Welcome to Manhattan 2118 A thous&-storey tower stretching into the sky A glittering vision of the future where anything is possible
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The enthralling novel from Victoria Hislop the million-copy bestselling author of THE ISLAND & THE RETURNThessaloniki 1917 As Dimitri Komninos is born a devastating fire sweeps through the thriving Greek city where Christians Jews & Muslims live side by side Five years later Katerina Sarafoglou's home in Asia Minor is destroyed by the Turkish army Losing her mother in the chaos she flees across the sea to an unknown destination in Greece Soon her life will become entwined with Dimitri's & with the story of the city itself as war fear & persecution begin to divide its people Thessaloniki 2007 A young Anglo-Greek hears his grandparents' life story for the first time & realises he has a decision to make For many decades they have looked after the memories & treasures of the people who were forced to leave Should he become their next custodian & make this city his home? ...

In Lift-the-Flap Fairy Tales The Three Billy Goats Gruff the traditional fairy tale is retold in Stephen Tucker's irreverent playful rhyme that's perfect for reading aloud & brilliantly accompanied by Nick Sharratt's bright & vibrant illustrations There are flaps to lift & pop-up surprises on every page take a peek under the bridge to see who's hiding there see the troll jump out at the goats & watch him go tumbling down into the river
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Includes:: a free audio CD read by Anna Chancellor with two tracks listen to the story alone or follow along with the book by turning the pages when you hear the chime Look out for the other five stories in the Lift-the-Flap Fairy Tales series Goldilocks Jack & the Beanstalk The Three Little Pigs Cinderella & Little Red Riding Hood


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When three billy goat brothers reach the bridge to the meadow a slobbering troll blocks their path The brothers are no fools
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The classic fairy tale
- The Three Billy Goats Gruff
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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 Tommy Lee Jones directs & stars in this modern-day western as Peter Perkins an old-fashioned cowboy in a small Texas town near the border with Mexico He hires Melquiades (Julio Cedillo) to work as a ranch hand & the two men form a laconic friendship But when Melquiades is shot & killed in suspicious circumstances Peter decides to take the law into his own hands He kidnaps psychotic border patrolman Mike Norton (Barry Pepper) & forces him to dig up Melquiades& body & to accompany him on horseback on the long & difficult road to Mexico to deliver his friend&s body to his family ...

Tommy Lee Jones takes his second turn in the director's chair with THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA the follow-up to his 1995 western THE GOOD OLD BOYS The action takes place on the border between West Texas & Northern Chihuahua in Mexico which is a hot spot for illegal crossings But Jones' movie ingeniously flips this dangerous yet all-too-common practice on its head with a tale of a man hell-bent on crossing the border in the opposite direction The journey to Mexico begins when Pete Perkins (Jones) uncovers the identity of a Border Patrolman Mike Norton (Barry Pepper) who has shot & killed his best friend Melquiades Estrada (Julio Cedillo) Kidnapping Norton & forcing him to dig up Estrada's body Perkins straps the corpse to a horse & informs Norton that he will be travelling with them to Mexico Once there they will bury Estrada according to instructions he gave Perkins prior to his death Jones paints Norton as a mean-spirited individual; caught up in a loveless relationship with his wife Lou Ann (January Jones) Norton's day job frequently involves him either exploding in a violent rage or idly masturbating over a well-thumbed copy of Hustler The two men don't exactly bond on their journey the wedge that's been forced between them being far too great for them to reconcile their differences But Jones coerces a riveting tale from Guillermo Arriaga script with a choppy chronology reminiscent of Arriaga's own 21 GRAMS Comparisons to Sam Peckinpah's masterfully bleak 1974 movie BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA are inevitable although Jones' film has a tender edge that Peckinpah's nihilistic epic was never quite capable of reaching A film that suggests Jones has a bright future ahead of him as a director THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA is one of the most absorbing pieces of cinema to emerge in 2005 ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Available for the first time in the UK on Blu-ray Krzysztof Kieslowski&s multi award-winning trilogy is a landmark of world cinema Three Colours Blue White & Red have been acclaimed as masterpieces by critics & audiences the world over The films co-written by Kieslowski & Krzysztof Piesiewicz with whom he wrote the epic Dekalog cycle explore the French Revolutionary ideals of freedom equality & brotherhood & their relevance to the contemporary world Blue examines liberation through the eyes of a woman (Juliette Binoche) who loses her husband & son in an auto accident & solemnly starts anew White is an ironic comedy about a befuddled Polish husband (Zbigniew Zamachowski) who takes an odd path of revenge against his ex-wife (Julie Delpy) A Swiss model (Irène Jacob) strikes up a friendship with a retired judge (Jean-Louis Trintignant) who eavesdrops on his neighbours in Red The trilogy is a snapshot of European life at a time of reconstruction after the Cold War reflected through Kieslowski&s moralist view of human nature & illumined by each title&s palate colour ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Barkos Wagos & their fearless leader Arfamis are left to guard their owner&s house on Christmas Eve When thieves break in & steal all the children&s presents decorations & even the Christmas tree these canine heroes must become valiant Dogateers Embarking on a dangerous journey to save Christmas the trio travel across their sprawling metropolis home in search of Santa Claus who might just hold the key to solving the perilous quest All the while they must beware of a devious dogcatcher who is hell-bent on capturing the four-legged heroes & spoiling the festive season As morning draws closer can the Dogateers triumph & save Christmas for all? ...

The Three Emperors by Miranda Carter is the juicy funny story of the three dysfunctional rulers of Germany Russia & Great Britain at the turn of the last century combined with a study of the larger forces around them Three cousins Three Emperors & the road to ruin As cousins George V Kaiser Wilhelm II & the last Tsar Nicholas II should have been friends
- but they happened also to rule Europe's three most powerful states This potent combination together with their own destructive personalities
- petty insecure bullying absurdly obsessive (stamp collecting uniforms)
- led not only to their own dramatic fallouts & falls from grace but also to the outbreak of the First World War Miranda Carter's riveting account of how three men who should have known better helped bring down an entire world is a gripping story of abdication betrayal & murder' Fascinating A wonderfully fresh & beautifully choreographed work of history' Mail on Sunday' Miranda Carter's story is full of vivid"ationsa romp though the palaces of Europe in their last decades before Armageddon' Sunday Times' Fascinating Carter is a gifted storyteller & has written a very readable account' Independent' That these three absurd men could ever have held the fate of Europe in their hands is a fact as hilarious as it is terrifying I haven't enjoyed a historical biography this much since Lytton Strachey's Victoria' Zadie Smith Miranda Carter's first book Anthony Blunt His Lives won the Royal Society of Literature Award & the Orwell Prize & was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Prize the Guardian First Book Award the Duff Cooper Prize & the James Tait Black Memorial Prize The book was named as one of the New York Times Book Review's seven best books of 2002 Miranda lives in London with her husband & two sons


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