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 ...

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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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 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play This timely powerful drama based on real-life stories & staged in promenade amongst a captivated audience is performed by a cast made up of professional actors & ex-offenders including former inmates of HMP Wormwood Scrubs & HMP Pentonville It is gritty funny brutal & ultimately poignant ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Los Angeles trucker Phil Beddoe (Clint Eastwood) is less than delighted to win orangutan Clyde in a fight Together the unlikely twosome set out to track down Phil&s lost love a country & western singer (Sandra Locke) Along the way they get involved in various brawls & escapades 2 Sequel to & Every Which Way But Loose& in which trucker come street-fighter Philo Beddoe (Clint Eastwood) once more hits the road looking for a well-paid brawl The purse this time round is offered by an underworld king whose boxing champion has gained such a reputation that no-one dare face him Philo however knows no fear & can always rely on the back-up of his trusty orang-utan sidekick Clyde ...

Anya embarrassed by her Russian immigrant family & self-conscious about her body has given up on fitting in at school but falling down a well & making friends with the ghost there just may be worse ...

Anna Walsh needs her old life back her home her glamorous career & above all the love of her life her husband Aidan But what has driven her so far from everything she loves? 'I'd lost my place in the in the universe It had closed up & there was nowhere for me to be I was more lost than I had known it was possible for any human to be ' Anna Walsh is covered in bandages & lying in her parents' Good Front Room She's dreaming of leaving Dublin & returning to New York To her home To her job & most of all to her husband Aidan Unfortunately her family have other ideas She's staying put & Aidan? Well he's refusing to even take her calls What has pushed Anna so far from everything that she loves? Is she the only one who can put it all right? & if not who is? ' Keyes writes brilliantly as always about love grief jealously & friendship' Daily Mail'A wonderful subtle hilarious & highly sophisticated novel' Evening Standard ' High quality entertainment' Marie Claire ...

What if you told God you would do anything & he took you up on it? In the years since the initial release of Anything God continued to stretch Jennie Allen & her faith because of the courageous prayer of surrender that she & her husband Zac prayed God we will do anything Anything Previously caught in the dizzying haze of worldly happiness & empty pursuits Jennie went on to begin living out the adventure God had written for them-to include becoming the founder of IF Gathering an organization to gather equip & unleash the next generation to live out their purpose Anything is a prayer of surrender that will spark something A prayer that will move you to stop chasing things that just make you feel happy & start living a surrendered life that matters This newly revised edition is updated throughout to include a new introduction & an in-depth Bible study component for those who have been wanting to lead a study on this topic Join Jennie on an adventure to discover your anything those things that actually mean nothing until you know the God truly worth giving it all up for & when you do that will change everything ...