A classic tale from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben, their feral fifth child.

‘ Listening to the laughter, the sounds of children playing, Harriet & David would reach for each other’s h&, & smile, & breathe happiness.’

Four children, a beautiful old house, the love of relatives & friends – Harriet & David Lovatt’s life is a glorious hymn to domestic bliss & old-fashioned family values. But when their fifth child is born, a sickly & implacable shadow is cast over this tender idyll. Large & ugly, violent & uncontrollable, the infant Ben, ‘full of cold dislike’, tears at Harriet’s breast. Struggling to care for her new-born child, faced with a darkness & a strange defiance she has never known before, Harriet is deeply afraid of what, exactly, she has brought into the world...



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Civilisation is a colourful mix of the archaic & the futuristic on the twin colony planets Sainte Anna & Sainte Croix.



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In tough times, crime is one of the few things that still pays, but if defence attorney Mickey Haller was expecting an uptick in business during the economic downturn, the reality is a different story. Even people needing legal representation to keep them out of jail are having to make cut-backs, it seems. In fact, the most significant part of Mickey's business right now is not about keeping clients out of jail but keeping a roof over their heads, as the foreclosure boom hits thousands of people who were granted unrealistic mortgages in the good times & now face being kicked to the curb by ruthless corporations. Lisa Trammel has been a client of Mickey's for eight months. So far he's managed to stop the bank from taking her house, but the strain & sense of injustice are beginning to take their toll, to prevent her protesting against the bank's fraudulent practices. But now their CEO, Mitchell Bondurant, has been found in the bank's car park with a bullet in his brain, & Lisa is about to be indicted for murder. For Mickey, it's back to what he does best on the biggest stage of all, but if he thought defending Lisa Trammel was going to be a walk in the park, he'd be dead wrong. Not only is he about to learn some startling truths about his client, but also about himself, & by the time the verdict is in, Mickey's whole world will have been turned upside down. ...

The acres & acres of fertile soil, the two-hundred year old antebellum house, all gone. & so is the woman who gave it to him.

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Books History Books A story of astonishing resilience & compassion... In 1943, the Dutch champion boxer, Leen Sanders, was sent to Auschwitz. His wife & children were put to death while he was sent 'to the left' with the others who were fit enough for labour. Recognised by an SS officer, he was earmarked for a 'privileged' post in the kitchens in exchange for weekly boxing matches for the entertainment of the Nazi guards. From there, he enacted his resistance to their limitless cruelty. With great risk & danger to his own life, Leen stole, concealed & smuggled food & clothing from SS nursing units for years to alleviate the unbearable suffering of the prisoners in need. He also regularly supplied extra food to the Dutch women in Dr. Mengele's experiment, Block 10. To his fellow Jews in the camp, he acted as a rescuer, leader & role model, defending them even on their bitter death march to Dachau towards the end of the war.   Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 97817... ...

Thrown out of the SAS for insubordination, Gord Brown now lives in disillusioned exile on a failing salmon farm in the Scottish highlands. Yet to the three Guatemalan Indians who track him down, he represents the last hope of freedom. They have come to recruit a fighting man to lead an uprising against the brutal military dictatorship which is killing their people. Gord flies with them to Cuba, then on with a small band of men to a rough landing strip in the rainforest of Guatemala. As the ragged army marches through the jungle & across the hight mountains towards Guatemala City, a hopeless dream becomes a burning reality. But the forces pitted against them are formidable. ...

In 1942, tough construction foreman Wedge Donovan (John Wayne) is posted to the South Pacific to repair installations close to the Japanese lines. The bullheaded Wedge helps set up a Construction Batallion (or Seabee), but discovers the need for military ...

Lights, camera, action...enter The Film Book, stage left Step into the world of cinema with The Film Book
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Details: Imagine a world where all the news you see is defined by your salary, where you live, & who your friends are.
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It is Spring 1944 but noone realises yet that the end is in sight. For the four friends their world has changed absolutely in five years, friends have been killed, love has been lost, it seems that this terrible world of violence & seperation will continue forever. In one moment Richard makes a mistake behind enemy lines that causes devastating tragedy. Rose, performing for the troops crossing France, at last finds a man she feels she can love & is forced to make the most difficult decision of her life. Merry's lover is returned to him from the jaws of death only to be seperated from him by the demands of the future. In war & peace, in joy & despair, life continues
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