There were friends once but they melted away Things are different now I am a MONSTER& Frances is alone Cast away on a small island in the middle of the Indian Ocean she has to find water food & shelter But survival is hard Especially when she is haunted by memories of the things that she did before the things that made her a monster Pushed to the limit in extreme conditions she battles to come to terms with her past & find a future worth fighting for This is a gripping & thought-provoking story about one girl&s journey to become the person she believes she can be ...

In the morning the people of the island found a man sitting on the shore there where fate & the ocean currents had set him & his frail raft in the night When he saw them coming towards him he rose to his feet He was not like them This internationally acclaimed award-winning picture book is astonishing powerful & timely ...

And what kind of school ranks its students by how fast they can run round the school quad
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London's streets built up over more than two thousand years are a maze of history cultures & stories In his fantastically detailed maps of the city Stephen Walter converts the densely packed streets into a tangle of insightful yet humorous words & symbols As The Guardian notes "the features Walter selects in a map are by turns funny crass touching burlesque murderous & uncanny" Jokingly dismissing neighboring cities the artist reimagines London as an insular body of land surrounded by water The book

Includes:: posters of all 33 London boroughs that can be pulled out framed & displayed & a further poster contains a key to the many symbols used by the artist to help readers navigate their way through the maps Walter's cartographic creations have a cult following & his books enable a wider audience to immerse themselves in his personal vision that celebrates the art of mapmaking & pokes intelligent fun at the city he calls home

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Amihan lives on Culion Island where some of the inhabitants
- including her mother
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They don&t want you to know what you are Lincoln Six-Echo (Mc Gregor) is a resident of a seemingly utopian but contained facility in the mid 21st Century Like all the inhabitants of this carefully controlled environment Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to & The Island&
- reportedly the last uncontaminated spot on the planet
- until he makes a terrible discovery that everything about his existence is a lie & that he is actually more valuable dead than alive Together with a beautiful fellow resident named Jordan Two-Delta (Johansson) Lincoln makes a daring escape to the outside world he&s never known Now with the forces of the institute that once housed them relentlessly hunting them down Lincoln & Jordan engage in a desperate race for their lives Actors Ewan Mc Gregor Scarlett Johansson Djimon Hounsou Sean Bean Steve Buscemi Michael Clarke Duncan Ethan Phillips Brian Stepanek Noa Tishby & Siobhan Flynn Director Michael Bay Certificate 12 years & over Year 2005 Languages English Additional Languages French ; German ; Italian ; Spanish Subtitles English ; Danish ; Dutch ; Finnish ; French ; German ; Italian ; Norwegian ; Spanish ; Swedish Duration 2 hours & 7 minutes (approx)

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The Island is the million-copy No 1 bestseller & winner of Richard & Judy's Summer Read 2006 from Victoria Hislop From the thirties to the present day it is a tale of four generations rent by war illicit love violence & leprosy A beautiful 10th anniversary paperback edition that

Includes:: a new essay by Victoria Hislop on the impact of this million-copy bestseller This was not the start of a short trip to deliver supplies It was the beginning of a one-way journey to start a new life Life on a leper colony Life on Spinalonga Fifty years later making a life-changing journey of her own Alexis Fielding feels the pull of the abandoned island A distant shadow off the coast of Crete she knows it holds the secrets to her mother's past buried for so long but surely not forgotten Acclaim for The Island' Passionately engaged with its subject meticulously researched' The Sunday Times' Hislop carefully evokes the lives of Cretans between the wars & during German occupation but most commendable is her compassionate portrayal of the outcasts' Guardian' Vivid moving & absorbing' Observer

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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 A man goes on the run after he discovers that he is actually a "harvestable being" & is being kept as a source of replacement parts along with others in a Utopian facility ...

Funny warm & beautifully written
- I loved it MILLY JOHNSON Can one woman's marriage survive her best friend's divorce? Veronica
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Life on the remote island of Papavray in the 1970s was a world away from the author's urban existence in the south of England & this peaceful environment was just what she was looking for This title offers an account of community life on a small island in a bygone era 352 pages Mac Leod Mary J ...