Jess Halls dad is the new general manager at Porchester Park & is moving Jess her brother & pet cat into a staff apartment there. Jess is dreading the move until she learns the apartments are strictly A-list only & soon to be populated by actors musicians models & millionaires... But fraternising with the stars isnt all its cracked up to be & soon Jess is wishing for a return to real-life
- but can she admit to her friends that the gilded cage isnt quite as golden as shed anticipated?
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A MILLION LITTLE MISTAKES is no ordinarly novel: it has one beginning & fifty different endings that will variously surprise shock & delight readers as they hunt for happiness. Your story begins when you win twenty-two million dollars in the lottery. What happens next? Its entirely up to you. Do you get out of debt? Quit your job? Travel the world? Go on the shopping spree of a lifetime? The possibilities are endless! Twenty-two million dollars can buy a lot but can it buy a happy ending? ...

James Frey wakes up on a plane with no memory of the preceding two weeks. His face is cut & his body is covered with bruises. He has no wallet & no idea of his destination. He has abused alcohol & every drug he can lay his hands on for a decade
- & he is aged only twenty-three. What happens next is one of the most powerful & extreme stories ever told. His family takes him to a rehabilitation centre. & James Frey starts his perilous journey back to the world of the drug & alcohol-free living. His lack of self-pity is unflinching & searing. A Million Little Pieces is a dazzling account of a life destroyed & a life reconstructed. It is also the introduction of a bold & talented literary voice.
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An analysis of the 113 singles which have passed the magical million sales threshold in the UK in the past 60 years from Bill Haley & The Comets very first UK million-seller right through to more recent singles by Lady Gaga Rihanna & the Black Eyed Peas. Interviews with some of the artists reflecting on their memories of their million sellers & what they remember of the success at the time. At
- a-glance facts & data outlining the songwriters producers albums & total sales figures for the million selling track. A foreword by one of the million selling artists talking about how it feels to be a member of millionaires club.
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Ever since Tin can remember hes wanted to be an elephant trainer. At twelve years old hes the youngest
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If like millions of others you know deep down that you deserve to do better than where you are today than this book is for you. Not a book based on old fashion theories or textbook scenarios The Millionaire Dropout is instead based on tried & tested methods of increasing personal skills increasing your wealth improving your life-style & releasing all the personal power that is locked up inside you. Based on the author's firsthand experience of bootstrapping himself out of failure The Millionaire Dropout is for anyone who wants to learn the secrets for increasing their income & their standard of living. Divided into three sections readers will walk through the stages for taking control of their life learning how to make more money & learning how be smart with their successes. Everyone owes it to themselves to invest a little time & effort into increasing their standard of living & releasing the personal power that is locked up inside of us all. ...

The Millionaire Mind targets a population of millionaires who have accumulated substantial wealth & live in ways that openly demonstrate their affluence. Exploring the ideas beliefs & behaviours that enabled these millionaires to build & maintain their fortunes Dr Thomas J Stanley provides a fascinating look at Americas financial elite & how they got there. For example: * What were their school days like? * How did they respond to negative criticism? * What are the characteristics of the millionaires spouse? * Is religion an important part of their lives? The author uncovers surprising answers showing readers just what it is that makes the wealthy prosper while others feel dejected or beaten. The Millionaire Mind delves deep into the minds of Americas wealthy & answers universal questions with solid statistical evidence in an approachable anecdotal style. ...

Two bothers Damian & Anthony are unwittingly caught up in a train robbery during Britain's countdown to join the Euro. Suddenly finding themselves with a vast amount of cash the boys have just one glorious appalling dilemma -- how to spend it in the few days before it becomes worthless. Torn between the vices of buying a million pizzas & the virtues of ending world poverty the boys soon discover that being rich is a mug's game. For not only is the clock ticking -- the bungling bank robbers are closing in. Pizzas or World Peace what would you choose? ...

In Millions Like Us" Virginia Nicholson tells the story of the women's Second World War through a host of individual women's experiences. We tend to see the Second World War as a man's war featuring Spitfire crews & brave deeds on the Normandy beaches. But in conditions of " Total War" millions of women
- in the Services & on the Home Front
- demonstrated that they were cleverer more broad-minded & altogether more complex than anyone had ever guessed. " Millions Like Us" tells the story of how these women loved suffered laughed grieved & dared; how they re-made their world in peacetime. & how they would never be the same again..." Vividly entertaining uplifting & humbling " Millions Like Us" deserves to be a bestseller". (Bel Mooney " The Daily Mail"). " Passionate fascinating profoundly sympathetic". (Artemis Cooper " Evening Standard"). Virginia Nicholson was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne & grew up in Yorkshire & Sussex. She studied at Cambridge University & lived abroad in France & Italy then worked as a documentary researcher for BBC Television. Her books include the acclaimed social history " Among the Bohemians
- Experiments in Living 1900-1939" & " Singled Out
- How Two Million Women Survived Without Men after the First World War" both published by Penguin in 2002 & 2007. She is married to a writer has three children & lives in Sussex."



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Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published some were bestsellers some were considered scandalous & others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time & helped define their generation while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling. Margaret Drabbles The Millstone" was published in 1965. Set in a London not yet quite swinging where sexual liberation is still on its way this prize-winning novel follows the progress of Rosamund Stacey who becomes pregnant as a result of a one night stand & must adapt to life as a single mother
- finding herself transformed in the process."
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