Well I've helped to wind up the clock
- I might as well hear it strike' Michael Joseph O' Rahilly The Easter Rising of 1916 was
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The fascinating & compelling memoir by one of the world's leading forensic scientists Professor Angela Gallop 368 pages Gallop Professor Angela ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The journey of legendary football coach Bob Ladouceur who took the De La Salle High School Spartans from obscurity to a 151-game winning streak that shattered all records for any American sport ...

Millions of tiny robots dismantle Atlantic City A Luddite encounters time travelers near the moment of Singularity A young boy may have just destroyed the entire Eastern Seaboard By turns haunting & humorous Gardner Dozois's acclaimed short fiction is finally collected in a definitive edition of his work Including Nebula Award winners such as Morning Child & nominees Disciples & A Dream at Noonday When the Great Days Come is a must for any science fiction reader When the Great Days Come proves that Dozois is not just one of science fiction's best editors of short fiction but one of its best writers as well ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Japanese historical drama directed by Yojiro Takita Two men Saito (Koichi Sato) & Ono (Takehiro Murata) meet by chance in a doctor&s surgery in 1899 & discover that they both have past connections with the same man Kanichiro Yoshimutra (Kiichi Nakai) a skilled samurai who was forced to leave his wife & children behind during a famine in order to earn some money by joining the well-known samurai faction Shinsen-gumi Misunderstood & assumed by many to be a greedy mercenary Yoshimura&s path through Japan&s turbulent struggles to banish feudalism & his own conflicting motivations is both tortuous & complex The film won several Japanese Academy Awards in 2003 including Best Actor Best Supporting Actor & Best Picture ...

Pam Evans' London saga brings the glamour of the cinema during the Blitz of the Second World War vividly to life Sure to appeal to fans of Katie Flynn & Cathy Sharp It is 1938 & the threat of war looms on the streets of London But when the lights go down in the cinema aisles usherette Daisy Blake is transported to a world of glamour & romance Among the staff there is much merriment & Daisy soon falls in love with the handsome organist Al Dawson Then war is declared & just after Al leaves for the frontline Daisy discovers she's pregnant Her mother is distraught; she doesn't think Al is right for her daughter & when Daisy's letters to him go unanswered her mother encourages her to marry John the cinema's projectionist to spare her further heartache As the blitz rages over London & disaster strikes Daisy's morale is boosted by her work & her young son Sam brings her comfort & joy in the troubled times ahead ...

EMBRACE THE TRUTH & EXPERIENCE UNRIVALED TERROR Yorkshire 1974 the Maynard family moves into their dream house It&s a dream that quickly descends into a panic stricken nightmare as the family discovers a horrifying truth that will make the history books The house is already occupied by the most violent poltergeist ever documented a poltergeist that will tear you from your bed as you sleep & drag you helplessly into the darkness As the attacks on the family become increasingly violent & terrifying it becomes clear that the exorcism of the poltergeist will be their only chance for survival Based on true events that occurred at No 30 East Drive on the Chesterfield Estate Pontefract West Yorkshire The subject of a plethora of research group studies books & newspaper reports this is the horrifying story of what really happened &A tense chilling & original homegrown borrow& (Zoo)&A natural born chiller& (Sky Movies) ...

Heirs to their father's fortune destiny divides the boys from the start
- Garrick is eager to stay indoors with a book & escape
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Mahmoud's passion for his wife Fereiba a schoolteacher is greater than any love she's ever known But their happy middle-class world-a life of education work & comfort-implodes when their country is engulfed in war & the Taliban rises to power Mahmoud a civil engineer becomes a target of the new fundamentalist regime & is murdered Forced to flee Kabul with her three children Fereiba has one hope to survive she must find a way to cross Europe & reach her sister's family in England With forged papers & help from kind strangers they meet along the way Fereiba make a dangerous crossing into Iran under cover of darkness Exhausted & brokenhearted but undefeated Fereiba manages to smuggle them as far as Greece But in a busy market square their fate takes a frightening turn when her teenage son Saleem becomes separated from the rest of the family Faced with an impossible choice Fereiba pushes on with her daughter & baby while Saleem falls into the shadowy underground network of undocumented Afghans who haunt the streets of Europe's capitals Across the continent Fereiba & Saleem struggle to reunite & ultimately find a place where they can begin to reconstruct their lives ...

London 1910 Twins Lester & Lillia Holdsworth are destined for the stage Lester is a brilliant pianist; Lillia a magnificent opera singer But their cruel father has other ideas for their future Lester is sent to a military academy while Lillia must marry Lord Dalton
- a self righteous pompous friend of her father's looking for a young wife to give him an heir Yet their plans to defy their father's wishes are put on hold when war breaks out in 1914 Suddenly Lester is flying planes for the RFC & Lillia trains as a nurse to help those wounded at home & then abroad For both twins the fighting brings hardships & difficult choices They wait in hope like the rest of Europe for the war to end & the music to start again
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