The remarkable but true story of a young Irish nun who flees her convent in Wagga Wagga NSW barefoot in her nightgown on a foggy winter's night in 1920 setting the scene for a religious storm unprecedented in Australia's history She finds refuge in the home of local Protestants who refuse to disclose her whereabouts to the Catholic authorities The Bishop in turn swears before a Chamber Magistrate that she is insane & a warrant is issued for her arrest Hunted throughout Australia like an outlaw her plight is driven by a heightening media frenzy that raises religious tension to levels unprecedented in Australia's history Located in the home of the Reverend William Touchell & his wife Laura in a Sydney suburb she is arrested & taken to the Reception House for the Insane in Darlinghurst to be held in remand for medical observation Appearing before the Lunacy Court a week later she is declared sane & released With no apology from the Bishop for the slur cast on her character she turns to the courts for redress But taking on the Bishop means taking on the Roman Catholic Church Those who helped when she fled the convent offer their support again along with every member of the Loyal Orange Lodge of NSW to sue the Bishop An unholy war rages around her as the enmity between the two sides rooted in history & religion reaches fever pitch This is the true story of the author's Great Aunt Brigid Partridge known in religion as Sister Liguori ...

Through the foggy streets of Victorian London to the deepest countryside Sherlock Holmes uses his unique powers of deduction in eight thrilling investigations including the mysteries of ' The Speckled Band' & ' The Reigate Puzzle' With a captivating introduction by award-winning Jonathan Stroud ...

I am how I've always been My name is Auden Dare I am eleven years old Auden Dare has an unusual perspective on life he cannot see in colour He's always had this rare condition
- & life is beginning to get harder for Auden The war for water that is raging across the world is getting a little closer all the time It hardly rains any more anywhere Everyone is thirsty all the time & grubby & exhausted Auden has to learn to live without his father who is away fighting & has had to move to a new town with his mother & start a new school where everyone thinks he's a weirdo But when he meets Vivi Rookmini a smiling girl bright with cleverness his hopes begin to lift It soon becomes clear to Auden though that there are some strange things afoot in his new hometown He & his mother have moved into the old cottage of his recently-dead uncle Jonah Bloom
- a scientist & professor at the university The place is in disarray
- & although Auden's mother tells him it's because Jonah was a messy old thing Auden knows differently Someone else did this
- someone who was looking for something of Jonah's Auden had heard too that Jonah was working on something that could cure Auden's condition
- could this be it? Then Auden & Vivi make an extraordinary discovery Hidden away under the shed at the bottom of Jonah's garden is an engimatic & ingenious robot who calls himself Paragon A talking walking human-like robot Apparently built by Jonah
- but why? The answer to this will take Auden & Vivi on a thrilling journey of discovery as they seek to find out just what exactly Paragon is
- & what link he has to Auden
- & find that the truth is bigger & more wonderful than either of them could have imagined







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VERY few authors can ever dream of coming close to the legacy left by AA Milne He remains a household name in almost every corner of the globe thanks to a phenomenally popular collection of whimsical children s stories about a boy named Christopher Robin & his beloved teddy bear Generations of children have grown up loving the tales of Winnie The Pooh & his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood which are still among the most popular & profitable
- fictional characters in the world But while the adorable poems & stories have brought unparalleled joy to millions Alan Alexander Milne himself was never able to enjoy the fame & fortune they brought him He died deeply resenting Pooh s success as far as he was concerned those stories were just such a tiny fraction of his literary work but nothing else he produced came close in terms of public appreciation Milne died still unable to reconcile the fact that no matter what else he wrote regardless of all the plays & stories for adults he had published he would always be remembered as a children s storyteller & his son widely hailed as the inspiration for the adorable character of Christopher Robin could never accept his unique place in literary history either He had barely reached his teens before he grew to loathe his famous father who he bitterly accused of exploiting his early years The Extraordinary Life of AA Milne delves deep into the life of Milne & sheds light on new places & tells stories untold
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Including Super Dave&s Favourite Stuts -opening Skid Marks -CN Tower Spectacular -Pile Driver Mantra -Atomic Yo-YO -Car Crusher -Dave Bond -Football Throwing Arm -Super Dave Boxing Academy -All Purpose Sports Chair -Racecar Pit Crew -GEiger Car -Girl Softball Team Stunt -Long Ball Golf -Basketball Catapult Dunk -Super Dave Stunt School -Ski Ride Bus Jump -King Of The Road ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play How can you believe your eyes when they&re not yourssydney Wells (Jessica Alba) is an accomplished independent Los-Angeles based concert violinist She is also blind & has been so since childhood As our story opens Sydney undergoes a double corneal transplant & her sight is restored But Sydney&s happiness is short lived as unexplained shadowy & frightening images start to haunt her Are they a passing aftermath of her surgery Sydney&s mind adjusting to sight a product of her imagination
- or something horrifyingly real? As Sydney&s family & friends begin to doubt her sanity Sydney is soon convinced that her annonymous eye donor has somehow opened the door to a terryfying world that only she can now see Actors Jessica Alba Alessandro Nivola Parker Posey Francois Chau Tamlyn Tomita Rade Serbedzija Fernanda Romero Rachel Ticotin Obba Babatunde & Chloe Moretz Director David Moreau & Xavier Palud Certificate 15 years & over Year 2008 Screen Widescreen 2351 Languages English
- DTS-HD Master Audio Additional Languages French ; Spanish Subtitles English ; English for the hearing impaired ; Spanish

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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 Sydney Wells (Jessica Alba) is an accomplished independent Los-Angeles based concert violinist She is also blind & has been so since childhood As our story opens Sydney undergoes a double corneal transplant & her sight is restored But Sydney&s happiness is short lived as unexplained shadowy & frightening images start to haunt her Are they a passing aftermath of her surgery Sydney&s mind adjusting to sight a product of her imagination
- or something horrifyingly real? As Sydney&s family & friends begin to doubt her sanity Sydney is soon convinced that her annonymous eye donor has somehow opened the door to a terryfying world that only she can now see Actors Jessica Alba Alessandro Nivola Parker Posey Francois Chau Tamlyn Tomita Rade Serbedzija Fernanda Romero Rachel Ticotin Obba Babatunde & Chloe Moretz Director David Moreau & Xavier Palud Certificate 15 years & over Year 2008 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players


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The Eye in the Door is the second novel in Pat Barker's classic Regeneration trilogy WINNER OF THE 1993 GUARDIAN FICTION PRIZELondon 1918 Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions But his private encounters with women & men
- pacifists objectors homosexuals
- conflict with his duties as a soldier & it is not long before his sense of himself fragments & breaks down Forced to consult the man who helped him before
- army psychiatrist William Rivers
- Prior must confront his inability to be the dutiful soldier his superiors wish him to be The Eye in the Door is a heart-rending study of the contradictions of war & of those forced to live through it'A new vision of what the First World War did to human beings male & female soldiers & civilians' A S Byatt Daily Telegraph' Every bit as waveringly intense & intelligent as its predecessor' Sunday Times' Startlingly original spellbinding' Sunday Telegraph' Gripping moving profoundly intelligent bursting with energy & darkly funny' Independent on Sunday Other titles in the trilogy Regeneration The Ghost Road



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The Eye of Heaven is the outstanding new Fargo Adventure from Top Ten bestseller Clive Cussler Baffin Island North-Western Canada Husb&-&-wife team Sami & Remi Fargo are on an environmental expedition to the Arctic when to their astonishment they discover a Viking ship in the ice perfectly preserved-and filled with pre-Columbian artefacts from Mexico It's a combination history suggests shouldn't be possible As the couple plunge into their research tantalizing clues about a link between the Vikings & the legendary Toltec feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl-and a fabled object known as the Eye of Heaven-begin to emerge But so do many dangerous people Soon the Fargos find themselves on the run through jungles temples & secret tombs caught between treasure hunters crime cartels & those with a far more personal motivation for stopping them At the end of the road will be the solution to a thous&-year-old mystery-or death Filled with the trademark breakneck pace & bold plotting that he has made his own The Eye of Heaven proves once again that Clive Cussler is the Grandmaster of Adventure This brand new instalment in the popular FARGO Adventures series follows the bestselling titles Spartan Gold Lost Empire The Kingdom The Tombs & The Mayan Secrets Praise for Clive Cussler ' Clive Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail ' The guy I read' Tom Clancy ' The adventure king' Daily Express ...

Winter has been colder than anyone can remember & there is no spring The eruption of Thalakrea has shrouded the sky in ash & blotted out the Sun Fate brings Hylas to the island of Keftiu He is desperate to find his friends Pirra the daughter of the High Priestess & Havoc the lion cub But Keftiu has suffered more than anywhere from the fury of the gods & the once-prosperous island has been ravaged by cold famine & plague As Hylas sets off alone to seek his friends he is tormented by the fear that Pirra & Havoc may not have survived the winter ...