This is the remarkable story of one endearing dog's search for his purpose over the course of several lives More than just another charming dog story A Dog's Purpose touches on the universal quest for an answer to life's most basic question Why are we here? Surprised to find himself reborn as a rambunctious golden-haired puppy after a tragically short life as a stray mutt Bailey's search for his new life's meaning leads him into the loving arms of eight-year-old Ethan During their countless adventures Bailey joyously discovers how to be a good dog But this life as a family pet is not the end of Bailey's journey Reborn as a puppy yet again Bailey wonders
- will he ever find his purpose? Heartwarming insightful & often laugh-out-loud funny A Dog's Purpose is not only the emotional & hilarious story of a dog's many lives but also a dog's-eye commentary on human relationships & the unbreakable bonds between man & man's best friend This moving & beautifully crafted story teaches us that love never dies & that every creature on earth is born with a purpose
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region Free DVD Player in order to play Based on the beloved international bestselling book A Dog’s Purpose from director Lasse Hallström (The Cider House Rules Dear John The Hundred-Foot Journey) shares the heart-warming & uplifting story of one devoted dog (voiced by Josh Gad
- Frozen) who finds the meaning of his own existence through the lives of the humans he teaches to laugh & love Actors Britt Robertson Dennis Quaid Peggy Lipton Juliet Rylance Pooch Hall Directors Lasse Hallström Writers Cathryn Michon Producers Gavin Polone Darren Reagan Mark Sourian Subtitles English Number of discs 1
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A collection of anthologies resource & reference books including titles from Oscar Wilde Mary Shelley Alex Madina Jo Phillips & Adrian Barlow ...

Four of Ibsen's most important plays in superb modern translations part of the new Penguin Ibsen series With her assertion ...

The slamming of the front door at the end of A Doll's House shatters the romantic masquerade of the Helmers' marriage In their stultifying & infantilised relationship Nora & Torvald have deceived themselves & each other both consciously & subconsciously until Nora acknowledges the need for individual freedom A revised student edition of classic set text A Doll's House (1879) is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which for the first time portrayed the tragic hypocrisy of Victorian middle class marriage on stage The play ushered in a new social era & exploded like a bomb into contemporary life Meyer's translations of Ibsen are a major fact in one's general sense of post-war drama Their vital pace their unforced insistence on the poetic centre of Ibsen's genius have beaten academic versions from the field (George Steiner) ...

An enhanced exam section expert guidance on approaching exam questions writing high-quality responses & using critical interpretations plus practice tasks & annotated sample answer extracts Key skills covered focused tasks to develop your analysis & understanding plus regular study tips revision questions & progress checks to track your learning The most in-depth analysis detailed text summaries & extract analysis to in-depth discussion of characters themes language contexts & criticism all helping you to succeed ...

Here is a bunch of dung-dropping sweet-stealing luck-jinxing villains! 96 pages bw by Uma Krishnaswamy Soundar Chitra ...

A little polar bear Miki wanders away while his mother is diving for fish He sees a dot in the snow & rushes towards it Readers discover that the dot is a little girl But Miki has never seen a human before & the little girl has never seen a polar bear They discover more about each other as they play in the snow but then the perils of the polar landscape impel Miki to take the little girl home before undertaking the long journey to find his own mother Although one is a polar bear & one is a little girl Miki & Dot share a common experience they are both separated from their mothers when they meet Their bond of friendship gives them the strength to support each other during the course of a day that will last with them both forever This is a moving & poignant story set in a changing & challenging polar landscape perfect for the Christmas season It wraps up important themes about empathy kindness & courage The story is both simply told & affecting The gorgeous snowscapes full of real atmosphere are created with printmaking techniques by debut illustrator Fiona Woodcock ...

The flame of genius scorches every generation it touches Following a lonely upbringing in the woods of northern Michigan Milo Andret enrols as a graduate student at UC Berkeley where the faculty is the first to recognize that the young man's childhood solitude has created a prodigiously unusual mind Yet with Milo's great gifts come great risks & California in the seventies is rife with temptation The research he begins at Berkeley will make him a legend; the woman & the rival he meets will haunt him forever For it soon becomes clear that Milo's brilliance is linked to a dark need that ultimately threatens to destroy not only his work & his marriage but the lives of all his children as well A Doubter's Almanac is at once a captivatingly virtuoso illustration of the powers of the mind & a deeply moving exploration of the nature of love ambition & genius It is a novel of flawed characters & unreachable dreams of bonds that tie & passions that destroy; a major work of dazzling & seductive beauty from one of our foremost writers ...

a poignant description of Cambodia Laos & Vietnam in 1950 with all their beauty gentleness grandeur & intricate political balance intact
- Restores this lost world like a phoenix from the ashes of the Vietnam war & its aftermath
- shows the Vietnamese guerilla movement in its infancy ranged against the French colonial powers & the early affects of imported Western materialism
- a best-seller when first published & venerated by all the Saigon-based war correspondents in the '70s
- inspired Graham Greene to go to Vietnam & write The Quiet American



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