount their memories in this book compiled by journalist & author Marcus Alton who is the editor of the tribute website brianclough.com. This collection of anecdotes & tributes

Includes:: contributions from fans friends & former players collected by Marcus since he set-up the non-profit-making website over 10 years ago. Those who worked closely with Old Big Ead describe memorable times in his company
- including the TV producer who captured unique footage of Cloughie in his back garden as he sang a surprise tribute to his old friend & commentator Brian Moore. There is no doubt that an encounter with Cloughie was usually unforgettable
- as this book illustrates. Just ask the fan whose car broke down on the A52 (now Brian Clough Way) only to hear a knock on his window & an offer of help from
- yes you guessed it. A former player describes for the first time how he threw a bucket of water over Cloughie by accident. You can guess the result! Marcus Altons royalties from this book are going to the Brian Clough Memorial Fund which is run by the Clough family & gives money to the types of good causes that Brian supported. Fans may think they have heard all there is to know about Cloughie. But this book has many untold stories & tributes demonstrating how he touched so many lives & won admirers around the world.




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' My boyfriend could get into trouble if he gets caught. He could go to jail.' I moan softly. ' So could I.' ' Anything you tell me is completely confidential.' I sigh deeply. What have I got to lose? 'I wouldn't know where to begin.' ' At the beginning?' she says. ' In your own words.' So that's what I do. I start at the beginning like she says. The day I met Suzie. Indigo (Indie) rings the Samaritans. She is frightened & desperate with no one to turn to. Over the course of one long night Indie tells her story to the person on the end of the phone. She realises that her friend Suzie has taken over her home her friends her work her boyfriend
- & her life. After every few chapters we are brought back to the present moment & see how piecing the story together helps Indie progress towards resolution.
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When a boy swaps his dad for two goldfish he does not really think through the consequences! After all he is not the only person who can swap stuff. When the boy is told by his mother that he has to get his father back it is not so easily done. It seems that the father has a pretty high value as he has been traded by one child to the next leaving a trail that the son has to follow. Where will it all end? ...

Have you ever wondered why it takes so long to get out of bed in the morning? & why you always wake up bursting for a pee? Why that small blackhead has erupted into a hideous red spot overnight? & why stepping into a hot shower gives you goose bumps? Following an average family & their daily routine Dr Hilary Jones takes you on a bold & captivating journey through the human body answering these questions & hundreds more. From how our bodies function to why they react in certain ways Dr Hilary tackles the questions that matter & examines what makes us tick. Fascinating & highly entertaining A Day in Your Life reveals the incredible nature of the human body. ...

When all contact is lost with two Icelanders working in a harsh & sparsely populated area on the northeast coast of Greenland Thora is hired to investigate. Is there any connection with the woman who vanished from the site some months earlier? Why are the locals so hostile? & could one of the team staying at the site with Thora be responsible for the disappearances? Already an international bestseller this fourth book to feature Thora Gudmundsdottir (a delight
- Guardian) is chilling unsettling & compulsively readable.
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Mark Wallington has a dream. He is going to change the face of British comedy. Unfortunately for the residents of north London hes going to finance this dream by becoming a gardener. The result is The Day Job" an account of a year spent working in other peoples gardens: people like Mrs Fleming who is convinced there is buried treasure in the bottom bed; Mr Walters who is trying to create a fascist state policed by gnomes in his well-guarded plot in Gospel Oak; Mrs Glover who is probably the most attractive women living in Britain; & poor Mr Nugent who likes to save his urine in jam jars & pour it over his compost. Over four seasons Wallington crosses Hampstead Heath from job to job. He survives brushes with the evil contract gardeners who keep trying to knock him off his bicycle. He strives to impress literary agent Herman Gapp who might represent him
- depending on what sort of job he does on Gapps Alpine Terrace. He even finds time to fall for a housecleaner-cum-actor named Helen as he becomes part of a strange band of artistes each with a day job of their own all waiting for that first break. This is the story of long nights spent in the back room of a pub trying to write unsolicited scripts & of much longer days spent trying to understand the British & their strange obsession with gardening."
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When Louis gets eaten up by a Gulper his big sister Sarah knows she has to act fast & sets off in hot pursuit. But rescuing a boy from a Gulper's tummy isn't so simple
- especially when other strange & scary creatures are looking for their dinner too...
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The incomparable Jack Higgins returns to the bestseller lists launching undercover enforcer Sean Dillon into his most spectacular adventure yet
- a no-holds-barred battle with a Mafia don. It's all action & suspense as Sean Dillon & his secret intelligence colleagues seek to help American White House security insider Blake Johnson avenge the death of his ex-wife a reporter murdered for getting too close to a Mafia story. In London Beirut & Ireland the daredevil friends are prepared to risk everything as they combine to thwart the ever more desperate ambition of Mafia frontman Jack Fox. Here in his eighth adventure former IRA terrorist turned British Government enforcer Sean Dillon is established as one of the most popular characters in modern fiction while Jack Higgins has an unrivalled position as the biggest name in thriller writing around the world. Widely hailed as an outstanding return to form Day of Reckoning raced straight into the top ten of the Sunday Times bestseller list in hardback
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