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Those who dare to darken its door often leave steeped in madness and despair if they leave at allthe house is expanded with the addition of twenty new rooms, including the roof, a previously unexplored floorthe house on the hill has a wicked reputation
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It is a story of the struggle for one's ideals amid the despair and grief of war, but most of all, it is a story of hope in the most dire circumstancesoxfam shop dumfries brutally honest and rich in detail, this posthumously published diary of a twenty-seven-year-old vietcong woman doctor, saved from destruction by an american soldier, gives us fresh insight into the lives of those fighting on the other side of the vietnam warsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Book is as new with fine, unclipped dust coverpages are clean, bright, and tight to the unbroken spineoxfam bookshop cotham hill in this warmly written book, rich with examples from the author's life, film, literature, and history, landau offers new theories and practical advice that awaken us to the meaning already present in our lives and demonstrates how we can enhance itwhile exposing the weaknesses of ideas that lead many to despair, he builds a strong case for maintaining more hopesee oxfam website for delivery information read morehe confronts prevailing nihilist ideas that undermine our existence, and the questions that dog us no matter what we believe
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A twenty-year journey from hope to despair and back again, packed with political confessions even more outrageous than running through fields of wheatwith a literary flair that has been compared to donald trump's tweets, john o'farrell attempts to explain the alarming rise of populist politics, labour's twenty-year identity crisis, and why you should never tell your mother you are doing a radio phone-in, unless you want her ringing up to tell everyone she agrees with youa brilliant book everyone should read, whoever you vote forthe long-awaited sequel to the best-selling things can only get better is for everyone who could use a good laugh after brexit, trump and learning you were governed by the dup' owen jones, author of the establishmentfrom the giddy heights of new labour's landslide victory in to the shock result of the snap election, these are the frank and funny memoirs of one bewildered labour activist who tried to carry on as usual long after politics had stopped making senseoxfam bookshop bloomsbury street signed by the author 'hilarious, insightful and has that rare quality of making politics funalong the way, john stood for parliament against theresa may but failed to step into her shoes; he took his campaigning skills to america (but still obama got in); and he was dubbed 'the sickest man in politics' by the daily mail when in truth he's only the second or third'even conservatives will like this' the sunday times see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Searching through the darkness stumbling through the pain the light at the end of the tunnel she will emerge whole againher teacher was very impressed and told her she must keep on writingthey are a remarkable expression of dwelling in a state of love, of the agony of being abandoned, of sinking into despair, and of being able to look out into life againthe poems in this book give a voice to much that is unspoken, unspeakable, or has no wordshannah captures the essence of these states in a beautifully meaningful waysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham hannah spontaneously wrote her first poem when she was only tenfortunately, she did
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The stakes were higher, the story's construction more elaborate and the isolated despair at the end wholly earnedthe entry of michael corleone into the family business, the transition of power from his father, the ruthless dispatch of his enemies--all this is told with an assurance that is breathtaking to behold(has there ever been a cinematic performance greater than al pacino's michael, so smart and ambitious, marching through the years into what he knows is his own doom with eyes open and hungry?) the godfather, part iii was mostly written off as an attempted cash-in but it is a wholly worthy conclusion, less slow than autumnally patient and almost merciless in the way it brings michael's past sins crashing down around him even as he tries to redeem himselfthe films are an italian-american shakespearian cycle: they tell a tale of a vicious mobster and his extended personal and professional families (once the stuff of righteous moral comeuppance), and they dared to present themselves with an epic sweep and an unapologetically tragic toneoxfam bookshop carlisle despite making many other distinguished films in his long, wandering career, francis ford coppola will always be known as the man who directed the godfather trilogy, a series that has dominated and defined their creator in a way perhaps no other director can understandmurder, it turned out, was a serious business see oxfam website for delivery information read moreand it turned out to be merely prologue; two years later the godfather, part ii balanced michael's ever-greater acquisition of power and influence during the fall of cuba with the story of his father's own youthful rise from immigrant slumsthe first film remains a towering achievement, brilliantly cast and conceivedcoppola has never been able to leave them alone, whether returning after 15 years to make a trilogy of the diptych, or re-editing the first two films into chronological order for a separate video release as the godfather saga
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Three years on from the 'small chance' of survival the experts had given him, mo shares his incredible story: of despair and suffering, of hope and healing, of vulnerability and authenticitythis book is for anyone going through the most challenging of times' his cancer was terminal and left him questioning the price we put on lifeafter a year of brutal treatment, mo haque heard the dreaded words, 'there is nothing else we can do for yousee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham being diagnosed with cancer is frightening; learning that the cancer is late stage takes that fear to unknown depthswhen you read choosing to stay, mo hopes you will:appreciate the gift of choice in any moment, however dire the circumstancesunderstand you aren't alone in your pain, and that your suffering has meaningsee that your life is a masterpiece when you connect the dotsfeel the power of hope and love that exists throughout the worldknow that you are enough and that you are worthyif you want to live an empowered new life, liberated and full of meaning, this book takes you there
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His troubled nephew, evan, has killed himself and jay's brother is in despair1 james patterson bestsellers including judge and jury and lifeguard, and the hit thrillers the blue zone and recklessbut a call comes that changes everythinga young man's suicideoxfam bookshop brigg a jaw-dropping thriller from the co-author of five nojay erlich's life is perfect: a wife and children he loves; a successful careerwhen his investigation takes him on a journey into his brother's shady past, jay finds himself caught up in a world of dangerous secrets and ruthless killersan elderly woman's murderthe police want him to leave the matter alone but he is determined to dig deeperjay flies to california to help out, and is soon convinced evan's death was no suicidesee oxfam website for delivery information read morea conspiracy stretching back decades
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square when his wife dies in a fall from a tree in their backyard, linguist paul iverson is wild with despairin the days that follow, paul becomes certain that lexy's death was no accidentin desperation, he sets out to decipher them with the help of the only witness to her death - their dog loreleisee oxfam website for delivery information read morestrange clues have been left behind: unique, personal messages that only she could have bequeathed to him
(England)
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All at once her cheerful, can-do mother tastes of despair and desperationanything can be revealed at any mealnow available to preorder: aimee bender's new novel, the butterfly lampshade see oxfam website for delivery information read morebut as rose grows up, she learns that there are some secrets even her taste buds cannot discernsuddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes perilousrose's gift forces her to confront the truth behind her family's emotions - her mother's sadness, her father's detachment and her brother's clash with the worldat once profound, funny, wise and sad, this is a novel to savouroxfam shop evesham on the eve of her ninth birthday, rose edelstein bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother's emotions in the slicethe particular sadness of lemon cake is about the pain of loving those whom you know too much about, and the secrets that exist within every family
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'lyn macdonald wrirtes splendidly and touchingly of the work of the nurses and doctors who fought their humanitarian battle on the western front' sunday telegraph over the past twenty years lyn macdonald has established a popular reputation as an author and historian of the first world war'on the face of it,' writes lyn macdonald, 'no one could have been less equipped for the job than these gently nurtured girls who walked straight out of edwardian drawing rooms into the manifest horrors of the first world waroxfam bookshop cheltenham lyn macdonald's the roses of no man's land is a compelling look at the women who risked their lives on the western frontit was here that young doctors frantically forged new medical techniques - of blood transfusion, dentistry, psychiatry and plastic surgery - in the attempt to save soldiers shattered in body or spirit' yet the volunteer nurses rose magnificently to the occasionin leaking tents and draughty huts they fought another war, a war against agony and death, as men lay suffering from the pain of unimaginable wounds or diseases we can now cure almost instantlyand it was here that women achieved a quiet but permanent revolution, by proving beyond question they could do anythingsee oxfam website for delivery information read moremost are published by penguinher books are based on the accounts of eyewitnesses and survivors, told in their own words, and cast a unique light on the first world warall this is superbly captured in the roses of no man's land, a panorama of hardship, disillusion and despair, yet also of endurance and supreme courage
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Maxwell finds himself in despair over the novel he has been working on for eight years, and it is o'connor who comes to the rescue by reading the various drafts, alternative versions, false starts, dead ends, and by his enthusiasm and concern restores maxwell's confidencethe excitement of cutting this and restoring that, of correcting correctionsa good reading copyhalfway through their correspondence, in , the tables are turnedas the professional relationship turns into a profound friendship, domestic details of their respective households begin to creep into the correspondence and are both vivid and amusingi don't give a hoot what the writing's like"some light stains to dust jacket and fore-edge and former owner's name written to title pageproblems of clarity arise - of what will fly in ireland but not in americain fair conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop birmingham in an interview in the paris review, o'connor was asked the question "how do you start a story?" and his answer was "get black on white, used to be maupassant's advice - that's what i always doin this book there are intimate telegrams, delighted letters of acceptance, announcements of checks sent to o'connor's literary agent (like robert louis stevenson, o'connor suffered from the delusion that he was being overpaid)though in fact he didopposed to this belief in spontaneity and the importance of form over finicky detail was the new yorker's insistence that a given piece of writing be as nearly perfect as humanly possible, down to the last semicolon and commasitting at a table in maxwell's office with pages of manuscript scattered before them or galleys with dozens of queries - some helpful, some exasperating - from the proofreader, the two men would work their way deeper and deeper into the material
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Utopian hope and dystopian despair are characteristic features of modernism and the avant-gardethe fourth volume of the eam series, european avant-garde and modernism studies, casts light on the history, theory and actuality of the utopian and dystopian strands which run through european modernism and the avant-garde from the late 19th to the 21st centurythe book's varied and carefully selected contributions, written by experts from around 20 countries, seek to answer such questions as: - how have modernism and the avant-garde responded to historical circumstance in mapping the form of possible futures for humanity?- how have avant-garde and modernist works presented ideals of living as alternatives to the present?- how have avant-gardists acted with or against the state to remodel human life or to resist the instrumental reduction of life by administration and industrialisation? see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music beeston this hardback book is in very good condition there is slight wear at the top of the spine, but otherwise this copy is nearly as new inside and outreadings of the avant-garde have frequently sought to identify utopian moments coded in its works and activities as optimistic signs of a possible future social life, or as the attempt to preserve hope against the closure of an emergent dystopian present
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Fascinating text on the early hours of the novel, its editorial genesis and the enthusiastic receptions of the first readers: massis, cocteau, péguy, casimir périer, then descaves, with the perspective of the prix goncourt - finally awarded to marc elder for peuple de la mer, to alain-fournier’s despairare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikialain-fournier sans goncourt liège, editions dynamo, brimborions no119, [november brochure (140 x 190 mm) of 20 ppplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storelyon, lardanchet, duodecimo vol, 286 ppcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available119th title of the collection brimborions
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The son of a riga timber merchant, he witnessed the russian revolution, was plunged into suburban school life and the ferment of s oxford; he became part of the british intellectual establishment during the war, he as at the heart of anglo-american diplomacy in washington; afterwards in moscow he saw the grim despair of stalinismisaiah berlin () was one of the greatest and most humane of modern philosophers; historian of the russian intellgentisia biographer of marx, pioneering scholar of the romantic movement and defender of the liberal idea of freedomthe book is full of memorable meetings - with virginia woolf and sigmund freud, with churchill, with boris pasternak and anna akhmatovayet ignatieff is not afraid to delve into berlin's conflicts: his jewish idealism, his deep aspirationssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis is a work of great subtelty and penetration, exhilarating and intimate, powerful and profoundhis own life was caught up in the most powerful currents of the centuryoxfam bookshop cheltenham isaiah berlin refused to write an autobiography, but he agreed to talk about himself - and so for ten years, he allowed michael ignatieff to interview him
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In the despair of a japanese pow camp on the burma death railway, surgeon dorrigo evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlieroxfam shop dumfries ***winner of the man booker prize *** forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the line, and the rest of humanity, who were nothailed as a masterpiece, richard flanagan's epic novel tells the unforgettable story of one man's reckoning with the truthsee oxfam website for delivery information read morestruggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever
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The episodes are: 'to you, in years: the fall of shiganshina part 1', 'that day: the fall of shiganshina part 2', 'a dim light amid despair: humanity's comeback part 1', 'the night of the closing ceremony: humanity's comeback part 2', 'first battle: the struggle for trost part 1', 'the world the girl saw: the struggle for trost part 2', 'small blade: the struggle for trost part 3', 'i can hear his heartbeat: the struggle for trost part 4', 'whereabouts of his left arm: the struggle for trost part 5', 'response: the struggle for trost part 6', 'idol: the struggle for trost part 7', 'wound: the struggle for trost part 8' and 'primal desire: the struggle for trost part 9'with humanity confined to small cities within giant walls designed to keep out the man-eating titans, eren jaeger (voice of yuki kaji), mikasa ackermann (yui ishikawa) and armin arlelt (marina inoue) team up to fight after a titan breaches their perimeteroxfam shop okehampton episodes 1-13 of the japanese anime based on the manga by hajime isayamasee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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"death and despair are never far behind the beautiful leonie hetththe book has a dated inscription to the front endpaper with signature that has been roughly removedall pages are in place and the binding is tightonly young brain surgeon jonathan cuxson, jr"Â this rare hardback is in good conditionand somewhere, deep in the jungle, a mad priest waits patiently for his entranced human sacrifice to reach india's shoresoxfam shop didsbury a popular supernatural romance, first published infollowing in his late father's footsteps, he's determined to discover the root of leonie's destructive bouts of sleepwalking and unconscious hindustani mutteringsthe red cloth boards with black lettering and pictorial decoration have some scuffs and bumps to the corners and edgessee oxfam website for delivery information read moreorphaned in india at four months old and raised by her vapid, aging maiden aunt in cold, wet england, leonie has no one to turn to when her nightmares begin taking their toll on those around herseems to understand herinside, the pages are faintly toned, with foxing to the endpapers and outside edges but otherwise clean
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It is often a tale of despair and frustration, yet also gives a compassionate voiceit is in the main a personal and moving narrative of a mother looking to help her son avoid such a lifelong sentence of medication whilst trying to research holistic resources and alternative approaches for treatment at the same time as negotiating the vagaries of the current mental health systemit includes an accessible inquiry into how unconscious forces influence our mind, our bodies and the entire family systemits hypothesis is that if we cannot understand our own unconscious responses how can we understand those of our loved ones in psychotic episodes? see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music wells internally a very good clean copy of this paperback book the cover has a few marks and bows away from the booktranspersonal and transgenerational psychotherapeutic insights back up the personal narrative there is also a mark on the front of the bottom edge this is a book written not just by a professional transpersonal psychotherapist but by someone who has walked the heart-rending path and experienced the psychological trauma of loving someone in psychosis; psychosis which still remains the greatest taboo in society today, together with its implicit diagnosis of a lifelong sentence of medication and no cure
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Oxfam shop york in this game you are god! and you can create a whole world from your imagination, but will it be a perfect world of beauty and harmony or a twisted world of darkness and despair see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikifrom the sebastian brandt first illustrated edition of virgil's works, published in x 153 cm good condition, trimmed to outside the printed border with marginlater hand colourmounted in fine mattingplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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Natural 1,2 el perfecto comics xyz comics big ass comics 1,2 despair zap 0 all new zap comics 1: nip in upper left corner #specialcollectionservice read moreare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki16 volumes with work by robert crumb! some are rare and sought-afterthe lost connection for solid facts import” the issues are in very good conditionsome editions with a pencil pricenote the photos, they are part of the description of this lotplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storea minor nip or very minor tear or crease is possiblezap 7: very small booklet with 6 pages jiz comics: smaller size funny animals: light nip in lower left of cover motor city comics: nip upper in left corner and lower left the people's comics: nip in upper left corner home grown funnies: nip in upper left corner uneeda comix mrcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablemost editions with a stamp “real free press int
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Oxfam shop kendal a three-disc collection of dance performances by former riverdancer, the effervescent michael flatleyperformed live in hyde park on 25th july , 'feet of flames' will take the viewer through the highs of passion and the lows of despair, as his flashing feet play out the age-old conflict between good and evilin 'celtic tiger' () the international dancing master takes as his subject, the history and spirit of his native ireland and its long traditions of music and dance'lord of the dance' () was flatley's sophomore solo outing after the riverdance days and he presents a show, full of hypnotic dance rhythms and flamboyant costumes'feet of flames' () sees flatley stage a dance spectacular involving over one hundred performers and a brand new selection of sets, props and costumessee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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1 destiny faith acceptance of suffering longing for death despair and resignation mystery of creation penitence and realisation 7:06andrzej bialko (org) - nr
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According to the author "a false end-time view has led the world to hopeless despairthis book will shine the light of truth on false teachings"Â see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop st albans
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It abounded with noble visions, resounded with magnificent rhetoric, and ended in nightmarish despairgood condition with pencil marking throughoutsociety, but failed to break white supremacyit won a few legislative victories and had a profound impact on uoxfam bookshop ealing this magisterial follow-up to the new abolition, a grawemeyer award winner, tells the crucial second chapter in the black social gospel's historyyet the tradition that best describes him and other leaders of the civil rights movement has been strangely overlookedthis part of the story centers around king and the mid-twentieth-century black church leaders who embraced the progressive, justice-oriented, internationalist social gospel from the beginning of their careers and fulfilled it, inspiring and leading america's greatest liberation movementsoared so high that he tends to overwhelm anything associated with himsee oxfam website for delivery information read more in his latest book, gary dorrien continues to unearth the heyday and legacy of the black social gospel, a tradition with a shimmering history, a martyred central figure, and enduring relevance todaythe symbol of the movement, martin luther king jrthe civil rights movement was one of the most searing developments in modern american history
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Very good confition and in perfect working order
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Will realises that with a single call, friends can either lift him from the depths of despair or completely shatter his hopesin his decrepit flat where he can't even manage to cook spaghetti hoops without setting of the communal smoke alarm, his lifeline is the telephonethe inimitable aggistill in love with the one, will is desperate to discover if there can be an-other onehis legendary girlfriendthere's alice (who remembers his birthday), simon (who doesn't), kate (the previous tenant of his rented hovel)and of course his ex, aggior is she? buyer to collect or pay p&p ÂŁ2
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