As new students the trio must navigate the bewildering array of cute monster boys established cliques & monster-rific subjects like Mad Science G-ogre-phy & Physical Deaducation. As if that weren't hard enough something strange & sinister seems to be happening at the school. Popular girls like Frankie Stein & Cleo de Nile are acting weird-and all signs point to everyone's new favorite teacher Miss Sylphia Flapper. Can the new GFFs expose the fave as a fraud or will they succumb to peer pressure? ...

GFFs Rochelle Robecca & Venus begin to settle in at Monster High & are having a fangtastic time getting involved in the student body. Rochelle is tutoring the trolls Robecca is blasting onto the Skulltimate Roller Maze team & Venus is starting a compost pile with Lagoona Blue! The ghoulfriends are even recruited to help Toralei & Cleo plan the Hex Factor Talent Show. But during Mr. Mummy's Catacombing class the ghouls find a Doll of Doom that hints at a new threat to the school. & when white cats start showing up around the Creepateria
- a bad omen for monsters!
- the GFFs begin to wonder if their fun is over. Is Toralei playing pranks? Or is something more sinister at work in the halls of Monster High?

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Milch & Mulch the monster twins can hear strange noises in their home. Mummy & Daddy monster say its nothing
- old houses creak
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The twenty-second book to feature the classic crime-solving detective Chief Inspector Wexford. Wexford had almost made up his mind that he would never again set eyes on Eric Targo's short muscular figure. & yet there he was back in Kingsmarkham still with that cocky strutting walk. Years earlier when Wexford was a young police officer a woman called Elsie Carroll had been found strangled in her bedroom. Although many still had their suspicions that her husband was guilty of her violent murder no one was convicted. Another woman was strangled shortly afterwards & every personal & professional instinct told Wexford that the killer was still at large. & that it was Eric Targo. A psychopathic murderer who would kill again... As the Chief Inspector investigates a new case Ruth Rendell looks back to the beginning of Wexford's career as a detective even to his courtship of the woman who would become his wife. The villainous Targo is not the only ghost from Wexford's past who has re-emerged to haunt him in the here & now... ...

In New York City the dead walk the streets driven by an insatiable hunger for all things living. One among their hordes is different: though he shares their appetites he has retained his human intelligence. Alone among the mindless zombies Gary Fleck is an eyewitness to the end of the world. From the other side of the planet a small but heavily-armed group of young girls turned soldiers has come in search of desperately needed medicine. Dekalb a former UN weapons inspector will lead them as their local guide. Ayaan a crack shot at the age of sixteen will stop at nothing to complete her mission. They think they are prepared for anything. On Monster Island" they will find that there is something worse even than undeath.. .while Gary learns the true price of survival." ...

Saving the world isnt going very well for Elf Girl & Raven Boy. Theyve left Fright Forest & crossed a huge plain to the worryingly named Monster Mountains where they find a sign telling them to Turn Back. They really shouldnt have ignored it! Its not the strange wailing noises they hear in the dark or the gigantic yeti who wants to eat them for breakfast that they find alarming so much as the crazy wizard Jeremy who seems intent on adding Elf Girl & Raven Boy not to mention Rat to his collection of all too life-like stone statues. ...

The Monster of Florence which was shortlisted for the prestigious CWA Gold Dagger Award for Non Fiction in 2010 is a true account of brutal serial murder in idyllic Florence. After settling in Italy in 2000 Douglas Preston discovered that the olive grove in front of his family's new home had been the scene of one of the most infamous double-murders in Italian history committed by a serial killer who had never been found & was known only as the Monster of Florence. Preston intrigued met Italian journalist Mario Spezi who had followed the case since the first murders in 1974 to learn more. This is the true story of their search for
- & identification of
- the man they believe committed the crimes & their chilling interview with him. It's also the story of how Preston & Spezi themselves became embroiled in the case. Like one of Preston's bestselling thrillers The Monster of Florence tells a gripping & harrowing story of murder mutilation suspicion & ruined lives
- & at the centre of it two brave writers trying to uncover the truth at all costs. This latest edition

Includes:: an explosive afterword about the much-publicised murder of a British student Meredith Kercher & its connection to the monster case.




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A blob of stinky slime is on the loose slurping up everything in its path. Nothing is safe. Especially not Measle Stubbs! The slippery slobbery Slitherghoul has gobbled up a gaggle of wrathmonks & in doing so has also swallowed their hatred of Measle. Now the blubbery blob is after him & nothing can stop it! Can Measle gulp down his fear & beat the Slitherghoul.. .before the Slitherghoul gulps him down? The fourth instalment of the fantastic Measle Stubbs Adventures. ...

This is a collection of poems about one of children's favourite subjects
- monsters. Korky Paul's lively illustrations to life
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This series uses cartoon style illustrations & humorous narrative text to make key topics in Science & Geography both accessible & engaging. This approach encourages children to read about & understand complex ideas. This book takes the reader back millions of years to tell the story of a dinosaurs death. Through this story we discover how fossils are formed. We also learn how they are discovered removed researched & preserved in museums. This book also contains an experiment more great facts to know useful websites & an index. ...