You think youre having a bad day? Joanne Baldwin has lost her job as a Weather Warden & saving the world doesnt usually come with a decent pension plan. It also doesnt come with any guarantees of landing a day job that wont suck or finding a mystical cure for her critically ill Djinn lover. Burdened with a difficult sister in need of rescue accused of weather-related murder & finding herself in the middle of a Djinn civil war A...well Joannes bad times are just getting worse. With enemies approaching from all sides not to mention mounting credit card bills (Manolos dont come cheap you know) Joanne is praying for a windfall. But the mother of all hurricanes approaching the Florida coast isnt quite what she had in mind. ...

Cassia Fallon has been married to her doctor husband for seven years when her godmother leaves her a fortune. She is determined to be sensible to stay in control. Suddenly for the first time in her life she is able to do exactly as she likes. She starts to question her marriage her past her present & future. The money gives her confidence & her husband Edward can only look on resentfully as she resumes her medical career sheds some of her domestic burdens & re-forms old relationships
- one of them of a most dangerous kind. But where did her legacy really come from & why? Too soon the windfall has become a corrupting force. One that Cassia cannot resist...
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1925. England is prosperous; the nation has put the war behind it & hope is in the air. The Jazz Age is in full swing in New York where Polly Morland is the most feted beauty of the day. But a proposal of marriage from the powerful enigmatic Ren Alexander takes her by surprise. Her cousin Lennie expanding his interests from radio to television & talkies worries that no one knows much about Ren; but his attempts to find out more threaten disaster. In London the General Strike gives the country another chance to show its stiff upper lip as everyone turns to & helps out. Emma drives an ambulance again while Molly runs a canteen & each unexpectedly finds love & a new career. But the whirligig is slowing shadows are gathering over Europe & the good times are almost over. Morland Place is threatened by the worst disaster of its history & the Old World reaches out a hand to pluck Polly from the New. The Wall Street Crash brings the fabulous decade to a shattering close & nothing will ever be quite the same again; but new shoots emerge from the ruins hope is reborn & the Morlands prove again that family is everything & will endure. ...

Sidney Sheldons eighth novel repackaged to accompany his memoirs The Other Side of Me. The world is on the brink of mutual destruction between the East & the West & Mary Ashley beautiful talented intelligent has been chosen to represent America as Ambassador to Romania. Thrust from her comforting homely life in Kansas she finds herself lost amongst the political turmoil in a foreign country where she is seen as the enemy & no-one is to be trusted. Then someone starts to threaten Mary & her children. Who can want her to leave so desperately & why? & can Mary decide who she can trust when her life is on the line? Sidney Sheldon is at his gripping best in this thrilling political page-turner. ...

A wordless visually compelling look at our changing environment featured on a government reading list for schools. A mother & baby look through a window at a view of wilderness & sky as far as the eye can see. With each page the boy grows & the scene changes. At first in a clear patch of forest a single house appears. A few years pass & there is a village in the distance. By the time the boy is twenty the village has developed into a city. The young man gets married has a child of his own & moves to the country where father & child look through the window of their new home at the undeveloped wilderness outside. Illustrated with elaborate & gorgeous collage constructions Window is a wordless picture book that speaks volumes. ...

A revised expanded & illustration edition of Penelope Bennetts popular guide to growing fruit vegetables & herbs in a tiny space. In a space that measures only 5 x 2.5m (16 x 8 ft) outside her kitchen window high up on a London rooftop Penelope Bennett cultivates a garden that

Includes:: artichokes beans peas tomatoes peppers alpine strawberries raspberries herbs (and saffron) 31 kinds of potato & six different fruit trees. With Window-box Allotment as your guide you can make your outdoor space however tiny equally prolific. & as you learn how to do it you will be endlessly entertained.

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A showcase of the most exciting innovative & successful window displays worldwide this book offers inspiration & guidance to visual merchandisers & retailers who need to create eye-catching window designs that will increase sales. Stores have to deliver their merchandise in a competitive imaginative & distinctive style & never more so than now when consumers have less to spend. The challenge is not only to grab customers attention & encourage them to shop but to promote a stores brand & keep shoppers informed of fashion trends. Seven chapters cover key topics for the visual merchandiser each with a gallery of photographs of stores in Belgium Spain Italy & Hong Kong as well as London & New York demonstrating how & why each window is successful. Colour is a great tool to promote a trend Seasonal Windows exploit the key shopping seasons & encourage the buying of gifts while following Trends in fashion food or homewares & translating them quickly into a window display is a key skill for a visual merchandiser. Graphics & Photography are cost-effective & efficient tools for delivering a message or inform the customer or use Lighting to add drama whether spotlighting products or flooding an entire window. Theatre shows off exuberant & avant-garde displays created to wow an audience of passers-by. Quirky Windows allow the merchandiser to realise their wildest ideas with spectacular results. ...

This vintage guide to interior decorating & gardening may have been at the height of fashion at the turn of the century but many of its classic tips still hold true & numerous styles & plant choices have come back into vogue. Learn about the very best flora & equipment to use when adding a green touch to any space whether its a cozy city apartment or a sprawling country villa. What plants are best for a bright spring display? Which ones will survive even harsh winters? What are the tricks that have worked for home gardeners for hundreds of years? With over a hundred original h&-drawn illustrations & a charming down-to-earth style Window Gardening the Old-Fashioned Way" is a must-have guide for novice decorators & experts alike." ...

Departing from those who define postmodernism in film merely as a visual style or set of narrative conventions Anne Friedberg develops the first sustained account of the cinemas role in postmodern culture. She explores the ways in which nineteenth-century visual experiences--photography urban strolling panorama & diorama entertainments--anticipate contemporary pleasures provided by cinema video shopping malls & emerging virtual reality" technologies. Comparing the visual practices of shopping tourism & film-viewing Friedberg identifies the experience of "virtual" mobility through time & space as a key determinant of postmodern cultural identity. Evaluating the theories of Jameson Lyotard Baudrillard & others she adds critical insights about the role of gender & gender mobility in the configurations of consumer culture. A strikingly original work Window Shopping challenges many of the existing assumptions about what exactly postmodern is. This book marks the emergence of a compelling new voice in the study of contemporary culture." ...

In early reviews geeks raved about Windows 7. But if youre an ordinary mortal learning what this new system is all about will be challenging. Fear not: David Pogues Windows 7: The Missing Manual comes to the rescue. Like its predecessors this book illuminates its subject with reader-friendly insight plenty of wit & hardnosed objectivity for beginners as well as veteran PC users. Windows 7 fixes many of Vistas most painful shortcomings. Its speedier has fewer intrusive & nagging screens & is more compatible with peripherals. Plus Windows 7 introduces a slew of new features including better organization tools easier Wi Fi connections & home networking setup & even touchscreen computing for those lucky enough to own the latest hardware. With this book youll learn how to: * Navigate the desktop including the fast & powerful search function * Take advantage of Windows apps & gadgets & tap into 40 free programs * Breeze the Web with Internet Explorer 8 & learn the email chat & videoconferencing programs * Record TV & radio display photos play music & record any of these to DVD using the Media Center * Use your printer fax laptop tablet PC or smartphone with Windows 7 * Beef up your system & back up your files * Collaborate & share documents & other files by setting up a workgroup network ...