A RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK SPRING 2016 When the mutilated body of a young woman is discovered LAPD Detective Jessica Allen knows she's seen this MO before A sadistic serial killer has been operating undetected for a decade preying on lone female drivers who have broken down The press dub the killer 'the Samaritan' but with no leads the police investigation quickly grinds to a halt That's when Carter Blake shows up to volunteer his services He's a skilled manhunter who shares some uncomfortable similarities to the man Allen & her team are tracking As the slaughter intensifies Blake must find a way to stop it even if it means bringing his own past crashing down on top of him From the author of THE KILLING SEASON comes the thrilling new Carter Blake novel ...

The Same Inside is a sweet & thoughtful collection of poems about friendship empathy & respect by three of the nation's best-loved poets Liz Brownlee Matt Goodfellow & Roger Stevens These fifty poems deal sensitively with feelings empathy respect courtesy bullying disability & responsibility They are the perfect springboard to start conversations ...

In 1613 the missionary Father Pedro Velasco's dream comes true For the first time the Japanese are going to cross the Pacific Ocean & he is going with them As he sets sail with a group of Samurai for Mexico then Spain & finally Rome his zealous hope is that by opening up relations with the western world Japan will become ripe for conversion to Christianity
- with him as Bishop But fate has other plans for Father Velasco A gripping portrayal of an extraordinary historical voyage filled with danger & hardship The Samurai is a haunting novel of endurance faith & hubris' Endo to my mind is one of the finest living novelists' Graham Greene' Powerful beautifully written' New Statesman
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In the gentle Shrewsbury spring of 1140 the midnight matins at the Benedictine abbey suddenly reverberates with an unholy sound
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In this lyrical hallucinatory novel set in Morocco Tahar Ben Jelloun offers an imaginative & radical critique of contemporary Arab social customs & Islamic law The Sand Child tells the story of a Moroccan father's effort to thwart the consequences of Islam's inheritance laws regarding female offspring Already the father of seven daughters Hajji Ahmed determines that his eighth child will be a male Accordingly the infant a girl is named Mohammed Ahmed & raised as a young man with all the privileges granted exclusively to men in traditional Arab-Islamic societies As she matures however Ahmed's desire to have children marks the beginning of her sexual evolution & as a woman named Zahra Ahmed begins to explore her true sexual identity Drawing on the rich Arabic oral tradition Ben Jelloun relates the extraordinary events of Ahmed's life through a professional storyteller & the listeners who have gathered in a Marrakesh market square in the 1950s to hear his tale A poetic vision of power colonialism & gender in North Africa The Sand Child has been justifiably celebrated around the world as a daring & significant work of international fiction ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Nominated for eight Academy Awards including Best Picture this "fascinating" (The New York Times) action-drama chronicles a volatile time in history & will resonate with generations to come Directed with a "deft" (Life) hand by Oscar winner Robert Wise (The Sound of Music) The Sand Pebbles earned Steve Mc Queen his only Oscar nomination & also stars Richard Attenborough & Candice Bergen 1926 China Engineer Jake Holman (Mc Queen) is transferred to the USS San Pablo a gunboat patrolling the troubled waters of the Yangtze River As Chinese factions battle around them the crew has one singular mission to protect American interests in the region without provoking an international incident But as hostility over the US presence in the river intensifies Holman & his sole ally (Attenborough) know their latest assignment
- to save a US missionary (Bergen)
- could be their last Actors Steve Mc Queen Candice Bergen Richard Attenborough Richard Crenna Emmanuelle Arsan Mako Larry Gates Charles Robinson Simon Oakland Ford Rainey Joe Turkel Gavin Mac Leod Joe Di Reda Richard Loo & Barney Phillips Director Robert Wise Certificate 15 years & over Year 1966 Screen Widescreen 1692351 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (40) Stereo Subtitles Croatian; Czech; Danish; Finnish; Hebrew; Hungarian; Icelandic; Norwegian; Polish; Portuguese; Swedish; Turkish; English for the hearing impaired Duration 2 hour & 54 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 Collection of three children&s movies & The Sandlot Kids& (1994) is set in Salt Lake City in 1962 & tells the story of the friendship between two twelve-year old boys Scotty (Tom Guiry) & Benny (Mike Vitar) Scotty & his family move to town & Scotty although useless at baseball manages to get a place with a game played in a sandlot out the back of his house thanks to the engineering of a catch by the team&s best player Benny As the summer progresses the two boys become good friends while having occasional adventures with the next-door neighbour&s terrifying dog
- The Beast & The Sandlot Kids 2& (2005) is set ten years after the original story & the local dirt field is now &home& to a new group of neighbourhood kids who get together to share laughs show off & play baseball Yet the gang faces its toughest challenge yet as the kids try to retrieve an irreplaceable model rocket that has landed in the junkyard behind left field
- a forbidden territory guarded by the legendary slobbering beast known as & The Great Fear& Finally in & The Sandlot 3& (2007) Tommy Santorelli (Luke Perry) is a gifted but arrogant Major League baseball player When he is knocked out by a stray pitch he wakes up & finds himself a 12-year-old in 1976 on his childhood playing field When Earl Needman (Paul Garrett) a greedy developer threatens to bulldoze the sandlot unless Tommy&s friends can beat Needman&s far better side Tommy must decide whether to switch teams or stay with his friends & lead them to their greatest ever victory Actors Tom Guiry Mike Vitar Patrick Renna Chauncey Leopardi Marty York Directors David Mickey Evans William Dear Producers Dale De La Torre William S Gilmore David Bixler Jon Kuyper Language English Subtitles Dutch French German Italian Spanish Swedish Danish Finnish Norwegian Dubbed French German Italian Spanish Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Number of discs 3

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play It&s the early 1960&s & 5th grader Scotty Smalls has just moved into town with his folks Kids call him a dork because he can&t even throw a baseball But that changes when the leader of the neighborhood gang recruits him to play on the nearby sandlot field It&s the beginning of a magical summer of baseball wild adventures first kisses & fearsome confrontations with the dreaded beast & its owner who live behind the left field fence Actors Tom Guiry Mike Vitar Patrick Renna Denis Leary & James Earl Jones Director David Mickey Evans Certificate PG Year 1993 Screen Fullscreen 43 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles Dutch ; English ; French ; German ; Italian ; Spanish ; Swedish Duration 1 hour & 37 minutes (approx)
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A magical collaboration between War Horse author Michael Morpurgo & Horrid Henry illustrator Tony Ross Michael loves his grandfather's stories about the Sandman & the turtles but he doesn't believe that they are real But that's about to change because the Sandman is very real indeed & Michael & his cousins Barry & Polly are going to need his help The Sandman & the Turtles is a charming adventure from former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo the master storyteller behind An Eagle in the Snow Listen to the Moon Private Peaceful & An Elephant in the Garden Michael has written more than one hundred books for children & won the Whitbread Award the Smarties Award the Circle of Gold Award the Children's Book Award & has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal four times Tony Ross is one of Britain's best known illustrators He has worked on the bestselling ' Little Princess' & ' Horrid Henry' stories David Walliams' Gangsta Granny & many many more He lives in Wales ...

Strange man how can you have eyes for sale? Eyes? Eyes? ' The disturbing tale of a young man's obsession with the Sandman stealer of eyes which has inspired writers from Sigmund Freud to Neil Gaiman One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946 Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range & diversity with works from around the world & across the centuries
- including fables decadence heartbreak tall tales satire ghosts battles & elephants
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