This title is updated to include the release of their fifth studio album The Resistance" & their 2009/2010 world tour. " Out of This World" is the definitive story of Muse & features thousands of words of exclusive previously unprinted interview transcripts taken between 1998 & 2007 by author Mark Beaumont. Charting the bands stratospheric rise from a Battle of the Bands contest in Teignmouth to being the first band ever to sell out the new Wembley Stadium Muses story is one of UK rocks most fascinating & incendiary tales. This edition follows their every step from 16 year old punk kids to Wembley Stadium featuring everyone of their albums & the wild nights theories & falsettos they experienced along the way." ...

Legend tells of the Clan of the Scorpion four mighty meerkats who are armed to the teeth with ninja-know-how. They are sworn to protect the world from their longtime nemesis the Ringmaster. Small deadly & furry The Ninja Meerkats are four warriors on a mission. In Book 8 in The Ninja Meerkats series the meerkats receive strange reports from the Australian outback. They fly down under to investigate & discover strange goings-on in the desert. Who else could be behind it but that top-hatted menace the Ringmaster? He is building missiles to take control of the world. With boxing kangaroos & killer koalas not to mention the Ringmasters crew of deadly circus goons this is one deadly desert mission. A hilarious series for boys featuring death-defying meerkat action! Full of comical characters daft puns fast dialogue & even faster action these book are irresistable to boys aged around six to eight years. ...

Thirteen-year-old Ben Tracey is looking forward to spending the summer in the Democratic Republic of Congo where his father has been hired to examine the valuable mineral Coltan thats being mined there. They soon realise that the people living in the village near the mine are frightened & it doesnt take long for Ben & his father to discover why: behind the door of every hut there is at least one person dying or seriously ill & no one seems to be doing anything to help. As Bens father falls ill its up to Ben & his new friend Halima to try & tell the government whats going on so the village can be isolated before the sickness spreads further. Will they be able to prevent disaster? ...

Thirteen-year-old Ben Tracey is looking forward to spending the summer in the Democratic Republic of Congo where his father has been hired to examine the valuable mineral Coltan that's being mined there. They soon realise that the people living in the village near the mine are frightened & it doesn't take long for Ben & his father to discover why: behind the door of every hut there is at least one person dying or seriously ill & no one seems to be doing anything to help. As Ben's father falls ill it's up to Ben & his new friend from the village Halima to try & tell the government what's going on so the village can be isolated before the sickness spreads further. Will they be able to prevent disaster? ...

The dreadful secret that Torak carries with him at the close of SOUL EATER is revealed & he is cast out from the clans. It's his fourteenth summer. He's alone cut off even from Wolf & Renn. Hunted & on the run he takes refuge in unknown territory
- the haunted reedbeds of Lake Axehead where he is menaced by the Hidden People. Other threats lurk nearby & his battle with the Soul-Eaters is far from over.. . As he fights for his life Torak uncovers a deception too awful to contemplate one that shakes him to the core & shatters his world.
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Benedict Morland's comfortable life is overset when an old enemy's dying wish leaves him guardian of an orphaned boy. No-one including his wife Sibella can understand why Benedict accepts Lennox Mynott into his household & amid growing hostility at Morland Place he takes the boy to America to join his daughter Mary at Twelvetrees Plantation. Here Benedict as well as Lennox fall in love with the Southern way of life just at the moment when bitter civil war is about to destroy it forever. ...

On a fateful night in 1860 Thadius Grady realises too late that he has made a grave mistake. In blind faith he has put himself & his daughter Emma at the mercy of his sister & her conniving husband Caleb Crowther
- for he has entrusted to them his entire fortune & the daughter he adores. With his dying breath he pleads to see his daughter one last time
- but Caleb's heart is made from stone. A feared Lancashire Justice Caleb Crowther is a womaniser & a gambler & now the inheritance due to Emma is as much in his hands as is the beautiful Emma Grady herself. But Caleb lives in fear of the past for how did Emma's mother mysteriously die? & what made Thadius & Caleb hate the river people so intensely? History seems likely to repeat itself when Emma falls helplessly in love with Marlow Tanner a young bargee. For Marlow & Emma it is an impossible love
- a love made in Heaven but which could carry them both to Hell...


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As the Byzantine & German emperors plot war against each other Venice's future rests in the hands of three unwilling people: The newly knighted Sir Tycho. An ex-slave & trained assassin who defeated the Mamluk navy but cannot make the woman he loves love him back. Tortured by secrets afraid of the daylight he sees no reason to save a city he hates. The grieving Lady Giulietta. Impossibly rich deeply spoilt. A virgin a mother a widow.. . Both emperors want her hand for their sons in marriage. All she wants is to retire from the poisonous world of the Venetian court to mourn her husband in peace. & finally a naked mud-strewn girl who crawls from a paupers' grave on an island in the Venetian lagoon & begins by killing the men who buried her. ...

Ferret Swartt Sixclaw & badger Sunflash the Mace are arch enemies who have sworn a pledge of death upon each other. Meanwhile the Abbess of Redwall has banished a young creature from her Abbey. This harsh sentence forces a heart-breaking decision upon a young Redwall mousemaid & ultimately links her destiny to...the Outcast of Redwall. ...

Outcomes" is a completely new general English course in which: natural real-world grammar & vocabulary help students to succeed in social professional & academic settings; CEF goals are the focus of communication activities where students learn & practise the language they need to have conversations in English; clear outcomes in every lesson of every unit provide students with a sense of achievement as they progress through the course." ...