What could be better than warming up by the fire & enjoying home-cooked food with family & friends? Make the most of being holed up indoors & prepare some warming Snow day Snacks. Enjoy sharing tasty treats such as Slow-cooked Tomatoes with Goat Cheese & Garlic Toasts. When its chilly outside what we naturally crave is warm comforting food. In Cold Day Comforts youll find plenty of warming dishes including Oven-braised Lamb Shanks with Potatoes & Tomatoes. What better way to spend an icy afternoon than preparing Fireside Feasts to share with family & friends. Try a Braised Pot Roast with Red Wine Rosemary & Bay. Make the most of the finest seasonal ingredients the winter has to offer & prepare healthy & satisfying Winter Salads. Choose from recipes such as Steak & Blue Cheese Salad. Whether you enjoy a luxurious dessert or a slice of cake in front of the fire there are plenty of delicious treats to choose from in Indulgent Desserts. Try a Roasted Hazelnut & Chocolate Cake. Finally in A Cup of Cheer there are plenty of ideas for delicious festive drinks. Relax at home with a warming Cinnamon Mocha or a Spiced Rum Chocolate. Enjoy winter entertaining with a Pomegranate Martini guaranteed to make any holiday gathering a success. ...

Led by Hanno & Ira Hath thirty-two mostly Manth survivors of the fall of the Mastery search for the fabled Homel&. Ira knows that as long as she feels the warmth on her face despite the wintry conditions they are heading in the right direction. She also knows that according to the prophecy she will die when they reach the homel&. She grows weaker with every step. Hanno must keep up the spirits of the marchers on the gruelling. ...

Youre a firestarter honey...just one big zippo lighter A year ago he was an upstanding instructor of English at Harrison State College. Now Andy is on the run with his daughter. A pigtailed girl named Charlie. A girl with an unimaginably terrifying gift.A gift which could be useful to corrupt authorities. Soon Charlie will be caught up in the menace of a fateful drug experiment & a sinister government ploy.. . Let the reader beware: FIRESTARTER is Stephen King at his most mesmerising.. .and menacing. ...

Rogue Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin is racing to New York to warn her former colleagues of the impending apocalypse. An ancient agreement between the Djinn & the Wardens has been broken & the furious Djinn slaves to the Wardens for millennia are now free of mortal control. With more than half the Wardens unaccounted for in the wake of the Djinn uprising Joanne realizes that the natural disasters theyve combated for so long were merely symptoms of restless Mother Nature fidgeting in her sleep. Now shes waking up
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In July 1943 a series of heavy bombing raids virtually destroyed the North German city of Hamburg. In one night alone some 40 000 people were killed largely as a result of the terrible firestorm. To this day controversy rages as to the morality of these attacks & their consequences.rnrn With his trademark thoroughness Martin Middlebrook has delved deep into the archives to uncover the facts. As ever he draws on copious eyewitnesses & participants
- a total of 547 British American & German. The testimonies of the Hamburg survivors are particularly revealing & harrowing providing a first hand description of what it was like to be subjected to prolonged & intense air attack.rnrn Paradoxically while Hamburg was arguably Bomber Commands greatest achievement it remains its
- & Air Marshal Harris
- most criticised. Often overlooked was the USAAFs role & this together with the contribution to the failure of German air defences of a new device Window are fully covered.rnrn Firestorm Hamburg is a masterly description of a major air campaign & the Authors aim of achieving a better understanding of the background conduct & results is fully realised. He does not shirk from studying the moral dilemma.


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Stopping to use a cash machine one evening a man falls to the ground: dead. A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenage girls who demonstrate a complete lack of remorse. One girl escapes police custody & disappears without trace. Soon afterwards a blackout covers half the country. When an engineer arrives at the malfunctioning power station he makes a grisly discovery... Inspector Kurt Wallander is sure that these events must be linked
- somehow. Hampered by the discovery of betrayals in his own team lonely & frustrated Wallander begins to lose conviction in his role as a detective. & somehow these criminals seem always to know the polices next move.
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What Lila wants to be more than anything else in the world is.. .a Firework-Maker! But firework-making is not just about being able to make Crackle-Dragons & Golden Sneezes. There is also one special secret: every Firework-Maker must make a perilous journey to face the terrifying Fire-Fiend! Not knowing that she needs special protection to survive the Fire-Fiend's flames Lila sets off alone. Her friends Chulak & Hamlet
- the King's white elephant
- race after her. But can they possibly reach her in time?

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Fast train fireman Ken Issitt worked on the footplate from the late 1940s to 1960 experiencing firing some of the greatest locomotives from the Flying Scotsman to Coltimore & Blink Bonney. The work was hard & conditions were tough but little did he know at the time that he was experiencing the last years of steam. He would never have imagined the romantic associations the period evokes today. Through a number of short accounts the past comes vividly to life via stories about train crashes pea-soup fogs & fires going out. From the beginning of a shift donning overalls & making up a packing & from shunting in the marshalling yard to flying along with an express train at 80mph
- Ken Issitt describes what life on the footplate was like across the last years of steam his tales beautifully brought to life by Chris Bates illustrations.
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Great managers do not help people overcome their weaknesses. They do not believe that each person has unlimited potential. They do play favourites & they break the Golden Rule book everyday. This amazing book explains why great managers break all the rules of conventional wisdom. The front-line manager is the key to attracting & retaining talented employees. No matter how generous its pay or how renowned its training the company that lacks great front-line managers will suffer. Great managers are the heroes of this book. Vivid examples show how as they select focus motivate & develop people great managers turn talent into performance. Finally the authors have distilled the essence of good management practice into twelve simple questions that work to distinguish the strongest departments of a company from all the rest. This book is the first to present this essential measuring stick & to prove the link between employee opinions & productivity profit customer satisfaction & the rate of turnover. ...

This title offers a new approach to the best-selling First Thousand Words Language" series. Each scene beautifully drawn by Stephen Cartwright is just begging to be coloured in. These books are an excellent way to encourage language learning for beginners. With 1000 everyday words combined with pictures this is a valuable vocabulary building tool for young children or for beginners of any age." ...