Just because they could rebuild her doesn't mean her life isn't a wreck! After Jaime Sommers suffers a horrific parachute accident her then-boyfriend Steve Austin convinces his superiors to save her life using similar bionic parts to the ones that made him the Bionic Man The doctors scientists replace both Jaime's legs Her right arm Her ear & a few other surprises! Now she's the Bionic Woman & her body is faster & stronger but much of the memory of her past life is missing But old lives have a way of popping back up again & when the recipients of the earliest bionic prototypes are being killed across the globe horribly murdered with their bionic parts stolen Jaime has to put her new life in Paris on hold Especially since it now looks like the mysterious killers are done with the small fry They want the upgrade They want the Bionic Woman! It's bullets bionics & baguettes in the city of love in this trade paperback collecting issues 1-6 of The Bionic Woman series complete with a cover gallery ...

2014 The Commonwealth Games are coming to Glasgow & security is extra tight particularly after a mysterious bomb explodes in nearby rural Stirlingshire As the opening ceremony for the Games draws ever closer the police desperately seek the culprits But Detective Superintendent Lorimer has other concerns on his mind One is a beautiful red-haired woman from his past whose husband dies suddenly on his watch Then there is the body of a young woman found dumped in countryside just south of the city who is proving impossible to identify Elsewhere in Glasgow people prepare for the events in their own way whether for financial gain or to welcome home visitors from overseas & hiding behind false identities are those who pose a terrible threat not just to the Games but to the very fabric of society Alex Gray's stunning new Lorimer novel set against the backdrop of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games brings the vibrant city to life in a race to stop the greatest threat the city has ever known ...

Two people in exile Two secrets As the past tightens its grip there may be no escape TV presenter Allis Hagtorn leaves her partner & her job to take voluntary exile in a remote house on an isolated fjord But her new job as housekeeper & gardener is not all that it seems & her silent surly employer 44-year-old Sigurd Bagge is not the old man she expected As they await the return of his wife from her travels their silent uneasy encounters develop into a chilling obsessive relationship & it becomes clear that atonement for past sins may not be enough Haunting consuming & powerful The Bird Tribunal is a taut exquisitely written psychological thriller that builds to a shocking dramatic crescendo that will leave you breathless ...

The unsettling story of a young woman's descent into mental illness from the author of The Haunting of Hill House & We Have Always Lived at the Castle ' An amazing writer' Neil Gaiman Elizabeth Richmond is almost too quiet to be believed with no friends no parents & a job that leaves her strangely unnoticed But soon she starts to behave in ways she can neither control nor understand to the increasing horror of her doctor & the humiliation of her self-centred aunt As a tormented Elizabeth becomes two people then three then four each wilder & more wicked than the last a battle of wills threatens to destroy the girl & all who surround her The Bird's Nest is a macabre journey into who we are & how close we sometimes come to the brink of madness Shirley Jackson's chilling tales of creeping unease & casual cruelty have the power to unsettle & terrify unlike any other She was born in California in 1916 When her short story The Lottery was first published in The New Yorker in 1948 readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has since become one of the most iconic American stories of all time Her first novel The Road Through the Wall was published in the same year & was followed by five more Hangsaman The Bird's Nest The Sundial The Haunting of Hill House & We Have Always Lived in the Castle widely seen as her masterpiece Shirley Jackson died in her sleep at the age of 48 ' The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie & unforgettable It is a place where things are not what they seem; even on a morning that is sunny & clear there is always the threat of darkness looming of things taking a turn for the worse'
- A M Homes Shirley Jackson is unparalleled as a leader in the field of beautifully written quiet cumulative shudders'
- Dorothy Parker ' Shirley Jackson is one of those highly idiosyncratic inimitable writers whose work exerts an enduring spell'
- Joyce Carol Oates


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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 An American re-make of the 1978 film French film & La Cage aux Folles& Armand (Robin Williams) runs the Birdcage nightclub in Miami South Beach where his partner Albert (Nathan Lane) is the star drag act When Armand&s son announces his intention to marry the daughter of a right wing senator (Gene Hackman) & the in-laws arrive expecting to meet Armand & his wife a grand farce ensues ...

How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened & then withdrew 'A classic of alienation & horror ' The Birds' was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation & mock man's sense of dominance over the natural world The mountain paradise of ' Monte Verita' promises immortality but at a terrible price; a neglected wife haunts her husband in the form of an apple tree; a professional photographer steps out from behind the camera & into his subject's life; a date with a cinema usherette leads to a walk in the cemetery; & a jealous father finds a remedy when three's a crowd ...

An important tool of a birdwatcher is a good identification guide Most cover the birds of Europe & few deal exclusively with Ireland This first photographic identification guide to the birds of Ireland has over 1600 photos of more than 260 species in an easy quick-reference format With eight to fifteen images per species the key identification features of each bird are shown with concise descriptions & pointers to indicate important features This guide is produced in association with Bird Watch Ireland Ireland's leading bird-conservation organisation The purchase of this guide contributes funds to Bird Watch Ireland's conservation & education initiatives to help protect & promote Ireland's wild birds & habitats similar to Ireland's Garden Birds by Jim Wilson & Oran O' Sullivan ...

' Superb description of a haunting blighted landscape His best book so far' C J Sansom Police Sergeant William South has a reason for not wanting to be on the murder investigation He is a murderer himself But the victim was his only friend; like him a passionate birdwatcher South is warily partnered with the strong-willed Detective Sergeant Alexandra Cupidi newly recruited to the Kent coast from London Together they find the body violently beaten forced inside a wooden chest Only rage could kill a man like this South knows it But soon
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- they find a suspect Donnie Fraser a drifter from Northern Ireland His presence in Kent disturbs William
- because he knew him as a boy If the past is catching up with him South wants to meet it head on For even as he desperately investigates the connections he knows there is no crime however duplicitous or cruel that can compare to the great lie of his childhood Moving from the storm-lashed bird-wheeling skies of the Kent Coast to the wordless war of the Troubles The Birdwatcher is a crime novel of suspense intelligence & powerful humanity about fathers & sons grief & guilt & facing the darkness within


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WHAT DRIVES GOOD MEN TO MURDER?' If you're not a fan yet why not?' Val Mc Dermid' The most gripping book I've read in years William Shaw is quite simply an outstanding storyteller' Peter May' Grips the reader by the throat & never lets go' Independent Sergeant William South has always avoided investigating murder A passionate birdwatcher & quiet man he has few relationships & prefers it that way But when his only friend is found brutally beaten South's detachment is tested Not only is he bereft
- it seems that there's a connection between the suspect & himself For South has a secret He knows the kind of rage that killed his friend He knows the kind of man who could do it He knows because Sergeant William South himself is a murderer Moving from the storm-lashed bird-wheeling skies of the Kent Coast to the wordless war of the Troubles The Birdwatcher is a crime novel of suspense intelligence & powerful humanity about fathers & sons grief & guilt & facing the darkness within
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Nate Parker writes directs & stars in this biographical drama which tells the story of Nat Turner (Parker) as he struggles with a life of slavery in the antebellum South His owner Samuel (Armie Hammer) takes advantage of Nat&s literacy & preaching ability to try & quell the resistance displayed among his other slaves Nat witnesses brutality & injustice inflicted upon his people & his preaching becomes ever more ardent But as his passion grows he becomes more of a problem for the slave owners & is himself brutally whipped Though he grew up alongside Samuel Nat has lost all respect for him & those like him & with his patience at an end he is determined that all slaves shall have justice; & if not justice vengeance The cast also features Aja Naomi King Penelope Ann Miller & Jackie Earle Haley ...