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A psychological drama that unfolds over the course of one Moscow winter, as a young Englishman's moral compass is spun…
by the seductive opportunities revealed to him by a new Russia: a land of hedonism and desperation, corruption and kindness, magical dachas and debauched nightclubs. 2011.
Shift happens is about more - more happiness, more success, more love, more peace, more prosperity and more joy. The…
author tackles the fundamental everyday concerns that can undermine true joy and fulfilment. Written in a short essay style, Dr Robert Holden offers a mix of inspiring principles and proven methods that help to unblock yourself, release fears, drop the struggle, transform relationships and embrace a new level of creativity and joy. Originally published 2000, c2010.
April 2nd 2012 marks the 30th anniversary of the invasion of the Falkland Islands. This is the thrilling untold story…
of the young helicopter pilots - most barely out of their teens - who risked their lives during this brief but ferocious war. 2012.
Diana Athill made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs. Now aged ninety, and freed from…
any inhibitions that even she may once have had, she reflects frankly on the losses and occasionally the gains that old age brings, and on the wisdom and fortitude required to face death. This is a lively narrative of events, lovers and friendships: the people and experiences that have taught her to regret very little, to resist despondency and to question the beliefs and customs of her own generation. 2009.
When formerly home-schooled tenth-grader Stargirl enters Mica High School, her classmates shun her as an eccentric. Her boyfriend, Leo, urges…
her to stop playing the ukulele and conform. He learns only too late that popularity isn't what matters most. For junior and senior high readers. 2007.
Dolly Parton is the most famous person ever to have emerged from the American country music scene with her iconic…
cartoon image. This book includes interviews with family members, musicians and producers who have worked with her over the years. It includes a detailed assessment of her music, as a songwriter and singer over the last forty years. c2008.
Tracy Beaker is back ...and she's just desperate for a role in her school play. They're performing A Christmas Carol…
and for one extremely worrying moment, the irrepressible Tracy thinks she might not even get to play one of the unnamed street urchins. But then she is cast in the main role. Grades 3-6. 2006. (Tracy Beaker ; 3)
It is a year since Ivy Beasley, an ageing spinster with a waspish tongue and an all-seeing eye, watched with…
deep suspicion as her new neighbours, the Palmers, moved into Round Ringford Post Office. Peggy Palmer's warm friendship with unhappily married Bill Turner continues to infuriate Ivy, until her attention is disastrously caught by the arrival of the new vicar and his wife Sophie. As the farming year progresses, and the Harvest Supper and the Christmas concert are followed by a funeral and a wedding, Ivy weaves her web with cunning not realising that she too is caught in its sticky threads. 2005, c1995.
This text is a comprehensive guide to one of the fastest growing natural healing therapies of today. It provides clear…
and concise step-by-step positions and specialist advice, passed on by a Reiki master. It includes step-by-step healing sequences for specific ailments such as backache, indigestion and headache, as well as first-aid treatments for trauma and injury. Raised diagrams for the reiki symbols are sold separately. 2003.
France, 1861. When an epidemic threatens to wipe out the silk trade in France, Herve Joncour (a young silkworm breeder)…
has to travel overland to distant Japan, out of bounds to foreigners, to smuggle out healthy silkworms. In the course of his secret negotiations with the local baron, Joncour's attention is arrested by the man's concubine. Although they are unable to exchange so much as a word, love blossoms between them, a love that is conveyed in a number of recondite messages. Descriptions of sex. 2006.
Snowball the pony is scared when he learns that he's going to live with a new family, leaving his mother…
behind. But he has only been sold to the next-door farm, and the three children who live there treat him well, and he soon settles down happily. K-3. 2010.
This collection features ten funny fairy tales with hilarious illustrations. It includes stories about the king with the silliest name,…
how Cinderboy scored that winning goal, how Snow White gets to sing on Top of the Pops and other amusing tales. Grades K-3. 1999.
Harsh economic reality compelled Scotland into the Act of Union with England in 1707; within decades, a remarkable circle of…
Scottish thinkers gave birth to the key assumptions that underlie modern politics, economics, morals and cultural life. The Scots went on to become the mainstays of the British Empire. 2001.
Facing the battles of Medellin and Talavera, the 106th will have their mettle severely tested on the battlefield. But if…
Napoleon is to be ejected from Spain, war must also be waged in more covert ways. For Hanley, the former artist who is a more natural observer than fighter, the opportunity to become an 'exploring officer' leads him into even more dangerous territory, the murky world of politics and partisans. And while Ensign Williams seeks to uncover the identity of the mysterious 'Heroine of Saragossa', a conspiracy of revenge within the regiment itself threatens to destroy him before he's even faced a shot from the French. Sequel to "Beat the drums slowly"; followed by "All in scarlet uniform". 2012.
An auto-fictional novel about sex, depression, family, shaky ethics, ideal forms of life, girlhood, and coaching oneself into adulthood under…
capitalism. Using her compulsive reading as a lens through which to bring coherence to her life, twenty-five-year-old Catherine engages in a series of sexual relationships, thinking that desire is the key to a meaningful life. Yet, with each encounter, it becomes more and more clear: desire has no explanation; desire bears no significance. From an intellectual relationship with a professor, a casual sexual relationship, to a serious love affair, to a string of relationships that takes Catherine from Toronto to France and Portugal and back again, 'Sludge Utopia' presents, in highly examined, raw detail, the perspective of a young woman's punishing though intermittently gratifying sexuality and profound internalized misogyny, which causes her to bring all of life's events under sexuality's prism. 2018.
In a sequence of five feverish elegies, Ridley combines narrative lyric and experimental verse styles to manifest dark themes related…
to love and loss: the traumas of psychological suffering (isolation and confinement), physical abuse (by parent and partner), terminal illness (brain tumour and heart attack), revelation, resolution, and healing. With a blend of fervour and sangfroid, these serial poems accrue into a book-length testament to a grief both personal and human, leaving readers with the redemptive grace that comes from poetry's ability to wrestle chaos into meaning. Because of its overarching themes and serial form, "Silvija" is best read cover-to-cover, analogous to a work of fiction, rather than a book of individual or occasional poems. 2016.
When Jessica Ernst’s well water turned into a flammable broth that even her dogs refused to drink, the biologist and…
long-time oil patch consultant discovered that energy giant Encana had secretly fracked hundreds of gas wells around her home, piercing her community’s drinking water aquifer. Since then, her ongoing lawsuit against Encana, Alberta Environment, and the Energy Resources Conservation Board has made her a folk hero in many places worldwide where fracking is underway. Winner of the 2016 Alberta Literary Award. 2015.
Born in the seventies in North Korea, Lucia Jang grew up in a typical household - her parents worked in…
the factories, and the family scraped by on government rations of rice and what little food they could grow in their small garden. For the nation, it was the beginning of a chaotic period. The country would face a decade-long famine resulting in more than a million dead. In this bleak landscape Jang dedicates herself to helping her parents and siblings survive. Eventually, she risks everything to flee her home country forever, determined to start a new life. This is her story. c2014.
In this debut collection, novelist Wiersema draws on myth and folktale, ghost stories, and fairy tales to share a glimpse…
of the worlds bordering our own. With his short fiction, Wiersema explores the mysterious realms of the shadows, the mirrorlands where time runs strange. 2016.