MUM FEMINIST SIZE 26 SUPERMODEL LOUD PROUD BODY ACTIVIST BEAUTIFUL BUSINESS WOMAN HOMEMAKER CAT OWNER FUNNY OUTSPOKEN WIFE DAUGHTER LOVER FIGHTER SURVIVORTess Holliday is many things & perfect is not one of them But she loves her imperfections
- after all they've formed the woman she is today Tess's number one rule in life is to love yourself
- no matter who you are where you come from what your faults may be & what dress size you wear It's this discovery that has helped her through everything from a difficult childhood being abused & bullied about her weight to fending off social media trolls Now here in this amusingly candid account the woman at the forefront of the body positive movement who has been credited with transforming the fashion industry explains why you should be happy to make mistakes but learn from them love your imperfections & be comfortable in your own skin
- no matter how much you have!


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None of us are perfect in the way we love age or view the world The Not-Dead & the Saved offers us an opportunity for reinvention of ourselves those we have lost & the world in which we live From a man doomed to spend his life trying to find solutions to cancer; to a new mother haunted by a swaddling tablet-eating great-aunt; to an intrepid literary agent who travels to the Yorkshire Moors to discover the next big thing & ends up eating Anne Bronte's rock cakes we meet a host of characters who are desperately creatively & often hilariously trying to evade the underlying truths of their lives The Not-Dead & the Saved is a cascade of warm wise & insightful stories about human nature frank funny & sometimes desolating but always underpinned by tenderness & by a faith in enduring bonds of love ...

Love at first sight
- based on the true story of one girl & her 'train man' One very ordinary day Maya Flowers sees a new commuter
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The love story to end all love stories from the internationally bestselling author Nicholas Sparks Now a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling (Golden Globe winning & Oscar nominated star of La La Land) & Rachel Mc Adams' When it comes to tales about love Nicholas Sparks is one of the undisputed kings' Heat How far can love endure? Noah Calhoun has just returned from World War Two Attempting to escape the ghosts of battle he tries to concentrate on restoring an old plantation home to its former glory & yet he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met there fourteen years before a girl who captured his heart like no other But when these distant memories begin to slide into reality the passion that had lain still is ignited once more Though so much is in their way the miraculous force of their love refuses to fade ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Behind every great love is a great story Adapted from Nicholas Sparks& best-selling novel & directed by Nick Cassavetes (the son of legendary director John Cassavettes) A sweeping love story told by a man reading from his faded notebook (James Garner) to a woman in a nursing home (Gena Rowlands
- real-life mother of Nick Cassavetes) & The Notebook& follows the lives of two North Carolina teens from very different worlds (Ryan Gosling & Rachel Mc Adams) Though her upbringing takes place in an antebellum mansion & he grew up in the kind of house where musicians strum on the porch that doesn&t stop Noah & Allie from spending one incredible summer together before they are separated first by her parents & then by WWII After the war is over everything is different Allie is engaged to a successful businessman & Noah lives alone with his 200-year-old house that he lovingly restores But when Allie reads a newspaper article about Noah&s handiwork She knows that she&s got to find him & make a decision once & for all about the path her life
- & her love
- must take Actors Ryan Gosling Rachel Mc Adams James Garner Gena Rowlands James Marsden Sam Shepard David Thornton Joan Allen Kevin Connolly Tim Ivey & Starletta Du Pois Director Nick Cassavetes Certificate 15 years & over Year 2004 Screen Widescreen 2401 Languages English Subtitles English Duration 2 hours & 4 minutes (approx)


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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 Behind every great love is a great story Adapted from Nicholas Sparks' best-selling novel & directed by Nick Cassavetes (the son of legendary director John Cassavettes) A sweeping love story told by a man reading from his faded notebook (James Garner) to a woman in a nursing home (Gena Rowlands
- real-life mother of Nick Cassavetes) ' The Notebook' follows the lives of two North Carolina teens from very different worlds (Ryan Gosling & Rachel Mc Adams) Though her upbringing takes place in an antebellum mansion & he grew up in the kind of house where musicians strum on the porch that doesn't stop Noah & Allie from spending one incredible summer together before they are separated first by her parents & then by WWII After the war is over everything is different Allie is engaged to a successful businessman & Noah lives alone with his 200-year-old house that he lovingly restores But when Allie reads a newspaper article about Noah's handiwork She knows that she's got to find him & make a decision once & for all about the path her life
- & her love
- must take Actors Ryan Gosling Rachel Mc Adams James Garner Gena Rowlands James Marsden Sam Shepard David Thornton Joan Allen Kevin Connolly Tim Ivey & Starletta Du Pois Director Nick Cassavetes Certificate 15 years & over Year 2004 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English Duration 2 hours & 3 minutes (approx)



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' An indescribable aching futile longing for myself' The young Danish aristocrat Malte Laurids Brigge has been left rootless by the early death of his parents Now living in Paris Malte begins to record his life in a series of loosely connected notes diary entries prose poems parables & stories ostensibly collected by a fictional editor to form the Notebooks Focusing on Malte's observations & experiences in the present recollections of his childhood & family & his reflections on historical events these notes in highly crafted poetic prose explore the themes of life in the metropolis poverty sickness & death love memory & time & perception & language The only extended prose work by the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is a landmark in the development of the twentieth-century novel It marks a radical departure from nineteenth-century realism transcending conventions of linear narrative to reflect a consciousness in crisis & an archetypal confrontation with the modern ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more ...

The Notting Hill Mystery has been widely described as the first detective novel The story is told by the insurance investigator Ralph Henderson who is building a case against the sinister Baron R suspected of murdering his wife in order to claim her life insurance Henderson descends into a maze of intrigue including a diabolical mesmerist kidnapping by gypsies slow-poisoners a rich uncle's will & three murders Presented in the form of diary entries family letters chemical analysis reports interviews with witnesses & a crime scene map the novel displays innovative techniques that would not become common features of detective fiction until the 1920s This novel launched the British Library Crime Classics series in 2012 & is now reissued with a striking new cover design ...

Makes the principles of traditional nutrition available to modern parents This book provides holistic advice for pregnancy & newborn interventions vaccinations breastfeeding & child development as well as a compendium of natural treatments for childhood illnesses from autism to whooping cough ...

When read at the right moment a novel can change your life Bibliotherapists Ella Berthoud & Susan Elderkin know the power of a good book & have been prescribing each other literary remedies for all life's aches & pains for decades Together they've compiled a medical handbook with a difference a dictionary of literary cures for any malaise you can imagine Whether it's struggling to find a good cup of tea (Douglas Adams two sugars) or being in need of a good cry (Thomas Hardy plus tissues) as well as cures for all kinds of reading ailments
- from being a compulsive book buyer to a tendency to give up halfway through a novel
- Ella & Susan have the tonic for all ailments great or small Written with authority passion & wit The Novel Cure is an enchanting reminder of the power & pleasure of forgetting your troubles in a good book

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