The accomplished Corinthian Sir Richard Wyndham is wealthy sophisticated handsome & supremely bored Tired of his aristocratic family constantly pressuring him to get married he determines to run away after meeting the delightful unconventional heroine Penelope Creed Penelope literally falls into his life late one night as she hangs from the window of her aunt!s house she too attempting to escape the pressures of forced marriage The two allies become embroiled in a series hilarious madcap adventures as they cross-dress run into escaped criminals have a case of mistaken identity & save people from their own dramatics Little do they predict their feelings for one another blossoming into romance ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play From the creators of The Wire comes the award winning & critically acclaimed six part mini-series The Corner Gritty raw honest & compelling the series explores the lives of residents in a drug blighted West Baltimore neighborhood in 1993 Based on real events & real people The Corner is challenging & intelligent drama at its best A must-buy for any fans of The Wire The critically acclaimed & award winning series is based on the non-fiction book & The Corner
- A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood& The Corner tells the true story of men women & children living amid the open-air drug markets of West Baltimore It chronicles a year in the lives of 15-year old De Andre Mc Cullough his mother Fran Boyd & his father Gary Mc Cullough as well as other addicts & low-level drug dealers caught up in the twin-engine economy of heroin & cocaine
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A masterful historical novel of monastic life set in the 14th century Many consider this Townsend Warner's most accomplished work 416 pages Warner Sylvia Townsend ...

Spring 1919 James Max' Maxted former Great War flying ace returns to the trail of murder treachery & half-buried secrets he set out on in The Ways of the World He left Paris after avenging the murder of his father Sir Henry Maxted a senior member of the British delegation to the post-war peace conference But he was convinced there was more
- much more
- to be discovered about what Sir Henry had been trying to accomplish & he suspected elusive German spymaster Fritz Lemmer knew the truth of it Now enlisted under false colours in Lemmer's service but with his loyalty pledged to the British Secret Service Max sets out on his first
- & possibly last
- mission for Lemmer It takes him to the far north of Scotland
- to the Orkney Isles where the German High Seas Fleet has been impounded in Scapa Flow its fate to be decided at the conference-table in Paris Max has been sent to recover a document held aboard one of the German ships What that document contains forces him to break cover sooner than he would have wished & to embark on a desperate race south towards London with information that could destroy Lemmer
- if Max as seems unlikely lives to deliver it





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' Never even in his most optimistic moments had he visualised a scene of this nature
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A sweeping romantic debut set in Cornwall reminiscent of Rosamunde Pilcher When artist Maddie inherits a house in Cornwall shortly after the death of her husband she hopes it will be the fresh start she & her step-daughter desperately need Trevenen is beautiful but neglected & as Maddie discovers the stories of generations of women who've lived there before she begins to feel her life is somehow intertwined within its walls But Maddie's dream of a calm life in the countryside is far from the reality she faces
- & as she pulls at the seams of Trevenen's past the house reveals secrets that have lain hidden for generations
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The first book to look specifically at the movement of Cornish men & women to & from the Caribbean from the early days of colonialism A meticulously researched & very readable book A fascinating subject for those with an interest in all things Cornish be they in Cornwall in the Caribbean or in the wider Cornish diaspora 352 pages Appleby Sue ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Crime investigations against a stunning seaside backdrop are at the heart of this entertaining new drama series following a high-flying solicitor who returns to live & work in the small town she escaped as a teenager As coroner Jane Kennedy&s job is to investigate sudden or unexplained deaths in this beautiful English coastal community With a new & intriguing case to investigate in each episode starting with the discovery of a body Jane finds herself having to work with old flame Davey Higgins who is now the local detective sergeant The Coroner combines mystery & potential danger with the warm light-hearted tone of Jane&s relationships with her colleagues family & the local community While Jane is talented & tenacious in seeking justice for the dead her personal life is a bit more haphazard! ...

' Just brilliant' DONAL RYAN ' An exceptionally good book' C J SANSOM1816 was the year without a summer A rare climatic event has brought frost to July & a lingering fog casts a pall over a Dublin stirred by zealotry & civil unrest torn between evangelical & rationalist dogma Amid the disquiet a young nursemaid in a pious household conceals a pregnancy & then murders her newborn Rumours swirl about the identity of the child's father but before an inquest can be held the maid is found dead When Abigail Lawless the eighteen-year-old daughter of Dublin's coroner by chance discovers a message from the maid's seducer she is drawn into a world of hidden meanings & deceit An only child Abigail has been raised amid the books & instruments of her father's grim profession Pushing against the restrictions society places on a girl her age she pursues an increasingly dangerous investigation As she leads us through dissection rooms & dead houses Gothic churches & elegant ballrooms a sinister figure watches from the shadows
- an individual she believes has already killed twice & is waiting to kill again Determined resourceful & intuitive Abigail Lawless emerges as a memorable young sleuth operating at the dawn of forensic science
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As Jack Groppel so aptly explains the rigor of corporate athletics is often even more demanding than that of professional athletes In my world one does not have the luxury of an off-season This book is a must-read for all those striving for the gold -Arthur M Blank CEO & President The Home Depot " Today's challenging business climate requires every top executive to be perfectly fit both mentally & physically The Corporate Athlete is must reading for everyone who wants to manage his or her business career or profession effectively while living a balanced life Buy it-it's a great investment" -Leonard Lauder Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of the Estee Lauder Companies Inc ...