Deserts refer to the barren areas with scarce rainfall, dry air, and sandy ground cover, while rainforests are ecosystems found in tropical and temperate regions with abundant rainfall. So why are there deserts on Earth? Where are the main desert regions in the world? How does a desert during the day differ from a desert at night? Where are tropical rainforests located on Earth? Why is it alway…
After suffering a blow to his confidence, Jun Ming seeks refuge in an online chatroom. There, he meets and befriends someone called "Dandelion". Will his friendship with Dandelion give Jun Ming the courage to face the real world again?
George is getting fed up. He really likes playing on his own, but pebble the little seal keeps joining in. George is quiet and grumpy. Pebble is cheerful and funny. Can these two ever learn to play nicely together?
By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living creature, and for people who can’t afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacra: horses, birds, cats, sheep. They’ve even built humans. Immigrants to Mars receive androids so sophisticated they are indistinguishable from true men …
A woman who wields magical tarot cards lands herself in a false engagement with the headmaster of a mysterious academy in this first installment of an enthralling fantasy romance series from the bestselling author of A "Deal with the Elf King".
Nineteen-year-old Sydney has the perfect summer mapped out. She’s spending the next four and a half weeks travelling through Europe with her childhood best friend Leela. Their plans include Eiffel Tower selfies, eating cocco gelato, and making out with très hot strangers. Her plans do not include Leela’s cheating ex-boyfriend showing up on the flight to London, falling for the cheating …
Thea Mottram is having a bad month. She’s been let go from her office job with no notice—and to make matters even worse, her husband of nearly twenty years has decided to leave her for one of her friends. Bewildered and completely lost, Thea doesn’t know what to do. But when she learns that a distant great uncle in Scotland has passed away, leaving her his home and a hefty antique book co…
Written after Woolf had finished her emotionally draining work on The Waves, Flush purports to be an autobiography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning s eponymous cocker spaniel, charting the dog s early days in the countryside, his adoption by the famous poet, his subsequent life in London and his travels with his owners to Italy. While the resulting narrative is light-hearted and playful on the sur…