Every action has consequences One confrontation one punch one bullet
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When Dr Philip Raven an intellectual working for the League of Nations dies in 1930 he leaves behind a powerful legacy
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The Shape of Water is the first in Andrea Camilleri's wry brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series featuring Inspector Montalbano This edition with a stunning redesigned cover The goats of Vigata once grazed on the trash-strewn site still known as the Pasture Now local enterprise of a different sort flourishes drug dealers & prostitutes of every flavour But their discreet trade is upset when two employees of the Splendour Refuse Collection Company discover the body of engineer Silvio Luparello one of the local movers & shakers apparently deceased in flagrante at the Pasture The coroner's verdict is death from natural causes
- refreshingly unusual for Sicily But Inspector Salvo Montalbano as honest as he is streetwise & as scathing to fools & villains as he is compassionate to their victims is not ready to close the case
- even though he's being pressured by Vigata's police chief judge & bishop Picking his way through a labyrinth of high-comedy corruption delicious meals vendetta firepower & carefully planted false clues Montalbano can be relied on whatever the cost to get to the heart of the matter The Shape of Water is followed by the second in this phenomenal series The Terracotta Dog

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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play From master storyteller Guillermo del Toro comes an other-worldly fairy tale set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962 In the hidden government laboratory where she works lonely Elisa (Sally Hawkins) is trapped in a life of silence & isolation Elisa&8217;s life is changed forever when she & co-worker Zelda (Octavia Spencer) discover a secret classified experiment Actors Sally Hawkins Michael Shannon Richard Jenkins Octavia Spencer Michael Stuhlbarg Directors Guillermo del Toro Writers Guillermo del Toro Vanessa Taylor Producers Guillermo del Toro J Miles Dale Format 4 K Language English Subtitles Polish English German Region Region B2 (Read more about DVDBlu-ray formats) Aspect Ratio 169
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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play From master storyteller Guillermo del Toro comes an other-worldly fairy tale set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962 In the hidden government laboratory where she works lonely Elisa (Sally Hawkins) is trapped in a life of silence & isolation Elisa’s life is changed forever when she & co-worker Zelda (Octavia Spencer) discover a secret classified experiment Actors Sally Hawkins Michael Shannon Richard Jenkins Octavia Spencer Michael Stuhlbarg Directors Guillermo del Toro Writers Guillermo del Toro Vanessa Taylor Producers Guillermo del Toro J Miles Dale Language English Number of discs 1 ...

Molly&s curse is getting worse The curse-breaking workshop hasn&t exactly turned out how Molly & her friends had hoped & now something is going wrong with the way curses work The team need to find the Promise Keeper who controls all curses but the Keeper is guarded by Atacama the sphinx & his riddle The five friends set off on a quest that takes them past the misty giant grey men of the mountains to spar with an ancient snake & battle terrifying Nuckelavee Can they discover what&s wrong with the Promise Keeper & stop the world of curses from spinning out of control? Magic adventure & danger collide in the second dramatic book of this brilliant new fantasy adventure Spellchasers trilogy by award-winning author Lari Don ...

Dax Jones will not be tamed The Children of Limitless Ability can do all sorts of amazing things Terrifying things too Some can move things with their minds Some can make themselves vanish Dax Jones can change his form; can hurtle through the sky at 200km an hour or swim underwater for minutes on end But all is not well Fenton Lodge the school & home the COLA kids had grown to love over the past few years is being turned into a prison The new prime minister has set up a crack force of experts to manage contain & use the COLA resource in the best interests of decent hardworking British people & if necessary to shut it all down Permanently With all communication scrutinized Dax's only option is to write to his spoilt little sister Alice Even she might notice something is amiss if she reads his letters properly & Alice for all her annoying shallowness does notice & what she does about it is extraordinary But then she is the half-sister of Dax Jones ...

Adventure conspiracy & shapeshifting
- X-Men meets Alex Rider Dax Jones is an ordinary schoolboy until something extraordinary
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Ordinary kids extraordinary powers amazing adventures There's a lot of strange stuff going on for Dax Jones To start with there's the mysterious letter from his dad telling Dax to go to a secret location & find something from his dead mother Perhaps it's a clue about how he became a shapeshifter Then there's the weirdness at school The scientists are up to something but Dax is sworn to secrecy-he can't even tell his best mate So when his classmates are suddenly taken away 'for their own safety' Dax's fox senses tell him all is not as it seems If Dax continues with his quest to find out more about his mother he could be leaving his friends in danger Is he really willing to risk their lives in his search for the truth about his existence? With appeal for both boys & girls this exciting finale to the original Shapeshifter series is a fast-paced action adventure about contemporary children with super powers told with award-winning Ali Sparkes's humour & lightness of touch Perfect for fans of Alex Rider Robert Muchamore's CHERUB series & Young Bond ...

The fourth volume that contains the early myths & legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war The Silmarillion In this fourth volume of The History of Middle-earth the shaping of the chronological & geographical structure of the legends of Middle-earth & Valinor is spread before us We are introduced to the hitherto unknown Ambarkanta or Shape of the World the only account ever given of the nature of the imagined Universe ccompanied by maps & diagrams of the world before & after the cataclyusms of The War of the Gods & the Downfall of Numenor The first map of Beleriend is also reproduced & discussed In The Annals of Valinor & The Annals of Beleriend we are shown how the chronology of the First Age was moulded & the tale is told of Aelfwine the Englishman who voyaged into the True West & came to Tol Eressea Lonely Isle where he learned the ancient history of Elves & Men Also included are the original Silmarillion' of 1926 & the Quenta Noldorinwa of 1930
- the only version of the myths & legends of the First Age that J R R Tolkien completed to their end
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