'I was born on 31 January 1979
- a Wednesday I know it was a Wednesday becasue the date is blue in my mind & Wednesdays are always
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From one of Nigeria's finest contemporary literary talents comes Elnathan John's highly awaited debut novel Told through the irresistible voice of a young boy Dantala Born on a Tuesday is a masterful & haunting coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of extremist politics & religion in Northern Nigeria Dantala is a naive but bright Quranic student who falls in with a gang of street boys surviving on a regime of petty crime & violence After being paid to set fire to the local headquarters of an opposition party Dantala is forced to run for his life Still reeling from the trauma of events he stumbles into a Salafi mosque where he quickly becomes the favoured apprentice of the Sheikh & finds stability & friendship From his place of refuge Dantala confronts the hurdles of adolescence first love & the splintering of family life
- as his mother becomes increasingly unstable in the wake of a family tragedy & his brothers join a rival religious sect But as political & religious tensions mount he is torn between loyalty to his benefactor Sheikh Jamal & adherence to the Sheikh's charismatic advisor Malam Abdul-Nur When bloodshed erupts around him Dantala is tested to his limits In this raw authentic & deceptively simple novel Elnathan John explores boyhood in the wake of extremism & fundamentalism Born on a Tuesday delves behind the scenes of the media's portrayal of Boko Haram bringing us a powerful & intensely personal picture of life in Northern Nigeria today
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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play A story of innocence lost & courage found Tom Cruise delivers a riveting & unforgettable portrayal of Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic in Oliver Stone&s Academy Award winning masterpiece Based on a true story the acclaimed film follows the young Kovic from a zealous teen who eagerly volunteers for the Vietnam War to an embittered veteran paralysed from the mid-chest down Deeply in love with his country Kovic returned to an environment vastly different from the one he left & struggled before emerging as a brave new voice for the disenchanted Oscar nominated for eight awards the film picked up two gongs Best Director (Oliver Stone) & Best Editing (David Brenner & Joe Hutshing) Actors Tom Cruise Kyra Sedgwick Frank Whaley Raymond J Barry Amanda Davis Bryan Larkin Caroline Kava Stephen Baldwin Willem Dafoe Michael Wincott Tom Sizemore John C Mc Ginley Tom Berenger Dale Dye Bob Gunton & Vivica A Fox Director Oliver Stone Certificate 18 years & over Year 1989 Screen Widescreen 2351 Languages English Additional Languages French ; Italian ; German ; Spanish ; Brazilian Portuguese ; Czech ; Latin American Spanish ; Polish Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; French ; Italian ; German ; Spanish ; Brazilian Portuguese ; Cantonese ; Czech ; Danish ; Dutch ; Finnish ; Korean ; Latin American Spanish ; Norwegian ; Polish ; Portuguese ; Swedish ; Traditional Mandarin Closed Captions Yes Duration 2 hours & 24 minutes (approx) ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The life of a Vietnam vet Ron Kovic after he is severely wounded & returns from the war When he went to fight in Vietnam his fellow Americans were waving flags but now when he returns paralyzed from the mid-chest down they are burning them Still he loved his country but America no longer loved him Now stunningly repackaged 50p from the sale of this DVD will be paid to Royal British Legion Trading Limited which gives its taxable profits to The Royal British Legion (Charity no 219279) & Poppyscotland (Scottish Charity No SC014096) Actors Tom Cruise Kyra Sedgwick Stephen Baldwin William Baldwin & Willem Dafoe Director Oliver Stone Certificate 18 years & over Year 1989 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
- DTS-HD Master Audio (51) Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Closed Captions Yes Duration 2 hours & 18 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 War drama based on the autobiographical book by Ron Kovic Tom Cruise plays Kovic a man brought up in the God-fearing All-American tradition the perfect material to fight for the US cause in Vietnam However nothing could prepare the young Marine for the horrors of the frontline & he returns home paralysed from chest down Embittered Kovic goes into a self-destructive downward spiral until he finds new direction by joining the anti-war movement Age Rating 18 ...

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You ain&t never had a friend like Genie Jim Shore captures his fun comical spirit as he dances along with a cane & top hat entertaining his adoring audience Make your wishes come true with this playful Genie from Disney&s Aladdin in your magical collection Unique variations should be expected as this product is hand painted Packed in a branded gift box Not a toy or children&s product Intended for adults only ...

Description below is for brand new sealed products & may not represent the item fully Images are for illustration only Contents & item condition may vary All items are sold in working condition Instruction manuals guides downloadable or online accessible content listed on the product are not guaranteed to be included You ain&t never had a friend like Genie Jim Shore captures his fun comical spirit as he dances along with a cane & top hat entertaining his adoring audience Make your wishes come true with this playful Genie from Disney&s Aladdin in your magical collection Unique variations should be expected as this product is hand painted Packed in a branded gift box Not a toy or children&s product Intended for adults only ...

Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944 Priska Rachel & Anka each passed through its infamous gates with a secret Strangers to each other they were newly pregnant & facing an uncertain fate without their husbands Alone scared & with so many loved ones already lost to the Nazis these young women were privately determined to hold on to all they had left their lives & those of their unborn babies That the gas chambers ran out of Zyklon-B just after the babies were born before they & their mothers could be exterminated is just one of several miracles that allowed them all to survive & rebuild their lives after World War II Born Survivors follows the mothers' incredible journey
- first to Auschwitz where they each came under the murderous scrutiny of Dr Josef Mengele; then to a German slave labour camp where half-starved & almost worked to death they struggled to conceal their condition; & finally as the Allies closed in their hellish 17-day train journey with thousands of other prisoners to the Mauthausen death camp in Austria Hundreds died along the way but the courage & kindness of strangers including guards & civilians helped save these women & their children Sixty-five years later the three 'miracle babies' met for the first time at Mauthausen for the anniversary of the liberation that ultimately saved them United by their remarkable experiences of survival against all odds they now consider each other siblings of the heart In Born Survivors Wendy Holden brings all three stories together for the first time to mark their seventieth birthdays & the seventieth anniversary of the ending of the war A heart-stopping account of how three mothers & their newborns fought to survive the Holocaust Born Survivors is also a life-affirming celebration of our capacity to care & to love amid inconceivable cruelty
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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play In the 1950s Chet Baker (Ethan Hawke
- Boyhood) was one of the most famous trumpeters in the world renowned as both a pioneer of the West Coast jazz scene & an icon of cool By the 1960s he was all but washed up his career & personal life in shambles due to years of addiction Creatively blending fact with fiction & driven by Hawke’s virtuoso performance Born to Be Blue unfolds at a key moment in the 1960s just as Baker attempts to stage a hard-fought comeback spurred in part by a passionate romance with a new flame (Carmen Ejogo
- Selma)

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