Spenser knows somethings amiss the moment Dennis Doherty walks into his office. The guys aggressive yet wary in the way men frightened for their marriages always are. So when Doherty asks Spenser to investigate his wife Jordans abnormal behaviour Spenser agrees. A jobs a job after all. Not surprisingly Spenser catches Jordan with another man tells Dennis what hes found out & considers the case closed. But a couple of days later all hell breaks loose & three people are dead... ...

Tessa has just a few months to live. Fighting back against hospital visits endless tests & drugs with excruciating side-effects Tessa compiles a list. It's her Before I Die list. & number one is sex. Starting tonight. Released from the constraints of 'normal' life Tessa tastes new experiences to make her feel alive while her failing body struggles to keep up. Her feelings her relationships with her father & brother her estranged mother her best friend & the powerful bittersweet first love she finds with the boy next door
- all are painfully yet beautifully crystallized in the precious weeks before Tessa's time finally runs out.
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In an empty theatre at the end of the pier the cast of the Fairbourne Follies gathers round the radio to hear Neville Chamberlain declare war on Germany. Four firm friends are forced to part. Rose the beautiful dancer must return to her family in London & the blitz leaving singer Richard to enlist in the army with their relationship still unresolved. Gay asthmatic Merry the musical director is destined for the army too while the object of his unrequited love charismatic magician Felix chooses the RAF. Before long Rose joins a group entertaining the troops in France. The Nazi war machine however is fast & merciless on the land & in the air & soon all of them find themselves in terrible danger. & as they are struck by the brutality of war they realise exactly who is most important to them & despite the odds & in terrible circumstances they determine to find each other again. With the threat of capture injury & death ever present the four of them will have to find reserves of courage love & endurance that they did not know they possessed. ...

Now is the time.. .to stop the world.. .to enjoy the rain.. .to be curious.. .to sing.. .to find peace. Its a much-proven adage that its never too late to do all those things for ourselves that we keep meaning to do but put off because of other distractions or busy-ness. Patrick Lindsay shows us in inspirational & farreaching yet practical ways how its never too late to make a change. Or learn something new. With a thought per page coupled with inspirational"es Now is the Time will inspire you to look at your life anew & help you to plan towards regaining balance finding strength & taking that first step. ...

Gary Markwick has used his incredible insight & experience of the human psyche to provide us with an antidote to the stresses & tensions that beset our lives today. Now it Begins has at its heart the simple assertion that once you can let go of illusion & draw upon a deeper universal source of motivation then you will reconnect with your true purpose on earth. The book is illustrated throughout with ancient learning & stories that gently bring home the important points being made. Now it Begins will consistently inspire & encourage people on their exciting journey to freedom & fulfilment. There has probably never been a time when a book like this has been so necessary & the reader will find both comfort & inspiration among its pages. It is now time to stop serving the illusion & see the reality. It is your awakening So...NOW IT BEGINS. ...

A true-life Heartbeat for the twenty-first century. Yorkshireman Mike Pannett has just taken up a new posting as a local bobby in rural North Yorkshire. Its quite a change from the Met where he dealt with riots on the capitals streets & drug gangs in Battersea & found out what it was like to stare down the wrong end of a sawn-off shotgun. Now instead of hunting down knife-wielding muggers hes chasing runaway bullocks holding up the Last Night of the Proms traffic to escort a lost mole across the road & combing the countryside for the villains who stole the Colonels balls. Mikes first year on his new patch is told in seventeen chapters which interweave his escapades on the beat month by month together with his growing knowledge of a landscape that changes with the seasons & some snapshots from his off-duty life. Here is a wonderfully entertaining celebration of North Yorkshire its breathtaking scenery & wide variety of characters & communities. ...

These high quality editions of the original Milne & Shepard titles Winnie-the-Pooh The House At Pooh Corner Now We Are Six & When We Were Very Young are essential titles for every child's library. A. A. Milne's stories about Pooh & his forest friends have been loved by generations of children & their parents since the publication of the first book of stories Winnie-the-Pooh in 1926. Pooh first appeared as a character in Milne's poetry but it was the timeless tales of the Hundred Acre Wood that struck a chord with readers- & continues to do so today. ...

These high quality editions of the original Milne & Shepard titles Winnie-the-Pooh The House At Pooh Corner Now We Are Six & When We Were Very Young are essential titles for every child's library. A. A. Milne's stories about Pooh & his forest friends have been loved by generations of children & their parents since the publication of the first book of stories Winnie-the-Pooh in 1926. Pooh first appeared as a character in Milne's poetry but it was the timeless tales of the Hundred Acre Wood that struck a chord with readers- & continues to do so today. ...

When Christopher Matthew was six the poems of Milne always reassured him that other children were as naughty as he was so on reaching sixty he decided that he should adapt Now We Are Six for an older audience. Now We Are Sixty is often hilarious sometimes rueful & always thought-provoking. Some verses are about realising we are not as young as we thought while some are about the more disconcerting problems of modern life; mobile telephones on trains anti-social behaviour traffic jams & the internet. ...

This amusing & affirming book enables a grown up & child to share together the excitement bewilderment & possible problems associated with having a new baby in the house. It brings a positive message of how love & patience build a family. Simply worded & attractively illustrated for even the youngest child to sit & think with. Now available in a board book format for even easier sharing. ...