In the vein of Wicked, The Woodcutter, and Boy, Snow, Bird, a luminous reimagining of a classic tale, told from the perspective of Agnes, Cinderella’s "evil" stepmother.
Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend a major announcement—the unveiling of a discovery that “will change the face of science forever.” The evening’s host is Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old billionaire and futurist whose dazzling high-tech inventions and audacious predictions have made him a …
Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice's grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get: Her mother is stolen away--by a figure who claims to com…
Part historical romance, part modern fantasy, The Witch’s Daughter is a fresh, compelling take on the magical, yet dangerous world of Witches. Readers will long remember the fiercely independent heroine who survives plagues, wars, and the heartbreak that comes with immortality to remain true to herself, and protect the protégé she comes to love
The Heaven Shop, is a contemporary novel that puts a very real face on the African AIDS pandemic, which to-date has orphaned more than 11 million African children. Inspired by a young radio performer the author met during her research visit to Malawi, Binti Phiri is a compelling character that readers will never forget
A poignant story of one college students romantic coming-of-age, Norwegian Wood takes us to that distant place of a young man's first, hopeless, and heroic love
Corona Victus can be used for becoming victorious over a season of fear, but this book can also be used for every other season in your life
The Book features the dramatic battle of Batavia, the sinister British expedition to Palembang, the 1812 sacking and looting of Yogyakarta, and various fights between soldiers and civilians, buffaloes and tigers, and Englishmen and Javanese
The Book confronts controversial issues surrounding invasive species and is essential for everyone interested in this fascinating and important topic
The Book sheds light on the role of population growth in energy consumption, renewable energy resources, the amount of available energy reserves (and why they will run out).
This book explores how modern society's unquenchable thirst for carbon-based energy is endangering the environment broadly, as well as the historical roots of this threat
One of the most life-affirming, courageous, unforgettable and human stories of the Holocaust : the love story of the Tattooist of Auschwitz
A Series of disasters in the Orient during the fourteenth century brought about the most devastating period of death and destruction in European history
Three decades of authoritarian rule in Indonesia came to a sudden and in 1998. This book asks how political reform cpuld proceed despite such unpromising circumstances
This book guides us through one of the truly life-or-death issues of our age. Pandemics refers not to a disease's severity but to its ability to spread
The Great Depression began in August of 1929, when the Unites States economy first went into an economic recession.
This rich collections of essays on the appropriation of indonesian national heroes and international feminist icon Kartini provides an incisive insight into the multiple ways of her briliant letters have been read, interpreted and used.
This wide-ranging work examines the conceptual transformation of Europe and Eurasia over the last two decades
10-year sojourn through the world's largest and least-known archipelago -the island of Indonesia
Breakout at Stalingrad is a stark and terrifying portrait of the horrors of war, and a profoundly humane depiction of comradeship in adversity
This book traces the history of how men and women have perceived and experinced God, from the time of Abraham to the present
From Ebola and AIDS to the common cold, Dr. Frank Ryan explores the role of the virus within every ecosystem on the planet
Battle fearsome beasts and fight evil with Tom and Elenna in the bestselling adventure series for boys and girls aged 7 and up. Equinus the Spirit Horse crashes through the forests of the Forbidden Land, stealing the life force of other creatures. Tom must dodge the Ghost Beast's flying hooves and take the fragment of Amulet that Equinus guards - or Tom's father will remain a ghost for ever.…
Battle Beasts and fight Evil with Tom and Elenna in the bestselling adventure series for boys and girls aged 7 and up! Evil Wizard Malvel has conjured up Creta, a terrifying creature that can unleash thousands of vicious insects from its colossal body!? Tom must find a way to defeat Creta before the Beast destroys both him and Avantia... If you like Beast Quest, check out Adam Blade's oth…
Battle fearsome beasts and fight evil with Tom and Elenna in the bestselling adventure series for boys and girls aged 7 and up. Tom and his companions are searching for Malvel in the strange land of Seraph. The fate of all Avantia is at stake, and if Tom fails to overcome Minos the Demon Bull, all the world will fall under Malvel's evil thrall! There are SIX thrilling adventures to collec…
Battle fearsome beasts and fight evil with Tom and Elenna in the bestselling adventure series for boys and girls aged 7 and up. The volcano at Stonewin is frozen over and the lands are blasted with a deadly cold. This is the work of Blaze the Ice Dragon, sent by wicked Wizard Malvel to thwart Tom's quest to save his father. Can he defeat Blaze and win the next piece of Amulet before it's too…
Battle fearsome beasts and fight evil with Tom and Elenna in the bestselling adventure series for boys and girls aged 7 and up. Freya and Silver are trapped in Tavania! To rescue them Tom must find the magical Tree of Being. But Sanpao the Pirate King has summoned six evil Beasts to stop him. Can Tom survive the deadly attacks of Balisk the Water Snake?
Rashouk is a enormous troll beast that resided in the forbidden land as one of the land's seven ghost beasts. Like all of his Ghost Beast siblings, Rashouk can shift from solid to ghostly at will, as we as his special ability to turn anything to stone with his claws. However, he has great aversion to light and he is not immune to his own poison.
Battle fearsome beasts and fight evil with Tom and Elenna in the bestselling adventure series for boys and girls aged 7 and up. The Evil Wizard Malvel has stolen the magical suit of golden armour and scattered it throughout Avantia. Tom vows to find the pieces - but they are guarded by six terrifying new Beasts! Join Tom as he journeys into the deadly heat of the desert, where he must do bat…
Battle fearsome beasts and fight evil with Tom and Elenna in the bestselling adventure series for boys and girls aged 7 and up. In the realm of Gwildor, the Mistress of the Beasts is under a curse, and her ferocious Beasts are destroying the land. Tom vows to break the spell, but when deadly Krabb ambushes his boat, it looks like the Quest may already be over... There are SIX thrilling ad…