The girls in Team Starlight learn spells & earn their stars in this magical new young fiction series! Welcome to Stargirl Academy the magical school in the clouds! Previously a rather old-fashioned establishment it has been reopened by its head teacher to train children to be modern day fairy godmothers. Fairy Mary Mc Bee selects a group of girls: Lily Ava Madison Sophie Emma Olivia
- & Melody & Jackson who think they're better than everyone else. The girls learn lots of spells
- shimmering starry shining sparkling glittering & twinkling ones
- which they use to fix problems & help people in trouble. For every successful mission they gain a star & once they have six stars they will be fully qualified stargirls! Madison leads the second mission & chooses to help her sister Izzy's friend Di who says her mother is very ill. Izzy has been behaving really weirdly since she started her new school & it turns out it's because Di is bullying her. With some magical intervention in the form of a starry spell the girls discover the truth about Di
- & once everything comes out the two girls become firm friends! This title is highly collectable with sparkly silver foil covers. It is written by the author of the hugely successful Tiara Club series. It features popular themes of friendship & magic in a school setting. It offers fresh lively & funny line drawings by Joanne Davies.



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A searing unflinching & deeply moving account of Marya Hornbacher's personal experience of living with bipolar disorder. From the age of six Marya Hornbacher knew that something was terribly wrong with her manifesting itself in anorexia & bulimia which she documented in her bestselling memoir ' Wasted'. But it was only eighteen years later that she learned the true underlying reason for her distress: bipolar disorder. In this new equally raw & frank account Marya Hornbacher tells the story of her ongoing battle with this most pervasive & devastating of mental illnesses; how as she puts it 'it crept over me like a vine sending out tentative shoots in my childhood taking deeper root in my adolescence growing stronger in my early adulthood eventually covering my body & face until I was unrecognizable trapped immobilized'. She recounts the soaring highs & obliterating lows of her condition; the savage moodswings & impossible strains it placed on her relationships; the physical danger it has occasionally put her in; the endless cycle of illness & recovery. She also tackles the paradoxical aspects of bipolar disorder
- how it has been the drive behind some of her most creative work
- & the reality of a life lived in limbo 'caught between the world of the mad & the world of the sane'. Yet for all the torment it documents this is a book about survival about living day to day with bipolar disorder
- the constant round of therapy & medication
- & managing it. As well as her own highly personal story the book

Includes:: interviews with family spouses & friends of sufferers the people who help their loved ones carry on. Visceral & inspiring lyrical & sometimes even funny ' Madness' will take its place alongside other classics of the genre such as ' An Unquiet Mind' & ' Girl Interrupted'.





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This book will explain what madness is to show that it can be understood in psychological terms & that by studying it we can learn important insights about the normal mind. The book will argue that traditional approaches to madness must be abandoned in favour of a new approach which is more consistent with what we now know about the human mind. Over the last century or so it has become so commonplace to regard madness simply as a medical condition that it has become difficult to think of it in any other way. Bentall argues instead that delusions hallucinations & other unusual behaviours are best understood psychologically & that such experiences for the most part represent exaggerations of mental foibles to which we are all prone. ...

When a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford
- Samuel Johnson In fact Dr
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When madness stalks the streets of London no one is safe... There's a creepy new terror haunting modern-day London. Fresh from defeating a Jack the Ripper killer Rory must put her new-found hunting skills to the test before all hell breaks loose... But enemies are not always who you expect them to be & crazy times call for crazy solutions. A thrilling teen mystery. ...

In a castle in the mountains outside Rome Lucrezia Borgia is born into historys most notorious family. Her father who is to become Pope Alexander VI receives his first daughter warmly & her brothers Cesare & Giovanni are devoted to her. But on the corrupt & violent streets of the capital the Borgia family is feared & Lucrezias father causes scandal living up to his reputation of most carnal man of his age. As Lucrezia matures into a beautiful young woman her brothers are ever more protective & become fierce rivals for her attention. Amid glorious celebrations their father becomes Pope & shortly after Lucrezia is married
- but as Borgias the lives of the Popes children are destined to be marred by scandal & tragedy & its a fate that Lucrezia cannot hope to escape.
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This updated edition now

Includes:: details of Madonnas new 2012 album & subsequent World Tour her advertising

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A brilliant & moving debut novel about one woman's struggle to preserve an artistic heritage from the horrors & destruction of World War II & the ensuing lifelong memories from this extraordinary experience. In this extraordinary first novel by Debra Dean the siege of Leningrad by German troops in World War II is echoed by the destructive siege against the mind & memory of an elderly Russian woman. Marina the woman in question was a guide at Leningrad's famous Hermitage Museum. In the late autumn of 1941 as the Luftwaffe roared over & around Leningrad she & her colleagues were set the task of taking the thousands of priceless paintings sculptures & objets d'art out of the grand galleries of the former Tsarist Palace & storing them safely against the German bombardment & seemingly inevitable invasion. The German assault threatened to destroy a large part of Europe's artistic history: if Leningrad fell to the Germans everything that was not destroyed would be looted & given to the Nazis. Marina whose own parents had disappeared during Stalin's persecution of intellectuals in the 1930s clings to her hope of becoming an art historian through her job at the Hermitage. The novel shifts between Marina's experiences at the Hermitage during the siege of Leningrad & her current existence as a very old lady in America whose mind has begun to fray. Debra Dean depicts with subtle skill how Marina's mind already ravaged by disease picks up some incident object or person at the wedding she's been brought to & flips back to the dreadful year-&-a-half in Leningrad which has informed her life ever since. ...

Michael Breins travel guides make city public transport simple. Maps include how to get to the top 50 sights in the area by public transit ultra-large transit maps detailed mini-area maps of attractions & instructions on how to get to places. ...

Explore the majestic city of Madrid with the help of this genuinely pocket-sized map. Small in size yet big on detail this compact dependable map will ensure you dont miss a thing. *

Includes:: 2 Pop Out maps
- a detailed street by street plan of the city centre as well as an overview map of greater Madrid * Additional locator maps of Madrid show the capital city in relation to neighbouring towns so you can get your bearings as well as a metro map * Ingenious self-folding map is small enough to fit in your pocket yet offers extensive coverage of the city in an easy-to-use format * Thorough street index is also featured & cross-referenced to the map so you can easily find your destination * Key places of interest are listed offering you advice on the best things to see


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