In a memoir hailed for its searing candour & wit Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when as an eighteen-year-old college freshman she was brutally raped & beaten in a park near campus. What propels this chronicle of her recovery is Sebold's indomitable spirit -- as she struggles for understanding (' After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend I have changed in their eyes'); as her dazed family & friends sometimes bungle their efforts to provide comfort & support; & as ultimately she triumphs managing through grit & coincidence to help secure her attacker's arrest & conviction. In a narrative by turns disturbing thrilling & inspiring Alice Sebold illuminates the experience of trauma victims even as she imparts wisdom profoundly hard-won: ' You save yourself or you remain unsaved.' 'A rueful razor-sharp memoir.. . Sebold tells what it's like to go through a particular kind of nightmare in order to tell what it's like -- slowly bumpily triumphantly -- to heal' Sarah Kerr Vogue ...

With the sensual grace of a panther Lucky Santangelo prowled her Las Vegas casino restless ready eager for action. That night began a dazzling odyssey filled with dangerous passion & sun-drenched sex sadistic vengeance & breathless suspense. From the decadent luxury of California to Paris New York & a private Greek island Lucky fought for her father's honour for ruthless triumph for the wild card of a fabulous love. Her rivals; an ice-cold Hollywood wife…a much-married heiress strung out on cocaine…a jaded magnate hooked on power…a crazed hoodlum lusting for murder. But Lucky was a gamb Ier & a lover a woman who ruled her empire & pursued her man with the potent Santangelo strength … her way on her terms whatever the odds. Jackie Collins tops the sensational success of Hollywood Wives & Chances with Lucky so hot it will have to be printed on asbestos."" ...

Paul Nicholls is the former jockey who began training in 1991. Gradually he built up a reputation as one of the most astute & successful trainers in the business with a special knack for getting it right on the big occasions. His depth of resources meant that on a unique occasion at Wincanton in January 2006 he became the first trainer ever to have six winners on a card. But it is for his role as the trainer of horses such as See More Business Kauto Star & Denman all of them Cheltenham Gold Cup winners that he is best known. In this revealing & honest memoir Champion Trainer Nicholls explains how he got to the top of his sport & provides a fascinating insight into his methods & to the horses jockeys & owners that have helped him achieve so much. Packed with insider stories that all race fans will love & a foreword from Sir Alex Ferguson this is without doubt the essential racing book for 2011. ...

Hot guys horses & high school hi-jinks! Ivy & Olivia are super excited
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Meet Tilly Redbrow who doesn't just love horses
- she lives breathes & dreams them too! Tilly's riding skills are improving by
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Kingsley Amis' witty campus novel Lucky Jim" is a comedy that skewers the hypocrisies & vanities of 1950s academic life. This " Penguin Modern Classics" edition contains an introduction by David Lodge. Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons
- as long as Jim can stave off the unwelcome advances of fellow lecturer Margaret survive a madrigal-singing weekend at Professor Welch's deliver a lecture on ' Merrie England' & resist Christine the hopelessly desirable girlfriend of Welch's awful son Bertr&. Inspired by Amis's friend the poet Philip Larkin Jim Dixon is a timeless comic character adrift in a hopelessly gauche & pretentious world. Kingsley Amis (1922-1995) born in London wrote poetry criticism & short stories but is best remembered as the novelist whose works offered a comic deconstruction of post-war Britain. Amis explored his disillusionment with British society in novels such as " Lucky Jim" (1954) & " That Uncertain Feeling" (1955); his other works include " The Green Man" (1970) " Stanley & the Women" (1984) & " The Old Devils" (1986) which won the Booker Prize. If you enjoyed " Lucky Jim" you might like Amis's " The King's English" also available in " Penguin Modern Classics". "A flawless comic novel...I loved it then as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud." (Helen Dunmore " The Times"). "A brilliantly & preposterously funny book." (" Guardian")."
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His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night & then as a mausoleum. During the night too hed somehow been on a cross-country run & then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad. Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. His life is full of things he could happily do without: the tedious & ridiculous Professor Welch a neurotic & unstable girlfriend Margaret burnt sheets medieval recorder music & over-enthusiastic students. If he can just deliver a lecture on Merrie England a moderately successful career surely awaits him. But without luck life is never simple... ...

Brothers Adolph & Arthur Caille are mechanical geniuses. Theyve just created one of the first slot machines & have presented it to their local senator a notorious gambler. Much taken with the device he agrees to send them on a tour of American cities to test the machines popularity. & to escort them on this dangerous journey he calls on his old friend Lucky Luke
- So begins the wacky tale of how the one-armed bandit conquered the West!
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A general amnesty puts the Daltons back on the streets something Lucky Luke isn't happy about. & to make it worse they seem to have become model citizens. It's all an act though & it doesn't take long for the stupidest quartet in the West to be back behind bars. Luke is already riding off into the sunset
- But he's not counting on a riled-up Apache tribe that attacks the penitentiary where the Daltons are locked up -
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1861. Abraham Lincoln orders that the First Transcontinental Telegraph line currently interrupted between Nevada & Nebraska be completed. Two teams one heading east from Carson City & the other west from Omaha will meet up in Salt Lake City. Lucky Luke joins the eastbound team. But when a $100 000 reward is offered to the first team to arrive theres suddenly more to fear than the natural obstacles of the journey: A saboteur seems to be at work! ...