Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play A drug dealer at a Vermont school becomes involved with a girl while sleeping with her friend & a boy who fancies him ...

' Fabulous' Observer' Achingly stylish' Guardian' Irresistible' Daily Telegraph' Gripping' The Sunday Times In a jazz bar on the last night of 1937 watching a quartet because she couldn't afford to see the whole ensemble there were certain things Katey Kontent knew the location of every old church in Manhattanhow to sneak into the cinemahow to type eighty words a minute five thousand an hour & nine million a yearand that if you can still lose yourself in a Dickens novel then everything is going to be fine By the end of the year she'd learnedhow to live like a redheadand insist upon the very best;that riches can turn to rags in the trip of a heartbeatchance encounters can be fated & the word 'yes' can be a poison That's how quickly New York City comes about like a weathervane or the head of a cobra Time tells which'A delicious & memorable novel that will leave you wistful
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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 It doesn’t matter if you’re in love out of love or somewhere in between you have to play by the Rules of Engagement Join newly engaged couple Adam (Oliver Hudson) & Jennifer (Bianca Kajlich) as they stumble toward marriage with blind bliss Their friends--haggard but happily married couple Jeff (Patrick Warburton) & Audrey (Megyn Price) & the eternally single Russell (David Spade)--help prove that no matter what your take on love you have to follow the rules to win ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Colonel Terry L Childers (Samuel L Jackson) a highly decorated 30-year Marine veteran is put on trial for a rescue mission that went terribly wrong Childers chooses Colonel Hayes Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones) as his attorney a man who owes his life to Childers yet doubts his good friend&s innocence ...

An impassioned look at games & game design that offers the most ambitious framework for understanding them to date As pop culture games are as important as film or television -- but game design has yet to develop a theoretical framework or critical vocabulary In Rules of Play Katie Salen & Eric Zimmerman present a much-needed primer for this emerging field They offer a unified model for looking at all kinds of games from board games & sports to computer & video games As active participants in game culture the authors have written Rules of Play as a catalyst for innovation filled with new concepts strategies & methodologies for creating & understanding games Building an aesthetics of interactive systems Salen & Zimmerman define core concepts like play design & interactivity They look at games through a series of eighteen game design schemas or conceptual frameworks including games as systems of emergence & information as contexts for social play as a storytelling medium & as sites of cultural resistance Written for game scholars game developers & interactive designers Rules of Play is a textbook reference book & theoretical guide It is the first comprehensive attempt to establish a solid theoretical framework for the emerging discipline of game design ...

Twelve-year-old Jessie copes with what promised to be a long boring summer with relatives by becoming an apprentice to a grouchy neighborhood dog walker who is facing new competition in this coming-of-age novel 256 pages Lang Heidi ...

Ruling England now in its second edition is a key text for students wishing to understand the complexities of medieval kingship in England from 1042-1217 Beginning just before the Norman Conquest & ending with the ratification of Magna Carta this book is divided into three parts Late Anglo-Saxon England Anglo-Norman England & Angevin England Richard Huscroft considers the reign of each king during these periods including their relationships with the nobility local government the courts & the Church & poses the central question of how the ruler of the most sophisticated kingdom in twelfth century Europe was eventually compelled to submit to the humiliation of Magna Carta at the start of the thirteenth This new edition has been fully revised & updated to take into account the latest scholarship Throughout the book key areas of historiographical debate are highlighted & analysed including nationhood feudalism & Magna Carta The narrative is supported by maps a genealogy of the kings of England a chronology a glossary & an introduction to the principal narrative sources & their authors to provide a thorough introduction to the political history of medieval England This book will be essential reading for students of English medieval history ...

This is a set of cards & character sheets that allow you to use all previously released Rum & Bones characters in Rum & Bones Second Tide It contains Rum & Bones Second Tide version Hero Dashboards for all previous Heroes (characters released before 2017) Skill Cards for all previously released Heroes (characters released before 2017) Updated Kraken & Sea Dragon tiles Updated Objective Tiles for Wellsport Brotherhood Bone Devils La Brise Sanguine & Mazu&s Dreadful Curse Updated Tide Decks for Wellsport Brother Bone Devils La Brise Sanguine & Mazu&s Dreadful Curse 2-6 Players 30-75 Min Playing Time Age 14 ...

What did Charles Dickens savour in punch Thomas Jefferson eat in omelettes Queen Victoria sip in navy grog & the Kamehameha Kings of Hawaii drink straight? What helped spark the American Revolution was used as currency in Australia was targeted by the Temperance Movement & is still a sacramental offering among voodoo worshippers? The answer is rum whose colourful secret history is described in Rum A Global History This book chronicles the evolution of rum from a raw spirit concocted for slaves five hundred years ago to a beverage savoured by connoisseurs It charts the history of the drink showing how this once-humble spirit has become a worldwide phenomenon over the last five hundred years Rum A Global History shows how rum has left its mark on religious rituals popular songs & other cultural landmarks describing a far more varied & interesting history of the drink than is commonly known Also included in the book are recipes for sweet & savoury rum dishes obscure but delicious rum drinks & illustrations of rum memorabilia from the earliest days to the tiki craze of the 1950s Costing less than a bottle of good rum Rum A Global History will provide satisfaction for far longer with none of the hangover guaranteed The book will delight all who enjoy the beverage & wish to learn more of its heritage as well as those who enjoy a fast-paced well-written history of food ...

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