Graphic novel star Kazu Kibuishi creates a world of terrible man-eating demons a mechanical rabbit a giant robot---and two ordinary children on a life-or-death mission After the tragic death of their father Emily & Navin move with their mother to the home of her deceased great-grandfather but the strange house proves to be dangerous Before long a sinister creature lures the kids' mom through a door in the basement Em & Navin desperate not to lose her follow her into an underground world inhabited by demons robots & talking animals Eventually they enlist the help of a small mechanical rabbit named Miskit Together with Miskit they face the most terrifying monster of all & Em finally has the chance to save someone she loves ...

Emily & Navin's mother is still in a coma from the arachnopod's poison & there's only one place to find help Kanalis the bustling beautiful city of waterfalls But when Em her brother & Miskit & the rest of the robotic crew aboard the walking house reach the city they quickly realize that seeking help is looking for trouble dangerous trouble ...

Director Cyrus Nowrasteh teams with screenwriter Betsy Giffen Nowrasteh to illuminate the dangers of religious fundamentalism gender apartheid & mob rule with this fictionalized adaptation of Freidoune Sahebjam's best-selling novel centring on a true-life tragedy The story takes place in 1986 just as Khomeini is coming into power in Iran Undercover French journalist Freidoune Sahebjam (Jim Caviezel) is traveling though a small southwestern village when his car breaks down Surrounded by strife but left with little choice other to wait until his car is repaired the anxious Freidoune is soon approached by persistent local Zahra (Shohreh Aghdashloo) who convinces him to follow her into the courtyard behind her home There she reveals to him that she has just borne witness to a most heinous crime Just the previous day Zahra had watched the men or her town stone an innocent woman to death That woman was Soraya (Mozhan Marn) long-suffering wife of abusive tyrant Ali Soraya wed Ali in an arranged marriage never realizing the horrors that she & her children would endure under her husband's heavy hand When Ali requested a divorce so that he would be free to marry a 14-year-old girl Soraya boldly refused knowing that she & the children would most certainly starve to death without a husband to support them Ali was too poor to return Soraya's dowry as custom dictates in a divorce but he found another way out of the marriage Under Shariah law adultery is a crime punishable by death if the accused is unable to prove her innocence Scheming with the newly installed counterfeit mullah Ali accused his wife of adultery In order to ensure that she had no chance of defending herself he blackmailed several male villagers to testify on his behalf ...

Tracklist London 1972I Got A Right Louie Louie Penetration Intrumental London 1972 Scene Of The Crime Gimme Some Skin Money Tight Pants I'm Sick Of You New York 1973 Johanna Rubber Legs Open Up & Bleed Pinpoint Eyes Cry For Me Detroit & New York 1973 Cock In My Pocket Head On Wild Love' Til The End Of The Night ...

Tracklist A1I Got A Right 645A2 You Don't Want My Name 645A3 The Shadow Of Your Smile (Iggy Solo)109A4 Fresh Rag (Or New York Pussy Smells Like Dog Shit)539B1 Dead Body (Or Over My Dead Boby) Who Do You Love?908B2 Big Time Bum 322B3 Do You Want My Love? Feedback Goodnight 1123B4 The Children Of The Night 026 ...

' Bloody brilliant' Paula Hawkins bestselling author of The Girl on the Train Some memories are too powerful to live only in the past During a ferocious storm a red-haired stranger appears in the garden of a small farming cottage Eliza & her parents take him in But very soon it's clear he has no intention of leaving A century later Mary & Graham have experienced every parent's worst nightmare Now escaping the memories & the headlines they have found an idyllic new home in rural Suffolk A cottage a beautiful garden The perfect place to forget To move on But life doesn't always work that way A devastating depiction of profound loss sexual longing love & true evil The Stopped Heart is the finest novel to date from this most fearless & original of writers ...

The Store doesn't just want your money
- it wants your soul Imagine a future of unparalleled convenience A powerful retailer The
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The Store doesn't just want your money
- it wants your soul Imagine a future of unparalleled convenience A powerful retailer The
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Originally published as The Collected Works of A J Fikry Who the hell are you? AJ asks the baby For no apparent reason she stops crying & smiles at him Maya she answers That was easy AJ thinks How old are you? he asks Maya holds up two fingers You're two? Maya smiles again & holds up her arms to him AJ Fikry the grumpy owner of Island Books is going through a hard time his bookshop is failing he has lost his beloved wife & a prized rare first edition has been stolen But one day AJ finds two-year-old Maya sitting on the bookshop floor with a note attached to her asking the owner to look after her His life
- & Maya's
- is changed forever

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Throughout her career prize-winning novelist Jane Gardam has been writing glorious short stories each one hallmarked with all the originality poignancy wry comedy & narrative brilliance of her longer fiction Passion & longing metamorphosis & enchantment are Gardam's themes & like a magician she plucks them from the quietest of corners from Wimbledon gardens & cold churches from London buses & industrial backstreets A mother watching her children on the beach dreams of a long-lost lover an abandoned army wife sees a ghost at a moorland gate a translator adrift in Geneva is haunted by the unspeakable manifestation of her own fears & a colonial servant wreaks a delicious revenge on her monstrous masters Gardam's cast is wide & wonderful saints & mystics trollops & curmudgeons yearning mothers & lost children beloved figures such as Old Filth & less familiar
- but equally unforgettable
- characters like Signor Settimo the sad-eyed provincial photographer marooned in Shipley or Florrie Ironside the ferocious matron he seduces With a mischievous ear for dialogue a glittering eye for detail & a capacious understanding of the vagaries of the human heart Jane Gardam's stories will captivate sadden & delight

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