Unrivalled in scope & brimming with human drama A People's Tragedy is the most vivid moving & comprehensive history of the Russian Revolution available today A modern masterpiece' Andrew Marr The most moving account of the Russian Revolution since Doctor Zhivago' Independent Opening with a panorama of Russian society from the cloistered world of the Tsar to the brutal life of the peasants A People's Tragedy follows workers soldiers intellectuals & villagers as their world is consumed by revolution & then degenerates into violence & dictatorship Drawing on vast original research Figes conveys above all the shocking experience of the revolution for those who lived it while providing the clearest & most cogent account of how & why it unfolded Illustrated with over 100 photographs & now including a new introduction that reflects on the revolution's centennial legacy A People's Tragedy is a masterful & definitive record of one of the most important events in modern history ...

Tracklist Annihilation Imagine Peace Love & Understanding What's Going On Passive Explicit Gimme Gimme Gimme People Are People Freedom Of Choice Let's Have A War Counting Bodies Like Sheep To The Rhythm Of The War Drums Explicit When The Levee Breaks Fiddle & The Drum ...

Tracklist The Package Weak & Powerless The Noose Blue Vanishing A Stranger Explicit The Outsider Crimes The Nurse Who Loved Me Pet Explicit Lullaby Gravity ...

A warm funny picture book about a group of animals & their (not so) perfect day in the garden from beloved author & illustrator Lane Smith Whether basking in the warmth of the sun nibbling on a fresh yellow corn-on-the-cob or cooling off in a clear pool of water it is a truly beautiful afternoon for all what could possibly go wrong? In this follow up to the beautiful There Is a Tribe of Kids Lane Smith's bright & fresh artwork combines with his sharp wit & enormously appealing characters to create a story full of playful chaos Inspired by Lane Smith's real life encounter with a marauding bear A Perfect Day is a perfect picture book for story time ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play 6 Strangers 2 Killers 1 Paradise Getting Away Can Be Murder Cliff & Cydney (Steve Zahn & Milla Jovovich) are an adventurous young couple celebrating their honeymoon by backpacking to one of the most beautiful & remote beaches in Hawaii Hiking the wild secluded trails they believe they&ve found paradise But when the pair come across a group of frightened hikers discussing the horrifying murder of another newlywed couple on the islands they begin to question whether they should turn back When they decide to join up with two other couples things begin to go terrifyingly wrong Far from civilization or rescue everyone begins to look like a threat & nobody knows who to trust Paradise becomes hell on earth as a brutal battle for survival begins Actors Timothy Olyphant Milla Jovovich Steve Zahn Marley Shelton Chris Hemsworth Kiele Sanchez Dale Dickey Wendy Braun Katie Chonacas Travis Willingham Tory Kittles Peter Navy Tuiasosopo Brian Tester & Mercedes Leggett Director David Twohy Certificate 15 years & over Year 2009 Languages English ...

In her second novel A Perfect Match Sinead Moriarty tells the story of Emma Hamilton who embarks on the path to adopting a baby when she & her husband can't conceive It manages to be both hilarious & incredibly moving is comparable to the writing of Marian Keyes in its ability to balancing of light & shade After two years of being deafened by the TICKTOCK of her biological clock & tormented by Mother Nature's refusal to grant her a baby Emma Hamilton decides to go for the instant solution finding a Russian baby in need of a home But Emma hasn't reckoned on the route to adoption being so complicated Between proving that she's fit to be a mother (by inventing an unblemished past & discovering an unsuspected talent for housekeeping) driving her long-suffering husband insane with madcap schemes to make them the perfect would-be parents (a few Russian verbs a night & they'll be fluent in no time) & tripping over red tape every step of the way (who knew social workers could be so terrifying?) Emma finds out that adoption is far from the easy option
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Pascal Chaumeil directs this French romantic comedy starring Diane Kruger & Dany Boon Isabelle (Kruger) has found the man she wants to spend the rest of her life with Pierre (Robert Plagnol) but is reluctant to tie the knot since her family has a history of failed first marriages Instead she decides to find a gullible stranger to marry & then divorce before settling down with Pierre With this in mind she sets her sights on travel writer Jean-Yves (Boon) & attempts to seduce him However her supposedly &perfect& plan goes awry ...

Love honour
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A Perfect Spy traces the rise & fall of Magnus Pym & his career through intelligence From chance meetings with people will be important to him in the future to a life in Czechoslovakia Washington & finally on the run in England Pym weaves his way through the complicated world of espionage Where no-one is safe from betrayal not even his father ...

A laugh-out-loud tale of blood guts & monsters! At school they call Frankie ' Lanky Frankie' & Molly ' Molly the Dolly' But Frankie's had enough so his mum & dad pack him off to a very special school where he can learn how to stand up to his classmates
- by turning into different monsters! But that's only if he can survive the teachers first Particularly suitable for struggling reluctant & dyslexic readers aged 8
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