Elise has a crush. Shes been infatuated with her best friend Carl for as long as she can remember. When he starts dating an American girl whos just arrived at their school Elise thinks it will just be a short fling. When she realizes its not she decides she needs to take matters into her own hands. ...

' It was the summer that Coltrane died. The summer Jimi Hendrix set his guitar in flames & China exploded the H-bomb. There were riots in Newark & marches against the war in Vietnam. The world was on the brink of change. It was the summer of love. & the summer of a chance encounter that would change the course of my life. It was the summer I met Robert.' Just Kids is the story of two innocents who shed sheltered lives & braved the city in search of art & freedom. In each other Robert Mapplethorpe & Patti Smith found kindred spirits & pursued their mutual dreams from Brooklyn to the Chelsea Hotel into the world. Each would eventually reach the pinnacle of artistic achievement & their vow to always care for one another survived painful trials & separations. Mapplethorpe's unforgettable portrait of Smith for the cover of Horses forever fuses their indelible mark on our culture. Intimate & broadly evocative of New York in the early 70s Just Kids
- part romance part elegy
- is finally about friendship in the truest sense & the artist's calling.

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Acute questioning humane & passionately concerned for justice Helena Kennedy is one of the most powerful voices in legal circles in Britain today. Here she roundly challenges the record of modern governments over the fundamental values of equality fairness & respect for human dignity. She argues that in the last twenty years we have seen a steady erosion of civil liberties culminating today in extraordinary legislation which undermines long established freedoms. Are these moves a crude political response to demands for law & order? Or is the relationship between citizens & the state being covertly reframed & redefined? ...

Honoria Smythe-Smith the youngest daughter of the eldest son of the Earl of Winstead plays the violin in the annual musicale performed by the Smythe-Smith quartet. Shes well aware that they are dreadful. In fact she freely admits (to her cousins) that she is probably the worst of the bunch. But shes the sort who figures that nothing good will come of being mortified so she puts on a good show & laughs about it. Marcus Holroyd is the best friend of Honorias brother Daniel who lives in exile out of the country. Hes promised to watch out for Honoria & takes his responsibility very seriously. But he has his work cut out for him when Honoria sets off for Cambridge determined to marry by the end of the season. Shes got her eye on the only unmarried Bridgerton whos a bit wet behind the ears. When her advances are spurned can Marcus swoop in & steal her heart in time for the musicale? ...

What young children don't want their dolls to look just like them? In Just Like Me Knits Brandy Fortune editor of the popular online children's magazine Petite Purls offers nineteen charming but quick-to-knit patterns sized for kids aged 3 to 10 & twenty matching outfits for 15-to-18-inch dolls. Children will enjoy helping to choose what they & their favourite dolls will wear. & with nearly forty beautiful & easy projects knitters will find something here for every child in their lives. Included are adorable jumpers dresses jackets & accessories that knitters will enjoy making & that kids will love to dress up in. ...

Following the great success of A Train is For Life" Pete Watermans new book gives tips on how to model railways to the very highest standard
- a subject very close to his heart. Over the years Pete has brought together some of the finest railway modellers in the business & his models & layouts are renowned for their high quality accuracy & attention to detail. This attractively illustrated book will impart practical advice tips & techniques that he has developed over the years over a wide range of modelling topics from locomotives & rolling stock to track signalling scenery & buildings from painting to model construction. Many of the techniques are unusual but easy for the average modeller to reproduce & give results far better than perhaps more conventional methods including the now renowned singing of teddy bear fur to create grassed embankments & cuttings."
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When a new baby comes in to the house a little boy is rather upset. He feels that he is getting no attention the baby takes up everyone's time & he is feeling very sorry for himself. When his parents notice he's upset they reassure him that once upon a time he too was a little baby & needed lots of attention & one day the baby will be a boy like him. An important lesson gently told for any child facing the problem of not being the only one any more. ...

Just Listen" is a captivating young adult novel about learning to forgive & forget from " New York Times" Number One bestseller Sarah Dessen author of " The Truth About Forever" & " Lock & Key " Sarah Dessen. I'm Annabel. I'm the girl who has it all. Model looks confidence. A great social life. I'm one of the lucky ones. Aren't I? My 'best friend' is spreading rumours about me. My family is slowly falling apart. It's turning into a long lonely summer full of secrets & silence. But I've met this guy who won't let me hide away. He's one of those intense types obsessed with music. He's determined to make me listen. & he's determined to make me smile. But can he help me forget what happened the night everything changed? Sarah Dessen is the author of stunning teen novels: " The Truth About Forever" " Along for the Ride" " Lock & Key" " That Summer" & " What Happened to Goodbye". She lives in the countryside in North Carolina with her daughter husband some lizards & two very spoilt dogs
- read her once & fall in love."
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The first make-or-break step in persuading anyone to do any thing is getting them to hear you out. Whether the person is a harried colleague a stressed-out client or an insecure spouse things will go from bad to worse if you can't break through emotional barricades. Drawing on his experience as a psychiatrist business consultant & coach & backed by the latest scientific research author Mark Goulston shares simple but power ful techniques readers can use to really get through to people--whether they're coworkers friends strangers or enemies. Getting through is a fine art but a critical one. With the help of this groundbreaking book readers will be able to turn the impossible" & "unreachable" people in their lives into allies devoted customers loyal colleagues & lifetime friends." ...

' Well now prove it Sheila. As John would say Put your money where your mouth is." Be a depressed widow boring the arse off everyone or get on with life. Your choice.' In The Two of Us Sheila relived her life with John Thaw
- years packed with love & family delight & despair. & then she looked ahead. What next? Gardening grannying & grumbling while they all had their pleasures weren't going to fill the aching void that John had left. ' Live adventurously' a Quaker advice was hovering around her brain. Putting her & John's much loved house in France on the market she embarked on a series of journeys. She tried holidaying alone contending with invisibility & budget flights. She tried travelling in a group but the questions she wanted to ask were never the ones the guide wanted to answer. She tried relaxing
- harder than you might think. Finally heading out of her comfort zone she found her travels & the things she discovered led her back to her past; to consider her generation
- the last to experience the Second World War
- & the kind of person it made her. Just Me is a book about moving on but it is also about looking back & looking anew. Sheila whether facing down burglars & Easyjet staff or making friends with waiters & taxi drivers whether unearthing secrets in Budapest getting arrested in Thailand exulting in the art of Venice or searching for a decent cup of coffee in Dorset is never less than stimulating company. Honest
- because if you can't say what you think at seventy-three when can you?
- insightful & wonderfully down to earth she is a woman seizing the future with wit gusto & curiosity on her own."





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