A feel-good book packed with uplifting"ations & good advice perfect for looking on the bright side during testing times" If you're already walking on thin ice you might as well dance. --Proverb """A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against & not with the wind." --John Neal """ Perserverance is failing nineteen times & succeeding the twentieth." --Julie Andrews" Never mind that your favorite jeans don't quite fit any more your mother-in-law has decided to stay another week & the local bar has stopped karaoke night--every cloud has a silver lining! There's good advice for every occasion to be found within the black-&-white pages of this tiny inspirational tome." ...

' If you were to ask me to tell you about my wife I would have to warn you at the outset that I don't know a great deal about her. Or at least not as much as I thought I did...' Alex is in his thirties a solitary man who has finally found love in the form of his beautiful & vivacious wife Rachel. When Rachel is brutally murdered one Midsummer Night by the lake in the grounds of their alma mater Worcester College Oxford Alex's life as he knew it vanishes. He returns to Oxford that winter & through the shroud of his shock & grief begins to try to piece together the mystery surrounding his wife's death. Playing host to Alex's winter visit is Harry Rachel's former tutor & trusted mentor who turns out to have been involved in some way in almost every significant development of their relationship throughout their undergraduate years. In his exploration of Rachel's history Alex also turns to Evie Rachel's self-centred & difficult godmother whose jealousy of her charge has waxed & waned over the years. & then there are her university friends Anthony & Cissy who shared with Rachel her love of Browning & a taste for the illicit. As Alex delves deep into the past to uncover shocking secrets & constantly shifting versions of the truth it is with these virtual strangers as his guides that he begins to confront the terrifying reality that neither his life nor his love are the things he thought them to be. ...

' If you were to ask me to tell you about my wife I would have to warn you at the outset that I don't know a great deal about her. Or at least not as much as I thought I did...' Alex is a solitary London lawyer who is deeply in love with his beautiful wife Rachel. When Rachel is brutally murdered one Midsummer Night in Oxford all of his happiness vanishes. Shrouded in shock & grief he returns to Oxford that winter & begins to try to piece together the mystery surrounding Rachel's death discovering in her wake a tangled web of sex & jealousy of would-be lovers & spiteful friends of blackmail & of revenge. ...

Ill say it was always dark. I never saw your face. Is that a promise? Are you going to keep your word if I trust you? YES! Will Booker stood up. You know I think I believe you Missy. Just so you believe me... The gunshot came as a surprise. Missy heard the echo crackling back from the trees as she was gasping at the incredible pain in her cheat. She tasted mud her scream strangling in her throat. The next bullet jolted her hitting below the ribs. She heard the second echo from the trees. She saw the smoke rising oddly from Wills jacket pocket. Ten years ago sleepy Shiloh Springs was shaken as five teenagers were clubbed & shot to death & a sixth left for dead. But now the killers conviction has been overturned after allegations that his rights were violated on his arrest. Rick Trueblood is a careworn private investigator working for the Shiloh County prosecutors office; a veteran loner still grieving for a daughter murdered eight years ago- a crime he has never been able to solve. The judge has allowed just sixty days for the prosecutors office to find enough evidence to retry the case. But as Rick struggles to re-investigate a trail long gone cold he starts to uncover a rats nest of intrigue & duplicity with ramifications that lead closer to home than he could have possibly imagined. Booker in the meantime is out on bail. All he wants with his freedom is to kidnap & murder the two adolescent daughters of the minister who brought him to faith. When Booker finally snatches the girls the local authorities follow procedures & file reports. Rick on the other hand has learned something about the way Booker thinks. In the desperate hours that follow Rick recovers his instinct for the hunt & with it quite unexpectedly a renewed passion for life. ...

The title comes from research that shows people are happiest on Fridays. Pastor Joel Osteen shares how we can generate this level of contentment & joy every day of the week. Known as a man who maintains a constant positive outlook in spite of circumstances Osteen has described this message as a core theme of his ministry. Combining his personal experiences with scriptural insights & principles for true happiness he shows listeners how every day can hold the same promise & opportunities for pure joy that they experience at five oclock on Friday. ...

Tormented & racked with guilt over the brutal slaying of his wife & daughter Charlie Parker ex-cop with the NYPD agrees to track down a missing girl. It is a search that will lead him into an abyss of evil. At the same time he is warned by an old black woman in Louisiana that The Travelling Man is about to strike again. Multiple strands converge with a horrific confrontation in which hunter & hunted are intimately connected by guilt. ...

In todays increasingly competitive & insecure economic environment we often question the reason for work: why am I doing this? Why is it so hard? & what can I do about it? Work may seem just a means to an end: we do it to earn the money to enjoy life outside the workplace. Here Timothy Keller argues that Gods plan is radically more ambitious: he actually created us to work. We are to work together to make the world a better place to help each other & so to find purpose for our lives. Our faith should enhance our work & our work should develop our faith. With deep insight Timothy Keller draws on essential & relevant biblical wisdom to address our questions about work. There is grace available if we have taken the wrong attitude idolising money & using our careers to glorify ourselves rather than God. Keller shows how through excellence integrity discipline creativity & passion in the workplace we can impact society for good. Developing a better attitude to work releases us to serve others humbly to worship God everyday & leaves us deeply fulfilled. ...

The Lathams seem to have it all: health wealth & a vibrant family life. As Mary Beth Latham contemplates a life built around home friends & community she has every reason to feel fulfilled & content. Then for one of her sons a process of unravelling begins. Mary Beth starts to focus on him only to find that the comfortable life she has spent years carefully constructing is shattered in a single moment. Forced to confront her own demons Mary Beth realises how the inconsequential moments we all share
- & one shameful act she has hidden from everybody
- may have contributed to her fate. Every Last One" is a mesmerising & devastating portrait of family life & a testament to the power of a mothers love & determination. It is Anna Quindlens finest work to date."

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The remarkable emotional debut novel both funny & moving which was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction from the critically aclaimed Andrea Levy author of the Orange Prize winning SMALL ISLAND & the Man Booker shortlisted THE LONG SONG. ' Better opportunity'
- that's why Angela's dad sailed to England from America in 1948 on the Empire Windrush. Six months later her mum joined him in his one room in Earl's Court... Twenty years & four children later Mr Jacob has become seriously ill & starts to move unsteadily through the care of the National Health Service. As Angela his youngest tries to help her mother through this ordeal she finds herself reliving her childhood years spent on a council estate in Highbury.
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James Herriot has captivated millions of readers & television viewers with tales of the triumphs disasters pride & sometimes heartache that filled his life as a vet in the Yorkshire Dales. Every Living Thing" shines with the captivating storytelling that has made James Herriot a favourite the world over. Here is a book for all those who find laughter & joy in animals & who know & understand the magic of wild places & beautiful countryside. He can tell a good story against himself & his pleasure in the beauty of the countryside in which he works is infectious
- " Daily Telegraph". Full of warmth wisdom & wit
- " The Field". It is a pleasure to be in James Herriots company
- " Observer"."


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