To stay alive in the future the best fighter pilots in the world not only have to perfect their skills & master their aircraft they also have to know how to travel through time! Collecting the acclaimed mini-series brought to you by award winning writer Jonathan Hickman & possibly the best new talent of the year Nick Pitarra The Red Wing is the story of the greatest battle in the history of three worlds ...

From the Nobel Prize winner & best-selling author of Snow & My Name Is Red a fable of fathers & sons & the desires that come between them On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul a master well digger & his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain As they struggle in the summer heat excavating meter by meter the two will develop a filial bond neither has known before -not the poor middle-aged bachelor nor the middle-class boy whose father disappeared after being arrested for politically subversive activities The pair will come to depend on each other & exchange stories reflecting disparate views of the world But in the nearby town where they buy provisions & take their evening break the boy will find an irresistible diversion The Red-Haired Woman an alluring member of a travelling theatre company catches his eye & seems as fascinated by him as he is by her The young man's wildest dream will be realized but when in his distraction a horrible accident befalls the well digger the boy will flee returning to Istanbul Only years later will he discover whether he was in fact responsible for his master's death & who the redheaded enchantress was ...

Many years have now gone by & jealousy compels me to keep her name a secret even from my readers But I must provide a full & truthful account of what happened It is mid-1980s Istanbul & Master Mahmut & his apprentice use ancient methods to dig wells
- they are desperate to find water in a barren land This is the tale of their struggle but it is also a deeper investigation
- through mesmerising stories & images
- into Pamuk's prevailing themes fathers & sons the state & individual freedom reading & seeing It is also a richly literary work The Red-Haired Woman borrows from the tradition of the French conte philosophique & asks probing questions of ethics & of the role of art in our lives It is both a short realist text investigating a murder which took place thirty years ago near Istanbul
- & a fictional inquiry into the literary foundations of civilizations comparing two fundamental myths of the West & the East respectively Sophocles's Oedipus Rex (a story of patricide) & Ferdowsi's tale of Rostam & Sohrab (a story of filicide) The Red-Haired Woman is a masterful & mesmerising work which further confirms Orhan Pamuk as one of our greatest novelists



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From the Nobel Prize winner & best-selling author of Snow & My Name Is Red a fable of fathers & sons & the desires that come between them On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul a master well digger & his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain As they struggle in the summer heat excavating meter by meter the two will develop a filial bond neither has known before -not the poor middle-aged bachelor nor the middle-class boy whose father disappeared after being arrested for politically subversive activities The pair will come to depend on each other & exchange stories reflecting disparate views of the world But in the nearby town where they buy provisions & take their evening break the boy will find an irresistible diversion The Red-Haired Woman an alluring member of a travelling theatre company catches his eye & seems as fascinated by him as he is by her The young man's wildest dream will be realized but when in his distraction a horrible accident befalls the well digger the boy will flee returning to Istanbul Only years later will he discover whether he was in fact responsible for his master's death & who the redheaded enchantress was ...

36 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDENot all angels are heaven sent I am one such angel & I have come to pass judgement on the living & the dead A report of a rare & unusual gun
- a type favoured by assassins
- being smuggled into the country sparks Detective Harry Hole's interest Then a former WW2 Nazi sympathizer is found with his throat cut Next someone close to Harry is murdered Why had she been trying to reach Harry on the night she was killed? As Harry's investigation unfolds it becomes clear that the killer is hell-bent on serving his own justice & while the link between the cases remains a mystery one thing is certain he must be stopped

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Maureen O' Hara stars in this western as Kate Maxwell a saloon proprietor who is torn between suave & sophisticated businessman Jim Averell (William Bishop) & down-to-earth local sheriff Stan Blaine (Alex Nicol) What she doesn't know is that Averell is using her saloon as a front for rustled beef & when a war breaks out between the cattle barons & the settlers Kate & Stan find themselves fighting against the odds to set everything straight Actors Maureen O' Hara Alex Nicol William Bishop Robert Strauss Alexander Scourby Directors Lee Sholem Writers Polly James Herb Meadow Producers Leonard Goldstein Format PALSubtitles German Swedish Danish Hungarian Finnish Czech Dutch Polish Dubbed German Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Aspect Ratio 43
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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 A weekend boating trip on the Norfolk Broads seems just the thing for a group of twenty-something Londoners after a hectic week of work But when they uncover a terrifying secret lurking in the reeds the weekend turns into a fight for their very survival Trapped on their grounded boat with night drawing in & no mobile reception what should have been a weekend of fun becomes a terrifying battle with the evil forces lurking in The Reeds ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Animated adventure sequel featuring the voices of Drake Bell Frankie Jonas & Andy Dick New parents Pi (voice of Bell) & Cordelia (Busy Philipps) have been enjoying a period of quiet since their last run-in with the reef&s resident shark Troy (Donal Logue) Seeing an opportunity to kidnap Cordelia Troy sends his loyal factotum Ronny (Jamie Kennedy) into the community to distract Pi & the rest of his friends & neighbours while he concocts his plan of revenge But with Pi weary of strangers coming to the reef it isn&t long before he recognises Ronny&s real intent & so sets about stopping Troy once & for all ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Four backpackers set out for a week cruising the beautiful great barrier reef on their own Yacht When their boat capsizes leaving them stranded on the overturned hull they must make a simple choice stay with a damaged ship likely to sink at any moment or try to swim for dry land? Taking to the water the group starts to close in on land but when a giant fin breaks the surface they are hit with the realization that they are being stalked by a deadly fourteen-foot white pointer shark Will any of them make the swim or will the sea just take what it wants? ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play When Pi an ordinary fish from Boston arrives at the exotic reef to live with his Aunt Pearl he is immediately attracted to Cordelia the fish of his dreams There&s just one big problem in the form of Troy the meanest shark in the ocean who not only patrols the reef keeping its community in fear of becoming his next meal but also has his eye on Cordelia & wants her for himself Pi must join up with his new group of friends if he stands any chance of outwitting Troy & his henchmen save the reef & win Cordelia! Actors Freddie Prince Jr Rob Schneider Evan Rachel Wood Donal Logue Andy Dick John Rhys-Davies & Donal Logue Director Howard E Baker & John Fox Certificate Universal Suitable for All Year 2006 Screen Widescreen 169 Anamorphic Languages English Closed Captions Yes Duration 1 hour & 17 Minutes (approx) ...