Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014 Littlefield Massachusetts home to psychologists college professors & their over-achieving children & recently lauded as one of the Ten Best Places to Live in America If happiness had a home it would be here Then the first dog is poisoned At first there is shock & disbelief who would commit such a cruel act
- & why? As more dogs die residents notice other signs that something's not right in their home the appearance of menacing grafitti the persistent triggering of fire alarms at the middle school & the haunted looks neighbours begin exchanging For the Downings Margaret Bill & daughter Julia Littlefield's gathering darkness hints at flaws in their own lives What is wrong? What can save them?' Well-observed shrewd satire sharp funny & painful Berne takes the domestic & turns it into the majestic' Sunday Telegraph
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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 Jamie Shannon (Walken) is a cynical warrior-for-hire who only ever feels truly alive in the heat of battle & now he s about to take on the most challenging assignment of his career to invade a corrupt African dictatorship & shift control to the puppet of a powerful British corporation To prepare Shannon masterfully trains & equips a squad of deadly mercenaries with the latest & most destructive tactics & military hardware But as their explosive assault begins Shannon finds himself embroiled in an internal conflict of his own Will this be his greatest triumph or has he sold his soul along with his battle expertise? Praised on release for its dialogue action & characters The Dogs of War is a gritty masterpiece & one of the best war movies of its era Eureka Classics is proud to present John Irvin s feature debut on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK Actors Christopher Walken Tom Berenger Colin Blakely Directors John Irwin Format PAL Blu-ray Region Region B2 (Read more about DVDBlu-ray formats) Aspect Ratio Unknown Number of discs 1 ...

An astonishing discovery is made in the remote African republic of Zangaro one which could change the course of a nation's history forever But such a discovery cannot be kept secret for long & Sir James Manson will stop at nothing to protect this find A ruthless & bloody-minded tycoon Manson immediately hires an army of mercenaries & with this deadly crew behind him he sets out to topple the government & replace its dictator with a puppet president But news of the discovery has reached Russia
- & suddenly Manson finds he no longer makes the rules in this power game A game in which win or lose means life or death
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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 Academy Award winner Christopher Walken is a brutal mercenary who must fight the ultimate battle
- against his own conscience
- in this powerful action thriller with a "heart-thumping tempo" (The Hollywood Reporter) The Dogs of War is a spectacular adventure that brilliantly captures the glory
- & horror
- of war Jamie Shannon (Walken) is a cynical warrior-for-hire who feels truly alive only in the heat of battle & now he&s about to take on the most challenging assignment of his career to invade a corrupt African dictatorship & shift control to the "puppet" of a powerful British corporation To prepare Shannon masterfully trains & equips a squad of deadly mercenaries with the latest & most destructive tactics & military hardware But as their explosive assault begins Shannon finds himself embroiled in an internal conflict of his own Will this be his greatest triumph or has he sold his soul along with his battle expertise?



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When Mishka is abandoned on the streets of Moscow he falls in with a gang of other homeless children hoping they'll give him a chance of survival But as winter freezes the city & food becomes scarce he is left alone to fend for himself Help comes in an unexpected form Mishka is adopted by a pack of dogs The creatures quickly become more than just his street companions they are his family But he can't stay hidden from the world for ever ...

My name is Ruby I live with Barbara & Mick They're not my real parents but they tell me what to do & what to say But there are things I won't say I won't tell them I'm going to hunt for my real parents I don't say a word about Shadow who sits on the stairs or the Wasp Lady I saw Or that I'm a hunter for lost souls I'm going to be with my real family & I won't let anyone stop me ...

Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller The Doll's House is the new twisting & terrifying thriller in the Detective Inspector Helen Grace series from MJ Arlidge Arlidge is the author of Eeny Meeny & Pop Goes the Weasel & has been dubbed 'the new Jo Nesbo'' Detective Inspector Helen Grace is one of the greatest heroes to come along in years' Jeffery Deaver New York Times bestselling author of The Skin Collector & Solitude Creek ' The third instalment in the DI Grace series is as fast-paced & nail-bitingly tense as the first two Taut & gripping book four cannot come soon enough' Sun A young woman wakes up in a cold dark cellar with no idea how she got there or who her kidnapper is So begins her terrible nightmare Nearby the body of another young woman is discovered buried on a remote beach But the dead girl was never reported missing
- her estranged family having received regular texts from her over the years Someone has been keeping her alive from beyond the grave For Detective Inspector Helen Grace it's chilling evidence that she's searching for a monster who is not just twisted but also clever & resourceful
- a predator who's killed before & as Helen struggles to understand the killer's motivation she begins to realize that she's in a desperate race against time PRAISE FOR MJ ARLIDGE' Page-turningly chilling' The Times'DI Helen Grace is a genuinely fresh heroine MJ Arlidge weaves together a tapestry that chills to the bone' Daily Mail'MJ Arlidge is the new Jo Nesbo' Judy Finnigan' Taut fast-paced truly excellent' Sun' Chilling stuff' Fabulist 'A chilling read' My Weekly 'A grisly gripping thriller' Sunday Mirror ' Dark twisted thought provoking & I couldn't turn the pages fast enough Take a ride on this roller coaster from hell--white knuckles guaranteed' Tami Hoag number one New York Times bestselling author' Gruesomely realistic intriguing & relentless Arlidge's fledgling army of fans is about to grow' Sunday Sport' Eeny Meeny debuts one of the best new series detectives Helen Grace Determined tough & damaged she must unravel a terrifying riddle of a killer kidnapping victims in pairs Mesmerizing!' Lisa Gardner ' Expertly pulled off It has a devious premise DI Helen Grace is fiendishly awesome It's scary as all hell & it has a full cast of realistically drawn interesting characters that make the thing read like a bullet' Will Lavender 'A fast-paced twisting police procedural & thriller that's sure to become another bestseller' Huffington Post

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'I want to know if men realise when they are insane Sometimes I think that my brain cannot hold together it is filled with too much horror
- too much despair I cannot sleep I cannot close my eyes without seeing his damned face If only it had been a dream' In ' The Doll' a waterlogged notebook is washed ashore Its pages tell a dark story of obsession & jealousy But the fate of its narrator is a mystery Most of the stories in this haunting collection were written early in Daphne du Maurier's career
- when she was still in her early twenties
- yet they display her mastery of atmosphere tension & intrigue & reveal a cynicism far beyond her years


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In this updated second edition of the highly acclaimed international best seller The Dollar Crisis Causes Consequences Cures Richard Duncan describes the flaws in the international monetary system that have destabilized the global economy & that may soon culminate in a deflation-induced worldwide economic slump The Dollar Crisis is divided into five parts Part One describes how the US trade deficits which now exceed US1 million a minute have destabilized the global economy by creating a worldwide credit bubble Part Two explains why these giant deficits cannot persist & why a US recession & a collapse in the value of the Dollar are unavoidable Part Three analyzes the extraordinarily harmful impact that the US recession & the collapse of the Dollar will have on the rest of the world Part Four offers original recommendations that if implemented would help mitigate the damage of the coming worldwide downturn & put in place the foundations for balanced & sustainable economic growth in the decades ahead Part Five which has been newly added to the second edition describes the extraordinary evolution of this crisis since the first edition was completed in September 2002 It also considers how the Dollar Crisis is likely to unfold over the years immediately ahead the likely policy response to the crisis & why that response cannot succeed The Dollar Standard is inherently flawed & increasingly unstable Its collapse will be the most important economic event of the 21st Century ...

'A terrifying lesson in US history
- & a haunting tragedy' Guardian Gertie is the young mother of five children
- uneducated

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