Each entry shows how the advice came into popular use & explains the scientific logic behind the saying
- in most cases proving
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Its time to change the world Your world The whole world & The Wish shows you how. Its time to make your wishes a reality! The Wish will help you to discover the real you recognise & overcome your deepest fears & use your unique passions & talents to live an empowered life. The Wish shows you how to boost your life energy & make your wishes happen
- dreams need lots of energy to get lift-off! Recognise the dreams that will work for you & those that wont. Learn how to create genuinely good vibes around you & find out why giving is essential to creating an abundant life. The Wish takes all your anxiety & shreds it. In its place it puts strength hope & peace of mind. & it shows you how to build on these qualities to make all your wishes come true.
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BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR
- YOU MIGHT JUST GET IT... Buddy is just your average guy So imagine his surprise when he fills in
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There are six months left of Emma Reiss's twenties...and she has some unfinished business. Emma & her friends are about to turn thirty & for Emma it's a defining moment. Defined that is by her having achieved none of the things she'd imagined she would. Her career is all wrong her love life is a desert & that penthouse apartment she pictured herself in simply never materialised. Moreover she's never jumped out of a plane hasn't met the man she's going to marry has never slept under the stars or snogged anyone famous
- just some of the aspirations on a list she & her friends compiled fifteen years ago. As an endless round of birthday parties sees Emma hurtle towards her own thirtieth she sets about addressing these issues. But as she discovers with hilarious consequences some of them are trickier to tick off than she'd thought…
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Fleur Bosley didnt believe in love at first sight at least not until she bumped into Robbie Rodwell on a railway station in the blackout of wartime Britain. Posted to a newly-built Lincolnshire airfield Robbie as a wireless operator on bombers & Fleur as a R/T operator in the watch office their only escape is to the little cottage in the nearby village where Fleur is billeted with another WAAF Ruth. The two girls become good friends but Ruth already hurt by the loss of one of the pilots does not approve of wartime romances. & Ruth is not the only one to disapprove. When Fleurs mother hears Robbies name she becomes hysterical & bans him from her home. The young couple are determined to grab their happiness where they can but is it a kind fate or a cruel one that has brought them together when secrets from the past threaten their future? Away from their families there is fun & laughter the aircrews determined to make the most of every day every minute but whenever they fly off into the night on a bombing raid Fleur must keep watch until the early hours praying that Robbies plane comes back.. . ...

Wish Upon a Matchmaker Fouryearold Ginny Scarborough has picked out her new mummy
- Danni Everett the local celebrity chef who
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Tragedy strikes the New York-based Cardinal family when their car is involved in a terrible accident. Twelve-year-old Lou & seven-year-old Oz survive but the crash leaves their father dead & their mother in a coma. It would seem their world has been shattered forever until their great-grandmother Louisa Mae agrees to raise the children on her Virginia mountain farm. But before long their rural idyll is threatened by the discovery of natural gas on the mountain. Determined to protect her home from the ravages of big business Louisa Mae refuses to sell but when the neighbours hear of the potential wealth the company could bring they begin to turn against her. & now the Cardinal family find themselves ensnared in another battle to be played out in a crowded Virginia courtroom: a battle for justice for survival & for the right to stay together in the only place they know as home. Filled with both rich humour & desperate poignancy Wish You Well" is a tale of family faith humanity & prejudice set against the magical backdrop of the Virginia high rock. ' Baldacci triumphs with his best novel yet an utterly captivating drama'." ...

Time Out Novel of the Year ' Astonishingly moving' Sunday Express On an autumn day in 2006 on the Isle of Wight Jack Luxton -- former Devon farmer now proprietor of a seaside caravan park -- receives the news that his brother Tom not seen for years has been killed in Iraq. For Jack & his wife Ellie this will have a potentially catastrophic impact & compel Jack to make a crucial journey: to receive his brother's remains but also to return to the land of his past & confront his most secret troubling memories. Building to a fiercely suspenseful climax Wish You Were Here is a hauntingly compassionate story that allows us to feel the stuff of headlines as heart-wrenching personal truth. ' Profound & powerful.. .an unputdownable read' Scotland on Sunday 'A wonderful writer' Daily Telegraph ...

Sun sea & secrets...A week on the sunny Greek island of Kethos is just what Alice Archer needs even if she has to put up with her difficult sister. Stella's tantrums & diva-like demands are a fair price to pay for crystal-clear waters blue skies & white clifftop villas. When Alice meets Milo a handsome gardener at the Villa Argenti for the first time she suddenly feels beautiful alluring & confident. But is it just holiday magic or will the irresistible pull between Alice & Milo survive against all odds? For fans of Katie Fforde & Alexandra Potter this heartwarming romantic novel is the perfect escapist read. ...

A very young Beth & Jack met fell passionately in love & had a whirlwind engagement several years ago in Corsica. But when they got back to the reality of their everyday lives in the UK Jack mysteriously ended their relationship & Beth was left alone & heartbroken. What a cad. Or was he? When Beth all grown-up & newly engaged
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- ends up working for Jack by a bizarre twist of fate they start to unravel a string of misunderstandings that drove them apart. But it's too late to try again
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