When Nando Parrado took off on a flight from Uruguay to Chile with his rugby team-mates he was looking forward to an enjoyable weekend break & had invited his mother & sister along for the trip. Then disaster struck as their plane crashed into a mountain. Miraculously many of the passengers survived but Nandos family died & he was unconscious for three days. Stranded 11 000 feet up on an inhospitable glacier the survivors had almost no food or suitable equipment to withstand temperatures as low as -40C. Meagre supplies rapidly diminished & soon they heard on the radio that the search for them had been called off. It was then that they realised the only food for miles around was the bodies of their dead friends... In a final desperate bid for safely Nando & one of his friends set off on an impossible journey climbing 17 000 feet-high mountains facing death at every step. Finally on the twelfth day of their journey & 72 days after the crash they saw a hill farmer & the survivors found rescue. ...

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." ...

The central miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation. They say that God became Man. Every other miracle prepares the way for this or results from this. This is the key statement of Miracles in which C. S. Lewis shows that a Christian must not only accept but rejoice in miracles as a testimony of the unique personal involvement of God in his creation. Using his characteristic lucidity & wit to develop his argument Lewis challenges the rationalists agnostics & deists on their own grounds & makes out an impressive case for the irrationality of their assumptions. ...

The New York Times" bestselling author of " Many Lives Many Masters" Brian Weiss MD delivers a powerful revolutionary teaching on the physical emotional & spiritual healing available to all through embracing the reality of reincarnation. Filled with incredible true stories " Sometimes Miracles Happen" is a remarkable teaching tool that can be used by all to improve their lives to evolve along their spiritual paths to experience more joy love & happiness in the present moment & to ultimately understand that there is no need to fear death as we are all immortal & innately spiritual beings. Dr Brian Weiss conversion from skepticism towards reincarnation to confirmed belief has had a profound effect worldwide. Now Brians readers complete the cycle as they explain how his works allowed them to understand the space between lives. Each story is used to illustrate practical lessons for how you too can comprehend this revelation & draws upon Brians & his daughter Amys practices as past-life regression experts. Our past lives are the key to a blissful secure future & this book is the ultimate guide from two of its top practitioners." ...

This is a magical story about a china rabbit from an award-winning author. Abilene loves her blue china rabbit but Edward Tulane is extremely vain & only loves himself. On a voyage to London Edward falls overboard & from there embarks on an amazing journey. He travels with hobos works as a scarecrow comforts a dying child & finally learns what it is to truly love. ...

George Morland newly master of Morland Place embarks on a grand improvement & expansion of the estate. His sister Henrietta eager to be both good & useful marries the scholarly rector Mr Fortescue. & in London their cousin Lady Venetia Fleetwood moved by the medical horrors of the Franco-Prussian war sets out to become a doctor. But the agricultural slump threatens Morland Place with ruin; the medical world rejects Venetia with contempt; & Mr Fortescue proves to be not what he seems. The Morlands have to come to terms with hard reality & find their happiness in other unexpected places. ...

This is a heartbreaking novel dissecting the Palestinian conflict that is based on a true story. It is a film adaptation starring Freida Pinto to debut at Venice Film Festival. In 1948 as violence erupts in Jerusalem a young Arab woman Hind Husseini finds fifty-five abandoned children in the streets & faces the biggest challenge of her life. Hind establishes the Dar El-Tifel orphanaga dedicating her life to providing love support & education to the children changing their destiny. As the years pass & the conflict rages on Hind finds that
- despite her best efforts
- some of her older students are taking part in the violent struggle for Palestinian independence including one of her brightest students Miral. Rula Jebreal traces the lives of generations of Palestinians in order to understand the intractable conflict. Based on fact Hind Husseini benefactor of thousands of children is the figurehead in this examination of race religion & what a homeland means.

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