The morning Nora Ratcliff finds a baby in the flowerpot on her front steps her life changes forever She had always wanted a child but after her husband passed away she never thought she would have one She decides to keep the baby & call her Mabel As Mabel grows up to everyone's surprise she shows a distinct talent for magic Before long it also becomes clear that Mabel has a mind of her own When Mabel is accepted to the prestigious witch school Ruthersfield Academy she excels at the magic curriculum but is constantly in trouble for experimenting & inventing her own potions One day she is asked to write a paper on her magical roots & discovers the truth of her birth In rebellion Mabels changes her name to Magnolia & tries to undertstand who could have left her in the flowerpot Mabel comes to see that it doesn't matter where you came from & that the best families are people who look after each other & love each other ...

In The Marvels Selznick crafts another remarkable artistic & bookmaking achievement that weaves together two seemingly unrelated stories-one in words the other in pictures-with spellbinding synergy The illustrated story begins in 1766 with Billy Marvel the lone survivor of a shipwreck & charts the adventures of his family of actors over five generations The prose story opens in 1990 & follows Joseph who has run away from school to an estranged uncle's puzzling house in London where he along with the reader must piece together many mysteries Filled with mystery vibrant characters surprise twists & heart-rending beauty & featuring Selznick's most arresting art to date The Marvels is a moving tribute to the power of story ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Collection of four classic Marx Brothers films In & Animal Crackers& (1930) Mrs Rittenhouse (Margaret Dumont) is throwing a high society party at which African explorer Jeffrey T Spaulding (Groucho Marx) is the guest of honour When a valuable painting is stolen from the house Spaulding teams up with Italian musician Emanual Ravelli (Chico Marx) & the eccentric Professor (Harpo Marx) to track down the thieves & Monkey Business& (1931) features the brothers as stowaways aboard a luxury ocean liner While Groucho Chico & Harpo create mayhem attempting to escape the clutches of the captain & crew Zeppo embarks on a romance with Mary Helton (Ruth Hall)
- daughter of retired gangster Joe Helton (Rockcliffe Fellowes) When rival gang leader Alky Briggs (Harry Woods) hatches a plot to kidnap Mary & hold her to ransom it is up to the boys to save the day In & Horse Feathers& (1932) the new president of Huxley College Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff (Groucho) sets about attending to important school business; namely winning the school their first football game since 1888 On the advice of his son Frank (Zeppo) he enters a local speakeasy intending to bribe a couple of professional players to make the college team What he ends up with instead are inept dog catcher Pinky (Harpo) & ice delivery man Baravelli (Chico) However the duo prove invaluable when Wagstaff becomes romantically involved with the scheming Connie Bailey (Thelma Todd) a college widow who is secretly in league with Huxley&s chief rivals Darwin Finally in & Duck Soup& (1933) Rufus T Firefly (Groucho) is appointed president of Freedonia under the patronage of the wealthy Mrs Teasdale (Dumont) & sets about starting a war with neighbouring Sylvania To this end he trades insults with Sylvanian ambassador Trentino (Louis Calhern) unaware that Trentino&s spies Chicolini (Chico) & Pinky (Harpo) are already working to bring down Freedonia from within
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All Regions Product Description Jim Carrey & Cameron Diaz star in this &90s US comedy After being thrown out of the Coco Bongo nightclub one sad evening timid bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss (Carrey) happens across a powerful Norse mask in the river which transforms him into a wise-cracking zoot-suited green-faced superhero With his new-found charm & powers which include infinite malleability of his own body Stanley chats up the gorgeous woman of his dreams singer Tina Carlyle (Diaz) robs his own bank outwits the cops & demolishes the local hoods His extravagant nightly exploits attract the unwanted attention of Lt Mitch Kellaway (Peter Riegert) & Tina&s boyfriend Dorian Tyrell (Peter Greene) who is trying to exert his own control over the city ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Jim Carrey & Cameron Diaz star in this &90s US comedy After being thrown out of the Coco Bongo nightclub one sad evening timid bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss (Carrey) happens across a powerful Norse mask in the river which transforms him into a wise-cracking zoot-suited green-faced superhero With his new-found charm & powers which include infinite malleability of his own body Stanley chats up the gorgeous woman of his dreams singer Tina Carlyle (Diaz) robs his own bank outwits the cops & demolishes the local hoods His extravagant nightly exploits attract the unwanted attention of Lt Mitch Kellaway (Peter Riegert) & Tina&s boyfriend Dorian Tyrell (Peter Greene) who is trying to exert his own control over the city ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The Mask Of Zorro The elder Zorro trains his replacement to fight the enemy Montero The Legend Of Zorro Despite trying to keep his swashbuckling to a minimum a threat to California&s pending statehood causes the adventure-loving Alejandro de la Vega (Banderas) -- & his wife Elena (Zeta-Jones) -- to take action ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play With the slash of a steel blade & the mark of a &Z& he defends the weak & exploits & avenges the wrongs committed against them It has been twenty years since Don Diego de la Vega (Anthony Hopkins) successfully fought Spanish oppression in Alta California as the legendary romantic hero Zorro He transforms troubled bandit Alejandro (Antonio Banderas) into his successor in order to stop the tyrannical Don Rafael Montero (Stuart Wilson) who robbed him of his freedom his wife & his precious daughter Elena (Catherine Zeta Jones) all those years ago The Mask of Zorro follows Alejandro as he embarks on a passionate journey of love & honour tragedy & triumph in a swashbuckling epic adventure ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play With the slash of a steel blade & the mark of a &Z& he defends the weak & exploits & avenges the wrongs committed against them It has been twenty years since Don Diego de la Vega (Anthony Hopkins) successfully fought Spanish oppression in Alta California as the legendary romantic hero Zorro He transforms troubled bandit Alejandro (Antonio Banderas) into his successor in order to stop the tyrannical Don Rafael Montero (Stuart Wilson) who robbed him of his freedom his wife & his precious daughter Elena (Catherine Zeta Jones) all those years ago The Mask of Zorro follows Alejandro as he embarks on a passionate journey of love & honour tragedy & triumph in a swashbuckling epic adventure ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play When a power-crazed despot schemes to buy California from Mexico it takes two Zorros--the legendary Don Diego de la Vega (Anthony Hopkins) & his chosen successor Alejandro Murrieta (Antonio Banderas) a dashing bandit-turned-hero-- to defeat the tyrant's unscrupulous plans But can even their combined skills bravado & derring-do be enough to achieve de la Vega's ultimate goal revenge against the man who killed his wife kidnapped his daughter & held him prisoner for twenty years? Actors Antonio Banderas Anthony Hopkins Catherine Zeta-Jones Stuart Wilson Matt Letscher Directors Martin Campbell Producers David Foster Doug Claybourne Format Subtitled Language English Subtitles Norwegian Finnish Danish Italian Swedish English Portuguese Hindi Spanish Dubbed Italian Spanish Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Region Region B2 (Read more about DVDBlu-ray formats) Aspect Ratio 169
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The second title in Genevieve Cogman's The Invisible Library series The Masked City is a wonderful read for all those who enjoyed Mr Penumbra's 24 hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair or Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London Librarian-spy Irene is working undercover in an alternative London when her assistant Kai goes missing She discovers he's been kidnapped by the fae faction & the repercussions could be fatal Not just for Kai but for whole worlds Kai's dragon heritage means he has powerful allies but also powerful enemies in the form of the fae With this act of aggression the fae are determined to trigger a war between their people
- & the forces of order & chaos themselves Irene's mission to save Kai & avert Armageddon will take her to a dark alternate Venice where it's always Carnival Here Irene will be forced to blackmail fast talk & fight Or face death The Masked City contains bonus extra content
- secrets from the Library!

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