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Triple-bill of war features. 'Lebanon' (2009), directed by Samuel
Maoz, depicts 24 hours in the life of four Israeli paratroopers at
the outset of the 1982 Lebanon invasion. Shot almost entirely from
inside the tank in which they are travelling, the film follows the
soldiers as they attempt to clear an area of hostile fighters while
suffering from the multiple stresses of combat. Yoav Donat, Itay
Tiran, Oshri Cohen and Michael Moshonov star. 'Saints and Soldiers'
(2003) is set in Belgium in December 1944, where German troops open
fire on unarmed American prisoners of war in what would be dubbed
the Malmedy Massacre. A stranded R.A.F. pilot, Oberon Winley (Kirby
Heyborne), holds the key to German intelligence which could prevent
further atrocities, but can the Americans help free him from his
perilous position behind enemy lines? 'Assault On the Pacific:
Kamikaze' (2007) is a Japanese World War II drama about a squadron
of Kamikaze pilots fighting in the Pacific. The film follows the
training and final moments in the lives of the young pilots as they
bid farewell to their families and girlfriends and prepare to
embark on their suicidal missions against the US Navy over the
Pacific Ocean. Toru Emori and Katsutaka Furuhata star.
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Saints and Soldiers (Blu-ray disc)
Corbin Allred, Alexander Polinsky, Kirby Heyborne, Larry Bagby, Peter Asle Holden, …
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War drama set in Belgium in December 1944. When German troops open
fire on unarmed American prisoners of war, they provoke the
historic Malmedy Massacre. Four soldiers, trapped behind enemy
lines discover a stranded R.A.F. pilot who holds the key to German
intelligence which could save thousands of American lives. The five
men must battle through the bitter Winter landscape, to smuggle
their precious cargo from the clutches of the enemy.
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Just Once (Standard format, CD)
Karen Kingsbury; Read by January Lavoy, Kirby Heyborne
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Discovery Miles 6 600
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A boy is imprisoned by a witch and must tell her a new scary story each night to stay alive. This thrilling contemporary fantasy from J. A. White, the acclaimed author of the Thickety series, brings to life the magic and craft of storytelling.
Alex’s original hair-raising tales are the only thing keeping the witch Natacha happy, but soon he’ll run out of pages to read from and be trapped forever. He’s loved scary stories his whole life, and he knows most don’t have a happily ever after. Now that Alex is trapped in a true terrifying tale, he’s desperate for a different ending—and a way out of this twisted place.
This modern spin on the Scheherazade story is perfect for fans of Coraline and A Tale Dark and Grimm. With interwoven tips on writing with suspense, adding in plot twists, hooks, interior logic, and dealing with writer’s block, this is the ideal book for budding writers and all readers of delightfully just-dark-enough tales.
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Charlotte's Web (CD, Unabridged edition)
E. B. White; Foreword by Melissa Sweet; Read by Meryl Streep, January Lavoy, Kirby Heyborne, …
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Things have started to get quite . . . peculiar . . .
Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroyed the peculiar
world, Jacob Portman is back in Florida, where his story began.
Joined by Miss Peregrine, Emma and their peculiar friends, life has
become carefree. They spend days at the beach, and take part in
'normalling' lessons.
But it's not meant to last.
The discovery of Jacob's grandfather's subterranean bunker leads to
clues about his double-life as a peculiar operative.
Jacob begins to learn more about the dangerous legacy he's inherited,
and the truths that were part of him long before he walked into Miss
Peregrine's time loop.
Now, the stakes are higher than ever as Jacob and his friends are
thrust into the untamed landscape of American peculiardom - a world
that none of them understand.
New wonders, and dangers, await in this darkly brilliant next chapter
for Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, illustrated with haunting
vintage photographs- in full colour.
Trilogy of war dramas from film-maker Ryan Little. In 'Saints and
Soldiers' (2003), set in Belgium in December 1944, German troops
open fire on unarmed American prisoners of war and provoke the
historic Malmedy Massacre. Four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines
discover a stranded RAF pilot who holds the key to German
intelligence which could save thousands of American lives. The five
men must battle through the bitter winter landscape, to smuggle
their precious cargo from the clutches of the enemy. The prequel
'Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed' (2012) follows the journey of
a group of airborne infantry soldiers who are parachuted into
occupied France in 1944. The Parachute Regimental Combat Team
jumped into the south of France on the 15th of August 1944, landing
behind enemy lines. The men's mission was to help clear a path for
the main bulk of British and US soldiers advancing towards Berlin.
However, landing in occupied territory is always a dangerous
business and the soldiers soon find themselves fighting in close
combat with German troops and teaming up with members of the French
resistance who seek their help. The third film 'Saints and
Soldiers: The Void' (2014) is set during the final stages of the
Second World War in Germany where a group of American troops must
try to overcome racial barriers in order to defeat the Nazi's.
Despite their reluctance, the predominantly white American crew are
forced to turn to the expericenced African American SGT Jesse Owens
(K. Danor Gerald). However, their faith is put to the test when war
escalates and tension rises, with hundreds of lives at stake.
The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84.
In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a strange painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances. To close it, he must complete a journey that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a two-foot-high physical manifestation of an Idea, a dapper businessman who lives across the valley, a precocious thirteen-year-old girl, a Nazi assassination attempt during World War II in Vienna, a pit in the woods behind the artist’s home, and an underworld haunted by Double Metaphors.
A tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art – as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby – Killing Commendatore is a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers.
When we first meet him, Chappie is a punked-out teenager living
with his mother and abusive stepfather in an upstate New York
trailer park. During this time, he slips into drugs and petty
crime. Rejected by his parents, out of school, and in trouble with
the police, he claims for himself a new identity as a permanent
outsider; he gets a crossed-bones tattoo on his arm, and takes the
name Bone. He finds dangerous refuge with a group of biker-thieves,
and then hides in the boarded-up summer house of a professor and
his wife. He finally settles in an abandoned school bus with Rose,
a child he rescues from a fast-talking pedophile.
There Bone meets I-Man, an exiled Rastafarian, and together they
begin a second adventure that takes the reader from Middle America
to the ganja-growing mountains of Jamaica. It is an amazing journey
of self-discovery through a world of magic, violence, betrayal, and
redemption.
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Saints (Standard format, CD)
Orson Scott Card; Read by A Full Cast; Starring Emily Janice Card, Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle De Cuir, …
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