Whenever you hear the sky rumble that usually means a storm In Virgil Flowers' case make that two The first storm comes from of all places the Minnesota zoo Two large & very rare Amur tigers have vanished from their cage & authorities are worried sick that they've been stolen for their body parts Traditional Chinese medicine prizes those parts for home remedies & people will do extreme things to get what they need Some of them are a great deal more extreme than others
- as Virgil is about to find out Then there's the homefront Virgil's relationship with his girlfriend Frankie has been getting kind of serious but when Frankie's sister moves in for the summer the situation gets a lot more complicated Forget a storm
- this one's a tornado

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ESCAPE Dead Island PS3 is a survival mystery that follows the story of Cliff Calo who sets sail to document the unexplained events rumored to have happened on Banoi Arriving on the island of Narapela part of the Banoi archipelago he finds that not everything is as it seems Haunted by deja-vus Cliff will have to make sense of it all throughout the entire game – again & again This story-driven adventure lets players delve into the Dead Island universe & unravel the origins of the zombie outbreak Escape is only the beginning… Delivering the key features of a Dead Island game – visceral melee combat set in a beautiful paradise setting – ESCAPE adds a completely new tone to the zombie universe The visually unique styles accompanies the player on his struggle against insanity as he experiences the secrets of the Dead Island universe fights off zombies with a vast & unique array of weapons & opens the path to the events that will happen in Dead Island 2 Key Features Unravel the origins of the zombie outbreak Experience an immersive story-driven Survival-Mystery adventure Find & use specific tools to your advantage to enter new areas of the island Fight off zombies & kill them in unique ways with a vast array of weapons Discover the secrets of the Dead Island universe The missing link between previous Dead Island games & the upcoming Dead Island 2 ...

ESCAPE Dead Island XBOX 360 is a survival mystery that follows the story of Cliff Calo who sets sail to document the unexplained events rumored to have happened on Banoi Arriving on the island of Narapela part of the Banoi archipelago he finds that not everything is as it seems Haunted by deja-vus Cliff will have to make sense of it all throughout the entire game – again & again This story-driven adventure lets players delve into the Dead Island universe & unravel the origins of the zombie outbreak Escape is only the beginning… Delivering the key features of a Dead Island game – visceral melee combat set in a beautiful paradise setting – ESCAPE adds a completely new tone to the zombie universe The visually unique styles accompanies the player on his struggle against insanity as he experiences the secrets of the Dead Island universe fights off zombies with a vast & unique array of weapons & opens the path to the events that will happen in Dead Island 2 Key Features Unravel the origins of the zombie outbreak Experience an immersive story-driven Survival-Mystery adventure Find & use specific tools to your advantage to enter new areas of the island Fight off zombies & kill them in unique ways with a vast array of weapons Discover the secrets of the Dead Island universe The missing link between previous Dead Island games & the upcoming Dead Island 2 ...

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We are all trapped by modern life Trapped! Trapped by work consumerism stress debt isolationism & general unhappiness We will each spend an average of 87000 hours at work before we die We will spend another 5000 hours getting to & from work & countless more preparing for work Worrying about work Recovering from work The majority of us hate our jobs But without work we can't buy all the things we've been told we should want & need so around we go Through the pages of New Escapologist magazine Robert Wringham has been studiously examining the traps of modern life questioning where our commitment to them stems from & why we are so unable to break free Taking inspiration from the great Escapologist Harry Houdini
- who escaped from jail cells straitjackets & even the innards of a dead whale
- Wringham applies Houdini's feats as a metaphor for real life proposing the principle of Escapology as a way to cut loose our shackles Become a modern-day Escapologist & freedom & happiness might be possible after all

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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 Whether acting or directing Academy Award winner Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino) always manages to make it gritty & keep it real & it doesn&t get more real than this fact-driven thriller starring Eastwood as Frank Morris the cunning bank robber who masterminded the only successful escape from Alcatraz&s infamous maximum security prison In 29 years the seemingly impenetrable federal penitentiary which housed Al Capone & " Birdman" Robert Stroud was only broken once
- by three men who were never heard from again Filmed on location at Alcatraz & directed by Clint&s frequent collaborator Don Siegel (Dirty Harry) this tough taut re-enactment of the true story has all the intense character study & sheer power that mark Eastwood&s finest work Actors Clint Eastwood Patrick Mc Goohan & Roberts Blossom Director Don Siegel Certificate 15 years & over Year 1979 Screen 1781 Languages English Additional Languages Italian; Spanish; German; French; Latin Spanish; Brazilian Portuguese Subtitles English; Japanese; Spanish; Italian; German; Swedish; Finnish; Norwegian; Danish; Dutch; English for the hearing impaired; French; Latin Spanish; Brazilian Portuguese Closed Captions Yes Duration 1 hour & 52 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 Superstar Clint Eastwood & director Don Siegel re-team for their fifth film in this fascinating account of the only three men ever to escape from the infamous maximum security prison at Alcatraz In 29 years the seemingly impenetrable federal penitentiary which housed Al Capone & & Birdman& Robert Stroud was only broken once
- by three men never heard of again Eastwood portrays Frank Morris the cunning bank robber who masterminded the elaborately detailed escape; Patrick Mc Goohan is a superb counterpoint as the suspicious warden Filmed on location in Alcatraz this gritty & realistic re-enactment of the true story has all the power one expects from an Eastwood Siegel movie
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scape from the Aliens in Outer Space is a card game of strategy & bluff set on a badly damaged deep space research ship On-board systems have failed plunging the ship into darkness But even worse A mysterious alien plague has crept aboard & is transforming the human crew into horrendous monsters! The remaining crewmen desperately try to save their lives by escaping from the derelict spaceship but in the darkness the aliens are lurkinghungry for human flesh The game is played on a hexagon-based map that represents the spaceship Each player is given a map sheet & a pencil Map sheets must be of the same zone & every zone has its specific name Starting from the first player & continuing clockwise every turn each player must make a movement To do so the player must write on their map sheet the coordinates of the sector to which they are moving Every time the players move to the gray (dangerous) sectors they have to draw a card; these cards make the players tell the others their position or lie about it depending on the card Every card is kept secret from other players The humans& objective is to save themselves using the escape hatches while the aliens& objective is to hunt down the humans Each player&s identity & position is kept secret; you will need to interpret the movements & behaviors of the other players to learn who & where they really are Suggested ages 13 Playing time 30-45 minutes Players 2-8 ...

' This is a story unlike any other' Barbara Demick author of Nothing to Envy Ordinary Lives in North Korea Now a major documentary film Twenty-seven years ago Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14 one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea Located about fifty-five miles north of Pyongyang the labor camp is a 'complete control district' a no-exit prison where the only sentence is life No one born in Camp 14 or in any North Korean political prison camp has escaped No one except Shin This is his story A gripping terrifying biography with a searing sense of place Escape from Camp 14 by journalist Blaine Harden will unlock through Shin a dark & secret nation taking readers to a place they have never before been allowed to go ...

<DIV> The Time Jumpers are headed to Egypt in the second book in this action-packed series from <I> New York Times<I> bestselling author Wendy Mass!<DIV> 96 pages Mass Wendy ...