One of the most successful musicals of all time Andrew Lloyd Webbers The Phantom of the Opera has been running for nearly 20 years on Broadway & in the West End. It has delighted over 100 million people in 22 countries. The Phantom of the Opera Companion is the definitive account of the award-winning masterpiece tracing the phantom legend from its origins in historical fact through numerous artistic incarnations to the present-day theatre production & film. Divided into three parts the first section introduces the reader to Gaston Lerouxs classic story based on the Paris Opera House during la belle epoque; the second section provides a unique insight into the renowned theatre production with backstage pictures & enlightening interviews with the director designers & crew. The final section covers the making of Joel Schumachers 2004 film production. As the authorised volume book to accompany the film The Phantom of the Opera is a lavish insight into this classic story & its modern-day reincarnation. ...

Returning to her luxurious home in an exclusive Minneapolis suburb a wealthy widow is horrified to discover blood everywhere
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When Milo finds an enormous package in his bedroom he's delighted to have something to relieve his boredom with school. & when he opens it to find
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- One Genuine Turnpike Tollbooth he gets right into his pedal car & sets off through the Tollbooth & away on a magical journey! Milo's extraordinary voyage takes him into such places as the Land of Expectation the Doldrums the Mountains of Ignorance & the Castle in the Air. He meets the weirdest & most unexpected characters (such as Tock the watchdog the Gelatinous Giant & the Threadbare Excuse who mumbles the same thing over & over again) & once home can hardly wait to try out the Tollbooth again. But will it be still there when he gets back from school? This new edition of Norton Juster's classic story

Includes:: a special Why You'll Love This Book" introduction by award-winning author Diana Wynne Jones."



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Murderous Maths" has been given a gorgeous new cover look. Using a host of hilarious characters Kjartan Poskitt presents all the tricks tips & shortcuts to algebra they dont teach at school. Readers must pit their wits against Professor Fiendish in the Foul Formula Challenge & Chainsaw Charlie & his gruesome gang discover that even the simplest maths can be murderous. But look no further: " The Phantom" is here to banish algebraic agony
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Yesterday Snowfield California was a charming little town basking in the golden afternoon sun. Today it is a place of nightmare. An ancient awesome force has spirited away almost the entire population of the town & left the bodies of those remaining bizarrely disfigured. What hope can there be for the few still left alive...? ...

It is 1919 in Breslau. The hideously battered bodies of four young sailors are discovered on an island in the River Oder. When Criminal Assistant Mock arrives at the scene to investigate he discovers a note addressed to him asking him to confess his sins & to become a believer. As he endeavours to piece together the elements of this brutal crime Mock combs the brothels & drinking dens of Breslau & is drawn into an insidious game: it seems that anyone he questions during the course of the investigation is destined to become the murderers next victim. Ultimately he uncovers a secret society which has the Inspector himself clearly in its sights. Dark sophisticated & uncompromising the distinctive Breslau series has already received broad critical acclaim. Phantoms of Breslau confirms Criminal Assistant Mock as surely the most outrageous & original detective in crime fiction. ...

The first book to convey the full experience of what it was actually like to be pharaoh one of the most powerful rulers of the ancient world Garry Shaw covers through eight themed chapters all aspects of the realities of pharaohs life from mornings waking in the palace to evenings spent banqueting with all his duties & activities in between. This vividly written & authoritative account provides new insights into key official ceremonies including the accession & coronation & the pomp & protocol of an audience before the king & is supplemented by numerous box features from the internal decoration of pyramids & the women who became pharaoh to pharaonic pets as well as"ations from contemporary sources & a complete king list with brief biographies of the major pharaohs. Beautifully illustrated with a wide range of images most in colour including temples & tombs reliefs & wall paintings jewelry & statues line drawings & reconstructions maps & plans this book charts the development of a uniquely Egyptian vision of kingship exemplified by the men & women who ascended the throne from mythical beginnings & the first ruler of a unified country through renowned & supreme monarchs such as Khufu Seti I & Ramesses II to the decadence of the all-too human Ptolemies & pharaonic kingships last gasp under Roman rule. ...

Fans of Dan Brown & Clive Cussler will love the thrilling new Jack Howard action adventure from Sunday Times bestseller David Gibbins. 1351 BC: Akhenaten the Sun-Pharaoh rules supreme in Egypt...until the day he casts off his crown & mysteriously disappears into the desert his legacy seemingly swallowed up by the remote sands beneath the Great Pyramids of Giza. AD 1884: A British soldier serving in the Sudan stumbles upon an incredible discovery
- a submerged temple containing evidence of a terrifying religion whose god was fed by human sacrifice. The soldier is on a mission to reach General Gordon before Khartoum falls. But he hides a secret of his own. Present day: Jack Howard & his team are excavating one of the most amazing underwater sites they have ever encountered but dark forces are watching to see what they will find. Diving into the Nile they enter a world three thousand years back in history inhabited by a people who have sworn to guard the greatest secret of all time...
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In a ruined temple along the Nile Anthony Sattin sees a woman praying to the gods of ancient Egypt to bless her with a child. Later that day a policeman stops his taxi to ask to borrow a mobile phone to call his mother. The ancient rubs up against the modern just as dramatically as when Flaubert wrote Egypt is a wonderful place for contrasts
- splendid things gleam in the dust. Anthony Sattin has tracked down extraordinary examples of ancient survivals in the hurly-burly of modern Egypt."
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This is an introductory text written with the needs of the student in mind which explains all the most important techniques used in the analysis of pharmaceuticals
- a key procedure in ensuring the quality of drugs. The text is enhanced throughout with keypoints & self-assessment boxes to aid student learning.
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