Someone is killing off the competition in the world of chick lit-and the results are hilarious. (Andy Borowitz, author of The Borowitz Report: The Big Book of Shockers) Lola Somerville has a husband and a new...
Dorina Basarab is a dhampir - half-human, half-vampire - and the only way she can stay sane is by unleashing her sometimes uncontrollable rage on demons and vampires that deserve killing. After the fortunate demise of...
In The Decay of Lying , Oscar Wilde uses his decadent ideology in an attempt to reverse and therefore reject his audiences` `normal` conceptualizations of nature, art and morality. Wilde`s views of life and art are...
Architect Lee Morris has plans to restore Stratton Park racecourse to its former grandeur. But the combative Stratton heirs have violent plans of their own.
Decline of the English Murder (Penguin Great Ideas)
Contains essays that explore the English love of reading about a good murder in the papers (and lament the passing of the heyday of the `perfect` murder involving class, sex and poisoning). This book also unfolds the...
California, 1984: three children make a gruesome discovery in the woods: a partially buried female body. Their teacher, Ann Navarre, is shocked at the discovery which marks the end of innocence for the whole community...
In the privacy of her own home, and against her will, Susan Harris will experience an inconceivable act of terror. She will become the object of the ultimate computer`s consuming obsession: to learn everything there...
Tom Falconer is in trouble. Pursued by the notorious criminal Ratsey, Tom soon finds himself alone and hungry on the streets of London. Luckily enough, the mysterious Dr. Mobius soon recruits Tom to play an important...
Diamond as Big as the Ritz (Ned)
Scott Fitzgerald blends wit and cynicism in his satirical portraits of the swinging Jazz Age. The stories capture a glittering whirl of dancing, laughter and champagne, and the gods that are worshipped are glamour,...
Diary of a Wimpy Kid. The Ugly Truth
Greg Heffley has always been in a hurry to grow up. But is getting older really all it`s cracked up to be? Greg suddenly finds himself dealing with the pressures of boy-girl parties, increased responsibilities, and...
"The Diary of a Young Girl" is among the most enduring documents of the 20th century. Anne Frank kept a diary from 1942 to 1944. Initially she wrote it strictly for herself. Then, one day in 1944, a member of the...
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Last Straw
But Greg`s dad Kas other ideas. He wants Greg to chahcje his wimpy ways, tougheh up and enlist in other "mahly" ehdeavours. And wheh he threatens to sehd Greg to military academy Greg realizes be has to shape up . . ....
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
It`s a brand-new year and a brand-new journal and Greg is keen to put the humiliating (and secret!) events of last summer firmly behind him. But someone knows everything - someone whose job it is to most definitely...
From the Elizabethan period`s second-biggest dramatist comes the story of Faustus, a brilliant scholar who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for limitless knowledge and powerful black magic. Includes new...
Dont Look Now & Other Stories (Penguin Decades Ed.)
The 1970s was a decade of anger and discontent. Britain endured power cuts and strikes. America pulled out of Vietnam and saw its President resign from office. Feminism and face lifts vied for women`s hearts (and...
Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell`s vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the underworld of society.`You have talked so often of going to the dogs -...
Harry Lyon was a rational man, a cop who refused to let his job harden his soul. Then one fateful day, he was forced to shoot a man--and a homeless stranger with bloodshot eyes uttered the haunting words that...
Everyone wants to find it — a treasure so rich it makes even a hard-boiled detective like Garrett nervous. It’s the legendary Book of Shadows, made of brass and holding secrets no mortal was ever meant to master — and...
