Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Based on the beloved international bestselling book The Book Thief tells the story of Liesel an extraordinary & courageous young girl sent to live with a foster family in World War II Germany She learns to read with encouragement from her new family & Max a Jewish refugee who they are hiding under the stairs For Liesel & Max the power of words & imagination become the only escape from the tumultuous events happening around them The Book Thief is a life-affirming story of survival & of the resilience of the human spirit Age Rating 12 ...

When young Arlo accidentally drops a book on the Mayor's head the Mayor decides books are dangerous & destroys all the books in town! But thanks to Arlo's imagination & perseverance the Mayor finds that suppressing stories cannot stop them from blossoming more beautifully than ever 32 pages Czajak Paul ...

You might think a book with no pictures seems boring & serious Except here's how books work Everything written on the page has to be said by the person reading it aloud Even if the words say BLORK Or BLUURF & even if the words include things like BLAGGITY BLAGGITY & MY HEAD IS made from BLUEBERRY PIZZA! That's the rule That's the deal Brilliantly irreverent & very very silly The Book With No Pictures will delight kids & have them begging for more From award-winning US comic writer & actor B J Novak ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Steve Scarborough doesn&t like what&s happened to professional wrestling so he&s set about changing it one match at a time The Booker follows Steve as he takes Platinum Championship Wrestling from idea to reality Shot over the course of 4 years watch his wrestling school grow into a wrestling promotion from working in the back room of a theatre with 4 students to holding a show at a 2500-seat area See how far Steve will go to be a successful booker & save pro wrestling from itself ...

Tracklist A Little Longing Goes Away Be Good To Them Always Vogt Dig For Kloppervok Smells Like Content It Never Changes To Stop An Animated Description Of Mr Maps Venice None But Shining Hours If Not Now Whenever An Owl With Knees Twelve Fold Chain ...

Two weeks after September 11th award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to report on the conflict there In the following spring she returned to live with an Afghan family for several months For more than twenty years Sultan Khan defied the authorities
- be they communist or Taliban
- to supply books to the people of Kabul He was arrested interrogated & imprisoned by the communists & watched illiterate Taliban soldiers burn piles of his books in the street He even resorted to hiding most of his stock in attics all over Kabul But while Khan is passionate in his love of books & hatred of censorship he is also a committed Muslim with strict views on family life As an outsider Seierstad is able to move between the private world of the women
- including Khan's two wives
- & the more public lives of the men & so we learn of proposals & marriages suppression & abuse of power crime & punishment The result is a gripping & moving portrait of a family & a clear-eyed assessment of a country struggling to free itself from history



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We're not talking about rooms that are just full of books We're talking about bookshops in barns disused factories converted churches & underground car parks Bookshops on boats on buses & in old run-down train stations Fold-out bookshops undercover bookshops this-is-the-best-place-I've-ever-been-to-bookshops Meet Sarah & her Book Barge sailing across the sea to France; meet Sebastien in Mongolia who sells books to herders of the Altai mountains; meet the bookshop in Canada that's invented the world's first antiquarian book vending machine & that's just the beginning From the oldest bookshop in the world to the smallest you could imagine The Bookshop Book examines the history of books talks to authors about their favourite places & looks at over three hundred weirdly wonderful bookshops across six continents (sadly we've yet to build a bookshop down in the South Pole) The Bookshop Book is a love letter to bookshops all around the world --"A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves but reaching out into the world & making a difference" David Almond (The Bookshop Book

Includes:: interviews "es from David Almond Ian Rankin Tracy Chevalier Audrey Niffenegger Jacqueline Wilson Jeanette Winterson & many many others)

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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize In a small East Anglian town Florence Green decides against polite but ruthless local opposition to open a bookshop Hardborough becomes a battleground Florence has tried to change the way things have always been done & as a result she has to take on not only the people who have made themselves important but natural & even supernatural forces too Her fate will strike a chord with anyone who knows that life has treated them with less than justice ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region Free DVD Player in order to play Based on Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel of the same name; The Bookshop is set in 1959 Florence Green (Emily Mortimer) a free-spirited widow puts grief behind her & risks everything to open up a bookshop – the first such shop in the sleepy seaside town of Hardborough England Fighting damp cold & considerable local apathy she struggles to establish herself but soon her fortunes change for the better Language English Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Number of discs 1 ...

This story is about a little girl named Property Jones so-called because she was left in the lost property cupboard of a bookshop when she was five years old Property loves living in the bookshop but she has a whopper of a secret she can't actually read! So Property doesn't see the newspaper article announcing the chance to win the Montgomery Book Emporium the biggest & most magnificent bookshop in the world! When her family win the competition Property finds herself moving to the Emporium a magical place filled with floor upon floor of books & a very bad-tempered cat But all is not at it seems at the Emporium & soon Property Jones finds herself in a whole heap of trouble ...