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The Last Mimzy (DVD)
Chris O'Neil, Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, Joely Richardson, Timothy Hutton, Rainn Wilson, …
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R53
Discovery Miles 530
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Sci-fi drama about two children who develop strange powers after
playing with some discarded toys. On a beach vacation near Seattle,
Noah (Chris O'Neil) and Emma (Rhiannon Leigh Wryn) Wilder find a
little box washed up on the shore. It contains a strange, pulsing
stone and the pair deign to keep it a secret, sensing its unusual
nature. Further examination reveals a collection of items in the
box including what appears to be a toy rabbit whose name turns out
to be Mimzy and who is perfectly able to communicate with the
children. Mimzy starts to instruct the children on many things that
they're not familiar with, resulting in the pair attaining genius
level very quickly, much to their parents' chagrin. It soon becomes
apparent that there are forces abroad in the Wilder house that
should have been left undisturbed - and that the future may be
trying to send a message back to us in order that we might save our
planet from a certain doom. After a huge power surge, originating
in the Wilder home, takes out half the state power grid, the
government begins to take an interest in the children.
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Finlaystone (Paperback)
George MacMillan, John MacMillan, Judy Hutton, David MacMillan, Andrew MacMillan, Arthur MacMillian
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R935
Discovery Miles 9 350
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The illustrated biography of a Scottish country house, set beside
the River Clyde, and of the people who made it their home over the
past 850 years Written by four brothers, their sister and the
eldest member of the next generation, Finlaystone offers an
insidersa view of the house, its beautiful gardens and the
surrounding estate. They tell about the lives of its former owners,
many of whom played prominent roles in Scottish military,
political, religious and cultural affairs. As Scotland moved
forward from centuries of feuds between large feudal landowners to
the reformation, the age of enlightenment and the industrial
revolution, the building evolved from a fortress to a modest but
attractive family home in 1746. Its present form as an imposing
late Victorian mansion dates from when it was modernised and
extended in 1900 by George Jardine Kidston, the great-grandfather
of the older authors, who had grown wealthy from running one of the
worlda s earliest steamship companies. In its hey-day, Finlaystone
was managed for the comfort and leisure of its owners by a bevy of
household servants living in a wing of the house, and by an army of
workers, including gardeners, foresters, game-keepers, joiners and
a laundry-maid. The prosperity that had made such a lavish life
possible, however, soon started to decline, with George Kidstona s
death in 1909, followed just 5 years later by war, the economic
depression in the 1930s, and then World War II. Unlike many other
large country houses, Finlaystone remains a family home, kept
afloat largely by the hard work and adaptability of the members of
the family who reflect in this book on the joys and travails that
this implied.
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