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A spectacularly dark and electrifying novel about addiction, religion, music and what might exist on the other side of life.
In a small New England town, in the early 60s, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Charles Jacobs. Soon they forge a deep bond, based on their fascination with simple experiments in electricity.
Decades later, Jamie is living a nomadic lifestyle of bar-band rock and roll. Now an addict, he sees Jacobs again - a showman on stage, creating dazzling 'portraits in lightning' - and their meeting has profound consequences for both men. Their bond becomes a pact beyond even the Devil's devising, and Jamie discovers that revival has many meanings.
This rich and disturbing novel spans five decades on its way to the most terrifying conclusion Stephen King has ever written. It's a masterpiece from King, in the great American tradition of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.
STEPHEN KING is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His novels include CARRIE, THE SHINING and MR MERCEDES.
Many of his stories have been turned into celebrated films and television series including MISERY, THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION and UNDER THE DOME. Over the years, King has had various cameo roles in film adaptations of his books as well as playing rhythm guitar in The Rock Bottom Remainders, a rock and roll band made up of some of America's bestselling and best-loved writers.
King was the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives with wife, Tabitha King, in Maine.
Classic Stephen King territory which will delight King's Constant Reader and reach a new crime thriller readership captured by publication of King's Summer titles MR MERCEDES and FINDERS KEEPERS
Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than fifty books. His novels include Carrie, The Shining and Revival. His novel Under the Dome is now a major TV series. His novel 11.22.63 won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller as well as the Best Hardcover Book Award from the International Thriller Writers Association.
Many of his books have been turned into celebrated films including Misery, The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile. Over the years, King has had various cameo roles in film adaptations of his books as well as playing rhythm guitar in the Rock Bottom Remainders, a rock and roll band made up of some of America's bestselling and best-loved writers
He was the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives with his wife, novelist Tabitha King, in Maine, USA.
What does it take to lead a team to world-class success over a sustained period of time?
Sir Alex Ferguson is one of the few leaders who truly knows. In his 38 years in management, Sir Alex won an astonishing 49 trophies and helped grow Manchester United into one of the biggest commercial brands in the world.
In this inspirational and straight-talking new book, Sir Alex reveals the secrets behind his record-breaking career.
LEADING is structured around the key skills that Sir Alex values most highly. It includes subjects we immediately associate with his managerial style: Discipline, Control, Teamwork and Motivation. But it also addresses subjects that are less obvious but no less important when seeking success: Delegation, Data Analysis and Dealing with Failure.
Written with the investor Sir Michael Moritz, a longstanding friend of Sir Alex, LEADING is packed with insight, wisdom, humour and honesty. The individual stories inevitably concern themselves with football, and the phenomenal success that came along the way, but the lessons can be applied by anyone. Whether you run a business, teach in a classroom, or work in a small team, LEADING will help you become a better leader.
Sir Alex Ferguson was born in 1941 in Govan, Scotland. A goal-scoring centre-forward, he was later transferred to Rangers for a Scottish record transfer fee. In 1974, he entered management with East Stirlingshire and St Mirren before joining Aberdeen, where consistent domestic success, followed by victory in the 1983 Cup Winners' Cup over Real Madrid, brought him wider attention.
Arriving at Manchester United in 1986, he went on to accumulate 38 trophies, including five FA Cups, 13 Premier Leagues and two Champions Leagues. He was knighted in 1999, following Manchester United's remarkable Treble campaign, and his overall haul of 49 trophies makes him the most successful British manager of all time.
Sir Alex announced his retirement in 2013, but he continues to serve United as a director and is a Fellow to the Executive Education Program at Harvard Business School.
Sir Michael Moritz was born in Cardiff, studied at Oxford and became a journalist at Time magazine in the US in the late 1970s. It was during this period that he met the young Steve Jobs and wrote the first book about Apple, The Little Kingdom: The Private Story of Apple Computer. Moritz co-authored a second business book, Going for Broke: The Chrysler Story, and in 1986 joined Sequoia Capital, in Silicon Valley, California.
Sequoia Capital's close alliances with young founders have been transformed into companies now worth nearly $1.5 trillion - the most of any private investment firm in the world. These include the first investments in companies such as Apple and Cisco and, more recently, YouTube, Airbnb, Dropbox and WhatsApp. Michael Moritz has been a member of the Board of Directors of Google, Yahoo!, PayPal and LinkedIn.
In 2012 he became chairman of Sequoia Capital and was knighted in 2013. His family's philanthropic work includes Europe's largest scholarship programme for low income university students. The son of refugees from Nazi Germany, he lives in San Francisco with his wife, Harriet Heyman.
Born out of the short story David Mitchell published on Twitter in 2014 and inhabiting the same universe as his latest bestselling novel The Bone Clocks, this is the perfect book to curl up with on a dark and stormy night.
Turn down Slade Alley - narrow, dank and easy to miss, even when you're looking for it. Find the small black iron door set into the right-hand wall. No handle, no keyhole, but at your touch it swings open. Enter the sunlit garden of an old house that doesn't quite make sense; too grand for the shabby neighbourhood, too large for the space it occupies.
A stranger greets you by name and invites you inside. At first, you won't want to leave. Later, you'll find that you can't.
This unnerving, taut and intricately woven tale by one of our most original and bewitching writers begins in 1979 and reaches its turbulent conclusion around Hallowe'en, 2015. Because every nine years, on the last Saturday of October, a 'guest' is summoned to Slade House. But why has that person been chosen, by whom and for what purpose? The answers lie waiting in the long attic, at the top of the stairs...
Round the front the sun's gone in, or gone out, or gone away, and the flowers are withered and there's not a single butterfly on the butterfly bush, just dead ones smeared into the path, powder-paint skid marks with one half-dead one, flapping a bit . . .
. . . I've stopped, because the far end of the garden, the wall with the small black door - it's gone all faint and dim. Not because of evening. It can't even be four o'clock yet. Not because it's misty, either. I look up - the sky's still bluish, like it was before. It's the garden itself. The garden's fading away.
In the blazing July heat of imperial Rome, Flavia Albia inspects a decomposing corpse. It has been discovered in lots to be auctioned by her family business, so she's determined to identify the dead man and learn how he met his gruesome end.
The investigation will give her a chance to work with the magistrate, Manlius Faustus, the friend she sadly knows to be the last chaste man in Rome. But he's got other concerns than her anonymous corpse. It's election time and with democracy for sale at Domitian's court, tension has come to a head. Faustus is acting as an agent for a 'good husband and father', whose traditional family values are being called into question. Even more disreputable are his rivals, whom Faustus wants Albia to discredit.
As Albia's and Faustus' professional and personal partnership deepens they have to accept that, for others, obsession can turn sour, and become a deadly strain that leads, tragically, to murder.
Historical novelist Lindsey Davis is best known for The Course of Honour, the true story of the Emperor Vespasian and his mistress Caenis, and for her twenty volume mystery series featuring Roman detective, Marcus Didius Falco, with its recent addition of Falco: the Official Companion, a cheery handbook for readers. She has also written Rebels and Traitors, an epic novel set in the English Civil War and Commonwealth.
She has won the CWA Historical Dagger, Dagger in the Library, and a Sherlock for Falco as Best Detective. She has been Honorary President of the Classical Association, and Chair of the Crimewriters Association. In 2010 the city of Rome gave her the Premio Colosseo, awarded `for enhancing the image of Rome` and in 2011 she was awarded the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement.
In the blazing July heat of Imperial Rome, Flavia Albia inspects a decomposing corpse. It has been discovered in lots to be auctioned by her family business, so she's determined to identify the dead man and learn how he met his gruesome end.
The investigation will give her a chance to work with the magistrate, Manlius Faustus, the friend she sadly knows to be the last chaste man in Rome. But he's got other concerns than her anonymous corpse. It's election time and with democracy for sale at Domitian's court, tension has come to a head. Faustus is acting as an agent for a 'good husband and father' whose traditional family values are being called into question. Even more disreputable are his rivals, whom Faustus wants Albia to discredit.
'Davis was primus and still has no pares' Telegraph
'The best thriller writer alive' - Ken Follett
I'm not a typical lawyer. I don't maintain a pretty office filled with mahogany and leather. I don't belong to a big firm, prestigious or otherwise. I don't do good works through the bar association. I'm a lone gunman, a rogue who fights bad systems and hates injustice . . .
Sebastian Rudd takes the cases no one else wants to take: the drug-addled punk accused of murdering two little girls; a crime lord on death row; a homeowner who shot at a SWAT team.
Rudd believes that every person accused of a crime is entitled to a fair trial - even if he has to cheat to get one. He antagonises people from both sides of the law: his last office was firebombed, either by drug dealers or cops. He doesn't know or care which.
But things are about to get even more complicated for Sebastian. Arch Swanger is the prime suspect in the abduction and presumed murder of 21-year-old Jiliana Kemp, the daughter of the assistant chief of police. When Swanger asks Sebastian to represent him, he lets Sebastian in on a terrible secret . . . one that will threaten everything Sebastian holds dear.
Gritty, witty, and impossible to put down, Rogue Lawyer is the master of the legal thriller at his very best.
John Grisham as a child dreamed of being a professional baseball player. After graduating from law school at Ole Miss in 1981, he went on to practice law for nearly a decade, specialising in criminal defense and personal injury litigation. One day, Grisham overheard the harrowing testimony of a twelve-year-old rape victim and was inspired to start a novel exploring what would have happened if the girl's father had murdered her assailants. Getting up at 5 a.m. every day to get in several hours of writing time before heading off to work, Grisham spent three years on A Time to Kill and finished it in 1987.
His next novel, The Firm, spent 47 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and became the bestselling novel of 1991. Since then, he has written one novel a year, including The Client, The Pelican Brief, The Rainmaker and The Runaway Jury.
Today, Grisham has written a collection of stories, a work of non-fiction, three sports novels, five kids' books, and many legal thrillers. His work has been translated into 42 languages. He lives near Charlottesville, Virginia.
'Grisham is a natural storyteller'Telegraph
'A giant of the thriller genre'Time Out
'Leaves one eager for more'Spectator
'John Grisham has perfected the art of cooking up convincing fast-paced thrillers'Telegraph
'A lion of the literary genre'Chicago Sun-Times
Want to know what really goes on during an Olly Murs UK tour? Then get the lowdown in my new book, On The Road - the official, uncensored, up close and personal story of 2015's Never Been Better UK adventure. Packed with 200 exclusive pictures, this fly-on-the-wall release captures all the excitement and drama of a 27-gig trip around the country, including the jokes, arguments, heartbreaks and giggles, with some parties thrown in along the way. You could say it's an exclusive insight into all the hard work that goes into putting on a nationwide tour for the best fans in the world.
That's not all, though. Keep your eyes peeled for several special guest appearances from the likes of Robbie Williams, Jonathan Ross and the comedians, Russell Brand and John Bishop. One or two Premier League footballers rock up in the story, and I fall victim to a few terrible practical jokes. If that's not enough, there's also the untold story of what really happened when I got the X Factor job.
Planes, tourbuses and a helicopter ride or two: On The Road is the access-all-areas tale of my biggest ever headline tour. I promise it's going to give my fans a real insight into what my life's like really behind the scenes - grumps, giggles and all. Don't believe me? Just watch...
At twenty-five, Dan left his 'spoiled white asshole' life in Los Angeles to look after his dying parents in Salt Lake City, Utah. His mother, who had already been battling cancer on and off for close to 15 years, had taken a turn for the worse. His father, a devoted marathon runner and adored parent, had been diagnosed with motor neurone disease which was quickly eroding his body. Dan's four siblings were already home, caring for their parents and resenting Dan for not doing the same.
Home is Burning tells the story of Dan's year at home in Salt Lake City, as he reunites with his eclectic family -the only non-Mormon family of seven in the entire town- all of them trying their best to be there for the father who had always been there for them.
Fast bowler, six-hitter, popular hero, one of the lads, king of the jungle - Andrew Flintoff is all of those things.Second Innings, is his searingly honest yet uplifting autobiography, Flintoff reveals unseen, surprising sides to his career and personality.
The restless need to push and challenge himself that led him to take up professional boxing. The complex and troubled relationship with discipline, alcohol and authority during his exhilarating cricket career. The search for an authentic voice as a player, free from the blandness and conformity of modern professionalism. Is Flintoff the last of his kind, in any sport?
Through all his highs and lows, triumphs and reversals, this book reveals a central tension. There is 'Fred' - performer, extrovert, centre of attention. Then there is 'Andrew' - reflective, withdrawn and uncertain. Two people contained in one extraordinary life. And sometimes, inevitably, keeping the two in balance proves too much.
We are taken backstage, seeing the mischief and adventure that has defined Andrew Flintoff's story. Above all, we observe the enduring power of fun, friendship and loyalty - the pillars of Flintoff's career.
At ease with his faults as well as his gifts, Andrew Flintoff has sought one thing, even more than success: to be himself.
Simple, delicious, healthy recipes from Irish TV and YouTube star Donal Skehan.
"I aim for balanced eating, which allows me to enjoy the food I've always loved but also puts a focus on including as much seasonal fresh fruit and vegetables, grains and smaller amounts of high-quality meats in my diet. I take my time to cook and I take my time to eat. These 'rules' allow me to stay true to what I believe good home cooking to be - at its heart, this is a book of healthy, fresh recipes that are as nourishing as they are delicious."DONAL SKEHANFresh is jam-packed with yummy recipes to cook at home and fill you with energy. Don't deprive yourself - it's all about maximising your health through eating delicious and nutrient-packed food.
Tying into Donal's TV series on eating for energy, Fresh! includes recipes for breakfasts and snacks as well as Food On The Run, Quick Cook Suppers, and Better For You Dessert & Sweet Treats, such as Peanut Butter Brownies, Mega Beetroot Burgers, Mini Quinoa, Pea and Courgette Cakes, Gluten-free Pancakes with Blueberry, Banana and Honey - big on flavour and chock-full of goodness!
Donal is known for easy, fresh, home-cooked food, and his new TV series will focus on a subject close to his heart - eating for energy. The recipes in Donal's cookbook are all about maximising your health through eating delicious and nutrient-packed food rather than any sort of deprivation.The book includes recipes for breakfasts and snacks as well as Food On The Run, Quick Cook Suppers, and Dessert & Sweet Treats, such as Sugar Free Chocolate Chip Cookies, Beetroot & Chickpea Burgers, Super Power Veggie Summer Rolls, Za'atar Quinoa Poached Eggs - big on flavour and packed full of goodness!
A tribute to Richie Benaud and a celebration of his life
A compilation of the very best writing from Richie's books, along with the best tributes and obituaries from those who knew and worked with him.
As a player, Richie was one of the greatest of cricket's all-rounders. As a commentator and thinker on the game he became the leading figure of his generation. As a man he was revered by cricket's multitude of followers and as a friend he was both loved and admired by his close circle of friends.
This celebratory book brings together the best of Richie's writing on a range of subjects from his love of cricket as a child to his all time XIs; from his thoughts on T20 to insight into his family life, along with his most loved sayings and best known pieces of commentary. All perfectly complemented with tributes from his friends and colleagues.
Phil 'The Power' Taylor is the uncontested king of darts, his sixteen world championship titles between 1990 and 2013 far outclassing anything else the game has seen.
He started out as a protégé of Eric Bristow, the Crafty Cockney, having wandered into his Burslem pub with a set of darts his wife had given him for his birthday. At that time Taylor was earning £52 a week working in a ceramics factory and hardly played. But jaws dropped and pint mugs tipped over as this newcomer suddenly unleashed a gift for flight that had soon eclipsed even the Crafty Cockney himself, and amassed Phil a haul of over 200 professional tournament victories.
Staying Power is a year in the life of a legend, twice nominated for BBC Sports Personality of the Year, a man who made darts look a doddle to British pub-goers everywhere and set his seal on the game as the bloke to beat. A year of triumph and disaster, in which Taylor crashed out of the world championship in the second round to young outsider Michael Smith and fell asleep at home on Christmas day, exhausted from the strain of constant winning. A year when he played arguably the greatest ever game of darts, in the Grand Slam semi-final against recent world champion Adrian Lewis the two slugging it out to the wire. A year in which Taylor rocked Australia, fêted like royalty. A year of spats and hecklers, clashes on stage and off, of head-to-heads with the Dutch superstar Michael van Gerwen.
But most of all this is a year in which Phil Taylor, one of sport's greatest champions, has looked hard at his life in his determination to stay in power.
Phil Taylor is widely regarded as the best darts player of all time, having won more than 200 professional tournaments, including 81 major titles and a record 16 World Championships. No darts player has a winning record in matches against him.He has won the PDC Player of the Year award six times (2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012) and has twice been nominated for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year, in 2006 and 2010, finishing as runner-up in the latter. He was the first, and to date, the only person to hit two nine dart finishes in one match, in the 2010 Premier League Darts final against James Wade. He has hit a record ten televised nine-dart finishes and is ranked world number two in the PDC Order of Merit.
Trainers are no longer just reserved for the gym. From the office to the catwalk (and even hidden under wedding dresses), trainers have become a must-have fashion staple for women of all ages.
Who better to chart the history of this most comfortable form of footwear than flat shoe expert and blogger Hannah Rochell of enbrogue.com?
Here Hannah picks over 40 styles of trainers - including your favourite iconic brands and some exciting collaborations - and shares her knowledge and style tips on how you can wear them and look great.
From Reebok Classics to designer Dior Fusion sneakers, and from limited edition Liberty print Nike Air Max to the ubiquitous Converse All Star, flat shoes have never been more comfortable... and trainers have never been more in style.
Hannah Rochell is Fashion Features Editor at fashion magazine InStyle and has over eight years' experience as a fashion journalist. She is the creator of EnBrogue.com, a blog devoted to stylish flat shoes.
EnBrogue.com has been featured on BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live programme and Woman's Hour, in InStyle, Red, the Guardian, The Times, The Saturday Times Magazine, the Evening Standard, The Lady, Woman and Home and Look.co.uk and was named one of marieclaire.co.uk's 'best ever fashion blogs'. It counts Caitlin Moran, Lauren Laverne and India Knight amongst its fans. Hannah's first book - En Brogue: Love Fashion. Love Shoes. Hate Heels. - will also be published in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China.
Follow Hannah on Twitter: @enbrogue
Inspector Lynley investigates the London end of an ever more darkly disturbing case, with Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata looking behind the peaceful façade of country life to discover a twisted world of desire and deceit.
The suicide of William Goldacre is devastating to those left behind. But what was the cause of his tragedy and how far might the consequences reach? Is there a link between the young man's leap from a Dorset cliff and a horrific poisoning in Cambridge?
Following various career-threatening misdemeanours, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers is desperate to redeem herself. So when a past encounter with bestselling feminist writer Clare Abbott and her pushy personal assistant Caroline Goldacre gives her a connection to the Cambridge murder, Barbara begs DI Thomas Lynley to let her pursue the crime.
Full of shocks, intensity and suspense from first page to last, A Banquet of Consequences reveals both Lynley and Havers under pressure, and author Elizabeth George writing at the very height of her exceptional powers.
Praise for Elizabeth George:Her crime novels combine Victorian craftsmanship, psychological observation and ingenious plotting. George's celebrated attention to detail keeps the reader totally immersed. Bliss.
Oswald de Lacy is growing up fast in his new position as Lord of Somershill Manor. The Black Death changed many things, and just as it took away his father and elder brothers, leaving Oswald to be recalled from the monastery where he expected to spend his life, so it has taken many of his villagers and servants. However, there is still the same amount of work to be done in the farms and fields, and the few people left to do it think they should be paid more - something the King himself has forbidden.
Just as anger begins to spread, the story of the Butcher Bird takes flight. People claim to have witnessed a huge creature in the skies. A new-born baby is found impaled on a thorn bush. And then more children disappear.
Convinced the bird is just a superstitious rumour, Oswald must discover what is really happening. He can expect no help from his snobbish mother and his scheming sister Clemence, who is determined to protect her own child, but happy to neglect her step-daughters.
From the plague-ruined villages of Kent to the thief-infested streets of London and the luxurious bedchamber of a bewitching lady, Oswald's journey is full of danger, dark intrigue and shocking revelations.
Teenager Nikki Bell is the only witness to the brutal murder of two members of her family and their cleaner. She's lucky to be alive. But the murder isn't a one-off. It's part of a bigger, more violent attack planned on affluent families in the area - and now Nikki, as the only living witness, is a dangerous threat to the well-orchestrated scheme. As the net draws tighter around the killers, DI Rio Wray must do whatever it takes to keep Nikki alive. But when you're dealing with criminals, there's no line they won't cross... In a kill-or-be-killed-world, who will be first to pull the trigger?
Dreda Say Mitchell, who grew up on a housing estate in east London, is an award-winning novelist, broadcaster, journalist and freelance education consultant who describes herself as a 'complete busybody'. Dreda was named one of Britain's 50 Remarkable Women by Lady Geek. She is the author of five novels, with her first book having been awarded The CWA's John Creasey Dagger for best debut crime novel - the first time a Black British writer has received this honour. Dreda has also written short stories for the MWA collection, Vengeance, edited by Lee Child, and the multi-award-winning Books To Die For. She has appeared on Newsnight, Daybreak and Canadian television's Sun New Live. She has presented BBC Radio 4's Open Book, and is a frequent guest on Radio 4's The Review Show, Front Row and Saturday Review. Dreda has written for the Guardian, the Independent and the Observer on issues ranging from race and class to Phil Mitchell's drug addiction in EastEnders. She was the 2011 chair of the Harrogate Theakston Crime Fiction Festival, Europe's biggest crime festival. She is the founder of the creative writing programme 'Write-On', which she has run in both YOIs and prison, and in 2013 one of her students was awarded three Koestler Awards for his poetry. She has worked in education for over twenty years, including positions as a primary school deputy head teacher and local authority consultant. Dreda has an African history degree from SOAS and an MA in Education Studies. She is also a patron of The National Youth Arts Trust. Her commitment to raising the life chances of working-class children in education and her work in prisons and YOIs have been called inspirational and life changing.
Website: www.dredasaymitchell.comTwitter: @DredaMitchell
'Breathless from the first word and thrilling to the last' LEE CHILD on Vendetta
Teenager Nikki Bell is the only witness to the brutal murder of two members of her family and their cleaner. She's lucky to be alive. But the murder isn't a one-off. It's part of a bigger, more violent attack planned on affluent families in the area - and now Nikki, as the only living witness, is a dangerous threat to the well-orchestrated scheme.
As the net draws tighter around the killers, DI Rio Wray must do whatever it takes to keep Nikki alive. But when you're dealing with criminals, there's no line they won't cross... In a kill-or-be-killed-world, who will be first to pull the trigger?
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[bio next to barcode] Dreda Say Mitchell grew up on a housing estate in east London in the 1970s. She is an award-winning novelist, broadcaster, and journalist who describes herself as a 'complete busybody'. Find out more at dredasaymitchell.com or on Twitter @DredaMitchell
In this gripping novel, Melvyn Bragg brings an extraordinary episode in English history to fresh, urgent life.
At the end of May 1381, the fourteen-year-old King of England had reason to be fearful: the plague had returned, the royal coffers were empty and a draconian poll tax was being widely evaded. Yet Richard, bolstered by his powerful, admired mother, felt secure in his God-given right to reign.
Within two weeks, the unthinkable happened: a vast force of common people invaded London, led by a former soldier, Walter Tyler, and the radical preacher John Ball, demanding freedom, equality and the complete uprooting of the Church and state. They believed they were rescuing the King from his corrupt ministers, and that England had to be saved. And for three intense, violent days, it looked as if they would sweep all before them.
Now is the Time depicts the events of the Peasants' Revolt on both a grand and intimate scale, vividly portraying its central figures and telling an archetypal tale of an epic struggle between the powerful and the apparently powerless.
Fans of THE BOOK OF LOST THINGS and NOCTURNES will be delighted with this superbly crafted collection of short stories of the supernatural from John Connolly.
A decade after NOCTURNES first terrified and delighted readers, John Connolly, bestselling author of thirteen acclaimed thrillers featuring private investigator Charlie Parker, gives us a second volume of tales of the supernatural. From stories of the monstrous for dark winter nights to fables of fantastic libraries and haunted books, from a tender narrative of love after death to a frank, personal and revealing account of the author's affection for myths of ghosts and demons, this is a collection that will surprise, delight - and terrify.
NIGHT MUSIC also contains two novellas: the multi-award-winning THE CAXTON PRIVATE LENDING LIBRARY & BOOK DEPOSITORY, and THE FRACTURED ATLAS, featuring The Wanderer in Unknown Realms, previously published as an ebook, developed here into a five-part novella.
NIGHT MUSIC: NOCTURNES 2 is a masterly collection to be read with the lights on - menace has never been so seductive.
John Connolly is the first non-American writer to win the US Shamus award and the first Irish writer to win an Edgar award. His debut - EVERY DEAD THING - introduced the character of Private Investigator Charlie Parker, and swiftly launched him right into the front rank of thriller writers. All his subsequent novels have been Sunday Times bestsellers. Before becoming a novelist, he spent five years working as a journalist for The Irish Times, to which he continues to contribute. In 2007 he was awarded the Irish Post Award for Literature. BOOKS TO DIE FOR, which he edited with Declan Burke, was the winner of the 2013 Anthony, Agatha and Macavity awards for Best Non-Fiction work.
You can learn more from John's website, www.johnconnollybooks.com, find him on Facebook, and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/jconnollybooks.
A British cabinet minister is gunned down on a London street by an IRA assassin. In the wake of national outcry, the authorities must find the hitman. But the trail is long cold, the killer gone to ground in Belfast, and they must resort to more unorthodox methods to unearth him. Ill prepared and poorly briefed, undercover agent Harry Brown is sent into the heart of enemy territory to infiltrate the terrorists.
But when it is a race against the clock, mistakes are made and corners cut. For Harry Brown, alone in a city of strangers, where an intruder is the subject of immediate gossip and rumour, one false move is enough to leave him fatally isolated...
A chilling modern horror novel from the author of THE SILENCE OF THE SEA, winner of the 2015 Petrona Award - perfect for fans of Let the Right One In.
The light spilling in from the corridor would have to do. Though weak, it was sufficient to show AldÃs a boy sitting in the gloom at the furthest table. He had his back to her, so she couldn't see who it was, but could tell that he was one of the youngest. A chill ran down her spine when he spoke again, without turning, as if he had eyes in the back of his head. 'Go away. Leave me alone.'
'Come on. You shouldn't be here.' AldÃs spoke gently, fairly sure now that the boy must be delirious. Confused, rather than dangerous.
He turned, slowly and deliberately, and she glimpsed black eyes in a pale face. 'I wasn't talking to you.'
Aldis is working in a juvenile detention centre in rural Iceland. She witnesses something deeply disturbing in the middle of the night; soon afterwards, two of the boys at the centre are dead.
Decades later, single father Odinn is looking into alleged abuse at the centre following the unexplained death of the colleague who was previously running the investigation. The more he finds out, though, the more it seems the odd events of the 1970s are linked to the accident that killed his ex-wife. Was her death something more sinister?
Yrsa Sigurdardottir is a huge European bestseller both with her crime and horror novels. You might want to sleep with the light on after reading THE UNDESIRED . . .
The light spilling in from the corridor would have to do. Though weak, it was sufficient to show Aldis a boy sitting in the gloom at the furthest table. He had his back to her, so she couldn't see who it was, but could tell that he was one of the youngest. A chill ran down her spine when he spoke again, without turning, as if he had eyes in the back of his head.'Go away. Leave me alone.''Come on. You shouldn't be here.' Aldis spoke gently, fairly sure now that the boy must be delirious. Confused, rather than dangerous.He turned, slowly and deliberately, and she glimpsed black eyes in a pale face. 'I wasn't talking to you.'
Yrsa Sigurdardottir is a huge European bestseller with both her crime and horror novels. You might want to sleep with the light on after reading THE UNDESIRED . . .
Praise for I REMEMBER YOU:'A chiller-thriller of immense scariness . . . Not to be read alone after dark. - The Times
'Genuinely bone-chilling, and proves that as well as being the queen of Icelandic crime fiction, Sigurdardottir is a supreme generator of fear . . . (she) is clearly relishing the business of scaring our pants off.' - Independent'Very spooky indeed' - Laura Wilson, Guardian'A truly creepy combination of haunted house story and modern detection in Iceland.' - Sunday Telegraph
Unputdownable naval action from the master of the sea story - 'In Stockwin's hands the sea story will continue to entrance readers across the world' Guardian
The greatest naval trial in the Georgian period is underway at Portsmouth with the court martial of Sir Home Popham, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd's commanding officer in the doomed occupation of Buenos Aires. Kydd has some sympathy for Popham's unauthorised action but his support for his former commander leaves him athwart some very influential people in the Admiralty.
With his frigate L'Aurore unfit for sea, Kydd is given a commission that some hope will destroy his career. Tyger has recently mutinied but instead of having her company dispersed around the fleet as is customary, the ship is pressed into immediate service in the North Sea. Kydd faces a crew still under some malign influence.
Enemies aboard and on the high seas are just the start of the problem. Soon he will have to take his untested and untrustworthy crew into the Baltic and there they will get entangled with Napoleon's invasion of Prussia. The stakes are desperate, the task seemingly impossible and the French implacable. But the only way for Kydd to avoid disgrace is to gamble his reputation and crew on a crazy mission to snatch a Prussian division out of the jaws of Napoleon's advancing army. Will he return home once more a hero, or himself face a court martial?
Julian Stockwin was sent at the age of fourteen to the TS Indefatigable, a tough sea-training school. He joined the Royal Navy at fifteen before transferring to the Royal Australian Navy, where he served for eight years in the Far East, Antarctic waters and the South Seas. He was awarded the MBE and retired with the rank of Lieutenant Commander. He now lives in Devon with his wife Kathy.
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The Holy Trinity Church (Finnish: Pyhän Kolminaisuuden kirkko, Swedish: Heliga Treenighetskyrkan) is an Orthodox Church located in the Kruununhaka district of Helsinki, on the corner of Unioninkatu and Rauhankatu. The church was built in the neo-classical style in 1826 under the direction of the architect Carl Ludvig Engel, and was dedicated and opened in the following year. The Holy Trinity services the city's orthodox community with masses held in both Church Slavic and Finnish.[1]
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Recent waves of earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, and Japan sent home the idea that despite advances in building and infrastructure, we're all subject to Mother Nature's whims. In today's increasingly interconnected economy, the economic fallout from a natural disaster is rarely relegated to the geographic area that it hits. In fact, even natural disasters that take place thousands of miles away can shake up your portfolio here at home.
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Infrastructure Destruction
Besides loss of life, infrastructure destruction is by far the most obvious type of damage that comes to mind when we think about natural disasters. After all, traditional television news has made images of damaged homes and businesses ubiquitous following nearly every earthquake or tornado that touches down.
But the economic consequences are rarely considered beyond what the cost will be to rebuild. That's a serious problem for the victims of natural disasters because it's the economic fallout that leaves some of the longest-lasting scars.
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One of the biggest problems for areas affected by natural disasters is business disruption. With road, communication infrastructure, and building damage common after sizable disasters, it's not uncommon for local businesses to be shut down for some time after the aftershocks settle. On a grand scale, that's what happened after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf coast back in 2005 – as companies reeled from catastrophic losses, millions of workers in Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi were left jobless, compounding the already staggering poverty problem in the region.
With this mass unemployment came a severe cutback in consumer spending (at the few places that were open for business) and – consequently – tax revenues needed to aid in the rebuilding efforts. Furthermore, the international impact was especially felt throughout the energy sector as oil prices escalated due to destroyed rigs and refineries. (Learn more in Using Consumer Spending As A Market Indicator.)
In places where significant portions of the country are decimated by disasters, governments are often left with little recourse; with a fraction of their former tax revenue coming in and deteriorated sovereign creditworthiness, foreign aid becomes an absolute necessity.
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But those factors only touch on how much of an effect a natural disaster can have on investment portfolios around the world.
Through the popularity of ADRs, ETFs and other forms of international investment diversification, the ability of U.S. investors to own shares of companies based abroad has expanded considerably in the last decade. Because of that, owning shares of any given company's stock can give an investor an interest in a refinery in Louisiana or a gold mine in Africa – and it can expose investors to the risks associated with these locales.
Less obvious – but perhaps even more significant – are the effects that a natural disaster can have on commodity prices. In the case of Hurricane Katrina, the storm's entry point at the Gulf coast is significant because of the fact that nearly half of the gasoline consumed in the U.S. passes through refineries that were affected by the storm. As a result, oil and gas supplies were affected immediately after Katrina made landfall. With increased gas pump prices, extra effects included diminished margins for industries - from transportation to consumer goods.
Similar things happened in the copper market as earthquakes in Chile choked production and inflated copper prices worldwide.
These kinds of price increases aren't just limited to market-traded commodities. When natural disaster strikes, scarcity rules, and regular staples like food, merchandise and even housing can become commoditized as a result. (Learn more in How To Invest In Commodities.)
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Ultimately, it's difficult to imagine the extent of the economic repercussions a major natural disaster can bring about. And although the majority of disasters impact the devastated area's economy adversely, they can have an impact on a larger scale. Although there's little we can do to avoid Mother Nature's next catastrophe, we can better prepare for it – both physically and financially. Understanding the economic implications of a disaster is the first step toward that.
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The launch marks Friedrich's renewed entrance into the air purifier market. With its primary focus on room air conditioners in the summer, the air purifier lineup creates a foothold in the spring and fall allergy seasons.
The AP260 air purifier has a five-stage filtration process with an enhanced HEPA filter that is said to capture up to 99.97% of particles as small as 0.03 microns. The system combines an antibacterial pre-filter, multi-filter, HEPA filter, carbon filter and plasma generator to effectively filter dust, pollen, mold spores, pet dander and tobacco smoke for small to medium spaces up to 260 square feet.
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This photo provided by the Dane County Sheriff's Office shows Michon A. Thomas. Thomas, Eric D. Bass, and Kristopher J. Hughes face sexual assault and armed robbery charges after police said they broke into a Madison home looking for money, found a man and his wife lying in bed and assaulted the woman, who was six months pregnant, after beating her husband. (AP Photo/Dane County Sheriff's Office)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The men accused of severely beating a man and repeatedly sexually assaulting his pregnant wife may have meant to target a different home for a robbery, authorities in Wisconsin said.
Three men face sexual assault and armed robbery charges after police said they broke into a Madison home looking for money, found the couple lying in bed and assaulted the woman, who was six months pregnant, after beating her husband. But a criminal complaint shows a woman may have sought to send the men to rob the home of a man she was dating.
The complaint filed Tuesday details a botched robbery plan that may have been intended to target the victims' neighbor. Authorities said Efemia A. Neumaier told the assailants they'd find at least $1,500 in cash in the home of the man she was seeing, but that the men broke into the wrong home.
Michon A. Thomas, Eric D. Bass and Kristopher J. Hughes all face robbery and sexual assault charges in the in the Feb. 23 home invasion on Madison's east side.
Neumaier has been charged with conspiracy to commit armed robbery after the man she was seeing discovered her Facebook messages to Thomas setting up the attack, the complaint says. Two others accused of helping plan and carry out the attack also have been charged.
The complaint says that while the couple struggled to sleep about 5 a.m. that Sunday morning, the male victim, who is legally blind without his glasses, noticed the bedroom door was open and shouldn't have been.
"Is someone here?" the man called out from bed. A suspect then turned on the bedroom light and three men burst into the room, demanding money.
"Someone's gonna die tonight," one suspect said, according to the complaint. One suspect was allegedly wearing a mask from the movie "Scream."
The female victim told the three men repeatedly that she was pregnant, and that the men could take what they wanted from the house.
Reports say Hughes pulled the male victim from bed, laid him on his back and began hitting him in the face with a gun and punching and kicking his body.
Another suspect pulled the woman from bed and ordered her to lie on her stomach in the hallway, the report says. A suspect allegedly took a handgun and put it to the woman's stomach, saying, "You're going to die tonight."


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National Earthquake Resilience-Research, Implementation, and Outreach, presents 20-year roadmap for increasing U.S. earthquake resiliency. Prepared by National Research Council, report describes 18 categories of focused activities necessary for accomplishing strategic plan adopted by federal government's National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP), which is led by NIST and includes Federal Emergency Management Agency, National Science Foundation, and U.S. Geological Survey. Read More
NIST debuts online museum of quantum voltage standards.April 1, 2011
On April 8, 2011, scientific community will celebrate centennial of the discovery of superconductivity - the ability of materials to conduct electricity without resistance when cooled below specific temperature. To mark anniversary, NIST has created online museum highlighting important accomplishments and historical images from voltage standards program. Over 4 decades, NIST has developed voltage standards based on superconducting Josephson junctions, which are used to calibrate voltmeters. Read More
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NTSB Chairman Deborah A.P. Hersman departed on 2-day, 4-state journey from Washington D.C. to Louisville, KY in a long-haul tractor trailer driven by Stephanie Klang to get a cab's eye view of the commercial truck industry. Chairman Hersman, who holds a commercial driver's license, is traveling to the Mid-America Truck Show in Louisville where she will honor America's professional women truck drivers at the second annual Women in Trucking "Salute to Women Behind the Wheel" event on April 2. Read More
IPC Standard provides test methods for pad cratering.April 1, 2011
To help eliminate pad cratering in lead-free assemblies, IPC-9708, Test Methods for Characterization of PCB Pad Cratering, offers 3 standardized test methodologies that let product developers determine best material for their application. Cold ball pull, ball shear, and hard pin pull test methods can be used to rank order and compare different printed board materials and design parameters in order to evaluate susceptibility to cohesive dielectric failure underneath SMT attach pads. Read More
Rockwell Award earned by long-time teacher, Vangie Dennis.April 1, 2011
Vangie Dennis, RN, BSN, CNOR, CMLSO at Gwinnett Hospital, was awarded 2011 R. James Rockwell, Jr. Educational Achievement Award for accomplishments in laser safety education. With over 3 decades of nursing experience, she has been instrumental in development and instruction of many laser safety programs for professional societies. Upon receiving the award, Ms. Dennis commented that she was humbled and honored and remains a teacher at heart despite her current managerial role. Read More
AAMA Official discusses energy efficiency with Maine Senator.April 1, 2011
Rich Walker, AAMA President and CEO, spoke with Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) during their visit to Mathews Brothers Company in Belfast, Maine, on March 22. Senator Snowe discussed importance of small businesses and expressed interest in returning 25C tax credit for energy-efficient windows that expired back to the $1,500 amount. Oldest window company in U.S., Mathews Brothers produces window systems with triple-pane insulated glazing, which contributes to energy-efficient home environment. Read More
ASTM Standard addresses agricultural raw materials in construction.April 1, 2011
Proposed ASTM WK30419 standard may foster greater use of agricultural raw materials, which consist of ligno-cellulosic fibers, similar to wood fibers and particles. With standard, companies that want to bring agricultural fiber products to market will have a way of documenting performance and reliability. Alternative building industries will use standard to improve quality and distribution, and regulators can use standard to help with approvals and safety of alternative materials. Read More
International Petrochemical Conference opens with growth forecast.April 1, 2011
At NPRA's 36th International Petrochemical Conference, Charles T. Drevna said, "For the world's petrochemical producers, the overall progress toward economic recovery brings a renewed demand for products and signals revitalized prospects for growth." Drevna added that natural gas reserves in U.S. could grow petrochemical industry, manufacturing in general, and American economy. Key governmental, economic, and environmental issues affecting petrochemical manufacturing were also covered. Read More
Electroindustry Business Confidence Index points to continued growth.April 1, 2011
Senior executives at NEMA member companies reported that, on balance, business conditions facing their firms improved for fifth consecutive month in March. Electroindustry Business Confidence Index for current North American conditions measured 60.9. However, concerns over disruptions emanating from events in Japan and the Middle East contributed to decline in level of index from 69.6 a month ago. Also, survey's measure of intensity of change slipped to +0.3 from +0.6 in February. Read More
NEMA welcomes Rogers-Carnahan legislation.April 1, 2011
NEMA supports introduction of Smart Technologies for Communities Act by Congressmen Russ Carnahan (D-MO) and Mike Rogers (R-MI). Introduced as HR 995, legislation would direct U.S. DOT to create a competitive program that would allow local governments and teams of regional governments to receive grants to support deployment and operation of Intelligent Transportation Systems technologies, which help reduce congestion and improve safety on highways and arterial roads. Read More
Solar Tracking Algorithm serves diverse applications.April 1, 2011
NREL Senior Scientist Ibrahim Reda and NREL programming expert Afshin Andreas developed a Solar Position Algorithm (SPA) to calculate sun's position with low uncertainty of ±0.0003° at vertex, which is more than 30 times more precise than uncertainty levels for all other algorithms used in solar energy applications. Algorithm and its software are helping solar power manufacturers build more precise trackers, and it also has implications for cellular telephone and agriculture industries. Read More
ASTM Standard helps determine open time for latex paint.April 1, 2011
Developed by Subcommittee D01.42 on Architectural Coatings, ASTM D7488 provides means of determining the time available in which paint can be worked into previously painted area. Open time is a key performance property for coatings, particularly for brush applications. According to Carol Hawkins, a scientist with Dow Chemical Co., and chairman of D01.42, as we move away from using solvents in coatings, it is important to develop a test method that formulators can use to determine open time. Read More
Global Education Programs hand out first certificates.March 31, 2011
MESA Global Education Program has awarded global MES/MOM Certificates to class members in Western Europe and US. Attendees of first UK event took 2-day, high-level program of MES/MOM Business Functions courses geared for executives, manufacturing/operations, IT personnel, and sales professionals. All were eligible to earn MESA Certificate of Awareness upon passing in- and post-class exams. Upcoming events are scheduled for April and May. Read More
SAE Journal Editors to receive honors at SAE World Congress.March 31, 2011
Prakash T. Sathe, PhD, Associate Editor of SAE International Journal of Materials and Manufacturing, will receive SAE Fellow Grade of Membership, which honors long-term members who have made a significant impact on society's mobility technology. Nadir Yilmaz, PhD, Editor-in-Chief of SAE International Journal of Fuels and Lubricants, has been selected as recipient of Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award, which recognizes and honors younger educators who are successfully preparing future engineers. Read More
IPC Flex Conference host speakers from key electronics companies.March 31, 2011
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ASTM Training Courses to cover environmental assessment standards.March 31, 2011
Two-day ASTM International training courses will cover ASTM E1527, Practice for Environmental Site Assessments: Phase I Environmental Site Assessment Process; and ASTM E1528, Practice for Environmental Site Assessments: Transaction Screen Process. Developed by ASTM Committee E50 on Environmental Assessment, Risk Management, and Corrective Action, training courses will also detail U.S. EPA rule on All Appropriate Inquiry. Courses will be held 9 times between April 26 and November 16. Read More
ASTM Training Course addresses environmental site assessments.March 31, 2011
Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments course will cover ASTM E1527, which is the national standard for conducting Phase I assessments and includes historical records research of subject property; site reconnaissance; and documentation of findings and report preparation. ASTM E1903 focuses on planning and performance of Phase II investigations, and various approaches used to generate additional information regarding identification of potential contaminants associated with RECs. Read More
Keynote Speaker Colin L. Powell featured at PACK EXPO Las Vegas.March 31, 2011
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NREL Fellow Honored for outstanding solar research.March 31, 2011
Dr. Arthur J. Nozik, senior research fellow at U.S. Department of Energy's NREL, will be awarded Gustavus John Esselen Award for Chemistry in the Public Interest. Award honors Nozik's solar research, including exploration of future generation concepts for lower cost and more efficient solar conversion. He has published more than 250+ papers and book chapters on basic research in photoelectrochemistry, solid state physics, semiconductor nanoscience, and related interdisciplinary science. Read More
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Judge Joe Brown: Off Duty.....
by Delyte Delyte
posted Aug 28 2013 1:30PM
At some point in this past week, a video surface online showing 66 year old, Judge Joe Brown in an intoxicated state in front of a group of people. The video,taken in California shows the Judge going off on a tangent and saying "I don't do THAT BS no anymore" when asked about his former job on tv!
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He had been on television for a while and never got caught up in any scandal. Why should him being a regular citizen and not being belligerent cause any kind of issue??
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Hoar Cross Hall Spa Resort is a Grade II listed stately home retreat in Staffordshire. At this unique sanctuary, friendly faces are assured, kicking off your shoes is expected and total relaxation is the order of the day. Enjoy exquisite plates of food delivered with style, flair and imagination.
Balance the body and mind, and restore a sense of calm in our state-of-the-art spa. Look forward to restful nights in beautifully appointed bedrooms and suites. Please note, the minimum age for guests at the hotel and day spa is 16 Please note, we are currently completing some refurbishment work which may be taking place during your stay and there may be some noise and minor disruption. We do apologise for this and are keeping it to an absolute minimum.
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With a cocktail in one hand and a bowl of titbits at your side the Stardust Adventure Day Cruise takes you onboard a classic wooden sailing yacht to explore the beautiful eco-system of Langkawi's outlying islands. Featuring an open bar that holds an assortment of cocktails, beverages and snacks, the trip also includes a sumptuous barbecue dinner on board.
The tour kicks off in the early morning – a speedboat takes you through a mangrove swamp where you can observe Langkawi's inland ecology; later watch eagles circling the skies and then watch as they swoop to grab the chicken bits thrown into the water by your boat driver. The tour continues with a stingray feeding session nearby; later try your hand at kayaking, drag netting and a bout of fishing.
Soon after, a boat takes you across the seas while the ever-friendly staff members entertain you with stories of Langkawi's myths and legends. Feel the wind in your face, listen to the sound of the waves gently rocking against the boat and take in the sights of the Andaman Sea and the outlying islets. Later on spend some time 'relaxing in the waves' Jacuzzi-style via a trawling net cast from the side of the boat.
Break for a 12-course buffet barbecue lunch and continue to enjoy the open bar with its extensive selection of chilled wines, beers and soft drinks. Next the tour carries on with a cave exploration; watch stingrays, explore tunnel caves and visit hidden lagoons. If you'd like, you can even do some simple in-sailing by the beach; the day winds down with a peaceful and serene cruise back to the jetty.
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Langkawi Stardust Adventure Day Cruise
Itinerary09:00 hrs.
Pick up from hotels
10:00 hrs.
speedboat transfers through the mangroves, eagle feeding, stingray feeding, drag netting, fishing, use of sea kayak, dinghy transport as required, beach and island visits
12:00 hrs.
12 course buffet lunch and free flow open bar with chilled wine, beer, soft drinks & mineral water
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visit to Hidden Lagoon or Dead Chinaman's Cave or tunnel cave, join in-sailing.
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Finally, sail back and transfer back to your hotel.
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- Prepare your own towel
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- Rates quoted are nett with driver and guide where applicable (unless otherwise stated).
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- Expenses other than those specified in each tour itinerary or any items of a personal nature are not included in the rates quoted.
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- All entrance fees quoted are subject to change without prior notice.
- A surcharge is applicable during peak season/hour and will be advised via email.
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Amendment Amendment with no change in value MYR 25 per booking Amendment with partial Refund 5% of the total refund value or MYR50 whichever is higher. Amendment with increase in value No amendment fees (difference in value of service have to be paid) Cancellation /Refund Penalty 30 days before departure 5% of total value or MYR 50 whichever greater. 20 days before departure 25% of the total value. 15 days before departure 50% of the total value. Less than 14 days NO REFUND
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- You will be required to present your service voucher at point of pick up for each service/tour. The service provider has the right not to serve you if you fail to produce the voucher upon request.
- The maximum waiting time at the airport is strictly 2 hours from estimated time of arrival (ETA) including customs & immigration clearance. Any waiting time beyond 2 hours may incur waiting charges and this has to be paid on site directly to the driver. AWD shall not be responsible for the additional charges incurred by Guest.
- In event you miss your pick-up due to any reasons, you will be required to make your own arrangements upon arrival and NO REFUND will be granted.
- Maximum waiting time for tour departure is 15 minutes from the stated pick-up time; if you miss your pick up you will be responsible to make your own arrangement at your own cost; NO REFUND will be granted.
- All transfers/tours have been prepaid by you at time of booking; please do not pay for any services at time of transfers/tours unless stated otherwise. AWD will not be responsible if you are approached by unauthorized agents/persons and NO REFUND will be granted.
- It is your responsibility to provide the accurate flight information at time of booking to ensure proper transfer arrangement. The Management has the right to forfeit the charges if flight information is inaccurate.
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A relaxation technique enhances psychological well-being and immune parameters in elderly people from a nursing home: A randomized controlled study
1 Department of Health Psychology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain
2 Immunohematology Service, Transfusion Centre of Alicante, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Miguel Hernandez, Alicante, Spain
3 Consellería de Bienestar Social. Generalitat Valenciana, Alicante, Spain
4 University Hospital of San Juan, Obstetrics and Gynecology Service, Department of Biotechnology, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain
BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2014, 14:311 doi:10.1186/1472-6882-14-311Published: 23 August 2014
The aging process involves a decline in immune functioning that renders elderly people more vulnerable to disease. In residential programs for the aged, it is vital to diminish their risk of disease, promote their independence, and augment their psychological well-being and quality of life.
We performed a randomized controlled study, evaluating the ability of a relaxation technique based on Benson's relaxation response to enhance psychological well-being and modulate the immune parameters of elderly people living in a geriatric residence when compared to a waitlist control group. The study included a 2-week intervention period and a 3-month follow-up period. The main outcome variables were psychological well-being and quality of life, biomedical variables, immune changes from the pre-treatment to post-treatment and follow-up periods.
Our findings reveal significant differences between the experimental and control groups in CD19, CD71, CD97, CD134, and CD137 lymphocyte subpopulations at the end of treatment. Furthermore, there was a decrease in negative affect, psychological discomfort, and symptom perception in the treatment group, which increased participants' quality of life scores at the three-month follow-up.
This study represents a first approach to the application of a passive relaxation technique in residential programs for the elderly. The method appears to be effective in enhancing psychological well-being and modulating immune activity in a group of elderly people. This relaxation technique could be considered an option for achieving health benefits with a low cost for residential programs, but further studies using this technique in larger samples of older people are needed to confirm the trends observed in the present study.
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