Legendary
HOOKED IS BASED ON EYAL’S YEARS OF RESEARCH, CONSULTING, AND PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE. HE WROTE THE BOOK HE WISHED HAD BEEN AVAILABLE TO HIM AS A START-UP FOUNDER – NOT ABSTRACT THEORY, BUT A HOW-TO GUIDE FOR BUILDING BETTER PRODUCTS. HOOKED IS WRITTEN FOR PRODUCT MANAGERS, DESIGNERS, MARKETERS, START-UP FOUNDERS, AND ANYONE WHO SEEKS TO UNDERSTAND HOW PRODUCTS INFLUENCE OUR BEHAVIOUR.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, the novel depicts narrator Nick Carraway’s interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby’s obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan
Complete Long Stories of Sherlock Holmes
PRESENT IN THIS OMNIBUS EDITION, ARE FOUR UNABRIDGED NOVELS OF BAKER STREETS MOST FAMOUS RESIDENT -SHERLOCK HOLMES AND HIS CONFIDANT AND AIDE, DR. WATSON. THE SAGA OF THEIR ADVENTURES BEGIN RIGHT FROM THE TIME THEY ARE FIRST INTRODUCED TO EACH OTHER BY A CERTAIN “YOUNG STAMFORD” TO SHARE ROOMS IN BAKER STREET, WHERE WATSON CHRONICLED THEIR FIRST ADVENTURE ‘A STUDY IN SCARLET’. ‘THE HOUND OF BASKERVILLES’ IS PERHAPS THE MOST POPULAR OF HIS LONG STORIES, FOLLOWED BY ‘THE SIGN OF THE FOUR’ AND ‘THE VALLEY OF FEAR’.
All The Light We Cannot See
When Marie Laure goes blind, aged six, her father builds her a model of their Paris neighbourhood, so she can memorize it with her fingers and then navigate the real streets. But when the Germans occupy Paris, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Marie-Laure’s agoraphobic great uncle lives in a tall, narrow house by the sea wall.
Tale Of Two Cities (Puffin Classics)
Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton are alike in appearance, different in character and in love with the same woman. In the midst of the French Revolution, Darnay, who has fled to London to escape the cruelty of the French nobility, must return to Paris to rescue his servant from death. But he endangers his own life and is captured. Carton may be able to help, but will his resemblance be enough to save Darnay’s life? With an enticing introduction by bestselling author, Roddy Doyle.
Tale of Two Cities (Longman Classics)
The story is set in two cities, London and Paris. It has the French Revolution as its background. The story covers a period of eighteen years. It starts in 1775, fourteen years before the fall of the Bastille and continues until the Reign of Terror (1792-93)
The Girl With The Louding Voice
AT FOURTEEN, ADUNNI DREAMS OF GETTING AN EDUCATION AND GIVING HER FAMILY A MORE COMFORTABLE HOME IN HER SMALL NIGERIAN VILLAGE. INSTEAD, ADUNNI’S FATHER SELLS HER OFF TO BECOME THE THIRD WIFE OF AN OLD MAN. WHEN TRAGEDY STRIKES IN HER NEW HOME, ADUNNI FLEES TO THE WEALTHY ENCLAVES OF LAGOS, WHERE SHE BECOMES A HOUSE-GIRL TO THE CRUEL BIG MADAM, AND PREY TO BIG MADAM’S HUSBAND. BUT DESPITE HER SITUATION CONTINUOUSLY GOING FROM BAD TO WORSE, ADUNNI REFUSES TO LET HERSELF BE SILENCED. AND ONE DAY, SOMEONE HEARS HER.
The Witches
The witches have a motto: One child a week is fifty-two a year. Squish them and squiggle them and make them disappear.The Grand High Witch of All the World is the scariest of the lot, but one boy and the grandmother he adores have a plan to get rid of the witches for good.
Magic Finger
very Saturday morning the Greg family goes off to shoot animals and birds. But the girl who lives next door hates hunting.
Now it’s made her so angry she’s PUT THE MAGIC FINGER ON THEM ALL. And very strange things have begun to happen . .
Matilda
Matilda Wormwood’s father thinks she’s a little scab. Matilda’s mother spends all afternoon playing bingo. And Matilda’s headmistress Miss Trunchbull? Well, she’s the worst of all. She is a big bully, who thinks all her pupils are rotten and locks them in the dreaded Chokey. As for Matilda, she’s an extraordinary little girl with a magical mind
Recursion
AT FIRST, IT LOOKS LIKE A DISEASE. AN EPIDEMIC THAT SPREADS THROUGH NO KNOWN MEANS, DRIVING ITS VICTIMS MAD WITH MEMORIES OF A LIFE THEY NEVER LIVED. BUT THE FORCE THAT’S SWEEPING THE WORLD IS NO PATHOGEN. IT’S JUST THE FIRST SHOCKWAVE, UNLEASHED BY A STUNNING DISCOVERY – AND WHAT’S IN JEOPARDY IS NOT JUST OUR MINDS. IN NEW YORK CITY, DETECTIVE BARRY SUTTON IS CLOSING IN ON THE TRUTH – AND IN A REMOTE LABORATORY, NEUROSCIENTIST HELENA SMITH IS UNAWARE THAT SHE ALONE HOLDS THE KEY TO THIS MYSTERY . . . AND THE TOOLS FOR FIGHTING BACK.
Land of Stories 6 Book Boxset
ALEX AND CONNER BAILEY’S WORLD IS ABOUT TO CHANGE. WHEN THE TWINS’ GRANDMOTHER GIVES THEM A TREASURED FAIRY-TALE BOOK, THEY HAVE NO IDEA THEY’RE ABOUT TO ENTER A LAND BEYOND ALL IMAGINING: THE LAND OF STORIES, WHERE FAIRY TALES ARE REAL. BUT AS ALEX AND CONNER SOON DISCOVER, THE STORIES THEY KNOW SO WELL HAVEN’T ENDED IN THIS MAGICAL LAND – GOLDILOCKS IS NOW A WANTED FUGITIVE, RED RIDING HOOD HAS HER OWN KINGDOM, AND QUEEN CINDERELLA IS ABOUT TO BECOME A MOTHER! THE TWINS KNOW THEY MUST GET BACK HOME SOMEHOW. BUT WITH THE LEGENDARY EVIL QUEEN HOT ON THEIR TRAIL, WILL THEY EVER FIND THE WAY? THE LAND OF STORIES: THE WISHING SPELL BRINGS READERS ON A THRILLING QUEST FILLED WITH MAGIC SPELLS, LAUGH-OUT-LOUD HUMOUR AND PAGE-TURNING ADVENTURE.
Eleven Minutes (Paulo Coelho)
ELEVEN MINUTES’ IS THE MASTERPIECE OF BRAZILIAN BESTSELLING AUTHOR PAULO COELHO. THIS NOVEL IS BASED ON A FICTIONAL ACCOUNT OF A WOMAN NAMED MARIA WHO LIVES IN RIO, BUT MOVES TO GENEVA. SHE IS POOR AND HAS TO DO MENIAL JOBS TO SURVIVE IN GENEVA. FATE LED HER TO BE A PROSTITUTE. SHE HAS ACCEPTED HER LIFE IN THIS WAY AND KEEPS ON GOING WITH IT DISPLAYING GREAT STRENGTH. IT IS DURING ONE OF HER WALKS DOWN A STREET THAT SHE FEELS A SEXUAL AWAKENING INSIDE HER. THE QUEST FOR PHYSICAL PLEASURE LEADS HER INTO SOME INTERESTING SITUATIONS, WHERE SHE TRIES TO FIND HER OWN BODY AND DESIRES. WHILE SHE IS LIVING A LIFE OF A PROSTITUTE, TRYING TO UNDERSTAND HERSELF SEXUALLY,
Queen of Air and Darkness: 3 (The Dark Artifices)
DARK SECRETS AND FORBIDDEN LOVE THREATEN THE VERY SURVIVAL OF THE SHADOW HUNTER IN CASSANDRA CLARE’S QUEEN OF AIR AND DARKNESS, THE FINAL NOVEL IN THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING THE DARK ARTIFICES TRILOGY. QUEEN OF AIR AND DARKNESS IS A SHADOW HUNTER NOVEL. WHAT IF DAMNATION IS THE PRICE OF TRUE LOVE? INNOCENT BLOOD HAS BEEN SPILLED ON THE STEPS OF THE COUNCIL HALL, THE SACRED STRONGHOLD OF THE SHADOW HUNTER. IN THE WAKE OF THE TRAGIC DEATH OF LIVIA BLACKTHORN
Lord of Shadows: 2 (The Dark Artifices)
SUNNY LOS ANGELES CAN BE A DARK PLACE INDEED IN CASSANDRA CLARE’S LORD OF SHADOWS, THE SEQUEL TO THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING LADY MIDNIGHT. LORD OF SHADOWS IS A SHADOW HUNTERS NOVEL. EMMA CAR STAIRS HAS FINALLY AVENGED HER PARENTS. SHE THOUGHT SHE’D BE AT PEACE. BUT SHE IS ANYTHING BUT CALM. TORN BETWEEN HER DESIRE FOR HER PARABATAI JULIAN AND HER DESIRE TO PROTECT HIM FROM THE BRUTAL CONSEQUENCES OF PARABATAI RELATIONSHIPS
Pinocchio – Puffin Classics
THE OLD WOOD-CARVER GEPPETTO DECIDES TO MAKE A WONDERFUL PUPPET WHICH CAN DANCE AND TURN SOMERSAULTS, BUT BY CHANCE HE CHOOSES AN UNUSUAL PIECE OF WOOD – AND THE FINISHED PUPPET CAN TALK AND MISBEHAVE LIKE THE LIVELIEST CHILD. BUT PINOCCHIO IS BRAVE AND INQUISITIVE AS WELL AS NAUGHTY, AND AFTER SOME HAIR-RAISING ADVENTURES, HE EARNS HIS HEART’S DESIRE.
Butterfly Lion
Bertie rescues an orphaned white lion cub from the African wild. They are inseparable until Bertie is sent to boarding school far away in England and the lion is sold to a circus. Bertie swears that one day they will see one another again, but it is the butterfly lion which ensures that their friendship will never be forgotten.
The Girl in Room 105
The Girl in Room 105 is the eighth novel and the tenth book overall written by the Indian author Chetan Bhagat. The book became a bestseller based on prearranged sales alone. It tells about a IIT coaching class tutor who goes to wish his ex-girlfriend on her birthday and finds her murdered.
One Arranged Murder
SAURABH AND PRERNA WILL BE GETTING MARRIED SOON. IT IS AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE. HOWEVER, THERE IS MORE CHEESY ROMANCE BETWEEN THEM THAN ANY LOVE-MARRIAGE COUPLE. ON KARVA CHAUTH, SHE FASTED FOR HIM. SHE DIDN’T EAT ALL DAY. IN THE EVENING, SHE CALLED HIM AND WAITED ON THE TERRACE FOR THE MOON AND FOR SAURABH TO BREAK HER FAST. EXCITED, SAURABH RAN UP THE STEPS OF HER THREE-STOREY HOUSE. BUT WHEN HE REACHED…
Half Girl Friend
Half Girlfriend is a story of Bihari boy Madhav, a Hindi speaking Bihari who falls in love with Riya, an influential Delhi girl on the campus of prestigious St. Stephen’s College. Madhav belongs to middle class family, while Riya is from higher class and both have different lifestyles. Madhav proposes her, but Riya rejects the proposal because she thinks they are good as a friend only.
Peter Pan (Puffin Classics)
PETER PAN AND TINKERBELL LEAD THE THREE DARLING CHILDREN OVER THE ROOFTOPS OF LONDON AND AWAY TO NEVERLAND – THE ISLAND WHERE THE LOST BOYS PLAY. MAGIC AND MISCHIEF IS IN THE AIR BUT IF VILLAINOUS CAPTAIN HOOK HAS HIS WAY, BEFORE LONG SOMEONE WILL BE SWIMMING WITH THE CROCODILES . . .
The Stars Below
THIS IS IT. VEGA JANE HAS TRIED TO OUTRUN, OUTSMART, AND OUTLAST HER ENEMY, BUT THE SHOWDOWN SHE HAS DREADED IS FINALLY HERE. HER RAGTAG CREW MUST TAKE A STAND AGAINST A FULLY TRAINED ARMY, KNOWING THE ODDS ARE IMPOSSIBLE, KNOWING EACH OF THEM COULD DIE FOR NOTHING. BUT WHEN EVIL COMES, HEROES STAND TO MEET IT. WHEN INJUSTICE APPEARS, THE ONLY CHOICE IS TO STAND AND FIGHT.
King`s Cage
IN THIS BREATHLESS THIRD INSTALMENT TO VICTORIA AVEYARD’S BESTSELLING RED QUEEN SERIES, ALLEGIANCES ARE TESTED ON EVERY SIDE. AND WHEN THE LIGHTNING GIRL’S SPARK IS GONE, WHO WILL LIGHT THE WAY FOR THE REBELLION? MARE BARROW IS A PRISONER, POWERLESS WITHOUT HER LIGHTNING, TORMENTED BY HER LETHAL MISTAKES. SHE LIVES AT THE MERCY OF A BOY SHE ONCE LOVED, A BOY MADE OF LIES AND BETRAYAL. NOW A KING,
Red Queen
THIS IS A WORLD DIVIDED BY BLOOD – RED OR SILVER.THE REDS ARE COMMONERS, RULED BY A SILVER ELITE IN POSSESSION OF GOD-LIKE SUPERPOWERS. AND TO MARE BARROW, A SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD RED GIRL FROM THE POVERTY-STRICKEN STILTS, IT SEEMS LIKE NOTHING WILL EVER CHANGE.THAT IS, UNTIL SHE FINDS HERSELF WORKING IN THE SILVER PALACE. HERE, SURROUNDED BY THE PEOPLE SHE HATES THE MOST, MARE DISCOVERS THAT, DESPITE HER RED BLOOD, SHE POSSESSES A DEADLY POWER OF HER OWN. ONE THAT THREATENS TO DESTROY THE BALANCE OF POWER.FEARFUL OF MARE’S POTENTIAL,
War Storm
MARE BARROW LEARNED THIS ALL TOO WELL WHEN CAL’S BETRAYAL NEARLY DESTROYED HER. NOW DETERMINED TO PROTECT HER HEART-AND SECURE FREEDOM FOR REDS AND NEWBLOODS LIKE HER-MARE RESOLVES TO OVERTHROW THE KINGDOM OF NORTA ONCE AND FOR ALL . . . STARTING WITH THE CROWN ON MAVEN’S HEAD. BUT NO BATTLE IS WON ALONE, AND BEFORE THE REDS MAY RISE AS ONE, MARE MUST SIDE WITH THE BOY WHO BROKE HER HEART IN ORDER TO DEFEAT THE BOY WHO ALMOST BROKE HER
Little Women (Puffin Classics)
GROWN-UP MEG, TOMBOYISH JO, TIMID BETH, AND PRECOCIOUS AMY. THE FOUR MARCH SISTERS COULDN’T BE MORE DIFFERENT. BUT WITH THEIR FATHER AWAY AT WAR, AND THEIR MOTHER WORKING TO SUPPORT THE FAMILY, THEY HAVE TO RELY ON ONE ANOTHER. WHETHER THEY’RE PUTTING ON A PLAY, FORMING A SECRET SOCIETY, OR CELEBRATING CHRISTMAS, THERE’S ONE THING THEY CAN’T HELP WONDERING: WILL FATHER RETURN HOME SAFELY?
Children of Virtue and Vengeance
CHILDREN OF VIRTUE AND VENGEANCE IS THE BREATHTAKING SECOND TITLE IN TOMI ADEYEMI’S YA FANTASY TRILOGY, LEGACY OF ORÏSHA, FOLLOWING HER GROUND-BREAKING, WEST AFRICAN-INSPIRED DEBUT CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE. AFTER BATTLING THE IMPOSSIBLE, ZÉLIE AND AMARI HAVE FINALLY SUCCEEDED IN BRINGING MAGIC BACK TO THE LAND OF ORÏSHA. BUT THE RITUAL WAS MORE POWERFUL THAN THEY IMAGINED, REIGNITING THE POWERS OF NOT ONLY THE MAJI BUT ALSO SOME NOBLES WITH MAGIC ANCESTRY.
අගාධ
සම්මානනීය ලේඛිකාවක වූ ශාන්ති දිසානායක විසින් ලියන ලද ‘අගාධ‘ නවකතාව සමාජයේ අප නොදකින පැතිකඩක් ඔස්සේ ජීවිතය විවරණය කරන්නට උත්සාහ දරයි. කතාව ගළා යන්නේ ආදර කතාවක් ඔස්සේ ය. මේ ආදර කතාව සතුටින් අවසන් වන්නේ නැත. එය පත්ලක් නොමැති අගාධයකට වැටෙන යමක් සේ කෙළවර වෙයි. ඒ ආදරවන්තයන් අනාගතයේ දිනෙක යළි හමුවුව ද ඔවුන් ඒ අවස්ථාවේ දී ද දකින්නේ ඔවුන් ඉදිරියේ ඇති පතුළක් නොමැති අගාධයක් වන් වූ මේ ලෝකයයි. ශාන්ති දිසානායක ලේඛිකාව අප ඉදිරියේ තබන්නට උත්සාහ ගන්නේ මේ සත්යය යි.
වියන් ඇඳ
ප්රවීණ ලේඛිකා දයා ද අල්විස් විසින් කලකට පෙර නිර්මාණය කරන ලද මෙම කෙටිකතා එකතුව නව මුද්රණයක් ලෙස යළිත් මෙසේ ප්රකාශයට පත් ව තිබේ. එදිනෙදා ජීවිතයේ මුහුණ දෙන ජීවන හැලහැප්පීම් කෙටිකතා ඇසුරින් සංවාදයට ලක් කෙරෙන කෘතියක් ලෙස මෙය හැඳින්විය හැකි ය.
බැද්දේගම
අප රට සිටි ඉංග්රීසි ජාතික සිවිල් නිලධාරියකු වූ ලෙනාඩ් වුල්ෆ් විසින් රචනා කොට ඒ.පී. ගුණරත්න විසින් සිංහලයට නගන ලද ‘බැද්දේගම‘ වූ කලී කැලෑබද ගම්මානයක සිංහල ගැමි ජීවිතය ඇසුරු කරගනිමින් නිර්මාණය වූ ශ්රේෂ්ඨතම ඉංග්රීසි නවකතාව බව විචාරකයන්ගේ මතයයි. ඉංග්රීසි ජාතිකයකු ලෙස ඔහු අප ගැමි සමාජය විනිවිද දුටු අයුරු අපූරුය. 2019 වර්ෂයේ උසස් පෙළ විෂය නිර්දේශය වෙනස් වීමත් සමග ඉදිරි වසර 8 ක් සඳහා නිර්දේශය වූ සිංහල නවකතාව වූයේ ද බැද්දේගම ය. බැද්දේගම නවකතාව මෙසේ ඔබ අතට පත්වන්නේ නැවත සකස් කිරීමකින් පසුව එන නැවත මුද්රණයක් වශයෙනි. මෙසේ නැවත සකස් වීමේ දී ප්රමාණය වෙනස් කොට තිබේ.