Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Zac Efron stars with Taylor Schilling & Blythe Danner in the romantic drama The Lucky One directed by Academy Award-nominated writerdirector Scott Hicks (" Shine") based on Nicholas Sparks& bestseller The Lucky One US Marine Sergeant Logan Thibault (Efron) returns from his third tour of duty in Iraq with the one thing he credits with keeping him alive-a photograph he found of a woman he doesn&t even know Discovering her name is Beth (Schilling) & where she lives he shows up at her door & ends up taking a job at her family-run local kennel Despite her initial mistrust & the complications in her life a romance develops between them giving Logan hope that Beth could be much more than his good luck charm Actors Zac Efron Taylor Schilling Blythe Danner Jay R Ferguson Riley Thomas Stewart Joe Chrest & Adam Le Fevre Director Scott Hicks Certificate 12 years & over Year 2012 Screen 2401 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Additional Languages Castilian Spanish; German Subtitles English for the hearing impaired; Castilian Spanish; German for the hearing impaired Closed Captions Yes Duration 1 hour & 37 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
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Set mostly in lush heady Colombia but even in a jungle-like New York City they yoke together the fates of guerrilla soldiers rich kids rabbits hostages bourgeois expats & drug dealers Interconnected yet fractured in places the result is a narrative jigsaw puzzle with some of the pieces missing or a kaleidoscope where different characters spin into focus as they take turns to come into focus Her characters' voices are completely haunting
- & Pachico's playfulness with language & mastery of consciousness create a mesmerising collective atmosphere in this collection At once terse & tender with a manic crazed energy these stories will scalpel their way into your memory
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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 After suffering an injury during a routine patrol hardened sergeant TK Poole is granted a one-month leave to visit his fiancee But when an unexpected blackout cancels all flights out of New York TK agrees to share a ride to Pittsburgh with two similarly stranded servicemen Cheever an older family man who longs to return to his wife in St Louis & Colee a naive private who&s pinned her hopes on connecting with a dead fellow soldier&s family What begins as a short trip unexpectedly evolves into a longer journey Forced to grapple with old relationships broken hopes & a country divided over the war TK Cheever & Colee discover that home is not quite what they remembered & that the unlikely companionship they&ve found might be what matters the most Actors Tim Robbins Rachel Mc Adams Michael Pena & Molly Hagan Director Neil Burger Certificate 15 years & over Year 2008 Languages English Region Region 2
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It's a windy autumn day & the forest friends are out catching falling leaves for luck Nim wants to break his all-time record of five lucky leaves before tea time 32 pages Hoskins David ...

It is 1866 & Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields On arrival he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes A wealthy man has vanished a whore has tried to end her life & an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk Moody is soon drawn into the mystery a network of fates & fortunes that is as complex & exquisitely patterned as the night sky The Luminaries is an extraordinary piece of fiction It is full of narrative linguistic & psychological pleasures & has a fiendishly clever & original structuring device Written in pitch-perfect historical register richly evoking a mid-19th century world of shipping & banking & goldrush boom & bust it is also a ghost story & a gripping mystery It is a thrilling achievement & will confirm for critics & readers that Catton is one of the brightest stars in the international writing firmament ...

Colour is a given of most people&s everyday lives but at the same time it lies at the limits of language & understanding David Batchelor&s previous book for Reaktion Chromophobia addressed the extremes of love & loathing that colour has provoked since antiquity This book charts more ambiguous terrain The Luminous & the Grey is a study of the places where colour comes into being & where it fades away an inquiry into when colour begins & when it ends both in the material world & in the imagination Batchelor draws on a wide range of material including neuroscience philosophy literature film & the writings of artists; & makes use of his own experience as an artist who has worked with colour for more than twenty years After considering the place of colour in some creation myths in industrial chemistry in recent thinking on optics & in the specific forms of luminosity that saturate the modern city the book culminates in a meditation on the unique colour that is also a non-colour a mood a feeling an existential condition & even an insult grey ...

Led by Erasmus Darwin the Lunar Society of Birmingham was formed from a group of amateur experimenters tradesmen & artisans who met & made friends in the Midlands in the 1760s Most came from humble families all lived far from the centre of things but they were young & their optimism was boundless together they would change the world Among them were the ambitious toy-maker Matthew Boulton & his partner James Watt of steam-engine fame; the potter Josiah Wedgwood; the larger-than-life Erasmus Darwin physician poet inventor & theorist of evolution (a forerunner of his grandson Charles Darwin) Later came Joseph Priestley discoverer of oxygen & fighting radical Led by Erasmus Darwin they joined a small band of allies formed the Lunar Society of Birmingham (so called because it met at each full moon) & kick-started the Industrial Revolution Blending science art & commerce the Lunar Men built canals launched balloons named plants gases & minerals changed the face of England & the china in its drawing rooms & plotted to revolutionise its soul Jenny Uglow's The Lunar Men is a vivid & swarming group portrait that brings to life the friendships political passions love affairs & love of knowledge (and power) that drove these extraordinary men It echoes the thud of pistons & the wheeze & snort of engines & brings to life the tradesmen artisans & tycoons who shaped & fired the modern age Winner of the PEN Hessel-Tiltman prize for history & the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography The Lunar Men captures the creation of the modern world with lucid intelligence sympathy & wisdom Jenny Uglow is also the prize-winning author of Nature's Engraver Elizabeth Gaskell A Habit of Stories & most recently In These Times ...

The most comprehensive book to date on the use & understanding of the Lunar Nodes in Vedic astrology The author is a widely known & immensely respected teacher with students all over the world She has used her experience of working with the nodal axis to show how by sign & placement they affect every level of our spiritual existence Students of astrology yoga & ayurveda will find this book particularly helpful ...

Telegraph letter writers that most astute body of political commentators are probably not alone in thinking that politics has taken some strange turns in recent years The first coalition government since 1945 has led the country from the subprime to the ridiculous lumbering from Leveson to Libya riots to referendums pasty-gate to pleb-gate Brooks to Bercow the Bullingdon Club to the Big Society Five years is a long time in politics Fortunately for us it has also been a most fertile period for the Telegraph's legion of witty & erudite letter writers who have their own therapeutic way of dealing with the pain An institution in their own right theirs is a welcome voice of sanity in a world in which the lunatics appear finally to have taken over the asylum ...

Grunhilda the Witch has a weakness…a tiny soft spot on her black & crusty heart She continues to hide the nice feelings she has when she gets a letter from former Salem Elementary student Madison But she can’t keep up the ruse for long because her familiars are onto her…and so are her ancestors! The familiars search her hovel & find her collection of letters from Madison Mr Williams has a solution but it involves making a meanness potion from the book that IS-NOT-TO-BE-USED-BY-ANYONE-OTHER-THAN WITCHES (ESPECIALLY-NOT-WITCHES’-PETS) But anything that can go wrong does when he accidentally mixes up a positivity potion instead…and it starts to affect everyone in town Birds are singing Flowers are growing The principal cancels school! Grunhilda hurries to mix up a potion to fix the town her familiars & her own black crusty heart before the positivity succeeds in making everything bright & cheerful ...