I will never forget the first time I read Jenny Zhang I was stunned moved &
- quite frankly
- a little jealous' Lena Dunham'

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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 Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) is on a mission to identify a bomber who destroyed a train just hours earlier & who plans to kill thousands more with a much larger explosion in the heart of Chicago A top-secret program named ‘ Source Code’ allows Colter to exist briefly as another man in the parallel reality of the doomed commuter train Each time he returns to the train Colter has just eight minutes to uncover the bomber’s identity The more he learns the more convinced he becomes that he can prevent the deadly blast from ever happening – unless time runs out first ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) is on a mission to identify a bomber who destroyed a train just hours earlier & who plans to kill thousands more with a much larger explosion in the heart of Chicago A top-secret program named Source Code allows Colter to exist briefly as another man in the parallel reality of the doomed commuter train Each time he returns to the train Colter has just eight minutes to uncover the bomber&s identity The more he learns the more convinced he becomes that he can prevent the deadly blast from ever happening
- unless time runs out first
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There was an eighth son of an eighth son He was quite naturally a wizard & there it should have ended However (for reasons we'd better not go into) he had seven sons & then he had an eighth son a wizard squared a source of magic a Sourcerer Sourcery sees the return of Rincewind & the Luggage as the Discworld faces its greatest
- & funniest
- challenge yet

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All this books & stuff that isn't what it should all be about What we need is real wizardry There was an eighth son of an eighth son He was quite naturally a wizard & there it should have ended However (for reasons we'd better not go into) he had seven sons & then he had an eighth son a wizard squareda source of magica Sourcerer Unseen University has finally got what it wished for the most powerful wizard on the disc Which unfortunately could mean that the death of all wizardry is at hand & that the world is going to end depending on whom you listen to Unless of course one inept wizard can take the University's most precious artefact the very embodiment of magic itself & deliver it halfway across the disc to safety ...

Leavened by the same infectious intelligence & lovable nerdiness that made Robin Sloan's Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore such a sensation Sourdough marks the triumphant return of a unique & beloved young writer Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions She codes all day & collapses at night her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighbourhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening Then disaster! Visa issues The brothers close up shop & fast But they have one last delivery for Lois their culture the sourdough starter used to bake their bread She must keep it alive they tell her
- feed it daily play it music & learn to bake with it Lois is no baker but she could use a roommate even if it is a needy colony of microorganisms Soon not only is she eating her own homemade bread she's providing loaves daily to the General Dexterity cafeteria The company chef urges her to take her product to the farmer's market & a whole new world opens up When Lois comes before the jury that decides who sells what at Bay Area markets she encounters a close-knit club with no appetite for new members But then an alternative emerges a secret market that aims to fuse food & technology But who are these people exactlysourdough is a soup of skilfully balanced ingredients there's satire a touch of fantasy a pinch of SF all bound up with a likeable narrator whose zest for life is infectious The novel opens a door on a world that's both comforting & thrillingly odd
- The Guardian

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Soutache jewellery is widely represented on Etsy & it's a hot trend on beading blogs Soutache is a decorative braid Attaching it to a backing & embellishing it with cabochons crystals & beads is a hot trending technique
- & this is the first English-language book dedicated to this fantastic yet relatively easy craft Anneta Valious the world's top soutache designer describes the entire process from sewing methods to making straps to finishing & provides 25 projects that include necklaces earrings pendants bracelets barrettes & more It's the perfect guide for beaders jewellery makers & general crafters eager to expand their repertoire & take their designs to the next level
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When a lonely fisherman finds an injured bird on his boat he nurtures it back to health &
- since the bird can no longer migrate
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After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen who by a narrow margin of days only was in advance of the British Expedition under Scott there remained but one great main object of Antarctic journeyings-the crossing of the South Polar continent from sea to sea When I returned from the Nimrod Expedition on which we had to turn back from our attempt to plant the British flag on the South Pole being beaten by stress of circumstances within ninety-seven miles of our goal my mind turned to the crossing of the continent for I was morally certain that either Amundsen or Scott would reach the Pole on our own route or a parallel one After hearing of the Norwegian success I began to make preparations to start a last great journey-so that the first crossing of the last continent should be achieved by a British Expedition We failed in this object but the story of our attempt is the subject for the following pages & I think that though failure in the actual accomplishment must be recorded there are chapters in this book of high adventure strenuous days lonely nights unique experiences & above all records of unflinching determination supreme loyalty & generous self-sacrifice on the part of my men which even in these days that have witnessed the sacrifices of nations & regardlessness of self on the part of individuals still will be of interest to readers who now turn gladly from the red horror of war & the strain of the last five years to read perhaps with more understanding minds the tale of the White Warfare of the South The struggles the disappointments & the endurance of this small party of Britishers hidden away for nearly two years in the fastnesses of the Polar ice striving to carry out the ordained task & ignorant of the crises through which the world was passing make a story which is unique in the history of Antarctic exploration ...

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