Golf fans will not forget the 39th Ryder Cup in a hurry. Staged at the Medinah Country Club just outside of Chicago the 2012 event has already gone down as the most remarkable competition in its 85-year history. The American team had home advantage & a golf course unapologetically set up to suit its own players. Supported by tens of thousands of loud & proud fans the USAs star-studded line-up dominated the first two days & ended the Saturday with a seemingly unassailable 10-6 advantage. No away team had ever won the Ryder Cup from such an unpromising position. Sunday was singles day traditionally the forte of American teams. The situation looked bleak especially when European team member & number 1 golfer in the world Rory Mc Ilroy very nearly missed his tee-off time. Yet slowly but surely the European team
- who had top-loaded their line-up in one last throw of the dice
- started to turn the scoreboard blue. With inspirational captain Jose Maria Olazabal stiring European blood with thoughts of the late Ryder Cup magician Seve Ballesteros (whose silhouette was emblazoned on the players sweaters & bags) the tide turned & the previously dominant American players started to crumble in the face of the onslaught. Suddenly European players were holing miraculous putts to win holes out of the blue. Something very special was happening. When German Martin Kaymer sank his putt on the eighteenth green to clinch the point that retained the Ryder Cup the most astonishing comeback in the events long & distinuished history was complete. Miracle at Medinah is the compelling narrative of those amazing three days in Illinois a fitting chronicle of an unbelievable sporting story.

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It has never occurred to Precious Ramotswe that there might be disadvantages to being the best-known lady detective in Botswana. But when she receives a threatening anonymous letter she is compelled to reconsider her unconquerable belief in a kind world & good neighbours. While she ponders the identity of the letter-writer Mma Ramotswe has a further set of problems to solve both professional & personal. There is an adopted childs poignant search for her true family & Mr J. L. B. Matekonis pursuit of an expensive miracle for their own foster daughter Motholeli. With these latest developments on Tlokweng Road Alexander Mc Call Smith reveals with all his brilliant storytelling skill that there are very few troubles that cannot be solved with kindness & very few dry seasons that do not end with welcome rain. ...

Take two-they're small. & they perform miracles. Suffering a career-ending potentially crippling injury to her back & right leg a young dancer named Elaine Petrone tried everyone from orthopedists to yogis to turn her pain & prognosis around. Nothing worked-until she healed herself through a unique program of therapy & exercise based around the use of two small squishy balls. From there she turned her passion into a mission that is helping the thousands of people who visit her classes conquer pain stress & injury. Now for relief for sufferers everywhere comes The Miracle Ball Method " a healing kit containing two miracle balls & a fully illustrated book all packaged together in an attention-getting clear plastic cylinder. The work itself is simple. Take a sore back: By resting your aching back on the grapefruit-sized balls & letting your body sink into them you're unworking the muscles that hurt. Pain & tension drain out of the body. Petrone shows how proper breathing (which she demonstrates) works in conjunction with a range of unexercises that call for placing the balls under the back head knees hip elbow-wherever there's pain-and then resting rolling or rotating on them. She points out that relief can come in surprising ways: Lower back pain may be helped by placing the ball under your neck or a bad knee might be helped by hip work. It's a revolutionary program of relief from head to toe." ...

Dr Romanos Christmas Baby Seeing his wife Rilla again Luca knows shes the only one for him. Theyd drifted apart years ago but with emotions riding high they spend a special night together & Rilla falls pregnant... This tiny new life brings a new hope
- can they become a family again by Christmas? Miracle on Christmas Eve Jessica has tried to put on a brave face but she misses the joy that love can bring at Christmas. Until a handsome stranger in need of a Christmas miracle touches her heart...C.J. has a twinkle in his eyes that suggests a Christmas surprise... Their Christmas Wish Come True Kirsten runs the Secret Santa Society & loves making others happy. She knows opening your heart can be painful but her secret wish is to find a special man to share Christmas with... Will a kiss under the mistletoe with new volunteer Michael be her wish come true...?
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Cobens second novel
- now back in print. They were looking for a miracle cure.. . Sara & Michael. The ideal celebrity couple darlings
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After 20 years off the major European football stage Liverpool FC under new Spanish manager Rafael Benitez faced utter humiliation at half-time in the 2005 Champions League final in Istanbul. Three goals down to the brutally efficient & talented AC Milan the inexperienced new Liverpool
- an uneasy mix of local heroes young Spaniards & soon-to-be-outcasts
- was staring down the barrel of a possible record European Cup final defeat in front of 40 000 of its own fans & a global TV audience of hundreds of millions. That is until six extraordinary minutes of second-half carnage allied to Red courage & resolve changed the very course of European football history & mapped a new direction for the future of a club with a magnificent European past. The Miracle of Istanbul" offers an insight into the many foreign highs & domestic lows of the amazing 2004-05 Liverpool season as well as mapping out key connections between the great Liverpool European legacy of the 1970s & 80s & the new Benitez era
- via a detour of the ultimately doomed Gerard Houllier period of initial Continental Liverpool management. It also looks at some of the key players of the recent successful European campaign
- Gerrard Hamman Carragher & the erratic Jerzy Dudek among them
- & at the music & football cultures in the city that have uniquely shaped what is still known locally as the Liverpool Way. The book compares the new Liverpool manager with his key rivals: his Iberian cousin Jose Mourhino at Chelsea & the fiercely competitive David Moyes at neighbours Everton. But it ends
- as it must
- on that glorious night of 25 May in Istanbul with fans recollections & memories. It also asks: exactly what does the 2005 European triumph mean for the city of Liverpool & for the future direction of Liverpool football club under its modest but impressive new Spanish leadership?"






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In this beautifully written book Buddhist monk & Nobel Peace Prize nominee Thich Nhat Hanh explains how to acquire the skills of mindfulness. Once we have these skills we can slow our lives down & discover how to live in the moment
- even simple acts like washing the dishes or drinking a cup of tea may be transformed into acts of meditation. Thich Nhat Hanh's gentle anecdotes & practical exercises help us to arrive at greater self-understanding & peacefulness whether we are beginners or advanced students. Irrespective of our particular religious beliefs we can begin to reap the immense benefits that meditation has been scientifically proven to offer. We can all learn how to be mindful & experience the miracle of mindfulness for ourselves.
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Written by an experienced doctor who is also a trained cook The Miracle of Olive Oil" is packed with helpful information on everything from food preparation to health & beauty. With an A-Z section of ailments against which olive oil has proved effective a collection of 32 delicious recipes & tips on how to use this wondrous oil to enhance hair nails & skin this is an essential guide for anyone interested in eating--and living--well." ...

Bestselling author Barbel Mohr is the creator of the Cosmic Ordering technique & author of the original book which introduced to the world this powerful way to tune into the universe & manifest all the things that you truly desire. In her final book The Miracle of Self-Love" she goes one step further & explains that love friendship or wealth can only become a permanent fixture in your life once you have first learned to truly love yourself. After years of experience working with seminar participants it was clear to Barbel that the universe can only work its magic if we are feeling love & appreciation for ourselves as well as for others. With numerous practical tools including self-love mantras & visualization exercises this book teaches you how to cultivate a fundamentally positive & loving relationship with yourself so that you can know the miracle of self love & the abundance of joy that it will bring to your life." ...

Dreams can come true
- it could happen to you... For the past two years Evie Taylor has lived an invisible existence in London
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