It's hard being that woman the one whose husband disappeared It's made me quite famous I just wish it was for something else He went out five years ago for a pint of milk & never came back So here I am with a daughter who blames me for all that's wrong in the world a son trying his best to pick up the pieces & a gaggle of new neighbours who are over friendly & incredibly nosy Then I find a left luggage ticket in the pocket of one of his old coats & suddenly I'm thinking What's if he's not dead? What if he's still out there somewhere? You think you have the perfect life the perfect kids & then it's all turned inside out What if I don't like what I find? & is it a chance I'm willing to take? ...

At the crossroads of Singapore history noted public intellectual & entrepreneur Devadas Krishnadas shares his insights on the intersecting realms of the social political & economic spheres of Singapore & where he thinks the country is headed In the past two years pivotal events such as the 2015 General Election SG50 Singapore's Golden Jubilee & the passing of Lee Kuan Yew have captured the nation's attention & provide cause for much-needed reflection & debate This book is a compilation of articles where Devadas examines the ebbs & flows in Singapore's societal political economic & external environment over the last two years & offers practical solutions to the challenges that lay ahead in Singapore Unline academic writing Devadas' writing is accessible to the average person on the street even when grappling with complex issues He brings to life the issues discussed by musing on his personal experiences this appealing better to the wider public ...

A powerful fable about friendship transforming the world from the award-winning & internationally best-selling illustrator Michael Foreman A powerful & beautifully illustrated fable about friendship from the internationally-acclaimed & award-winning illustrator Michael Foreman who is best known for classics like War Boy & for illustrating Michael Morpurgo's stories In this moving story Adam feels alone in his strange new city He misses the colours & friendships of his faraway home But when a teacher at school gives him a few seeds she plants an idea in him
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WINNER OF THE 2015 CWA ENDEAVOUR HISTORICAL DAGGERLondon 1654 Oliver Cromwell is at the height of his power & has declared himself Lord Protector Yet he has many enemies at home & abroad London is a complex web of spies & merchants priests & soldiers exiles & assassins One of the web's most fearsome spiders is Damian Seeker agent of the Lord Protector No one knows where Seeker comes from who his family is or even his real name All that is known of him for certain is that he is utterly loyal to Cromwell & that nothing can be long hidden from him In the city coffee houses are springing up fashionable places where men may meet to plot & gossip Suddenly they are ringing with news of a murder John Winter hero of Cromwell's all-powerful army is dead & the lawyer Elias Ellingworth found standing over the bleeding body clutching a knife Yet despite the damning evidence Seeker is not convinced of Ellingworth's guilt He will stop at nothing to bring the killer to justice & Seeker knows better than any man where to search ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Famous for being the first ever colour film to be made in New Zealand this Rank 1954 feature is overflowing with beautiful scenery colour & set pieces It is 1821 & adventuring seafarer Philip Wayne (Jack Hawkins) & Paddy Clarke (Noel Purcell) have set ashore to explore the Bay of Plenty Stumbling upon a Maori burial cave they are captured & sentenced to death by the Maori for desecrating the resting place of their ancestors Wayne&s prowess impresses the Maori chief Hongi Tepe (Inia Te Wiata) & he offers Wayne a chance to save his life by enduring a trial by challenge When Wayne succeeds the chief adopts him as his honorary son but Wayne has to return to his ship & back to England When skullduggery breaks out on board ship Wayne finds himself at the mercy of the British authorities & decides to return to the Pacific with his new wife Marion (Glynis Johns) & a crew that

Includes:: the sexually charged Wishart (Kenneth Williams) With a tense standoff emerging between the indigenous Maoris & the colonial British the situation rises to boiling point when the beautiful Maori girl Maona (Laya Raki) rejects the advances of Wishart Actors Jack Hawkins Glynis Johns Noel Purcell Inia Te Wiata Kenneth Williams Laya Raki Patrick Warbrick Tony Erstich Eddie Baker Maharaia Winiata Thomas Heathcote Norman Mitchell James Copeland Francis De Wolff & Henry Gilbert Director Ken Annakin Certificate 15 years & over Year 1954 Screen Fullscreen 1331 Languages English Duration 1 hour & 26 minutes (approx)

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A poor young woman rises to the heights of a crumbling empire where she must speak hard truth to power in order to save a world from chaos Everybody Wants Answers No One Wants the Truth The Arunkel Empire has stood a thousand years forged by wealth & conquest but now rebellion is stirring on the borders & treachery brews in the palace halls Elsewhere in a remote mountain village a young mother sells the prophesies of her sister Amarta in order to keep them & her infant child from starving It&s a dangerous game when such revelations draw suspicion & mistrust as often as they earn coin Yet Amarta&s visions are true & often not at all what the seeker wishes to hear Now in a tapestry of loyalty intrigue magic & gold Amarta has become the key to a ruler&s ambitions But is she nothing beyond a tool? As Amarta comes into her own as a seer she realizes she must do more than predict the future She must create it Meet the Author Author Sonia Orin Lyris&s fiction

Includes:: fantasy horror mainstream SF software documentation & business plans She has a shodan in Aikido can wield a range of weapons & dances Argentine tango & Blues She has raised an emu from a hatchling been kicked & spat on by llamas & been pounced on by a cougar cub—not all at the same time She lives in the Pacific Northwest Her web site is lyris

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We live in uncertain times & in our search for solutions to the problems of the world The Seer offers a new way of thinking & living Praised for its visionary & transformative power this incredible true story has attracted tens of thousands of readers from across the globe with more discovering it every day The Seer is the first book in the Grail Trilogy otherwise known as The O Manuscript ...

Booker wining novelist playwright essayist poet & critic
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The Selected Letters of John Kenneth Galbraith invites readers to join in conversations with presidents & first ladies diplomats & schoolchildren the Mc Carthy 'loyalty board' foreign heads of state & fellow economists & a host of other correspondents In his long & cosmopolitan life Galbraith wrote thousands of letters & Richard P F Holt has selected the most important of these from his archival research now available in print for the first time The letters provide an intimate account of the three main political goals to which Galbraith devoted his professional life ending war fighting poverty & improving quality of life by achieving a balance between private & public goods in an affluent capitalist society Showing his thoughtful insights & charming wit this collection confirms Galbraith as a man of broad learning superb literary skills & deeply held progressive ideals ...

With an Introduction by Emma Hartnoll Initially a vivacious outgoing person Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) progressively withdrew into a reclusive existence An undiscovered genius during her lifetime only seven out of her total of 1775 poems were published prior to her death She had an immense breadth of vision & a passionate intensity & awe for life love nature time & eternity Originally branded an eccentric Emily Dickinson is now recognised as a major poet of great depth startling originality & courage for as she wrote Assent & you are sane; Demure you're straightaway dangerous & handled with a chain' ...