Anna Bett & Carrie Quinlan were childhood singing stars The Alphabet Sisters. As adults they haven't spoken for years ever since Bett's fiance left her for another sister. Now Lola their larger-than-life grandmother summons them home for her 80th birthday extravaganza & a surprise announcement
- she wants them to revive their singing careers & stage a musical she has written. Rehearsals get underway & family secrets begin to be shared & revealed. But just as the rifts begin to close the Alphabet Sisters face a test they never imagined.
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Twenty-three lively stories are presented in colourful comic strip style. Virtually every sentence is warmly illustrated drawing every child into the stories & the imaginary world of Letterl&. It is specially designed to build childrens confidence as they identify the different a-z Letterland characters & start to read the simple sentences. Size is 220 x 280mm/8.7x 11" with 80 pages." ...

Natalie & her sisters have known Tom & his family forever. They climbed trees together scraped knees on the same pavements & in taking shared steps towards adulthood shaped bonds that would last a lifetime. So when Natalies long-term love walks out on her Toms is the much-needed shoulder she cries on. & Tom dreams up an ingenious way to dry her tears: a series of Alphabet Weekends
- starting with A for Abseiling
- to make her forget the heartache & he hopes to make her see whats been staring her in the face all these years. His genuine love for her. But as they tumble from A to Z their families & friends face broken hearts & tragedies of their own. Can the Alphabet Weekends unlock love in all its many & wonderful guises? & not just for Natalie & Tom but for everyone they care about?

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Putting together the best of crosswords word searches & code-breaking puzzles the Daily Express Alphapuzzles are guaranteed to test your logic & stretch your word power to its limit. With only a numbered grid & two letters with their corresponding numbers to get you started you have to decipher the remaining 24 letters. Sound easy? Then try completing the challenge against the clock! There are two additional clues at the back of the book for novice gamers but no matter how large your vocabulary Alphapuzzles Volume 4 is sure to prove a fun challenge for all. ...

Putting together the best of crosswords word searches & code-breaking puzzles the Daily Express Alphapuzzles" are guaranteed to test your logic & stretch your word power to its limit. With only a numbered grid & two letters with their corresponding numbers to get you started you have to decipher the remaining 24 letters. Sounds too easy? Then try completing the challenge against the clock to see if you can beat the time ratings included for each puzzle. There are two additional clues at the back of the book for novice gamers but no matter how large your vocabulary may be " Alphapuzzles Volume 2" is sure to prove a fun challenge for all." ...

Generally agreed to be one of the most important contributors to Art Nouveau the Czech artist Alphonse Mucha was trained celebrated & lived most of his life in Paris. His unforgettably iconic images of Sarah Bernhardt & others embody the spirit of the fin de siecle. But underneath his successful career as an artist & poster designer lay a passionate Slav nationalist whose most important & long neglected works are still being painstakingly restored & exhibited in the Czech republic. This book is the first comprehensive overview of his life & work & is published in association with the Mucha Museum in Prague. ...

A summer of endless rain in the Peak District leaves the officers of Derbyshire's CID with a problem. They have discovered a man's body lying in shallow water but torrential rain has swollen the rivers & flooded the roads making travel difficult & forensic examination impossible. & that's not all. The absence of DS Ben Cooper on extended leave after an arson attack has left a serious gap. DS Diane Fry is a reluctant temporary replacement but now their makeshift team is about to be tested to the limit. The fatal events of one damp August night are likely to remain shrouded in mystery if they can't track down a car glimpsed only as a dark outline in the rain by a passer-by. As the rain turns into a deluge loyalties among the officers will be put under intolerable strain as they try to solve their toughest case yet. & that's before it emerges that Ben Cooper is not at home but has vanished into thin air... Packed with atmosphere suspense & danger bestseller Stephen Booth's exceptional new Cooper & Fry thriller is a masterclass in British crime writing. ...

Alright Aldo! Aldo
- aka John Aldridge
- is the former Liverpool Football Club & Republic of Ireland striking legend who travels

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Louisiana veterinarian Lorna Polk stumbles upon a shipwrecked fishing trawler carrying a caged group of exotic animals clearly part of a black market smuggling ring. Yet something is wrong with these beasts disturbing deformities that make no sense. They also all share one uncanny trait
- heightened intelligence. To uncover the truth about the origin of this strange cargo & the terrorist threat it poses Lorna must team up with Jack Menard a man who has a dark & bloody past. Together they must hunt for a beast that escaped the shipwreck while uncovering a mystery that traces back to mankinds earliest roots...
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Blurring the boundary of real & surreal Altered Images features never-before-seen digital photography masterpieces while also giving a voice to the visionaries who created them. This arresting book hones in on those emerging contemporary artists who are pushing post-production image creativity to its limits. Full page imagery will be accompanied by interviews & commentary offering a unique insight into the methodologies perspectives & opinions of the next generation of creative photographers. Showcasing those at the forefront of both craft & creativity the book brings portraiture landscape photography digital manipulation social realism conceptual art photorealism & digital photo-montage into context. See what happens when imagination is given full reign & virtual reality meets photography. Altered Images will take you to a place that youve never seen before. Romany WG is also the author of best-selling photography book Beauty in Decay -The Art of Urban Exploration. ...