Notes from the Blockade. Ginzburg Lydia From her experience as a survivor of the 900-day siege of Leningrad, Lidiya Ginzburg has created a remarkable hero in whom she distills the experience of life under siege. Though she depicts the harrowing conditions, the reader takes away an
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Eloise Wilkin Stories. Wilkin Eloise Little Golden Books illustrated by Eloise Wilkin are among the most remembered, beloved, and requested by consumers. This collection, which contains nine of her best-loved books, will be cherished by collectors, parents, and children for years to
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The Girls. Cline Emma Evie Boyd is fourteen and desperate to be noticed. It’s the summer of 1969 and restless, empty days stretch ahead of her. Until she sees them. The girls. Hair long and uncombed, jewelry catching the sun. And at their centre, Suzanne, black-haired
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Learned Optimism. Seligman The father of the new science of positive psychology and author of Authentic Happiness draws on more than twenty years of clinical research to demonstrate how optimism enchances the quality of life, and how anyone can learn to practice it. Offering
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All That Man Is. Szalay D. Nine men. Each of them at a different stage of life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving - in the suburbs of Prague, beside a Belgian motorway, in a cheap Cypriot hotel - to understand just what it means to be alive, here and now.
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I Am the Messenger. Zusak Marcus From the author of The Book Thief comes this darkly funny and ultimately uplifting thriller which proves that anyone can be extraordinary.
Ed Kennedy is just your less-than-average Joe who is hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey. But
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The Secret Garden. Gilbert Frances This story of a key that leads a lonely girl to a secret garden is a beloved children’s classic. Based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s children’s novel published in 1911, this retelling, simply and warmly written, will charm young readers.
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A Passage To India. Forster E.M. Set in British India in the 1920s, this book looks at racial conflict. The characters struggle to overcome their own differences and prejudices, but when the Indian Dr Aziz is tried for the alleged assault of Adela Quested even the strongest
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Freedom. Atwood M. Can we ever be wholly free? In this book of breathtaking imaginary leaps that conjure dystopias and magical islands, Margaret Atwood holds a mirror up to our own world. The reflection we are faced with, of men and women in prisons literal and
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Austerity. Varoufakis Yanis How do we choose between what is fair and just, and what our debtors demand of us? Yanis Varoufakis was put in such a dilemma in 2015 when he became the finance minister of Greece. In this rousing book, he charts the absurdities that underpin calls
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The Three Bears. Rojankovsky Feodor This classic Little Golden Book edition of the famous folk tale has had many imitators, but none can measure up to the way illustrator Feodor Rojankovsky brought Goldilocks and the three bears to life. Originally published in 1948, The Three Bears
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Alphabet: Flash Cards. Pack of 54. Cards These Step Ahead flash cards help children identify letters—an essential step in learning to read.
• 54-card deck introduces the 26 letters of the alphabet in both upper and lowercase.
• Handy flash card format features full-color
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Shark in the Dark. Sharratt Nick Timothy Pope is looking out into the night with his telescope. Is that really a shark he can see? Turn the page and find out... Children will delight in peeping through the die-cut holes and guessing what Tim has
Kursk. The Last Mission. Moore Robert At 11.30 a.m. on Saturday 12 August 2000, two massive explosions roared through the shallow Arctic waters of the Barents Sea. The Kursk, pride of the Northern Fleet and the largest attack submarine in the world, was hurtling towards the ocean
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The Chimp Paradox. Peters Steve Do you sometimes behave irrationally or impulsively? Do you face some situations with fear and trepidation? Do feelings of self-doubt consume everyday activities? Leading forensic psychologist, Dr. Steve Peters, knows more than anyone how impulsive
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Picnic At Hanging Rock. Lindsay Joan It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three of the girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun,
Das Leben ist keine Kunst. Wladimir Kaminer Was verbindet eine Putzfrau mit einem abgehalfterten Superstar, einem Kneipenwirt, einem Regenmacher, einem Maler oder Wladimir Kaminers Mutter? Wie all die anderen unvergesslichen Menschen in diesem Buch zeigen sie, wie sich das Leben und die Kunst
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Maybe You Should Fly a Jet! Maybe You Should Be a Vet! Unavailable for almost 20 years, a little-known Dr. Seuss book about careers gets a fresh new look! Wildly imaginative and told in rollicking rhyme, this beginning reader about careers could ONLY have been written by Dr. Seuss! Featuring a mix of
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The Secret Garden. Frances Hodgson Burnett A favourite childhood classic. What little girl can turn a whole household upside down and breathe new life back into a strange, old manor? The wonderfully contrary, strong-willed, angry, misunderstood Mary Lennox.
When Mary Lennox is sent to
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Forgotten Realms. Hunters Blades 2: Lone Drow. Salvatore R.A. Drizzt Do Urden has become the hunter, the bane of the orc hordes still ravashing the north. Cut off and alone he is convinced that everything he ever valued has been destroyed, all that is left for him is to kill, and kill. There are lots of
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We Should All Be Feminists. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie In this personal, eloquently-argued essay adapted from the much-admired TEDx talk of the same name Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness. Drawing
Preschool Hands-On STEAM. Learning Fun Workbook STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) learning encourages kids to experiment and engineer, to make mistakes and learn from them, and to be problem-solvers and critical thinkers now and for life. Highlights brings "Fun with a
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Disney. Pixar Story Collection Five DisneyPixar early readers come together in one book! Featuring stories based on the blockbuster movies "Toy Story", "Finding Nemo", "Cars", "Ratatouille" and "Monsters, Inc.", this paperback collection is an amazing
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Alan Rickman. Paton Maureen In this revised and updated biography, Maureen Paton encompasses the private, professional and political life of this most enigmatic, charismatic and intensely private of
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Invisible Cities. Calvino Italo In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city: Venice. As Gore Vidal wrote "Of all tasks, describing the
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Baby Loves. Gravity! Board book. Spiro Ruth Big, brainy science for the littlest listeners.
Accurate enough to satisfy an expert, yet simple enough for baby, this clever board book explores the ups and downs of gravity. When baby drops food from a high chair, why does it fall? Beautiful,
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Hello, World! Music. Board book. McDonald Jill Learn from home and explore the world with these fun and easy board books!
Every young child loves to listen to music, bang on drums, and pound the keys of a piano. Now here’s a Hello, World! board book that can teach babies and toddlers all about
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Kindergarten. Big Fun Workbook Get ready for Kindergarten with this innovative activity workbook, featuring a fresh approach to developing essential skills for school readiness and success.
Puzzles + Skills Practice + Humor = School Success! This award-wining workbook is packed
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The Haunted Library. The Underground Ghosts. Butler Dori Hillestad Edgar Award Winner Dori Hillestad Butler gives us the tenth--and final --title in her not-too-scary chapter book mystery series, The Haunted Library, in the form of a super special
Its almost Halloween, and Kaz and Claire are off to Seattle to visit
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Wisdom of the hidden realms oracle cards. Baron-reid Colette Mystics have passed down stories of magical realms hidden from mortal sight, bridging the world of Nature and Spirit. Even before the written word, the ancients established a Divine partnership between humans and these Hidden Realms. This title
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Akira. Volume 3. Otomo Katsuhiro The glittering Neo-Tokyo has risen from the rubble of a Tokyo destroyed by an apocalyptic telekinetic blast from a young boy called Akira the subject of a covert government experiment gone wrong now imprisoned for three decades in frozen stasis. But
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Eat, Pray, Love. Gilbert Elizabeth A celebrated writer pens an irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of
The Day Watch. Sergei Lukyanenko 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
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The Tooth Book. Dr. Seuss Teeth–they come in handy when you chew or smile! In Dr. Seuss’s hilarious ode to teeth, little ones will laugh out loud as they find out all the things teeth can do and how to take care of them so they last a lifetime! All the fun and charm of
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Cry to Heaven. Anne Rice They were the castrati-male sopranos whose glorious voices brought them adulation throughout Europe even as they were despised as monsters. For Tonio Treschi, the child of Venetian nobility, kidnapped and castrated in a murderous family conspiracy,
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The Last Dickens. Matthew Pearl News of the untimely death of Charles Dickens reaches James R Osgood at his American publisher. Expecting the arrival of the latest instalment of The Mystery of Edwin Drood and suspicious of unscrupulous New York publishers keen to get their hands
The Aerodrome: A Love Story. Warner Rex A model of efficiency and order, the aerodrome stands on the hill looking down on the village below. Roy, coming of age in the messy, violent and adulterous world of the villagers, is simultaneously attracted and repelled by this strange place and
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Killing Rommel. Pressfield Steven Steven Pressfield’s quintet of acclaimed, bestselling novels of ancient warfare - Gates of Fire, Tides of War, Last of the Amazons, The Virtues of Wa,r and The Afghan Campaign - have earned him a reputation as a master chronicler of military
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Dear Life. Munro Alice Alice Munro captures the essence of life in her brilliant new collection of stories. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in Dear Life build to form a radiant,
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A Pony in the Picture. Vintage Portraits of Children and Ponies. Randall Victoria Children everywhere have always loved ponies. Those lucky enough to grow up with horses invariably recall them as the keepers of their happiest childhood memories. But for most, a brief ride on a rented pony was the closest they would ever get to a
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Busytown Treasury. Scarry Richard Enter Richard Scarry s one-of-a-kind Busytown and meet Huckle Cat, Lowly Worm, Sergeant Murphy, and many more beloved characters in these six classic books, together for the very first time! Featuring Bedtime Stories, The Please and Thank You Book,
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Reunion: A Pip and Flinx novel. Foster A.D. Using his enhanced empathic abilities, Flinx finesses his way into a top-secret security installation on Earth. Once there, he bamboozles a sophisticated AI program into releasing classified information about the Meliorare Society, the sect of
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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. Roy Arundhati The tale begins with Anjum who used to be Aftab unrolling a threadbare Persian carpet in a city graveyard she calls home. We encounter the odd, unforgettable Tilo and the men who loved her including Musa, sweetheart and ex-sweetheart, lover and
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The Hound of the Baskervilles. Doyle Arthur Conan The Baskerville family curse tells of how a terrifying, supernatural hound roams the moors around Baskerville Hall and preys on members of the family in revenge for a terrible crime committed by one of their ancestors. When Sir Charles Baskerville
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Hello, World! Solar System. McDonald Jill Every young child loves to look up at the moon in the night sky. Now here’s a board book that can teach toddlers all about the sun, moon, stars, and planets—with colors, shapes, sizes, and super-simple facts.
Hello, World! is a series designed