How do you show off the best features of a home built for another age while adapting it for modern living? In Old House New Home Ros Byam Shaw looks at the many different ways we can furnish & arrange an old building to suit todays needs whether it is a terraced townhouse or a converted factory. Exploring properties as diverse as a small Victorian townhouse & a former country dairy she reveals how the design of each home has been reinvented for the 21st century. The book is divided into a series of key styles: Period Piece Urban Chic Rustic Recycled Spaces & Country House. Each section

Includes:: ideas for furniture lighting fabrics colours & finishing touches appropriate for the particular style of interior.

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Victoria Macara lives in the old house on the corner. When the land is sold she finds herself surrounded by new properties called Victoria Square. The newcomers include mismatched lovers Kathleen & Steve; Rachel who is attempting to forget a terrible tragedy; Sarah who is running away from an abusive husband while Anna & Ernie are just after a quiet life. For Marie Victoria Square is a refuge from the men who murdered her husband; for Judy it means a fresh start after forty years of marriage to a man she'd thought she'd love for ever. But it is to Gareth
- trapped in a hopeless marriage
- that Victoria is particularly drawn.. .

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Schtick happens. For five thousand years Gold's chosen people have cornered the market on knee-slappers zingers & knock-knock jokes. Now Old Jews Telling Jokes mines mothers fathers bubbies & zaydes for comic gelt. What we get are jokes that are funnier than a pie in the pumin: Abie & BEcky jokes; hilarious rabbi doctor & mohel tales; & those bits just for Mom (Q: What's the difference between a Jewish mother & a Rottweiler? A: Eventually a Rottweiler will let go!). Some are just naughty & some are downright bawdy
- but either way you'll laugh till you plotz. With Borscht Belt gags from Brooklyn to Bel Air to Boca Old Jews Telling Jokes is like chicken soup for your funny bone. I mean would it kill you to laugh a little?
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Pillar boxes were first introduced into Britain at the instigation of Anthony Trollope the novelist who was also a Post Office surveyor. Although many letter boxes are ordinary some types such as those that survive from the 1850s are understandably rare. This book describes & illustrates some of those from the Channel Islands where pillar boxes were first introduced in 1852 to Scotland which has had its own design of letter boxes since the Queen's accession in 1952 & from the heart of London to the depths of rural Wales & the Irish Republic. ...

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Includes:: 5 adorable farm-animal faces top each finger of a velour glove puppet that features a

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Kate is at a loss. She meets a boy with curious powers & a bizarre history
- but he thinks he is very ordinary. How can she convince
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Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man a young boy & a giant fish. It was The Old Man & the Sea that won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here in a perfectly crafted story is a unique & timeless vision of the beauty & grief of man's challenge to the elements in which he lives. Not a single word is superflous in this widely admired masterpiece which once & for all established his place as one of the giants of modern literature. ...

Traditional Chinese edition of The Old Man & The Sea edited for young adults. The story is told with text & graphics & accompanied with Zhuying (phonetic annotation). A reading guide of this Hemingway classic helps young readers develop their writing skills. In Traditional Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books Inc. ...

A Septuagenarian Odyssey Simon Gandolfi has never been one to grow old gracefully & following two heart attacks he decides not to rest up as many might but to ride the length of Hispanic America on a 125cc motorbike. & why not? His wife may have plenty of reasons why not but used to the intrepid septuagenarians determination to complete any plan he comes up with she shrugs her shoulders & waves him goodbye. At 73 years old Simon Gandolfi sets off from Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico to embark on a five & a half month journey culminating at the end of the world Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego. For Simon this is a journey of discovery. Leaving behind the safety & sanctuary of friends & family he is truly alone but along the way he meets & talks with rich & poor old & young officials & professionals agricultural & industrial workers. This expertly written travelogue reveals not only the stories of those he meets & his own but also that of Latin America its attitudes to itself to the USA & the UK in the aftermath of the Iraq war & the realities of the poverty & endemic corruption throughout much of this continent. But whilst guide books often warn of thieves corrupt police & border officials Gandolfi writes of the incredible kindness & generosity he encounters of hope & joy understanding & new friendships & ultimately an old mans refusal to surrender to his years. The journey begins tomorrow at 8 a.m with a flight from the UK to Boston. I fly Aer Lingus & have bought & will wear a green shirt & a Clancy Brothers Arran sweater in hope of an upgrade. I will be away from home for many months & I have a long long way to ride. Am I nervous? Yes. Scared? A little. Simon Gandolfi 18 April 2006 Outrageously irresponsible & undeniably liberating Gandolfis travels will fire the imaginations of every traveller young or old. ...

With his wife dead & buried & life nearly over at 75 John Perry takes the only logical course of action left: he joins the army. Now better known as the Colonial Defense Force (CDF) Perrys service-of-choice has extended its reach into interstellar space to pave the way for human colonization of other planets while fending off marauding aliens. The CDF has a trick up its sleeve that makes enlistment especially enticing for seniors: the promise of restoring their youth. After bonding with a group of fellow recruits who dub their clique the Old Farts Perry finds himself in a new body crafted from his original DNA & upgraded for battle including a brain-implanted computer. But all too quickly the Old Farts are separated & Perry must fight for his life on various alien-infested battlegrounds. Scalzis astonishingly proficient first novel reads like an original work by the late grand master Robert A. Heinlein"
- " Publishers Weekly". " Delivers fast-paced scenes of combat & pays attention to the science underpinning his premise"
- " San Francisco Chronicle"."

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