Who is Lucky Saint? She\''s a fifteen year old wild child who discovered her mother\''s murdered body floating in the family swimming pool when she was only five years old. In Confessions of a Wild Child you will follow Lucky as she navigates her teen years - boys, drugs, family dramas, and many adventures ...
In these pages you can enjoy Christmas dinner with Begbie, and see how warmly Franco greets his sister''s boyfriend and the news of their engagement. You will discover, in ",The Rosewell Incident",, how aliens addicted to Embassy Regal have Midlothian under surveillance, and plan to install the ...
A richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the hazards and chances, Angela Carter\''s witty and bawdy new novel is populated with as many sets of twins, and mistaken identitiesas any Shakespeare comedy, and celebrates the magic of over a century of show business.
Nothing has been the same since Caleb Becker left a party drunk, got behind the wheel and hit Maggie Armstrong. Even after months of painful physical therapy, Maggie walks with a limp. Her social life is nil and a scholarship to study abroad - her chance to escape everyone and their pitying stares - ...
As America gasps in the stranglehold of a skull-crushing totalitarian regime, a supernatural intelligence speaks from the stars… ARAMCHEK… the word scratched in the sidewalk of the President’s childhood home. ARAMCHEK… the name of the subversive society ‘with no official membership’ whose sole purpose ...
"The complete collection of thrilling BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations of all seven adventures in C. S. Lewis'' spellbinding ''Narnia'' series These classic stories have been loved by generations since their first publication in 1950. The books have sold over 100 million copies in 47 languages, and ...
Angela is in the city of love â€" but romance is taking a nose-dive… When Angela Clark’s boyfriend Alex suggests a trip to Paris at the same time as hip fashion mag Belle asks her to write a piece, she jumps at the chance. But even as she’s falling for the joie de vivre of Paris, someone’s conspiring ...
Three Men in a Boat is a humorous book that will make you laugh while it gives you a view of Victorian England and the Thames.Three friends, George, Harris and J. decide they need a holiday and plan to go on a trip on the river. J. tells the story of that two-week trip. He includes funny stories from ...
What happens when the one that got away comes back? Find out in this sparkling debut from Mhairi McFarlane. ''''Think of the great duos of history. We''''re just like them.'''' ''''You mean like Kylie and Jason? Torvill and Dean? Sonny and Cher?'''' ''''I think you''''ve missed the point, Rachel.'''' ...
The explosive debut by No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth. DIVERGENT - a major motion picture franchise. The first book in the DIVERGENT series that has swept the globe - selling millions of copies world-wide. In the world of Divergent, society is divided into five factions - Candor, ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ''''There was a contagion in the very air that blew from that haunted region; it breathed forth an atmosphere of dreams and fancies infecting all the land.'''' Featuring ''''The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'''' and ''''Rip ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ''The quality of mercy is not strain''d, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven''. Bassiano, a noble Venetian, hopes to woo the beautiful heiress Portia. However, he requires financial assistance from his friend ...
Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe\''s capitals, part swan. or all fake? Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an aerialiste extraordinaire and star of Colonel Kearney\''s circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Jack Walser, an American journalist, is on a quest to ...
Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are The Others. Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy world that exists in parallel to our own, each owes allegiance either to The Dark or The Light. In "The Day Watch", second ...
Philip Roth''s twenty-seventh book takes its title from an anonymous fifteenth-century English allegorical play whose drama centres on the summoning of the living to death and whose hero, Everyman, is intended to be the personification of mankind. The fate of Roth''s Everyman is traced from his first ...
At fifty-seven, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in his garden, reading historical novels, listening to a bit of light jazz. Then Katie, his tempestuous daughter, announces that she is getting remarried, to Ray. Her family is not pleased - as her brother Jamie observes, ...
‘I don’t believe in God, but I miss Him.’ Julian Barnes’ new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his brother (a philosopher), a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and a homage to the French writer Jules Renard. ...
História puzzle siaha do osemnásteho storočia a za jeho zrodom stojí anglický rytec a kartograf John Spilsbury. Prvé puzzle okolo roku 1760 vytvoril tak, že na mapu pripevnil tenké tvrdé drevo a jemnou ostrou pílkou na vytváranie intarzie z neho vyrezal hranice krajín. Takto vytvorený produkt deťom v ...
