Life-affirming drama starring James Nesbitt. Peter (Nesbitt) is a former workaholic city trader who begins a reclusive new life as a lighthouse keeper on a small Scottish island following the death of his wife (Natascha Mc Elhone) & two daughters. His only point of contact with the outside world is Howie (Gary Lewis), who delivers his supplies every few months. Peter's mute, withdrawn existence is shaken to the core when he finds a little girl, Charlotte (Lilian Woods), washed up in a lifeboat on the beach after a storm. ...

Morris, teen restaurateur & neophyte vampire, is in the fight of her life. Even as she adjusts to her new appetites, she must clear her best friend & true love, the hybrid-werewolf, of murder charges; thwart the ambitions of Bradley Sanguini, the seductive vampire-chef who 'blessed' her; &, keep her dead parents' restaurant up & running. ...

Offers a meditation on the lives of the saints & the images of them painted by Renaissance artists in Italy. This work intends to capture details of significance & to prompt the reader to look again & to see with fresh eyes that the lives of saints & the Renaissance depictions of them are anything but dull, uniform, or narrowly orthodox. ...

In an America where the rich & fortunate have free rein to do as they please, can the ideal of liberty & justice for all be anything but an empty slogan? This book discusses the successes & failures of progressive grassroots organizing, & the daunting forces arrayed against it. It describes how the ordinary people conceive of citizenship. ...

This book of graces & reflections integrates thankfulness with a burning passion for justice. It invites us to pray & recommit ourselves each time we join in the simple sharing of a meal. Iona Community members, associates & friends from around the world have all contributed. ...

Reflecting on a wide spectrum of religious traditions & spiritual paths, including: Buddhist, Pagan, Christian & Jewish, this volume contains over 30 contributions from bisexual persons who speak about the intersections of their faith practice & their sexual orientation. ...

A Falklands memoir from the other side of the battle. In the first film to present the Falklands conflict of 1982 from the Argentinean side, Tristan Bauer also presents a strong antiwar message. The action begins 20 years after the cessation of hostilities with the attempted suicide of Alberto Vargas (Pablo Ribba) a former soldier who served there. His journalist friend Esteban Leguizamón (Gastón Pauls), upon hearing of it, begins to have flashbacks of what horrors the two witnessed on the Malvinas, waiting, watching, woefully unprepared & malnourished for the kind of fight the British army had in mind. The soldiers come to the cheerless realization that they are cannon fodder in the worst way
- grist to the political mill in which two strong-headed leaders had a vested interest in proving a point. Esteban travels back to the Malvinas to face his troubled past & tours the windswept & unforgiving place, now forgotten & rotting with rusted arms & munitions. With the UK celebrations & commemorations of the 25th anniversary of the battle, this is a refreshingly different perspective on the trauma, repugnance & worthlessness of a war that didn't really have to happen.
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Mecca & Medina are the two sanctuaries of Islam. Faruk Aksoy, a BBC cameraman, took hundreds of photographs of these blessed cities from the most spectacular angles. This album

Includes:: over 160 select pictures shot by Aksoy since 1980s. It also

Features: The Ka'ba & Golden Gutter; The Prophet's Mosque & the Rawda; & Mina, Mount Arafat.



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