The twelfth novel in Mercedes Lackey's magical Elemental Masters series reimagines Sherlock Holmes in a richly-detailed alternate 20th-century England Christmas is a very special time of year It is special for Psychic Nan Killian & Medium Sarah Lyon-White & their ward Suki who are determined to celebrate it properly It is special for their friends Doctor John Watson & his wife Mary both Elemental Masters who have found great delight in the season seeing it through young Suki's eyes It is also special to othersfor very different reasons For Christmas Eve is also hallowed to dark forces powers older than mankind powers that come awake on this the Longest Night Powers best left alone Powers that could shake the foundations of London & beyond ...

The biography of Jane Digby an enthralling tale of a nineteenth-century beauty whose heart
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A brilliant sci-fi novel from one of the last century's most influential pop culture figures Substance D
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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 What does a scanner see?A Scanner Darkly is set in suburban Orange County California in a future where America has lost the war on drugs When one reluctant undercover cop is ordered to start spying on his friends he is launched on a paranoid journey into the absurd where identities & loyalties are impossible to decode It is a cautionary tale of drug use based on the novel by Philip K Dick & his own experiences Like a graphic novel come to life A Scanner Darkly uses live action photography overlaid with an advanced animation process (interpolated rotoscoping) to create a haunting highly stylized vision of the future ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play A deaf garbage collector happens upon a broken & discarded surfboard The discovery plants in him dreams of becoming a surf champion Encouraged by his also deaf girlfriend he persists against all odds Though trapped in silence their expression of love is no less profound A heartrending masterpiece that as with Kitano&s other films (Sonatine) (Fireworks) has a sharp eye for human frailties & a love for the courage of the underdog Special features New HD restoration New audio commentary by film critic Jasper Sharp First 1000 copies contain a limited edition slipcase featuring new artwork ...

Written by one of the all-time greats of Scottish literature truly revolutionary "A Scots Quair" is a trilogy of novels " Sunset Song" (1932) " Cloud Howe" (1933) & " Grey Granite" (1934) At each book's core is the heroine Chris Guthrie as she grows from a child into adulthood through the Great War to the development of communism in the 1920s Grassic Gibbon's writing is unique & riveting blending Scots & English in an accessible style & eloquent in its humanity & celebration of nature ...

Meet Isla Sophie Dominik James & Rashida
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' For a scream in the early hours of the morning in Soho even from a female throat to stop dead in his tracks a hard-boiled constable it had to be something entirely out of the ordinary' Soho during the blackouts of the Second World War When a piercing scream rends the air & a bloodied knife is found Detective Inspector Mac Carthy is soon on the scene He must move through the dark seedy Soho underworld
- peopled by Italian gangsters cross-dressing German spies & glamorous Austrian aristocrats
- as he attempts to unravel the connection between the mysterious Madame Rohner & the theft of secret anti-aircraft defence plans

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At Everdene setting for THE BEACH HUT two people meet both with secrets to hide Written specially for the World Book Day Quick Reads promotion Jenna is known as The Ice Cream Girl She doesn't mind the name one bit After all it's a happy name & there are far worse jobs than selling ice creams on Everdene beach Craig spends as much time as he can at the beach hut in Everdene he rents with a few of his mates As a policeman it is a restful change from his daily life & he's surfing mad One weekend he's down there on his own when he notices a girl on the beach He's young free & single & she catches his eye But on this particular summer weekend both Jenna & Craig's lives are about to change ...

The murder of two clam fishermen off the island of Pellestrina south of the Lido on the Venetian lagoon draws Commissario Brunetti into the close-knit community of the island bound together by a code of loyalty & a suspicion of outsiders worthy of the Mafia When the boss' secretary Signorina Elettra volunteers to visit the island where she has relatives Brunetti finds himself torn between his duty to solve the murders concerns for Elettra's safety & his not entirely straightforward feelings for her ...