AN OBSERVER NEW FACE OF FICTION FOR 2017` An original & affecting coming-of-age novel` The Observer` Fuses life`s big themes with daily minutiae.. . A voice of the next generation` Stylist`A vibrant portrayal of estate life in the late nineties & an affecting story of friendship` The Independent Ravine & Marianne were best friends. They practised handstands together, raced slugs & went into the woods to play. But now everything has changed. Ten years later, Ravine lies in a bed plagued by chronic pain syndrome. & her best friend Marianne is gone. How did their last adventure go so wrong? Who is to blame? & where is Marianne? Heartbreaking, bittersweet & utterly unforgettable, The Things We Thought We Knew is a powerful novel about the things we remember & the things we wish we could forget. ...

The Times Top 10 Bestseller THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, WITH OVER THREE MILLION COPIES SOLD AROUND THE WORLD` Is it the world that`s busy, or my mind?` The world moves fast, but that doesn`t mean we have to. In this timely guide to mindfulness, Haemin Sunim, a Buddhist monk born in Korea & educated in the United States, offers advice on everything from handling setbacks to dealing with rest & relationships, in a beautiful book combining his teachings with calming full-colour illustrations. Haemin Sunim`s simple messages
- which he first wrote when he responded to requests for advice on social media
- speak directly to the anxieties that have become part of modern life & remind us of the strength & joy that come from slowing down. Hugely popular in Korea, Haemin Sunim is a Zen meditation teacher whose teachings transcend religion, borders & ages. With insight & compassion drawn from a life full of change, the bestselling monk succeeds at encouraging all of us to notice that when you slow down, the world slows down with you.

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The only North American book focusing on top-bar hives & beekeeping. Christy is the owner & founder of Gold Star Honeybees, which offers top-bar hive kits & workshops. Top- bar hives are a `greener, ` more bee-centered way to keep bees. This is chemical free beekeeping, allowing honeybees to return to the natural processes that are thwarted by the use of conventional hive equipment & practices. In September 2011 Christy gave a TEDx Talk. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. (video available). A regular blogger at Mother Earth News. The author has presented at three different Pech Kucha nights, telling the story of bees & why she founded Gold Star Honey bees (Video available), as well as presenting at the Mother Earth News Fair (WA), Green Festival & Common Ground Country Fair (60, 000 attendees). The author is a member of many organizations that would help in the promotion of ths book, including NOFA, The Green business network, North East Treatment-Free Beekeepers, & several other beekeeping associations. There is a lot of attention in the media at the moment in regards to the declining bee population ...

Ellie & her friends have achieved more than they ever thought possible as an unarmed bunch of amateur teenage fighters. But it`s not enough. The war wages on, their families are in captivity & their country is on its knees. Hiding back in Hell, the friends face a big question: what to do next? The gang have another success when they manage to rescue Kevin. He returns to them equipped with a new knowledge of explosives. Suddenly the question of what to do next becomes clear
- launch an attack on the major enemy target of Cobblers` Bay. Can Ellie, Homer, Fi, Robin, Lee & Kevin really stage a major military attack on the enemy? & in their attempt to pull it off, what will they have to sacrifice? They have already lost Corrie & Chris; who else will the group have to lose in their desperation to defend their country? The Third Day, The Frost, draws the reader deeper into the struggle of these ordinary teens attempting to survive in extraordinary times. A tense & moving read that will stay with you forever.
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IAN THOMPSON. The Third Man is Graham Greene`s brilliant recreation of post-war Vienna, a `smashed dreary city` occupied by the four Allied powers. Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless to visit his friend & hero, Harry Lime. But Harry has died in suspicious circumstances, & the police are closing in on his associates... The Fallen Idol is the chilling story of a small boy caught up in the games that adults play. Left in the care of the butler & his wife whilst his parents go on a fortnight`s holiday, Philip realises too late the danger of lies & deceit. But the truth is even deadlier. ...

The Third Man Factor tells the revealing story behind an extraordinary idea: that people at the very edge of death, often adventurers or explorers, experience a benevolent presence beside them who encourages them to make one final effort to survive. If only a handful of people had ever experienced the Third Man, it might be dismissed as an unusual delusion but amazingly, over the years, the experience has occurred again & again: to mountaineers, divers, polar explorers, prisoners of war, solo sailors, aviators, astronauts & 9/11 survivors. All have escaped traumatic events only to tell strikingly similar stories of having experienced the close presence of a helper or guardian. The mysterious force has been explained as everything from hallucination to divine intervention while recent neurological research suggests something else. In The Third Man Factor John Geiger combines history, scientific analysis & great adventure stories to explain this secret to survival, the Third Man who
- in the words of legendary Italian climber Reinhold Messner
- `leads you out of the impossible`.

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Following on from the success of the ` One & Only Mandala Colouring Book` & the ` Second One & Only Mandala Colouring Book`, comes the latest addition to this best-selling series. Packed full with brand new unique mandala designs, the Third One & Only Mandala Colouring Book will bring peace & calm to your life. Each design has been carefully selected to create the perfect way to focus the mind. The high quality paper of the Third One & Only Mandala Colouring Book allows pencils, paints, pens or pastels to be used freely. ...

Based on ten years of surveying farming communities around the world, top New York chef Dan Barber`s The Third Plate offers a radical new way of thinking about food that will heal the land & taste incredible. The `first plate` was a classic meal centred on a large cut of meat with few vegetables. On the `second plate`, championed by the farm-to-table movement, meat is free-range & vegetables are locally sourced. It`s better-tasting, & better for the planet, but the second plate`s architecture is identical to that of the first. It, too, disrupts ecological balances, causing soil depletion & nutrient loss
- it just isn`t a sustainable way to farm or eat. The `third plate` offers a solution: an integrated system of vegetable, cereal & livestock production that is fully supported
- in fact, dictated
- by what we choose to cook for dinner. The Third Plate is where good farming & good food intersect.


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Twenty-two-year-old Etienne is studying film in London, having fled conscription in his native South Africa. It is 1986, the time of Thatcher, anti-apartheid campaigns & Aids, but also of postmodern art, post-punk rock, & the Royal Vauxhall Tavern. Adrift in a city cast in shadow, he falls in love with a German artist while living in derelict artists` communes. When Etienne finds the first of three reels of a German film from the 1930s, he begins searching for the missing reels, a project that turns into an obsession when his lover disappears in Berlin. It is while navigating this city divided by the Wall that Etienne gradually pieces together the history of a small group of Jewish film makers in Nazi Germany. It is a desperate quest amid complications that pull him back to the present & to South Africa. However, his search for the missing film continues. Ambitious & cosmopolitan, the material of S. J. Naude`s The Third Reel is as disparate as the cities in which the book is set. Architecture, cinematography, sex, music, illness, loss & love all collide in this exquisitely wrought, deeply affecting novel. ...

The Third Reich was the name Hitler & the Nazi Party gave to the dictatorship that began in 1933 & ended twelve years later with the utter destruction of Germany & Hitler`s suicide. Defined by the messianic, iconic figure of the Fuhrer, the Third Reich was one of the pivotal periods of the modern age. From small beginnings in the 1920s, Hitler`s movement came to dominate German society in the 1930s, bringing with it the militarization of German society, the apparatus of state terror & a policy of violent discrimination against political opponents, the so-called `asocials`: gypsies, homosexuals, &, above all, the Jews. The history of the Reich is bound up with territorial aggression, total war & genocide. The end result was the complete defeat of Germany & the annihilation of millions of Europeans, a historical drama without precedent that still lies as a shadow over modern-day Germany. Richard Overy charts the rise & fall of Nazi power in a compelling narrative of the period, amplified by extensive"ations from documents, letters, diaries & oral testimony, & accompanied by many original & striking images of the era. There are also fact boxes which explore many of the important aspects of the Third Reich in greater detail. Authoritative, informative & sumptuously illustrated, written by a scholar steeped in knowledge of the period, The Third Reich brings the bloody realities of war, conquest & genocide vividly to life. It is an ideal book for anyone fascinated by the stormy history of the twentieth century, World War II & the age of dictators. ...