The Inner Game of tennis is that which takes place in our mind played against such elusive opponents as nervousness self-doubt & lapses of concentration. It is a game played by our mind against its own bad habits. Replacing one pattern of behaviour with a new more positive one is the purpose of the Inner Game". Peak performance at tennis like any sport only comes when our mind is so focused that it is still & at one with what our body is doing. The key to the " Inner Game" & better tennis is achieving this state of relaxed concentration so that we are playing "out of our mind" & therefore no worrying about how when or where to hit the ball. In The Inner Game of Tennis Tim Gallwey a professional player & instructor who has produced dramatic results among the amateurs & pros he has trained explores how to overcome mental obstacles improve concentration & reduce anxiety for better performance at every level. There is no physical reason why any of us should not more consistently serve aces or hit perfect returns. The Inner Games approach makes all the difference." ...

A dangerous secret is coming to shore.. . Philip Quinn has done everything to make his life perfect. With his career on the fast track & a condo overlooking the Inner Harbour his life on the streets is firmly in the past. But one look at his adopted brother Seth & the memories come flooding back. In Seth he sees the boy he once was. Seth's future seems assured
- until Dr Sybill Griffin shows up in the sleepy town of St Christopher's. She claims to be researching the town for her new book but Philip is sure she is hiding something. While he is determined to uncover her motives Sybill cannot deny her own growing feelings for the intense & mysterious Quinn
- but the secret she hides has the power to shatter the brothers' lives for ever.. .

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Holderness 1846. For reliable thirteen-year-old Bella life isnt turning out quite as shed hoped. She lives at the Woodman Inn
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Sunday Times bestselling author Kathleen Tessaro returns with a stunning new novel that will be a big hit with fans of her ...

Attorney Scott Finn has returned to the tough Charlestown streets of his youth where he ekes out a living from any legal work he can get. But nothing has prepared him for a case as twisted as the one he now faces. Fifteen years ago doctor & illegal immigrant Vincente Salazar was convicted of a brutal attack on a female undercover cop. Now he finds support in his claim for a new trial & Finn is the only one able to fight to find the truth. Allying himself with maverick detective Tom Kozlowski Finn uncovers a web of lies corruption & secrets that stretch from Central America to Boston's suburbs which could threaten the security of the nation. Before Finn & Kozlowski know it it will be their lives that hang in the balance as they search desperately for the thin line between guilt & innocence. 'A knock-out; Grisham with passion even a touch of the great Michael Connelly thrown in.. . It crackles from the first page to the last & never lets up for a second' Daily Mail ...

Charlies brother Brad is always in trouble with the law but its minor stuff usually just messing about. Charlie blames their mum for going off & leaving her & Brad & their Dad to fend for themselves. So when Brad is accused of killing a motorist with a well-aimed stone from a motorway bridge Charlie is suspicious. Its just not Brads style. When Charlie starts doing some investigating of her own she unearths a bigger much worse secret as well as discovering things about her brother his best mate Denny & her long-lost mother that turn her world upside down. In trying to prove her brother is not guilty Charlie has lost her own innocence for good... ...

Another action-packed thriller from one of the world's most popular writers Back in DC after successful missions in Edinburgh & Tangier assassin Will Robie sees his latest assignment to eliminate a US government employee go badly wrong. What had she done or what did she know? Robie is now a wanted man. But it seems that he's not the only one on the run. Young teenager Julie Getty is devastated by the inexplicable murder of her parents in their home. Who wanted them dead & why is a mystery. But Julie is smart enough to believe that their killer will come after her. Robie & Julie meet when he saves her from an attempt on her life as they were trying to leave town. The police investigating the hit start to take an interest in Robie. He's particularly attracting the interest of Special Agent Nicole Vance who believes that the two cases are connected. Robie finds himself in a dangerous position as he is tasked to investigate a crime at which he was present. Does he need to change sides to save lives -- including his own? ...

The setting is Berlin. Into this divided city wrenched between East & West between past & present; comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham assigned to a British-American surveillance team. Though only a pawn in an international plot that is never fully revealed to him Leonard uses his secret work to escape the bonds of his ordinary life
- & to lose his unwanted innocence. The promise of his new life begins to be fulfilled as Leonard becomes a crucial part of the surveillance team while simultaneously being initiated into a new world of love & sex by Maria a beautiful young German woman. It is a promise that turns to horror in the course of one terrible evening
- a night when Leonard Marnham learns just how much of his innocence he's willing to shed.

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This is a st&-alone thriller from P. D. James. Philippa Palfrey adopted as a child believes herself to be the motherless illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic father. At eighteen she exercises her right to find out the truth. What she discovers will change her life forever. Philippa enters a new & terrifying world & soon comes to realize that she is not the only one interested in her parents whereabouts. Innocent Blood" is both a mystery & a thriller a superb novel that explores the themes of self-identity & the meaning of life." ...

Jimmy Forsyth (1913-2009) will always be associated on Tyneside with the west end of Newcastle & particularly with Scotswood Road. His remarkable photographs from the 1950s & 1960s were first exhibited in January 1979 under the title Scotswood Road with a Box Camera. Newcastle's Side Gallery recognized in Jimmy's photographs a unique record of vanishing working-class culture & determined to bring his work to a wider public. The result was the very successful Scotswood Road book & exhibition in 1986. Jimmy became an overnight sensation receiving in March 1987 the Halina Award for an outstanding body of work. Throughout the 1990s & into the present century he continued to take photographs of his favourite subjects until his death. An Innocent Eye describes Jimmy's life considers how he is to be remembered &

Includes:: a selection of his finest photographs. The book also makes available for the first time an autobiographical fragment written by Jimmy in 1989.

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