World War I battlefield nurse Bess Crawford goes to dangerous lengths to investigate a wounded soldier's background-and uncover his true loyalties-in this thrilling & atmospheric entry in the bestselling "vivid period mystery series" (New York Times Book Review) At the foot of a tree shattered by shelling & gunfire stretcher-bearers find an exhausted officer shivering with cold & a loss of blood from several wounds The soldier is brought to battlefield nurse Bess Crawford's aid station where she stabilizes him & treats his injuries before he is sent to a rear hospital The odd thing is the officer isn't British-he's French But in a moment of anger & stress he shouts at Bess in German When Bess reports the incident to Matron her superior offers a ready explanation The soldier is from Alsace-Lorraine a province in the west where the tenuous border between France & Germany has continually shifted through history most recently in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 won by the Germans But is the wounded man Alsatian? & if he is on which side of the war do his sympathies really lie? Of course Matron could be right but Bess remains uneasy-and unconvinced If he was a French soldier what was he doing so far from his own lines & so close to where the Germans are putting up a fierce last-ditch fight? When the French officer disappears in Paris it's up to Bess-a soldier's daughter as well as a nurse-to find out why even at the risk of her own life ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-Ray player in order to play City Banker Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is in Shawshank State Prison after receiving a double life sentence for murder There he meets Red (Morgan Freeman) & also forms friendships with the warden & prison guards Andy soon finds that you either get on with living or you get on with dying Actors Tim Robbins Morgan Freeman Directors Frank Darabont Format PAL Blu-ray Language English Subtitles English Run Time 142 minutes ...

Region 2 This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Accountant Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is sent to prison in the Forties for the murder of his unfaithful wife & her lover despite protesting his innocence He slowly comes to terms with the injustices of the corrupt prison system & quietly inspires some of his fellow prison inmates to have a more positive outlook on life Meanwhile the Governor of the prison discovers Dufresne&s book-keeping talents & recruits him to do a spot of creative accountancy Fellow inmate ageing gangster & Red& (Morgan Freeman) uses his connections to take care of Dufresne&s material needs & narrates the story of his friend&s term in jail through to the late Sixties ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Accountant Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is sent to prison in the Forties for the murder of his unfaithful wife & her lover despite protesting his innocence He slowly comes to terms with the injustices of the corrupt prison system & quietly inspires some of his fellow prison inmates to have a more positive outlook on life Meanwhile the Governor of the prison discovers Dufresne&s book-keeping talents & recruits him to do a spot of creative accountancy Fellow inmate ageing gangster & Red& (Morgan Freeman) uses his connections to take care of Dufresne&s material needs & narrates the story of his friend&s term in jail through to the late Sixties ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Fear can hold you prisoner Hope can set you free City banker Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) arrived at Shawshank Prison in 1947 Convicted of two brutal murders he received a double life sentence & discovers that when they send you to Shawshank State Prison for life that is exactly what they take Within the confines of Shawshank Andy forms an unlikely friendship with the prison "fixer" Red (Morgan Freeman) He also becomes popular with the Warden & the prison&s guards as Andy is able to use his banking experience to help the corrupt officials amass personal fortunes With an extraordinary twist in the tale Andy finds that survival comes down to a simple choice get busy living or get busy dying ...

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Speaking Volumes Christian Book of the Year 2016 Mary's Meals is born from acts of love If you put all those many acts of sacrifice together it creates a beautiful thing Mary's Meals tells the inspirational & compelling story of how a cripplingly shy fish farmer from Argyll Scotland became the international CEO of a global charity that now feeds over 800000 children a day In 1992 Magnus Mac Farlane-Barrow was enjoying a pint with his brother when he got an idea that would change his life
- & radically change the lives of others After watching a news bulletin about war-torn Bosnia the two brothers agreed to take a week's hiatus from work to help What neither of them expected is that what began as a one-time road trip in a beaten-up Landrover rapidly grew to become Magnus's life's work
- leading him to leave his job sell his house & direct all his efforts to feeding thousands of the world's poorest children Magnus retells how a series of miraculous circumstances & an overwhelming display of love from those around him led to the creation of Mary's Meals; an organisation that now holds the key to eradicating child hunger altogether This humble heart-warming yet powerful story has never been more relevant in our society of plenty & privilege It will open your eyes to the extraordinary impact that one person can make

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A springtime story that reveals friends can be found in the most unexpected places 32 pages Merino Gemma ...

The Sheep-pig is one of Dick King-Smith's most famous tales It shot to further fame when the film adaptation Babe was released in 1995 ' Why can't I learn to be a Sheep-Pig?' When Babe the little orphaned piglet is won at a fair by Farmer Hogget he is adopted by Fly the kind-hearted sheep-dog Babe is determined to learn everything he can from Fly He knows he can't be a sheep-dog But maybe just maybe he might be a sheep-pig' An unexpectedly thrilling funny charmer of a book'
- Guardian' Dick King-Smith is a huge favourite with children'
- Observer Winner of the Guardian Fiction Award Dick King-Smith served in the Grenadier Guards during the Second World War & afterwards spent twenty years as a farmer in Gloucestershire the country of his birth Many of his stories are inspired by his farming experiences He wrote a great number of children's books including The Sheep-Pig (winner of the Guardian Award & filmed as Babe) Harry's Mad Noah's Brother The Queen's Nose Martin's Mice Ace The Cuckoo Child & Harriet's Hare (winner of the Children's Book Award in 1995) In 2009 he was made an OBE for services to children's literature Dick King-Smith died in 2011 at the age of eighty-eight

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Volume four of a fabulous four-volume collection of twelve romances by some of our bestselling Modern authors Sexy sheikhs beautiful women & all the opulence & heat of the desert A truly luxurious collection Diamond in the Desert With the future of her diamond mine in jeopardy heiress Britt Skavanga asked a mysterious Arabian investor for help But Sheikh Sharif al Kareshi has other plans-he's determined to show beautiful ice-queen Britt how things are really done in Kareshi including how hot nights in the desert can be Hide-&-Sheikh Security specialist Ellen Sheffield had done the impossible
- beaten elusive Sheikh Rashid Qarif at his own game & brought him home But is she his captoror captive? Caught between confusion & desire Ellen doesn't know the rules by which he plays-but she yearns for Rudi to win Her Sheikh Boss When Sheikh Samir Al-Hamri takes his assistant Claudia Bradford on a business trip to his desert home he's amused by the way she is so captivated by the exotic sights But as they spend hot days & nights together in his desert oasis Samir soon finds himself equally entranced by sweet Claudia
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