Do you think that healthy food couldn't possibly taste good? Does the idea of eating healthy" conjure up images of roughage & steamed vegetables? Author Ellie Krieger will change all that. A registered dietician Ellie is also a lover & proponent of good fresh food simply but deliciously prepared. & she's not about denial
- no non-fat foods here because when you take the fat out of natural foods in go the chemicals. " The Food You Crave" is all you'll need to change the way you eat & change the way you feel. It contains 200 recipes that cover every meal of the day & every craving you might have. Every recipe contains a complete nutritional breakdown as well as tips on ingredients & techniques that will keep you eating smart & eating well."
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This bestselling title is the definitive A-Z guide to safe & healthy eating. Calling on the wisdom of more than 300 nutrition experts the book shows how minor changes to your eating habits can lead to major changes in your quality of life. Look up an ailment & find out which foods help & which harm. ...

Discover the key foods that can help to prevent cancer. One-third of all cancer is linked to poor eating habits
- now leading research
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Roe Teagardens life finally seems to have settled into a comfortable pattern. Her marriage to Martin is going well shes back at work at the Lawrenceton library
- & she hasnt found a dead body in quite a while. But then one afternoon her handyman goes crazy in her side yard & Roe suspects this is a sign of bad things to come. Shes soon proved right as Martins niece Regina shows up with a baby that nobody knew she had. Then she disappears leaving behind the child
- & a murdered husb&. To find her Roe & Martin retrace her steps from sunny Georgia back to snowy Ohio where they find a nest of dark family secrets. Secrets which put them in peril.. .

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Lady Henrietta Maclellan longs for the romantic swirl of a London season. But as a rusticating country maiden she has always kept her sensuous nature firmly under wraps
- until she meets Simon Darby. Simon makes her want to whisper promises late at night exchange kisses on a balcony & receive illicit love notes. So Henrietta lets her imagination soar & writes a letter.. .a very steamy love letter that somehow becomes shockingly public. Everyone supposes that he has written the letter to her but the truth hardly matters in the face of the scandal to come if they don't marry at once. But nothing has quite prepared Henrietta for the pure sensuality of Simon who has vowed he will never turn himself into a fool over a woman. So while debutantes swoon as he disdainfully strides past the lovely ladies of the ton he ignores them all.. .until Henrietta. Could it be possible that he has been the foolish one all along?
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violetta & Feste have come to London to rescue the holy relics taken from the church in Illyria by the evil Malvolio. Their journey has been long & their adventures many but it is not until they meet the playwright William Shakespeare that they get to tell the entire story from beginning to end! But where will this remarkable tale ultimately lead violetta & her companion? & will they manage to save themselves & the relics from the very evil intentions of Malvolio. ...

Return to the world of the Farseers... Robin Hobb's best loved characters Fitz The Fool & Nighteyes the wolf face new adventures & trials in the first book of The Tawny Man trilogy. When Assassin's Quest closed Fitz was living in self-imposed exile. Wracked with pain he had chosen to discard the magical gifts that had seen him survive the wonders & torments of navigating the legendary city of the Elderlings & of raising a dragon. Now in this the first of a new trilogy we are returned to the world of the Six Duchies & the lives of those who managed to survive the events of the first Assassin trilogy. Fifteen years have passed & events are about to sweep Fitz out of his quiet backwater life & into the main political current again. Persecution of the Witted has become rampant throughout the Six Duchies despite Queen Kettricken's effort to damp it. The Witted themselves have begun to strike back. So when 15 year old Prince Dutiful disappears is it only because he is nervous about his betrothal ceremony to an Outislander princess or has he been taken hostage by the Witted? Worse is he perhaps another ' Piebald Prince' a Farseer tainted by Wit magic? As the desperate situation worsens Kettricken has no choice but to summon Fitz to Buckkeep for who better to track the young prince down than another gifted with the Wit together with his bonded companion the wolf Nighteyes? ...

The triumphant conclusion to our three thrilling fantasy series from the author of the bestselling Farseer & Liveship traders trilogies. The moving end to the tale of the Farseers in which kingdoms must stand or fall on the beat of a dragon's wings or a Fool's heart. A small & sadly untried coterie -- the old assassin Chade the serving-boy Thick Prince Dutiful & his reluctant Skillmaster Fitz -- sail towards the distant island of Aslevjal. There they must fulfil the Narcheska's challenge to her betrothed: to lay the head of the dragon Icefyre whom legends tell is buried there deep beneath the ice upon her hearth. Only with the completion of this quest can the marriage proceed & the resulting alliance signal an end to war between the two kingdoms. It is not a happy ship: tensions between the folk of the Six Duchies & their traditional enemies the Outislanders lie just beneath the surface. Thick is constantly ill & his random but powerful Skilling has taken on a dark & menacing tone while Chade's fascination with the Skill is growing to the point of obsession. Having ensured that his beloved friend the Fool is safely left behind in Buckkeep Fitz is guilt-stricken; but he is determined to keep his fate at bay since prophecy foretells the Fool's death if he ever sets foot on the isle of the black dragon. But as their ship draws in towards Aslevjal a lone figure awaits them! ...

In the mid 1990s at a vast hotel complex on a private Florida beach dozens of bankers from JP Morgan gathered for what was to become a legendary off-site meeting. It was a wild weekend. But among the drinking nightclubbing & fist-fights lay a more serious purpose
- to assess the possibility of building a business around the new-fangled concepts of credit derivatives. The group at the heart of this revolution was an intense team made up of individuals with a supreme sense of loyalty to each other & to the bank
- for years nothing could break them apart. But when finally the team dispersed the innovations spread far beyond their original intentions producing perversions in the mortgage market that ultimately culminated in disaster. Part real-life thriller part investigation & expose this searing narrative takes us deep inside the shadowy world of complex finance
- a perfect storm for the credit crunch


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From the author of international bestseller The Black Swan" Nassim Nicholas Taleb's " Fooled by Randomness" is the bestselling account of the hidden role of chance in life & the markets. Everyone wants to succeed in life. But what causes some of us to be more successful than others? Is it really down to skill & strategy
- or something altogether more unpredictable? This book is the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about business & the world. It is all about luck: more precisely how we perceive luck in our personal & professional experiences. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the markets
- we hear an entrepreneur has 'vision' or a trader is 'talented' but all too often their performance is down to chance rather than skill. It is only because we fail to understand probability that we continue to believe events are non-random finding reasons where none exist. A " Financial Times" book of the year this irreverent bestseller has shattered the illusions of people around the world by teaching them how to recognize randomness. Now it can do the same for you. " One of the smartest books of all time". (" Fortune"). " An iconoclastic tour de force.. .nothing escapes his Exocets". (" Evening Standard"). " Brilliant". (John Kay). " Excellent & thought-provoking.. .an entertaining book". (" Financial Times"). " Wall Street's principal dissident". (Malcolm Gladwell). Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b.1960) has devoted his life to immersing himself in probelmce s of luck uncertainty probability & knowledge. His books " The Black Swan" & " Fooled by Randomness" have been published in thirty-one languages & " Fooled by Randomness" was selected by " Fortune" magazine as one of ' The Smartest Books of All Time'."

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