Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The Sword of Xanten is a visually impressive historical adventure based on the same Germanic & Norse legends that inspired Richard Wagner&s Ring Cycle operas & JRR Tolkien&s Lord of the Rings ...

It was a day like any other for Dara Brighton a promising young college student until three strangers knocked on her door looking for a unique sword & destroyed her life! A modern day fantasy series from the creators behind Ultra & Girls! Praised as the fusion of Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Kill Bill! ...

Dara brighton has discovered more information about the three powerful strangers who murdered her family Armed with this knowledge & the mystical sword her first order of business is to find the one who murdered her sister & make him pay ...

His name is Knossos With the power to manipulate earth he is one of the most powerful beings alive & he has only one weakness The Sword Helping to create it was his first mistake Killing the mother of Dara Brighton the Sword's current wielder may be his last! ...

Three powerful siblings entered Dara Brighton's home & brutally murdered her family right before her eyes With the help of a powerful sword & her two friends she has vowed to exact revenge on the three Dara's epic quest concludes in this final volume with her last target Malia the air-goddess who murdered her father! Dara has already fought Malia's brothers
- the water-god Zakros & the earth-god Knossos
- but Malia's power over air isn't the only thing that makes her more formidable than her siblings!

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL 2016WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION 2016'A fierce novel written in a refreshingly high style & charged with intelligent rage' Financial Times It is April 1975 & Saigon is in chaos At his villa a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey & with the help of his trusted captain drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country The general & his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles unaware that one among their number the captain is secretly observing & reporting on the group to a higher-up in the Viet Cong The Sympathizer is the story of this captain a man brought up by an absent French father & a poor Vietnamese mother a man who went to university in America but returned to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause A gripping spy novel an astute exploration of extreme politics & a moving love story The Sympathizer explores a life between two worlds & examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature film & the wars we fight today'A bold artful & globally minded reimagining of the Vietnam war The Sympathizer is an excellent literary novel & one that ends with unsettling present-day resonance in a refugee boat where opposing ideas about intentions actions & their consequences take stark & resilient human form' the Guardian' Beautifully written & meaty' Claire Messud'A remarkable debut novel In its final chapters The Sympathizer becomes an absurdist tour de force that might have been written by a Kafka or Genet' New York Times' This debut is a page-turner (read everybody will finish) that makes you reconsider the Vietnam War Nguyen's darkly comic novel offers a point of view about American culture that we've rarely seen' Oprahcom (Oprah's Book Club Suggestions) ...

Throughout history some books have changed the world They have transformed the way we see ourselves
- & each other They have inspired
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The new thrilling sci-fi novel from the author of New Pompeii & Empire of Time 432 pages Godfrey Daniel ...

As dawn breaks Mount Kahlualualuau is spewing its fiery lava down onto Meepleville The natives are frantically trying to escape the rivers of lava & remain on safe ground Whoever&s tribe survives the eruption with the most meeples shall be the winner! The Table Is Lava presents players with a simple challenge Toss cards onto the table to save your meeples while trying to knock other players& pieces into the lava at the same time Have the most survivors & you win! Contents 40 cards (10 of each color)60 meeples Ages 10 Players 2-4 Game Length 20 minutes ...

The Tactile Eye expands on phenomenological analysis & film theory in its accessible & beautifully written exploration of the visceral connection between films & their viewers Jennifer M Barker argues that the experience of cinema can be understood as deeply tactile
- a sensuous exchange between film & viewer that goes beyond the visual & aural gets beneath the skin & reverberates in the body Barker combines analysis of embodiment & phenomenological film theory to provide an expansive description of cinematic tactility She considers feminist experimental film early cinema animation & horror as well as classic modernist & postmodern cinema; films from ten national cinemas; & work by Chuck Jones Buster Keaton the Quay Brothers Satyajit Ray Carolee Schneemann & Tom Tykwer among others
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