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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Isabel Dalhousie is one of Edinburgh's most generous (but discreet) philanthropists
- but should she be more charitable? She wonders
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A collected edition of Bruce Chatwin's acclaimed captivating novels
- On the Black Hill Utz & The Viceroy of Ouidah
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Imardin is a city of dark intrigues & deadly politics where those who wield magic wield power Into this established order has blundered a young street-girl with extraordinary magical gifts Adopted by the Magicians' Guild her life is changed forever
- but for better or for worsesonea knew that she'd face a tough time training within the Magicians' Guild but she little realised the level of animosity she would face from her fellow novices The sons & daughters of the most powerful families in the realm her classmates seem determined to see her fail
- at whatever cost But in accepting the protection of the guild's high lord Sonea may have embraced an even bleaker fate For High Lord Akkarin harbours a secret that is far darker than his magician's robes

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Winner of the Blue Peter Best Story Award 2016 & the Scottish Children's Book Award 2016 & the North East Book Award 2015 (so far) When the mysterious Nowhere Emporium arrives in Glasgow orphan Daniel Holmes stumbles upon it quite by accident Before long the 'shop from nowhere' -- & its owner Mr Silver -- draw Daniel into a breathtaking world of magic & enchantment Recruited as Mr Silver's apprentice Daniel learns the secrets of the Emporium's vast labyrinth of passageways & rooms -- rooms that contain wonders beyond anything Daniel has ever imagined But when Mr Silver disappears & a shadow from the past threatens everything the Emporium & all its wonders begin to crumble Can Daniel save his home & his new friends before the Nowhere Emporium is destroyed forever? Ross Mac Kenzie unleashes a riot of imagination colour & fantasy in this astonishing adventure perfect for fans of Philip Pullman Cornelia Funke & Neil Gaiman ...

' Empowering brutally honest & realistically complex' Buzzfeed'A call-to-action to everyone out there who wants to fight back' Bustle' With a powerful message about consent on the one hand & a diverse range of female protagonists & attitudes towards sexuality on the other this is an engrossing & inspiring read One of my absolute favourites of 2017' Irish Times Who are the Nowhere Girls? They're every girl But they start with just three Grace the preacher's daughter who unwittingly moved into the old house of a victim whose pain adorns the walls Bold Rosina whose heart has become hardened by all of the straight girls who broke it And misunderstood Erin the girl who finds more solace in science & order than she does in people They are brought together by the idea of changing the narrative of a girl they had never met Lucy Moynihan the victim of a sexual assault who was victimised further by people who found it easier to believe she had cried wolf than to confront what had really happened to her A girl who through the course of one evening went from an excited teenager who felt wanted by a boy for the first time to someone else entirely with 'a voice in the darkness giving her a new name Slut' Together they form the Nowhere Girls & decide to avenge the rape of a girl none of them knew' At once harrowing & heart-lifting it's both an indictment of entrenched victim-blaming & a demonstration of what can happen when girls lay aside their differences to demand better treatment' the Guardian ...