Dara & Nick used to be inseparable but that was before the accident that left Dara's beautiful face scarred & the two sisters totally estranged When Dara vanishes on her birthday Nick thinks Dara is just playing around But another girl nine-year-old Madeline Snow has vanished too & Nick becomes increasingly convinced that the two disappearances are linked Now Nick has to find her sister before it's too late In this edgy & compelling novel Lauren Oliver creates a world of intrigue loss & suspicion as two sisters search to find themselves & each other ...

Vanishing Ireland is a unique collection of portrait interviews looking at the dying ways & traditions of Irish life & taking us back to an Ireland virtually unrecognisable to today&s post-boom generation Illustrated with over a hundred evocative & stunning photographs we meet the people & customs that shaped the cultural identity of the Irish nation Through their own words & memories sixty-four men & women transport us back to a time when people lived off the land & the sea when music & storytelling were essential parts of life when a person was defined by their trade Divided into five parts
- Children of the Field Children of the Music Children of the Horse Children of the Trade & Children of the Water
- Vanishing Ireland brings together the stories of those who lived through Ireland&s formative years We hear of children harassed by the Black & Tans of ceilis in kitchens & the rigours of working in the fields of the wonder of electricity & the devastation of emigration From coalminers to saddlers farmers to fishermen along with horse dealers publicans housemaids & musicians
- these remarkably poignant interviews & photographs in their simplicity & honesty will make you laugh & cry but above all will provide a valuable chronicle that connects twenty-first century Ireland to a rapidly disappearing world


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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play The Chase The Desert The Shack The Girl The Roadblock The End One man races against time against destiny against the road the ultimate car chase movie Kowalski is the last American hero He&s the lone stranger
- a modern cowboy in a white Dodge Challenger who bets that he can drive from Denver to San Francisco in fifteen hours Loaded with amphetamines & a full tank he takes to the open highway In his supercharged Challenger he breaks through every speed trap dragnet & roadblock in four states to become an instant cult hero Actors Barry Newman Cleavon Little Dean Jagger Victoria Medlin Paul Koslo & Timothy Scott Director Richard C Sarafian Certificate 18 years & over Year 1971 Screen Widescreen 1851 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Additional Languages French ; German ; Spanish Subtitles Danish ; Dutch ; English for the hearing impaired ; Finnish ; French ; German ; German for the hearing impaired ; Norwegian ; Spanish ; Swedish Duration 1 hour & 34 minutes (approx)

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Tracklist KRK (At Home In Strange Places) Wise Children Cryonic Suspension May Save Your Life You Are Not An Island The Age Of Immunology Magician's Success Planete Sauvage Backstroke Invisible World Language Is A City (Let Me Out!) ...

This Kingdom Hearts 3 Vanitas Pop! Vinyl Figure comes packaged in a window display box & will stand around 3 34 inches tall! Perfect for any Pop! Collection! From Kingdom Hearts 3 Vanitas as a stylized POP vinyl from Funko! Stylized collectable stands 3 34; inches tall perfect for any Kingdom hearts 3 fan! Collect & display all Kingdom hearts 3 figures from Funko! Funko pop! is the 2017 toy of the year & people&s choice award winner ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Eve Matheson & Rebecca Saire lead the cast in this 16-part adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray s classic filmed entirely at the Pebble Mill Studios Set in the Napoleonic Wars Vanity Fair is a rich & resplendent satire of English society in which according to Thackeray there is great quantity of eating & drinking making love & jilting laughing & the contrary smoking cheating fighting dancing & fiddling Becky (Eve Matheson) the penniless orphaned daughter of an artist & a French opera dancer & Amelia Sedley (Rebecca Saire) the sheltered child of a rich City Merchant are unlikely but firm friends From the drawing rooms of Regency London to the fields of Waterloo Vanity Fair tells their story Becky an irrepressible schemer one of the most seductive social climbers of all time who will stop at nothing to get what she wants While her friend the meek & mild Amelia pursues the opposite course In the end both girls get what they want but not quite in the way they planned ...

Vanity Fair 100 Years showcases a century of personality & power art & commerce crisis & culture--both highbrow & low In the sumptuous 384-page coffee table book the editors of Vanity Fair have created the definitive history of the most talked-about magazine of our day From its inception in 1913 through the Jazz Age & the Depression to its reincarnation in the boom-boom Reagan years (after a 47-year hiatus) to the image-saturated Information Age Vanity Fair has presented the modern era as it has unfolded--using wit imagination peerless literary narrative & bold groundbreaking imagery The most innovative voices in popular culture are all compiled within these pages (from Robert Benchley Jacques Cocteau & Dorothy Parker to William Styron Christopher Hitchens & Dominick Dunne) along with the greatest magazine illustrators artists & photographers of all time--most notably Edward Steichen & Annie Leibovitz who through Vanity Fair virtually invented the modern celebrity portrait Writers Sam Kashner & Nancy Schoenberger contribute an essay on the incomparable Frank Crowninshield & the birth of the Jazz Age Vanity Fair Jim Windolf chronicles the magazine's rebirth in 1983 & Frank Di Giacomo gives the history of the glamorous Vanity Fair Oscar Party ...

Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of two contrasting but inter-linked lives Through the retiring Amelia Sedley & the brilliant Becky Sharp Thackeray examines the position of women in an intensely exploitative male world ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play All&s fair in love & war Based on William Thackeray&s 1828 novel Vanity Fair introduces Becky Sharp (Reese Witherspoon) a poor but well educated girl born into a 19th-century society offering little in the way of career advancement for women She becomes a governess for Sir Pitt Crawley (Bob Hoskins) & aims to find a rich husband True to the novel&s tone everyone in Vanity Fair is deliciously devious throughout Actors Gabriel Byrne Angelica Mandy Roger Lloyd-Pack Ruth Sheen Kate Fleetwood Reese Witherspoon Lillete Dubey Romola Garai Bob Hoskins Rhys Ifans Jonathan Rhys-Meyers Geraldine Mc Ewan Natasha Little James Purefoy & Jim Broadbent Director Mira Nair Certificate PGYear 2004 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Duration 2 hours & 11 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players

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Reese Witherspoon is surprisingly effective as Becky Sharp in Mira Nair's lush adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's classic novel of Victorian England VANITY FAIR Nair known for such films as SALAAM BOMBAY! MISSISSIPPI MASALA & MONSOON WEDDING tells the compelling story of a young orphan girl Sharp who attempts to rise above her station in very class-conscious British society Sharp enters this very rich & rigid world as a governess who captures the heart of Rawdon Crawley (James Purefoy) who chooses love over the family fortune a financial decision that could potentially doom the relationship Meanwhile her best friend Amelia Sedley (Romola Garai) lets true love slip right through her fingers As war rages on against Napoleon & the French Sharp continues her ascension though she's met by naysayers & gossipmongers every step of the way Nair has put together a terrific cast including Gabriel Byrne Bob Hoskins Jim Broadbent Douglas Hodge Jonathan Rhys-Meyers & Rhys Ifans Natasha Little who played Becky Sharp in a 1999 BBC miniseries appears here as Lady Jane & Eileen Atkins is hysterical as Miss Matilda Crawley Splendid costumes beautiful locations (including Hampton Court Gardens & India) high-quality acting & gorgeous music combine to make this a worthy version of a classic tale about a feminist ahead of her time ...