When Woodrow's mother suddenly disappears, he moves to his grandparents' home in a small Virginia town where he befriends his cousin and together they find the strength to face the terrible losses and fears in their lives.
When Woodrow's mother suddenly disappears, he moves to his grandparents' home in a small Virginia town where he befriends his cousin and together they find the strength to face the terrible losses and fears in their lives.
lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a youn…
The concluding volume of master storyteller Tad Williams' long-awaited return to epic fantasy by James Barclay.
The hotly-anticipated sequel to The Devil Wears Prada - the million copy bestseller that took the world by storm Everything's in place for the season's hottest launch: Tall latte (with two raw sugars)? Check. Gucci trench (draped over desk)? Check. Outrageous, unreasonable demands? Check. Andy has just turned thirty and is an incredibly successful magazine editor, working closely with her best …
Written as a college admission essay, eighteen-year-old Harry Jones recounts a childhood defined by the hideous scars he hid behind, and how forming a band brought self-confidence, friendship, and his first kiss.
Tina meets Elke, a new girl who is a brilliant netball player - She is envious of her beauty and talent but soon realises that nobody's life is perfect and that Elke has problems too.
Darkness had come to the town. Strange things were happening in the dead of night. Children would put a tooth under their pillow for the tooth fairy, but in the morning they would wake up to find a dead slug; a live spider; hundreds of earwigs creeping and crawling beneath their pillow. Evil was at work. But who or what was behind it?
Things are not looking good for Zoe. Her stepmother Sheila is so lazy she gets Zoe to pick her nose for her. The school bully Tina Trotts makes her life a misery-- mainly by flobbing on her head. And now the evil Burt from Burt's Burgers is after her pet rat! And guess what he wants to do with it?
Emma and Abby were once best friends. they spent all their time together, laughing and having fun - until something terrible happened. Nobody knows what - Emma never talks about it.Emma has new friends and barely thinks about Abby. But then Abby dissapears. Emma bumped into her on the bus that day - and was the last person to see her before she went missing.Why is Emma being so secretive?…
Thomas and his father live a normal, happy life in Belthorp. But that is all about to end. His father breaks the unbelievable news that they come from the planet of Ormingat and they must return. The past has caught up with them. Will they survive?
The Gwynns have lived outside New York for 14 years. But they have an astonishing secret unknown even to their daughter Nesta. One eveneing when she sees her father diminish and disappear into a stone lily pad in the garden pond, Nesta has to be told what she really is.
Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.
Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.
During their first four years of marriage, Laura and Almanzo Wilder have a child and fight a losing battle in their attempts to succeed at farming on the South Dakota prairie.
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of c…
Thirianna walks the dangerous Path of the Seer and gets a vision of Alaitoc in danger.
The ancient eldar are a mysterious race, each devoting their life to a chosen path which will guide their actions and decide their fate. Korlandril abandons peace for the Path of the Warrior. He becomes a Striking Scorpion, a deadly fighter skilled in the art of close-quarter combat. But the further Korlandril travels down this path, the closer he gets to losing his identity and becoming an ava…
Tells the story of Anna's forbidden love for the dashing soldier, Count Vronsky. This work is a study of passionate love set against the background of pre-Bolshevik Russia at the time of the development of the Russian railway.
A new translation of Leo Tolstoy's novel "Anna Karenina", in which a woman of fine nature forsakes her husband for a lover, and after a bitter experience commits suicide.
In the open-air theatre of Athens, Alexis, son of Leon, watches the Festival of Plays - and dreams of seeing his own play on that famous Stage. So, Alexis writes his play for the next year's Festival. But with his friend Corinna, he learns that Athens has enemies, who do not like Athenian democracy, and who are planning a revolution to end it all.
Jack Baker, away from Kansas attending a boys' boarding school in Maine, sets out on the Appalachian Trail with his eccentric school friend Early Auden in search of a great black bear.
Abilene Tucker feels abandoned. Her father has put her on a train, sending her off to live with an old friend for the summer while he works a railroad job. Armed only with a few possessions and her list of universals, AbilenernOverviewrnWinner of the 2011 Newbery MedalrnThe movement of the train rocked me like a lullaby. I closed my eyes to the dusty countryside and imagined the sign I’d seen…
The year is Fifteen Billion and Seventy-three, and Theodore Pine Four â teenager, TimeJumper, legend â is the biggest celebrity on the Two Planets. Theo knows there's only one Rule when you TimeJump: Don't Touch Anything. That Rule applies whether you're Jumping to the Big Bang or to the day pizza was invented. But Theo's been spending a lot of time with Quincy Carter One, the Cheeo o…
The wandering warrior Balsa is hired to protect Prince Chagum from both a mysterious monster and the prince's father, the Mikado.
When high school senior Asha Jamison is called a "towel head" at a pool party, she and her best friend Carey start a club to raise awareness of mixed-race students that soon sweeps the country, but the hubbub puts her Ivy League dreams, friendship, and beliefs to the test.