Cursed by an enchantress because he has no love within his heart a prince is transformed into a terrible beast This figurine depicts The Beast in all his finery & resembles his outfit in the classic Beauty & The Beast 1991 film The figurine is made from resin Each piece is hand painted & slight colour variations are to be expected which makes each piece unique Supplied in branded gift box Not a toy or children&s product Intended for adults only Disney Showcase figurine Handmade & hand painted Classic Disney characters Made from resin Branded Gift box ...

One day a few years ago 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar Mexico & Sasabe Arizona A local priest got 120 released many with broken ankles & other marks of abuse but the rest vanished Oscar Martinez a young writer from El Salvador was in Altar soon after the abduction & his account of the migrant disappearances is only one of the harrowing stories he garnered from two years spent traveling up & down the migrant trail from Central America & across the US border More than a quarter of a million Central Americans make this increasingly dangerous journey each year & each year as many as 20000 of them are kidnapped Martinez writes in powerful unforgettable prose about clinging to the tops of freight trains; finding respite work & hardship in shelters & brothels; & riding shotgun with the border patrol Illustrated with stunning full-color photographs The Beast is the first book to shed light on the harsh new reality of the migrant trail in the age of the narcotraficantes ...

Jeremy Underwood is a long-suffering subeditor on The Daily Beast Britain&s mightiest tabloid Returning from holiday he notices two burqa-clad figures lurking outside the paper&s Kensington offices Two male terrorism suspects have escaped from a mosque disguised as women; recently suspicion & fear have made everyone alert Jeremy&s casual observation sets off a chain of events that spins out of control as the great Beast feels that it is the next target of terrorism Alexander Starritt&s darkly funny novel is a vivid anatomy of that most uncontrollable of large creatures the British tabloid newspaper The ferocious professionalism & manic rivalries of a newsroom have rarely been so well described & at the heart of the newsroom is the brooding dictatorial figure of its editor Charles Brython the booming voice of Middle England His world is under threat & he will do whatever it takes to defend it This is a story in which comedy teeters on the edge of horror ...

The Beast is an animal You'd better lock the Gate Or when it's dark It comes for you Then it will be too late Alys was the only one to see the soul eaters when they came to her village The others were sleeping They never woke up Now an orphan Alys knows the full danger of the soul eaters She's heard the nursery rhymes the chidren sing about the twin sisters who feed on souls She's seen people disappear into the fforest & never come back So why then does she find herself mysteriously drawn to the fforest? Is she what everyone around her says she is? A witch? Alys soon finds herself on a journey that will take her to the very heart of the fforest There she must decide where true evil lies & face the thing they call The Beast A fairy tale with a difference shivery dark & deeply satisfying ' Read it if you loved The Handmaid's Tale'
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The bard looks up at the three figures who now surround him It is here that the bard is ordered to retell the tale that has got him in so much trouble & set a contract on his life & so to the next instalment in the astonishing tale of Podkin One-Ear But as they flee into the forest depths it seems they have been betrayed 320 pages Larwood Kieran ...

Tom is an aspiring musician who plays seedy bars in the backstreets of Paris The one thing tearing him away from his music is the example set by his father
- a sleazy life of crime which Tom seems set to follow But when he meets by chance a friend of his concert pianist mother s his musical ambitions are rekindled & he strives to make a better life for himself Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play
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Director Jacques Audiard & screenwriter Tonino Benacquista who shared a 2002 Cesar Award for Best Original Screenplay for ' Read My Lips' team up again in ' The Beat That My Heart Skipped' a gritty psychological drama set in the dark dank streets of Paris The film is based on James Toback's cult favourite ' Fingers' in which Harvey Keitel played a tortured soul trapped between his love of the piano & his involvement with the mob In this remake Romain Duris stars as Tom a ne'er-do-well who works with two scheming real estate men Fabrice (Jonathan Zaccai) & Sami (Gilles Cohen) who have little or no morals When Tom sees his mother's old agent he decides to return to the piano practising Bach's Toccata in E Minor for an important audition that he envisions could be a life-changing event He hires a Vietnamese woman Miao-Lin (Linh-Dan Pham) as his teacher even though they speak different languages While struggling to regain his mastery of the piano
- which he gave up after his virtuoso mother's tragic death
- he is called upon by his partners to participate in shady deals & even help one of them cheat on his wife (Aure Atika) He also has a troublesome relationship with his father (Niels Arestrup) who asks Tom to collect money he is owed putting him in dangerous situations ' The Beat That My Heart Skipped' is an intelligent involving film told in long takes with a handheld camera to heighten the emotional impact of scene after scene

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The Beating of his Wings by Paul Hoffman is the final instalment in his epic Cale & the Sanctuary of Redeemers series The Beating of his Wings is the third & final instalment in the epic Paul Hoffman trilogy following Cale & the Sanctuary of the Redeemers Following The Left Hand of God & The Last Four Things this climatic ending will bring this sensational narrative to a close & finally the fate of the angel of death will be revealed Imagine if Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials met Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose Fans of epic heroic fiction will love this series Praise for Paul Hoffman' This book gripped me from the first chapter & then dropped me days later dazed & grinning to myself' Conn Iggulden' Tremendous momentum' Daily Telegraph'A cult classic ' Daily Express Paul Hoffman is the author of four previous novels The Last Four Things (2011) The Left Hand of God (2010) The Golden Age of Censorship (2007) a black comedy based on his experiences as a film censor & The Wisdom of Crocodiles (2000) which predicted the collapse of the world financial system ...

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