Boone Daniels is a laid-back kind of private investigator He has sleuthing skills to burn but is rarely out of his boardshorts & with a huge Pacific storm approaching San Diego Boone wants to be there to ride the once-in-a-lifetime waves with his buddies in the Dawn Patrol Unfortunately he's just landed a case involving one dead & one missing stripper but with the help
- or hindrance Boone thinks
- of uptight lawyer Petra Hall he's determined to wrap it up in time for the epic surf But all sorts of trouble follows with Hawaiian gangs & trafficked Mexican girls as the case turns dark & personal raising ghosts from Boone's troubled past & dragging in Sunny & the rest of the Dawn Patrol The currents turn treacherous on land & at sea as the big swell makes landfall & Boone has to fight just to keep his head above water

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A visionary life & times of Joseph Conrad & of our global world from one of the best historians writing today Enlightening compassionate superb' John le Carre The Dawn Watch will win prizes If it doesn't there is something wrong with the prizes' Guardian Migration terrorism the tensions between global capitalism & nationalism the promise & peril of a technological & communications revolution these forces shaped the life & work of Joseph Conrad at the dawn of the twentieth century In this brilliant new interpretation of one of the great voices in modern literature Maya Jasanoff reveals Conrad as a prophet of globalization as we recognize it today As an immigrant from Poland to England & in travels from Malaysia to the Congo to the Caribbean Conrad navigated an interconnected world & captured it in a literary oeuvre of extraordinary depth His life story delivers a history of globalization from the inside out & reflects powerfully on the aspirations & challenges of the modern world Joseph Conrad was born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857 to Polish parents in the Russian Empire At sixteen he left the landlocked heart of Europe to become a sailor & for the next twenty years travelled the world's oceans before settling permanently in London as an author He saw the surging competitive new imperialism' that planted a flag in almost every populated part of the globe He got a close look too at the places beyond the end of telegraph cables & mail-boat lines' & the hypocrisy of the west's most cherished ideals In a compelling blend of history biography & travelogue Maya Jasanoff follows Conrad's routes & the stories of his four greatest works The Secret Agent Lord Jim Heart of Darkness & Nostromo Genre-bending intellectually thrilling & deeply humane The Dawn Watch embarks on a spellbinding expedition into the dark heart of Conrad's world
- & through it to our own
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An eye-witness account of the Munich air crash of February 6th 1958 when 8 members of the Manchester United team were killed 192 pages Taylor Frank ...

New Alternate History from a Master of the Form Robert Conroy was an unalloyed master of alternate history Now JR Dunn completes one of his final novels LEE STRIKES BACK! After a terrible setback at Gettysburg General Robert E Lee does not retreat across the Potomac & his ultimate surrender at Appomattox Instead he turns the tables on Union General George Meade with a vicious counterattack that sets the Union Army on its heels While Lee sets across Pennsylvania in a dazzling war of maneuver a crazed actor closes in on President Abraham Lincoln Standing in his way is Major Steve Thorne a thoughtful lawyer-turned-soldier fighting for the Union & his own self-respect & Cassandra Baird a young woman whose courage is only surpassed by her determination to teach emancipated slaves to read & write & so ensure their freedom Opposing them is Colonel Corey Wade a brave Confederate officer who is just as determined to fight to the death for his honor & that of his state & in the end the fate of a nation may come down to a freed slave named Hadrian a man with an iron resolve never to return to bondage The time has come to strike a blow for liberty—or go down swinging! Meet the Author Robert Conroy was the author of a run of hugely popular alternate history novels including Himmler’s War Rising Sun 1920 America&s Great War Liberty 1784 1864 Custer in Chains & Germanica for Baen Books His 1942 which is set within a Japanese conquest of Hawaii won the prestigious Sidewise Award for alternate histories Conroy lived for many years in southeastern Michigan JR Dunn is the author of time travel novels This Side of Judgment Days of Cain—widely hailed as one of the most powerful time travel novels to deal with the Holocaust—and Full Tide of Night He was the long-time associate editor of The International Military Encyclopedia & is now an editor at The American Thinker His nonfiction appears regularly on Baen ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play From the Director of Independence Day & Godzilla comes a spectacular roller-coaster ride that boasts pulse-pounding action & sensational mindblowing special effects When global warming triggers the onset of a new Ice Age tornadoes flatten Los Angeles a tidal wave engulfs New York City & the entire Northern Hemisphere begins to freeze solid Now climatologist Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) his son Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal) & a small band of survivors must ride out the growing superstorm to stay alive in the face of an enemy more powerful & relentless than any they&ve ever encountered Mother Nature! Actors Dennis Quaid Jake Gyllenhaal Emmy Rossum Jay O Sanders Dash Mihok Sela Ward Ian Holm Adrian Lester Nestor Serrano Austin Nichols Tamlyn Tomita Sasha Roiz & Kenneth Welsh Director Roland Emmerich Certificate 12 years & over Year 2004 Screen Widescreen 2351 Languages English
- DTS-HD Additional Languages Italian ; Spanish Subtitles Danish ; Finnish ; Italian ; Norwegian ; Spanish ; Swedish ; English for the hard of hearing Duration 1 hour & 58 minutes (approx)
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An analysis of the future of business aimed at those who want to fulfil their potential in this age of disruption 272 pages Hinssen Peter ...

' Happiness
- was it right to name it without knowing it? It sounded shameless in my mouth like when someone shows off about knowing
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A fun rectangular shape plastic hanging sign with a humourous caption
- The day doesn&t start until I&ve had my cup of tea! ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Robert Rodriguez&s prodigiously talented protege Douglas Aarniokoski directs The Day an edge-of-your-seat action horror in the vein of Mad Max Assault On Precinct 13 & From Dusk Til Dawn Open war against humanity rages Five survivors
- lost & on the run The pursuit is relentless the bullets are dwindling & the battle is everywhere The Day has come Actors Shawn Ashmore Ashley Bell Michael Eklund Cory Hardrict Dominic Monaghan Shannyn Sossamon Brianna Barnes Kassidy Verreault & Sophia Ewaniuk Director Douglas Aarniokoski Certificate 18 years & over Year 2011 Screen 169 Languages English Subtitles English
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An unforgettable book from Portugal's bestselling author that promises to change how we write about love 480 pages Freitas Pedro Chagas ...