Why is it that we destroy the things we love most? This is the question Paulo Coelho faces in this story of his confrontation with his past. The Valkyries is a compelling account of his journey, as Paulo and his wife embark on a forty day quest into the searing heat of the Mojave Desert, where they encounter ...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche tells the evocative story of 15-year old Kambili''s life growing up in Nigeria during a military coup. This set text for AQA GCSE is an ideal reader for any Key Stage 4 classroom. The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili''s world are defined by the high walls of her family estate ...
A New York Times No. 1 best seller §On the New York Times Best Seller List for more than 52 consecutive weeks §Includes an excerpt from the much-anticipated sequel and an interview with author Ransom Riggs §A mysterious island.§An abandoned orphanage.§A strange collection of very curious photographs§It ...
A condensed guide to life from the bestselling author of "The Black Swan", Nassim Nicholas Taleb''''s "The Bed of Procrustes" is an invaluable collection of aphorisms navigate the modern world. Why are we so often unwilling to accept that life is unpredictable? In this brilliant book Nassim Nicholas ...
An ingenious code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci.A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe.An astonishing truth concealed for centuries... unveiled at last.While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night. The elderly ...
Despite being mostly known for his fantastical graphic novels and adult fiction, Neil Gaiman''s first book for children is everything that you would expect from such a massive imagination as his. It''s special and wonderful and very weird indeed. Descr ibed by some as the new Alice in Wonderland, Coraline ...
A good portrait is a portrait of the artist, not the sitter. I am afraid I show my soul in this painting.’ Tag Fantasy In this Reader you will find: - Information about Oscar Wilde’s life - Sections focusing on background and context - Glossary of difficult words - Comprehension activities - PET-style ...
Not many writers introduce a phrase – let alone a whole idea – into the language. In Catch-22, Joseph Heller invented a motif for the modern world. The book shaped everything that came after it, establishing Heller\''s reputation as one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. But where ...
The classic English children\''s novel of three young friends and one special garden, stunningly reimagined in a deluxe full-color edition, illustrated with beautiful artwork and unique interactive features created by the award-winning design studio behind the graphics for the Harry Potter film franchise, ...
Black Beauty is a young black colt and loves roaming Farmer Gray''s fields with his mother. As Black Beauty grows into a handsome stallion, he is trained into the use of a saddle and whip and sold to Squire Gordon of Birtwick Hall. Here, he makes many friends including the angry Ginger, the well-meaning ...
