Billie is forced to leave the only home she's ever known when her mother decides they should move to a new house in a small town Musty furniture & odd belongings fill the old dilapidated building the ghostly remains of its previous tenants
- including two small glass figures one boy & one girl The neighbours & local community are hiding something Billie can tell
- a secret about the house a secret of its past Then Billie notices that the glass figures have moved when the house was empty Soon after a tiny handprint appears on a dusty table
- the handprint of a small child Billie is certain that they are being haunted But her mother thinks Billie is making it up With the help of her new friend Aladdin Billie desperately tries to uncover the house's dark tragic history leading her closer to the chilling truth


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I wish I had been brave enough to come out earlier in my tenure as CEO of BP I regret it to this day I know that if I had done so I would have made more of an impact for other gay men & women With The Glass Closet I hope to give some of them the courage to make an impact of their own' Whether you're lesbian gay transgender or straight John Browne's message is simple & clear it's better for you & it's better for business when you bring your authentic self to work Drawing on his personal experiences & the experience of other gay & lesbian business leaders & by investigating the research & the social contexts The Glass Closet strives to give courage & inspire the LGBT community that despite the risks involved self-disclosure is best for employees & for the businesses that support them Every CEO every HR Manager every team leader
- anyone who is responsible for the culture & success of their business should read The Glass Closet & for anyone fearful or lacking the confidence to bring their true self into work every day this book was written for you
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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 From the producer of The Fast & the Furious & I Know What You Did Last Summer comes this scare-a-minute psychological chiller starring Leelee Sobieski (Eyes Wide Shut Never Been Kissed) Diane Lane (The Perfect Storm) Stellan Skarsgîrd (Good Will Hunting) & Trevor Morgan (Jurassic Park IIIThe Patriot) When Ruby (Sobieski) & Rhett&s (Morgan) parents are killed in a car accident theircarefree teenage lives are suddenly shattered Moving to an incredible house in Malibu with the Glasses& old friends of the family seems to be the beginning of a new life for them But Ruby soon stumbles upon information that leads her to suspect that her new legal guardians might somehow be responsible for her parents& deaths Now she finds herself all alone in a duel of wits with the ruthlessand terrifying couple & she&s the only thing standing between them & her 4 million inheritance Prepare yourself for a wild & intense thrill ride in this mesmerizing chiller! ...

Tennessee Williams's evocation of loneliness & lost love The Glass Menagerie is one of his most powerful & moving plays This Penguin Modern Classics edition

Includes:: a new introduction by Robert Bray Abandoned by her husband Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers' Her son Tom a poet with a job in a warehouse longs for adventure & escape from his mother's suffocating embrace while Laura her shy crippled daughter has her glass menagerie & her memories Amanda is desperate to find her daughter a husband but when the long-awaited gentleman caller does arrive Laura's romantic illusions are crushed Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was born in Columbus Mississippi When his father a travelling salesman moved with his family to St Louis some years later both he & his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life He entered college during the Depression & left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company He stayed there for two years spending the evenings writing He received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 for his play Battle of Angels & he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 & 1955 Among his many other plays Penguin have published The Glass Menagerie (1944) A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) The Rose Tattoo (1951) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) Sweet Bird of Youth (1959) The Night of the Iguana (1961) & Small Craft Warnings (1972) If you enjoyed The Glass Menagerie you might like Cat on a Hot Tin Roof also available in Penguin Modern Classics' Tennessee Williams will live as long as drama itself' Peter Shaffer author of Equus

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The acclaimed author of The Calcutta Chromosome' & The Shadow Lines' has burst out on to the big stage with a major saga on that hidden country Burma Rajkumar is only another boy helping on a market stall in the dusty square outside the royal palace when the British force the Burmese king queen & all the court into exile He is rescued by the far-seeing Chinese merchant & with him builds up a logging business in upper Burma But haunted by his vision of the royal family he journeys to the obscure town in India where they have been exiled The picture of the tension between the Burmese the Indian & the British is excellent Among the great range of characters are one of the court ladies Miss Dolly whom he marries; & the redoubtable Jonakin part of the British-educated Indian colony who with her husband has been put in charge of the Burmese exiled court The story follows the fortunes
- rubber estates in Malaya businesses in Singapore estates in Burma
- which Rajkumar with his Chinese British & Burmese relations friends & associates builds up
- from 1870 through World War II to the scattering of the extended family to New York & Thailand London & Hong Kong in the post-war years


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AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR A peerless intellectual biography The Glass Universe shines & twinkles as brightly as the stars themselves' The Economist 1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel returns with a captivating little-known true story of women in science Before they even had the right to vote a group of remarkable women were employed by Harvard College Observatory as Human Computers' to interpret the observations made via telescope by their male counterparts each night The author of Longitude Galileo's Daughter & The Planets shines light on the hidden history of these extraordinary women who changed the burgeoning field of astronomy & our understanding of the stars & our place in the universe ...

Never mind the glass ceiling In the workplace today there's a glass wall Men & women can see each other clearly through the divide but they don't speak the same language or have the same expectations & as a result women & their careers are suffering With more women than ever in the workforce but still too few in the boardroom now is the time to address the assumptions & miscommunication holding women back This book gives women the tools they need to master any situation Drawing on Unerman & Jacob's own experience in male-dominated businesses as well as over a hundred interviews with both men & women The Glass Wall provides clear smart & easy-to apply strategies for success From unlocking ambition & developing resilience to nurturing creativity & getting noticed these are the skills that everyone needs to learn to help break down that wall & create better workplaces for all ...

' Perhaps we shall not see each other again I will write to you though & tell you as best I can the story of your family A glass-blower remember breathes life into a vessel giving it shape & form & sometimes beauty; but he can with that same breath shatter & destroy it' Faithful to her word Sophie Duval reveals to her long-lost nephew the tragic story of a family of master craftsmen in eighteenth-century France The world of the glass-blowers has its own traditions it's own language
- & its own rules ' If you marry into glass' Pierre Labbe warns his daughter 'you will say goodbye to everything familiar & enter a closed world' But crashing into this world comes the violence & terror of the French Revolution against which the family struggles to survive The Glass Blowers is a remarkable achievement
- an imaginative & exciting reworking of du Maurier's own family history

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Daniela the glassmaker's daughter is grumpy & never smiles Her father promises a beautiful glass palace to anyone who can make her laugh People come from far & wide to try their luck in amusing Daniela But mask makers lion tamers & magicians cannot make you smile from the princess It is only when a young apprentice makes the first looking glass that Daniela learns to smile
- at her own grumpy reflection! This beautiful fable set in sixteenth-century Venice features stunning illustrations from award-winning artist Jane Ray alongside a poetic text
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Death & decapitation seem to go hand in hand in the Devon village of Aller When the first victim's head is sent floating down the river the village's rural calm is shattered Soon the corpses are multiplying & the entire community is involved in the hunt for the murderer Whilst many chase false trails it is left to Gervase Fen Oxford don & amateur criminologist to uncover the sordid truth Equal parts compelling witty & ingenious this novel is a classic example of great British detective fiction ...