Estoril is small town near Lisbon Portugal Having a casino beach & wonderful weather the region was a center of diplomacy -- & spying -- during World War II In City Of Spies Estoril 1942 players are competing against each other to form the most powerful & influential secret organization of spies Based on historical facts the game takes place on famous locations in Estoril Six locations are randomly selected to be used for the first round such as casinos hotels beaches etc Control of these will be fought over in each of the four rounds of the game Special Agents are then placed on each location as the reward for who have the most influence on that location Players begin the game with the same hand of Agents (tiles) & will take turns placing these tiles in the open spaces of the various locations on the board At the end of each round players check each location to see which player gains the reward for that location At the end of the fourth round players will total up the points of their Agents plus any special game objective they might have completed Whoever has the most points wins Ages 10 Players 2-4 Playing time 60 minutes ...

' Robert Jackson Bennett deserves a huge audience'
- Brent Weeks New York Times bestselling author of The Black Prism In the city
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An ecological romance with a pulsing heart equal parts Rider Haggard & Chico Buarque
- one of the world's greatest & most beloved
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From the writer of the award-winning Game of Thrones series for HBO based on the books of George R R Martin' David Benioff is an exceptional storyteller CITY OF THIEVES is tender illuminating & be warned often shocking' Khaled Hosseini Four months into the siege of Leningrad the city is starving Seventeen-year-old Lev fears for his life when he is arrested for looting the body of a dead German paratrooper while his charismatic cellmate Kolya a handsome young soldier arrested for desertion seems bizarrely unafraid Dawn brings instead of an execution squad an impossible challenge Lev & Kolya can find a dozen eggs for an NKVD colonel to use for his daughter's wedding cake & live Or fail & die In the depths of the coldest winter in history through a city cut off from all supplies & suffering appalling deprivation man & boy embark on an absurd hunt Their search will take them through desolate lawless Leningrad & the devastated countryside surrounding it in the captivating journey of two men trying to survive against desperate odds ...

To the charity workers Dadaab refugee camp is a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government it is a 'nursery for terrorists'; to the western media it is a dangerous no-go area; but to its half a million residents it is their last resort Situated hundreds of miles from any other settlement deep within the inhospitable desert of northern Kenya where only thorn bushes grow Dadaab is a city like no other Its buildings are made from mud sticks or plastic its entire economy is grey & its citizens survive on rations & luck Over the course of four years Ben Rawlence became a first-hand witness to a strange & desperate limbo-land getting to know many of those who have come there seeking sanctuary Among them are Guled a former child soldier who lives for football; Nisho who scrapes an existence by pushing a wheelbarrow & dreaming of riches; Tawane the indomitable youth leader; & schoolgirl Kheyro whose future hangs upon her education In City of Thorns Rawlence interweaves the stories of nine individuals to show what life is like in the camp & to sketch the wider political forces that keep the refugees trapped there Lucid vivid & illuminating here is an urgent human story with deep international repercussions brought to life through the people who call Dadaab home ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play CITY RATS tells the stories of eight people going through their own personal crises whose lives are connected in some way In one scenario a man prepares to throw himself off a building when he spots a fellow suicidal on an adjacent rooftop United by their suffering the pair realise that there must be another way out A down-on-his-luck artist finds inspiration in the unlikeliest of places--the prostitute living next door--but winds up paying a high price for her cooperation Elsewhere a gay man leads his deaf-mute brother--who also happens to be gay--through the streets of Soho in an effort to help him lose his virginity Danny Dyer (ADULTHOOD THE FOOTBALL FACTORY) stars as a man whose shadowy past comes back to haunt him when the mother of an old friend approaches him for help in finding her missing son The idea that all of human experience is somehow connected is beautifully illustrated by this bittersweet tale of hope redemption & the obstacles in between ...

Protect serve rescue build & manage your city in this greatly varied simulations collection City Simulation Collection PC Whether you’re putting out fires at a busy airport or managing intricate traffic infrastructures to prevent road rage this is the ultimate city simulation collection This package

Includes:: the following six great simulators City Builder – Manage a new construction company building massive structures for a growing city Airport Firefighter Simulator – Operate the specially designed Panther a multi-purpose fire fighting vehicle built exclusively to handle airport emergencies Disaster Response Unit – Handle several special vehicles to clear debris construct bridges & rescue trapped civilians Police Simulator – Send out response teams to apprehend villains & protect your city from criminal threats Traffic Manager – Battle congestion by creating bus routes & managing traffic infrastructure Emergency Ambulance Simulator – Respond to medical emergencies by treating patients at the scene of the incident & sounding the siren to take severely injured patients to hospital System Requirements Operating system Windows XP (SP3) Vista 7 8 Processor Intel 2 GHz or greater Memory 2 GB system memory Graphics Dedicated graphics card with 256 MB memory Hard Drive 2 GB available space Other Internet connect required for download

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play New Yorker Mitch Robbins (Crystal) is 39 & miserable He&s tired of his job & bored with his life & his two best friends Ed (Kirby) & Phil (Stern) aren&t doing much better So when they all decide to chase their troubles away with a fantasy vacation Mitch & his pals trade their briefcases for saddle bags & set out to find freedom & adventure herding cattle under the wide New Mexico sky But what they discover instead is scorching sun sore backsidesand more insight into themselves
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Mitch Robbins (Billy Crystal) is a radio ad salesman who with his buddies Phil (Daniel Stern) & Ed (Bruno Kirby) makes an annual holiday out of some adventurous pursuit This year the trio join a cattle drive led by the uncompromising Curly (an Oscar-winning Jack Palance) but discover life as a cowboy is every bit as tough as one would expect ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Hell bent on his mission & determined to protect his family he gets caught up in a world of warring crime syndicates drugs corrupt police & prostitution that quickly spirals out of control with devastating consequences Starring Jonathan Pryce (Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl Tomorrow Never Dies) City State is a violent & thrilling tale of a city brought to its knees by the underworld Actors & Aacute;gústa Eva Erlendsdóttir Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson Sigurður Sigurjónsson Zlatko Krickic Björn Thors Gladkay Luna Björn Hlynur Haraldsson & Gísli & Ouml;rn Garðarsson Director Olaf de Fleur Johannesson Certificate 15 years & over Year 2011 Languages Icelandic ; English ; Serbian ; Russian ...