Written in taut poetic language THE LONGEST MEMORY is set on a Virginian plantation in the 19th century & tells the tragic story of a rebellious fiercely intelligent young slave who breaks all the rules in learning to read & write in falling in love with a white girl the daughter of his owner & finally in trying to escape & join her in the free North For his attempt to flee he is whipped to death in front of his family & this brutal event is the pivot around which the story evolves ...

Two couples Two love stories One epic tale Ninety-one-year-old Ira Levinson is in trouble Struggling to stay conscious after a car crash with his mind fading an image of his adored
- & long-dead
- wife Ruth appears Urging him to hang on she lovingly recounts the joys & sorrows of their life together
- how they met the dark days of WWII & its unrelenting effect on their families A few miles away college student Sophia Danko's life is about to change Recovering from a break-up she meets the young rugged Luke & is thrown into a world far removed from her privileged school life Sophia sees a new & tantalising future for herself but Luke is keeping a secret that could destroy it all Ira & Ruth Sophia & Luke Two couples separated by years & experience whose lives are about to converge in the most unexpected
- & shocking
- of ways The new love story from the multi-million-copy bestselling author of The Notebook The Lucky One & The Best of Me Nicholas Sparks is one of the world's most beloved authors




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Former bull-riding champion Luke (Scott Eastwood) & college student Sophia (Britt Robertson) are in love but conflicting paths & ideals threaten to tear them apart Luke hopes to make a comeback on the rodeo circuit & Sophia is about to embark on her dream job in New York&s art world As the couple ponder their romantic future they find inspiration in Ira (Alan Alda) an elderly man whose decades-long romance with his beloved wife withstood the test of time ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Ira & Ruth Luke & Sophia – two couples separated by time & age – have little in common until a series of unexpected events are set in motion & their lives become intertwined From New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks comes an extraordinary love story that begins when a box of old letters filled with a lifetime of love wisdom & experience set Luke & Sophia on a path to discover their true values & the real meaning of love ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Conrad Valmont (Jason Bateman Juno Horrible Bosses) is the over-educated under-employed heir to the Valmont Hotel fortune Though he s spent most of his adult life enjoying a playboy lifestyle on a diet of Tom Collins cocktails at 40 years old he finds himself suddenly cut off from his allowance & tossed out into the unforgiving streets of the Upper West Side Luckily he is taken in by his old friend Dylan (Billy Crudup Eat Pray Love Watchmen) & returns the favour by immediately falling for Dylan&s beautiful girlfriend Beatrice (Olivia Wilde In Time Rush) A hilarious love triangle ensues as Conrad attempts to woo Beatrice all over the city in secret All s fair in love & war right? That is until she finds out he s completely brokeand Dylan finds out his best friend has stolen his girl ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play It was hard to put a team together until they found out who they were playing Director Peter Segal & comedian Adam Sandler join forces once more for a fun remake of the 1974 classic The Longest Yard In the role of Paul Wrecking Crewe first immortalized by Burt Reynolds (who appears here as Nate Scarborough) Sandler plays an ex-football star whose career ended amidst allegations of point shaving Fed up he drunkenly steals his unfriendly wife's (an uncredited Courtney Cox Arquette) luxury car & drives it into a multi-car pileup This lands Crewe in a cruel Texas state penitentiary His only respite comes from Warden Hazen (James Cromwell) who wants Crewe to help lead his well-equipped prison-guard football team to the league championship Crewe timorously agrees suggesting the creation of an opposing team of convicts to the give the guards an easy tune-up before the season To the ragtag inmates this is the chance they've been waiting for & they hustle to get their team together so they can exact some revenge on the harassing guards Actors Adam Sandler Chris Rock Burt Reynolds Nelly Michael Irvin Walter Williamson Bill Goldberg Rob Schneider Bob Sapp Nicholas Turturro David Patrick Kelly William Fichtner Edward Bunker Steve Austin Ed Lauter & James Cromwell Director Peter Segal Certificate 15 years & over Year 2005 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English ; Spanish
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English ; English for the hearing impaired ; Dutch ; Hindi ; Portuguese ; Spanish Duration 1 hour & 48 minutes (approx)
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AS SEEN IN THE TIMESEat the foods that will help you live longer THIS is the internationally bestselling clinically tested revolutionary & straightforward diet to help you slow-down ageing fight disease & lose weight------------------' The diet that holds the key to staying young Dr Valter Longo is now considered one of the most influential voices in the 'fasting movement' The Times' Dr Valter Longo is one of the real scientific pioneers when it comes to researching the impact of food on health' Dr Michael Mosley bestselling author of The Fast Diet & The Clever Guts Diet------------------Following 30 years of research Professor Valter Longo
- a biochemist & one of the world's leading researchers into ageing
- has investigated genetics nutrition & stem cells to discover that the secret of longevity lies in cellular regeneration triggered by a special diet He is now able to reveal how by adhering to his fasting-mimicking diet we heal ourselves through food Dr Valter Longo's healthy lifespan-extending programme is based on an easy-to-adopt lifetime plan coupled with a fasting-mimicking diet 3-4 times a year & just 5 days at a time that gives all the health benefits of fasting without the hunger Including 30 easy recipes for an everyday diet based on Longo's Five Pillars of Longevity The Longevity Diet is the key to living a longer healthier & more fulfilled life------------------Try easy plant-&-fish based recipes that use phenomenal live-long ingredients Great for the heart & rich in antioxidants black rice with courgette & shrimp with a mixed green salad sweet tomatoes & carrots drizzled in balsamic vinegar For a good source of iron snack on dark chocolate & yoghurt & for dessert try tangy dried cranberries & walnuts----------------------Make simple changes that can extend your healthy lifespan Prevent age-related muscle & bone loss Build your resistance to diabetes cardiovascular disease Alzheimer's & cancer Maintain your ideal weight & reduce abdominal fat Why rely on medication to cure illness when you can help to prevent it altogether with your diet?

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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 director Michael Winterbottom comes the sexy funny & outrageously true story of Paul Raymond (Steve Coogan) the controversial entrepreneur & property baron who established the Raymond Revue Bar in the 50’s & went on to become Britain’s richest man by the early 90’s The Look of Love is a real-life tale which focuses on Raymond’s relationships with the three most important women in his life his wife Jean (Anna Friel) his lover Fiona (Tamsin Egerton) & his daughter Debbie (Imogen Poots) Special Features Deleted Scenes Paul Raymond Timeline Interviews with Michael Winterbottom Steve Coogan Anna Friel Tamsin Egerton Imogen Poots Chris Addison David Walliams James Lance Melissa Parmenter James Pearson & Matt Greenhalgh ...

A Cold War thriller from the master of spy fiction John le Carre's The Looking Glass War is a gripping novel of double-crosses audacious bluffs & the ever-present threat of nuclear war published in Penguin Modern Classics When the Department
- faded since the war & busy only with bureaucratic battles
- hears rumour of a missile base near the West German border it seems like the perfect opportunity to regain some political standing in the Intelligence market place The Cold War is at its height & the Department is dying for a piece of the action Swiftly becoming carried away by fear & pride the Department & her officers send deactivated agent Fred Leiser back into East Germany armed only with some schoolboy training & his memories of the war In the land of eloquent silence that is Communist East Germany Leiser's fate becomes inseparable from the Department's If you enjoyed The Looking Glass War you might like le Carre's The Secret Pilgrim also available in Penguin Modern Classics'A devastating & tragic record of human not glamour spies' New York Herald Tribune'A book of rare & great power' Financial Times

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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 In exchange for political asylum Polish defector Leiser (Jones) agrees to return behind the Iron Curtain to confirm the suspicions of the British Security Chief that East Germany is building a rocket in violation of the disarmament pact Once in East Berlin Leiser falls in love with a beautiful young girl & the couple decide to flee the espionage experts
- both East & West
- to start a new life together But they soon find themselves pawns in the brutal game where the stakes are human lives Adapted from the classic John Le Carre spy novel

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