Omerta the Sicilian code of silence has been the cornerstone of the Mafias sense of honor for centuries. Born in the Sicilian hills omerta carried the Mafia through a hundred years of change but now at the centurys end it is becoming a relic from a bygone age. Honor may be silent
- but money talks. New York
- a mob boss is assassinated. His nephew Astorre Viola & the head of the citys FBI both launch investigations into the murder. But this time silence spreads like a contagion: the silence of rival gangs the silence of crooked bankers even the silence of the courts. The world of the Mafia is riven with greed & Viola knows that now is the time to claim his destiny...

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This is the OFFICIAL & TOTALLY MENTAL diary of Hattie Moore. Thirteen year-old Hattie Moore doesn't actually know who her dad is
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Bestselling author Kumiko Sudo creates 45 exquisite handmade gifts in fabric each with a flair that is uniquely Japanese. Easy-to-follow patterns beautiful photographs & colorful step-by-step drawings help the projects come together quickly
- many in less than an hour. Whether they are created in kimono silks or in contemporary cottons these tiny boxes purses decorative toys incense pouches & good luck charms all make delightful gifts.
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What shall we have for dinner? Such a simple question has grown to have a very complicated answer. We can eat almost anything nature has to offer but deciding what we should eat stirs anxiety. Should we choose the organic apple or the conventional? If organic local or imported? Wild fish or farmed? Low-carb or low-cal? As the American culture of fast food & unlimited choice invades the world Pollan follows his next meal from land to table tracing the origin of everything consumed & the implications for ourselves & our planet. His astonishing findings will shock all who care about what they put on their plate. ...

This is the story of how private foreign enterprise in the form of Swedish Lloyd & Swedish America Line who formed a British company called Hoverlloyd galvanised the British Government in to supporting this new concept in transport through the formation of a British Rail subsidiary called Seaspeed. It is a story told by those who were there of how young adventurous men & women most of whom were in their twenties & early thirties took on the exciting challenge of getting an operation in which they all believed had a great future off the ground. It tells of the difficulties & near disasters through lack of experience that nearly wrote off the industry in the early days; the clashes of cultures between the free enterprise & Government operations; & why after so much early promise the great adventure with the giant car & passenger carrying hovercraft came to an end. The story begins with the history of Saunders Roe & their involvement as a result of the discovery by Christopher Cockerell in 1953 that big weights could be supported on a cushion of low pressure air & that the concept could be practically applied. Much has already been written about Christopher Cockerell later Sir Christopher & the development of the hovercraft by Saunders Roe as well as the hovercraft industry to the present day. Those relevant parts showing the frustrations & disappointments they too suffered are repeated in this book together with new material that has come to light to provide a comprehensive narrative of the hovercraft industry & the giant SR.N4 cross-Channel operations. ...

On a chill frosty night the stars are shining brightly. A husky puppy dreams of life as a sleigh dog a young goose learns how to navigate the sky at night an arctic fox discovers he is afraid of the dark during the polar night & a lost narwhal catches a magical falling star upon his spiral tusk. This is a sparkling addition to our hugely successful range of anthologies with delightful illustrations from Alison Edgson & featuring all-new stories from a host of best-loved authors including Penny Dolan Michael Broad & Holly Webb. ...

Where are all the exciting men in London? After spending years in the glittering ballrooms of the town Amanda Cynster is utterly bored by the current crop of bland suitors. Determined to take matters into her own hands one night she shockingly goes where no respectable lady ever should but where many an intriguing gentleman might be found. But titillating excitement quickly turns to panic when Amanda discovers shes quite out of her depth. She looks around for help
- & is unexpectedly rescued by the Earl of Dexter. Lean sensuous & mysterious he has delayed re-entering society preferring instead a more interesting existence on its fringes. Hes the epitome of the boldly passionate gentleman Amanda has been searching for but although his very touch makes it clear hes willing to educate her in the art of love Amanda has to wonder if such a masterful rake can be sufficiently tamed into the ways of marriage.
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One cold Christmas night a shepherd recounts the magical story of how he came to be the first visitor to the newborn Christ child
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Zadie Smiths On Beauty" is a funny powerful & moving story about love & family. Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful? Set in New England mainly & London partly " On Beauty" concerns a pair of feuding families
- the Belseys & the Kipps
- & a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals & asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys & the Kipps the confusions
- both personal & political
- of our uncertain age are about to be brought close to home: right to the heart of family. " The novel I didnt want to finish I was enjoying it so much". (John Sutherland " Evening Standard"). " Thrums with intellectual sass & know-how". (" Literary Review"). " Delightfully entertaining.. .filled with humour generosity & contemporary sparkle". (Alex Clark " Daily Telegraph"). " My novel of the year.. . Delicious". (Liz Jones " Evening Standard"). " Satirical wise & sexy". (" Washington Post"). " Heartstopping". (" The Times Literary Supplement"). "A triumph Smiths comedy shines". (" Daily Mail"). " Ambitious hugely impressive beautifully observed". (" Guardian"). Zadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975. Her debut novel " White Teeth" won the Whitbread First Novel Award the Guardian First Book Award the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction & the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize & was included in TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. Her second novel " On Beauty" was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize & won the Orange Prize for Fiction. She has written two further novels " The Autograph Man" & "NW" a collection of essays " Changing My Mind" & also edited a short-story anthology " The Book of Other People"."



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Since its first publication in 1977 Eugene Kennedy & Sara Charles's ' On Becoming a Counsellor' has become the one indispensable resource for all those who without extensive psychological training must deal with troubled individuals
- the confused the grieving the suffering the immature who so often turn to teachers doctors nurses lawyers clergy & frequently to old friends. This new & completely revised edition will bring this already popular book up-to-date with the medical & psychological advances over the past ten years & continue to provide non-professional as well as professional counsellors with all the essential tools they need to respond to people's problems with intelligence & compassion. The authors set forth the basic rules of sound effective counselling in such areas as anxiety neurosis depression obsession marriage death bereavement suicide schizophrenia alcoholism & drugs. The meaning & symptoms of real emergencies are explored as are the aspects of interviewing diagnosis referral & emotional involvement.
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