The Soloist is an emotionally soaring drama about the redemptive power of music. Journalist Steve Lopez (Oscar nominee Robert Downey Jr.) discovers Nathaniel Anthony Ayeers (Oscar winner Jamie Foxx), a former classical music prodigy, playing his violin on the streets of L.A. ...

An adorable little creature hatches from an egg & goes searching for his mother among the dinosaurs in this energetic, fun-filled picture book by award-winning picture book creators Tony Mitton & Russell Ayto. A unique take on the ' Where's My Mummy' scenario in which an egg crackles open & out steps a little creature
- the Somethingosaur. He searches for his mum among the dinosaurs but she's nowhere to be found. But is the Somethingosaur really a dinosaur...or something even more exciting? & will he ever find his family & home? A warm, funny & jaunty rhyming text, full of adventure, that's great to read aloud.
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An adorable little creature hatches from an egg & goes searching for his mother among the dinosaurs in this energetic, fun-filled picture book by award-winning picture book creators Tony Mitton & Russell Ayto. A unique take on the ' Where's My Mummy' scenario in which an egg crackles open & out steps a little creature
- the Somethingosaur. He searches for his mum among the dinosaurs but she's nowhere to be found. But is the Somethingosaur really a dinosaur...or something even more exciting? & will he ever find his family & home? A warm, funny & jaunty rhyming text, full of adventure, that's great to read aloud.
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The Song of Solomon (also known as the " Song of Songs") features beautiful verses of love that offer an allegory of the relationship between God & the Children of Israel
- exquisite poetry that is full of tenderness & humanity. " The Psalms", perhaps the most popular book of the " Old Testament",

Includes:: hymns of praise & thanksgiving, profound meditations & moving laments that have inspired mystics of various faiths to sublime spiritual experiences. They have also proven themselves to be a timeless source of solace, inspiration & courage to people throughout the ages. The rolling quality of the prose of the King James translation does great justice to the poetic forms of the original version in Hebrew.


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Marlene Dietrich stars as a country girl who climbs the social ladder in this romantic drama directed by Rouben Mamoulian. Visiting her aunt in decadent Berlin, naive Lily (Dietrich) soon falls for the charms of sculptor Richard Waldow (Brian Aherne), wh ...

New York, 1916. Monroe Simonov, a song-plugger from Brooklyn, is in love with a Ziegfeld Follies dancer who has left him for California. Inez Kennedy, a fashion model in a department store, has just one season remaining to find a wealthy husband before she must return to the Midwest. Ana Denisova, a glamorous political exile, gives lectures & writes letters while she waits for the Russian people to overthrow their Tsar. Then America joins the war, jazz sweeps the city's dance floors, the old order is swept away by newly minted millionaires & the entire nation is gripped by the Red Scare. Although the world is changing faster than they could ever have imagined, Monroe, Inez & Ana discover that they are still subject to the tyranny of the heart. In this richly atmospheric & deftly plotted novel, the paths of these three central figures cross & re-cross, leaving a trail of passion, infidelity & betrayal, & hurtle towards an explosive climax. ...

Sookie Stackhouse would really like time to get over being betrayed by Bill, her long-time vampire lover, & get used to her new relationship with sexy shapeshifter Quinn
- but instead, she finds herself attending a vampire summit, the destination of choice for every undead power player around. She's being used as a sort-of-human Geiger counter for Sophie-Anne Leclerq, vampire queen of Louisiana. But Sophie-Anne's power base has been severely weakened by Hurricane Katrina, & she's to be put on trial for murdering her king. Sookie knows the queen is innocent, but others have their doubts. & there are some vamps who would like to finish what nature started. With secret alliances & backroom deals the order of the day
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- Sookie must decide which side she'll stand with, & quickly, for her choice may mean the difference between survival & all-out catastrophe. 8 CDs, running time 9 hours 35 mins. This story contains adult content & language.


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Sookie Stackhouse enjoys her job as a cocktail waitress in Bon Temps, Louisiana, even though she sometimes gets tired of the constant chatter
- & not just the gossip; Sookie can read minds. It's taken time, but she's finally found cute, dateable guys whose minds she can't read. & okay, so most of them happen to be vampires, but no man is perfect, right? When the horribly mutilated body of a were-panther is found in the parking lot of Merlotte's Sookie agrees to use her telepathic talent to track down the murderer. What she doesn't realise is that there is a far greater danger than this killer threatening Bon Temps: a race of unhuman beings, older, more powerful & far more secretive than the vampires or the werewolves, is preparing for war. & Sookie is an all-too-human pawn in their ages-old battle... 8 CDs, running time 9 hours 35 mins. This story contains adult content & language.
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Sookie Stackhouse enjoys her life, mostly. She's a great cocktail waitress in a fun bar; she has a love life, albeit a bit complicated, & most people have come to terms with her telepathy. The problem is, Sookie wants a quiet life
- but things just seem to happen to her & her friends. Now her brother Jason is about to turn into a were-panther for the first time. She can deal with that, but her normal sisterly concern turns to cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local shifter population. She's afraid not just because Jason is at risk, but because his new were-brethren suspect Jason himself may be the shooter. Sookie has until the next full moon to find out who's behind the attacks
- unless the killer decides to find her first. 8 CDs, running time 9 hours 35 mins. This story contains adult content & language.

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If you think your relationships are complicated, think again: you haven't seen anything like the ones in Bon Temps, Louisiana. Sookie Stackhouse is dealing with a whole host of family problems, ranging from her own kin (a non-human fairy & a telepathic second cousin) demanding a place in her life, to her lover Eric's vampire sire, an ancient being who arrives with Eric's 'brother' in tow at a most inopportune moment. & Sookie's tracking down a distant relation of her ailing neighbour (and ex), Vampire Bill Compton. In addition to the multitude of family issues complicating her life, the werewolf pack of Shreveport has asked Sookie for a special favour, & since Sookie is a obliging young woman, she agrees. But this favour for the wolves has dire results for Sookie, who is still recovering from the trauma of her abduction during the Fairy War. 8 CDs, running time 9 hours 35 mins. This story contains adult content & language. ...