We all have good days & bad days at work. Some days you feel bullet proof. People listen to you your meetings run like clockwork & you keep having new ideas. Other days are like wading through quick s&. You cant get anything done & when the printer jams (again) you want to quit. Wouldnt it be great if every day went your way? If you jumped out of bed every morning ready for anything? You can stand out break the rules & make things happen. You can be a bit more Elvis. You can love every minute. The only limit is you: your energy your belief your perspective. ...

Meet the one & only Daizy Star! Shes quirky & cool & loving life in Year Six with her best friends Willow & Beth. But when Dad hatches a mad plan that will turn life upside-down Daizy is too horrified to tell anyone at all...and pretty soon she finds herself tangled up in a knot of secrets & lies. Will Daizy realize that even when shes sinking her friends & family are there to help her swim? ...

Calypso & cricket come together in the Islands Carnival week & Riccardo Small is torn between his two loves. He has been chosen to sing in the Calypso Monarch Final competing with the best singers on the Isl&. But his team mates at Calypso Cricket Club are playing the most important game in their history on the same day. Amidst the Carnival pan bands the masqueraders & the stick-fighters Riccardo discovers why the singing competition is called Calypso War. Its tough going on the cricket field too
- with injuries fires & disappearing players producing more than enough puzzles for captain Bashy to solve...
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In 2011 nine years after being on the brink of obscurity Swansea City made it to the Premier League following their defeat of Reading in the Championship play-off final at Wembley. Wales at last had a premier club in the Premier League. This no-holds-barred account graphically describes that first year in the Premier League & the dramas of one football fan's journey. Written off by pundits at the beginning of the season this turned out to be an explosive year in the history of Swansea City FC. ...

Danny is only five years old but in the words of old Mr Hallorann he is a 'shiner' aglow with psychic voltage. When his father becomes caretaker of the Overlook Hotel Danny's visions grow out of control. As winter closes in & blizzards cut them off the hotel seems to develop a life of its own. It is meant to be empty. So who is the lady in Room 217 & who are the masked guests going up & down in the elevator? & why do the hedges shaped like animals seem so alive? Somewhere somehow there is an evil force in the hotel
- & that too is beginning to shine.. .
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The Shining Ones A were members of an advanced culture that was almost lost; but their wisdom & their power survived. They preserved the secrets of their advanced knowledge in mythology & legend; they embedded their secret codes in symbolism in art architecture the mystery traditions & literary works
- including the Bible. The authors have found traces of the influence of The Shining Ones A" in all the major religions with roots in the ancient world. Gardiner & Osborn have discovered that their secrets & rituals have been hidden & preserved through the centuries by the Knights Templar the Rosicrucians & the Freemasons to the present day. Furthermore they believe that the evolution of civilization has been manipulated by a secret & powerful group of initiates descended from The Shining Ones A". They can identify their influence behind science religion mysticism & philosophy
- & of course in the arena of powerful politics. This is an extraordinary story of intrigue & power play at a very human & political level. But it is also the revelation that the A" Shining Ones A" had knowledge of the deep spiritual truth that lies at the heart of mankinds yearning for an understanding of the meaning of life & to achieve salvation."

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Little Marcus Fallbrook was kidnapped in 1976 & when he never returned home his grieving family assumed the worst. Then thirty years later teenage singing star Leah Wakefield disappears & DI Wesley Peterson has reason to suspect that the same kidnapper is responsible. & another abductor is at work in the area
- a man who tricks blonde women into a bogus taxi & cuts off their hair. Has Leah fallen prey to the man the newspapers call ' The Barber' or has she suffered a more sinister fate? But then Marcus Fallbrook returns from the dead. & when DNA evidence confirms his identity the investigation takes a new twist. Meanwhile archaeologist Neil Watson's gruesome task of exhuming the dead from a local churchyard yields a mystery of its own when a coffin is found to contain one corpse too many
- a corpse that may be linked to a strange religious sect dating back to Regency times. Wesley has his hands full elsewhere
- slowly Marcus Fallbrook begins to recover memories that Wesley hopes will lead him to cunning & dangerous murderer. But he is about to discover that the past can be a very dangerous place indeed.


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Seventeenth-century Tokyo is the setting for Rowlands first book in a murder mystery series featuring Sano Ichiro the Senior Police Commander in the district of Edo. Ichiro is a samurai whose academic background puts him at odds with most of his peers. When beautiful wealthy Yukiko & low-born artist Noriyoshi are found drowned together in what seems to be a shinju or ritual double suicide everyone believes the cause was their forbidden love. Everyone that is but Sano Ichiro. Despite the official verdict & being warned off by his superiors the shoguns Most Honourable Investigator of Events Situations & People suspects this double death was not only a tragedy
- it was murder. Risking his familys good name & his own life Sano will search for the killer across every level of society determined to find answers to a mystery no one else seems to want solved...
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After her years in domestic service Winifred Foley married & started a family. But while scraping a living as a charwoman in a rundown north London tenement she continued to long for her home in the Forest of Dean & the cherished relatives she had left behind. Determined to give their children the rural upbringing she had enjoyed the young couple moved to an isolated crumbling cottage not far from the Forest. But even in the 1950s they lacked heating or running water & money was tight. Food was begged borrowed or home-grown & their clothes were h&-me-downs. It was a primitive life of hard work on the land struggling to make ends meet & finding strength in the embrace of a loving family. ...

An extraordinary account of one womans single-minded campaign to restore a Victorian steamship to her former glory & make her an Andean attraction Here is a vivid account of Meriel Larkens incredible quest to restore the Yavari" steamship against the odds--a ship that is now celebrating its 150 year anniversary in 2012. In 1862 the English-built " Yavari" was taken to bits & shipped to South America. In an epic logistical feat it was carried in thousands of pieces by mule up the Andes to Lake Titicaca 12 500 feet above sea level the worlds highest navigable waterway. She was reconstructed & for more than a century plied her trade up & down the lake but by 1985 she was a sad rotting hulk--until she was found by Larken who led the quest to project to restore & preserve the ship. The oldest single screw iron passenger ship in the world this nautical & engineering jewel is now a major Peruvian tourist attraction." ...