Martha was the youngest of sixteen handpicked reporters who filed accurate confidential reports on the human stories behind the statistics of the Depression directly to Roosevelts White House. From these pages we understand the real cost of sudden destitution on a vast scale. We taste the dust in the mouth smell the disease & feel the hopelessness & the despair. & here too we can hear the earliest cadences of a writer who went on to become arguably the greatest female war reporter of the 20th century. ...

Taking advantage of recent tourist interest the residents of Prior's Ford plan a summer festival. But someone is determined to sabotage the event & it takes all the villagers' detective skills to stop the vandals in their tracks. Meanwhile at Tarbethill Farm things are going from bad to worse. In dire financial straits Victor the eldest son is tempted by a developer's offer on their l&. But if his father finds out it promises to tear their family apart. & at the big house Lewis remains absolutely besotted by his baby daughter while his family still secretly wonder if she really is his. & as Molly starts to take advantage of Lewis' good nature can Ginny bear to keep silent about her feelings for him? ...

When the people of Turnham Malpas realise that all is not as it should be between Peter the rector & his wife Caroline the smooth running of the village falters. Then the appointment of a new verger causes trouble when events from his past return to haunt him bringing violence & danger to the peace of the village. & there are the strange goings-on in the church at night one of the villagers houses is ransacked; a couple is beaten up... But troubles in Turnham Malpas are put to rest as Bonfire Night at the Big House arrives & the celebrations unite the village once again. ...

Bliss! A lovely quiet nothing-to-do & nothing-on-the-calendar Sunday... Well thats until bossy Aunt Susan
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In the first of the four cases in Trouble is My Business" LA PI Philip Marlowe is offered a job that leaves a bad taste in the mouth: smearing a girl who's 'got her hooks into a rich man's pup'. Before too long Marlowe's up to his neck in corpses & cops & he's taken pity on the girl. There's nothing like making trouble of your business.. . The four novellas collected here are quintessential Raymond Chandler: slick crystal-clear writing that pins the reader to the seat & won't let go until the last page is turned." ...

and Brooks combine satirical bite with impeccable research to explain that ever-increasing income inequality is the product of a global legal & economic system that has been rigged by the wealthiest. With disastrous consequences for the rest of us from wild financial speculation to failing health it is time for society to fight back. Arguing that instead of austerity"
- a strategy the authors decry as a flawed effort to shore up a failing economic paradigm
- we should tackle tax havens executive pay levels patent law & lax regulation this incisive but lively polemic is a clarion call to arms which points to a simple solution worth fighting for: tax the rich they deserve it!"

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This is a comic canine conundrum from Australias leading picture book maker. Brought home from the rescue centre Dave is small & sparky & gets all excited. To Kate hes everything a pup should be. The trouble is he sometimes gets too excited. He jumps uninvited onto guests laps runs down the middle of flowerbeds & chews holes in the tights of Kates schoolfriends. We need help! Mum decides. But will the man from Pup Breakers really have the answers? This is a sequel to Lets Get a Pup" (9781406308518) which won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award 2002 & was shortlisted for the 2001 Kate Greenaway Medal the 2002 Sheffield Childrens Book Award & the 2002 Norfolk Childrens Book Award." ...

When Keith gets a new foster brother hes not too happy about it. But when this boy wont talk to him Keith realizes that things are going to be much harder than he originally thought. & its not just Keith who Donovan wont speak to
- he wont speak to anybody at all. The other kids at school take Donovans silence to be a sign of a bad attitude & start to bully him. Keith knows he has to stick up for him but that means the bullies are just going to pick on him too.. .
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The Trouble with Physics" is a groundbreaking account of the state of modern physics: of how we got from Einstein & Relativity through quantum mechanics to the strange & bizarre predictions of string theory full of unseen

Dimensions & multiple universes. Lee Smolin not only provides a brilliant laymans overview of current research as we attempt to build a theory of everything but also questions many of the assumptions that lie behind string theory. In doing so he describes some of the daring outlandish ideas that will propel research in years to come."

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Every morning Hakan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his apartment in Stockholm. Then one day he fails to come home. Detective Kurt Wallander is not officially involved but Hakans son is engaged to his daughter Linda. A few months earlier Hakan was eager to talk to Kurt about a controversial incident from his past. Could this be connected to his disappearance? When Hakans wife also goes missing Wallander is determined to uncover the truth but the investigation will force him to look back over his own past as he comes to the unsettling realisation that even those we love the most can remain strangers to us... ...