David Sedariss remarkable ability to uncover the hilarious absurdity teeming just below the surface of everyday life is elevated to wilder & more entertaining heights than ever in this new book of stories. Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life
- the etiquette of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger or how to soundproof your windows with LP covers against neurotic songbirds
- to the most deeply resonant human truths. Taking in the parasitic worm that once lived in his mother-in-laws leg an encounter with a dingo & the purchase of a human skeleton & culminating in a brilliant account of his attempt to quit smoking
- in Tokyo
- David Sedariss sixth story collection is a fresh masterpiece of comic writing.



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This book arises from my increasing awareness that the Lord's Prayer contains all that Christians really need to know; it is the very essence of the Gospel... My prayer is that you will have a sense of the great privilege that has been granted to us of holding a precious gem in our hands of being able to delight in its radiance play with its many facets plumb its depths gain a sense of peace & security from its touch & in so doing deepen our awareness of our union with Christ.' In these Bible readings for Lent & Easter Joanna Collicutt shows how growing as a Christian is rooted in the prayer Jesus gave us. As we pray the Lord's Prayer we express our relationship with God absorb gospel values & are also motivated to live them out. As we pray to the Father in union with the Son through the power of the Spirit so we begin to take on the character of Christ. The Holy Week readings encourage us to pause watch & wait at this special season; commentary is kept to a minimum & we spend time reflecting in the light of the Lord's Prayer on Luke's description of Christ's passion & resurrection.

Includes:: questions for group discussion which can form the basis of a group study through the weeks of Lent.

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As a parent there are certain things that are guaranteed to push your buttons. You behave in ways you later regret & your child learns to manipulate you. Rather than focusing on how you can change your childs behaviour this deeply insightful & wonderfully wise book focuses on you the parent. When Your Kids Push Your Buttons shows that it is your own attitudes & perceptions rather than your childs behaviour that spark your anger
- & these are often based on your own relationship with your parents. Discover how to:* End the cycle of action & reaction between you & your child* See the hidden messages of both children & parents anger* Understand why your own hidden agendas & standards as parents might push your child to act out* Address behaviour problems not with anger but with new solutions* Break free of the past & connect with your children. Filled with anecdotes from real parents & based on hundreds of real-life situations this book is destined to become a parenting classic.
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And then there was David Bowie the uber-freak with the mismatched pupils the low-tech space face from the planet Sparkle. This was Bowies third appearance on TOTP but this was the one that properly resonated with its audience the one that would go on to cause a seismic shift in the Zeitgeist. This is the performance that turned Bowie into a star embedding his Ziggy Stardust persona into the nations consciousness. With a tall flame-orange cockade quiff (stolen from a Kansai Yamamoto model on the cover of Honey) lavishly applied make-up white nail polish & wearing a multi-coloured jump-suit that looked as though it were made from fluorescent fish skin (chosen by Ziggy co-shaper the designer Freddie Buretti) & carrying a brand spanking new blue acoustic guitar a bone-thin Bowie appeared not so much as a pop singer but rather as some sort of benevolent alien a concept helped along by the provocative appearance of his guitarist the chicken-headed Mick Ronson with both of them unapologetically sporting knee-length patent leather wrestlers boots (Bowies were red). Most people are scared of colour Bowie said later. Their lives are built up in shades of grey. It doesnt matter how straight the style is make it brightly coloured material & everyone starts acting weird. Suddenly Bowie
- a man called alias
- had the world at his nail-varnished fingertips & in no time at all he would be the biggest star in the world.

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Lily loves Blue Kangaroo but sometimes he disappears & Lily says Where are you Blue Kangaroo?" & Blue Kangaroo waits for Lily to find him!. When Lily goes to the park she has a great time but forgets to hold on tight to Blue Kangaroo & nearly loses him. & when Lily goes shopping with Aunt Jemima she leaves poor Blue Kangaroo on the bus! Luckily he is returned to her but by now Blue Kangaroo is feeling very anxious. Then one day Lily goes to the zoo with Uncle George & again Blue Kangaroo is nearly lost but the trip gives him an idea that will mean he never be lost again. But where oh where is Blue Kangaroo the very next morning? AGE 2-6" ...

Finally...the first international restaurant guidebook by the real insiders: over 400 of the world's top chefs. From bargain noodle joints to high-end restaurants; late night haunts to all day breakfasts; neighborhood eateries to destination restaurants; Where Chefs Eat reveals over 2 000 personal recommendations by chefs of their top places to eat in all major cities around the world. With entertaining reviews "es from the chefs clever maps & an easy-to-use system of organization Where Chefs Eat breaks the mould of the traditional guidebook. Find out where to eat when to go & what to order. It's like having a top chef as your best friend to give you advice whenever you need to book a reservation. Chef contributors include: Hugh Acheson Ferran Adria Alex Atala Michael Anthony John Besh Daniel Boulud April Bloomfield Heston Blumenthal Sean Brock David Chang Wylie Dufresne Gabrielle Hamilton Fergus Henderson Daniel Humm Corey Lee Anito Lo Matt Molina Carlo Mirarchi Magnus Nilsson Ken Oringer Daniel Patterson Rene Redzepi Andy Ricker Eric Ripert Marcus Samuelsson Ben Shewry Craig Stoll & hundreds more. ...

Andrew Collins was born 37 years ago in Northampton. His parents never split up in fact they rarely exchanged a cross word. No-one abused him. Nobody died. He got on well with his brother & sister & none of his friends drowned in a canal. He has never stayed overnight in a hospital & has no emotional scars from his upbringing except a slight lingering resentment that Anita Barker once mocked the stabilisers on his bike. Where Did It All Go Right? is a jealous memoir written by someone who occasionally wishes life had dealt him a few more juicy marketable blows. The author delves back into his first 18 years in search of something
- anything
- that might have left him deeply & irreparably damaged. With tales of bikes telly sweets good health domestic harmony & happy holidays Andrew aims to bring a little hope to all those out there living with the emotional after-effects of a really nice childhood. Andrew Collins kept a diary from the age of five so he really can remember what he had for tea everyday & what he did at school excerpts from his diary run throughout the book & it is this detail which makes his story so compelling.

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The acclaimed best selling story of Tamla Motown records
- the most successful independent record label in the world. Now acknowledged
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Everyone has heard of say the Irish Fusliliers the Glorious Glosters or Royal Scots Greys. But where are these regiments today? What are they called? & what were they called a hundred years ago? The painful & much-resented rationalisation of the British regiments
- which meant amalgamation or simply disbandment
- has been going on since the first regiments were raised in the 17th century according to the perceived needs of the nation in war or peacetime. But it accelerated in the mid-1950s & the task has now been completed on General Jacksons watch in 2007. Anyone trying to follow the name changes of a particular regiment soon gets caught up in & confused by different histories in different books. By using clear family trees Gerry Murphy sorts out all the confusion in one indispensable volume. The appendices alone are invaluable showing the number of regimental antecedents honours colours & insignia.

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Fizzing with the one-liners & surreal humour for which Milton Jones is famous this is an authentic hilarious story of the life ...