Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Intense enthralling & unforgettable Sunset Boulevard stars Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond a faded silent-movie star & William Holden as Joe Gillis a down-on-his-luck screenwriter whom she enlists to help her make her triumphant "return to the screen" Directed & co-written by acclaimed filmmaker Billy Wilder this mesmerising Hollywood classic won three Academy Awards ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond an ageing silent film queen & William Holden as the struggling writer who is held in thrall by her madness created two of the screen&s most memorable characters in Billy Wilder&s immortal Sunset Boulevard The film was winner of three Academy Awards in 1950
- Best Story & Screenplay Black & White Art Direction & score for a Dramatic Picture Joe Gillis is floating face down in a swimming pool as the homicide squad arrives Six months previously unable to sell a script or borrow from anyone he pulled into 10086 Sunset Boulevard to hide from men who wanted to repossess his car The owner of the mansion is Norma Desmond faded star of the silent era Under the illusion that millions of fans still adore her Norma is planning a comeback playing the lead in her own screenplay " Salome" When she finds out Joe is a writer she wants him to help her with the script He moves in becoming a kept man & the object of her obsessive affection
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Sometimes all you can do is go out with guns blazing! In the noir tradition of Chandler & Spillane comes Sunset a two-fisted tale of revenge & redemption On the surface Nick Bellamy looks like any other veteran retiree left behind by a modern world In reality Nick is a former enforcer who stole a fortune & years of freedom from his former mob boss Now in the twilight of his life Nick will lose everything he cares about except two things revenge & the chance to die with his guns blazing! Writer Christos Gage (Avengers Academy GI Joe Cobra) & artist Jorge Lucas (The Darkness) promise to hit hard with Minotaur Press first original graphic novel & make you forget all about your Prius & organic whole-grain trans-fat-free diet! ...

The sequel to the tough & gritty time travel thriller Blood of Heroes! Jason Thanou is a time traveler with a past
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ORIGINAL TRADE PAPERBACK Sequel to tough & gritty time travel thriller Blood of Heroes A team of time travelers goes back to the Battle of Marathon in ancient Greece to foil a plot by alien masquerading as gods & by evildoers from the future A compelling well-researched battle scene caps it all off Sequel to tough & gritty time travel thriller Blood of Heroes Jason Thanou a time traveler with a past & a burning mission When the gods of ancient Greece proved to be not only monstrously real but totally alien—and poised to dominate humanity forever— Jason took care of the situation at least in Minoan Crete Now he’s got what looks like a normal assignment to lead a time traveling expedition of scholars to the battle of Marathon & record for the benefit of future historians the magnificent stand of Greece’s hoplite warriors against Persian invaders But the Olympians are not done with their attempt to dominate humanity Now the god Pan is afoot in Greece–a creature who may have the power to turn ancient Athens away from her budding democracy & toward a corrupt future on an Earth dominated by twisted humans & evil alien forces But not if Jason can discover Pan’s secret thwart a conspiracy that stretches for millennia—and save the birthplace of democracy from the corruption of the gods About the Author Steve White completed a tour of duty in Vietnam as a naval officer With David Weber he has collaborated on Insurrection Crusade In Death Ground & the New York Times best seller The Shiva Option His most recent books for Baen were the epic fantasy Demon’s Gate science fiction novel Eagle Against the Stars & the science fiction time travel series that

Includes:: Blood of Heroes Sunset of the Gods & Pirates of the Timestream

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Paul Auster's Sunset Park is set in the sprawling flatlands of Florida where twenty-eight-year-old Miles is photographing the last lingering traces of families who have abandoned their houses due to debt or foreclosure Miles is haunted by guilt for having inadvertently caused the death of his step-brother a situation that caused him to flee his father & step-mother in New York seven years ago What keeps him in Florida is his relationship with a teenage high-school girl Pilar but when her family threatens to expose their relationship Miles decides to protect Pilar by going back to Brooklyn where he settles in a squat to prepare himself to face the inevitable confrontation with his father
- a confrontation he has been avoiding for years Set against the backdrop of the devastating global recession & pulsing with the energy of Auster's previous novel Invisible Sunset Park is as mythic as it is contemporary as in love with baseball as it is with literature It is above all a story about love & forgiveness
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Sunset Song is the first & most celebrated of Grassic Gibbon's great trilogy A Scot's Quair It provides a powerful description of the first two decades of the century through the evocation of change & the lyrical intensity of its prose It is hard to find any other Scottish novel of the last century which has received wider acclaim & better epitomises the feelings of a nation ...

' Oh she hated & loved in a breath!' Faced with the choice between her harsh farming life & the seductive world of books & learning the spirited Chris Guthrie decides to remain in rural Scotland But as the devastation of the First World War leaves Chris & her community in tatters she must draw strength from what she loves
- & endure like the land she loves so intensely Powerful & moving Sunset Song is an inspirational celebration of the human spirit
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Faced with the choice between her harsh farming life & the seductive but distant world of books & learning the spirited Chris Guthrie decides to remain in her rural community But as the devastation of the First World War leaves her life-and community-in tatters she must draw strength from what she loves & endure like the land she loves so intensely Brutal & beautiful passionate & powerful Sunset Song is a moving portrait of a declining way of life & an inspirational celebration of the human spirit & in Chris Guthrie Grassic Gibbon has given us one of literature's most unforgettable heroines ...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITHYoung Chris Guthrie lives a brutal life in the harsh landscape of northern Scotland torn between her passion for the land duty to her family & her love of books When her mother broken by repeated childbirths takes her own life & poisons her two youngest children Chris is left with her father to run the farm on her own Soon she is alone & for the first time can choose how to spend her life But as the First World War begins everything changes & the young men leave Scotland for battle The first in Gibbon's classic trilogy A Scot's Quair Sunset Song is infused with local vernacular & innovatively blends Scots & English in an intense description of Scottish life in the early twentieth century ...