The fire was visible seventy miles away as a distant flickering flame on the horizon. The heat generated was so intense that a helicopter could only circle at a perimeter of one mile. Flying at a height of 200 feet the air crew saw that the tongues of flame extended high above the rotor blades. On the surface a converted fishing trawler inched as close as possible but the paint on the vessels hull blistered & burnt & the rope handrails began to smoke. In the water surrounding the inferno mens heads could be seen bobbing like apples as their yellow hard hats melted with the heat. At the centre stood at least for now the Piper Alpha oil platform 110 miles northeast of Aberdeen once the worlds single largest oil producer. On 6 July 1988 its final day it was ablaze with 226 men onboard. Only sixty-one would survive. Fire in the Night" tells for the first time & in gripping detail the devastating story of that summer evening. Combining interviews with survivors witness statements & transcripts from the official enquiry into the disaster this is the moving & vivid tale of what happened on that fateful night inside an oil rig inferno." ...

Three bears incredible journey. When the land comes to an end Kallik Toklo Lusa & Ujurak venture on to the ice as a new path spreads out before them. But the ice is more dangerous than the bears expect & all must put their trust in Kalliks paws as they struggle to survive the bitter cold. Just when they think theyll never make it an encounter with a mystical star-bear means different things for each of the cubs
- but brings the same message: All will be well if they go to the place where the sun rises.. .
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Growing up in the 1950s Tom Bianchi would head into downtown Chicago & pick up 25-cent physique" magazines at newsstands. In one such magazine he found a photograph of bodybuilder Glenn Bishop on Fire Isl&. " Fire Island sounded exotic perhaps a name made up by the photographer " he recalls in the preface to his latest monograph. "I had no idea it was a real place. Certainly I had no idea then that it was a place I would one day call home." In 1970 fresh out of law school Bianchi began traveling to New York & was invited to spend a weekend at Fire Island Pines where he encountered a community of gay men. Using an SX-70 Polaroid camera Bianchi documented his friends' lives in the Pines amassing an image archive of people parties & private moments. These images published here for the first time & accompanied by Bianchi's moving memoir of the era record the birth & development of a new culture. Soaked in sun sex camaraderie & reverie " Fire Island Pines "conjures a magical bygone era. Tom Bianchi was born & raised in the suburbs of Chicago & graduated from Northwestern University School of Law in 1970. He became a corporate attorney eventually working with Columbia Pictures in New York painting & drawing on weekends. His artwork came to the attention of Betty Parsons & Carol Dreyfuss & they gave him his first one-man painting show in 1980. In 1984 he was given his first solo museum exhibition at the Spoleto Festival. After Bianchi's partner died of AIDS in 1988 he turned his focus to photography producing " Out of the Studio " a candid portrayal of gay intimacy. Its success led to producing numerous monographs including " On the Couch " " Deep Sex" & " In Defense of Beauty."" ...

Nanda Kaul is old. She has chosen to spend her last years high up in the mountains where she can arrange her thoughts into tranquility. But her solitude is broken when her fragile & secretive great-gr&-daughter Raka comes to stay. It is an intrusion Nanda Kaul deeply resents but this child has a capacity to change things. Through the long hot summer months hidden dependencies & old wounds are uncovered until tragedy seems as inevitable as a forest fire on the hillsides surrounding the villa. ...

Ive watched deer & elk frolic in the meadow below me & pine trees explode in a blue ball of smoke. If theres a better job anywhere on the planet Id like to know what it is. For nearly a decade Philip Connors has spent half of each year in a small room at the top of a tower on top of a mountain alone in millions of acres of remote American wilderness. His job: to look for wildfires. Capturing the wonder & grandeur of this most unusual job & place Fire Season evokes both the eerie pleasure of solitude & the majesty might & beauty of untamed fire at its wildest. Connors time up on the peak is filled with drama -- there are fires large & small; spectacular midnight lightning storms & silent mornings awakening above the clouds; surprise encounters with smokejumpers black bears & an abandoned dying fawn. Filled with Connors heartfelt reflections on our place in the wild Fire Season is an instant modern classic: a remarkable memoir that is at once an homage to the beauty of nature the blessings of solitude & the freedom of the independent spirit. Advance praise for Fire Season: A masterwork of close observation deep reflection & hard-won wisdom.. .an unforgettable reckoning with the American land Philip Gourevitch His adventures in radical solitude make for profoundly absorbing restorative reading Walter Kirn ...

The Fire Starter Sessions" is an apathy-kicking integrity-infusing guide to defining success on your own terms. With her signature in-the-trenches truth-telling & humour Danielle reframes popular self-help & success concepts to cut through dull thinking & fear in order to get straight to your core desires pragmatism & courage. " The Fire Starter Sessions" is oxygen for aspirations & a modern-day philosophy for people who want to believe that consciousness & cash can co-exist.. .that desire will burn the way to fulfilment.. .that all dreams are renewable. Each session in the book is accompanied by worksheets that are provocative & results oriented. Danielles unique personal narrative of loss & achievement
- from boardrooms to ashrams
- flow with stories of women & men who stopped playing it safe & became freedom seekers & fear tamers."

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Tyranno the evil Starlord plans to attack Earth with his alien armies. Your quest is to defeat Tyranno. But before YOU can challenge him you must battle Vulkana ruler of Fireworld. Defeat Vulkana & capture her Staff of Power. Use it to upgrade your DART suit with a brand new ability! You are the hero of this book. Only you can decide your own destiny... ...

The battle of her life has begun In the barren territory of Sitia power comes at a price. Yelena Zaltana possesses the most terrifying magic in the district
- the ability to capture & release souls. While the sinister Sitian council meet to decide her fate Yelena must capture a Soulstealer her dark counterpart until she discovers someone far more dangerous. & in the war between good & evil there can only ever be one victor.
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' David ran a hand through his mop of brown hair. Dragons. It was certainly different from his last set of lodgings where all you got were spiders & the occasional mouse. It's perfect " he said.' When David arrives at Wayward Crescent he has no idea what lurks inside the Pennykettle house. Only when he's given his own special dragon does he begin to unlock their mysterious secrets & to discover the fire within..." ...

The No 1 Swedish thriller by the author of The Hypnotist & The Nightmare One girl is dead Detective Inspector Joona Linna has been called to a home for troubled girls north of Stockholm. A young girl has been brutally murdered her body arranged in bed with her hands covering her eyes. One girl is missing Vicky Bennet is the only girl unaccounted for. Did she run away to escape the chaos or does a bloody hammer found under her pillow make her the prime suspect? One girl claims to have witnessed it all In Stockholm Flora Hansen works as a medium pretending to commune with the dead. When she begins to suffer crippling visions of the young girl's murder will anyone believe her? As Joona refuses to accept the easy answers his search leads him into darker more violent territory & finally to a shocking confrontation with his past. ...