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For seventy years, Queen Elizabeth has ruled over an institution and a family. She has been constant in her desire to provide a steady presence and to be a trustworthy steward of the British people and the Commonwealth. In the face of her uncle's abdication, in the uncertainty of the Blitz, and in the tentative exposure of her family and private life to the public via the press, Elizabeth has become synonymous with the crown.
But times change. Recent years have brought grief and turmoil to the House of Windsor, and even as England prepares to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, there are calls for a changing of the guard.
In The New Royals, journalist Katie Nicholl provides a nuanced look at Elizabeth's remarkable and unrivalled reign, with new stories from Palace courtiers and aides, documentarians, and family members. She examines Charles and Camilla's decades in waiting and beyond-where "The Firm" is headed as William and Kate present the modern faces of an ancient institution. In the wake of Harry and Meghan leaving the Royal Family and Andrew's spectacular fall from grace, the royal family must reckon with its history, the light and the dark, in order to chart a course for Britain beyond its Queen and to show that it is an institution capable of leadership in an ever changing modern world.
Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way
Marnie is stuck.
Stuck working alone in her London flat, stuck battling the long
afternoons and a life that often feels like it's passing her by.
Michael is coming undone.
Reeling from his wife's departure, increasingly reclusive, taking
himself on long, solitary walks across the moors and fells.
When a persistent mutual friend and some very English weather conspire
to bring them together, Marnie and Michael suddenly find themselves
alone on the most epic of walks and on the precipice of a new
friendship.
But can they survive the journey?
A new love story by beloved bestseller David Nicholls, You Are Here is
a novel of first encounters, second chances and finding the way home.
Experimental Philosophy: Volume 2 contains fourteen articles -
thirteen previously published and one new - that reflect the
fast-moving changes in the field over the last five years. The
field of experimental philosophy is one of the most innovative and
exciting parts of the current philosophical landscape; it has also
engendered controversy. Proponents argue that philosophers should
employ empirical research, including the methods of experimental
psychology, to buttress their philosophical claims. Rather than
armchair theorizing, experimental philosophers should go into the
field to research how people actually think and reason. In a sense
this is a return to a view of philosophy as the progenitor of
psychology: inherently concerned with the human condition, with no
limits to its scope or methods. In the course of the last decade,
many experimental philosophers have overturned assumptions about
how people think in the real world. This volume provides an
essential guide to the most influential recent work on this vital
and exciting area of philosophical research.
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Tokarev (DVD)
Max Ryan, Pasha D. Lychnikoff, Max Fowler, Nicolas Cage, Michael Mcgrady, …
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Nicolas Cage stars in this action thriller directed by Paco
Cabezas. Paul Maguire (Cage) is a criminal who, with the help of
his friends Kane and Danny (Max Ryan and Michael McGrady), steals a
briefcase full of money from a Russian mobster. Realising that the
mob would come after the money, the men decide to hide it away and
meet up five years later to divide it up. Five years on and Paul,
Kane and Danny meet as promised to split the proceeds of their last
job together. As Paul has become fully reformed living a normal
life as a doting husband and father, he prepares to go to a charity
dinner with his wife, leaving his daughter at home with friends.
When Detective St. John (Danny Glover) informs him that his
daughter has been kidnapped, Paul ignores the police's efforts and
decides to seek revenge his own way.
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Resurrecting the Champ (DVD)
Samuel L. Jackson, Josh Hartnett, Kathryn Morris, Dakota Goyo, Alan Alda, …
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Josh Hartnett and Samuel L. Jackson star in this drama about a
journalist whose life changes after he writes an article about a
homeless man who was once a boxing legend. Reporter Erik Kernan Jr.
(Hartnett) finds the opportunity to prove himself to his boss (Alan
Alda) and his family by writing a heartfelt piece about a former
professional boxer (Jackson) who has since fallen into homelessness
and destitution and now spends his days raking through the rubbish
bins of Denver. Writing the article leads to a soul-searching
personal journey for Erik as he finds himself re-examining his own
past and his relationship with his family.
My name is Sam. I am eleven years old. I collect stories and fantastic facts. By the time you read this, I will probably be dead. Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs and horror movies and airships and ghosts and scientists, and how it feels to kiss a girl. And because he has leukaemia he wants to know the facts about dying. Sam needs answers to the questions nobody will answer. WAYS TO LIVE FOREVER is the first novel from an extraordinarily talented young writer. Funny and honest, it is one of the most powerful and uplifting books you will ever read.
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Two Night Stand (DVD)
Analeigh Tipton, Michael Showalter, Miles Teller, Berto Colon, Scott Mescudi, …
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Romantic comedy about a one-night stand gone wrong. After painful
break ups, two young New Yorkers meet up for the night after seeing
one another on a dating site. Urged on by her friend Faiza (Jessica
Szohr), Megan (Analeigh Tipton) decides to take a chance and spend
the night at Alec (Miles Teller)'s, who wants equally little
commitment from their night together. But as Megan tries to flee in
the morning after the pair realise they can't stand each other,
there's a much more worrying revelation in store; they've slept
through a snowstorm and are now trapped in Alec's small Brooklyn
apartment. Once they get past the initial hostilities, the couple
realise the only way they're going to make it through another day
together is if they try and get to know each other. But will that
make their situation any easier?
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