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 ...

A research trip to the Arctic & a new book
- life can't get much better for David Rain. As soon as David finds himself in the icy
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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... ...

' 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. ...

This is the second title in Toby Forwards Flaxfield" quartet. When an old dying wizard steals magic from his young apprentice Bee he changes his own life & nearly destroys hers. But he also releases Wild Magic into the world. Flaxfield & his apprentice young Cabbage set out to rescue Bee & make sure the old wizard doesnt use the Wild Magic against them all." ...

When the phone rang Parker was in the garage killing a man. He makes it in time to pick up the call
- & is immediately dispatched
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Shiva Naipaul was the brother of V. S. Naipaul & author of Fireflies" & " The Chip-Chip Gatherers". " Fireflies" his first novel published in 1970 & longlisted for the Lost Man Booker Award in 2010 is set in Naipauls native Trinidad. It

Includes:: a new foreword by Amit Chaudhuri. The Khojas are Trinidads most venerated Hindu family. Rigidly orthodox presiding over acres of ill-kept sugarcane & hoards of jewellery enthusiastically guarded by old Mrs Khoja they seem to have triumphed more by default than by anything else. Only Baby Khoja who is parcelled off into an arranged marriage with a blustering bus driver proves an exception to this rule. Her heroic story
- of resourcefulness strength & survival
- is the gleaming thread in Shiva Naipauls ferociously comic & profoundly sad first novel."



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