Drama directed by Robin Swicord & starring Bryan Cranston & Jennifer Garner A responsible husband & father Howard Wakefield (Cranston) works as a lawyer in order to earn the money that gives him & his family a comfortable life But after a particularly exhausting day at work Howard returns home to find a raccoon infestation in his garage As he wearily clears them out he discovers that an isolated corner of the garage allows him to observe much of his home undisturbed Thinking only to rest for a short while Howard wakes the next morning with the realisation that he doesn&t want to go back to the tiresome routine of his life & work electing to stay in the garage & watch from the outside looking in as his family respond to his apparent disappearance Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play ...

Built long ago by an ancient evil a lair lies at the heart of a dense forest not far from your village Silent for generations a noxious reek now wafts from the entrance & unsettling noises from within signal that something terrible is about to awaken Do you dare venture into the depths & combat what monsters lurk inside? Wakening Lair is a fully cooperative dungeon delve for 2-6 players who take on the roles of heroic adventurers banded together to defeat the monsters inhabiting a nearby lair Play heroes from nine different character classes each with unique abilities to help vanquish foes Double-sided hero cards provide both male & female versions of each class for a total of 18 heroes from which to choose A variety of monsters nine different monstrous terrors & randomized boss monster awakening changes the game narrative each time you play Six different room types can give you an attack bonus if your character type matches the room advantage Weapons have character preferences & arming the right weapons can increase the power of your attacks Use magical items for rerolls healing or other boosts for yourself or members of your party Monsters have attack vulnerabilities & immunities so you need to watch out & square off with the best suited members of your team! Players take turns exploring rooms in Wakening Lair defeating monsters disarming traps & gathering weapons & magic items Equip those items to maximize your hero&s abilities all in preparation to defeat the slumbering monstrous terror that is bound to awaken at any moment When it does you need all your collective power to keep it from escaping the lair & destroying the land! ...

There are dark corners in your mind that even you can't get to Anna Caldwell is terrified of falling asleep A nightmare her very own will be there waiting for her After sharing her bed with the same vision for fifteen years she's desperate to shake it But it only holds on tighter Then Anna meets Jack She's drawn to the strange alluring tension that she feels when she's around him It's as though it's meant to be But creeping beneath the roots of their intimacy is darkness If you knew your dreams were trying to tell you something terrible would you listen? Waking is a dark & addictive read that will stay with you long after the final page ...

Still mourning the loss of her beloved grandmother & shaken by her mysterious dying request to find the baby Abbi has arrived at uni to start her first year But on her second day she wakes up to a different world 1983 That is just the first stop on Abbi's journey backwards through time Will is a charming student from 1927 who travels forwards through time When Abbi & Will meet in the middle love adds another complication to their lives Communicating across time through a buried time capsule they try to decode the mystery of their travel find the lost baby & plead with their champion a kindly physics tutor to help them find each other again even though the tutor gets younger each time Abbi meets him This page-turning story full of romance twists & delightful details about uni life then & now will stay with readers long after the book's satisfying end ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Richard Linklater goes off-kilter with his sixth film Waking Life Without a linear plot line stable images & offering the kind of conversations you normally only find in a University seminar it&s clear that Linklater--despite his commercial success with independent films--is determined not move into the mainstream By taking Wiley Wiggins away from his Dazed & Confused life into a dream which has no structure & flitting from one philosophical question to another Linklater presents a filmic discussion into the nature of physical awareness consciousness & unconsciousness that most surrealist artists would be proud of However Linklater goes one step further & removes all notions of the real world by filming the actors then transferring them into animation employing 31 artists to input their vision onto the film The result is a startlingly honest portrayal of the confusion we all face about the difference between life & death dreaming & awareness & the unknown as a whole All the characters Wiggins meets seem to have their own thesis on the unknown just as in life we are all aware or feel differently about our own self In addition there are discussions regarding film as a dream-like form with theorists aligning the sensation of watching a film to that of dreaming taking your own consciousness into the lives of others This is what makes Waking Life such a brave & well-structured film By breaking down the barriers of narrative & reality Linklater has probably made one of the most realistic films in recent history ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play When Ned Devine dies of shock after he discovers he has won the lottery his life-long friends Michael (David Kelly) & Jackie (Ian Bannen) find the winning ticket & decide that their old mate would have wanted them to collect the money They deduce that one of them must pass himself off as Ned But they must convince the rest of the town to go along with their scheme & they will need all the help that they can get in order to dupe the authorities into parting with the cash ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Using modern methods in forensics & technology a team of professionals are brought together to try & solve cases that have long been left unsolved

Includes:: all the episodes from the first nine series Starring Trevor Eve Sue Johnstone Tara Fitzgerald & Claire Goose waking the dead has been the BBC’s longest running crime drama For the first time on one collection all 90 episodes of this hugely popular crime series are available on 46 discs

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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 Cold Case team is a crack squad of police investigators who reopen unsolved murder cases using new technology to re-examine evidence that hopefully will lead to the killer They are at the cutting edge of modern police investigation but they have been given just one year to prove their worth Their first case is the abduction & murder of Alice Miller a young girl who disappeared five years ago As the team gets to work they inadvertently trigger the killer to strike again in exactly the same manner as before & the Cold Team find themselves solving past & present crimes at the same time The return of the dedicated Cold Case investigators in this gripping contemporary drama They are faced with the challenge of four unsolved crimes which have lain dormant for years the suspicious death of a war photographer in a car accident; a skull buried for 20 years in a church crypt which shakes the local Catholic community to its core; a double murder to which a woman confessed & served 25 years in prison & a policewoman
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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 1973 Fielding Pierce goes to law school & promptly falls in love with Sarah a women who spends her life to helping others When tragedy strikes Fielding is torn between the past & his political future ...

For the millions of people who want spirituality without religion Sam Harris's new book is a guide to meditation as a rational spiritual practice informed by neuroscience & psychology From bestselling author neuroscientist & new atheist Sam Harris Waking Up is for the increasingly large numbers of people who follow no religion but who suspect that Jesus Buddha Lao Tzu Rumi & the other saints & sages of history could not have all been epileptics schizophrenics or frauds Throughout the book Harris argues that there are important truths to be found in the experiences of such contemplatives-and therefore that there is more to understanding reality than science & secular culture generally allow Waking Up is part seeker's memoir & part exploration of the scientific underpinnings of spirituality No other book marries contemplative wisdom & modern science in this way & no author other than Sam Harris-a scientist philosopher & famous sceptic-could write it ...