The number one bestseller in Mexico & America for almost two years & subsequently a bestseller around the world Like Water For Chocolate" is a romantic poignant tale touched with moments of magic graphic earthiness bittersweet wit
- & recipes. A sumptuous feast of a novel it relates the bizarre history of the all-female De La Garza family. Tita the youngest daughter of the house has been forbidden to marry condemned by Mexican tradition to look after her mother until she dies. But Tita falls in love with Pedro & he is seduced by the magical food she cooks. In desperation Pedro marries her sister Rosaura so that he can stay close to her. For the next twenty-two years Tita & Pedro are forced to circle each other in unconsummated passion. Only a freakish chain of tragedies bad luck & fate finally reunite them against all the odds."
...

Wednesday 22 January 1879 was one of the most dramatic days in the annals of military history. In the morning a modern British army was swept aside by the onset of a seemingly unstoppable host at Isandlwana. Nearby at a remote border outpost on the Buffalo River a single company of the 24th Regiment & a few dozen recuperating hospital patients were passing another hot monotonous day. News of the disaster across the river came like a bolt from the blue. Retreat was not an option. It seemed certain that the Rorkes Drift detachment would share the terrible fate of their comrades. Colonel Snook brings the insights of a military professional to bear in this strikingly original account. It is an extraordinary tale
- a victory largely achieved by the sheer bloody-mindedness in adversity of the British infantryman fighting at the remarkable odds of over thirty to one. The heroics of all eleven VC winners are recounted in detail & we are offered new insights into how the Zulu attack unfolded & how 150 men achieved their improbable victory. The author describes the remainder of the war from the recovery of the lost Queens Colour of the 24th to the climactic charge of the 17th Lancers at Ulundi. We return to Isandlwana to consider culpability & learn of the often tragic fates of many of the wars participants.
...

Yes you do have to be liked by everyone! Real friends communicate with honesty listen closely & arent afraid to admit when theyre wrong. If you want to succeed in social media you have to behave the same way. Likeable Social Media provides 18 strategies for creating an authentic brand personality" through Facebook & other social media platform. Social-media marketing guru Dave Kerpen reveals the secrets to building a brands popularity by being authentic engaging & transparent on Facebook & other social media sites. Youll learn the same methods he has used to successfully redefine the brands of a number of large companies including 1-800-FLOWERS & Cumberland Farms. Complete with serious strategies communicated with wit & humor Likeable Social Media is the definitive source for using social media to win new customers gather valuable feedback & increase the bottom line." ...

Alexandra Cooper Manhattan's top sex crimes prosecutor is brought into what promises to be a messy case. Gemma Dogen was found in her own office in a New York hospital sexually assaulted soaked in her own blood & considered likely to die before she can be moved to the emergency room. Alex combs through her files for murders with similar modus operandi while Mike Chapman & the other detectives concentrate on possible motives amongst her friends & colleagues
- many of whom had found Gemma a professional thorn in their sides. Two facts rapidly become apparent: the hospital itself is far from secure; & someone believes that Alex has discovered something far too damaging for them to let her live...
...

Still traumatised by her brush with a psychopath Detective Cassie Maddox transfers out of the Murder squad & starts a relationship with fellow detective Sam ONeill. When he calls her to the scene of his new case she is shocked to find that the murdered girl is her double. Whats more her ID shows she is Lexie Madison
- the identity Cassie used years ago as an undercover detective. With no leads no suspects & no clues to Lexies real identity Cassies old boss spots the opportunity of a lifetime: send Cassie undercover in her place to tempt the killer out of hiding to finish the job.
...

This new edition of Lila: An Inquiry into Morals" is revised & expanded by Robert M. Pirsig author of " Zen & the Art of the Motorcycle Maintenance". " Zen & the Art of the Motorcycle Maintenance" Robert M. Pirsigs worldwide bestseller holds a unique & unforgettable place in modern Western literature. Now in " Lila" he brings us a new voyage a poignant journey & a passionate philosophical exploration. Phaedrus
- a character familiar to readers of " Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
- is sailing down the Hudson River when he meets Lila Blewitt an unapologetically sexual psychologically unstable woman whom a mutual friend warns him against. But Phaedrus is drawn to her physically & interested in her intellectually finding her "a culture of one" in whom he discerns an unexpected " Quality". Sailing with him to Manhattan where her mental state deteriorates further Lila prompts Phaedrus to explore conflicts of values such as those between Native Americans & Europeans or between the insane & the normal. Finally after years of struggling he formulates his " Metaphysics of Quality" which offer a system of understanding
- & evaluating
- actions according to a hierarchy of four evolutionary realms (natural biological social & intellectual). Lila remains elusive to Phaedrus penetrating intellect & her destiny remains a mystery but Pirsigs wide-ranging philosophical explorations will provoke & engage readers in the memorable experience of pursuing the journey started by Pirsig in the 1970s to its final end."



...

Each Friday Tom Fitzgerald drives the same people home from Dublin to spend the weekend in Rathdoon. Nancy Dee Kev & Celia
- each
...

Lilla Eckford interned in a Japanese civilian camp in China during the second world war after an extraordinary early life passed her time by compiling a book about the joys of food. This precious cookery book now in the possession of the Imperial War Museum inspired Lillas great-granddaughter Frances Osborne to investigate her enthralling story. Lillas Feast" spans the world from China to India & finally to England over a hundred years & blends together personal history world events period atmosphere & family anecdotes into a brilliantly vibrant & poignant story." ...

This guidebook won the British Guild of Travel Writers Best Guidebook Award. Now in its third edition its been redesigned in keeping with Bradts new look for its city guides with a larger portrait format two-colour text throughout black-&-white photos throughout 16 pages of colour photographs & full-colour grid-referenced maps. Packed with updated information it features at least a dozen essential new dining addresses since the last edition as well as specialist shops including the new Galleries Lafayette department store hotels museums art galleries & nightlife venues both new & established all presented with Laurence Phillipss trademark wit & charm. ...

With more than 200 of her best images reproduced in stunning tritone including many never published before & others not seen ...