When she was nine years old Melody Brownes house burned down taking every toy every photograph every item of clothing & old Christmas card with it. But not only did the fire destroy all her possessions it took with it all her memories
- Melody Browne can remember nothing before her ninth birthday. Now in her early thirties Melody lives in a council flat in the middle of London with her seventeen-year-old son. She hasnt seen her parents since she left home at fifteen but Melody doesnt mind shes better off on her own. Shes made a good life for herself & her son & she likes it that way. Until one night something extraordinary happens. Whilst attending a hypnotist show with her first date in years she faints
- & when she comes round she starts to remember. At first her memories mean nothing to her but then slowly day by day she begins to piece together the real story of her childhood. Her journey takes her to the seaside town of Broadstairs to oddly familiar houses in London backstreets & to meetings with strangers who love her like their own. But with every mystery she solves another one materialises with every question she answers another appears. & Melody begins to wonder if shell ever know the truth about her past...

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We all know Santa Claus: fat jolly omniscient swift lives in a nice home in the Arctic with the missus & a pack of elves. Well forget what you know. Santa Claus is from Greenpoint Brooklyn as it turns out & hes not as fat as he used to be. Heres something else you didnt know: hes been dabbling in some futuristic technology & has found myriad ways to make his job possible. How can Santa know whos been naughty & nice? Simple: implant listening devices into your ornaments. How can he make it to every house on Christmas Eve? Thats nothing a little cloning & some wormholes cant solve. & he has plenty of other tactics: quantum entanglement organ replacement drug-induced hibernation & unmanned aerial vehicles to name just a few. In this fantastically illustrated affectionate & hilarious book Gregory Mone uses science & technology to overturn the assumption that Santa cant be real. Drawing on the work of accomplished scientists & researchers Mone gives us a whole new portrait of this remarkable man & the miracles he makes happen every year. With imaginative artwork & an eye-catching package this book makes an outstanding Christmas gift for just about anyone. ...

Do you ever worry about what goes on inside your teacher's head? Then these poems are for you! Find out exactly what
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Awakened by the shuddering of a huge iceberg puncturing the side of the ship Colonel Archibald Gracie was quickly dressed & on deck to see the aftermath of what was to become the most famous collision in history. He had gone to bed early on the night of 14 April 1912 expecting to be up with the larks & enjoying a session in the gym & a game of squash before breakfast but by morning he was standing atop an overturned lifeboat awaiting rescue from the frozen North Atlantic. The nights exertions were to have a huge effect on Gracie. He began to write the story of the tragic events soon after he was back on dry land completing most of the task by Autumn 1912. Telling the story of the last few hours of the sinking Titanic & his miraculous escape as she plummeted 14 000 feet to the ocean floor Gracies book is recognised as simply the best account of the disaster. He died in December 1912 while proofing the manuscript but the Truth about the Titanic remains today as the most accurate of the eyewitness accounts recording Gracies own story as well as that of each of the lifeboats as they left the doomed Titanic. ...

As we lurch from scare to scare about vaccines we no longer fully trust what we are being told by doctors. In a series of investigations over seven years into all the new & commonly-prescribed vaccines (including HPV) autism immune diseases & allergies Dr Richard Halvorsen spoke to health officials researchers fellow doctors & parents. He discovered that vaccines are being given to children without knowing enough about them. Parents are regularly being misguided about vaccine effectiveness & their safety. Doctors are not being provided with the right information. They even live in fear of being seen to challenge perceived wisdom. Medical researchers often find that impartial vaccine research is impossible
- those who dare speak-out risk being discredited. By presenting all the original medical research in an easy readable form Dr Halvorsen allows parents to distinguish fact from fiction & make an informed decision about the right choice for their child. This new edition was expanded with two new chapters on autism & new medical & pharmaceutical research & contains an alternative vaccination schedule for both NHS & private patients.
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1945: The wars over. But there are no medals for Danny Mc Rae. Just amnesia & blackouts; twin handicaps for a private investigator with a filthy rich client on the hook for murder. Dannys blackouts mean that hours sometimes days are a complete blank. So when news of a brutal killer stalking Londons red light district start to stir grisly memories Danny is terrified about what he might discover if he delves deeper into his fractured mind. As the two bloody sagas collide & interweave Danny finds himself running for his life across the bomb-ravaged city. The only escape is through that gap in his memory... Will his past catch up with him before his enemies? & which would be worse? ...

A brilliant story of the secrets we keep. Desmond Fitzmaurice is a mysterious literary giant of the thirties whom no one has seen for years. Caroline is a London journalist & hasn't the faintest interest in going to Dublin to interview him. That his life story will feature 'lots of sex & some violence' as the old man claims seems farcical. She'll stay for a couple of nights extract what she can & try to make his life sound interesting. But in Desmond's quiet house his quiet life Caroline discovers much much more than she bargained for... ...

This is a heart-warming book describing the experience of David Dunn the author as he discovered the magic of 'giving yourself away'. He outlines in simple practical human fashion a plan of happier daily living which comes as a refreshing breeze in this worried world. You can read the book in a little over an hour but its sound & stimulating philosophy is likely to stay with you for the rest of your life. ...

Tsotsi is an angry young gang leader in the South African township of Sophiatown. A man without a past he exists only to kill & steal. But one night in a moonlit grove of bluegum trees a woman he attempts to rape forces a shoebox into his arms. The box contains a baby & his life is inexorably changed. He begins to remember his childhood to rediscover himself & his capacity for love. Turned into an Oscar-winning movie in 2006 Tsotsi's raw power & rare humanity show how decency & compassion can survive against the odds. ...

One man. One hour. One million people to save... Over the remote central Pacific an airliner is rocked by a massive explosion & plummets into the ocean leaving no survivors. Twelve hundred miles away in Hawaii Kai Tanaka the acting director of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre in Honolulu notes a minor seismic disturbance but doesn't make the connection with the lost airplane. He has no reason to worry about his wife manager of a luxury hotel or his daughter who is enjoying the sunshine at Waikiki beach. But when all contact with neighbouring Christmas Island is lost Kai is the first to realize that Hawaii faces an epic catastrophe: in one hour a series of massive waves will wipe out Honolulu. He has just sixty minutes to save the lives of a million people including his wife & daughter... Addictive & fast-paced The Tsunami Countdown pitches an ordinary man against the odds in an electrifying & action-packed thriller. You won't be able to put it down. ...