This fast-paced compelling & chilling account is the deeply moving story of a three-times Kung Fu World Champion. With fascinating insight into the traditions of Chinas martial arts it documents the abusive upbringing that turned a four-year-old child into a hardened professional killer. From China to Europe & across the Meditarranean we follow Tony as he becomes an elite bodyguard protecting some of the worlds most powerful people. Following personal tragedy Tonys extreme discipline & the philosophy of his art is quickly turned. He begins to use his skills for illegal means & highly destructive bloodthirsty pleasure. Eventually incarcerated in jail in Cyprus Tony hits rock bottom. Through the visits of a stranger he is introduced to the reality & life-changing power of Jesus Christ. Though the prison walls hold him he finds himself a free man. This is just the beginning of a complex & fascinating testimony. ...

Everybody has a Tiger. It is the thing that snarls at us when we think about making a change in our lives & stops us developing & achieving our potential. In Taming Tigers Jim Lawless shares his proven & inspirational training programme to help you achieve your dreams by taming the Tigers in your life. Now for the first time you can learn how to use these highly practical rules to overcome your fears & do things you never thought you could
- in both your professional & private life. 1. Act boldly today
- time is limited 2. Re-write your rulebook
- challenge it hourly 3. Head in the direction of where you want to arrive every day 4. Its all in the mind 5. The tools for Taming Tigers are all around you 6. There is no safety in numbers 7. Do something scary everyday 8. Understand & control your time to create change 9. Create disciplines
- do the basics brilliantly 10. Never never give up! Read case studies from people who have changed their lives by following the rules & hear about Jims experience of grabbing his own Tiger by the tail as he went from a thirty-six-year-old overweight non-riding consultant to a fully-fledged jockey & UK freediving record holder in 12 months
- proof that Taming Tigers works!




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We all know the anthem Stand By Your Man that Tammy took to the top of the charts but few know the staggering story of the woman behind the song. Virginia Wynette Pugh was born into a poor family in Mississippi but was blessed with an astonishing singing voice. She always believed in her talent so when her first marriage was breaking down she bundled her three children into her car & roared off to make her name in the capital of Country music Nashville. An overnight success Wynette took the persona of the tortured housewife & turned it into hit records. Yet Tammy never found the idealized love she desperately yearned for & her soap opera life included five husbands (one marriage lasting only forty-four days); four kids; thirty-plus operations; a monstrous addiction to painkillers; & even a bizarre unsolved kidnapping attempt that some insiders suggest Tammy might have staged herself. Her tragic death at age 55 shocked her fans but not those who knew of her health & addiction problems. Then the final indignity: her family had Wynettes body exhumed a year after her passing to ascertain the cause of her demise yet the death has never been fully explained. Jimmy Mc Donough has been a true fan of Tammy all his life & has spent years researching the singers story. TRAGIC COUNTRY QUEEN is the definitive biography of this complex & often contradictory artist. The author interviewed musicians producers fellow Country music superstars ex-husbands & family members (many who speak publicly for the first time). He reveals Tammys mysterious & often desperate pre-Nashville days & her chaotic private life which included vast wealth affairs fires overdoses controlling husbands pills gunshots & fine music. The more I unearthed the more haunting her music became writes Mc Donough. Funny heartbreaking & remarkably researched Tragic Country Queen is the book on the queen of country music. ...

The final breathtaking volume in the Tamuli series. The pace as always is white hot
- as are the special effects. As readers will
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Liza Kellyanne & Billie are ambitious heroines chasing their dreams in the demimondes of media politics reality television & rock music. Their journey unfolds thrill by thrill shock by shock in an unputdownable story about the illusions of glamour the dark side of success the elusiveness of love & the fragility of relationships. Three incidents will change their lives forever: a career free fall a surprise pregnancy & a brutal murder. & it all happens during one unforgettable season at a summer share in the Hamptons. Tan Lines -- a Valley of the Dolls for the 21st century -- portrays their passions triumphs & heartbreaks with a sly intelligence & a wickedly sharp prose that will be loved by fans of Jackie Collins Jacqueline Susann & a whole new generation of readers. ...

Tana Ramsay shows how easy it is to cook up real family food to satisfy the entire family. Working with simple recipes & basic ingredients she shares her favourite family recipes for every occasion from school night suppers & weekend breakfasts to birthday surprises & Halloween bites. As a busy mother-of-four & the glamorous wife of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay Tana knows the challenges of pleasing everybody around the kitchen table -- especially if you want your family to eat real healthy food. With the help of her trademark easy-to-follow & mouth-watering recipes Tana shows how to transform mealtimes with minimum fuss & make real food something you all eat everyday -- without spending hours in the kitchen. Lavishly illustrated with over 100 recipes for every family occasion throughout the year including: / School-rush breakfasts lunchtime bites & quick-fix dinners / Lazy lunches birthday surprises & family parties / Summer picnics Easter feasts & Christmas treats ...

Opulence. Invasion. Terror. & forbidden passion in 1930s Singapore. They were the golden days when Singapore was as rich as its climate was steamy its future as assured as it was busy. & those days were made even better when as was inevitable I fell in love with the Chinese beauty of Julie Soong & against all unwritten canons of Singapore life we became lovers. ...

Half-African half-Indian & beautiful Tandia is just a teenager when she is brutally attacked & violated by the South African police. Desperately afraid & consumed by hatred for the white man Tandia seeks refuge in a brothel deep in the veld. There she learns to use her brilliant mind & extraordinary looks as weapons for the battles that lie ahead: she trains as a terrorist. But then Tandia meets a man with a past as strange as her own: Peekay an Oxford undergraduate who is also the challenger for the world welterweight boxing championship
- & a white man. & in a land where mixed relationships are outlawed their growing love can only have the most explosive consequences.
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The rightful High Druid of Shannara has been banished to the harsh world called the Forbidding by a treasonous fellow druid. Her only hope for rescue is her nephew Pen
- but Pen is under seige as well. Both he & his parents are sought by the druids who want to make sure that their magic will never help the real leader to return. Yet there is worse to come. For the dark magic that banished the High Druid into the Forbidding allowed the simultaneous transference of a fearsome denizen of the Forbidding back into the druids world. & now there is a terrible peril in the Four Lands
- a creature that can take on any shape can kill at will & is only the harbinger of a much greater devastating invasion to come.. .

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An edge city poised at the northernmost tip of Africa just nine miles across the Strait of Gibraltar from Europe & overlooking both the Mediterranean & the Atlantic Tangier is more than a destination it is an escape & the Interzone as William Burroughs called it has attracted spies outlaws outcasts & writers for centuries
- men & women working out at the edge of literary forms breaking through artistic borders. This outlaw originality is what most astonishes when encountering the literary history of Tangier for the first time. Particularly in the past century the results were some of the most incendiary & influential books of our time the most prominent being Burroughs' Naked Lunch & Paul Bowles' The Sheltering Sky. The list of edge" writers who were drawn to Tangier is long among them Ibn Battuta Samuel Pepys Alexandre Dumas Mark Twain Edith Wharton Walter Harris Jean Genet Paul & Jane Bowles Tennessee Williams William Burroughs Brion Gysin Patricia Highsmith Jack Kerouac Truman Capote Gore Vidal Allen Ginsberg Alfred Chester Joe Orton & Mohamed Choukri."
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