Armed with a suitcase & an old laundry bag filled with clothes Kasienka & her mother head for England Life is lonely for Kasienka At home her mother's heart is breaking & at school friends are scarce But when someone special swims into her life Kasienka learns that there might be more than one way for her to stay afloat The Weight of Water is a startlingly original piece of fiction; most simply a brilliant coming of age story it also tackles the alienation experienced by many young immigrants Moving unsentimental & utterly page-turning we meet & share the experiences of a remarkable girl who shows us how quiet courage prevails ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Jean (Catherine Mc Cormack) & Thomas (Sean Penn) attempt to rekindle their failing marriage on a sailing trip with Thomas& brother Rich & his girlfriend Adaline (Liz Hurley) However Jean becomes tortured by images of the past her husband&s betrayal & the grisly murder of two young girls over a century ago Jean begins to get more & more entangled in the past & not only discovers a link between Adaline & Thomas but also feels a sinister connection to the murders herself ...

What exactly are the Weird & the Eerie? In this new essay Mark Fisher argues that some of the most haunting & anomalous fiction of the 20th century belongs to these two modes The Weird & the Eerie are closely related but distinct modes each possessing its own distinct properties Both have often been associated with Horror yet this emphasis overlooks the aching fascination that such texts can exercise The Weird & the Eerie both fundamentally concern the outside & the unknown which are not intrinsically horrifying even if they are always unsettling Perhaps a proper understanding of the human condition requires examination of liminal concepts such as the weird & the eerie These two modes will be analysed with reference to the work of authors such as H P Lovecraft H G Wells MR James Christopher Priest Joan Lindsay Nigel Kneale Daphne Du Maurier Alan Garner & Margaret Atwood & films by Stanley Kubrick Jonathan Glazer & Christoper Nolan ...

The Internet can be a very strange place Ever had a question & thought "I&ll just Google it"? It&s not surprising if you have
- it happens over three billion times a day What is surprising however is the kind of weird things that are getting Googled Why can&t I own a Canadian? What do I do ifa ginger kid bites me? People sure are weird Now it&s your job to try & predict exactly how weird they are We&ll give you the first half of the search you give us the rest The more popular your guess is the more points you&ll land for your team Ages 14 Players 2-20 minutes Content 120 Cards
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The Weirdstone of Brisingamen is one of the greatest fantasy novels of all time When Colin & Susan are pursued by eerie creatures across Alderley Edge they are saved by the Wizard He takes them into the caves of Fundindelve where he watches over the enchanted sleep of one hundred & forty knights But the heart of the magic that binds them
- Firefrost also known as the Weirdstone of Brisingamen
- has been lost The Wizard has been searching for the stone for more than 100 years but the forces of evil are closing in determined to possess & destroy its special power Colin & Susan realise at last that they are the key to the Weirdstone's return But how can two children defeat the Morrigan & her deadly brood?

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Listed by the Sunday Times as one of the five best political books of 2015 Welfare states have spread across the globe transforming modern civilisation But the take-over is often going badly In Marseilles armed drug gangs dominate the social housing estates In America an outstandingly rich country 45 million people are dependent on food stamps In Britain the NHS has one of the worst records for cancer care in the advanced world Many countries are raising more in taxes but nevertheless getting deeper into debt because of their burgeoning welfare states All around the world behaviour is being damaged by welfare state dependency while governments become more & more like Big Brother telling us what we must do James Bartholomew travelled around the world seeing how cultures & lives are being changed
- seeing what is going wrong but also looking for countries where they are making a better job of it His book is an unparalleled investigation in which he tells the story of the people & places he visited He takes the reader on a journey which

Includes:: burnt-out cars in France a tough-minded benefits office in Singapore & innovative hospitals in Spain The narrative is supplemented with many photos & graphs that demonstrate & explain The book is like a window on the modern world


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Welfare states vary across nations & change over time & the balance between markets & government; free enterprise & social protection is perennially in question But all developed societies have welfare states of one kind or another
- they are a fundamental dimension of modern government & even after decades of free-market criticism & reform their core institutions have proven resilient & popular This Very Short Introduction describes the modern welfare state explaining its historical & contemporary significance & arguing that far from being 'a failure' or 'a problem' welfare states are an essential element of contemporary capitalism & a vital concomitant of democratic government In this accessible & entertaining account David Garland cuts through the fog of misunderstandings to explain in clear & simple terms what welfare states are how they work & why they matter ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas & enthusiasm to make interesting & challenging topics highly readable
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The impossible has happened The Lord Ruler is dead has been vanquished But so too is Kelsier the man who masterminded the triumph The awesome task of rebuilding the world has been left to his protege Vin; a one-time street urchin now the most powerful Mistborn in the land Worryingly for her Vin has become the focus of a new religion a development that leaves her intensely uneasy More worryingly still the mists have become unpredictable since the Lord Ruler died & a strage vaprous entity is stalking Vin As the siege of Luthadel intensifies the ancient legend of the Well of Ascension offers the only glimmer of hope But no-one knows where it is or what it can do ...

The impossible has happened The Lord Ruler is dead has been vanquished But so too is Kelsier the man who masterminded the triumph The awesome task of rebuilding the world has been left to his protege Vin; a one-time street urchin now the most powerful Mistborn in the land Worryingly for her Vin has become the focus of a new religion a development that leaves her intensely uneasy More worryingly still the mists have become unpredictable since the Lord Ruler died & a strage vaprous entity is stalking Vin As the siege of Luthadel intensifies the ancient legend of the Well of Ascension offers the only glimmer of hope But no-one knows where it is or what it can do ...

December in Glendara Inishowen & solicitor Benedicta ' Ben' O' Keeffe is working flat-out before the holidays; the one bright spot on her horizon is spending her first Christmas with Sergeant Tom Molloy But on a trip to Dublin to visit her parents she bumps into Luke Kirby
- the man who killed her sister
- freshly released from jail He apologises to her; remorseful conciliatory but as she walks away he whispers something that chills her to the bone Back in Glendara there is chaos The Oak pub has burned down & Carole Kearney the Oak's barmaid has gone missing & then on Christmas morning while walking up Sliabh Sneacht Ben & Molloy make a gruesome discovery a body lying face-down in the snow Soon it becomes clear that these events are part of a plan for revenge that will have devastating consequences for Glendara's residents

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