The Raven's Head by Karen Maitland author of the bestselling & much-loved Company of Liars will delight fans of Game of Thrones or Deborah Harkness seeking a new dark fix'A compelling blend of historical grit & supernatural twists' Daily Mail on The Falcons of Fire & Ice Vincent is an apprentice librarian who stumbles upon a secret powerful enough to destroy his master With the foolish arrogance of youth he attempts blackmail but the attempt fails & Vincent finds himself on the run & in possession of an intricately carved silver raven's head Any attempt to sell the head fails until Vincent tries to palm it off on the intimidating Lord Sylvain
- unbeknown to Vincent a powerful Alchemist with an all-consuming quest Once more Vincent's life is in danger because Sylvain & his neighbours the menacing White Canons consider him a predestined sacrifice in their shocking experiment Chilling & with compelling hints of the supernatural The Raven's Head is a triumph for Karen Maitland Queen of the Dark Ages
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Young Kit finds himself on a plague cart wedged between the bodies of his mother & father But he is alive & is rescued & taken into the home of the Ravenmaster at the Tower of London He soon finds he can speak the language of the big black birds a skill which proves useful when he finds himself caught up in a story of queens & treason princesses & executioners There can be no change in the history of Henry Vlll's rst two wives but without Kit & the ravens another Tudor monarch might never have survived ...

The Ravens of Thri Sahashri is a two-player cooperative card game One player is playing the girl Ren who has lost her memory; the other is the detective trying to repair it The game is about trying to communicate as well as possible by simply the choice of cards (Note " Thri Sahashri" is the buddhist term for a trillion worlds combined which in this case means "the other plane") Of a deck consisting of cards of five colors & numbered 1–5 the Ren player draws four cards & keeps them face down The goal for both players is to ensure that when the hand ends the playing field has cards of these colors & these colors only Each round the detective draws as many cards as he wishes from the shuffled deck putting them on the playing field according to the marks on the cards The deck also contains ravens which when drawn will "eat" any discarded cards of that color & threaten to take them out of the game When the detective player is done the Ren player picks one of the cards in the playing field & puts on the leftmost still "incomplete" hidden card A hidden card is complete when that card plus the cards placed on it total 7 (The fourth pile however should total only 5 according to the Japanese poem metric "dodoitsu" that goes 7-7-7-5) Once all four hidden cards are completed the round ends & unless the playing field has exactly the colors represented among the hidden cards the players have failed The game is played for three hands but in the final hand one hidden card must be completed per round lest the players fail Players also fail if the deck runs out or if all five Ravens are drawn Age 12 Playing time 45 minutes Players 2 ...

A cooperative card game in which players work to rescue Ren a young girl locked in a catatonic state Designed for two players this game is sure to challenge game & puzzle enthusiasts Kuro ...

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An exceptionally powerful novel exploring the themes of betrayal guilt & memory against the background of the Holocaust An international bestseller For 15-year-old Michael Berg a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined The woman in question is Hanna & before long they embark on a passionate clandestine love affair which leaves Michael both euphoric & confused For Hanna is not all she seems Years later as a law student observing a trial in Germany Michael is shocked to realize that the person in the dock is Hanna The woman he had loved is a criminal Much about her behaviour during the trial does not make sense But then suddenly & terribly it does
- Hanna is not only obliged to answer for a horrible crime she is also desperately concealing an even deeper secret'A tender horrifying novel that shows blazingly well how the Holocaust should be dealt with in fiction A thriller a love story & a deeply moving examination of a German conscience' INDEPENDENT
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'A thriller a love story & a deeply moving examination of a German conscience' Independent on Saturday For 15-year-old Michael Berg a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined The woman in question is Hanna & before long they embark on a passionate clandestine love affair which leaves Michael both euphoric & confused For Hanna is not all she seems Years later as a law student observing a trial in Germany Michael is shocked to realize that the person in the dock is Hanna The woman he had loved is a criminal Much about her behaviour during the trial does not make sense But then suddenly & terribly it does
- Hanna is not only obliged to answer for a horrible crime she is also desperately concealing an even deeper secret
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For fifteen-year-old Michael Berg a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined The woman in question is Hanna & before long they embark on a passionate clandestine love affair which leaves Michael both euphoric & confused For Hanna is not all she seems Years later as a law student observing a trial in Germany Michael is shocked to realize that the person in the dock is Hanna The woman he had loved is a criminal Much about her behaviour during the trial does not make sense But then suddenly & terribly it does
- Hanna is not only obliged to answer for a horrible crime she is also desperately concealing another deep secret
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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 The Reader opens in WWII Germany when teenager Michael Berg becomes ill & is helped home by Hanna a stranger twice his age Michael recovers from scarlet fever & seeks out Hanna to thank her The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to & their physical relationship deepens Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from & The Odessey& & Huck Finn& & & The Lady With The Little Dog& Despite their intense bond Hanna mysteriously disappears one day & Michael is left confused & heartbroken Eight years later while Michael is a law student observing the Nazi war crime trials he is stunned to find Hanna back in his life
- this time as a defendant in the courtroom As Hanna&s past is revealed Michael uncovers a deep secret that will impact both of their lives The Reader is a haunting story about truth & reconciliation about how one generation comes to terms with the crimes of another Actors Ralph Fiennes Jeanette Hain David Kross Kate Winslet Susanne Lothar Alissa Wilms Florian Bartholomäi Friederike Becht Matthias Habich Frieder Venus Marie-Anne Fliegel Hendrik Arnst Rainer Sellien Torsten Michaelis & Moritz Grove Director Stephen Daldry Certificate 15 years & over Year 2008 Languages English Subtitles English ; English for the hearing impaired Duration 2 hours & 4 minutes (approx)
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