Unapologetic unassuming & forthright the combat exploits of Executive Outcomes in Angola & Sierra Leone are recounted for the first time by a battlefield commander who was physically on the ground during all their major combat operations From fighting the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola for critical oil installations & diamond fields to the offensive against the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone to capture the Kono diamond fields & the palace coup which ousted Captain Valentine Strasser van Heerden was at the forefront. He tells of the tragedy of child soldiers illegal diamond mining & the curse of government soldiers who turn on their own people; he tells of RUF atrocities the harrowing attempt to rescue a downed pilot & the efforts to recover the remains of soldiers killed in action. Coupled with van Heerdens gripping expose hitherto unpublished photographs order of battle charts & battle maps offer unprecedented access to the major actions as they took place on the ground during the heydays of Executive Outcomes. ...

The eighth novel in the Alex Cross series Alex Cross is preparing to resign from the Washington Police Force. He's enjoying the feeling; not least because the Mastermind is now in prison. & Alex has met a woman Jamilla Hughes & he is talking about the future. Then John Sampson shows up at the house desperate for Alex's help. Three young military wives have been brutally killed during a 'girls' night out' & Sampson's friend a master sergeant at the army base stands accused. Uncovering evidence of a series of suspicious murder convictions Alex & Sampson are determined to infiltrate the closed world of the military. But what is the army trying to hide? & do the mysterious symbols daubed on the house of the accused mean that there are more sinister forces at work? ...

FOUR BLONDES charts the romantic intrigues liaisons betrayals & victories of four modern women: a beautiful B-list model finagles rent-free summerhouses in the Hamptons from her lovers until she discovers she can get a man but cant get what she wants; a high-powered magazine columnists floundering marriage to a literary journalist is thrown into crisis when her husbands career fails to live up to her expectations; a Cinderella records her descent into paranoia in her journal as she realises she wants anybodys life except her own; an artist & aging It girl
- who fears that her time for finding a man has run out
- travels to London in search of the kind of love & devotion she cant find in Manhattan... Studded with her trademark wit & stiletto-heel-sharp insight FOUR BLONDES is dark true & compulsively readable.

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The new bestseller from Jacqueline Wilson creator of Tracy Beaker" " Hetty Feather" & " The Illustrated Mum" is a funny moving & heartwarming story of four children who discover a way to make wishes come true. Echoing the classic E Nesbit novel " Five Children & It" this new story from this mega-selling author winner of the " Guardian" Children's Fiction Prize is a brilliant read not just for those familiar with the original book but for any of Wilson's millions of fans." ...

Four Children & It" is the number one bestseller from Jacqueline Wilson the award-winning bestselling creator of " Tracy Beaker" " Hetty Feather" & " The Illustrated Mum". A funny & heartwarming story of four children who discover an extraordinary way to make wishes come true " Four Children & It" is inspired by E Nesbit's classic " Five Children & It". Jacqueline Wilson's millions of fans will be gripped by the relationship between step-sisters Rosalind & Smash just as they love the story of sisters Jodie & Pearl in " My Sister Jodie" or Lily & Pixie in " Lily Alone". " Readers always ask who inspired me to be a writer. Well I adored E Nesbit's books as a child
- & I liked her lifestyle too. She liked Liberty clothes silver jewellery & buns for tea & so do I! My favourite E Nesbit story is " Five Children & It"
- & this is my modern day tribute to her fantastic story". (Jacqueline Wilson). Jacqueline Wilson has won many awards for her writing including the " Guardian" Children's Fiction Award & the Children's Book of the Year. She is one of the nation's favourite authors & her books are loved by young readers not only in the UK but all over the world."

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According to ancient Yogic tradition your soul has four distinct desires: the desire for purpose the drive to become who you are meant to be; the desire for the means (money security & health) to prosper in this world; the desire for pleasures like intimacy beauty & love; & the desire for spiritual fulfillment & lasting freedom. Learning to honour these four desires is the key to happiness & to a complete & balanced life. But how can you discern what will truly satisfy your desires? How can you increase your capacity to achieve them? What if your desires seem to conflict with one another? Is it really possible to live a spiritual life while also wanting material pleasures & success? For more than three decades master teacher Rod Stryker has taught yoga in the context of its deepest philosophy. His course called The Yoga of Fulfillment" has helped thousands recognise their souls call to greatness & to achieve their dreams. Now in this wise & richly practical book he has distilled those broad teachings into a road map for becoming the person you were meant to be. It is filled with revealing true stories provocative exercises & practices for unlocking your inner guidance. & even if youve never done a yoga pose you can follow this step-by-step process to: discover your souls unique purpose
- the one you came into this world to fulfill; recognise the goal (s) you need to focus on at any given time & enliven your capacity to reach them; overcome self-defeating ideas & behaviour; recruit your deepest energies & strengthen your resolve to meet any challenge; & learn to live with joy at every stage of your growth. " The Four Desires" is nothing less than a complete path toward living your best life possible
- a life that is rich in meaning & in means a life that attracts & emanates happiness."

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In this very funny sports book (a cross between Nick Hornby & Bill Bryson) young journalist Lawrence Donegan tells the story of the summer he spent caddying for Scottish golfer Ross Drummond ranked over 400 in the world on the European Tour. This is the inside story of the geniuses the cheats the gurus & the hangers-on that make up the golf scene. A joy to read. Not since Bill Bryson plotted a random route through small-town America has such a breezy idea for a book had a happier or funnier result
- Lynne Truss The Times". Funny beautifully observed & it tells you things about sport in general & golf in particular that nobody else had thought to pass on
- Patrick Collins " Mail on Sunday"."

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Beverley a bit of a snob cooks up a plot to visit the island off the coast. She manages to convince the somewhat cautious Elizabeth & her slob of a brother Gerard to come along. A surprise companion is Kevin the cool guy who works in the local shop. This motley crew must find ways to support each other & put up with one anothers shortcomings when they become stranded on the island & encounter a strange inhabitant. ...

By the late 1970s boxing had lapsed into a moribund state & interest in it was on the wane. In 1980 however the sport was resuscitated by a riveting series of bouts involving an improbably dissimilar quartet: Sugar Ray Leonard Marvelous Marvin Hagler Thomas Hearns & Roberto Duran. The Four Kings of the Ring would fight one another nine times throughout the decade & win sixteen world titles between them. Like Ali & Frazier Dempsey & Tunney Robinson & La Motta these four boxers brought out the best in each other producing unprecedented multi-million-dollar gates along the way. Each of the nine bouts between the four men was memorable in its own way & at least two of them
- Leonard-Hearns I in 1981 & Hagler-Hearns in 1985
- are commonly included on any list of the greatest fights of all time. The controversial outcome of another
- the 1987 Leonard-Hagler fight
- remains the subject of heated debates amongst fans to this day. Leonard Hagler Hearns & Duran didnt set out to save boxing from itself in the post-Ali era but somehow they managed to do so. In Four Kings award-winning journalist George Kimball documents the remarkable effect they had on the sport & argues that we will never see their likes again.



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The laws of thermodynamics drive everything that happens in the universe. From the sudden expansion of a cloud of gas to the cooling of hot metal & from the unfurling of a leaf to the course of life itself
- everything is directed & constrained by four simple laws. They establish fundamental concepts such as temperature & heat & reveal the arrow of time & even the nature of energy itself. Peter Atkins powerful & compelling introduction explains what the laws are & how they work using accessible language & virtually no mathematics. Guiding the reader from the Zeroth Law to the Third Law he introduces the fascinating concept of entropy & how it not only explains why your desk tends to get messier but also how its unstoppable rise constitutes the engine of the universe.
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