The most popular alternate history series of all continues When an inexplicable cosmic disturbance hurls your town from twentieth century West Virginia back to seventeenth century Europe—and into the middle of the Thirty Years War—you&d better be adaptable to survive & the natives of that time period faced with American technology & politics need to be equally adaptable Here’s a generous helping of more stories of Grantville the American town lost in time & its impact on the people & societies of a tumultuous age Edited by Eric Flint & Walt Boyes the editor of the Grantville Gazette magazine from which the best selections are made these are stories that fill in the pieces of the Ring of Fire series begun with Flint’s novel 1632 The setting has become a political economic social & cultural puzzle as supporting characters we meet in the novels get their own lives loves & life-changing stories The future & democracy have arrived with a bang—an historical explosion with a multitude of unforeseen consequences About the Author Eric Flint is a modern master of alternate history fiction with three million books in print He’s the authorcreator of the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series starting with first novel 1632 With David Drake he has written six popular novels in the “ Belisarius” alternate Roman history series & with David Weber collaborated on 1633 & 1634 The Baltic War & latest Honorverse series entry Cauldron of Ghosts Flint&s latest Ring of Fire novel is 1636 The Ottoman Onslaught Flint was for many years a labor union activist He lives near Chicago Illinois ...

Packed with historical action-adventure the eighth & final book in Chris Bradford's blockbuster Young Samurai series reaches a thrilling conclusion The Shogun has deemed that any Christian or foreigner now discovered outside the bounds of an official trading port will be instantly put to death For Jack Nagasaki is within reach but the Shogun's samurai are closing in with the help of Jack's old school rival Kazuki who has a score to settle Will Jack make it to the city alive? Will he keep hold of the precious rutter? Can he find a ship bound for England or will he be burned at the stake? wwwyoungsamuraicom 'A fantastic adventure that floors the reader on page one & keeps them there until the end'
- Eoin Colfer
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Fans of the Bartimaeus sequence will devour this book
- a cracking adventure brimming with magic intrigue & a treasure trove of
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' The ideal interpreter of the Ring a fascinating & valuable study absorbing & convincing' Sunday Times The Ring of the Nibelung is one of the greatest works of art created in modern times Roger Scruton's brilliant & passionate exploration of the drama music symbolism & philosophy of Wagner's masterpiece
- with its themes of love death sacrifice & freedom
- shows how ultimately it expresses the truth about the human condition ' Highly original & penetrating tremendous' Tim Blanning Literary Review'A rich historical account After reading this book only the most unadventurous reader would turn down the chance to see Wagner's masterpiece' Economist'A brilliant gallop through the master's religious musical & philosophical contexts' Sue Prideaux Spectator' Scruton is one of the finest philosopher-musicians since Schopenhauer' Jonathan Gaisman Standpoint

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Jack Fletcher has been left for dead Bruised & battered Jack Fletcher wakes up in a roadside inn wrapped only in a dirty kimono He has lost everything including his memory of what happened Determined to discover the truth Jack goes on a quest to retrieve his belongings
- his precious swords his friend Akiko's black pearl & most important of all his father's prize possession Relying on his samurai & ninja training Jack realises The Ring of Water is the key to his survival But with only a washed up Ronin
- a masterless samurai
- for help what will Jack manage to find? What will he lose? & what will he have to sacrifice?


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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 Six months after the incidents involving the lethal videotape new clues prove that there is a new evil lurking in the darkness ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The Ring (Dir Gore Verbinski 2002) It begins as just another urban legend
- the whispered tale of nightmarish videotape that causes anyone who watches it to die seven days later But when four teenagers all meet with mysterious deaths exactly one week after watching just such a tape investigative reporter Rachel Keller tracks down the videoand watches it Now the legend is coming true the clock is ticking & Rachel has just seven days to unravel the mystery of The Ring The Ring 2 (Dir Hideo Nakata 2005) Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) & her son Aidan (David Dorfman) have relocated to the quaint mountain town of Asheville where Rachel has found a new job at the local Asheville Gazette working alongside reporter Max Rourke (Simon Baker) The discovery of a local teenage homicide whilst scanning the electronic Asheville Police archives prompts Rachel to uncover the truth behind it Before long Rachel has linked the homicide to the mysterious video tape Just when Rachel is within reach of uncovering the secret she discovers that Aidan has been hospitalized
- unconcious perilously cold & bruised Rachel suspects this is the act of Samara Morgan but Dr Emma Temple suspects otherwise Having being blamed for child abuse & looking guilty as sin Rachel returns to Seattle to dig deeper into the past of the ghostly Samara Will the secrets she uncovers solve problems or will they end more lives? Actors Amber Tamblyn Brian Cox Daveigh Chase David Dorfman Jane Alexander Lindsay Frost Martin Henderson Naomi Watts Rachael Bella Naomi Watts Simon Baker David Dorfman Elizabeth Perkins Gary Cole Sissy Spacek & Ryan Merriman Director Gore Verbinski & Hideo Nakata Certificate 15 years & over Year 2002 ; 2005 Screen Widescreen 1851 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Closed Captions Yes Duration 3 hours & 45 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 Peter & Bobby Farrelly have always expressed an especially warm but unsentimental attitude in their films toward those with disabilities most notably in THERE&S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY & SHALLOW HAL THE RINGER which they produced (but neither wrote nor directed) takes this trait to feverish new heights JACKASS-cum-leading man stars Johnny Knoxville as office schmo Steve Barker whose request for more responsibility at his job indirectly results in the severing of four fingers from the hand of Stavi the mild-mannered office janitor When Steve requests financial help from his morally-questionable gambling addict Uncle Gary (Brian Cox) Stevie finds himself posing as Jeffy an athlete in the Special Olympics whose victory against track champion Jimmy (Leonard Flowers) could spell an end to Uncle Gary&s debts & the reattaching of Stavi&s fingers Though a basic description of its premise would make most viewers cry foul THE RINGER skirts the obvious charge of exploitation by making the mentally challenged characters the only ones to realise that Steve is only acting handicapped Steve&s fellow Olympians are cast with a combination of veteran character actors & real-life former Special Olympians (most notably Edward Barbanell John Taylor & Leonard Flowers) who while lending the film authenticity also spark with comic timing & the true joy of being on camera Knoxville once again makes an affable hero & Ricky Blitt&s screenplay while crass by nature keeps true vulgarity at bay in favour of a good nature that makes simplicity an asset ...

An ounce of courage A leap of faith Together they propel two young women to chase a new life-one that's reimagined from what they might have become In turn-of-the-century America a young girl dreams of a world that stretches beyond the confi nes of a quiet life on the family farm With little more than her wit & a cigar box of treasures Mable steps away from all she knows seeking the limitless marvels of the Chicago World's Fair There a chance encounter triggers her destiny-a life with a famed showman by the name of John Ringling A quarter of a century later Lady Rosamund Easling boards a ship to America as a last adventure before her arranged marriage There the twenties are roaring & the rich & famous gather at opulent Gatsby-esque parties The Jazz Age has arrived & with it the golden era of the American circus whose queen is none other than the enigmatic Mable Ringling When Rosamund's path crosses with Mable's & the Ringlings' glittering world she makes the life-altering decision to leave behind a comfortable future of estates & propriety choosing instead the nomadic life of a trick rider in the Ringling Brothers' circus A novel that is at once captivating deeply poignant & swirling with exquisite historical details of a bygone world The Ringmaster's Wife will escort readers into the center ring with its bright lights exotic animals & a dazzling performance that can only be described as the Greatest Show on Earth! Vibrant with the glamour & awe that flourished under the Big Top in the 1920s The Ringmaster's Wife invites the reader into the Greatest Show on Earth -Joanne Bischof award-winning author of The Lady & the Lionheart ...

The Rings of Saturn begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia From Lowestoft to Bungay Sebald's own story becomes the conductor of evocations of people & cultures past & present of Chateaubriand Thomas Browne Swinburne & Conrad of fishing fleets skulls & silkworms The result is an intricately patterned & haunting book on the transience of all things human ...