Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play A letter to Anila (Mamata Shankar) announcing the return of her long lost uncle leaves her curious even as it provokes deep suspicion from her husband Sudhin (Deepankar De) On his arrival Manmohan (Utpal Dutt) proves to be highly charming going to considerable lengths to ingratiate himself with the couple & their young son However neither husband nor wife are truly convinced less out of suspicion & more because Manmohan s larger-than-life nature leaves him out of place in their mundane life An anthropologist affected with &wanderlust& Manmohan&s experience of different cultures leaves him a stranger in his homeland & an outsider amongst his remaining family Adapted from one of his own stories Satyajit Ray&s The Stranger is a refined philosophical comedy; gentle in its satire of middle-class family mores & elegiac for the traditions of hospitality it weakly upholds The film produced by French admirers Gerard Depardieu & Daniel Toscan du Plantier proved to Ray&s last a fitting capstone to a landmark career Actors Utpal Dutt Directors Satyajit Ray Format PAL Language Bengali (Dolby Digital 20) Subtitles English Dubbed Bengali ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Mysterious figure Martin arrives in a small quiet town seeking to kill his wife Ana
- who suffers from a dangerous disease that makes her addicted to human blood He soon discovers that Ana has been dead for a couple of years & he needs to commit suicide to eradicate the disease Before he can do it he is brutally attacked by three local thugs & the incident suddenly starts to plunge the community into a bloodbath Produced by Eli Roth THE STRANGER uplifts horror films to a whole new level
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The Stranger From the Sea is the eighth novel in Winston Graham's hugely popular Poldark series which has become a television phenomenon starring Aidan Turner Cornwall 1810 The Poldark family awaits the return of Ross from his mission to Wellington's army in Portugal But their ordered existence ends with Jeremy Poldark's dramatic rescue of the stranger from the sea Stephen Carrington's arrival in the Poldark household changes all their lives For Clowance & Jeremy in particular the children of Ross & Demelza Stephen's advent is the key to a new world
- one of both love & danger The Stranger From The Sea is followed by the ninth book in the Poldark series The Miller's Dance
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Could you leave behind all that you know & live in solitude for three decades? This is the extraordinary story of the last true hermit
- Christopher Knight ' This was a breath-taking book to read & many weeks later I am still thinking about the implications for our society &
- by extension
- for my own life' Sebastian Junger bestselling author of The Perfect Storm 'A wry meditation on one man's attempt to escape life's distractions & look inwards to find meaning not by doing but by being' Martin Sixsmith bestselling author of Philomena & Ayesha's Gift ' Not all heroes wear capes My latest one is a man called Christopher Knight
- a silent idol for anyone who has felt the urge to just sack it all off & live the life of a hermit' Lucy Mangan Stylist ' An extraordinary story about solitude community identity & freedom' Guardian In 1986 twenty-year-old Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts drove to Maine & disappeared into the woods He would not speak to another human being until three decades later when he was arrested for stealing food Christopher survived by his wits & courage developing ingenious ways to store food & water in order to avoid freezing to death in his tent during the harsh Maine winters He broke into nearby cottages for food clothes reading material & other provisions taking only what he needed In the process he unwittingly terrified a community unable to solve the mysterious burglaries Myths abounded amongst the locals eager to find this legendary hermit Based on extensive interviews with Knight himself this is a vividly detailed account of his secluded life & the challenges he faced returning to the world The Stranger in the Woods is a riveting story of survival that asks fundamental questions about solitude & what makes for a good life Above all this is a deeply moving portrait of a man determined to live life his own way



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' Absorbing addictive & downright chilling' Alison Gaylin Fans of THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR will love this gripping thriller 352 pages Benedict Laura ...

The latest crime thriller featuring detective Maeve Kerrigan
- winner of the Mary Higgins Clark Award He meets women He gains their
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With an introduction by Anthony Quinn The Stranger's Child was Sunday Times Novel of the Year in 2011 In the late summer of 1913 George Sawle brings his Cambridge friend Cecil Valance a charismatic young poet to visit his family home The weekend will be one of excitements & confusions for everyone but it is on George's sixteen-year-old sister Daphne that it will have the most lasting impact As the decades pass Daphne & those around her endure startling changes in fortune & circumstance & as reputations rise & fall the events of that long-ago summer become part of a legendary story Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize The Stranger's Child is Hollinghurst's masterly exploration of English culture taste & attitudes Epic in sweep it intimately portrays a luminous but changing world & the ways memory
- & myth
- can be built & broken It is a powerful & utterly absorbing modern classic

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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 Explore your worst fears imaginable with this shocking suspense thriller inspired by disturbing true events After a 4 am knock at the door & a haunting voice Kristen Mc Kay (Liv Tyler) & James Hoyt&s (Scott Speedman) remote getaway becomes a psychological night of terror as three masked strangers invade Now they must go far beyond what they thought themselves capable of if they hope to survive Actors Liv Tyler Scott Speedman Gemma Ward Glenn Howerton Laura Margolis Kip Weeks & Sterling Beaumon Director Bryan Bentino Certificate 15 years & over Year 2007 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Additional Languages Italian ; Spanish Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; Italian ; Spanish Duration 1 hour & 24 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players

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Andy Griffith plays a philandering apartment house manager who picks up a pretty young girl (Suzanne Hildur) in a bar He takes her home whereupon the girl's male cronies show up armed with guns Griffith & his wife Ida Lupino are held hostage by the crooks led by Michael Brandon who plan to use the apartment as headquarters while they pull off a big robbery ...

A comprehensively updated revision of a book regarded by many as one the leading & authoritative titles for practitioners academics & students in the domain of information systems & technology (ISIT) strategy Presents a structured framework with tools techniques & ways of thinking which provide a practical approach to building a digital strategy expressed primarily in the language of business & management Brings together the implications of the significant advances in IT & the most useful current thinking research & experiences concerning the business impact & strategic opportunities created by ISITPeppard & Ward discuss the key questions that managers have to grapple with of where when & how to invest in ISIT which is why a ISIT (or digital) strategy is required ...