To everyone who's anyone in New York City Victory Ford Wendy Healy & Nico O' Neilly are the beautiful face of success in the city. Victory is the hottest new designer on the block Wendy is President of Parador Pictures with a sure-fire hit in production & Nico is the editor of BONFIRE magazine. The trouble is from where Victory Nico & Wendy are standing things don't look quite that way. Nico is fitting in guilty extra-marital sex with an underwear model. Victory's last collection bombed & Wendy's twelve-year marriage to her metrosexual househusband is in freefall. Candace Bushnell's new heroines are irresistible & as she follows them through the minefield of work love & life at the top she gives us a hugely entertaining lesson on how to stay ahead in the toughest town on the planet. ...

Dont flush it down the loo
- save your pee & fertilize your garden! Because it is not recycled our urine is wasted & pollutes the
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Stuck in a rut? Know what you want but don't know how to get it? Feel like life is passing you by? Sick of getting mediocre results? Then enter the wonderful world of Liquid Thinking...A practical jargon-free & easily accessible self-help book drawing on a diverse range of experiences & containing digestible lessons & exercises used by sports captains charity leaders & business leaders. It is the only self-help book which has ever been endorsed by Sir Richard Branson Angelo Dundee Muhammad Ali & Jonny Wilkinson. It is a brave man who starts his book on self development by"ing Jerry Springer & discussing the literary merits of the Joy of Sex"; however this is Damian Hughes to a tee. Combining his own experiences as a Manchester United football coach HR Director & youth club leader with exclusive insights from Sir Richard Branson Angelo Dundee Muhammad Ali & Jonny Wilkinson Hughes will help you to step forward to achieve your own special hopes dreams & ambition. The books have been credited with helping people build their own houses fight cancer & run marathons so come on & be a fellow Liquid Thinker!" ...

From the wartorn steppes of Russia from the slopes of Monte Cassino the stunned bloody remnants of Hitlers armies were gathered to fight the last battle of the German Reich
- the battle of the Western Front. & as the Allies advanced upon Paris the war erupted into its most ruthless most savage & cruel phase. Across the scarred corpse-strewn landscape of northern France the men of the Panzer tank corps retreated
- fighting a suicide action as they went...

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Store your stationery essentials in this fashionable 3 pocket pencil case. The pencil case features a unique &8220;liquorice stripe” design & measures L 15.5cm x D 11cm. The case features two main internal zipped pockets separated by a final zipped pocket. ...

When the future is unclear who holds the key to destiny? Sequel to the spellbinding award-winning fantasy adventure SABRIEL. Lirael has never felt like a true daughter of the Clayr. Abandoned by her mother & ignorant of her father's identity Lirael resembles no one else in her large extended family living in the Clayr's Glacier. She doesn't even have the Sight
- the ability to See into the present & possible futures
- that is the very birthright of the Clayr. Nonetheless it is Lirael in whose hands the fate of the Old Kingdom lies. she must undertake a desperate mission under the growing shadow of an ancient evil
- one that opposes the Royal Family blocks the Sight of the Clayr & threatens to break the very boundary between Life & Death itself. With only her faithful companion the Disreputable Dog to help her Lirael must find the courage to seek her own hidden destiny. Garth Nix draws readers deeper into the magical landscape of the Old Kingdom & weaves a spellbinding tale of discovery destiny & danger.


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Here is a book of stories of great variety & undoubted class from an author who has endeared herself to millions of readers & bewitched them all. As well as Lisa we meet Hester Julia Helen & Caroline & a host of other devastating girls falling in & out of love finding losing (and often finding again sometimes in the most unexpected places) the men of their dreams. Lisa & Co is a sparkling collection of love stories that are both moving & funny & could only have been written by the unique Jilly Cooper. ...

Most travellers want to have fun & feel relaxed from the moment they arrive at their holiday destination
- thats what Marco Polo
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What would it take to change your life? Jocelyne is 47. She lives in a small provincial French town runs her own dressmaking shop has been married to the same man for what seems like an eternity has had two children & lives a very ordinary existence. In fact so ordinary that she is beginning to wonder what happened to her to all those dreams she had when she was seventeen. Then comes the chance to change her life completely
- but should she? For when Jocelyne begins to look at her life & its small pleasures
- her friendship with the twins who run the hairdresser next door her weekends away her sewing blog
- she realises that maybe ordinary isn't so bad. Until the decision is taken out of her hands... The List of my Desires is a wonderfully heart-warming novel about what we value in life & the search for happiness.


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In Listen to This Alex Ross the music critic for The New Yorker looks both backward & forward in time capturing essential figures & ideas in classical-music history as well as giving an alternative view of recent pop music that emphasizes the power of the individual musical voice in whatever genre. Alex Rosss award-winning international bestseller The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century has become a contemporary classic establishing him as one of our most popular & acclaimed cultural historians. In Listen To This Ross the music critic for the New Yorker looks both backwards & forwards in time capturing essential figures & ideas in classical music history as well as giving an alternative view of recent pop music that emphasizes the power of the individual musical voice. After relating his first encounter with classical music Ross vibrantly sketches canonical composers such as Schubert Verdi & Brahms; gives us in-depth interviews wth modern pop masters such as Bjork & Radiohead; & introduces us to music students at a Newark high school & to indie-rock hipsters in Beijing. In his essay Chacona Lamento Walking Blues Ross brilliantly retells hundreds of years of music history
- from Renaissance dance to Led Zeppelin
- through a few iconic bass lines of celebration & lament. Whether his subject is Mozart or Bob Dylan Ross writes in a style at once erudite & lively showing how music expresses the full complexity of the human condition. He explains how pop music can achieve the status of high art & how classical music can become a vital part of the wider contemporary culture. Witty passionate & brimming with insight Listen to This teaches us to listen more closely.

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