During snookers heyday in the 1980s Willie Thorne was one of the games best-known & well-liked players. He won 14 major titles & at the height of the games popularity famously appeared in the classic Chas n Dave video Snooker Loopy (Old Willie Thorne is airs all gawn!A). But behind the happy-go-lucky smile lurked a dark secret. Willie was a gambling addict & by the end of his career hed blown GBP1.5 million to the bookmakers & casinos of Britain. As the money from snooker dried up his destructive addiction showed no sign of abating & his life spiralled out of control. Desperation & depression took hold of him culminating in a suicide attempt when he came close to ending it all. In Taking a Punt on My Life Willie bares his soul talking openly & frankly about his life
- the good times & the bad
- his talent his addiction the dark days & his suicide bid & his inspirational recovery from the brink. Brutally honest & at times painful to read the book is by turns harrowing uplifting & in places hilariously funny as he re-lives the good times & the great characters of snookers heyday."

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One conference two friends & two men who know how to take care of business... After leaving the wrong man Leah Griffin's not ready to look for the right one. All she wants is to survive the conference she's planning & spend some time with her best friend Kate Edwards. She's not expecting the conference services manager to be so tall dark & handsome...or so eager to please. It's Brandon Long's job to make Leah happy but after a scorching interlude in her hotel room neither can deny business has become pleasure. Smart driven & successful attorney Katherine Edwards has spent her life doing the right thing but. Charles Dixon is a bad choice she can't help but make
- over & over. A conference & a promotion bring Kate back to Pennsylvania & suddenly Dix wants far more than a few nights in random hotel rooms. He wants something permanent & Katherine has to figure out if sometimes a wrong choice isn't exactly what a woman needs.
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Puberty can be especially tough when young people have autism or other special needs. Through simple stories similar to Carol Grays Social Stories author Mary Wrobel teaches caregivers exactly what to say & not say & shows how you can create helpful stories of your own. Mary addresses hygiene modesty body growth & development menstruation touching personal safety & more. Young students can benefit from self-care skills such as using the toilet brushing teeth & washing hands. Parents & teachers should begin teaching these necessary skills as early as possible even from ages 3-5. The ultimate goal is to maximize the childs potential for independence & lifelong social success. ...

What are the odds against winning the Lottery making money in a casino or backing the right horse? Every day people make judgements on these matters & face other decisions that rest on their understanding of probability: buying insurance following medical advice carrying an umbrella. Yet many of us have a frightening ignorance of how probability works. Taking Chances presents an entertaining & fascinating exploration of probability revealing traps & fallacies in the field. It describes & analyses a remarkable variety of situations where chance plays a role including football pools the Lottery TV games sport cards roulette coins & dice. The book guides the reader round common pitfalls demonstrates how to make better informed decisions & shows where the odds can be unexpectedly in your favour. This new edition has been fully updated &

Includes:: information on Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" & " The Weakest Link" plus a new chapter on Probability for Lawyers."

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When journalist Rachel Carmedi is kidnapped & murdered by a Colombian drug cartel her lover & partner Tom Chambers racked by guilt vows to avenge her death. Ellen Shelby & Michael Mc Cann want to turn Rachel's story into their first Hollywood movie whilst Chambers agrees to track down the killers. But his need for vengeance soon overrides their desires. In London high-flyer Sandy Paul helping to raise finance for the film still harbours a fierce passion for Michael & aims to remove Ellen from his life. Love lust jealousy & ambition take the stage with high finance power & mortal danger. Torn loyalties male pride & female desires turn the movie into a terrifying trap of death threats & destruction... ...

The fascinating insightful & at times hilarious memoirs of one of the most gifted & enigmatic British footballers of the last 25 years. Nicknamed Le God" by the Southampton faithful Matt Le Tissier was not cast from the same mould as 99% of other professional footballers. A real "one-off" if every there was one he was a one-club man in a 16-year career that brought little in the way of trophies but countless plaudits from footballs fans & commentators alike. To the old school brigade he was a "luxury player" someone with a less than ideal work rate & waistline who simply wouldnt conform to the blueprint of a typically hard-working unsophisticated British player. Terry Venables & Glenn Hoddle found it all too easy to leave him out of their England squads. But to the vast majority Le Tissier was a maverick to be treasured a flair player who lit up every match he played in & delighted fans with his sumptuous technique & elan for the beautiful game. In fact the kind of skilful inventive player & scorer of wonderful goals this country produces all too rarely. Did he simply enjoy the comfort zone of being a big fish in a small pond? Or did he display commendable loyalty in staying with Southampton for his entire career? Did he shun opportunities to move on? Were England managers right not to pick him so many times? Would Fabio Capello pick him for England now? Does the British game discourage his style of play? & how much would he be worth in todays transfer market? Taking Le Tiss is the great mans first chance to answer all these questions & many more. It is also a delightfully self-deprecating & witty story from a player who was more of a Big-Mac-&-fries than a chicken-&-beans man." ...

The fascinating insightful & at times hilarious memoirs of one of the most gifted & enigmatic British footballers of the last 25 years. Nicknamed Le God" by the Southampton faithful Matt Le Tissier was not cast from the same mould as 99% of other professional footballers. A real "one-off" if every there was one he was a one-club man in a 16-year career that brought little in the way of trophies but countless plaudits from footballs fans & commentators alike. To the old school brigade he was a "luxury player" someone with a less than ideal work rate & waistline who simply wouldnt conform to the blueprint of a typically hard-working unsophisticated British player. Terry Venables & Glenn Hoddle found it all too easy to leave him out of their England squads. But to the vast majority Le Tissier was a maverick to be treasured a flair player who lit up every match he played in & delighted fans with his sumptuous technique & elan for the beautiful game. In fact the kind of skilful inventive player & scorer of wonderful goals this country produces all too rarely. Did he simply enjoy the comfort zone of being a big fish in a small pond? Or did he display commendable loyalty in staying with Southampton for his entire career? Did he shun opportunities to move on? Were England managers right not to pick him so many times? Would Fabio Capello pick him for England now? Does the British game discourage his style of play? & how much would he be worth in todays transfer market? Taking Le Tiss is the great mans first chance to answer all these questions & many more. It is also a delightfully self-deprecating & witty story from a player who was more of a Big-Mac-&-fries than a chicken-&-beans man." ...

Intrigue seduction & revenge in a disreputable financial world... When attractive thirty-something Beth Bradley takes a job as PA to Simon Henderson a highly successful financier she is well aware of his philandering reputation & determined to turn the tables on his fortune. Her initial attempt backfires & she begins to look for a more subtle & erotic form of retribution. However Beth keeps getting sidetracked by her libido & finds herself caught up in the dilemma of craving sex with the dominant man she wants to teach a lesson. ...

Grand Central station New York. 1:23pm. What starts as a normal day on the New York City subway becomes a race against time when a commuter train is hijacked. It is packed with passengers & the ransom is one million dollars. The NYPD frantically pursue the train on the city streets but the question remains: the subway is a closed system
- surely there is no way out... But the four hijackers led by a mercenary named Ryder have thought about this. & once they receive their ransom money they plan to send the train off at top speed toward the terminal station where it will crash killing all the passengers...
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' Billy Collins is one of my favourite poets in the world' Carol Ann Duffy Readers will only have to open this book at random to realize the privation a life without Billy Collins has been. A writer of immense grace & humanity Billy Collins shows how the great forces of history & nature converge on the tiniest details of our lives
- & in doing so presents them in a new radiance. He is also unbelievably funny. ' The most popular poet in America' New York Times ' Billy Collins writes lovely poems.. . Limpid gently & consistently startling more serious than they seem they describe all the worlds that are & were & some others besides' John Updike ' Billy Collins' medium is a rare amalgam of accessibility & intelligence. I'd follow this man's mind anywhere. Expect to be surprised' Michael Donaghy ' Smart his strings tuned & resonant his wonderful eye looping over the things events & ideas of the world rueful playful warm voiced easy to love' E. Annie Proulx
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