THE BRAND NEW NOVEL
- & A NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
- FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR DEBBIE MACOMBER Beautifully written

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Nate Powell follow-up to the Eisner award-winning Swallow Me Whole examines war & violence & their trickle-down effects on middle America As a gang of small-town kids find themselves reunited in adulthood their dark histories collide in a struggle for the future Any Empire follows three kids in a Southern town as a rash of mysterious turtle mutilations forces each to confront their relationship to their privileged suburban fantasies of violence Then after years apart the three are thrown together again as adults amid questions of choice & force belonging & betrayal ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Life is a contact sport & football is life when three-time academy award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone & a dynamic acting ensemble explore the fortunes of the Miami Sharks in Any Given Sunday At the 50-year line of this gridiron cosmos is Al Pacino as Tony D& Amato the embattled Sharks coach facing a full-on blitz of team strife plus a new marketing-savvy sharks owner (Cameron Diaz) who&s sure Tony is way too old school An injured quarterback (Dennis Quaid) a flashy bull-headed backup QB (Jamie Foxx) a slithery team doctor (James Woods) & a running back with an incentive-laden contract (LL Cool J) also provide some of the stories that zigzag like diagrams in a playbook & throughout there&s the awesome spectacle of motion sound & action orchestrated by Stone ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Life is a contact sport & football is life when three-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone & a dynamic acting ensemble explore the fortunes of the Miami Sharks in & Any Given Sunday& At the 50-yard line of this gridiron cosmos is Al Pacino as Tony D& Amato the embattled Sharks coach facing a full-on blitz of team strife plus a new marketing-savvy Sharks owner (Cameron Diaz) who&s sure Tony is way too old-school An injured quarterback (Dennis Quaid) a flashy bull-headed backup QB (Jamie Foxx) a slithery team doctor (James Woods) & a running back with an incentive-laden contract (LL Cool J) also provide some of the stories that zigzag like diagrams in a playbook Actors Al Pacino Cameron Diaz Dennis Quaid James Woods Jamie Foxx LL Cool J Matthew Modine Charlton Heston Ann-Margret Aaron Eckhart John C Mc Ginley & Lauren Holly Director Oliver Stone Certificate 15 years & over Year 2000 Screen Widescreen Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Duration 2 hours & 31 minutes (approx)
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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 Life is a contact sport & football is life when three-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone & a dynamic acting ensemble explore the fortunes of the Miami Sharks in & Any Given Sunday& At the 50-yard line of this gridiron cosmos is Al Pacino as Tony D& Amato the embattled Sharks coach facing a full-on blitz of team strife plus a new marketing-savvy Sharks owner (Cameron Diaz) who&s sure Tony is way too old-school An injured quarterback (Dennis Quaid) a flashy bull-headed backup QB (Jamie Foxx) a slithery team doctor (James Woods) & a running back with an incentive-laden contract (LL Cool J) also provide some of the stories that zigzag like diagrams in a playbook & Full Contact& Making Of Documentary from HBO 4 Sensational Music Videos From Jamie Foxx & LL Cool J Out-takes Gag Reel Including Football Out-Takes Triva Games Screen Tests & Auditions Extra Footage Including 16 Deleted Extended Scenes With Optional Commentary DVD-ROM Feature Grid Iron Challenge Trivia Game Weblinks Complete Theatrical Website Essays & Reviews From Screen To Script Virtual Edit Suite Actors Al Pacino Cameron Diaz Dennis Quaid James Woods Jamie Foxx LL Cool J Matthew Modine Charlton Heston Ann-Margret Aaron Eckhart John C Mc Ginley & Lauren Holly Director Oliver Stone Certificate 15 years & over Year 2000 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English ; French ; Italian ; Dutch ; Arabic ; Spanish ; German ; English For Hard Of Hearing Duration 2 hours & 31 minutes (approx)
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When Andrew -- a second-h&-book dealer -- comes across a pile of photographs from police archives he decides to exhibit them But then the gallery is raided the day before the opening & the photos seized with surprising violence It soon becomes clear that someone somewhere wants to keep the images hidden Who? Why? & who -- in a world where kidnap subterfuge & even murder are the norm & where no one is safe or above suspicion -- can Andrew turn to for help? 'A sophisticated literary thriller set on the seamier fringe of Rome's gay scene a magnet for the lonely & displaced located a long way off the tourist trail' Guardian Charles Lambert writes as if his life depends on it He takes risks at every turn' Hannah Tinti Charles Lambert is a seriously good writer' Beryl Bainbridge A slow-burning beautifully written crime story that brings to life the Rome that tourists don't see' Daily Telegraph ...

Any Human Heart is William&s Boyd&s classic bestselling novel now available as a Penguin Essential for the first time Every life is both ordinary & extraordinary but Logan Mountstuart&s
- lived from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century
- contains more than its fair share of both As a writer who finds inspiration with Hemingway in Paris & Virginia Woolf in London as a spy recruited by Ian Fleming & betrayed in the war & as an art-dealer in &60s New York Logan mixes with the movers & shakers of his times But as a son friend lover & husband he makes the same mistakes we all do in our search for happiness Here then is the story of a life lived to the full
- & a journey deep into a very human heart Any Human Heart will be enjoyed by readers of Sebastian Faulks Nick Hornby & Hilary Mantel as well as lovers of the finest British & historical fiction around the world It was recently adapted for a major Channel 4 four-part drama series scripted by William Boyd & starring Kim Cattrall Gillian Anderson Jim Broadbent & Tom Hollander This edition features beautiful cover artwork from the television series & Astonishing touching extremely funny A brilliant evocation of a past era & an immensely readable story& Sunday Telegraph& Superb wonderful enjoyable& Guardian&A terrific journey through the twentieth century Thoroughly entertaining & enjoyable& Jeremy Paxman


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Any Human Heart is William&s Boyd&s classic bestselling novel Every life is both ordinary & extraordinary but Logan Mountstuart&s
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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 An adaptation of William Boyd&s best-selling novel Any Human Heart tells the story of Logan Mountstuart&s long & rackety life one which spans every decade of the twentieth century in all its fantastic & humdrum dangerous & tranquil tragic & humorous aspects The four films follow Logan from his time in Oxford; through literary market success with the publication of his &racy& novel & The Girl Factory&; through numerous affairs & two marriages; one tragic true love; adventures as a spy behind enemy lines; flirtations with Wallis Simpson; encounters with Ernest Hemingway Ian Fleming sexual scandal in the New York art scene; destitution in Pimlico; unlikely heroism to a final & perhaps even contented death Although it would appear to the outside that his life has been defined by a combination of random quantities of good & bad luck for Logan if he really looked closely it has probably been more accurately defined by sex While it is compelling pacy witty sexy emotional & clever it is also a brilliant & innovative charting of the history of the 20th Century Logan has the habit of popping up Zelig-like at pivotal moments in 20th Century history & teetering on the brink of immortality before inevitably plunging back into obscurity Logan&s journey touches on key moments & movements that still shape our times in the 21st Century the pre-war emergence of the working class power & the end of establishment complacency; the rise of European Fascism; the last global conflict that was World War 2; the zenith of American hegemony in the 1950s & 60s; the emergence of political terrorism (the Baader-Meinhof Gang); the squalor & degradation of urban poverty; the long shadow of the 2nd World War; & finally the serenity & wisdom that a long fully-lived life can provide ...

Every great creation starts with an idea but where does that special spark come from? What do you do when your mind goes blank? & how do you recognise the ideas that are worth taking further? This is a book about how to have ideas
- on your own or with other people
- & how to nurture them Packed with tips mind games & practical techniques Rob Eastaway provides down-to-earth insights on how to think creatively & solve problems in your professional & personal life Find out how to solve problems more effectively evaluate & build on ideas brainstorm successfully overcome idea killers turn ideas into actions

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