When an eccentric millionaire dies mysteriously, sixteen very unlikely people are gathered together for the reading of the and what a will it is!
`When you have a large collection of animals to transport from one end of the world to the other you cannot, as a lot of people seem to think, just hoist them aboard the nearest ship and set off with a gay wave of...
Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer (MM)
In the small city of Strattenburg, there are many lawyers, and though he`s only thirteen years old, Theo Boone thinks he`s one of them. Theo knows every judge, policeman, court clerkNand a lot about the law. He dreams...
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor`s Baby
Vanishings and aparitions, nightmares and twists of fate, mysterious ailments and supernatural interventions haunt these stories by the Russian master Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, heir to the spellbinding tradition of...
Things I Want My Daughters to Know
`My beautiful girls. If you`ve read this, you`ll know it contains some - not all, but some - of the things I want my daughters to know. And the greatest of these is love ...` How would you say goodbye to those you...
The New York Times Bestseller, acclaimed by author such as Freakonomics co-author Steven D. Levitt, Black Swan author Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Nudge co-author Richard Thaler, Thinking Fast and Slow offers a whole new...
Jay Asher has worked at an independent bookstore, an outlet bookstore, a chain bookstore, and two public libraries. He hopes, someday, to work for a used bookstore. When he is not writing, Jay plays guitar and goes...
This is the House that Jack Built (PB) illustr
What happened in the house that Jack built? It all started with the cheese that lay in the house that Jack built. And then came the rat that ate the cheese and the cat who killed the rat. Caldecott Medal? Winning...
Lola has just found out that her boyfriend - charismatic politician Paddy de Courcy - is getting married. Heartbroken, Lola flees the city for a cottage by the sea. But will Lola`s retreat prove as idyllic as she...
The debut of an American original. Here is the accomplished first novel that catapulted F. Scott Fitzgerald to literary fame-at the age of 23. It follows the education-intellectual, spiritual, and sexual-of young...
Three Cups of Tea (young readers ed)
With the first cup of tea, you are a stranger. With the friend. With the third cup of tea, you are family. One day Greg Mortenson set out to climb K2 - the world`s second highest mountain - in honour of his younger...
Includes these three favorites: "Interlude In Death", "Midnight In Death", "Haunted In Death". Number-one New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts writing as Robb delivers a potent combination of futuristic...
In 1993, after a terrifying and disastrous attempt to climb K2, a mountaineer called Greg Mortenson drifted, cold and dehydrated, into an impoverished Pakistan village in the Karakoram Mountains. Moved by the...
