This is an essential sourcebook bringing the historic papercraft of quilling into the 21st century with fun & funky designs broken down into illustrated bite-sized steps for quick & easy crafting. Packed with fresh ideas techniques & tips Thrilling Quilling" will inspire both those learning the craft for the first time & more experienced crafters looking for new avenues of creativity. " Thrilling Quilling" offers clear instructions on creating a diverse range of quilled items & explores papers & equipment & techniques such as coiling pinching fringing & husking. With a perfect balance of information & inspiration people of all skill levels & interests will be able to take the timeless techniques of quilling & produce sensational results with a modern twist!" ...

Theres still a part of us that thinks surviving cancer is a bit of freakish good fortune
- the medical equivalent of having a cannonball
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Meet Celaena Sardothien. Beautiful. Deadly. Destined for greatness. In the dark filthy salt mines of Endovier an eighteen-year-old girl is serving a life sentence. She is a trained assassin the best of her kind but she made a fatal mistake. She got caught. Young Captain Westfall offers her a deal: her freedom in return for one huge sacrifice. Celaena must represent the prince in a to-the-death tournament
- fighting the most gifted thieves & assassins in the l&. Live or die Celaena will be free. Win or lose she is about to discover her true destiny. But will her assassin's heart be melted?
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Its almost Christmas. Cecilia lies sick in bed as her family bustle around her to make her last Christmas as special as possible. Cecilia has cancer. An angel steps through her window. So begins a spirited & engaging series of conversations between Cecelia & her angel. As the sick girl thinks about her life & prepares for her death she changes subtly in herself & in her relationships with her family. Jostein Gaarder is a profoundly optimistic writer who writes about death with wisdom compassion & an enquiring mind. THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY will not only bring comfort to the bereaved. It will move & amaze everyone who reads it. ...

It is a luminous spring day in Venice as Commissario Brunetti & Inspettore Vianello come to the rescue of Vianello's friend Marco Ribetti who has been arrested while protesting against chemical pollution of the Venetian lagoon only to be faced by the fury of Marco's father-in-law owner of a glass factory on the island of Murano. But clearly there is another victim who has uncovered the guilty secret of the polluting glass foundries of the island of Murano & whose body is found dead in front of the furnaces which burn at 1400 degrees night & day. The victim has left clues in a copy of Dante & Brunetti must descend into an inferno to discover who is burning the land & fouling the waters of the lagoon. A man is dead
- but will politics & expedience prevent the killer from striking again?
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Journeying through England on horseback the intrepid seventeenth-century traveller Celia Fiennes recorded every sight & experience of her adventure in her journal from her delight at countryside cakes & the beauty of remote landscapes to the challenges of disagreeable landladies choppy sea crossings & a troublesome horse. Describing potteries in Staffordshire cheesemaking in Cheshire dyers in Exeter & tin miners in Cornwall her writings give an unrivalled glimpse into an England of bustling industry & rich variety. Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside
- but it has profoundly shaped us too. It has provoked a huge variety of responses from artists writers musicians & people who live & work on the land
- as well as those who are travelling through it. English Journeys" celebrates this long tradition with a series of twenty books on all aspects of the countryside from stargazey pie & country churches to mans relationship with nature & songs celebrating the patterns of the countryside (as well as ghosts & love-struck soldiers)."

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Romania Bulgaria Hungary & Slovakia were all German allies in the Second World War unlike the other countries of Europe which had either been forcibly occupied by the Nazis or remained neutral.SOE Missions mounted within their borders were thus doubly hazardous for they were conducted in enemy-populated territory heavily policed by military forces & gendarmerie. Furthermore all these states had well developed & experienced security services usually supplemented by Gestapo & Abwehr units.A further complication to the activities of SOE in these countries was that they had all been effectively conceded by Western Allies to Russia; not surprisingly therefore operations in the Soviet sphere of influence were to prove diabolically difficult. This is a story about the courage of individuals in the face of overwhelming odds. Hunger ill-health exhaustion cold & treachery all combined to make life for those members of SOE who parachuted into these Fascist outposts of Fortress Europe as insufferable as it was dangerous. ...

In this powerful & inspirational book Gordon opens a window onto his own life to describe how the world looks through his eyes. He walks the reader through his own spirit-filled world & explains what it actually feels like when the spirits communicate through him. He answers many of the questions about death that haunt the bereaved. Many of the people that Gordon has brought healing & comfort to are happy for him to tell their story in this book with the desire to help others who are experiencing intense grief. Gordon hopes that this intimate & candid book will offer great wisdom comfort & practical advice to his thousands of readers. ...

Jo is ill & has to stay in bed for the day but her mum promises to bring her home a surprise to make her feel better. All day long Jo looks out of the window waiting for her mum to return & in the meantime sees all her friends from the neighbourhood including the postman the window cleaner & Mrs Ali from next door. But when will Mum be back with her surprise for Jo? ...

John Stotts new daily devotional covers the entire narrative of the Bible all the seasons of the church year & every essential Christian teaching in a single volume. One of the most highly respected Bible teachers of our times John Stotts completely original readings get to the heart of each of the 365 carefully selected biblical passages. ...