With an introduction by Neil Gaiman Before television & radio before penny paperbacks & mass literacy people would gather on porches on the steps outside their homes & tell stories The storytellers knew their craft & bewitched listeners would sit & listen long into the night as moths flitted around overhead The Moth is a non-profit group that is trying to recapture this lost art helping storytellers
- old hands & novices alike
- hone their stories before playing to packed crowds at sold-out live events The very best of these stories are collected here whether it's Bill Clinton's hell-raising press secretary or a leading geneticist with a family secret; a doctor whisked away by nuns to Mother Teresa's bedside or a film director saving her father's Chinatown store from money-grabbing developers; the Sultan of Brunei's concubine or a friend of Hemingway's who accidentally talks himself into a role as a substitute bullfighter these eccentric pitch-perfect stories
- all amazingly true
- range from the poignant to the downright hilarious



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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 Led by British talent Lily Cole (Snow White & the Huntsman The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus) Moth Diaries is a modern gothic coming of age story set in a world of obsessive teenage girl friendship Rebecca (SARAH BOLGER) a young girl haunted by her father&s suicide begins a new year at an elite girls& boarding school Before long Rebecca&s close friendship with the popular Lucy (SARAH GADON) is tested by the arrival of the dark & mysterious Ernessa (LILY COLE) Lucy quickly falls under the glamorous Ernessa&s spell & becomes emotionally & physically consumed by their intense friendship Hurt & confused Rebecca develops a crush on her English teacher Mr Davies (SCOTT SPEEDMAN) who is teaching a class in Gothic fiction As she immerses herself in their assigned reading the vampire novel Carmilla Rebecca becomes convinced that Ernessa is a vampire Mysterious deaths begin to occur & Rebecca is convinced Ernessa is to blame but when her warnings are dismissed as the result of obsessive jealousy she decides that she must take drastic action to save herself & those around her Actors Sarah Bolger Anne Day-Jones Sarah Gadon Valerie Tian Melissa Farman & Laurence Hamelin Director Mary Harron Certificate 15 years & over Year 2011 Languages English ...

A great rhapsodic urgent book full of joy grief rage & love A must-read' Helen Macdonald author of H is for Hawk Nature has many gifts for us but perhaps the greatest of them all is joy; the intense delight we can take in the natural world in its beauty in the wonder it can offer us in the peace it can provide
- feelings stemming ultimately from our own unbreakable links to nature which mean that we cannot be fully human if we are separate from it In The Moth Snowstorm Michael Mc Carthy one of Britain's leading writers on the environment proposes this joy as a defence of a natural world which is ever more threatened & which he argues is inadequately served by the two defences put forward hitherto sustainable development & the recognition of ecosystem services Drawing on a wealth of memorable experiences from a lifetime of watching & thinking about wildlife & natural landscapes The Moth Snowstorm not only presents a new way of looking at the world around us but effortlessly blends with it a remarkable & moving memoir of childhood trauma from which love of the natural world emerged It is a powerful timely & wholly original book which comes at a time when nature has never needed it more
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Yvvette Edwards' second novel The Mother tells Marcia's story Today Marcia is heading to the Old Bailey She's going there to do something no mother should ever have to do to attend the trial of the boy accused of her son's murder She's not meant to be that woman; Ryan her son wasn't that kind of boy But Tyson Manley is that kind of a boy & as his trial unfolds it becomes clear that it's his girlfriend Sweetie who has the answers Marcia so badly needs & who can
- perhaps
- offer Marcia some kind of hope for the future But Sweetie is as scared of Tyson as Ryan should have been & as Marcia's learned the hard way nothing's certain Not any more Somehow I am stronger Where it has come from exactly I cannot say but it is to do with hope it is to do with light

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I've taken your daughter as punishment for what you did Prepare to be gripped by the heart-stopping new thriller from the author of The Madam South London detective Sarah Mason is a single mother It's a tough life but Sarah gets by She & her ex-husband fellow detective Adam Boyd adore their 15-month-old daughter Molly Until Sarah's world falls apart when she receives a devastating threat Her daughter has been taken & the abductor plans to raise Molly as their own as punishment for something Sarah did Sarah is forced to stand back while her team try to track down the kidnapper But her colleagues aren't working fast enough to find Molly To save her daughter Sarah must take matters into her own hands in a desperate hunt that will take her to the very depths of London's underworld ...

What would you do if you learned your mother snatched you as a baby? An emotional novel about a devastating secret 336 pages Swatman Clare (Features) ...

Tracklist Absolutely Free (1 In A Series Of Underground Oratorios) Plastic People The Duke Of Prunes Amnesia Vivace The Duke Regains His Chops Call Any Vegetable Invocation &38; Ritual Dance Of The Young Pumpkin Soft-Sell Conclusion &38; Ending Of Side 1 The MOI American Pageant (2 In A Series Of Underground Oratorios) America Drinks Status Back Baby Uncle Bernie's Farm Son Of Suzy Creamcheese Brown Shoes Don't Make It America Drinks &38; Goes Home Bonus Section Absolutely Free Radio Ad 1 Why Don&8217;tcha Do Me Right? (1967 Single
- Mono) Big Leg Emma (1967 Single
- Mono) Absolutely Free Radio Ad 2&8220; Glutton For Punishment&8230;” America Drinks (1969 Re-Mix) Brown Shoes Don&8217;t Make It (1969 Re-Mix) America Drinks &38; Goes Home (1969 Re-Mix)

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All those things no one ever tells you about motherhood It's like secret mothers' business Lots of my friends had babies before me but not one of them ever told me it would be this hard It's like a code of silence The Mothers' Group tells the story of six very different women who agree to regularly meet soon after the births of their babies Set during the first crucial year of their babies' lives The Mothers' Group tracks the women's individual journeys
- & the group's collective one
- as they navigate birth & motherhood as well as the shifting ground of their relationships with their partners Each woman strives in her own way to become the mother she wants to be & finds herself becoming increasingly reliant on the friendship & support of the members of the mothers' group Until one day an unthinkably shocking event changes everything testing their bonds & revealing closely-held secrets that threaten to shatter their lives

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The Motivation Manifesto is a pulsing articulate ferocious call to claim our personal power World-renowned high performance trainer Brendon Burchard reveals that the main motive of humankind is the pursuit of greater Personal Freedom We desire the grand liberties of choice
- time freedom emotional freedom social freedom financial freedom spiritual freedom Only two enemies stand in our way an external enemy defined as the social oppression of who we are by the mediocre masses & an internal enemy a sort of self-oppression caused by our own doubt & fear The march to Personal Freedom Burchard argues can be won only by declaring our intent & independence stepping into our personal power & battling through self-doubt & the distractions of the day until full victory is won Recalling the revolutionist voices of the past that chose freedom over tyranny Burchard
- at times poetic yet always fierce
- motivates us to free ourselves from fear & take back our lives once & for all


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Takes you on an action-packed ride through the history of the motorbike that is all about the men machines & landmark technology behind the most iconic bikes from ACE to Zundapp Featuring over 1000 of the greatest motorbikes in the world it is a visual guide tracing their evolution from the 1910s right up to the superbikes of today 320 pages DK ...