House of Glass

With House Of Glass comes the final chapter of Pramoedya's epic quartet, set in the Dutch East Indies at the turn of the century. A novel of heroism, passion, and betrayal, it provides a spectacular conclusion to a series hailed as one of the great works of modern literature. At the start of House of Glass, Minke, writer and leader of the dissident movement, is now imprisoned—and the narrativ…

Perfect

In a town where gossip thrives like the ivy that clings to its mansions, where mysteries lie behind manicured hedges and skeletons hide in every walk-in closet, four perfect-looking girls aren't nearly as perfect as they seem. Three years ago, Spencer, Aria, Emily, Hanna, and their best friend Alison were the girls at Rosewood Day School. They clicked through the halls in their Miu Miu flats…

Dear Austin : Letters From The Underground Railroad

In this companion novel to Dear Levi, told in letters,11-year-old Levi helps a young African American in a harrowing flight for freedom along the Underground Railroad.

The Genius Files : Never Say Genius

"Today is Coke and Pepsi McDonald's thirteenth birthday. Someone's out to make sure they never make it to thirteen and a half." Racing across America, the twins will nearly be boiled alive in a huge basket of french fries, frozen to death by soft-serve ice cream, stampeded in a wild stadium riot, kidnapped from a high-speed roller coaster, and worst of all their parents think th…

The Kings And Queens Of Roam

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ISBN/ISSN

9781476703985

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277p; bw; pbk

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Leepike Ridge

Eleven year old Thomas Hammond has always lived next to Leepike Ridge. He never imagined he might end up lost beneath it! But that's exactly what happens the night Tom rides a floating slab of refrigerator packing foam downstream and is dragged underground. What Tom finds under Leepike Ridge - a corpse, a dog, a flashlight, a castaway, crawdads, four graves, a tomb, and buried treasure - will …

Kid Pirates : Their Battles, Shipwreck, & Narrow Escapes

Some volunteered. Others were forced to serve. But each of these young people sailed with the world's most feared pirates - from the notorious Blackbeard and Captain Kidd to Sir Henry Morgan and others.

We

First published in the West in 1924, We is an adventurous story of the future nameless "numbers," the two-tenths of the world's population that survived the Great Two Hundred Years War. Their food is derived from petroleum, and they believe that their totally restricted existence under the watchful eye of the Benefactor is the ideal. They do not mourn the passing of the creative human spirit; i…

The Loved One

The more startling for the economy of its prose and plot, this novel's story, set among the manicured lawns and euphemisms of Whispering Glades Memorial Park in Hollywood, satirises the American way of death and offers Waugh's memento mori.

Mrs Dalloway

Mrs. Dalloway chronicles a June day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway–a day that is taken up with running minor errands in preparation for a party and that is punctuated, toward the end, by the suicide of a young man she has never met. In giving an apparently ordinary day such immense resonance and significance–infusing it with the elemental conflict between death and life–Virginia Woolf t…