One of the worlds most celebrated authors Margaret Atwood has written a collection of smart & entertaining fictional essays in the genre of her previous books Good Bones" & " Murder in the Dark". Chilling & witty prescient & personal delectable & tart these highly imaginative tales tackle a broad range of subjects reflecting the times we live in with deadly accuracy & knife-edge precision. Punctuated with wonderful illustrations by the author they are vintage Atwood." ...

For the 70s child summer holidays didn't mean the joy of Centre Parcs or the sophistication of a Tuscan villa. They meant being crammed into a car with Grandma & heading to the coast. With just a tent for a home & a bucket for the necessities we would set off on new adventures each year stoically resolving to enjoy ourselves. For Emma Kennedy & her mum & dad disaster always came along for the ride no matter where they went. Whether it was being swept away by a force ten gale on the Welsh coast or suffering copious amounts of food poisoning on a brave trip to the south of France family holidays always left them battered & bruised. But they never gave up. Emma's memoir The Tent The Bucket & Me is a painfully funny reminder of just what it was like to spend your summer holidays cold damp but with sand between your toes. ...

When Daniel Stone was a child he was the only white boy in a native Eskimo village where his mother taught & he was teased mercilessly because he was different. He fought back the baddest of the bad kids: stealing drinking robbing & cheating his way out of the Alaskan bush where he honed his artistic talent fell in love with a girl & got her pregnant. To become part of a family he reinvented himself jettisoning all that anger to become a docile devoted husband & father. Fifteen years later when we meet Daniel again he is a comic book artist. His wife teaches Dante's Inferno at a local college; his daughter Trixie is the light of his life & a girl who only knows her father as the even-tempered mild-mannered man he has been her whole life. Until that is she is date raped.. .and Daniel finds himself struggling again with a powerlessness & a rage that may not just swallow him whole but destroy his family & his future. ...

Its another dark year at Bathory High for Vladimir Tod.. . The evil vampire DAblo is hunting for the ritual that could steal Vlads powers. His best friend doesnt want to be his drudge any more & its getting harder for Vlad to resist feeding on those around him. But when DAblo shows up demanding his fathers journal Vlad realizes that having a normal high school year is the least of his concerns. Vlad needs to act fast & even his status as the Pravus wont save him this time... ...

Millions have experienced the nine insights of The Celestine Prophecy & glimpsed the emerging world view that it describes. Inspired by this book individuals across the world have opened up to the experience of guiding coincidences in their lives & to a new sense of personal dignity & mission. Now a new insight is emerging... The Tenth Insight. The Tenth Insight will take you on a journey into other

Dimensions...to memories of past experiences & other countries...to the moment before our conception & the birth vision we all experience...to the passage of death & the life review we must all face...to the self-imposed isolation of hell where fearful souls resist awakening...and the love-filled Afterlife dimension where the knowledge of human destiny is guarded & held. & back on Earth you will see the fear of the future that is endangeirng Earth's spiritual renaissance & you will struggle to overcome this fear by exploirng the nature of intuition synchronicity & visualization. As you grasp The Tenth Insight your memories will expand to include an understanding of the long expanse of human history & the special mission we all share to bring humanity to answer as never before the unspoken questions that loom over all of human experience & in every human heart: Why are we here? What are we to do? Where are we going? Again with words that resonate with our deepest intuitions & illuminate both the world outside us & within us James Redfield offers us all a unique revelatory & ultimately joyful vision of human spirituality. One that could change your life
- & perhaps the world.


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From the undisputed master of the short story George Saunders comes a dazzling & disturbing new collection. His most wryly hilarious work to date Tenth of December illuminates human experience & explores figures lost in a labyrinth of troubling preoccupations. A family member recollects a backyard pole dressed for all occasions; Divisional Director Todd Birnie sends round a memo to employees he thinks need some inspiration; Jeff faces horrifying ultimatums & the prospect of Darkenfloxx' in some unusual drug trials; & in an auction of local celebrities Al Roosten hides his own internal monologue behind a winning smile that he hopes will make him popular. Although as a young boy discovers sometimes the voices fade & all you are left with is a frozen hill on a cold day in December... With dark visions of the future riffing against ghosts of the past & the ever-settling present Tenth of December sings with astonishing charm & intensity & re-affirms Saunders as one of our greatest living storytellers. ...

A clever tribute to literature Tequila Mockingbird "is "the "cocktail book for the literary obsessed. Combining beloved classic novels with witty humor & delicious drink recipes some of the charming recipes include Vermouth the Bell Tolls Gin Eyre Are You There God? Its Me Margarita Bridget Joness Daiquiri & more. Accompanying the 65 cocktail recipes are a list of tools & techniques a spirits glossary & a handful of drinking games & bar bites making this cocktail book both fun & functional. With a special cover designed to look like a classic novel whimsical illustrations & a two-color design throughout " Tequila Mockingbird "is a one-of-a-kind cocktail book." ...

Taking politics into their own hands a group of highly-trained killers embark on a mission of shattering brutality. It is time the people made the politicians pay for their unfulfilled promises. The next day America awakens to the devastating news that three of their most powerful & unscrupulous politicians have been violently murdered. & the assassins are not finished. In the media frenzy that follows the killers release their demands. The country's leaders must restore power to the people or they will all meet the same fate as their colleagues. Not even the President is safe... ...

In this sixth & concluding book of the Tunnels series the Styx & their cohorts of deadly Armagi have swept across England leaving death & devastation in their wake. It seems nothing can stop them now. Only a miracle can save the day & in the inner world at the centre of the earth Will & Elliott might just have stumbled upon one as they uncover ancient secrets that are fundamental to al human & Styx life. ...

Spearpoint the last human city is an atmosphere-piercing spire of vast size. Clinging to its skin are the zones a series of semi-autonomous city-states each of which enjoys a different
- & rigidly enforced
- level of technology. Horsetown is pre-industrial; in Neon Heights they have television & electric trains.. . Following an infiltration mission that went tragically wrong Quillon has been living incognito working as a pathologist in the district morgue. But when a near-dead angel drops onto his dissecting table Quillons world is wrenched apart one more time for the angel is a winged posthuman from Spearpoints Celestial Levels
- & with the dying body comes bad news. If Quillon is to save his life he must leave his home & journey into the cold & hostile lands beyond Spearpoints base starting an exile that will take him further than he could ever imagine. But there is far more at stake than just Quillons own survival for the limiting technologies of the zones are determined not by governments or police but by the very nature of reality
- & reality itself is showing worrying signs of instability.. .



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