With a preface by Will Eisner Paracuellos is a work of great courage created at a time when telling the truth about Spain&s political past could get one killed It is arguably the most important graphic memoir ever created in comics Carlos Gimenez’s autobiographical account of the plight of children in post-World War II Fascist Spain has won virtually every comics award in Europe including “ Best Album” at the 1981 Angoulême Festival & the “ Heritage Award” at Angoulême in 2010 In the late 1930s when Spanish fascists led by Franco & aided by Hitler & Mussolini overthrew the elected government almost 200000 men & women fell in battle were executed or died in prison Their orphaned children—and others ripped from the homes of the defeated—were shuttled from Church-run “home” to “home” & fed a steady diet of torture & disinformation by a totalitarian state bent on making them “productive” citizens Carlos Gimenez was one of those children In 1975 after Franco’s death Carlos began to tell his story Breaking the code of silence proved to be a milestone both for the comics medium & for a country coming to terms with its past An illustrated essay by Carmen Moreno-Nuño Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Kentucky places the comics in historical perspective “ The stories transcend just being about a historical moment in Spain Their humanity will speak to everyone The stories are heartbreakers but Carlos never loses his sense of humor”— William Stout ...

1923 the First World War has ended the second has yet to begin & Italy is torn between the Socialist & Fascist parties A rend that would threaten to tear not only the country but families apart! This is the true story of one family in Maropati Italy during the Feast of the Epiphany Beautifully illustrated this embellished tale comes directly from Cavallaro's grandparents in stories passed down from generations into a master storyteller's hands ...

The characters of Alice in Wonderland are having a Parade! All players are producers of this parade Characters from Lewis Carroll&s books such as Alice The White Rabbit & The Mad Hatter are steadily invited to join this weird procession On your turn you play a card (from your hand of five) to the end of the parade Unfortunately that card might cause other cards to walk off the parade These cards count as negative points in the end The length of parade line is important If the number of the card you just played is less than the line length you may receive the excess cards (counting from last played to the first of the line) But you do not take all cards only the cards that meet one of these requirements 1 color is the same as just played or 2 number is the same or lower than just played The game ends when the draw deck is exhausted or when one player has collected all six colors in their point piles Then everyone plays one last card From the four cards remaining in their hand players choose two cards to add to his or her point piles The player who has the least negative points after this is the winner Scoring Normally negative points are same the number on the card But if you have the most cards in a certain color each of your cards of that color counts only 1 negative point! Thus play your cards well! ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Made-for-TV semi-documentary from legendary French director & comedian Jacques Tati The film which was Tati&s last before his death in 1982 gives a jovial observation of the circus including the shenanigans that go on behind the scenes of the production ...

Parade's End is the great British war novel & Ford Madox Ford's major achievement as a novelist Originally published as four linked novels between 1924 & 1928 it follows the story of Christopher Tietjens as his life is shattered by his wife's infidelities & overturned by the mud blood & destruction of the First World War ...

Being an expert in information searches image processing & enhancement pattern matching & data forensics earned Jason Wood a lot of money
- from private contracts & working with the police & it was a nice comfortable job most of the time But then an informant showed up dead on his doorstep a photograph didn&t show someone who&d been in the viewfinder when the picture was taken & Jason&s world is suddenly turned upside-down Against things that violate the very reality he thought he understood Jason has only three weapons his best friend Sylvie his talent for seeing patterns & his ability to think beyond the pattern & see a solution that no one else imagined Against the darkness of the unknown the greatest weapon is the light of reason A vastly expanded & revised edition of Digital Knight Ryk E Spoor&s first published novel Paradigms Lost adds two br&-new adventures for Jason &

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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 The Carboni Boys They haul ice lay out stiffs & dance with monkeys Sylvester Stallone is fighting the odds again this time in the wrestling ring Cosmo Carboni & his two brothers dream of getting out of Hell&s Kitchen (circa 1946) & into the big time The exit signs point to Paradise Alley a sleazy private club where the floorshow consists of raucous wrestling matches with big purses Stallone not only starred in & wrote this action-packed film he also made his directorial debut in this tale of three guys who could take anything Hell&s Kitchen could dish out Actors Sylvester Stallone Tom Waits Joe Spinell Frank Mc Rae Anne Archer Joyce Ingalls Armand Assante Kevin Conway Terry Funk Lee Canalito & Frank Stallone Director Sylvester Stallone Certificate 15 years & over Year 1978 Screen Widescreen Languages English
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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 Julianne Hough Russell Brand & Octavia Spencer star in this comedy drama written & directed by Diablo Cody One year after surviving a plane accident Lamb Mannerhelm (Hough) denounces God while in church in front of the devout Christian congregation Determined to live the life she wants to live she leaves behind the religious community she has been brought up in & travels to Las Vegas hoping to have some new experiences that are deemed sinful in her home town While there she befriends bartender William (Brand) & singer Loray (Spencer) & they join her on her journey of self-discovery ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Based on Emile Zola&s novel AU BONHEUR DES DAMES (THE LADIES& DELIGHT) sumptuous period drama THE PARADISE is a love story set a Victorian department store in Northern England Emun Elliott stars as The Paradise&s widowed owner John Moray who sees potential in lowly shop girl Denise Lovett (Joanna Vanderham) Working in his store she experiences the romance glamour intrigue & power play of high society from behind its counters ...

These fun party glasses from Boland are a great accessory for Hawaiian costumes The glasses are black & have tinted lenses A pink flower is attached to the right lens The left lens is decorated with a colourful bird ...