' To my utter joy crafts of every kind have made their way back into our lives
- big style. They've shaken off their old-fashioned
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Transform your home from shabby to chic with the help of Kirstie Allsopp. Looking to the past for inspiration & embracing vintage style to create something unique & beautiful Kirstie continues her love affair with everything handmade. Re-using restoring & upcycling Kirstie shows how to transform vintage fabrics furniture & other everyday things into modern day treasures using a range of crafting skills & techniques. From distressing a mirror & decoupage to making a memory quilt with vintage fabric the book is packed with practical techniques that can be adapted to suit your own objects & furniture. Accompanying a new Channel 4 series Kirsties Vintage Home contains everything you need to create your own vintage look at home. ...

' This book is packed with achievable ways to transform your house into a home that reflects you & the things you value plus ...

Sylvie & Carl have been friends since they were tiny children. They've always played together called each other boyfriend & girlfriend & deep down Sylvie has always believed that they'd end up married to each other. They even have a a magical fantasy world that belongs to them alone. But as they become older things are starting to change. Sylvie would still rather spend all her time with Carl
- but Carl has a new friend Paul who is taking all his attention. Now Carl seems much less happy to be called Sylvie's boyfriend
- & in a game of spin the bottle he avoids having to kiss her. Sylvie can tell his feelings have changed & that their future together might not be so clear-cut after all. But can she guess at the true reasons behind it all? Touching & compelling Kiss is a delicately handled treatment of love & sexuality from award-winning Jacqueline Wilson.

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On a warm June evening a red double-decker bus full of passengers speeds down a London street. A few blocks away a man & a woman climb into a limousine reveling in a magical evening of dancing & champagne. As their driver pulls into an intersection the couple shares their first searching kiss. For a moment etched in time all stands still
- until in a flash of metal & glass their limousine is struck at full speed crushed under the bus' tremendous weight. & a long journey begins
- toward healing toward hope toward dreams of an infinite future... Isabelle Forrester is the exquisite wife of a prominent Parisian banker who has long since shut her out of his heart. For lonely years Isabelle has lived a life of isolation pouring her passions into caring for her desperately ill son Teddy & into making their Paris home as happy as possible for her teenage daughter Sophie. Isabelle allows herself one secret pleasure: a long-distance friendship by telephone with an American man a Washington power broker who travels in the highest circles of politics & who like Isabelle is trapped in an empty marriage. To Bill Robinson Isabelle is a godsend a woman of extraordinary beauty & intellectual curiosity
- a kindred spirit who touches him across the miles with her warmth & gentle empathy. Their relationship is a gift a lifeline that sustains them both through the heartache of marriages they cannot leave & will not betray. Agreeing to meet for a few precious innocent days in London Isabelle & Bill find their friendship changing. Then amidst the sudden crash of steel against steel they are thrust onto a new path a path fraught with pain but also with possibility. Now inside the cool sterile wards of a London hospital Isabelle & Bill cling to life their bodies shattered almost beyond repair. In the days & weeks that follow they slowly painfully traverse a road to recovery littered with challenges of the body spirit & heart. Together they must find the strength not only to embrace life again but to face what they have left behind. For Isabelle a loveless marriage turns into a brutal power struggle. For Bill a time of healing exposes wounds that cut deeper than steel & realities that will test him to his core. For both a tangle of changing relationships & the tragedy of another loss conspire to separate them once again. & this time they could lose each other forever. In a novel that is as compelling as it is compassionate Danielle Steel weaves a story of courage in the face of unimaginable loss. With the grace of a master storyteller she explores the strength it takes to conquer our greatest fears showing us how the toughest choices can yield the most unexpected rewards...and how the longest most winding journeys can begin with a single kiss.


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How did pretty socialite Daisy Devereaux find herself in this fix? She can either go to jail or marry the mystery man her father has chosen for her Alex Markov however has no intention of playing the loving bridegroom to a spoiled little heiress. As humourless as he is deadly handsome he drags the irrepressible Daisy away from her uptown life & sets out to bring her down a peg or two. Except it wont be as easy as he thinks. This man without a soul has met a woman whos nothing but heart. Will vows spoken in haste shatteror offer the promise of love everlasting? ...

Michael Gallagher is an Irish seaman fighting with the Royal Navy. He comes ashore in Liverpool when his ship needs repairs & meets lovely young Stella Bennett on the quayside searching for her lost kitten. The young couple fall in love & want to marry but the Bennetts have other plans for Stella & when she gives birth to a baby Ginny Michael is dismayed by the child's ginger hair & convinced she is not his. He returns to Ireland leaving the slovenly Granny Bennett to rear Ginny. The child accepts her lot expecting little from life but knowing that in order to escape from the slums she must attend school. Granny Bennett prefers Ginny to skivvy for her but when a sympathetic teacher comes into her life Ginny decides she must better herself & the obvious way to do so is to find her father...A Kiss & a Promise is classic Katie Flynn full of warmth & passion & sure to please the many fans of the beloved saga writer. ...

Half term may be over but the chaos has just begun. Mr Logan has run off & eloped with Miss Sharkreve leaving the Lower Sixth with a new housemistress
- the tyrannical catty Mrs Dicks. & with the rules getting tighter at St Cecilia's the students are getting way more creative in finding ways to break them
- especially as they're all feeling a bit frisky. Tally broken hearted & on the rebound sets her sights on safe bet Rando while Alice & Tristan decide to take their relationship to the next level. Things between Dylan & Jasper are seriously heating up
- could she finally have found a guy who won't disappoint her? As tensions reach an explosive high a pool party at Rando's country estate should be just the thing to cool everyone down. Or will it push the temperature up a notch?


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Ruby is looking for love-- but her kiss is deadly! A serial killer is on the loose & it appears to be a woman--her target adulterous businessmen. After picking them up in bars she brutally tortures her victims before decapitating them. Meanwhile Hong Kong detective Johnny Mann is still struggling to deal with his dead fathers legacy of corruption & triad involvement. His nemesis CK Leung is determined to bring Johnny into the triad fold & has now deployed the most dangerous weapon--his daughter Victoria--beautiful but deadly. Falling into a downward spiral Johnny is on the verge of destroying everything he holds dear while Ruby continues her terrifying murder spree. Johnny needs to pull himself together fast because Ruby is getting nearer & is closing in for the kill! A nerve-shredding thriller that will grip fans of James Patterson & Karen Rose ...

KISS has released thirty-seven records & sold 80 million albums worldwide. Gene Simmons has also acted in films & on television has written & produced albums for other recording artists has managed the recording career of among others Liza Minelli & was founder & president of his own recording label Simmons Records/RCA. He also launched his film & TV producing career with Detroit Rock City for New Line Cinema. Gene Simmons lives in Beverley Hills California & was recently the rock star teacher on Channel 4's Rock School. Here for the first time Gene Simmons the notorious mainman of the explosive rock & roll group KISS tells his story. Delivered in Gene's own honest outrageous & uncensored voice he tells of his early beginnings in Israel of his arrival in New York at the age of eight his first taste of 1950s pop culture & his developing thirst for fame fun & girls. Undoubtedly one of the most infamous rock & roll legends alive Gene tells the never before revealed story of KISS's reign as the biggest & most popular band in the world. Finally the real story of the man behind the make-up. ...