At once a history of Holker Hall in Cumbria the story of a family a life a community & an exploration of continuity with the past & adaptation to the modern age. Hugh Cavendish Baron Cavendish of Furness owner of Holker Hall in Cumbria writes about the history of Holker which dates back to the sixteenth century & has never been bought or sold but has passed by inheritance through the family line with each generation leaving its impressions. He writes too about his family
- his grandparents who faced with serious financial embarrassment sat down with a list to find savings & having identified essentials they agreed to give up taking Country Life & having hot water & lemon after dinner
- but still thought it not unreasonable to plan to divert a river to run through the park; his mother (relations with my mother were never good & often spectacularly bad); his aunts (collectively identified as the Aunt Heap). He describes his own life as a child at Holker (when I look back I allow myself the indulgence of believing I was not quite as stupid as my schoolmasters held me to be; nor quite as lazy) & later as the owner of Holker finding a way of managing huge resources & responsibilities & also immense debt. & of course he writes about the garden.

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Time to Pray contains a simpified ' Daily Office': a pattern of prayer praise & daily Bible reading that is simple fresh & accessible. It offers two flexible services ideal for those seeking a simpler form a daily prayer or those just beginning a regular routine of time with God. While being straightforward & flexible to use Time to Pray draws the reader into a tradition that has been practised by Christians throughout the centuries & continues to be shared across the word today. Taken from the material provided in Common Worship: Daily Prayer it contains: Prayer During the Day (for every day of the week) Seasonal variations Night Prayer Selected Psalms Bound in imitation leather Time to Pray is lightweight & portable ideal to be used at home or on the move. ...

Welcome to Chestnut Hill the boarding school where every girls favourite subject is riding. Someone at Chestnut Hill has been accused of cheating! Who would possibly do such a thing? But while all her friends are busy gossiping no one seems to realize that Lani has problems
- & secrets
- of her own. More titles available: THE NEW CLASS (9781407130750) MAKING STRIDES (9781407130767) HEART OF GOLD (9781407130774) PLAYING FOR KEEPS (9781407130781) TEAM SPIRIT (9781407130798) ALL OR NOTHING (9781407130804) & CHASING DREAMS (9781407130811).

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Katherine Jenkins is an international singing superstar who has redefined a music genre: she has brought classical music to the masses & inspired young & old with her incredible voice her glamorous looks & above all her love for music her country & her fans. Born in Neath South Wales Katherine won national acclaim as the BBC Welsh Choirgirl of the year & soon after a place at the Royal Academy of Music. Auditioning for a terrifying panel of industry experts at Universal Music she came away with the largest recording deal in classical music history. & so began Katherines meteoric rise to stardom. TIME TO SAY HELLO is Katherines incredible story. Packed with laughter adventure heartbreak & music it is the tale of a dream coming true & one that will keep you gripped to the last note ...

Get ready for more girly games giggles & gossip in this bestselling series featuring a group of girls brought together by the boys & bunk warfare fun & sun of one cool summer camp. Natalies film-star dad has been nominated for an Oscar & shes going to the awards show in LA with him
- which also means she can catch up with Tori! Tori plans to spend some quality time with Nat but when a new boy arrives on the scene the two friends fall out in a big way. Meanwhile wannabe actress Brynn is preparing for the most important role shes ever had but boyfriend Jordan is taking up so much of her time she cant even learn her lines properly! How can she decide whats most important especially when breaking up with Jordan could mean upsetting her gal-pal Priya Jordans closest childhood friend. Girls will be lining up to share all the latest secrets in the next batch of Summer Camp Secrets which are sure to attract new fans everywhere!
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The power of effective listening is recognised as the essential tool of good management. In this book Kline describes how we can achieve this & presents a step-by-step guide that can be used in any situation. Whether you want to have more productive meetings solve business problems or build stronger relationships this book offers you a new world of possibilities. ...

Human beings have a strong desire to travel through time. Although scientists are not yet taking out patents on a time machine they are investigating whether it is possible under the laws of physics. In Newtons three-dimensional world this would have been inconceivable. But with Einsteins theory of relativity a fourth dimension time enters the frame. Is it really inconceivable that we can travel along the timeline? In this book Richard Gott offers an intellectually expansive witty & engaging study of the viability of time travel which takes us from the dream of time travel itself in H. G. Wellss path-breaking novel THE TIME MACHINE to cutting-edge research into astrophysics & quantum teleportation. He explores the scientific social & moral implications of time travel & looks at recent remarkable experiments in which fundamental particles were actually sent into the future. ...

This is the extraordinary love story of Clare & Henry who met when Clare was six & Henry was thirty-six & were married when Clare was twenty-two & Henry thirty. Impossible but true because Henry suffers from a rare condition where his genetic clock periodically resets & he finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future. In the face of this force they can neither prevent nor control Henry & Clare's struggle to lead normal lives is both intensely moving & entirely unforgettable. ...

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there... Imagine you could travel back to the fourteenth century. What would you see & hear & smell? Where would you stay? What are you going to eat? & how are you going to test to see if you are going down with the plague? In The Time Travellers Guide... Ian Mortimers radical new approach turns our entire understanding of history upside down. History is not just something to be studied; it is also something to be lived whether thats the life of a peasant or a lord. The result is perhaps the most astonishing history book you are ever likely to read; as revolutionary as it is informative as entertaining as it is startling. ...

We think of Queen Elizabeth I as ' Gloriana': the most powerful English woman in history. We think of her reign (1558-1603) as a golden age of maritime heroes like Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Richard Grenville & Sir Francis Drake & of great writers such as Edmund Spenser Christopher Marlowe Ben Jonson & William Shakespeare. But what was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? If you could travel to the past & walk the streets of London in the 1590s where would you stay? What would you eat? What would you wear? Would you really have a sense of it being a glorious age? & if so how would that glory sit alongside the vagrants diseases violence sexism & famine of the time? In this book Ian Mortimer answers the key questions that a prospective traveller to late sixteenth-century England would ask. Applying the groundbreaking approach he pioneered in his bestselling Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England the Elizabethan" world unfolds around the reader. He shows a society making great discoveries & winning military victories & yet at the same time being troubled by its new-found awareness. It is a country in which life expectancy at birth is in the early thirties people still starve to death & Catholics are persecuted for their faith. Yet it produces some of the finest writing in the English language & some of the most magnificent architecture & sees Elizabeth's subjects settle in America & circumnavigate the globe. Welcome to a country that is in all its contradictions the very crucible of the modern world." ...