Drawing from exclusive & unpublished interviews with a variety of names & faces from throughout Alices career the book follows Coopers tale from his life growing up as a preachers son in Arizona through the early years of struggle in Phoenix & then Los Angeles & then onto the rollercoaster ride that has been the years since then.
Includes: interviews with original bandmates Michael Bruce & the late Glenn Buxton drummer Neal Smith the late Frank Zappa manager Shep Gordon & producer Bob Ezrin.

Includes:: tributes & recollections from many of the artists who call Alice an influence
- from the Damned & the Cramps to White Zombie & Gwar. Session players & songwriters who have made their own contributions to the Alice story recall their days spent with this Prince of Hell-raisers. The result is a story that alternately thrills shocks surprises & delights.

Includes:: full discography & bibliography.





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A travel agent who longs to travel. An intrepid explorer who just wants to find a place to call home. & a Big Idea that changes everything... Close your eyes & imagine the world is your oyster... And now imagine never seeing it. Welcome to Harriet Langtons world. All her life shes dreamt of travelling the globe
- fate always got in the way. Working as a travel agent the closest Harri comes to her dream destination of Venice is booking the trip for someone else. But everything changes when travel fanatic Alex drops in. With her boyfriend Rob tied up with work Harri is persuaded to help Alex in his quest for love. But in her attempts to help Harri soon discovers that shes alienating those around her. Desperate to leave her life behind will her dreams finally come true? Or will Harris leap of faith be her biggest mistake yet? A gorgeous love story for fans of Sophie Kinsella & Jill Mansell.
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Were you a sherbet lemon or chocolate lime fan? Penny chews or hard boiled sweeties (you do get more for your money that way)? The jangle of your pocket money.. .the rustle of the pink & green striped paper bag.. . Rosie Hopkins thinks leaving her busy London life & her boyfriend Gerard to sort out her elderly Aunt Lilian's sweetshop in a small country village is going to be dull. Boy is she wrong. Lilian Hopkins has spent her life running Lipton's sweetshop through wartime & family feuds. As she struggles with the idea that it might finally be time to settle up she also wrestles with the secret history hidden behind the jars of beautifully coloured sweets. Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop of Dreams
- a novel
- with recipes. * Winner of the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2013*

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A diabolical government asserts control by eliminating orgasm from sex in the title story of Welcome to the Monkey House
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Death is a subject modern society shies away from. Even doctors avoid the word. But if we regard death as a failure in our desire to prolong life can we ever arrive at a humane approach to those whose lives have lost meaning? Are we keeping people alive simply because we can? Here John Humphrys & his co-author Dr Sarah Jarvis take a wider look at how our attitudes to death have changed as doctors have learned how to prolong life beyond anything that could have been imagined only a few generations ago & confront one of the great challenges facing the western world today. There are no easy answers but the first step must surely be to accept that death can be as welcome as it is inevitable. ...

Get the know-how to weld like a pro Being a skilled welder is a hot commodity in today's job market as well as a handy talent for industrious do-it-yourself repairpersons & hobbyists. Welding For Dummies gives you all the information you need to perform this commonly used yet complex task. This friendly practical guide takes you from evaluating the material to be welded all the way through the step-by-step welding process & everything in between. Plus you'll get easy-to-follow guidance on how to apply finishing techniques & advice on how to adhere to safety procedures. Explains each type of welding including stick tig mig & fluxcore welding as well as oxyfuel cutting which receives sparse coverage in other books on welding Tips on the best welding technique to choose for a specific project Required training & certification information Whether you have no prior experience in welding or are looking for a thorough reference to supplement traditional welding instruction the easy-to-understand information in Welding For Dummies is the ultimate resource for mastering this intricate skill. ...

Elizabeth is desperate to play the piano in the end of school concert. But only one girl can be chosen & her rival Arabella is practising hard! Elizabeth knows Arabella is very good & might well be picked to play on the day
- so ignoring her looming exams she spends every waking minute practicing. When Arabella is still chosen over her she realises that not only will she not have a place in the school concert she might well also fail all her exams. Racing to get her revision done she finds a quiet spot in an old oak tree in the school grounds. It's very peaceful & lots of birds & other animals make their home in the tree. So when Elizabeth realises the tree is marked as one to be chopped down she's determined not to let it happen. But can she save the tree & manage to pass all her exams? It's going to be a fight to the finish...
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B. S. Johnson is a truly unique British writer a cult figure whose original & experimental fiction has since his tragically early death in 1973 been rediscovered by many subsequent generations of writers & readers. In many ways the heir to Joyce & Beckett Johnson played with form & narrative across many genres: novels plays poetry & memoir. To commemorate the eightieth anniversary of his birth two of the foremost scholars of B. S. Johnson Professor Philip Tew & Dr Julia Jordan have joined forces with Jonathan Coe author of the prize-winning biography Like a Fiery Elephant to offer a selection of his greatest uncollected or unavailable writing. Well Done God!

Includes:: his major prose work Arent You Rather Young to be Writing Your Memoirs? six plays & a selection of his remarkable journalism.

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When Jon Gibby wrote the third edition of his successful & popular book Betting on Flat Handicaps in 2005 he admitted that the growing influence of the betting exchanges & the ever increasing amount of information available to punters had made it harder to maintain an edge over the crowd. In order to preserve his advantage he has been searching for information not widely employed by other punters & to become better than them at interpreting it. Well-handicapped Horses has been fully updated & revised for the 2012 season to bring punters up to date with the enforced changes that the author has made to his methodology. It now

Includes:: 100 well-handicapped three-year-olds to follow in 2012.

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A powerful novel of love between women THE WELL OF LONELINESS brought about the most famous legal trial for obscenity in the history of British law. Banned on publication in 1928 it then went on to become a classic bestseller. Stephen Gordon (named by a father desperate for a son) is not like other girls: she hunts she fences she reads books wears trousers & longs to cut her hair. As she grows up amidst the stifling grandeur of Morton Hall the locals begin to draw away from her aware of some indefinable thing that sets her apart. & when Stephen Gordon reaches maturity she falls passionately in love
- with another woman.
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