Mara: 417 books

The love spells in this volume have been created to bring a sense of romance into your life, and to focus you on your search for love. Savor the scents, sounds and tastes of love, and the beauty of romance, by mixing your very own love potions.

From Banksy to Blek le Rat, JR to Futura, the street art phenomenon is sweeping the globe. With people turning up in their thousands to view the first street art exhibition at the Tate Modern in 2008, and with celebrity endorsements from the likes of Brad Pitt to Damon Albarn, street art has captured...

Have you ever wondered how you'd survive without a man to attend to the odd jobs around the house? Have you ever wished you knew how to put up a shelf or check the oil in your car? And, more importantly, not have to call a man round? Then this is the book for you! From changing a car tyre and checking...

The rationing period during World War II was a difficult time, and yet it is remembered nostalgically as a time of unity and great sacrifice. Make Do and Mend focuses on clothes rationing, which was introduced in June 1940. With the nation's industrial output concentrated on the war effort, basic clothes...

Children have a unique way of looking at the world - they can be wonderfully innocent, or world-weary beyond their years. With entries such as 'Look, it's raining through that boy's trousers!', and 'Can we get something to eat? I'm vanished!', this book collects together the craziest and the funniest...

Don't know Midas from Oedipus? Wouldn't recognize a concerto from a sonata? Many of us wish that we could fill in the gaps in our education in order to avoid those embarrassing situations when we feel as if we don't know things that others do. In Back to Basics, bestselling author Caroline Taggart will...

In "The Little Book of Twitter", Tim Collins will give you all the information you need to get up to speed and become a bona fide Tweeter, including: how to get started; the weirdest and wittiest Twitter feeds; the netiquette of Twitter; the best celebrity Tweeters; and, tweeting at work. Your shortcut...

A collection of the finest, funniest, and sauciest jokes about age and aging-here, at last, is a book guaranteed to make anyone laugh incontinently   Jokes from such "senior" luminaries as George Burns, Winston Churchill, Joan Rivers, Dorothy Parker, and many more fill this...

D-Day, 6 June 1944, the day on which the Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy with the intention of reclaiming mainland Europe from German occupation. The significance of the operation has captured the collective imagination to become the defining moment of World War Two and represents the ending...

Many of the popular, often prophetic, phrases that we use on a day-to-day basis have their roots in traditional folklore. For example: 'One swallow doesn't make a summer'; 'March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb'; 'One for sorrow, two for joy'. Such common idioms are familiar to most people,...

History is a rich, varied and fascinating subject, so it's rare to find the whole lot in one book...until now. "The History of the World in Bite-Sized Chunks" pulls it all together, from the world's earliest civilizations in 3500 BC to the founding of the United Nations in 1945, passing by the likes...

Dogs' Miscellany features a unique and elegant collection of fascinating facts, trivia, anecdotes and legends about dogs throughout the ages. For example, did you know that 22% of the UK population own a dog? Dogs' Miscellany covers every aspect of the dog: from true stories of famous mutts to their...

**Irreverent, smart, and obscenely entertaining, this book shatters the myths, misconceptions, fallacies, and falsehoods about all the things people think they know ** Lead pencils can give you lead poisoning . . . Newton discovered gravity when an apple fell on his head . . . One...

Have you ever referred to your oldest and closest friend as 'Thingy'? Reached the top of the landing, only to realize that you have no idea why you came upstairs in the first place? Congratulations - or commiserations - you've had your first senior moment! Fear not, for help is at hand. The Book of Senior...