All the Kremlin&s Men is a gripping narrative of an accidental king & a court out of control Based on an unprecedented series of interviews with Vladimir Putin&s inner circle this book presents a radically different view of power & politics in Russia The image of Putin as a strongman is dissolved In its place is a weary figurehead buffeted--if not controlled--by the men who at once advise & deceive him The regional governors & bureaucratic leaders are immovable objects far more powerful in their fiefdoms than the president himself So are the gatekeepers-those officials who guard the pathways to power-on whom Putin depends as much as they rely on him The tenuous edifice is filled with all of the intrigue & plotting of a Medici court as enemies of the state are invented & wars begun to justify personal gains internal rivalries or one faction&s biased advantage A bestseller in Russia All the Kremlin&s Men is a shocking revisionist portrait of the Putin era & a dazzling reconstruction of the machinations of courtiers running riot ...

WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTIONA beautiful stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl & a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II‘ Open your eyes & see what you can with them before they close forever’ For Marie-Laure blind since the age of six the world is full of mazes The miniature of a Paris neighbourhood made by her father to teach her the way home The microscopic layers within the invaluable diamond that her father guards in the Museum of Natural History The walled city by the sea where father & daughter take refuge when the Nazis invade Paris & a future which draws her ever closer to Werner a German orphan destined to labour in the mines until a broken radio fills his life with possibility & brings him to the notice of the Hitler Youth In this magnificent deeply moving novel the stories of Marie-Laure & Werner illuminate the ways against all odds people try to be good to one another ...

She could have stopped an awful crime She could have saved a life She tried to forget about it But now the truth is out The terrifying new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Retribution & Pretty Little Things GIRLS ARE DISAPPEARING INPALM BEACH COUNTY Prostitutes strippers
- girls who don't have a loving home tomiss them who disappear through the cracks DETECTIVE BRYAN NILL CAN'T PROVEIT'S A SERIAL KILLER He just knows it in his gut But without a witnesshe's got nothing FAITH IS FEELING GUILTY She's tried to put that night out of her mind
- the girl's facepressed to the window begging for help She's tried tellingherself she was right to keep the door locked BUT SHE WASN'T THE ONLY ONE IN THE CAR When Faith's four-year-old daughter identifies the girl on thenews Detective Nill gets his witness & Faith's lifestarts to unravel

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It's been ten years since Nicolette Farrell left her rural hometown after her best friend Corinne disappeared without trace Then a letter from her father arrives
- 'I need to talk to you That girl I saw that girl' Has her father's dementia worsened or has he really seen Corinne? Returning home Nicolette must finally face what happened on that terrible night all those years ago Then another young woman goes missing almost to the day of the anniversary of when Corinne vanished & like ten years ago the whole town is a suspect Told backwards
- Day 15 to Day 1
- Nicolette works to unravel the truth revealing shocking secrets about her friends her family & what really happened to Corinne Like nothing you've ever read before All the Missing Girls is a brilliantly plotted debut thriller that will leave you breathless


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Inspired by the fortunes & misfortunes of the Getty family whose most extraordinary & troubled episode
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It began with a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington DC on 17 June 1972 Bob Woodward a journalist for the Washington Post was called into the office on a Saturday morning to cover the story Carl Bernstein a political reporter on the Post was also assigned They soon learned this was no ordinary burglary Following lead after lead Woodward & Bernstein picked up a trail of money conspiracy & high-level pressure that ultimately led to the doors of the Oval Office Men very close to the President were implicated & then Richard Nixon himself Over a period of months Woodward met secretly with Deep Throat for decades the most famous anonymous source in the history of journalism As he & Bernstein pieced the jigsaw together they produced a series of explosive stories that would not only win the Post a Pulitzer Prize they would bring about the President's scandalous downfall ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN documents this amazing story Taut gripping & fascinating it is a classic of its kind -- the true story of the events that changed the American presidency ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Dustin Hoffman & Robert Redford star in this political thriller about the Watergate scandal that brought down President Nixon Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein (Hoffman) & Bob Woodward (Redford) aided by the White House mole Deep Throat (Hal Holbrook) thwart Nixon&s attempted cover-up after his agents are caught breaking in to the Watergate complex in 1972 The film won four Academy Awards including Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Jason Robards) & Best Writing Screenplay Based On Material from Another Medium & was nominated for another four including Best Picture & Best Director ...

'A uniquely brilliant book told in language as subtly beautiful as its desert setting One of the most important pieces of American writing of our time' Stephen Amidon Sunday Times John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins Befriending a third boy on the way they find a country beyond their imagining barren & beautiful rugged yet cruelly civilized; a place where dreams are paid for in blood All the Pretty Horses is an acknowledged masterpiece from Pulitzer Prize winning author Cormac Mc Carthy & a grand love story a novel about childhood passing along with innocence & a vanished American age Steeped in the wisdom that comes only from loss it is a magnificent parable of responsibility revenge & survival ...

Stefan (Tom Cruise) is determined to leave the sleepy Pennsylvania mining town of Ampipe where he is growing up An exceptional athlete Stef sees football as his ticket out His pursuit of a scholarship however brings him at odds with his combative coach (Craig T Nelson) While rebelling against his coach & the town Stef takes up with Lisa Litski (Lea Thompson) an attractive schoolmate & talented saxophone player Cruise graduated to leading man status with this film one of many early 1980s pictures with strong teen identities His sexy defiant presence carries the film First time director Michael Chapman (cinematographer of TAXI DRIVER & many other films) proves himself especially adept in capturing the intense football sequences ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & region B Blu-ray It will require aregion B Blu-ray player to play the Blu-ray & DVD or a Region 2 DVD player for the DVD Originally sold with the provocative tagline & Is 15 too young for a girl? Is one wife enough for one man?& this time-capsule of a film concerns itself with the story of a young married man who has an affair with a teenage girl & forms part of a peculiarly 1960s British wave of films exploring such sensitive subject matter (others included Term of Trial Age of Consent & Three into Two Won&t Go) Starring Olivia Hussey in her first post-Romeo & Juliet role & the inimitable Tom Bell (The L-Shaped Room Prime Suspect) this wonderful slice of British cultural history is one of only a handful of feature films directed by Gerry O& Hara better know for his assistant-director work with such cinema giants as Tony Richardson Carol Reed & Otto Preminger Actors Olivia Hussey Tom Bell Judy Carne John Standing Yootha Joyce Robert Keegan Lesley-Anne Down Marianne Stone Gordon Griffin Edward Higgins Rudolph Walker Oscar James Chloe Franks Gareth Wright & Chrissie Shrimpton Director Gerry O& Hara Certificate PGYear 1971 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (10) Mono Duration 1 hour & 27 minutes (approx)
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