The Things They Carried

The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three.

The Road

The first-ever graphic novel adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize–winning postapocalyptic classic, The Road, approved and authorized by McCarthy and illustrated by acclaimed cartoonist Manu Larcenet "Superb. A suitably dark graphic treatment of McCarthy’s postapocalyptic masterpiece." (Kirkus) The story of a nameless father and son trying to survive with their humanity intact in…

TILDA TEACHES MASH-UPS

Tilda is so excited when her teacher asks her to run Mash-Up Dance classes to practise for the school concert. It's Tilda's first REAL teacher job! But there is one thing she isn't so sure about. Tilda has also been asked to give a speech at the concert. Now Tilda is feeling enthusiascared- that's right, enthusiastic and scared! What if she messes up her speech? Will the concert be a master mas…

TILDA TEACHES ANIMAL CARE

Tilda wants to get a dog, but her parents say no. They tell her that Baby Joe is too young for a pet, and that dogs are expensive to keep. But Tilda is sure a dog will be a better family member than Baby Joe, who can be so annoisy- that's right, annoying and noisy. Tilda decides to make the money she needs for a dog herself. She runs an animal care class, making pet products she can sell. But w…

TILDA TEACHES CHATTERBOXES

Tilda has just come back from an amazin holiday. She can't wait to tell Binky and Harry all about it! But her two best friends wont stop talking about their holiday together, and it sounds like they had the Best Time Ever! Tilda is feeling jealoppointed. That's right, jealous and disappointed! Maybe her friends will stop talking about their holiday if Tilda teaches them to make paper chatterbo…

TILDA TEACHES CARTWHEELS

Tilda can't wait to show Binky and Harry what a superstar swimmer she is, with her splashy splashes and fishy flips! But when she realises she can't swim properly, Tilda is embuzzled. That's right, embarrassed and puzzled! Maybe Tilda will feel better if she teaches her friends something actually cool-like cartwheeling! Tilda's cartwheel class is super fun, until it rolls out of control...

Iliad : a graphic novel

More than three thousand years ago, two armies faced each other in an epic battle that rewrote history and came to be known as the Trojan War. The Iliad, Homer's legendary account of this nine-year ordeal, is considered the greatest war story of all time and one of the most important works of Western literature. In this stunning graphic novel adaptation -- a thoroughly researched and artfully r…

NANCY CLANCY SUPER SLEUTH

Nancy Clancy has everything she needs to be a super sleuth (that's a fancy word for detective). Now all she needs is a good mystery to solve. But when crime strikes in her classroom, will Nancy have what it takes to crack the case?

NANCY CLANCY SEE THE FUTURE

Nancy's Magic 8 Ball doesn't work ever since JoJo dropped it. And the paper dortune-tellers that Nancy and Bree love making never give answers you can count on,. Then all of a sudden Nancy starts predicting things that do come true! Can she really see the future? All signs seems to point to yes! So Nancy tries her hand at fortune-telling during recess. What she sees, however, isn;t the future; …

NANCY CLANCY SECRET ADMIRER

Nancy Clancy and her best friend, Bree, have love on the brain-after all, they're learning about the human heart in science class! But when the girls decide to play matchmaker, nothing works out as planned. So the big question is: Will love conquer all?

NANCY CLANCY SECRET OF THE SILVER KEY

Nancy Clancy and her best friend, Bree, are off to solve another mystery-but this time it involves going back in times! As Nancy's class learns about time capcules in school, another relic from the past pop up in the present.

TOTO THE NINJA CAT AND THE MYSTERY JEWEL THIEF

Toto and her friends are in trouble! The animal world's spectacular crown jewels are kept under lock and key at the tower of london. But when Toto goes to visit them, they're stolen from right under her whiskers-and her boss Larry is framed for the crime! Will Toto and her friends be able to solve the mystery and track down the real thief?

TOTO THE NINJA CAT AND THE SUPERSTAR CATASTROPHE

Welcome to Catstonbury! It's the most amazing animal music festival in the world... usually. But this year an evil villain has something terrible planned. Can Toto find them before it's too late?

A Christmas Carol

Who can help a mean old man to love Christmas? How about a ghost? (or three!) Scrooge's heart is colder than snow, he's richer than half the banks in England and meaner than, well, everyone. But when three seriously spooky ghosts turn up to take him on an adventure through time, he soon learns that being cold isn't cool. Can he change his ways before it's too late?

The Old Curiosity Shop

Filled with rusting relics and tattered treasure maps, The Old Curiosity Shop is Nell Trent's favourite place in the whole world. This is lucky, because it's also her home. Nell and her grandfather have always been happy with their simple lives. But when money gets tight, the pair are thrown out of their beloved shop and into the unknown. Poor and hungry, with no one to turn to, how will they c…

Sherlock Holmes: The Blue Carbuncle

A valuable jewel known as the Blue Carbuncle was stolen from the jewel case of the Countess of Morcar yesterday. A reward of £1,000 has been offered by the countess for information leading to the stone's return... While the police work to trace the missing diamond, Holmes attempts to reunite a Christmas dinner and its owner. But when the detective comes across the jewel, Holmes and Watson fi…

The Hallmarked Man

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9780316601078

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903 p. : 23 cm.

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IB F GAL h

Never Let Me Go

In one of the most acclaimed and original novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkle skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, and with the fate that has always awaited her…

The Stranger in the Lifeboat

Adrift in a raft after a deadly ship explosion, ten people struggle for survival at sea. Three days pass. Short on water, food and hope, they spot a man floating in the waves. They pull him in. “Thank the Lord we found you,” a passenger says. “I am the Lord,” the man whispers. So begins Mitch Albom’s most beguiling novel yet.

Three Women

Three Women is a record of unmet needs, unspoken thoughts, disappointments, hopes and unrelenting obsessions.

Dead-End Memories

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9780571382347

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221 p., : 20 cm.

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IB F YOS d

As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

A year ago, before the revolution, Salama watched her brother marry her best friend, Layla, and wondered when her own love story might begin. Now she works at the hospital – helping those she can, closing the eyes of those she can't. Layla and her unborn baby are all Salama has left. Unless you count Khawf. But he's a hallucination; a symptom of the horrors she's seen. Every day he urges S…

Animal Farm

'It is the history of a revolution that went wrong – and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine,' wrote Orwell for the first edition of Animal Farm in 1945. Orwell wrote the novel at the end of 1943, but it almost remained unpublished. Its savage attack on Stalin, at that time Britain's ally, led to the book being refused by pu…

The Silent Patient

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9781250762481

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356 p. : 18 cm.

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IB F MIC s

Of Mice and Men

Streetwise George and his big, childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing except the clothes on their back, and a hope that one day they’ll find a place of their own and live the American dream. But dreams come at a price. Gentle giant Lennie doesn’t know his own strength, and when they find work at a ranch he gets int…

The Rotter's Club

Coming of age in 1970s' Birmingham, teenager Benjamin Trotter is about to discover the agonies and ecstasies of growing up. Whether it is first love or last rites, IRA bombs or industrial strife, prog versus punk rock, expectations of bad poetry or an unexpected life-changing experience involving lost swimming trunks, The Rotters' Club is a heartfelt and hilarious portrait of a particular time …

The Pearl

The Pearl is a haunting and timeless tale of the dangers of unexpected wealth by Nobel prizewinner John Steinbeck, author of The Grapes of Wrath. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first. Kino is a desperately poor Mexican pearl diver. But when he finds 'The Pearl of the World' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is …

Babel

From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a historical fantasy epic that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British Empire

Katabasis

Dante’s Inferno meets Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul—perhaps at the cost of their own. Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek: The story of a hero’s descent to t…

Maus I : a survival's tale ; my father bleeds history

Maus is the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and History itself. Its form, the cartoon, succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiarity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive. It is, …