Employs a huge ensemble of comedy stalwarts, assembled by an eccentric hotelier to race from Las Vegas to New Mexico for a $2 million jackpot. With a backstage gambling subplot, the movie has almost as many highlights as clunkers, with easy gags and traditional slapstick that wil...
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Ingrid, a smart, free-spirited, and somewhat narcissistic artist kills her deceitful lover in a crime of passion. Even while serving a prison sentence, she exerts control over her adoring teenage daughter, Astrid, who's forced to spend her teenage years in a series of foster home...
After her mother dies from a heroin overdose, Jeliza-Rose is taken from the big city to live in a rural farmhouse with her father. She tries to settle into a new life in a house her father had purchased for his now-deceased mother. Jeliza-Rose's attempts to deal with her life cha...
When Jill Laity inherits a cottage and some land in Cornwall, she decides to set up a garden centre with the help of her friend Judy. But tensions mount when she refuses to sell part of the land to neighbouring farmer Brandon Trelease, a widower with a young son. When Judy leaves...
"Virginia (Ginny) Shaw comes to Cornwall to research her family history and realises her relationship with Phil is over. She meets the charismatic Greg and gets drawn into his world of sea and surfing. At a fancy-dress party, however, their friendship is tested when Ginny upsets ...
Charismatic but dumb John McCabe arrives in a turn-of-the-century Pacific Northwest town to set up a whorehouse/tavern. Shrewd Mrs. Miller, a professional madam, arrives soon after construction begins. She offers to help McCabe run his business and the whorehouse thrives. McCabe ...
Employs a huge ensemble of comedy stalwarts, assembled by an eccentric hotelier to race from Las Vegas to New Mexico for a $2 million jackpot. With a backstage gambling subplot, the movie has almost as many highlights as clunkers, with easy gags and traditional slapstick that wil...
Recently divorced archaeologist Jo Kingston comes home to Cornwall with her daughter Sophie to live with her father. When her old 'flame', Nick Angove, is injured on a dig Jo takes over, but faces fierce resentment from him. Then, intriguingly, human bones are found and the polic...
Following a break-up with her partner, Helen Matthews returns to Cornwall to set up a bed and breakfast business in her inherited cottage. There, she meets the arrogant Martin Somerville, who offers to buy her land. Helen refuses, but she faces many more setbacks before she can r...
When Alex inherits her grandmother's cottage in St. Ives, she decides to relocate there to escape painful memories. She is delighted to discover that the painting she had always loved as a child is still there. But local craftsman Quinn discovers that the picture on the surface i...
Victoria Williams is photographing wildlife on the Cornish cliffs when she meets Bron Macdonald and becomes drawn into his world of film-making. During the shooting of an old Cornish legend, Vicky's integrity is threatened by a woman's jealousy. Seemingly insuperable obstacles ar...
Designed to assist teachers in developing effective instructional plans. Includes information, template formats and curricular checklists to support the planning work of early childhood teachers.
Twenty-something Daria is an intelligent, bilingual secretary who should have her pick of the men in Odessa - except that the only men who are making advances are a dashing mafia gangster and her boss. Fearful that she'll be fired for refusing to sleep her way to the top, she dec...
"This intriguing and fun book investigates 12 mysterious, inexplicable cases that have happened in the history of the Catholic faith, some of which still continue to happen or remain today. These cases consider such questions as: Did the sun really dance at Fatima before 70,000 p...
Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy about Bathsheba Everdene who is an independent woman who attracts three different suitors: a sheep farmer; a dashing soldier; and a prosperous, older bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's passions explores the nature of relatio...