An epic journey through famine hope & survival from War Horse author & former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo Thirteen year old Sean & ten year old Annie have one chance to escape the potato famine & plague in Ireland They survive a shipwreck & land safely in America searching for their father But their new land is one of hardship & they live in poverty on the streets of Boston Follow them as they busk in a city street run a riverboat join a wagon train across the prairies & dig for gold A gripping historical adventure from the master storyteller of An Eagle in the Snow Listen to the Moon Shadow & An Elephant in the Garden ------Former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo needs no introduction He is one of the most successful children's authors in the country loved by children teachers & parents alike Michael has written more than forty books for children including the global hit War Horse which was made into a Hollywood film by Steven Spielberg in 2011 Several of his other stories have been adapted for screen & stage including My Friend Walter Why the Whales Came & Kensuke's Kingdom Michael has won the Whitbread Award the Smarties Award the Circle of Gold Award the Children's Book Award & has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal four times He started the charity Farms for City Children in 1976 with his wife Clare aimed at relieving the poverty of experience many young children feel in inner city & urban areas Michael is also a patron of over a dozen other charities Living in Devon listening to Mozart & working with children have provided Michael with the ideas & incentive to write his stories He spends half his life mucking out sheds with the children feeding sheep or milking cows; the other half he spends dreaming up & writing stories for children For me the greater part of writing is daydreaming dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out
- the writing down of it I always find hard But I love finishing it then holding the book in my hand & sharing my dream with my readers Michael received an OBE in December 2006 for his services to literature
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Revell Inc has been entertaining inspiring & educating model builders for over 70 years Revell brand is a testament to the popularity of detailed plastic model kits that are affordably priced Launched in 1943 Revell initially produced a wide range of products including train sets scale buildings & “action pull toys” recreating some of America’s most popular automobiles However the brand found its niche with a line of fast-building “ Highway Pioneers” plastic model car kits in the early 1950s After their success Revell focused exclusively on making models that were as authentic as they were enjoyable In 2007 Revell was purchased by Hobbico one of the world’s largest distributors & retailers of model hobby products It marked the start of an exciting new era Today Revell is committed to creating new & exciting products for its customers Most recently we are introducing our newest line Revell Junior Kit which allows children as young as age 5 to assemble & dis-assemble for hours of creative play Revell manufactures model kits suitable for all ages We are proud to carry on the tradition of accuracy & provide a challenging & enjoyable pastime for all model hobby enthusiasts Twi star Is The New Vertical Starting Indoor Fun The Small Ufo Flies Only By Its Own Rotation The Built-In Led& s Create A Very Effective Play Of Colours Thanks To Its Aerodynamically Shaped Outer Wings The Twi star Is Very Stable In The Air & Is Really Easy To Control With The 1 Ch Ire Remote Control Ire Remote Control ...

There are two kinds of people in the world The ones who look first & the ones who leap I've always been more of a looker Cautious A planner That changed after I met Drew Evans He was so persistent So sure of himself-and of me But not all love stories end happily ever after Did you think Drew & I were going to ride off into the sunset? Join the club Now I have to make a choice; the most important of my life Drew already made his-in fact he tried to decide for the both of us But you know that's just not my style So I came back to Greenville Ohio alone Well sort of alone What I've come to realize is that old habits die hard & sometimes you have to go back to where you began before you can move ahead ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Language Subtitles Me Myself & Irene--Czech Danish English for the hearing impaired Finnish Hebrew Hungarian Icelandic Norwegian Polish There’s Something About Mary--Czech Danish English for the hearing impaired Finnish Hungarian Icelandic Norwegian Polish Portuguese Swedish Shallow Hal--English for the hearing impaired ...

Twisted Dark is Neil Gibson&s interconnected psychological thriller anthology This the first volume is formed of 12 individual & unique stories comprising of nearly 200 hundred pages The stories vary from 10 year old girls to Colombian drug lords & everything in between but the stories are all somehow connected some obviously so & some not It is left to the reader to find the connections with some impossible to see until you have read multiple volumes The books contains horror dark at times demented stories incorporating every human emotion illegal activity & brutal reality Using various illustrators allows each story & character to develop their own form the reader is left desperate to turn the pages The book has been embraced by the comic book world receiving critical acclaim & a cult underground following ...

Continue your journey to humanity&s dark side as Neil Gibson returns with a fourth volume of best-selling series Twisted Dark to chill & shock Included in this volume is Gibson&s most twisted story to date " Little Piggies" ...

Step further into the dark side of humanity as Neil Gibson returns with his fifth volume of acclaimed series Twisted Dark ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Against the moody fog-laden backdrop of the San Francisco waterfront police detective Jessica Shephard (Ashley Judd) becomes embroiled in a darkly personal hunt for a serial killer in this Hitchcockian psychological thriller directed by Philip Kaufman (THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING QUILLS) Jessica a San Francisco street cop has been appointed detective by Police Commissioner John Mills (Samuel L Jackson) her surrogate father & mentor Together with her new partner Mike Delmarco (Andy Garcia) she goes after her first assignment a murder & is ready for anything until she realizes that the corpse is a man she once slept with What seems like a bizarre coincidence becomes all too suspicious when the next murder victim is also an acquaintance of the police detective--who is also a blackout drinker with an appetite for anonymous rough sex Nightly she returns home drinks a glass of red wine & awakens to the news of another victim Haunted by her own family tragedy (her father went on an insane killing spree & killed her own mother & himself) Jessica begins to doubt her own sanity & suspect herself to be the killer Age Rating 15 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Boulting Brothers& grim tale of a schizophrenic son who snaps & develops homicidal tendencies Mrs Enid Durnley (Phyllis Calvert) is the fairly wealthy mother of two children
- one a mongoloid with very little cognizance whom she hides away in an asylum the other is Martin (Hywel Bennett) Martin doesn&t function on a &normal& level either & the dire circumstances of life with his mother & brother aid him little Martin has the personality of a six-year-old when he is in his &nice& phase so when after he attempts to steal a toy & gets caught a kindly student Susan (Hayley Mills) talks the shop manager out of pressing charges the two become friends Martin&s cruel stepfather Henry (Frank Finlay) enraged by the shoplifting talks Martin&s mum into chucking him out Susan&s mum (Billie Whitelaw) runs a boarding house & takes him in Martin however may be secretly plotting revenge on anyone who has wronged him
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Four stories of love & lust from comics& coolest artists & writer ALEX DE CAMPI! First a demon who prowls the 1978 New York disco scene in Old Flames drawn by KATIE SKELLY Then a curvy photographer&s assistant who falls in love with someone way out of her league in Twinkle & The Star with ALEJANDRA GUTIe RREZ A spacefleet captain who captures a most infuriating pirate in Invincible Heart with CARLA SPEED MCNEIL & a princess who runs away with a dragon in Treasured with TRUNGLES Plus steamy prose romance stories from awesome folks like Magen Cubed & Vita Ayala & more comics shorts about love from Meredith Mc Claren Sarah Horrocks Margaret Trauth & Sarah Winifred Searle Collects Twisted Romance 1-4 ...