In the summer of 1138 war between King Stephen & the Empress Maud takes brother Cadfael from the quiet world of his garden to the bloody battlefield Not far from the safety of the Abbey walls Shrewsbury Castle falls leaving its ninety-four defenders loyal to the empress to hang as traitors With a heavy heart Brother Cadfael agrees to bury the dead only to make a grisly discovery ninety-five bodies lie in a row & the extra corpse tells Cadfael that the killer is both clever & ruthless But one death among so many seems unimportant to all but the good Benedictine He vows to find the truth behind disparate clues a girl in boys' clothing a missing treasure & a single broken flower
- the tiny bit of evidence that Cadfael believes can most easily expose a murderer's black heart
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In this Newbery Honor novel New York Times bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of three sisters who travel to Oakland California in 1968 to meet the mother who abandoned them This vibrant & moving award-winning novel has heart to spare Eleven-year-old Delphine is like a mother to her two younger sisters Vonetta & Fern She's had to be ever since their mother Cecile left them seven years ago for a radical new life in California But when the sisters arrive from Brooklyn to spend the summer with their mother Cecile is nothing like they imagined While the girls hope to go to Disneyland & meet Tinker Bell their mother sends them to a day camp run by the Black Panthers Unexpectedly Delphine Vonetta & Fern learn much about their family their country & themselves during one truly crazy summer This moving funny novel won the Scott O' Dell Award for Historical Fiction & the Coretta Scott King Award & was a National Book Award Finalist Delphine Vonetta & Fern's story continues in PS Be Eleven & Gone Crazy in Alabama Readers who enjoy Christopher Paul Curtis's The Watsons Go to Birmingham & Jacqueline Woodson's Brown Girl Dreaming will find much to love in One Crazy Summer This novel was the first featured title for Marley D's Reading Party launched after the success of 1000 Black Girl Books Maria Russo in a New York Times list of great kids' books with diverse characters called it witty & original Brightlycom in Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich's article Knowing Our History to Build a Brighter Future Books to Help Kids Understand the Fight for Racial Equality ...

The battle for the crown has begun but which of the three sisters will prevail? With the unforgettable events of the Quickening behind them & the Ascension Year underway all bets are off Katharine once the weak & feeble sister is stronger than ever before Arsinoe after discovering the truth about her powers must figure out how to make her secret talent work in her favour without anyone finding out & Mirabella once thought to be the strongest sister of all & the certain Queen Crowned faces attacks like never before
- ones that put those around her in danger that she can't seem to prevent In One Dark Throne the enthralling sequel to Kendare Blake's The New York Times-bestselling Three Dark Crowns Fennbirn's deadliest queens must face the one thing standing in their way of the crown each other
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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 A double-bill of love stories based on best-selling novels In & One Day& (2011) ever since the day they first met at their college graduation
- July 15th 1988
- Emma Morley (Anne Hathaway) & Dexter Mayhew (Jim Sturgess) have kept in touch meeting up again on the same day each year Over the following two decades the ups & downs of the relationship between the idealistic Emma & wealthy ladies& man Dexter are revisited every July 15th as they try to take stock of their lives & attempt to discover what they&ve both been missing all along & Atonement& (2007) is director Joe Wright&s adaptation of the novel by Ian Mc Ewan starring Keira Knightley & James Mc Avoy On the hottest day of the summer of 1935 thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan) sees her older sister Cecilia (Knightley) strip off her clothes & plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper&s son Robbie Turner (James Mc Avoy) a childhood friend who along with Cecilia has recently graduated from Cambridge But by the end of that day the lives of all three are changed forever as Robbie & Cecilia become victims of Briony&s imagination

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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 A triple-bill of romantic dramas In & One Day& (2011) since the day when they first met at their college graduation
- July 15th 1988
- Emma Morley (Anne Hathaway) & Dexter Mayhew (Jim Sturgess) have kept in touch meeting up again on the same day each year Over the following two decades the ups & downs of the relationship between the idealistic Emma & wealthy ladies& man Dexter are revisited every July 15th as they try to take stock of their lives & attempt to discover what they&ve both been missing all along In & Remember Me& (2010) Tyler (Robert Pattinson) a student at NYU has had a strained relationship with his father (Pierce Brosnan) since his brother&s recent suicide tore the family apart When he meets fellow student Ally (Emilie de Ravin) who has also undergone a family bereavement he finally begins to find happiness & meaning in his life Finally in & The Death & Life of Charlie St Cloud& (2010) young sailor Charlie St Cloud (Zac Efron) has the opportunity to go to Standford University but reconsiders when his younger brother Sam (Charlie Tahan) dies in a car accident After he realises he can still see & communicate with Sam the two brothers meet every night but the return of Tess (Amanda Crew) a sailor who went to school with Charlie causes a divide between them When Charlie learns Tess&s life is in danger he has to choose between keeping a promise to his deceased brother in the afterlife & saving Tess in the real world

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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 Lone Scherfig directs this romcom based on the best-seller by David Nicholls about two friends who reunite every year on the anniversary of their first meeting Since the day when they first met at their college graduation
- July 15th 1988
- Emma Morley (Anne Hathaway) & Dexter Mayhew (Jim Sturgess) have kept in touch meeting up again on the same day each year Over the following two decades the ups & downs of the relationship between the idealistic Emma & wealthy ladies' man Dexter are revisited every July 15th as they try to take stock of their lives & attempt to discover what they've both been missing all along Actors Anne Hathaway Jim Sturgess Romola Garai Patricia Clarkson Jamie Sives Directors Lone Scherfig Writers David Nicholls Producers Nina Jacobson Format Blu-ray Region Region B2 (Read more about DVDBlu-ray formats) Number of discs 1

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'ONE DAY is destined to be a modern classic'
- Daily Mirror Twenty years two people ONE DAY The multi-million copy bestseller that
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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 Twenty years Two people Directed by Lone Scherfig (director of An Education Academy Award-nominated for Best Picture) the motion picture One Day is adapted for the screen by David Nicholls from his beloved bestselling novel One Day After one day together
- July 15th 1988 their university graduation
- Emma Morley (Academy Award nominee Anne Hathaway) & Dexter Mayhew (Jim Sturgess The Way Back 21) begin a friendship that will last a lifetime She is a working-class girl of principle & ambition who dreams of making the world a better place He is a wealthy charmer who dreams that the world will be his playground For the next two decades key moments of their relationship are experienced over several July 15ths in their lives Together & apart we see Dex & Em through their friendship & fights hopes & missed opportunities laughter & tears Somewhere along their journey these two people realize that what they are searching & hoping for has been there for them all along As the true meaning of that one day back in 1988 is revealed they come to terms with the nature of love & life itself Actors Anne Hathaway Patricia Clarkson Jim Sturgess Romola Garai Georgia King Jodie Whittaker Rafe Spall & Sarah Jane O& Neill Director Lone Scherfig Certificate 12 years & over Year 2011 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; Spanish Closed Captions Yes Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players



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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 Lone Scherfig directs this romcom based on the best-seller by David Nicholls about two friends who reunite every year on the anniversary of their first meeting Since the day when they first met at their college graduation
- July 15th 1988
- Emma Morley (Anne Hathaway) & Dexter Mayhew (Jim Sturgess) have kept in touch meeting up again on the same day each year Over the following two decades the ups & downs of the relationship between the idealistic Emma & wealthy ladies& man Dexter are revisited every July 15th as they try to take stock of their lives & attempt to discover what they&ve both been missing all along

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Binyavanga Wainaina tumbled through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him This world came to him as a chaos of loud & colourful sounds the hair dryers at his mother's beauty parlour black mamba bicycle bells mechanics in Nairobi the music of Michael Jackson
- all punctuated by the infectious laughter of his brother & sister He could fall in with their patterns but it would take him a while to carve out his own In this vivid & compelling debut Wainaina takes us through his school days his failed attempt to study in South Africa a moving family reunion in Uganda & his travels around Kenya The landscape in front of him always claims his main attention but he also evokes the shifting political scene that unsettles his views on family tribe & nationhood Throughout reading is his refuge & his solace & when in 2002 a writing prize comes through the door is opened for him to pursue the career that perhaps had been beckoning all along Resolutely avoiding stereotype & cliche Wainaina paints every scene in One Day I Will Write About This Place with a highly distinctive & hugely memorable brush
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