101 chance meetings juxtaposing the famous & the infamous the artistic & the philistine the pompous & the comical the snobbish & the vulgar told by Britains funniest writer. Life is made up of humans meeting one another. They speak or dont speak. They get on or fall out. They laugh they cry are excited are indifferent. One on One is a chain of 101 extraordinary but true encounters from Tolstoy rumbling Tchaikovsky in 1876 to George Galloway baiting Michael Barrymore in 2006. The Royal Family giggle at T.S. Eliot Walter Sickert draws the curtains on the carol-singing Edward Heath Youssoupoff assassinates Rasputin Marilyn Monroe commissions Frank Lloyd Wright. Circular in its construction panoramic in its breadth One on One is a book like no other. Browns glorious book is an original & a complete delight Miranda Seymour Sunday Times Books of the Year ...

The Love Diaries" is a wise sometimes hilarious always witty new novel from Dyan Sheldon in which our heroine learns that 'love' is not always what it seems... Hildy D' Angelo is seventeen & this is the summer she falls in love for the first time. She isn't what you'd call experienced when it comes to boys but Connor is good looking smart charming & sweet (with a melt-that-ice-cap smile). Hildy is a sarcastic & funny down-to-earth girl with lots of friends & yet she proves to be a little bit of a fool for love. When Connor uses the L word Hildy already half in love with the idea of falling in love releases her hold on the Earth. & because it's all very new to her she thinks that Connor's irrational bursts of jealousy are signs of affection. Teething pains. No big deal. She ties herself in knots trying to appease him & not let on to her suspicious friends (or herself) that there is anything wrong. Until finally poor tortured Connor goes a step too far
- & Hildy sees the truth at last..."
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Business planning has finally been simplified to One Page! Bankers require them. Business educators advocate them. Consultants make their living writing them. & venture capitalists wont give you the time of day without one...but most entrepreneurs or small business owners cant or wont write a business plan; its just too difficult. The One Page Business Plan is designed to act as a catalyst for ideas. Its a powerful tool for building & managing a business. Entrepreneurs like to think & move fast & the concept of a traditional business plan may be out of the question. This is an innovative fresh approach to business planning which is short concise & delivers your plan quickly & effectively. Content on CD: Sample business plans Powerful Sales Calculators One Page Budget Worksheet Sales Budgeting System One Page Performance Scorecards Bonus Tools Some reviews: Tim Clauss Co-Author of Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work: The One Page Business Plan is an easy-to-use process that helps you capture your vision & translate it into concrete results. Jim has truly streamlined a tiresome complicated chore. With a return to simple values simple truths planning can be fun & creative. A little chicken soup for busy minds & tired souls!" Paul & Sarah Edwards The Self Employment Experts Authors of Working from Home Getting Business to Come to You & Secrets of Self Employment: " Writing a business plan is something every business guru advises but few actually do. Jim Horans book helps the reluctant change good intentions into a plan."" ...

Life was a wordless battle of wits between us with her keeping a sharp look-out for signs of neglect & me trying to disguise my slovenliness by subterfuge. I became an adept at sweeping dust under the bed & always used the same few pieces of silver. Unimpressed by the world of debutante balls Monica Dickens shocked her family by getting a job. With no experience whatsoever she gained employment as a cook-general. Monicas cooking & cleaning skills left much to be desired & her first few positions were short lived but soon she started to hold her own. Monica discovered the pleasure of daily banter with the milkman & grocers boy & the joy of doing an honest days work all the while keeping a wry eye on the childish pique of her employers. One Pair of Hands" is a fascinating & thoroughly entertaining insight into worlds both upstairs & down in the early 1930s." ...

Great Britain ruled Palestine from 1917 to 1948. The British presence replaced 500 years of Turkish control & led to the State of Israel which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1998. The British brought Palestine into the twentieth century. When they arrived the country lay in a Levantine nirvana; by the time they left it had become the arena for one of the centurys major international conflicts. Among the personalities who shape this narrative are Lawrence of Arabia Winston Churchill the archaeologist Flinders Petrie King Feisal Chaim Weizmann & David Ben Gurion. One momentous consequence of these 30 years was that the Jewish population increased by a factor of ten. ...

Do you still love him? Every second of every minute of every hour of every day... Alice is 18 & about to start university while Joes life is seemingly going nowhere. A Dorset summer a chance meeting & the two of them fall into step as if they have known each other forever. But their idyll is shattered suddenly unexpectedly. Alice heads off to Cambridge & slowly picks up the pieces of her broken heart. Joe is gone; she cannot find him. When she catches the attention of Lukas
- gorgeous gifted rich boy Lukas
- she is carried along by his charm swept up in his ambitious plans for a future together. Then Joe is there once more but out of reach in a way that Alice could never have imagined. Life has moved on the divide between them is now so great. Surely it is far too late to relive those perfect summer days of long ago?

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High jinx on the high seas! As a child Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming the King of the Pirates. But his life changed when he accidentally gained the power to stretch like rubber…at the cost of never being able to swim again! Now Luffy with the help of a motley collection of pirate wannabes is setting off in search of the ' One Piece ' said to be the greatest treasure in the world! With all the Officer Agents defeated only Crocodile & his final plan to destroy the palace stands in the way of peace. While Luffy battles it out with the evil Croc in the royal tombs Vivi & the rest of the Straw Hats have to find the bomb before it blows up the capital
- with everyone in it!
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As a child Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming the King of the Pirates. But his life changed when he accidentally gained the power to stretch like rubber...at the cost of never being able to swim again! Now Luffy with the help of a motley collection of pirate wannabes is setting off in search of the One Piece " said to be the greatest treasure in the world!" ...

As a child Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming the King of the Pirates. But his life changed when he accidentally gained the power to stretch like rubber...at the cost of never being able to swim again! Now Luffy with the help of a motley collection of pirate wannabes is setting off in search of the One Piece " said to be the greatest treasure in the world!" ...

As a child Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming the King of the Pirates. But his life changed when he accidentally gained the power to stretch like rubber...at the cost of never being able to swim again! Now Luffy with the help of a motley collection of pirate wannabes is setting off in search of the One Piece " said to be the greatest treasure in the world!" ...