Featuring Jack Reacher hero of the blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise in his coolest sexiest punch-packing thriller yet March 1997 A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Mississippi Just down the road is a big army base Is the murderer a local guy
- or is he a soldier? Jack Reacher still a major in the military police is sent in undercover The county sheriff is a former US Marine
- & a stunningly beautiful woman Her investigation is going nowhere Is the Pentagon stonewalling her? Or doesn't she really want to find the killerset just six months before the opening of Killing Floor The Affair marks a turning point in Reacher's career If he does what the army wants will he be able to live with himself? & if he doesn't will the army be able to live with him?

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A shocking story about a fifteen-year-old girl & the man who took advantage of her " You might as well know from the start I'm not going to tell on him & I don't care how much trouble I get in It's not like it could get any worse than it already is I can't Don't ask me why I just can't" When Nina finds out that her fifteen-year-old daughter Scarlett is pregnant her world falls apart Because Scarlet won't tell anyone who the father is & Nina is scared that the answer will destroy everything As the suspects mount
- from Scarlett's teacher to Nina's new husband of less than a year
- Nina searches for the truth no matter what the cost

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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 All 32 episodes from the first three seasons of the Golden Globe-winning domestic drama starring Dominic West as Noah Solloway an adulterous husband & aspiring novelist who finds himself embroiled in an affair with a younger woman When Noah travels to his in-laws& Hamptons estate to spend the summer with his wife & four children he meets Alison (Ruth Wilson) a young married diner waitress & begins an affair But with two marriages at stake it inevitably takes its toll on all involved The supporting cast

Includes:: Joshua Jackson Maura Tierney & Jake Siciliano

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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 Affair has it all The story begins in Season One with Noah Solloway (Dominic West) a happily married father who finds himself attracted to Alison Lockhart (Ruth Wilson) an unhappily married waitress suffering from a recent tragedy As both sides of the romance are explored a detective investigating a murder shows up shedding unwanted light on both parties The mystery deepens in Season Two revealing complex family ties passionate betrayals & vengeful emotions just as all involved try to plan for the future Also starring Maura Tierney & Joshua Jackson watch all 22 episodes of the Golden Globe winning series in this 8-disc edition ...

The Affordable Housing Reader brings together classic works & contemporary writing on the themes & debates that have animated the field of affordable housing policy as well as the challenges in achieving the goals of policy on the ground The Reader
- aimed at professors students & researchers
- provides an overview of the literature on housing policy & planning that is both comprehensive & interdisciplinary It is particularly suited for graduate & undergraduate courses on housing policy offered to students of public policy & city planning The Reader is structured around the key debates in affordable housing ranging from the conflicting motivations for housing policy through analysis of the causes of & solutions to housing problems to concerns about gentrification & housing & race Each debate is contextualized in an introductory essay by the editors & illustrated with a range of texts & articles Elizabeth Mueller & Rosie Tighe have brought together for the first time into a single volume the best & most influential writings on housing & its importance for planners & policy-makers

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Chinua Achebe is considered the father of African literature in English the writer who 'opened the magic casements of African fiction' for an international readership Following the 50th anniversary of the publication of his ground-breaking Things Fall Apart Everyman republish Achebe's first & most famous novel alongside No Longer at Ease & Arrow of God under the collective title The African Trilogy In Things Fall Apart the individual tragedy of Okonkwo 'strong man' & tribal elder in the Nigeria of the 1890s is intertwined with the transformation of traditional Igbo society under the impact of Christianity & colonialism In No Longer at Ease Okonkwo's grandson Obi educated in England returns to a civil-service job in colonial Lagos only to clash with the ruling elite to which he now believes he belongs Arrow of God is set in the 1920s & explores the conflict from the two points of view
- often but not always opposing
- of Ezuelu an Igbo priest & Captain Winterbottom a British district officer In spare & lucid prose Achebe tellsa universal tale of personal & moral struggle in a changing world which continues to resonate in Africa today & has captured the imaginations of readers everywhere

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The African Union has been a major factor in establishing peace security & development in Africa Today however the intranational body is struggling in the midst of a perceived dissipating appetite for supporting continental institutions Previously seen as the panacea to Africa's continuing problems with violence & corruption in society under the slogan " African Solutions to African Problems" the African Union this book argues seems to have run its course Recognizing that the measured successes in political emancipation which have been recorded across the African continent do not seem to have translated into economic & social gains for its 12 billion citizens the AU adopted a new development framework dubbed " Agenda 2063" The framework calls on African leaders to rediscover the Pan African' spirit & to create the Africa Africans want' In practice this means a new focus & engagement with the African Diaspora tapping into their strong track-record in economic development As this book shows however there remain deep differences over the meaning timing & sequencing of pan-African integration Indeed different member states have different understandings of the role of the African Union itself This essential handbook from one of the leading research institutions on the continent seeks to uncover what some of those understandings are & why the unification project has remained so elusive ...

In 2004 bad boy Billy Fingers Cohen a homeless small-time drug dealer & addict in a state of drug induced euphoria ran into a busy intersection & was killed instantly by a speeding automobile He left behind a grieving sister For weeks she struggled with grief & tried to make sense of Billy's seemingly wasted life & tragic death A few weeks after his death William Cohen aka Billy Fingers woke his sister Annie at dawn 'I'm drifting weightlessly through these glorious stars & galaxies & I feel a Divine Presence a kind loving beneficent presence twinkling all around me' Billy's ongoing after-death communications take his sister on an unprecedented journey into the bliss & wonder of life beyond death Billy's profound detailed description of the mystical realms he traverses the Beings of Light that await him & the wisdom he receives take the reader beyond the near-death experience Billy is indeed as Dr Raymond Moody points out in his foreword explaining the phenomena we've known about since ancient times an afterworld walker A fascinating page-turner filled with wisdom humour & hope The Afterlife of Billy Fingers will forever change your views about life death & the hereafter If I could give you a gift it would be to find the glory inside yourself beyond the roles & the drama so you can dance the dance of the game of life with a little more rhythm a little more abandon a little more shaking-those-hips ...

' Ridiculously good' (New York Times) author Thomas Pierce's debut novel is a brilliantly dazzling & poignant love story that answers the question What happens after we die? (Lots of stuff it turns out) Will we meet again? I believe we will but as for proof I can only offer my story nothing more Jim Byrd died Technically For a few minutes The diagnosis heart attack at age thirty Revived with no memory of any tunnels lights or angels Jim wonders what
- if anything
- awaits us on the other side Then a ghost shows up Maybe Jim & his new wife Annie find themselves tangling with holograms psychics messages from the beyond & a machine that connects the living & the dead As Jim & Annie journey through history & fumble through faith they confront the spectre of loss that looms for anyone who dares to fall in love Funny fiercely original & gracefully moving The Afterlives will haunt you In a good way Praise for The Afterlives'A bracingly intelligent beautifully rendered meditation on ghosts technology marriage & the afterlife This is a remarkable novel' Emily St John Mandel' Inventive romantic & unsettling The Afterlives is a story of two people who take extraordinary measures to answer the Big Questions What is the soul? Do we ever really die? Flabbergastingly original & sublimely satisfying' Amity Gaige

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Set in post-war Germany the international bestseller The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook is a stunning emotional thriller about ...