Best Selling Books by John Allison

As Shauna Wickle continues to try to solve the mysterious poisoning amongst her fellow baking contestants, she decides to go full Poirot-mode just in time for the deadly technical baking challenge!

We reached out to a bunch of our favorite creators with one mission in mind: to bring original, unconventional characters and stories to life. The Mix Tape is an eclectic collection of stories based on characters that are anything but your average lot. Narwhal Janitors and Urban Cowboys are just the tip of these stories that are best described as “off the beaten track.”

It offers business English students the fundamentals and skills they need to succeed in the competitive international business environment. Topics include business organization, CVs, and covering letters -- Back cover.

Fast friends Susan, Daisy, and Esther continue their second year at Sheffield University. Education and looking ahead to the future isn’t all that college holds in store for these ladies—grocery store protests, family reunions, and even an MMORPG wedding are all on this semester’s docket. Collects issues #25-28 of the Eisner Award-nominated series.

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Once upon a time, on an ordinary day in Max''s life, an unexpected guest appeared at the doorstep, causing a stir of excitement. It was Elvis, Max''s quirky pug friend, clutching an old piece of parchment in his mouth - a treasure map! With their curiosity piqued and adventure in their hearts, Max, Sally, Ben, and the mischievous Elvis, all decided to turn this ordinary day into something extraordinary. They banded together, ready to decipher the cryptic clues, traverse unknown paths, and unearth the long-lost secrets the map promised. Thus began the most thrilling journey of their lives - a real treasure hunt!

A Most Canadian Odyssey is a history of education diplomacy, federalism in Canada in the era between 1844 and 1984.

School is out for summer, and for the Tackleford mystery team, that means lazy days, balmy evenings, and... creeping existential dread that threatens the whole city. With half the team gallivanting off to exotic locales (like Aunty Kath''s in Margate), can Linton, Jack, and Lottie solve this season''s most dire case? The Case of the Unwelcome Visitor, the sixth book in John Allison''s award-winning Bad Machinery series, pits our young heroes against the terrors of the unfamiliar and unknown. Lottie''s mum and sister have both fallen in love (thanks to the internet), Linton is determined to save his father from the soul-sucking responsibility of a promotion, and why is Jack working at the local paper with team nemesis (and hot-shot reporter) Erin Winters? Isn''t print meant to be dead? Could the link between these tangled threads be The Night Creeper, who prowls Tackleford''s streets and leaves people in the hospital with a blank stare and a terrible smile on their face?

Don''t go to the opera without it! Portable, informative, and easy to use, this pocket companion to 150 masterpieces contains both the repertoire standards (Carmen, Die Fledermaus, Don Giovanni, and La Boh''me) and more unusual fare-like Rimsky Korsakov''s The Golden Cockerel, Michael Tippett''s The Midsummer Marriage, and Kurt Weill''s Street Scene. Entries range from Handel''s Agrippina to Mozart''s magical Die Zauberflte (The Magic Flute), and each one includes information on the composer and librettist; a description of the work''s premiere; a list of principal characters; and synopses that reveal the mood and style of each piece, scene by scene. Among the operas covered are: Beethoven''s Fidelio, Benjamin Britten''s Death in Venice, Gershwin''s Porgy and Bess, Philip Glass''s Akhnaten, Monteverdi''s L''Orfeo, Offenbach''s Tales of Hoffman, Wagner''s Tristan and Isolde, and Verdi''s La Traviata.

This is the workbook in a stimulating course which integrates presentation of language with exercises and activities. There are 15 ten-age unies, each incorporating wide grammar coverage, systematic vocabulary presentation, listening and reading skills, and pair-work role plays. The workbook is a self-study practice book with 15 varied units of supplementary material for class use, homework and private study.

Edward Elgar was for many years the most popular composer in Britain; his music was, and remains, inextricably linked with the final, glorious years of the Empire. Yet Elgar himself was almost entirely untypical of the British Establishment. Born a shopkeeper''s son, part of an active Catholic family and community, Elgar struggled for many years against the prejudices his background raised in music circles. Ironically, composition for the Anglican Church was an important early platform for Elgar, and it is through the sacred music that this pioneering study approaches his life and work. It traces the development of a composer whose work was criticised for its Catholic overtones, yet who was knighted and the recipient of numerous professorships. John Allison weaves biography, composition and religion as never before to produce a necessary and illuminating new work. In addition to surveying the sacred music, much of it for the first time, he gives an invaluable listing of the works, their scoring and first production. John Allison is the assistant editor of Opera magazine, and contributes music criticism to the Financial Times.