A postwar tragicomedy of manners, an Edwardian romance, and a historical drama are collected in this volume of works żeby the award-winning novelist. Ribbon marker.
Scared of the Dark? It's Really Scared of You is a picture book that playfully unpacks a common childhood fear. You may be afraid of the dark... But did you know that the dark is actually...
The only one-volume hardcover edition of the two uncommonly powerful novels written by the youngest of the famous Bront sisters. Anne Bront wrote these two fantastically successful novels just...
"Jon Scieszka, the groundbreaking storyteller and master of wit, brings us a smart and hilarious adventure. AstroNuts doesn't just break new ground-it breaks outer space Brilliant." --...
It's an unforgettable field trip! In this follow-up to A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to School..., Henry is late to a museum where his class is spending the day. But he has a plan:...
Leo Tolstoy's earliest published work, the trilogy Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth, was written when he was in his twenties, offering a tantalizing first glimpse of the literary talents that...
Cats and books are the purrfect pair! This charming journal illustrated by Jane Mount is packed with cats from bookstores around the world on every page, from Emma & Ender to Tiny the Usurper.
Can peanuts give you super strength? Were unicorns discovered on the moon? Did Martians really invade New Jersey? For anyone who has ever encountered outrageous stories like these and wondered...
Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel is in many ways his most intriguing. A highly atmospheric tale of murder, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" foreshadows both the detective stories...
Anton Chekhov's short novels are here brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation żeby the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky....
The unfettered exuberance of 'Gargantua and Pantagruel, ' the storms of phenomenal life it offers for our inspection, the honor it gives to the deformed, the cloacal, and the profane...
AstroNuts Mission Two: The Water Planet is the second book in the laugh-out-loud series żeby children's literature legend Jon Scieszka. The book follows a new mission, where AstroWolf,...
Ce charmant petit livre rend hommage au chat à travers de la poésie et des estampes japonaises soigneusement sélectionnées.Personne ne capture les grâces et les idiosyncrasies des chats comme les...
The name of Giacomo Casanova, Chevalier de Seingalt (1725-98), is now synonymous with amorous exploits, and there are plenty of these, vividly narrated, in his memoirs. But Casanova was not just an...
A mindless colouring book for the highly stressed. This volume lets adults of all ages colour their way through the funny and true annoyances of everyday life.
An Inspiring True Story about One Family's Escape from Behind the Berlin Wall Peter was born on the east side of Germany, the side that wasn't free. He watches news programs rather than...
Naguib Mahfouz's magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time. The Nobel Prize--winning writer's masterwork is the engrossing story of a Muslim...
London has the greatest literary tradition of any city in the world. Its roll call of storytellers includes cultural giants like Shakespeare, Defoe, and Dickens, and an innumerable host of writers...
Beloved for his fanciful and engrossing children's literature, controversial for his enthusiasm for British imperialism, Rudyard Kipling remains one of the most widely read writers of Victorian...
Drawing makes you happy This boldly illustrated handbook offers easy-to-follow drawing exercises--some thought-provoking, some meditative, all fun--inspired żeby art-therapy practices. Each page...
The chilling classic ghost stories gathered here offer a remarkable variety of approaches to the theme of haunting. It includes stories aby such legendary writers as Robert Louis Stevenson, P.F....
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) No-one in the grip of Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN, with its mythic-minded hero and its highly sympathetic monster who reads Goethe and longs to be at peace...