One of a series for young children that explores what it is like to go through a number of significant new experiences this sensitive & entertaining book thoughtfully helps children to understand their feelings about the addition of a baby to their family. Written from a child's point of view it shows how negative feelings about the birth of a baby can be dealt with & how there are many good things about it too. The humourous illustrations not only enable the reader to relate the book to their everyday life but also stimulate discussion about the experience. Notes for parents carers & teachers help adults use the book most effectively with their children & include ideas for using it in literacy classes. Mike Gordon is a highly successful illustrator whose work for Wayland has established a respected information book br&. ...

One relentlessly hot summer six children explore the scorched wheat-fields that enclose their tiny Italian village. When the gang find a dilapidated farmhouse nine-year-old Michele makes a discovery so momentous he dare not tell a soul. It is a secret that will force him to question everything & everyone around him. An unputdownable thriller I'm Not Scared" is also a devastatingly authentic portrayal of childhood & the tension that arises when it must join the adult world." ...

This practical guide to Transactional Analysis is a unique approach to your problems. Hundreds of thousands of people have found this phenomenal breakthrough in psychotherapy a turning point in their lives. In sensible non-technical language Thomas A Harris explains how to gain control of yourself your relationships & your future
- no matter what happened in the past.
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I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" is the most listened to comedy programme on British radio. It regularly attracts an audience of 2.5 million listeners on Radio 4 a figure that would put it comfortably into the top ten programmes on BBC2 or Channel 4. The format of the game is very simple: four players
- Graeme Garden Tim Brooke Taylor Barry Cryer & a guest are given silly things to do by the Chairman Jack Dee with Colin Sell setting some of them to music. " Clue" continues to enjoy a long & successful run on BBC Radio 4 & in 2007 the show took on a new life with the first of many national tours playing to 2500-seat theatres across the country. With the 40th anniversary this autumn the world of " Clue" continues to expand & evolve constantly creating new games & welcoming a new generation of " Clue" players attracting new fans along the way."
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Tim Brooke-Taylor John Cleese Graeme Garden David Hatch Jo Kendall & Bill Oddie star in highlights from the groundbreaking BBC Radio series. Described by Barry Took as 'A kaleidoscope of funny voices catch phrase & innuendo revolving at breakneck speed & with a complete disregard for logic' I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" pre-dated "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" & showcased the comic talents of Tim Brooke-Taylor John Cleese Graeme Garden David Hatch Jo Kendall & Bill Oddie. This compilation of classic sketches

Includes:: " Full Frontal Radio" " Prune Manifesto" " Buffers" " Critics" " News in Welsh" " Listening to Flowers" " Eddie Waring Impersonation" & " Taming of the Shrew"
- all on a special vinyl-look CD. Vintage Beeb: classic albums first available as BBC LPs now reissued on CD."


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'I didn't want you to come here.' So says the note that the boy Edmund Hooper passes to Charles Kingshaw upon his arrival at Warings. But young Kingshaw & his mother have come to live with Hooper & his father in the ugly isolated Victorian house for good. To Hooper Kingshaw is an intruder a boy to be subtly persecuted & Kingshaw finds that even the most ordinary object can be turned by Hooper into a source of terror. In Hang Wood their roles are briefly reversed but Kingshaw knows Hooper will never let him be. Kingshaw cannot win not in the last resort. He knows it & so does Hooper. & the worst is still to come... This extraordinary evocative novel boils over with the terrors of childhood & won the Somerset Maugham Award. ' Hill's exploration of a juvenile ghoul & his natural prey is a brilliant tour de force'
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The genius behind such classic songs as Suzanne" " Bird on the Wire" & " Hallelujah" Leonard Cohen has been one of the most important & influential songwriters of our time a man of spirituality emotion & intelligence whose work has explored the definitive issues of human life
- sex religion power meaning love. Yet before he even began recording Cohen was an accomplished literary figure whose poetry & novels brought him considerable recognition. His dual careers in music & literature have transformed one another his songs revealing a literary quality rare in the world of popular music & his poetry & prose informed by a rich musicality. "I'm Your Man" explores the facets of Cohen's life
- from his early childhood in Montreal to his entree into the worlds of literature & music his immersion in Jewish culture obsession with Christian imagery & deep commitment to Buddhist detachment
- including the five years he spent at a monastery outside of Los Angeles & his ordainment as a Rinzai Zen Buddhist Monk. Sylvie Simmons draws on Cohen's private archives & a wealth of interviews with many of his closest associates colleagues & other artists whose work he has inspired as well as professors Buddhist monks & rabbis to share stories & details never before revealed & correct mistakes propounded in previous works. Unlike other biographies "I'm Your Man" gives equal time to Cohen's poetry & prose & balances his intellectual & religious sides. The result is this deeply insightful well-rounded portrait of an artist whose reach vision & incredible talent has had a profound impact on multiple generations & who continues to create magic today."


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I've lost it.: ( The only thing in the world I wasn't supposed to lose. My engagement ring. It's been in Magnus' family for three generations. & now the very same day his parents are coming I've lost it. The very same day. Do not hyperventilate Poppy. Stay positive!! :) A couple of glasses of bubbly with the girls & Poppy's life has gone into meltdown. Not only has she lost her engagement ring but in the panic that followed she's lost her phone too. When she spots an abandoned phone in a bin it seems it was meant to be. Finders Keepers! Except the phone's owner elusive businessman Sam Roxton doesn't agree. He wants his phone back & doesn't appreciate Poppy reading all his messages & wading into his personal life. Can things get any more tangled? ...

i-ssassins is part of the HEROES series created with series editor Frank Cottrell Boyce. Luke Kitson is training with ELITE a crack team of young hackers used by MI5 & currently investigating Your Life a new social networking site with vast ambitions. But disappearances begin
- first members of the site next MI5 agents & finally one of the ELITE hackers. Luke must infiltrate Your Lifes skyscraper headquarters & find his friend. One hundred floors. One thousand people who will do anything to stop him. Can Luke prove that he belongs to the ELITE?
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CONSIDER PHLEBAS The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died billions more were doomed. Moons planets the very stars themselves faced destruction cold-blooded brutal & worse random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender. Within the cosmic conflict an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture & the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza the Changer & his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries human & machine actually to find it & with it their own destruction. USE OF WEAPONS The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue dirty tricks or military action. The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity & pushed him towards his present eminence but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought. The drone known as Skaffen-Amtiskaw knew both of these people. It had once saved the woman's life by massacring her attackers in a particularly bloody manner. It believed the man to be a burnt-out case. But not even its machine intelligence could see the horrors in his past. THE PLAYER OF GAMES The Culture
- a human/machine symbiotic society
- has thrown up many great Game Players & one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board computer & strategy. Bored with success Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad cruel & incredibly wealthy to try their fabulous game.. .a game so complex so like life itself that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked blackmailed almost murdered Gurgeh accepts the game & with it the challenge of his life
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