Aria, Emily, Spencer, Hanna and Alison have been best friends since the third grade. They go everywhere together, thinking no-one can come between them. If anyone is the ringleader of the group it is Alison, and the other girls cannot help but confide all their secrets to her. One night, during a sleepover, ...
Includes double page spreads on mountains, deserts, the oceans, the atmosphere and icy landscapes such as Antarctica, each one with flaps to lift to reveal scientific and natural history information.
Set in the volatile Paris summer of 1938, The Age of Reason" follows two days in the life of Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, and his circle in the cafes and bars of Montparnasse. Mathieu has so far managed to contain sex and personal freedom in conveniently separate compartments. But now he is ...
A New Year. A New Page. A New Reading Group. Five women meet for their first reading group, little realising this social gathering over books and glasses of wine might see them share more than literary debate.and will, in fact, take each of them to places they''d never imagined. Harriet and Nicole are ...
My name\''s Cameron Wolfe. I have a little bit of sense. I don\''t have much sense. My older brother Ruben gets me into plenty of trouble. I get Rube into as much trouble as he gets me into. I have a family, yes, that doesn\''t really function without tomato sauce. That\''s me. Cameron and Ruben Wolfe ...
In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class division, prejudice and oppression were rife, providing the fertile soil in which slavery and race hatred were carefully planted and took root. Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a smallholding ...
Britain's favourite writer of narrative non-fiction Bill Bryson travels back in time to a forgotten summer when America came of age, took centre stage, and, in five eventful months, changed the world for ever. In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just ...
Jack Fletcher is battling the high seas. Ambushed by the Shogun''''s samurai, Jack and his friends have only one hope of escape - the Seto Sea. But with ferocious storms, man-eating sharks and ninja pirates at every turn, their chosen route is fraught with danger. A treacherous crew only adds to their ...
This is a classic tale of the loves, crimes and struggles confronted by one family of immigrants living in New York City. From the barren farms of Italy to the cramped tenements of New York, Lucia Santa - wife, widow and mother of two families - must steer them through the Depression and the early years ...
'I know you, don't I?' Five words - that's all it takes to plunge Mike Wingate and his family into mortal danger. Mike doesn't recognise the crippled stranger who approaches him at a party.but the stranger seems to know all about him. What has Mike done? Do they have the wrong man? ...
The new novel from Iain Banks, the bestselling author of The Wasp Factory. Kit doesn''''t know who his mother is. What he does know, however, is that his father, Guy, is dying of cancer. Feeling his death is imminent, Guy gathers around him his oldest friends - or at least the friends with the most to ...
''''Zoey, what is is?'''' Stark said softly. I didn''''t answer Stark. Instead I faced Neferet. Somewhere in the back of my mind I could hear the buzz and whispers of the kids around me, and I knew forcing a confrontation with Neferet here and now wasn''''t smart. But I couldn''''t stop myself... Zoey ...
Drastically altered after her fall at the end of HIDDEN, Neferet is now more dangerous than ever - and her quest for vengeance will wreak havoc on humans as well as Zoey and her friends. Chaos is loosed in Tulsa and the House of Night is blamed. Can Zoey stop Neferet in time to keep her anger from escalating ...
Issy Randall, proud owner of The Cupcake Cafe, is in love and couldn''''t be happier. Her new business is thriving and she is surrounded by close friends, even if her cupcake colleagues Pearl and Carolinedon''''t seem quite as upbeat about the upcoming season of snow and merriment. But when her boyfriend ...
The new novel from W. Paul Young, author of international bestseller THE SHACK, is an inspiring and provocative story of a man who only realises how bad his life has been when it\''s too late - yet is miraculously given a chance to put things right. Will he take it? Multi-millionaire Anthony Spencer ...
A meticulously-observed drama of class warfare, E.M. Forster''s "Howards End" explores the conflict inherent within English society, unveiling the character of a nation as never before. This "Penguin Classics" edition includes an introduction and notes by David Lodge. ''Only connect.'' A chance acquaintance ...
´But I don´t want to go among mad people,´ Alice remarked. ´Oh, you ca´n´t help that,´ said the Cat. ´We´re all mad here.´ The ´Alice´ books are two of the most translated, most quoted, and best-known books in the world, but what exactly are they? Apparently delightful, innocent fantasies ...
The wonderful new novel from the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of THE GLASS ROOM Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, brought up on the shores of Lake Geneva and in England, half French, half British, naive yet too clever for her own good. But when she is recruited from her ...
I know I can\''t change the way I look. But maybe, just maybe, people can change the way they see. Wonder is the unforgettable story of August Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face. With over 5 million copies sold, Wonder is a true modern classic, a life-changing read, and has inspired ...
