Strange & outdated laws from each of the 50 states-some long overturned some still on the books & some merely the stuff of legend-are depicted with sly wit in Olivia Locher's vibrant photographs Incisive ironic & drop-dead gorgeous I Fought the Law is perfect for humour-loving hipsters fine art photo fans & trivia buffs alike A foreword from American poet Kenneth Goldsmith & an interview with the artist by Eric Shiner former director of the Andy Warhol Museum contextualise Locher's work ...

The author's tribe are her lively children & her filmmaker husband Simon who has Motor Neurone Disease & can only communicate with his eyes An invocation to all of us to love as hard as we can & live even harder this is the author's urgent & uplifting letter to a husband family friends the natural world & the brightness of life 224 pages Fitzmaurice Ruth ...

& One of the year’s most arresting humbling & acute memoirs It is a catch-in-the-throat life-affirming work that you want to gulp down in one & recommend to all your friends Fitzmaurice tells her story in sparkling prose that is as sinewy as her new sea-strengthened body & as admirable & boundless as her spirit& Sunday Times Ruth’s tribe are her lively children & her filmmaker husband Simon who has Motor Neurone Disease & can only communicate with his eyes Ruth’s other ‘tribe’ are the friends who gather at the cove in Greystones Co Wicklow & regularly throw themselves into the freezing cold water just for kicks ‘ The Tragic Wives’ Swimming Club’ as they jokingly call themselves meet to cope with the extreme challenges life puts in their way not to mention the monster waves rolling over the horizon Swimming is just one of the daily coping strategies as Ruth fights to preserve the strong but now silent connection with her husband As she tells the story of their marriage via diagnosis to their current precarious situation Ruth also charts her passion for sea swimming – culminating in a midnight swim under the full moon on her wedding anniversary An invocation to all of us to love as hard as we can & live even harder I Found My Tribe is an urgent & uplifting letter to a husband family friends the natural world & the brightness of life ...

& One of the year’s most arresting humbling & acute memoirs It is a catch-in-the-throat life-affirming work that you want to gulp down in one & recommend to all your friends Fitzmaurice tells her story in sparkling prose that is as sinewy as her new sea-strengthened body & as admirable & boundless as her spirit& Sunday Times Ruth’s tribe are her lively children & her filmmaker husband Simon who has Motor Neurone Disease & can only communicate with his eyes Ruth’s other ‘tribe’ are the friends who gather at the cove in Greystones Co Wicklow & regularly throw themselves into the freezing cold water just for kicks ‘ The Tragic Wives’ Swimming Club’ as they jokingly call themselves meet to cope with the extreme challenges life puts in their way not to mention the monster waves rolling over the horizon Swimming is just one of the daily coping strategies as Ruth fights to preserve the strong but now silent connection with her husband As she tells the story of their marriage via diagnosis to their current precarious situation Ruth also charts her passion for sea swimming – culminating in a midnight swim under the full moon on her wedding anniversary An invocation to all of us to love as hard as we can & live even harder I Found My Tribe is an urgent & uplifting letter to a husband family friends the natural world & the brightness of life ...

Two women Twenty years of secrets & a man who doesn&t remember anything Or does he?& Fresh & intriguing with characters so real I ached for them I loved I Found You& Clare Mackintosh&I LOVED I Found You A proper thriller with wonderful characters& Sabine Durrant Everyone has secrets What if you can&t remember yours?& How long have you been sitting out here?&&I got here yesterday&& Where did you come from?&&I have no idea& Lily has only been married for three weeks When her new husband fails to come home from work one night she is left stranded in a new country where she knows no one Alice finds a man on the beach outside her house He has no name no jacket no idea what he is doing there Against her better judgement she invites him into her home But who is he & how can she trust a man who has lost his memory? ...

Jamie Grimm is a middle schooler on a mission he wants to become the world's greatest st&-up comedian
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Jamie Grimm has finally accomplished his dream of proving himself the Planet's Funniest Kid Comic & the sky's the limit from there Enter a couple of TV executives with a huge plan for Jamie a new show about Jamie & his oddball friends! But when Jamie struggles to learn the acting ropes will it be an early curtain call for the biggest show of the decade? ...

Teaching other kids how to be funny is the toughest gig that Jamie Grimm has ever had & with the highest stakes If he fails his school library will be shut down for good! Even though he has a national contest trophy & a TV show under his belt Jamie Grimm isn't one to sit back & relax When his school has a major funding crisis Jamie hits on a bright idea to save the day
- a comedy class for the other students Little does he know that making jokes & teaching jokes are two very different things & he's only good at one of them With the fate of his school's library on his shoulders Jamie has to dig deep to see if he has what it takes to succeed at his most difficult challenge yet
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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 I Give It A Year is a brand new comedy from Dan Mazer writer of Borat which lifts the veil on the realities of the first year of marriage Ambitious high-flyer Nat (Rose Byrne Bridesmaids) & struggling novelist Josh (Rafe Spall Life of Pi) have been deliriously happy despite their differences It appears that opposites attract Josh is a thinker Nat is a doernevertheless the spark between them is undeniable As they settle into real life together the absurdities & flaws they once found so endearing & quirky start irritating the hell out of each other When Josh&s ex-girlfriend Chloe (Anna Faris The Dictator) walks back into his life & Nat begins working for a suave America client (Simon Baker The Mentalist) an attractive alternative could be on offer But will they give in to temptation? Actors Rose Byrne Rafe Spall Alex Macqueen Stephen Merchant Jane Asher Terence Harvey Minnie Driver Jason Flemyng Nigel Planer Maisy Mazer Matilda Thykier Clare Higgins Anna Faris Kevin Moore & Olivia Colman Director Dan Mazer Certificate 15 years & over Year 2013 Screen Widescreen 2401 Languages English Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play I Give It A Year is a brand new comedy from Dan Mazer writer of Borat which lifts the veil on the realities of the first year of marriage Ambitious high-flyer Nat (Rose Byrne Bridesmaids) & struggling novelist Josh (Rafe Spall Life of Pi) have been deliriously happy despite their differences It appears that opposites attract Josh is a thinker Nat is a doernevertheless the spark between them is undeniable As they settle into real life together the absurdities & flaws they once found so endearing & quirky start irritating the hell out of each other When Josh&s ex-girlfriend Chloe (Anna Faris The Dictator) walks back into his life & Nat begins working for a suave America client (Simon Baker The Mentalist) an attractive alternative could be on offer But will they give in to temptation? Actors Rose Byrne Rafe Spall Alex Macqueen Stephen Merchant Jane Asher Terence Harvey Minnie Driver Jason Flemyng Nigel Planer Maisy Mazer Matilda Thykier Clare Higgins Anna Faris Kevin Moore & Olivia Colman Director Dan Mazer Certificate 15 years & over Year 2013 Screen Widescreen 2401 Languages English Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players
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