Willow Tree is an intimate line of figurative sculptures representing sentiments of love closeness healing courage hopeall the emotions we encounter in life Artist Susan Lordi hand carves the original of each Willow Tree sculpture Pieces are cast in resin from her original carvings & then individually painted by hand with lead-free paint I try to keep the interpretation of Willow Tree open I hope this makes it more personal & allows the viewer to decide its meaning
- Susan Lordi A beautiful special gift for Easter Supplied in a branded gift box & a gift tag with sentiment ' Hope lifts us up' Not a toy or children's product Intended for adults only
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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 &8220; From acclaimed director John Boorman comes a tale of hope & courage set amongst the rubble-strewn streets of bomb-ravaged London during the Second World War Seen through the eyes of a young boy the &8220;fireworks” provided by the Blitz every night are as exciting as they are terrifying His family do not see things in quite the same way & as the bombs continue to drop their will to survive brings them closer together The nightly raids do not provide the only drama however as his sister falls for a Canadian airman & finding her life turned upside down soon discovers how valuable the bonds of family can become Hope & Glory paints a picture of a world riven by conflict & yet united in resistance to the creeping tide of war that seems to be marching ever closer Wining numerous awards worldwide & nominated for both BAFTAs & Academy Awards this film is truly a modern classic” Actors Sarah Miles David Hayman Sebastian Rice-Edwards Ian Bannen Derrick O' Connor Directors John Boorman Writers John Boorman Producers John Boorman Format Subtitled Language English Subtitles Arabic Danish Dutch English Finnish French German Greek Hungarian Italian Japanese Norwegian Polish Portuguese Spanish Swedish Turkish Dubbed German Portuguese French Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Region All Regions (Read more about DVDBlu-ray formats) Aspect Ratio 169
- 1661 Number of discs 1
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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 An epic story of a world at war & a boy at play British writerdirector John Boorman (Deliverance) draws us into an astonishing & exhilarating portrait of his own childhood set against the terrors ofia London torn apart by the onset of WWII Seven-year-old Billy Rohan (Sebastian Rice Edwards) finds his childhood to be a time of great danger
- & even greater discovery From thunderous bombings at his own doorstep & the constant threat of Luftwaffe air raids to the landing of a German paratrooper in his neighbourhood & the joyous obliteration of his much-hated school Billy&s young life is shaped
- & even enriched
- by the one positive thing war has brought him liberation from the ordinary & though Billy is surrounded by decimation & the smoking remnants of ruined lives his sense of enchanted wonderment & innocence in the face of man&s most destructive folly affect him in a way that alters his life forever Actors Sarah Miles Sebastian Rice-Edwards Geraldine Muir David Hayman Sammi Davis Derrick O& Connor Susan Wooldridge Jean-Marc Barr Ian Bannen Annie Leon Jill Baker Amelda Brown Katrine Boorman & Charley Boorman Director John Boorman Certificate 15 years & over Year 1987 Screen Widescreen 1661 Anamorphic Languages English ; French
- Dolby Digital (10) Mono Subtitles Arabic ; Danish ; Dutch ; English ; Finnish ; French ; German ; Greek ; Hindi ; Hungarian ; Italian ; Norwegian ; Polish ; Portuguese ; Spanish ; Swedish ; Turkish Duration 1 hour & 48 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players




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All scientists agree the human civilization is now facing the greatest catastrophe of its history We are in the dawn of year 5341 we thought our scientific progresses & collective intelligence would preserve us but a major disaster is looming the universe began to regress threatening our civilization of a total annihilation As an elite member of the Human Organization to Preserve Existence (HOPE) your mission is to prevent this plight from happening You&ll have to navigate your ship to distant galaxies in order to restore life in the universe Be swift & bold the future of all humanity is at stake But remain cautious in your task because a traitor may lie among you thwarting your heroic plans ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Forest Whitaker directs this drama starring Sandra Bullock as a woman whose life is turned upside down Birdee (Bullock)&s seemingly perfect existence is shattered when her husband admits to infidelity with her best friend on national TV Returning to her hometown with her young daughter to lick her wounds Birdee has to endure the taunting of neighbours & enemies from her high school days However when another old acquaintance Justin Matisse (Harry Connick Jr) comes back into her life new possibilities begin to arise Can Birdee make a fresh start? ...

Hope in a Ballet Shoe tells the story of Michaela De Prince Growing up in war-torn Sierra Leone she witnessed atrocities that no child ever should Her father was killed by rebels & her mother died of famine Sent to an orphanage Michaela was mistreated & saw the brutal murder of her favourite teacher Then Michaela & her best friend are adopted by an American couple & Michaela begins to take dance lessons But life in the States isn't without difficulties Unfortunately tragedy can find its way to Michaela in America too & her past can feel like it's haunting her The world of ballet is a racist one & Michaela has to fight for a place amongst the ballet elite hearing the words ' America's not ready for a black girl ballerina' And yet Today Michaela De Prince is an international ballet star dancing for The Dutch National Ballet at the age of nineteen This is a heart-breaking inspiring autobiography by a teenager who shows us that beyond everything there is always hope for a better future ...

What are the most important social political & religious challenges facing our world today? How might a better understanding of those challenges help us to tackle them more effectively? & what are the basic moral principles that will inspire more people to come together & work together for the common good? This stirring new book by Cardinal Nichols sets out a clear vision of what needs to be done in response to these challenges
- enabling us to face them squarely while also giving grounds for hope At a time of political & social upheaval here is a clear calm & convincing reminder of the essential values that we all need to guide us into a better future

Includes:: chapters on hope mission sexual violence slavery prison reform & religious extremism Questions for group discussion or personal reflection at the end of each chapter


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At a time when political environmental & social gloom can seem overpowering this remarkable book offers a lucid affirmative & well-argued case for hope This exquisite work traces a history of activism & social change over the past five decades
- from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the worldwide marches against the war in Iraq Hope in the Dark is a paean to optimism in the uncertainty of the twenty-first century Tracing the footsteps of the last century's thinkers
- including Woolf Gandhi Borges Benjamin & Havel
- Solnit conjures a timeless vision of cause & effect that will light our way through the dark & lead us to profound & effective political engagement


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A sequel to Hope Reborn this omnibus collects The Anvil & The Steel in David Drake&s General series After the collapse of the galactic Web civilizations crumbled & chaos reigned on thousands of planets Only on planet Bellevue was there a difference There a Fleet Battle Computer named Center had survived from the old civilization When it found Raj Whitehall the man who could execute its plan for reviving human civilization he & Center started Bellevue back on the road leading to the stars Now Raj Whitehall has come close to reuniting the entire planet of Bellevue But the half-mad jealousy & fear of emperor Clerett is about to give Raj no choice but to revolt or face death & the loss of all he has gained for freedom ...

Contains Books 7 & 8 The Reformer & The Tyrant in the bestselling General series! The Empire of Man has fallen & a new Dark Age is upon the stars With planets cut off & reduced to subsistence & ignorance humanity has nearly forgotten its past greatness But one battle computer has survived the Collapse He is Center & Center is determined to find & aid leaders who can return a star-faring republic to the galaxy The first of these leaders is Raj Whitehall a man born to be a general & molded to retake civilization itself from the jaws of barbarism ...