''''A red pony colt was looking at him out of the stall. Its tense ears were forward and a light of disobedience was in its eyes. Its coat was rough and thick as an Airedale''''s fur and its mane was long and tangled''''. Jody Tiflin is a ten-year-old boy, living on his father''''s ranch. One day his ...
Jam-packed with the silliest of animals, this bestselling rhyming story will have the youngest of readers in fits of laughter. Cats sit on mats, hares sit on chairs, mules sit on stools and gofers sit on sofas, but Frog does not want to sit on a log! Jam-packed with animals and silliness, this original ...
Seven stories to span the Christmas holidays:A Faraway Smell of Lemon: The School Term has ended. It is almost Christmas but Binny, out last-minute shopping cou….
Penguin Student Editions have been specifically designed for readers who are studying a text in detail. They include a helpful introduction and explanatory notes, character sketches, a text summary, a chronology, language notes, a selection of questi ons and topics for discussion and analysis, as well ...
FROM AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATORS RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY. Doctor Zhivago is the epic novel of Russia in the throes of revolution and one of the greatest love stories ever told. Yuri Zhivago, physician and poet, wrestles with cruel experience of the new order and the changes it has wrought ...
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 ...
''I wonder what will become of her!'' So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse, the lovely, lively, wilful,and fallible heroine of Jane Austen''s fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her pliant friend Harriet, only to discover ...
''This is one of his best'' - The Times Jack Reacher is back in a brand new white-knuckle read from Lee Child. It''s a random universe, but once in a blue moon things turn out just right. In a nameless city, two rival criminal gangs are competing for control. But they hadn''t counted on Jack Reacher ...
A love story between a vampire and a werewolf by the creator of the enormously popular Sarah''s Scribbles comics. Elsie the vampire is three hundred years old, but in all that time, she has never met her match. This all changes one night in a bar when she meets Jimmy, a charming werewolf with a wry sense ...
A story in the Arctic from the world of His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust by master storyteller, Philip Pullman. ''Lyra Silvertongue, you''re very welcome.. Yes, I know your new name. Serafina Pekkala told me everything about your exploits''Lyra and her daemon Pantalaimon have left the events of ...
A History of Pictures for Children takes readers on a journey through art history, from early art drawn on cave walls to the images we make today on our computers and phone cameras. Based on the bestselling book for adults, this children\''s edition of A History of Pictures is told through conversations ...
''A Skinful of Shadows confirms Hardinge''s status as one of our finest storytellers. It''s rare to find a book which is every bit as intelligent and stylish as it is riveting - I was enthralled'' - Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent Frances Hardinge weaves a dark, otherworldly tale in A Skinful ...
Tie-in to the major motion picture, released on 12th March 2010. US Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to find an escaped murderer named Rachel Solando. As a killer hurricane bears down on the island, the investigation deepens and ...
Autor : Lucinda Riley, Druh sortimentu : Kniha, Název : The Moon Sister, Jazyk : Angličtina, Počet stran : 400.
A stunningly presented collection of twenty-five illustrated short stories exploring the relationship between humans and animals, from award-winning visual storyteller Shaun Tan. Where can we live if not in each other\''s shadow? World-renowned artist Shaun Tan applies his extraordinary talent to a reflection ...
THE LATEST BOOK FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND CREATOR OF THE HIT NETFLIX DRAMAS THE STRANGER AND THE WOODS, described by Dan Brown as ''the modern master of the hook and twist''.''I read The Boy From The Woods. I liked it. I liked it a lot!'' STEPHEN KING''Harlan''s a great thriller writer [.] one ...
From the legendary Terry Pratchett, the author of Discworld, the third instalment in the Johnny Maxwell Trilogy THIS TIME... IT''S WAR. Johnny Maxwell is just an ordinary boy, walking through an ordinary alley... until he stumbles across a shopping trolley that can travel back in time. A trip on this ...
Marvel at the mind-boggling world of atoms and molecules - the building blocks of EVERYTHING everywhere (including you). Lift over 90 flaps to learn about atoms, molecules, compounds and electrons, and chemical reactions and explore the Periodic Table. With links to specially selected websites for activities ...