The Desert Hotel: A Novel
A bankrupt Indian prince; an heir to the biggest hotel conglomerate; a Parsi horse racing tycoon; a struggling, talented young lady; a virtuous, thoughtful, giving, and eccentric Professor. All accidently met at Salzburg during their MBA programme. The interplay of egos, events, and love bring all of them together in a complex matrix—one of love, faith, scorn, enmity, and ambition. After the culmination of the 12-month course, The alchemy has changed; it is now of success, revenge, defeat, and vengeance. At the Twilight of his estate, the prince is carousing amongst the British lords and careless social elites, trying to drown the memories of his lost love, Isabella, in scotch. But destiny forces him to fly back to motherland to take charge of his land.
Secrets of Happiness
One of O: The Oprah Magazine’s Most Anticipated Books of 2021One of Publishers Weekly’s Top 10 picks for Spring 2021Ethan, a young lawyer in New York, learns that his father has long kept a second family – a wife and two kids living in Queens.
The Nothing Man
At the age of twelve, Eve Black was the only member of her family to survive an encounter with serial attacker the Nothing Man.
The Midnight Library
The touching, funny and heartwarming new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of How to Stop Time and Reasons to Stay Alive.
The Upside of Unrequited
Seventeen-year-old Molly Peskin-Suso knows all about unrequited love-she’s lived through it twenty-six times. She crushes hard and crushes often, but always in secret. Because no matter how many times her twin sister, Cassie, tells her to woman up, Molly can’t stomach the idea of rejection. So she’s careful. Fat girls always have to be careful.
The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Penguin Modern Classics)
The Caucasian Chalk Circle is a play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. An example of Brecht’s epic theatre, the play is a parable about a peasant girl who rescues a baby and becomes a better mother than the baby’s wealthy biological parents.
Through the Looking-Glass (Puffin Classics)
When Alice steps through the looking-glass, she enters a very strange world of chess pieces and nursery rhyme characters such as Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee and the angry Red Queen. Nothing is what it seems and, in fact, through the looking-glass, everything is distorted.
The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Puffin Classics)
When their father’s business fails, the six Bastable children decide to restore the family fortunes. But although they think of many ingenious ways to do so, their well meant efforts are either more fun than profitable, or lead to trouble..
Little Men (Puffin Classics)
The third book about the March family and their friends.
Just So Stories (Puffin Classics)
In this collection of fables, enjoy delightful tales of whales and cats and kangaroos and crabs. Venture into the High and Far-Off Times, and uncover everything from how the camel go in a humph (and got his hump!) to how the alphabet was invented. Enchanting and very funny, these fantastical stories will take you on a journey to the boundaries of reality and beyond. Recommended for ages 9 to 11.
The Jungle Book (Puffin Classics)
Join Mowgli in the Jungle. After young Mowgli escapes the vicious jaws of the growling tiger Shere Khan, he is adopted by Father Wolf and grows up with the pack. Lovable old Baloo the Bear and Bagheera the Panther teach Mowgli the Law of the Jungle, and so his extraordinary adventures begin. Plus a behind-the-scenes journey, including an author profile, a guide to who’s who, activities and more.Recommended for ages 8-12.
Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales (Puffin Classics)
Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales is an enchanting collection, retold by writer and critic Naomi Lewis, and contains twelve of Hans Christian Andersen’s magnificent stories including Thumbelina, a little girl no more than a thumb-joint high, The Emperor’s New Clothes, the tale of a man who cares only for his appearance and The Little Mermaid, who longs to one day marry a human prince.
Kate in Waiting
From #1 New York Times bestselling author and rom-com queen Becky Albertalli comes a buoyant new novel about daring to step out of the shadows and into the spotlight in love, life, and, yes, theater. Contrary to popular belief, best friends Kate Garfield and Anderson Walker are not codependent. …
Leah on the Off Beat
Leah on the Offbeat is a 2018 young adult novel by American author Becky Albertalli. It is the direct sequel to her 2015 debut novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda and the third novel in the …
Beach Read
“Sparklingly bright.” –Sally Thorne, USA Today bestselling author of The Hating Game A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.
A Passage North: A Novel
A young man journeys into Sri Lanka’s war-torn north in this searing novel of longing, loss, and the legacy of war, from Anuk Arudpragasam, the author of The Story of a Brief Marriage. Long-listed for the Booker Prize 2021
Goodnight Mister Tom
Goodnight Mister Tom is a children’s novel by English author Michelle Magorian, published by Kestrel in 1981. Harper & Row published an American edition the same year. Set during World War II, it features a boy abused at home in London who is evacuated to the country at the outbreak of the war
Grimm’s Fairy Tales (Puffin Classics)
From the land of fantastical castles, vast lakes and deep forests, the Brothers Grimm collected a treasury of enchanting folk and fairy stories full of giants and dwarfs, witches and princesses, magical beasts and cunning children. From classics such as ‘The Frog-Prince’ and ‘Hansel and Grettel’ to the delights of ‘Ashputtel’ or ‘Old Sultan’, all hold a timeless magic which has enthralled children for centuries.
The Count of Monte Cristo (Puffin Classics)
The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas completed in 1844. It is one of the author’s more popular works, along with The Three Musketeers. Like many of his novels, it was expanded from plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter Auguste Maquet.
The Coral Island (Puffin Classics)
The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean is a novel written by Scottish author R. M. Ballantyne. One of the first works of juvenile fiction to feature exclusively juvenile heroes, the story relates the adventures of three boys marooned on a South Pacific island, the only survivors of a shipwreck.
Anne of the Island (Puffin Classics)
A new, beautifully laid-out edition of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s 1915 much beloved novel, the third installment in her timeless Anne of Green Gables series.
Kim (Puffin Classics)
Kim is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling. It was first published serially in McClure’s Magazine from December 1900 to October 1901 as well as in Cassell’s Magazine from January to November 1901, and first published in book form by Macmillan & Co. Ltd in October 1901
Jo’s Boys (Puffin Classics)
Jo’s Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to “Little Men” is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1886. The novel is the final book in the unofficial Little Women series. In it, Jo’s children, now grown, are caught up in real world troubles.
Artemis Fowl 8-book Box Set
Let the misadventure begin.
*Artemis Fowl
*Artemis Fowl And The Arctic Incident
*Artemis Fowl And The Eternity Code
*Artemis Fowl And The Opal Deception
*Artemis Fowl And The Lost Colony
*Artemis Fowl And The Time Paradox
*Artemis Fowl And The Atlantis Complex
*Artemis Fowl And The Last Guardian
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Longman Classics)
great classic book for children of all ages!
In this classic, Mark Twain (alias Samuel Clemens) brings us his life growing up in the Mississippi area through the eyes of his fictional and much beloved mischief maker Tom Sawyer and his sidekick Huck Finn.
If you loved this book as a kid, rest assured while there are no witches, goblins, vampires and magic in this book, your kids will love it too. It’s entertaining reading, and I am sure your kids will see part of themselves in these characters. A true piece of Americana of a time and a place that is no more. I loved it, hope you and/or others will too!
What Beauty There Is
What Beauty There Is is Cory Anderson’s stunning YA novel about brutality and beauty, and about broken people trying to survive—”Intense, brutal, and searingly honest,” What Beauty There Is is perfect .