Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play First published in 1908 Kenneth Grahame&s & The Wind In The Willows& has become one of the best loved books of all time enchanting generations of children & adults alike Voiced by an all-star cast including DAVID JASON as Toad MICHAEL HORDERN as Badger RICHARD PEARSON as Mole & IAN CHARMICHAEL as Ratty with UNA STUBBS & BERYL REID Brought to the screen by award winning animation team Cosgrove Hall & The Wind In The Willows& original movie introduces us for the first time to our four intrepid animal friends Toad decides that motor cars are the only way to travel however his driving skills don&t match up to his enthusiasm Our countryside friends come to his rescue & try to help him stay on the right side of the road & the law in this exciting adventure BAFTA & Emmy award winning this movie set the template for the hugely successful five series& of & The Wind In The Willows& that followed Based on the characters created by Kenneth Grahame Adapted by Rosemary Ann Sisson Executive Producer John Hambley Produced by Brian Cosgrove & Mark Hall Directed by Mark Hall ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Hayao Miyazaki writes & directs this Japanese animated feature from Studio Ghibli As a young boy the bespectacled Jiro Horikoshi (voice of Hideaki Anno) dreams of flying a plane but when he learns he will be unable to become a pilot due to his poor eyesight he instead decides to be an aircraft designer On September 1st 1923 Jiro is travelling by train when the Great Kanto earthquake strikes He assists fellow passenger Naoko (Miori Takimoto) & her maid who suffers an injury He doesn&t meet Naoko again till many years later after he has graduated university & has worked on various designing jobs without finding much success The two fall for each other & become engaged but Naoko is suffering from tuberculosis While they try to enjoy the time they have together Jiro continues to work on designing his first successful plane ...

The wind powers everything a sailor does & this book will help you to understand it As a result you will be more prepared for your race able to anticipate changes in the wind better & know what to do when they come The first edition of this book was published in 1986 & it has been the go-to wind book for dinghy champions ever since This new-look fourth edition is fully updated for modern forecasting & analyses a revised set of popular racing venues around the world unveiling what to expect from the weather at 30 regatta locations it will get you ahead of the competition & powering up the leaderboard ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Ireland 1920 workers from field & country unite to form volunteer guerrilla armies to face the ruthless " Black & Tan" squads that are being shipped from Britain to block Ireland&s bid for independence Driven by a deep sense of duty & a love for his country Damien abandons his burgeoning career as a doctor & joins his brother Teddy in a dangerous & violent fight for freedom Actors Cillian Murphy Padraic Delaney Liam Cunningham Gerard Kearney & William Ruane Director Ken Loach Certificate 15 years & over Year 2006 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Duration 2 hours (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players

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Both a gripping tale of adventure & a poetic meditation Antoine de Saint Exupery&s Wind Sand & Stars is the lyrical autobiography of an aviation pioneer from the author of The Little Prince This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated from the French with an introduction by William Rees In 1926 de Saint-Exupery began flying for the pioneering airline Latecoere
- later known as Aeropostale
- opening up the first mail routes across the Sahara & the Andes Wind Sand & Stars is drawn from this experience Interweaving encounters with nomadic Arabs & other adventures into a richly textured autobiographical narrative it has its climax in the extraordinary story of Saint-Exupery&s crash in the Libyan Desert in 1936 & his miraculous survival & Self-discovery comes when a man measures himself against an obstacle& writes Saint-Exupery This book explores the transcendent perceptions that arise when life is tested to its limits Writer & aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-44) was born in Lyon France His first two books Southern Mail & Night Flight are distinguished by a poetic evocation of the romance & discipline of flying Later works including Wind Sand & Stars & Flight to Arras stress his humanistic philosophy Saint-Exupery&s popular children&s book The Little Prince is also read by adults for its allegorical meaning Saint-Exupery&s plane disappeared during a mission in World War IIIf you enjoyed Wind Sand & Stars you might like Woody Guthrie&s Bound for Glory also available in Penguin Modern Classics&A Conrad of the air Like Conrad Saint-Exupery is a poet of action& Andre Maurois

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' If you're the sort of guy who raids the refrigerators of silent kitchens at three o'clock in the morning you can only write accordingly That's who I am' Hear the Wind Sing & Pinball 1973 are Haruki Murakami's earliest novels They follow the fortunes of the narrator & his friend known only by his nickname the Rat In Hear the Wind Sing the narrator is home from college on his summer break He spends his time drinking beer & smoking in J's Bar with the Rat listening to the radio thinking about writing & the women he has slept with & pursuing a relationship with a girl with nine fingers Three years later in Pinball 1973 he has moved to Tokyo to work as a translator & live with indistinguishable twin girls but the Rat has remained behind despite his efforts to leave both the town & his girlfriend The narrator finds himself haunted by memories of his own doomed relationship but also more bizarrely by his short-lived obsession with playing pinball in J's Bar This sends him on a quest to find the exact model of pinball machine he had enjoyed playing years earlier the three-flipper Spaceship ...

Alice doesn't believe in luck Alice believes in love Mostly that she's been in love with her best friend Teddy for the last three years When she buys him a lottery ticket for his birthday & he wins 32 million dollars they are thrown together with the world at their feet Teddy decides that he will spend his money committing random acts of kindness & who better to go on that adventure with him than Alice? In the process they get to know themselves & each other better than they ever have before but money can't buy you love Windfall is a tender & uplifting novel about love luck & big life changes from Jennifer E Smith ...

Tracklist A1 The Tree 2353 B1 Storm 1005 B2 Dendrophenia 0435 C1 Make Me Feel 0940 C2 Play With Fire 0433 ...

Tracklist A1 The Tree 2353 B1 Storm 1005 B2 Dendrophenia 435 C1 Make Me Feel 940 C2 Play With Fire 433 ...

David Nytra&s award-winning siblings return for another breathtaking adventure by David Nytra ...