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WH Smiths UK: Books, Stationery and More - Shopping at WH Smiths UK Book Store Is So Easy! - Gorilla Hannah loves gorillas but has never seen one. Her father is too busy to take her to the zoo and Hannah is disappointed when he only buys her a toy gorilla for her birthday. She throws the toy into the corner of the room when something extraordinary happens - the toy becomes alive. ... Bone Vault Wealthy donors have gathered at the Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to hear plans for a controversial new exhibit. DA Alex Cooper is off duty for the evening and enjoying the proceedings until the body of a young researcher is found in an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus. ... Hamptons Diet: Lose Weight Quickly and Safely with the Doctor's Delicious Meal Plans The Atkins diet meets The South Beach Diet ... dieting secrets of the rich famous - and thin! Atkins results. Hamptons style. As the former medical director of the Atkins Center and a frequent guest on radio and television Dr. Fred Pescatore is one of today's most highly visible low-carb diet doctors. And his visibility is sure to increase now that he is taking over the customer base of the Atkins Center following Dr. Atkins's untimely death in early 2008. Building on the low-carb Mediterranean-style diet plan he pioneered in Thin For Good Dr. Pescatore now presents The Hamptons Diet a program that introduces a secret ingredient - macadamia nut oil the most monounsaturated oil on the planet - among other delicious components. Complete with 30-day meal plans featuring more than 100 mouthwatering recipes from celebrity chefs and just in time for the summer beach season The Hamptons Diet is 2008's exciting new low-carb diet book - a deliciously satisfying medically sound weight-loss program that can help anyone slim down and feel like the rich famous and thin. Fred Pescatore MD (New York NY East Hampton NY and Dallas T-X) is the head of the Centers for Integrative and Complementary Medicine and the author of Thin For Good (0-471-41012-8). ... WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS 2CD A suoerb collection of tracks from some of the worlds greatest guitar legends. The album has already proved itself as a TV concept in Europe. Includes legends such as Eric Clapton Robert Cray Mark Knopfler Carlos Santana Gary Moore and many many more. ... Grease / Saturday Night Fever (Double) (DVD) Grease- Possibly the world's greatest summer movie certainly the king of all rock'n'roll musicals Grease looks set to retain its popularity well into the 21st century. Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta are both stunning in this fabulous film which follows the on off romance between prim schoolgirl Sandy and "cool" gang leader Danny. After a brief holiday romance both are surprised to meet again when Sandy transfers to Rydell High Danny's high school. Knowing he has an image to maintain Danny suddenly goes cold on her prompting poor Sandy to run off and start hanging out with the trendy "Pink Ladies" eventually ending up with school hunk Tom (Lorenzo Lamas). In the meantime Danny and his gang "The T-Birds" have been refurbishing a car - nicknamed Greased Lightnin' - which they enter in a race against rival gang "The Scorpions". Saturday Night Fever- Seminal John Travolta movie which may surprise those who only remember the watered down PG version. Brooklyn teen Tony Manero struts around the dancefloor of the 2001 Odyssey every Saturday night but soon has to face up to realities about his lifestyle and attitude to women. ... See No Evil Hear No Evil - (DVD) Wally (Richard Pryor) is brash loud-mouthed and blind. Dave (Gene Wilder) is quiet mild-mannered and deaf. Both of them are individual disaster zones. But together..they'r even worse! When a murder takes place right under their noses Wally and Dave are the only Witnesses. The trouble is Wally didn't see it and Dave didn't hear it and all of a sudden they're both wanted for it! Suspected by the police and pursued by the real killers the cool and calculated Eve (Joan Severance) and her fanatical henchman (Kevin Spacey) Wally and Dave decide to take the law into their hands...... ...
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WHSmith (WHS) is one of the UK's leading retail groups incorporating market leading companies in retail, publishing and news distribution. The Group has 1,464 stores world-wide, 30,747 employees in 12 countries and sales of some £2.9bn.
WHSmith is the UK's number one family retailer selling a range of products that extends across education, entertainment and information. Each year WHSmith High Street stores sell enough pens to circle the earth; enough books to fill a library shelf from London to Edinburgh; and enough paper to write a letter to everyone in the world. WH Smith also sell 122 million magazines and newspapers each year - enough to make a pile 69 times taller than Mount Everest.
The first High Street store was a small news vendor opened in 1792 in Little Grosvenor Street, London, by Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna. Today, WHSmith has 545 High Street stores, covering over 3 million square feet of selling space and employing 17,000 staff. Clubcard, the Company's loyalty scheme, has more than 5 million members.
Books, newspapers, magazines and stationery form the core of the High Street business. WHSmith sell more books than any other retailer in England, Scotland and Wales. For example, one in three copies of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire were bought from WHSmith in the first weekend of release. WHSmith promote new authors with their Fresh Talent showcase and also have the Thumping Good Read Award that is voted for by members of Clubcard.
WHSmith's major stores stock more than 45,000 product lines, whereas an average food supermarket carries around 10,000 lines.
WHSmith currently holds a strong market share in each of the core categories in which it trades - books, stationery, news, magazines and entertainment. WH Smith's strategy is to exploit the strength, power and potential of the WHSmith brand to provide the very best service and value for money for their customers, shareholders and wider community.
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