This book is about language designed to mean what it does not seem to mean. Codes protect secrets. Symbol & magic hide meanings to imperil or delight. Languages made to confuse let insiders talk openly without being understood by others. Barry Blake looks in depth at these & many more & illuminates the most arcane & curious uses of language ...

Rebecca Mason is in the 5th year at Trebizon school & working very hard for her GCSEs. However, someone takes some of her revision notes & then it seems that her locker has been ransacked & her letters from her boyfriend & her French penfriend have been read
- who would do such a thing?
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Drama set in 1964 South Carolina, based on the novel by Sue Monk Kidd. Dakota Fanning stars as Lily Owens, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a fruit farm owner who is violent & abusive towards her. Her mother died in a horrific accident when Lily was a toddler, & she is cared for by her black nanny, Rosaleen (Jennifer Hudson). When Rosaleen ends up in jail after getting in trouble with a group of racist men in their local town, Lily frees her & the pair run away together, ending up at a honey farm owned by the Boatwright sisters, August (Queen Latifah), June (Alicia Keys) & May (Sophie Okonedo). Lily is taken on by the sisters as a beekeeping apprentice, & eventually discovers that her new 'family' has deep & unexpected connections with her late mother. ...

All three episodes of the BBC wildlife mini-series following eminent elephant expert Iain Douglas Hamilton & his Save the Elephants team as they study the emotional behaviour of a herd of wild elephants in the Samburu National Reserve in Northern Kenya. ...

Syrian lingerie is racy attire. Manufactured in Syria & exported throughout the Middle East, it blinks, sings, vibrates, & flashes lights, & is adorned with everything from faux fir to artificial flowers & feathered birds to colourful plastic toy cell phones. This title celebrates some of the undergarments in the world. ...

Take one apartment block in Melbourne, eight twenty-somethings, add some love, friendship & vodka & you've got the dynamic Australian series ' The Secret Life of Us'.

Includes:: all 22 episodes: 'A New World Order', ' Free Will', ' The Dance', ' An Ill Wind', ' The Grand Delusion', ' It's Not Easy', 'A Fine Line', ' Make Up Your Mind', ' Controlling the Universe', ' Between a Rock & a Hard Place', ' The Funny Side', ' Who Do You Want to Be Today?', ' From Little Things Big Things Grow', ' Rose Coloured Glasses', ' Have a Little Faith', ' The Great Divide', ' Sweet Revenge', ' Signs of Life', ' The Searchers', ' Walpurgisnacht', ' Do the Right Thing' & ' Truth Is Beautiful... But So Are Lies'.

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