Artist's daughter Penelope Keeling can look back on a full & varied life a Bohemian childhood in London & Cornwall an unhappy wartime marriage & the one man she truly loved She has brought up three children
- & learned to accept them as they are Yet she is far too energetic & independent to settle sweetly into pensioned-off old-age & when she discovers that her most treasured possession her father's painting The Shell Seekers is now worth a small fortune it is Penelope who must make the decisions that will determine whether her family can continue to survive as a family or be split apart
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This much-anticipated revision written by the ultimate group of top security experts in the world features 40 percent new content on how to find security holes in any operating system or application New material addresses the many new exploitation techniques that have been discovered since the first edition including attacking unbreakable software packages such as Mc Afee's Entercept Mac OS X XP Office 2003 & Vista Also features the first-ever published information on exploiting Cisco's IOS with content that has never before been explored The companion Web site features downloadable code files ...

Ayla & Jondalar have reached home the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii the old stone age settlement in the region known today as south-west France Ayla has much to learn from the Zelandonii as well as much to teach them Jondalar's family are initially wary of the beautiful young woman he has brought back with her strange accent & her tame wolf & horses She is delighted when she meets Zelandoni the spiritual leader of her people a fellow healer with whom she can share her medicinal skills After the rigours & dangers that have characterised her extraordinary life Ayla yearns for peace & tranquillity; to be Jondalar's mate & to have children But her unique spiritual gifts cannot be ignored & even as she gives birth to their eagerly-awaited child she is coming to accept that she has a greater role to play in the destiny of the Zelandonii ...

It is Christmas Eve 1957 Flying home on leave from Germany he is alone in the cockpit of the Vampire Sixty-six minutes of flying time with the descent & landing
- destination Lakenheath No problem all routine procedures Then out over the North sea the fog begins to close in Radio contact ceases & the compass goes haywire Suddenly out of the mist appears a World War II bomber It is flying just below the Vampire as of trying to make contact
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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 Jean-Claude Van Damme is back in The Shepherd!A rogue American Special Forces unit schemes to smuggle 35 million worth of heroin into the United States & all that stands in its way is border patrol agent Jack Robideaux (Jean-Claude Van Damme) an ex-homicide cop with a hidden agenda Taking on suicide bombers sadistic torturers & traitorous officials on both sides of the border Jack shows no mercy as he single-handedly attempts to destroy the cartel in this explosive action thriller ...

A SHIVERING OF WORLDSDeep in the Chalk something is stirring The owls & the foxes can sense it & Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots An old enemy is gathering strength This is a time of endings & beginnings old friends & new a blurring of edges & a shifting of power Now Tiffany stands between the light & the dark the good & the bad As the fairy horde prepares for invasion Tiffany must summon all the witches to stand with her To protect the land Her land There will be a reckoning THE FINAL DISCWORLD NOVEL ...

Tiffany Aching has finally got her wish She is a witch (and a respected one at that) Overworked & underpaid that's for certain but a witch nonetheless Help is at hand though In the form of young Geoffrey & his goat Geoffrey wants to be a witch too & thinks he can save the world by building sheds Well everyone has to start somewhere But as new friends are made & old ones return enemies are stirring With her beloved chalk in jeopardy Tiffany will face the toughest challenge of her life There will be a reckoning Brilliant This is a book worth reading twice in quick succession' Daily Mail ...

A SHIVERING OF WORLDSDeep in the chalk something is stirring Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots
- an old enemy is gathering strength
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THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER' Affectionate evocative illuminating A story of survival
- of a flock a landscape & a disappearing
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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 Five episodes from the 1968 TV series based on the famous stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle starring Peter Cushing as Holmes & Nigel Stock as Dr Watson In & The Hound of the Baskervilles (Parts 1 & 2)& based on the most well-known Sherlock Holmes story of them all Holmes travels to Dartmoor to unravel the murder mystery that has haunted the Baskerville family for generations &A Study in Scarlet& is based on the very first Sherlock Holmes story in which Holmes must track down a relentless killer when the dead bodies of a string of victims are discovered all with the word & Rache& (German for &revenge&) written in blood next to where they are lying In & The Boscombe Valley Mystery& Holmes must prove that a young man found next to the dying brutally beaten body of his tyrannous bully of a father is not guilty of his murder In & The Sign of Four& Holmes & Watson are intrigued by the case of Mary Morstan whose father disappeared ten years previously Every year since Mary has received a pearl from a mystery benefactor & she now requires the Baker Street detective to act as her escort in a meeting with the unknown patron In & The Blue Carbuncle& a priceless jewel with a sinister history has been stolen from its owner the Countess of Morcar When it is found in a goose&s crop the events surrounding how it got there & who the true thief is are puzzles only a genius such as Sherlock Holmes can unravel This was the last episode in this series (which was one of the first TV series ever to be shot in colour) & was originally screened on 23rd December 1968 ...