Sexy tender funny & haunting by turns the stories in Alison Mac Leods daring new collection are tales of lovers would-be lovers & lovers gone wrong. Here we discover ECT patient Gloria who falls for her anaesthetist Dr Numb; the cerebral Nick who chases after the heavily pregnant Katie at an Ikea sale; & the legendary lovers Heloise & Abelard re-imagined for the twenty-first century. With settings that range from a cheap Paris cafe to Londons Hayward Gallery & from the Brighton seafront to the Nova Scotia coast these stories are at times magical at times grittily real but always affecting. ...

To many the First World War conjures up exclusively a picture of trench warfare in which the armies of both sides remained locked in the mud & despair of their static positions. The war of movement with which the conflict opened & closed is less well remembered. This book originally published in 1976 is an attempt to correct that situation by providing a detailed daily account of the actions of one of the finest of the battalions of the original British Expeditionary Force that crossed over to France in the summer of 1914 the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards
- The Models. The story is told in the words of the officers of the Battalion few of whom survived the war taken from their diaries & letters & covers all the major actions of the first five months of the War
- Mons & the Retreat the Marne the Aisne culminating in the dark & desperate days of First Ypres. By the end of that battle the Battalion had lost 959 men killed wounded & missing
- practically its entire strength. for the most part the story is told by Major Ma Jeffreys later General the Lord Jeffreys whose diaries supplemented on occasion by the diaries & letters of some of his brother officers & others provide a very complete graphic & deeply moving picture of those turbulent days as seen by an ordinary regimental officer of the old school.


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Based on the New York Times" bestselling book " The Fifth Agreement" the 48 cards in this deck offer a fresh perspective on the Four Agreements & a powerful new agreement for transforming our lives into our personal heaven. " The Fifth Agreement" takes us to a deeper level of awareness of the power of the Self & returns us to the authenticity we were born with. In this compelling sequel to the book that has changed the lives of millions of people around the world we are reminded of the greatest gift we can give ourselves: the freedom to be who we really are." ...

Before Breakfast at Tiffany's Audrey Hepburn was still a little-known actress with few film roles to speak of; after it
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THE ROSE RENT: A young woman recently widowed bestows one of her properties on the Abbey of Shrewsbury. In return she expects an annual rent of a single rose. But such a beautfiul & wealthy woman is an attractive proposition for suitors. Someone it seems will stop at nothing to prevent the payment of the rose- not even murder. THE HERMIT OF EYTON FOREST: Ten year old Richard Ludel has become the new Lord of Eaton following the death of his father & is expected to make a marriage of convenience. But Richard befriends the young companion of Cuthred the Hermit who has recently taken up residence at Eyton Forest; a place of peace. But its tranquility is shattered by the discovery of a corpse. THE CONFESSION OF BROTHER HAULIN: Brother Haulin slips from the roof of the Abbey & makes his deathbed confession to the Abbot & Brother Cadfael. When Haulin recovers he sets on an arduous journey of expiation with Cadfael as his sole companion. It is a journey which leads to some shocking revelations & eventually to murder. ...

Peter Senge founder & director of the Society for Organisational Learning & senior lecturer at MIT has found the means of creating a learning organisation. In The Fifth Discipline he draws the blueprints for an organisation where people expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire where new & expansive patterns of thinking are nutured where collective aspiration is set free & where people are contually learning together. The Fifth Discipline fuses these features together into a coherent body of theory & practice making the whole of an organisation more effective than the sum of its parts. Mastering the disciplines will: * Reignite the spark of learning driven by people focused on what truly matters to them. * Bridge teamwork into macro-creativity. * Free you from confining assumptions & mind-sets. * Teach you to see the forest & the trees. * End the struggle between work & family time. The Fifth Discipline is a remarkable book that draws on science spiritual values psychology the cutting edge of management thought & Senges work with leading companies which employ Fifth Discipline methods. Reading it provides a searching personal experience & a dramatic professional shift of mind. This edition contains more than 100 pages of new material about how companies are actually using & benefiting from Fifth Discipline practices as well as a new foreword from Peter Senge about his work with the Fifth Discipline over the last 15 years. ...

They say that diplomacy is a gentle art. That its finest practitioners are subtle sophisticated individuals for whom nuance & subtext are meat & drink. & that mastering it is a lifetime's work. But you do need a certain inclination in that direction. It's not something you can just pick up on the job. Which is a shame if you find yourself dropped unaccountably into a position of some significant diplomatic responsibility. If you don't really do diplomacy or haven't been to school with the right foreign bigwigs or aren't even sure whether a nod is as good as a wink to anyone sighted or otherwise then things are likely to go wrong. It's just a question of how badly... ...

Sam Vimes is a man on the run. Yesterday he was a duke a chief of police & the ambassador to the mysterious fat-rich country of Uberwald. Now he has nothing but his native wit & the gloomy trousers of Uncle Vanya (dont ask). Its snowing. Its freezing. & if he cant make it through the forest to civilization theres going to be a terrible war. But there are monsters on his trail. Theyre bright. Theyre fast. Theyre werewolves
- & theyre catching up. The Fifth Elephant" is Terry Pratchetts latest installment in the " Discworld" cycle this time starring dwarfs diplomacy intrigue & big lumps of fat."
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School life has never been so splendid as in these br&-new editions of the classic Blyton series St Clare's. The O' Sullivan twins & their friends are among the oldest girls at St Clare's now with their own studies! & soon there will be a decision about who is to be head girl next year. But in the meantime there is the poet Anne-Marie & the musician Felicity to contend with. Will they ever get along or will this term be just one long caterwaul? ...

Charley Davidson may not look like your everyday run-of-the-mill grim reaper but she has vowed to reap grimness wherever she goes despite this unfortunate fact. Sadly she gets sidetracked when the sexy sultry son of Satan Reyes Farrow moves in next door. As he is the main suspect in her arson case she has vowed to stay away from him until she can find out the truth. However when dead women start appearing in her apartment
- lost confused & terrified beyond reason
- Charley has no choice but to ask for Reyes's help especially when it becomes apparent that her own sister Gemma is the serial killer's next target. With his ability to observe incorporeally surely he can find out who's responsible. & even if he can't he is the one man alive who could protect Gemma no matter who or what came at her. But he wants something in return: Charley. All of her
- body & soul. & to keep her sister safe it is a price she might be willing to pay.. .


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