Charles Sprawson
- himself an obsessional swimmer & diver
- explores the meaning that different cultures have attached to water.

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Anna Benz, an American in her late-thirties, lives with her Swiss husb&, Bruno
- a banker
- & their three young children,

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1958: Gambler Jack Weil (Robert Redford) meets a woman, Bobby Duran (Lena Olin), on a boat bound for Havana. She is working for Castro's rebel forces, who are attempting to overthrow the Batista Government. Jack agrees to help her with some smuggling, but ...

A brutally mutilated body is discovered washed up in the bay of Havana. The body of Miguel Forcade Mier, head smashed in by a baseball bat, genitals cut off by a dull knife. Forcade, once an official in the Cuban government responsible for the confiscation of the belongings of the bourgeoisie fleeing the revolution, was an exile in Miami. ...

While investigating a toxic outbreak in the Caribbean Sea that may ultimately threaten the United States, Pitt unwittingly becomes

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Year Ten has just begun & I'm already in trouble. The way Miss Ramsbottom acts you'd think I'm always causing explosions or giving teachers' radical haircuts (whereas it was just that one time). & now she's separated me from my best friend, Megs, which means I have no one to give me a piggy back or check for dangly bogies. At least the school is trying to make amends by bussing in boys for our choir. So I can stare at Dreamy Finn until he realises I'm the girl for him? except he's singing a duet with my sworn enemy & her big head keeps blocking my view. Fortunately, I've got a plan to solve both problems; as long as I'm careful with the squeezy cheese & the underage driving everything should be just fine.. . ...

Read by the author. Have a Little Faith begins with an unusual request: an 82 year old rabbi asks Mitch to deliver his eulogy. Feeling unworthy, Mitch insists on understanding the man better, which throws him back into a world of faith he'd left years ago. Meanwhile, Mitch becomes involved with a Detroit pastor
- a reformed drug dealer & convict
- who preaches to the poor & homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof. As the world struggles with hard times & people turn more to their beliefs, Mitch & the two men of God explore issues that perplex modern man: how to endure when difficult things happen; what heaven is; forgiveness; doubting God; & the importance of faith in trying times. Have a Little Faith is a book about life's purpose; about losing belief & finding it again; about the divine spark inside us all. It is one man's journey, but it is everyone's story.

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Details: Being 14 is a minefield: with fashion dilemmas, teacher trauma, embarrassing parents, & boy drama, Faith
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To Have & Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into running contraband between Cuba & Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy & dissipated yachtsmen who throng the region, & involve him in a strange & unlikely love affair. Harshly realistic, yet with one of the most subtle & moving relationships in the Hemingway oeuvre, To Have & Have Not is literary high adventure at its finest. Read by Will Patton ...

Time at home is much more fun when it is shared. Whatever games & activities you dream up, they take on a whole new meaning when

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