Twenty years ago Frances Mayes
- widely published poet gourmet cook & travel writer
- introduced readers to a wondrous new world

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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 In this acclaimed feel-good romantic drama based on the memoirs of Frances Mayes Academy Award nominee Diane Lane plays Frances the West-Coast American writer battling against writers block & depression after her marriage breaks down Her impulsive purchase of a dilapidated villa in Tuscany evolves into a major renovation project & during the course of a year of construction she meets many new people & is accepted by the locals as part of the community Far away from the rat race of American city life basking here in under the Tuscan sun she finds it a wonder that anyone would need romance at all
- that&s until she meets Marcello
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One of the twentieth century's great undisputed masterpieces Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano

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Paul Brandus White House journalist & creator of the popular West Wing Report exposes lesser-known stories from the White House Imagine Nixon in the East Room worrying over the moon mission; Edith Wilson running the country from the Master Bedroom; or Obama nervously pl 296 pages 72 Halftones black & white Brandus Paul ...

BOOK ONE IN A BRAND NEW SERIES
- FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK
- by Nebula & Hugo Award Winner Catherine Asaro set in the world of

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Takahashi Jun&s fashion is not born out of an excessively intellectualized agenda While not quite populist his generative influences are instead romantic-even gothic A fixture of the Paris collections for more than ten years-plus seventeen uninterrupted seasons in Tokyo prior to that-Takahashi&s life&s work confirms a maturation from self-conscious artifice & rebel pastiche to a steely withering elegance all his own Hailing from Gunma Prefecture like his friend NIGO of A Bathing Ape Takahashi&s long association with the undisputed king of Ura-Harajuku in the early 1990s is now the stuff of local fashion lore But Takahashi would blaze an entirely different path to legend & notoriety The violent rending & hasty reassembly that characterized his early work its calculated imperfections & sutured seams have given way to collections that he himself now calls sexy & feminine UNDERCOVER is insightfully curated with fashion filled chapters devoted to Takahashi&s sketches graphic work collaborations & most innovative designs to date Lavishly illustrated with more than 200 photographs & in-depth essays by fashion writers curators & colleagues this book gives readers first time access into Takahashi&s UNDERCOVER one of the most desired & multidimensional clothing lines in contemporary fashion ...

For over 20 years Joe Carter has worked for the police as an undercover cop He travelled the globe on different passports He fraternised with thieves international drugs & arms dealers He worked alongside the most dangerous criminals Always fearing that this life would come crashing down around him at any point His story is a gripping account of the secret solitary work of an undercover officer & the many sticky' situations he found himself in as well as the moving confession of the difficulty in reconciling his two identities with his family life It's a story of his beginnings from a being a young east end apprentice to the mean streets he walks today
- it reveals the many highs & the painful lows of going undercover This book explores the resilience needed to lead a double life the thrilling challenge of working with the biggest criminals in Britain & maintaining a sense of justice through the many adventures he encounters
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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 Ealing Studios Second World War propaganda drama written by Jon Dighton John Clements stars as Captain Milosh Petrovitch a Serbian guerrilla leader who forms a resistance army in the mountains of Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia Meanwhile his equally fearless brother Stephan (Stephen Murray) a doctor at Belgrade&s Municipal Hospital in Belgrade goes undercover as a Nazi collaborator in order to obtain information from the German forces to pass along to the guerrillas ...

A tremor of fear ripples through the population in the streets of Hong Kong Word is out that a recent string of murders may have been committed by one of the very investigators charged with solving them The police are bringing in more help Behind the scenes the killer is recruiting too In Deception Undercover Allies new roles give special powers to both teams More means & clue cards increase the possible solutions to the crime Fresh scene tiles bring more life to the forensic scientist&8217;s descriptions & a new event challenges the already tenuous trust which exists among the investigators With so many new variables both sides will have to find new ways to deal with the deception that surrounds them 4-14 players 20 Minutes game time Age 14 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Jeff & Jane Blue (Dennis Quaid & Kathleen Turner) are secret service agents enjoying an extended period of maternity leave in New Orleans When the activities of an international terrorist ring threaten to shatter their peaceful idyll their boss persuades them to go undercover once again
- but this time with their new-born baby in tow!
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