The bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses forty poems from across the centuries that express the universal experience of loss & reflects on them in order to draw out the comfort understanding & hope they offer Some of the poems will be familiar many will be new but together they provide a sure companion for the journey across difficult terrain Some of Malcolm's own poetry is included written out of his work as a priest with the dying & the bereaved & giving to the volume a powerful authenticity The choice of forty poems is significant & reflects an ancient practice still observed in some European & Middle Eastern societies of taking extra-special care of a bereaved person in the forty days following a death
- our word quarantine come from this They explore the nature & the risk of love the pain of letting go & look toward glimpses of resurrection
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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 Rosie (Lily Collins; The Mortal Instruments City of Bones) & Alex (Sam Claflin; The Hunger Games Mockingjay
- Part 1) have been best friends since the age of six but as they are approaching university fate forces them to go their separate ways Can their relationship survive the years & the miles? & at the back of Rosie’s mind is whether they were meant to be more than just good friends all along Misunderstandings circumstances & sheer bad luck have kept them out of each other’s arms but when presented with the ultimate opportunity will they gamble everything for the chance to be together at last? Based on the bestselling novel “ Where Rainbows End” by Cecilia Ahern Love Rosie is a fresh & heart-warming story about friendship true love & luck that shows how sometimes fate just can’t stop meddling …
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Fleur East emerged from The X Factor’s 2014 class a credible popstar-in-waiting & expectations for her debut album sky-rocketed once its lead single “ Sax”—an irresistible parpy romp—was met with universal foot-tapping Wonderfully Love Sax & Flashbacks bottles the energy & likability of her star-making X Factor turns & delivers a glorious pop-funk masterclass “ Gold Watch” is an “ Uptown Funk” sister track “ Over Getting Over” gives disco a slinky stylish update while the blistering Tina Turner-inspired “ Kitchen” showcases East’s effortless & sensual rhyming She can do it all ...

Track Listings Disc 1 1 Alfie's Song (Not So Typical Love Song)
- Bleachers 2 Rollercoaster
- Bleachers 3 Never Fall In Love
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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 Set in Dublin’s violent gangland the award winning Irish series is a hard-hitting & unflinching look at the lives & loves of the criminals who work in the city’s drug organisations the pressures that result in young people joining the gangs & the dangers that they face It tells the story of the rise & fall of young gang footsoldier Darren (Robert Sheehan – Misfits) his doomed love for his childhood sweetheart Rosie (Ruth Negga – Shirley) & their deadly involvement in the dark world of chilling gang kingpin John Boy Power (Aidan Gillen – The Wire Game of Thrones) & his weaselly second in command – & pretender to the throne – Nidge (Tom Vaughan-Lawlor
- Becoming Jane)
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Although there are many kinds of love erotic love has been celebrated in art & poetry as life's most rewarding & exalting experience worth living & dying for & bringing out the best in ourselves & yet it has excused & even been thought to justify the most reprehensible crimes Why should this be? This Very Short Introduction explores this & other puzzling questions Do we love someone for their virtue their beauty or their moral or other qualities? Are love's characteristic desires altruistic or selfish? Are there duties of love? What do the sciences
- neuroscience evolutionary & social psychology & anthropology
- tell us about love? Many of the answers we give to such questions are determined not so much by the facts of human nature as by the ideology of love Ronald de Sousa considers some of the many paradoxes raised by love looking at the different kinds of love
- affections affiliation philia storage agape but focusses on eros or romantic love He considers whether our conventional beliefs about love & sex are deeply irrational & argues that alternative conceptions of love & sex although hard to formulate & live by may be worth striving for 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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Kelly Flanagan is a psychologist father & blogger who is best known for the letters he has written to his children on his blog one of which landed him on the Today Show with his four-year-old daughter In Loveable Flanagan answers three fundamental human questions Am I enough? How do I become unlonely? Do I matter? He shows us how to rediscover our worthiness & remember that we are good enough He encourages us to shed the false self that keeps us lonely & to find people who accept us as we are & he inspires us to fully embrace our passions regardless of how ordinary those passions may be Reading like an extended love letter to readers Loveable uncovers three essential truths you are enough you are not alone & you matter Flanagan invites us to disconnect from the distractions & demands of daily life & to listen more intently for the voice of grace within each of us so we might fully awaken to the redemptive story we are here to live ...

Before HACKSLASH Tim Seeley introduced another critically acclaimed duo to the world in the form of dysfunctional superheroes Lovebunny & Mr Hell! Former sidekick Beth Bowers wants to be her own hero but she's saddled with a sidekick of her own; the demonic eternally hungry Mr Hell! Long out of print their twisted adventures return in this all-new volume
- in full-color for the first time!

Includes:: EVERY appearance of Lovebunny & Mr Hell to-date including the HACKSLASH strips & crossover with Savage Dragon!


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Chicago 1954 When his father Montrose goes missing 22-year-old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him accompanied by his Uncle George
- publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide
- & his childhood friend Letitia On their journey to the manor of Mr Braithwhite
- heir to the estate that owned one of Atticus's ancestors
- they encounter both mundane terrors of white America & malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours At the manor Atticus discovers his father in chains held prisoner by a secret cabal named the Order of the Ancient Dawn
- led by Samuel Braithwhite & his son Caleb
- which has gathered to orchestrate a ritual that shockingly centers on Atticus & his one hope of salvation may be the seed of his
- & the whole Turner clan's
- destruction An imaginative blend of magic power hope & freedom that stretches across time touching diverse members of two black families Matt Ruff's Lovecraft Country is a devastating kaleidoscopic portrait of racism
- the terrifying specter that continues to haunt us today








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A mind-shattering journey into the world of HP Lovecraft & the Cthulhu Mythos warped into the shape of a Love Letter experience You’re not trying to gain affection from the Princess You are trying to eliminate your rivals for power as you seek to understand the cosmic horror that lurks just beyond what we foolishly call “reality” In each round only one player will prevail Use deduction & luck to eliminate other players or watch as their own madness consumes them Will you accept madness as the price that must be paid for Knowledge Man Was Not Meant to Know? Or will you attempt to hold the shreds of your sanity together in the face of eldritch nightmares attempting to enter & destroy our world? Players 2-6 Ages 14 Playing Time 10 min ...