L.A cop Charlie (Jack Nicholson) & his wife move to Texas when he joins the Mexican border patrol. Initially tempted to join his new partners in the racket of corruption & illicit backhanders that presently proliferates in the department, Charlie find ...

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The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, & greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful, voracious Rodrigo Borgia, better known to history as Pope Alexander VI, was the central figure of the dynasty. Two of his seven papal offspring also rose to power & fame
- Lucrezia Borgia, his daughter, whose husband was famously murdered by her brother, & that brother, Cesare, who served as the model for Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince. Notorious for seizing power, wealth, l&, & titles through bribery, marriage, & murder, the dynasty's dramatic rise from its Spanish roots to its occupation of the highest position in Renaissance society forms a gripping tale. Erudite, witty, & always insightful, Hibbert removes the layers of myth around the Borgia family & creates a portrait alive with his superb sense of character & place.
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Details: The Borgias have become a byword for pride, lust, cruelty, avarice, splendour & venomous intrigue. An inspiration
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The Borrowers follows the adventures of the dauntless tiny Clock family, parents Pod (Jim Broadbent), Homily (Celia Imrie) & their kids Peagreen & Arrietty
- a family of tiny four inch tall people who live under the floorboards of a big house surviving by 'borrowing' from the ' Human Bean' family upstairs. The Borrowers turn dental floss into tightropes, toaster handles into catapults, socks into beds, stamps into wall posters, & when their world is facing extinction
- in the form of Ocious P. Potter (John Goodman) their resourcefulness knows no bounds.

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Present day: Anna is focused on growing her new gardening business & renovating her late grandmother's

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In the colourful world of fifteenth-century Italy, Luciana Vetra is young & beautiful, a part-time model & full-time whore. When she is asked to pose as the goddess Flora for Sandro Botticelli's painting La Primavera, she is willing to oblige
- until the artist abruptly sends her away without payment. Affronted, she steals an unfinished version of the painting
- only to find that somebody is ready to kill her to get it back. As friends, & associates are murdered around her, Luciana turns to the one man who has never tried to exploit her beauty, Brother Guido della Torre, a novice at the monastery of Santa Croce. Fleeing Florence together, Luciana & Guido race through the nine great cities of Renaissance Italy, desperately trying o decode the painting's secrets before their enemies stop them. Gloriously fresh & vivid, with a deliciously irreverent heroine, The Botticelli Secret is a masterful blend of historical intrigue & romantic adventure.

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Jason Bourne takes a mission to rescue his only friend in the CIA, Martin Lindros, who disappeared in Africa while tracking nuclear material. Bourne agrees to help track the money trail of the terrorists, but soon suffers from confusing flashbacks of unfamiliar places & events. Is someone brainwashing him in order to throw him off the trail? Worse still, is the man he saved really Martin Lindros? Now Bourne is on his own
- gathering evidence, while trying to stay one step ahead of the terrorists who are determined to destroy the USA.
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The BOURNE DECEPTION picks up where THE BOURNE SANCTION left off. Jason Bourne's nemesis Arkadin is still hot on his trail & the two continue their struggle, reversing roles of hunter & hunted. When Bourne is ambushed & badly wounded, he fakes his death & goes into hiding. In safety, he takes on a new identity & begins a mission to find out who tried to assassinate him. Jason begins to question who he really is, how much of him is tied up in the Bourne identity, & what he would become if that was suddenly taken away from him. Read by Jeremy Davidson ...

Bourne's enemies are gathering force. Severus Domna, a secret & ancient cabal, has called forth its members from around the globe, with one objective: to vanquish the last person capable of destroying their bid to de-stabilize the world economy
- Jason Bourne. But how can they possibly succeed where so many others have failed? By turning Bourne's most trusted friend into his greatest
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- enemy. Now Bourne finds himself in a world where friend & foe go h&-in-h&. Bourne's journey will lead him down a path of brutal murder & destruction
- one from which there is no escape.



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