Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Three single women Christina Courtney & Jane regularly have a good time in the city&s nightclub Then one night Christina meets her perfect partner but discovers too late that he&s left town Now she & Courtney are off on the road to find him Christina&s (Cameron Diaz) love life is stuck in neutral After years of avoiding the hazards of a meaningful relationship one night while club-hopping with her girlfriends she meets Peter (Thomas Jane) her perfect match Fed up with playing games she finally gets the courage to let her guard down & follow her heart only to discover that Peter has suddenly left town Accompanied by Courtney (Christina Applegate) she sets out to capture the one that got away ...

Meet Flavia Mystery Solver Master Poisoner 11 Years Old England 1950 At Buckshaw the crumbling country seat of the de Luce family very-nearly-eleven-year-old Flavia is plotting revenge on her older sisters Then a dead bird is left on the doorstep which has an extraordinary effect on Flavia's eccentric father & a body is found in the garden As the police descend on Buckshaw Flavia decides to do some investigating of her own Praise for the historical Flavia de Luce mysteries' The Flavia de Luce novels are now a cult favourite' Mail on Sunday'A cross between Dodie Smith's I Capture The Castle & the Addams familydelightfully entertaining' Guardian Fans of M C Beaton's Agatha Raisin Frances Brody & Alexander Mc Call Smith will enjoy the Flavia de Luce mysteries 1 Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie 2 The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag 3 A Red Herring Without Mustard 4 I Am Half Sick of Shadows 5 Speaking From Among the Bones 6 The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches 7 As Chimney Sweepers Come To Dust 8 Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd 9 The Grave's a Fine & Private Place If you're looking for a cosy crime series to keep you hooked then look no further than the Flavia de Luce mysteries Each Flavia de Luce mystery can be read as a standalone or in series order ...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2012 Almost six hundred years ago a short genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf With excitement he saw what he had discovered & ordered it copied The book was a miraculously surviving copy of an ancient Roman philosophical epic On the Nature of Things by Lucretius & it changed the course of history He found a beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas
- that the universe functioned without the aid of gods that religious fear was damaging to human life & that matter was made up of very small particles in eternal motion These ideas fuelled the Renaissance inspiring Botticelli shaping the thoughts of Montaigne Darwin & Einstein An innovative work of history by one of the world's most celebrated scholars & a thrilling story of discovery The Swerve details how one manuscript plucked from a thousand years of neglect made possible the world as we know it Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Nonfiction
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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 Neddy Merrill has been away for most of the Summer He reappears at a friends pool As they talk someone notices that there are pools spanning the entire valley He decided to jog from pool to pool to swim the whole valley As he stops in each pool his interactions tell his life story ...

'I can't take my eyes off the water Can you?' It's summer when Elm Hill lido opens having stood empty for years For Natalie Steele
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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 When a Swiss bank discovers that the confidentiality of some of its account holders has been comprised it calls in an American investigator The action soon heats up with two of the account holders being blackmailed & then killed David Janssen David Christopher Senta Berger Denise Abbott John Ireland Dwight Mc Gowan John Saxon Robert Hayes Ray Milland Johann Hurtil Elke Sommer Rita Jensen Written by Norman Klenman Directed by Jack Arnold ...

Following a wild & raging storm the Swiss family Robinson are stranded at sea But the thundering waves have swept them off to a tropical island where a new life awaits them Their ship is laden with supplies & the island is packed with treasures so they soon adapt & discover new dangers & delights every day With an inspiring introduction by American author & America's first children's laureate Jon Scieszka ...

Parents teachers librarians & youngsters will welcome four new superb unabridged editions of timeless children's favourites
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One of the Guardian's Best Crime Books & Thrillers of 2017 Michael Tanner is heading home from a business trip when he picks up the wrong laptop at airport security The computer he takes home belongs to US senator Susan Robbins & it contains top secret files that should never have been on there in the first place With her career in politics on the line Senator Robbins is determined to get her laptop back whatever the cost Tanner is now a hunted man But with the government against him who can he trust to help him? PREVIOUS TITLES The Moscow Club; Extraordinary Powers; The Zero Hour; High Crimes; Paranoia; Company Man; Killer Instinct; Power Play; Vanished; Buried Secrets; Suspicion The Fixer Guilty Minds ...

A woman approaching middle age yet still childless decides to get pregnant by artificial insemination only to discover that the donor she chose may not be the father of her child in this comedy starring Jennifer Aniston & Jason Bateman Wally Mars (Bateman) is a dyed-in-the-wool pessimist Hopelessly neurotic & unrepentantly narcissistic he gets no joy out of life except for the time he spends with his best friend Kassie (Jennifer Aniston) However despite the fact that Wally pines to be more than just friends with Kassie she isn't convinced they'd make a good couple When Kassie announces to Wally that she's found the perfect sperm donor he's crestfallen; as far as he's concerned the ideal candidate is standing right in front of her Later Kassie selects handsome stranger Roland (Patrick Wilson) to provide the seed Things get complicated when Kassie's best friend Debbie (Juliette Lewis) throws an insemination party to commemorate the big event & Wally intercepts Roland's special delivery drunkenly replacing it with his own before blacking out Pregnant & content Kassie leaves the city for Minnesota where she gives birth to a healthy baby boy Flash-forward seven years & Kassie returns to New York with her son Sebastian (Thomas Robinson) who shares an uncanny number of physical & psychological traits with embittered bachelor Wally Before long Wally & Sebastian have become good friends & Wally becomes convinced that the boy is his biological son His ideal family is finally within reach & if he can just figure out a means of breaking the news to Kassie gently perhaps she'll find it in her heart to forgive him & recognize that he'll make the perfect father for Sebastian ...