In 1994 punk rock trio Green Day were on top of the world with DOOKIE their massive hit album. They were loud fast bratty pissed off hopeless truthful drunk maybe high & somehow absolutely massive. It was glorious. But by 2004 the hoopla seemed to be over. The band were still respected by up-&-coming bands but their album sales were down. & then in October 04 came a new album AMERICAN IDIOT. A furious & impassioned reaction against American politics
- & in particular George W. Bush
- AMERICAN IDIOT spoke directly to millions of people around the globe. Once again Green Day were reaching legions of disaffected teenagers as well as millions of older fans. Few bands achieve Green Days early success & even fewer come back for an even more explosive second act. Highly respected rock journalist Marc Spitz has interviewed the band many times & has won their respect. His book will be the definitive history of the band charting their transformation from snotty-nosed mall rats into the ultimate punk rock protest band
- The Clash for the 21st century.


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' Take care 007. Take special care. The continent's a hotbed of villainy these days & you can never be too careful' Bond was supposed to be on leave. But SPECTRE leader Tamil Rahani dying from injuries suffered at Bond's hand is determined to make it the holiday to die for. With a price on his head Bond must evade the world's greatest assassins in a ruthless game of cat-&-mouse across Europe while trying to save the lives of the two women who matter to him most his housekeeper May & Miss Moneypenny. But Bond has been a target before. & when it comes to staying alive nobody does it better than 007. In Nobody Lives Forever the fifth in Gardner's bestselling series Fleming's superspy is at the top of his game. ...

'I wasn't there when I died...' Jim True knows. He has returned from an out-of-body experience to find he has been brutally murdered & his body mutilated. No one can see him no one can hear him no one except his killer knows he still exists. Freed from his body True embarks on a quest to find his killer & discover why & how he has managed to survive. As he closes in on his murderer True discovers that even the very people he loved & trusted have betrayed him. He meets his killer a strange & sinister figure who can also leave his body at will. An epic & deadly battle ensues between True & a seemingly unstoppable & hideous serial killer
- a man now intent on even more murders including True's wife & child...
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Whats your name? Where were you born? What is your date of birth? Simple questions that we are asked throughout our life
- but
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Bea thinks shes the most boring seventeen-year-old in the world. Shes not pretty or popular or funny unlike her mother who had Bea when she was 17. The only glamorous thing about Bea is the French father who left before she was born & lives in Paris. She yearns for la vie Parisienne every moment of her dull existence. So when Ruby Davies the leader of her schools most elite clique picks Bea as her new best friend & asks her to go on holiday with them shes wary but delighted. If nothing else its two weeks away from her over-protective mother. But when the gang arrive in Spain Bea is crushed to realise that Ruby & her posse have simply been using her. Bea wreaks vengeance on her so-called friends & plans to decamp to Paris to find her father. But when she falls asleep on the train & wakes up in Bilbao she meets a group of American students who are backpacking around Europe & bonds with them straight away especially the gorgeous Toph who helps heals Beas hurting heart. Though Bea has a shock in store when they finally get to Paris. The City of Lovers really works it magic on Bea & Toph who spend a week wandering the sun-dappled streets of Paris talking holding hands & falling in love. When it comes time to go home to confront her Mum about her mysterious father the new version of Bea is determined that shell never go back to her old boring way of life
- shes no longer Nobodys Girl; she belongs to herself & to Toph... But with an ocean between them will he wait for her?
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Lizzie Miller worries about her beautiful eldest daughter. A mother shouldn't have favourites but Ruby wins a special place in Lizzie's heart. Money is short in their little house in Blackburn & Ruby yearns to give her beloved family a better life. Determined to enjoy the security only wealth can bring she stifles her feelings for handsome Johnny Ackroyd. Ruby knows he cannot offer her the life she craves. She works as a maid for Mr Banks & his daughter Cicely. The two girls hatch a mischievous plan to introduce Ruby to society at a party for the 'gentry' of Blackburn where Ruby meets Luke Arnold the dissolute heir to his father's fortunes. Seeing Ruby's dark beauty he determines to despoil her innocence. When Luke slyly turns his charm on Cicely Ruby feels compelled to warn her friend of his evil nature. Ruby quickly finds employment in a milliner's shop & eventually takes over the business. But her worldly success still leaves an emptiness that riches cannot fill & Ruby learns at last that the love of family & friends is beyond price... ...

Abandoned & alone you'll do anything to survive! A gritty saga from the bestselling author Kitty Neale. Abandoned on the cold stone steps of an orphanage only a few hours old & clutching the object which was to give her name Pearl Button had a hard start to life. Now 16 years old she's finally managed to escape the cruel confines of the orphanage & enter the real world. Finding work at a nearby cafe Pearl is thrilled to start earning her own money even if she must contend with sharp-tongued Dolly Dolby. But soon she becomes tangled up in the murky South London underworld in which Dolly's son -- the cruel but handsome Kevin -- operates. By chance she sees something she shouldn't something dangerous & her life is thrown into jeopardy. Can gentle giant Derek Lewis protect vulnerable Pearl from Kevin -- & her own heart? Meanwhile a local boy is snatched terrifying this close-knit community & at the orphanage where Pearl lived out her wretched childhood the past is coming back to haunt its owner -- & the secret she has promised to guard for so many years! ...

Abby Lovitt has always been more at ease with horses than with people. Her father insists they call all the mares Jewel" & all the geldings " George" & warns Abby not to get attached: the horses are there to be sold. But with all the stress at school (the Big Four have turned against Abby & her friends) & home (her brother Danny is gone
- for good it seems
- & now Daddy won't speak his name) Abby seeks refuge with the Georges & the Jewels. But there's one gelding on her family's farm that gives her no end of trouble: the horse who won't meet her gaze the horse who bucks her right off every chance he gets the horse her father makes her ride & train every day. She calls him the Ornery George."

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Nobu Matsuhisa still stands above all the other great world-class chefs in being the only one who is truly celebrated internationally. His ever-expanding empire of fabulously fashionable restaurants in the USA UK Italy & Japan now numbers thirteen & they still remain very much THE places to eat & to be seen in each of those cities. In Nobu Now he gives readers an exhilarating taste of how his repertoire has developed constantly expanded by his travels & experience as well as the rich cross-fertilization with cuisines of the nations in which his empire now operates. For the first time Nobu ventures beyond his favourite seafood into meat & poultry dishes applying his usual principles & using his signature sauces as in his Kobe Beef with Anticucho sauce & Foie Gras with Miso. For the vegetarian there are treats like Tomato & Vegetable Ceviche Watercress & White Asparagus Salad with Watercress Dressing & Avocado Egg Pudding while the desserts section really underscores the breadth & diversity of his repertoire. The art of using very simple techniques to bring out the latent flavours in the very best of ingredients is still at the heart of Nobu's cooking. In Nobu Now he amply demonstrates the essence of Japanese cuisine & quite how far this tenet can be applied. The result is the food that his legions of admirers all over the world absolutely adore
- light modern clean & fresh.
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Great for boys with a huge collectability factor bolstered by the cards in the back of the books & links to an excellent interactive website. Tom thinks he has defeated his enemy Evil Wizard Malvel. But he is wrong! Malvel lives & he intends to bring doom to Avantia by creating six deadly Beasts. Tom must first face Noctila the Death Owl! ...