The complete Big Band Bible" covering the Bands the band leaders the musicians the vocalists the arrangers the singing groups of most of the previous century told through a collection of personal profiles featuring the twentieth centurys greatest musical stars with a foreword by Frankie Laine & an introduction by Kathryn Crosby Mrs Bing Crosby. The book will include the history of the song " Stardust" bandleader Van Alexanders " So You Want to Lead a Band". The lists will document every known band & its theme song as well as two lists documenting every girl & boy singer who ever sang with a band or bands. This book

Features: Your Lucky Strike Hit Parade The Cotton Club Big Band Million sellers Presentation of the First Gold Record Great Moments in Big Band History WNEW radio polls the Recording Ban Anecdotes & Fables; interviews with almost every Big Band Leaders & their vocalists; vignettes of every known singing group Big Band Associates like Mitch Miller & John Hammond a chapter on the songwriters the arrangers the broadcasters the Ghost-tribute bands & their tours of today a list & interviews with the current crop of singers " The Music of Your Life story" 50 pages devoted to the bands of England & Europe the complete alphabetical list of all known bands 1920-1980s Big Band organizations clubs & publications; Big Band Anecdotes & Non de Plumes; the performers real names; & much more. The book has over 300 photos many never before published."

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The fourth gripping adventure in this exciting new pony-club series. With gymkhanas to win rivals to defeat mysteries to solve & ponies in danger to save
- these books are perfect for all girls who love ponies. Issie has landed her dream job
- handling horses on a real film set! & with a group of frisky palominos to deal with Issie asks her friends at pony club to help out too. But it's not just the horses who play up on set
- what is spoilt actress Angelique's problem? Could this be Issie's chance for stardom...? Join talented young rider Issie on another action-packed adventure from the Chevalier Point Pony Club.


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This is complete beginners guide to exploring the night sky. Pick up the new edition of this robust & practical interactive star gazing kit & find everything you need to observe understand & enjoy the night sky. Use the interactive planisphere wheel to navigate around the entire sky itll show you what to see when at any time of the night & year. A handy visual guide contains everything you need to get started find out where to look for stars planets & other celestial bodies. Whether youre a complete beginner or an accomplished astronomer this is your up-to-date guide to star gazing. ...

So when civilization needs someone to run generating stations three kilometres below the surface of the Pacific it seeks out a special sort of person for its Rifters program. It recruits those whose histories have pre-adapted them to dangerous environments people so used to broken bodies & chronic stress that life on the edge of an undersea volcano would actually be a step up. Nobody worries too much about job satisfaction; if you havent spent a lifetime learning the futility of fighting back you wouldnt be a rifter in the first place. Its a small price to keep the lights going back on shore. But there are things among the cliffs & trenches of the Juan de Fuca Ridge that no one expected to find & enough pressure can forge the most obedient career-victim into something made from iron. At first not even the rifters know what they have in them
- & by the time anyone else finds out the outcast & the downtrodden have their hands on a kill switch for the whole damn planet.
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First there was the blockbuster Stargate" movie then the smash hit TV series " Stargate SG-1" (now entering its ninth season) & now theres the equally successful spinoff show: " Stargate: Atlantis"! The Stargate Atlantis team now based in the mythical Lost City in a distant galaxy have made friends & enemies including the deadly Wraith in equal measure. " The Second Season" brings new faces & alliances as well as new planets & new alien encounters but all delivered with the same irresistible brand of Stargate adventure! This is the official companion to the " Second Season" packed with behind the scenes interviews an episode guide & scores of photos including a 16pp colour gallery." ...

The Stargate Atlantis team discover a city on a moon thats about to plunge into its own sun. But the city which looked as if it had been abandoned turns out to be inhabited by descendants of the Ancients who have fallen into decadence & debauchery. Faced with a dissolute society disinterested in their own fate & unable to escape the team must fight their way free before being plunged into a fiery death. ...

Colonel John Sheppard wakes up on an alien world in the wreckage of a Puddle Jumper
- & cant remember how he got there. As he puts
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Recent exciting discoveries by independent researchers have dramatically challenged our understanding of ancient Egypt raising profound questions about our past. STARGATE CONSPIRACY exposes the most insidious & dangerous plan of our times. It involves intelligence agencies politicians bestselling writers scientists & industrialists. The authors believe that this conspiracy centred upon the eternal mysteries of ancient Egypt targets & threatens us all. Tracing the identity of the groups involved Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince argue that at the heart of this strange plan is the belief that the ancient Egyptian gods were-and are-real extraterrestrials about to return through the stargate between our world & theirs. They suggest that the US-funded excavations on the Giza plateau
- officially denied but for which the authors produce documented evidence
- now appear to be the result of directives allegedly received through communication with beings of higher intelligence who are instructing the conspirators to lay the foundations for great global changes. Provocative & stimulating STARGATE CONSPIRACY is a book of & for the new millennium.

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Shortly after Daniel Jackson returns from his time among the ascended Ancients he volunteers to join an archaeological survey of Chinese ruins on P3Y-702. But after accidentally activating a Goauld transport ring Daniel finds himself the prisoner of the Goauld Lord Yu. Blaming himself for Daniels capture Jack ONeill vows to go to any lengths to get him back
- even if it means taking matters into his own hands.
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SG-1 are asked by the Tokra to rescue a creature known as Mujina. The last of its species Mujina is devoid of face or form & draws its substance from the needs of those around it. The creature is an archetype
- a hero for all a villain for all depending upon whose influence it falls under. & the Goauld Apophis understanding the potential for havoc Mujina offers has set his heart on possessing the creature.
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