It's peculiar how no-words can be better than words How silence can say more than noise or a person's absence can occupy even more space than their presence did Suzy is twelve when her best friend Franny drowns one summer at the beach It takes two days for the news to reach Suzy & it's not something that she can accept Franny has always been a strong swimmer from the day they met in swim class when they were just five How can someone all of a sudden just no longer be theresuzy realizes that they must have got it wrong Franny didn't just drown
- she was stung by a poisonous jellyfish This makes a lot more sense to Suzy's logical mind than a random drowning
- cause a jellyfish sting; effect death Suzy's journey to acceptance is quiet
- she resolves to either say something important or say nothing at all But it's also bursting with bittersweet humour heart-breaking honesty big ideas & small details The Thing About Jellyfish is an astonishing debut novel from Ali Benjamin & is perfect for fans of Wonder Counting By 7s & My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece


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From the Orange Prize-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun' come twelve dazzling stories that turn a penetrating eye on the ties that bind men & women parents & children Nigeria & the West In 'A Private Experience' a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman whose dignity & faith force her to confront the realities & fears she's been pushing away In ' Tomorrow Is Too Far' a woman unlocks the devastating secret that surrounds her brother's death The young mother at the centre of ' Imitation' finds her comfortable life threatened when she learns that her husband back in Lagos has moved his mistress into their home And the title story depicts the choking loneliness of a Nigerian girl who moves to an America that turns out to be nothing like the country she expected; though falling in love brings her desires nearly within reach a death in her homeland forces her to re-examine them Searing & profound suffused with beauty sorrow & longing this collection is a resounding confirmation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's prodigious storytelling powers ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-Ray player in order to play The Thing (1982) Horror-meister John Carpenter (Halloween Escape from New York) teams Kurt Russell&s outstanding performance with incredible visuals to build this chilling version of the classic The Thing In the winter of 1982 a twelve-man research team at a remote Antarctic research station discovers an alien buried in the snow for over 100000 years Once unfrozen the form-changing alien wreaks havoc creates terror & becomes one of them The Thing (2011) Paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) joins a Norwegian scientific team in Antarctica that has discovered an extraterrestrial ship buried in the ice & an organism that seems to have died in the crash When an experiment frees the alien a shape-shifting creature with the ability to turn itself into a perfect replica of any living being Kate must join the crew&s pilot Carter (Joel Edgerton) to keep it from killing them off one at a time Paranoia soon spreads like an epidemic as they&re infected one by one & a thrilling race for survival begins The Thing is a prelude to John Carpenter&s classic 1982 film of the same name Actors Kurt Russell Mary Elizabeth Winstead Wilford Brimley Keith David Joel Edgerton Eric Christian Olsen & Ulrich Thomsen Director John Carpenter & Matthijs Van Heijningen Jr Certificate 18 years & over Year 1982 ; 2011 Languages English ...

Paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) joins a Norwegian scientific team in Antarctica that has discovered an extraterrestrial ship buried in the ice & an organism that seems to have died in the crash When an experiment frees the alien a shape-shifting creature with the ability to turn itself into a perfect replica of any living being Kate must join the crew&s pilot Carter (Joel Edgerton) to keep it from killing them off one at a time Paranoia soon spreads like an epidemic as they&re infected one by one & a thrilling race for survival begins The Thing is a prelude to John Carpenter&s classic 1982 film of the same name Actors Mary Elizabeth Winstead Eric Christian Olsen Joel Edgerton Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Ulrich Thomsen Jonathan Walker Kim Bubbs Stig Henrik Hoff Trond Espen Seim Jørgen Langhelle Carsten Bjørnlund Jan Gunnar Røise & Kristofer Hivju Director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr Certificate 15 years & over Year 2011 Screen Widescreen 2401 Anamorphic Languages English Subtitles English for the hearing impaired; German; Danish; Finnish; Norwegian; Swedish Duration 1 hour & 39 minutes (approx) ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) joins a Norwegian scientific team in Antarctica that has discovered an extraterrestrial ship buried in the ice & an organism that seems to have died in the crash When an experiment frees the alien a shape-shifting creature with the ability to turn itself into a perfect replica of any living being Kate must join the crew&s pilot Carter (Joel Edgerton) to keep it from killing them off one at a time Paranoia soon spreads like an epidemic as they&re infected one by one & a thrilling race for survival begins The Thing is a prelude to John Carpenter&s classic 1982 film of the same name Actors Mary Elizabeth Winstead Eric Christian Olsen Joel Edgerton Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Ulrich Thomsen Jonathan Walker Kim Bubbs Stig Henrik Hoff Trond Espen Seim Jørgen Langhelle Carsten Bjørnlund Jan Gunnar Røise & Kristofer Hivju Director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr Certificate 15 years & over Year 2011 Screen Widescreen 2401 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Additional Languages English Audio Description Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; German ; Danish ; Finnish ; Norwegian ; Swedish Closed Captions Yes Duration 1 hour & 39 minutes (approx)
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Meditations on the story of Holy Week & the things Jesus did from his entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday until his arrest on Maunday Thursday One extraordinary week Jesus rides a colt into Jerusalem He shows righteous rage in the temple He eats with the wrong sort of people He lets a woman anoint him with oil He washes his disciples' feet He breaks bread & shares wine He prays passionately in the garden He allows himself to be arrested Jesus stands in the prophetic tradition of those who embody what they teach The things he did were carefully planned & in this riveting book Stephen Cotterell draws out their political & religious significance as Jesus moves towards his greatest & final act
- his death & resurrection
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Anyone who loved the great Maeve Binchy will adore this gorgeous gem of a book'
- Claudia Carroll The gripping new novel from Irish
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From established literary heavyweights to emerging spoken word artists the writers in this ground-breaking collection blow away the narrow image of the ' Muslim Woman' Hear from users of Islamic Tinder a disenchanted Maulana working as a TV chat show host & a plastic surgeon blackmailed by MI6 Follow the career of an actress with Middle-Eastern heritage whose dreams of playing a ghostbuster spiral into repeat castings as a jihadi bride Among stories of honour killings & ill-fated love in besieged locations we also find heart-warming connections & powerful challenges to the status quo From Algiers to Brighton these stories transcend time & place revealing just how varied the search for belonging can be ...

HERE ARE MANY MANY THINGS THAT NOBODY KNOWS Why are so many giraffes gay? Has human evolution stopped? Where did our alphabet come from? Can robots become self-aware? Can lobsters recognize other lobsters by sight? What goes on inside a black hole? Are cell phones bad for us? Why can't we remember anything from our earliest years? Full of the mysteries of life the universe & everything The Things that Nobody Knows is a fascinating & unputdownable exploration of the limits of human knowledge of our planet its history & culture & the universe beyond ...

The million-copy bestseller which is a ground-breaking meditation on war memory imagination & the redemptive power of storytelling The Things They Carried' is on its surface a sequence of award-winning stories about the madness of the Vietnam War; at the same time it has the cumulative power & unity of a novel with recurring characters & interwoven strands of plot & theme But while Vietnam is central to The Things They Carried' it is not simply a book about war It is also a book about the human heart
- about the terrible weight of those things we carry through our lives
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