Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Three teenagers jump & The Beast&
- the infamous train that illegal immigrants board to take them from Guatemala through Mexico to the American border The journey to a better life is fraught with danger Facing exploitation at every turn the only people they can trust on this perilous journey are each other Winning critical & audience praise world over this multiple award-winning debut feature establishes Diego Quemada-Diez as a new & powerful voice in contemporary cinema Extras Interview with Director Short Film &I Want To Be A Pilot&
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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 Set in the 14th Century half of Eurasia has been taken by the Golden Horde & Europe waits for its attack Actors Daulet Abdygaporov Tolepbergen Baisakalov & Innokenti Dakaiarov Director Andrei Proshkin Certificate 15 years & over Year 2012 Screen 1781 Anamorphic Languages Russian Subtitles English ...

' Fantasy as it ought to be written' George RR Martin The second book in Robin Hobb's thrilling fantasy series returns readers to the Six Duchies & the magical world of the Fitz & the Fool Fitz has been persuaded back to court posing as a servant to the decadent Lord Golden (who is the Fool in disguise) In secret he will train Prince Dutiful in the magic known as the Skill The peace remains fragile so the diplomatic wedding between Dutiful & the Outislander princess is a crucial alliance But when Elliania arrives she challenges the prince to undertake an impossible quest before she will accept him He must kill Icefyre one of the last true dragons & Fitz & the Fool must go with him ...

An exciting future thriller from nationally best-selling author of the Orphan&s Legacy science fiction saga A face-off with killers in order to guard a secret that could change humanity forever LIVE FOREVER—OR DIE TRYINGWhen the world’s richest man is the victim of a car bomb & literally blown off the Golden Gate Bridge the attack is attributed to terrorists & the world moves on But some still wonder Was Manuel Colibri targeted because as Silicon Valley rumor has it he was about to make the dream that people alive today can live to be one thousand come true? Two people are pursuing the truth Tech journalist Kate Boyle & recovering Iraq war veteran Ben Shepard race through the Bay Area chasing the only clues the reclusive Colibri left behind They discover not only each other but a cosmic secret that can change human history—and may cost them their lives About the Author Robert Buettner has been general counsel of a unit of one of the United States’ largest private multinational companies served as a US Army intelligence officer prospected for minerals in Alaska & the Sonoran desert & was a National Science Foundation Fellow in paleontology A Quill Award nominee for Best New Writer of 2005 his best-selling debut novel Orphanage was a Quill nominee for Best SFFantasy Horror novel of 2004 & has been called a classic of modern military science fiction The Golden Gate is his ninth novel & his first set in the near-present He lives in Georgia with his family & more bicycles than a grownup needs ...

New York Times bestseller A Guardian Observer Book of the Year When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious circumstances he & his three adult children assume new identities taking ' Roman' names & move into a grand mansion in downtown Manhattan Arriving shortly after the inauguration of Barack Obama he & his sons each extraordinary in his own right quickly establish themselves at the apex of New York society The story of the Golden family is told from the point of view of their Manhattanite neighbour & confidant Rene an aspiring filmmaker who finds in the Goldens the perfect subject Rene chronicles the undoing of the house of Golden the high life of money of art & fashion a sibling quarrel an unexpected metamorphosis the arrival of a beautiful woman betrayal & murder & far away in their abandoned homeland some decent intelligence work Invoking literature pop culture & the cinema Rushdie spins the story of the American zeitgeist over the last eight years hitting every beat the rise of the birther movement the Tea Party Gamergate & identity politics; the backlash against political correctness; the ascendency of the superhero movie & of course the insurgence of a ruthlessly ambitious narcissistic media-savvy villain wearing make-up & with coloured hair In a new world order of alternative truths Salman Rushdie has written the ultimate novel about identity truth terror & lies A brilliant heartbreaking realist novel that is not only uncannily prescient but shows one of the world's greatest storytellers working at the height of his powers ...

Within the dark heart of an abandoned city on an island once torn by betrayal & war lies a terrible secret 280 pages Raymond Gary ...

A treasure trove of advice support & encouragement that no performer should be without Honest witty & direct The Golden Rules of Acting is every actor's best friend
- in handy paperback form ' When auditioning rehearsing or in a performance take a risk
- the worst that can happen is that you get embarrassed You won't die' Easy to dip into fully illustrated throughout & designed to be both instructive & empowering The Golden Rules of Acting won't tell you how to act
- but it will tell you how to be an actor ' Always remember the people auditioning you want you to be brilliant They want you to solve their casting problem' If you're a working actor drama-school student someone who wants to become an actor or simply someone who has a dream & wants to make it a reality this book is for you 'NEVER harmonise when singing ' Happy Birthday'
- this has nothing to do with work it's just all actors do it & it's bloody annoying' Andy Nyman learnt the golden rules of acting the hard way through twenty-five years of working in theatre film & television On stage he co-wrote co-directed & starred in the West End hit Ghost Stories & won an Olivier Award for Best Entertainment for co-writing & directing Something Wicked This Way Comes with his regular collaborator Derren Brown His many film appearances include Severance & Frank Oz's Death at a Funeral



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The New York Times & 1 internationally bestselling author of Secret Daughter returns with an unforgettable story of family responsibility love honor tradition & identity in which two childhood friends-a young doctor & a newly married bride-must balance the expectations of their culture & their families with the desires of their own hearts The first of his family to go to college Anil Patel the golden son carries the weight of tradition & his family's expectations when he leaves his tiny Indian village to begin a medical residency in Dallas Texas at one of the busiest & most competitive hospitals in America When his father dies Anil becomes the de facto head of the Patel household & inherits the mantle of arbiter for all of the village's disputes But he is uneasy with the custom uncertain that he has the wisdom & courage demonstrated by his father & grandfather His doubts are compounded by the difficulties he discovers in adjusting to a new culture & a new job challenges that will shake his confidence in himself & his abilities Back home in India Anil's closest childhood friend Leena struggles to adapt to her demanding new husband & relatives Arranged by her parents the marriage shatters Leena's romantic hopes & eventually forces her to make a desperate choice that will hold drastic repercussions for herself & her family Though Anil & Leena struggle to come to terms with their identities thousands of miles apart their lives eventually intersect once more-changing them both & the people they love forever Tender & bittersweet The Golden Son illuminates the ambivalence of people caught between past & present tradition & modernity duty & choice; the push & pull of living in two cultures & the painful decisions we must make to find our true selves ...

This exquisite deck brings in all the archetypal symbols of the Golden Dawn & the Renaissance tarots From the figure-eight to the crayfish & the pomegranate to the tower here's where you begin to decode ancient symbols for future prediction insight & affirmation in your daily life With this full deck of 78 cards & a full-colour step-by-step guide you will be reading cards in just a few hours ...

The tarot deck included in this beautiful set was commissioned around 1451 by the Visconti & Sforza families & it is one of the oldest tarot decks in existence This beautiful special gift box holds the book & card deck side by side with a violet satin reading cloth folded & placed underneath the book The Tarot is much more than mere pictures on cards the pictures are physical symbols for spiritual concepts The images are symbolic representation of archetypal forces andor beings which have always existed & have been identified & passed on to us by ancient initiates & which provide a focus for us to use in self-initiation spiritual development & the perception of hidden wisdom The tarot deck included in this beautiful set was commissioned around 1451 by the Visconti & Sforza families & it is one of the oldest tarot decks in existence The images on the cards have been faithfully recreated showing members of the Sforza & Visconti families in period garments The borders of the elegant cards are adorned with gold metallic ink The accompanying book provides a history of Visconti-Sforza cards 35 of which are now in the collection of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City The symbolism of the different cards is described along with explanations of different ways to arrange the cards when seeking information about different aspects of life This beautiful special gift box holds the book & card deck side by side with a violet satin reading cloth folded & placed underneath the book ...