Puffin Classics- Anne of Ingleside
Highlights:
The sixth volume of the adventures of red-haired Anne Shirley. Anne, now Mrs Doctor Blythe, is still sometimes as impetuous as when she was the girl from Green Gables. But with six lively children and hard-worked Gilbert to look after – not to mention Gilbert’s disapproving aunt, Anne has to be practical too. Especially when the children get into as many scrapes as she ever did!
රු2,250.00
Running Wild
Highlights:
An epic and heart-rending jungle adventure from the bestselling author of `War Horse’ and `Born to Run’. For Will and his mother, going to Indonesia isn’t just a holiday. It’s an escape, a new start, a chance to put things behind them – things like the death of Will’s father. And to begin with, it seems to be just what they both needed. But then Oona, the elephant Will is riding on the beach, begins acting strangely, shying away from the sea. And that’s when the tsunami comes crashing in, and Oona begins to run. Except that when the tsunami is gone, Oona just keeps on running. With nothing on his back but a shirt and nothing to sustain him but a bottle of water, Will must learn to survive deep in the jungle. Luckily, though, he’s not completely alone… He’s got Oona.
රු2,230.00
One Of Us Is Lying
Highlights:
Five students go to detention. Only four leave alive. For fans of Gossip Girl and Pretty Little Liars, this is the perfect high school thriller. Yale hopeful Bronwyn has never publicly broken a rule. Sports star Cooper only knows what he’s doing in the baseball diamond.
Bad boy Nate is one misstep away from a life of crime. Prom queen Addy is holding together the cracks in her perfect life. And outsider Simon, creator of the notorious gossip app at Bayview High, won’t ever talk about any of them again. He dies 24 hours before he could post their deepest secrets online. Investigators conclude it’s no accident. All of them are suspects. Everyone has secrets, right? What really matters is how far you’ll go to protect them.
රු2,230.00
Spaceboy
Highlights:
“Go back to the Space Race with No.1 bestselling author David Walliams for a breathless cinematic adventure full of mystery, action, laughs and surprises – and a secret that could change the course of history…
America. The 1960s.
Stuck on a remote farm with her awful aunt, twelve-year-old orphan Ruth spends every night gazing at the stars, dreaming of adventure. One night she spots a flying saucer blazing across the sky… before crash-landing in a field. When the spaceship opens and reveals a mysterious alien, all Ruth’s dreams come true. But does this visitor from another planet have a giant secret?”
රු2,790.00
Still Life
Highlights:
“THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF DYMOCKS BOOK OF THE YEARA GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2021A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICKWINNER OF THE INWORDS LITERARY AWARD’Sheer joy’ Graham Norton’Utterly beautiful … filled with hope’ Joanna Cannon, author of Three Things About Elsie’A gorgeous, generous story of kind hearts and kindred spirits’ Daily MirrorFrom the author of When God was a Rabbit and Tin Man, Still Life is a big-hearted story of the families we forge and the friendships that make us.1944, Italy.
As bombs fall around them, two strangers meet in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa and share an extraordinary evening.Ulysses Temper is a young British soldier, Evelyn Skinner a 64-year-old art historian living life on her own terms.”
Anne of Avonlea (Puffin Classics)
Highlights:
The second story in the ever-popular Anne of Green Gables series. Now Anne is half past sixteen and she’s ready to begin a new life teaching in her old school. She’s as feisty as ever and is fiercely determined to inspire young hearts with her own ambitions. But some of her pupils are as boisterous and high-spirited as Anne, and so life in her Avonlea classroom becomes a lesson in discovery and adventure . . .
රු2,250.00
The Book of Form and Emptiness
Highlights:
“When a book and a reader are meant for each other, both of them know it . . .
After the tragic death of his father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house and sound variously pleasant, angry or sad. Then his mother develops a hoarding problem, and the voices grow more clamorous. So Benny seeks refuge in the silence of a large public library. There he meets a mesmerising street artist with a smug pet ferret; a homeless philosopher-poet; and his very own Book, who narrates Benny’s life and teaches him to listen to the things that truly matter.
Blending unforgettable characters with jazz, climate change and our attachment to material possessions, this is classic Ruth Ozeki – bold, humane and heartbreaking.”
රු3,350.00
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Puffin Classics)
Highlights:
On an ordinary summer’s afternoon, Alice tumbles down a hole and an extraordinary adventure begins. In a strange world with even stranger characters, she meets a rabbit with a pocket watch, joins a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, and plays croquet with the Queen! Lost in this fantasy land, Alice finds herself growing more and more curious by the minute . . .
රු1,995.00
සකුන්තලා
Highlights:
මහාකවි කාලිදාසයන්ගේ සකුන්තලා පරිවර්තන කෘතියකි
රු450.00
The Last Battle (The Chronicles of Narnia)
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Introducing the seventh book of the newly designed narnia classics. Perfect for those seeking a contemporary take on the chronicles of narnia. It is narnia’s darkest hour. A false aslan is commanding all narnians to work for the cruel calormenes and striking terror into every heart. King tirian’s only hope is to call eustace and jill back to narnia in an attempt to find the true aslan and restore peace to the land. But a mighty battle lies ahead.x
රු1,960.00
The Chronicles of Narnia : The Horse and His Boy Book #3
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Horse and His Boy Book 3 Chronicles Of Narnia Introducing the third book of the newly designed Narnia classics. Perfect for those seeking a contemporary take on The Chronicles of Narnia The Horse and his Boy is a stirring and dramatic fantasy story that finds a young boy named Shasta on the run from his homeland with the talking horse, Bree. When the pair discover a deadly plot by the Calormen people to conquer the land of Narnia, the race is on to warn the inhabitants of the impending danger and to rescue them all from certain death. About the Author: Cs Lewis Clive Staples
රු1,960.00
Nothing More to Tell
Highlights:
“True crime can leave a false trail.
Four years ago, Brynn left Saint Ambrose School following the shocking murder of her favourite teacher. The case was never solved, but she’s sure that the three kids who found Mr. Larkin’s body know more than they’re telling, especially her ex-best friend Tripp Talbot. He’s definitely hiding something.”
රු2,230.00
Listen to the Moon
Highlights:
The stunning new novel of World War One from Michael Morpurgo, the nation’s favourite storyteller and multi-million copy bestseller.May, 1915.Alfie and his fisherman father find a girl on an uninhabited island in the Scillies – injured, thirsty, lost… and with absolutely no memory of who she is, or how she came to be there. She can say only one word: Lucy.Where has she come from? Is she a mermaid, the victim of a German U-boat, or even – as some islanders suggest – a German spy…?Only one thing is for sure: she loves music and moonlight, and it is when she listens to the gramophone that the glimmers of the girl she once was begin to appear.
රු2,230.00
Just Like You: Nick Hornby
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“Lucy married just the sort of man you might expect: a university graduate who runs his own business. Unfortunately he turned out to have serious dependency issues.
Joseph is shaking off the memory of his last date, a girl who ticked all the right boxes and also drove him up the wall.
On an average Saturday morning in a butcher’s shop in North London, Lucy and Joseph meet on opposite sides of the counter. She is a teacher and mother of two, with a past she is trying to forget; he is an aspiring DJ with a wide-open future that maybe needs to start becoming more focused. Lucy and Joseph are opposites in almost all ways. Can something life-changing grow from uncommon ground?”
රු2,790.00
James and the Giant Peach
Highlights:
“James and the Giant peach is a children’s classic that has captured young reader’s imaginations for generations. James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags.
Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that looks boiled and Aunt Spiker is bony and screeching. He’s very lonely until one day something peculiar happens. . .
At the end of the garden a peach starts to grow and GROW AND GROW. Inside that peach are seven very unusual insects – all waiting to take James on a magical adventure.
But where will they go in their GIANT PEACH, and what will happen to the horrible aunts if they stand in their way?”
රු2,230.00
It’s Not Summer Without You
Highlights:
“Book 2 in The Summer I Turned Pretty series – now a major new TV show on Amazon Prime! From the author of To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before (now a smash-hit Netflix movie), perfect for fans of The Kissing Booth, Rainbow Rowell and Holly Bourne.
One girl. Two boys. An impossible decision to make . . .
When something is perfect, you hope it lasts forever. But Isabel’s lazy, long hot summers at her family friends’ beach house are over.
“
රු2,520.00
Holes
Highlights:
Holes is a 1998 young adult novel written by Louis Sachar and first published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The book centers on Stanley Yelnats, who is sent to Camp Green Lake, a correctional boot camp in a desert in Texas, after being falsely accused of theft.
රු2,790.00
Glid
Highlights:
“Gild is first book in The Plated Prisoner – the 44M view Tik Tok Fantasy phenomenon. It follows Auren – the woman King Midas turned to gold – as she escapes the King and faces fearsome enemies, and her own demons, to find her voice
This is the story of King Midas . . .
Or that’s what we were always told. The Golden King with his palace of riches and me, his golden touched girl. I’m kept locked away. For my safety, I’m told. No one can get in. Apart from him. But when political upheaval becomes strife in our kingdom, I am sent with the royal court to be with my King. And everything I know starts to change. My love for Midas is challenged, my trust is broken. Everything I knew about him was wrong.”
George’s Marvellous Medicine
Highlights:
“A true genius . . . Roald Dahl is my hero’ – David Walliams. WARNING: DO NOT try to make George’s Marvellous Medicine yourselves at home. It could be dangerous…
George Kranky’s Grandma is a miserable grouch. George really hates that horrid old witchy woman. One Saturday morning, George is in charge of giving Grandma her medicine. So-ho! Ah-ha! Ho-hum! George knows exactly what to do. A magic medicine it will be! One that will either cure her completely of her horrible grouchiness . . . or blow off the top of her head! Roald Dahl is the world’s NUMBER ONE storyteller! Now you can listen to GEORGE’S MARVELLOUS MEDICINE and other Roald Dahl audiobooks read by some very famous voices, including Kate Winslet, David Walliams and Steven Fry – plus there are added squelchy soundeffects from Pinewood Studios!”
රු1,960.00
Dear Olly
Highlights:
“Discover the beautiful stories of Michael Morpurgo, author of Warhorse and the nation’s favourite storyteller. A moving story of a brother, a sister and a swallow, and how all are in some way victims of the horrors of landmines. Olly’s brother Matt wants to go and work with children who have been made orphans, through war, in Africa. He wants to be a clown and make them laugh. His mother and sister want him to stay in England and go to university.
Hero, a swallow, has a journey to make too. He must fly to Africa for the winter to join all the other swallows. His journey is difficult and fraught with danger. Three separate stories are woven into one powerful and moving novel whose central theme not only exposes the horrors of war and of landmines, but also the endurance of the human spirit.”
රු1,960.00
හන්ටිං පාටි
Highlights:
ස්කොට්ලන්තයේ දුර ඈත, හුදෙකලා පෙදෙසක වූ මනරම් වන පියසක් මැද නිවාඩු නිකේතනයක අලුත් අවුරුදු සැඳෑවක් අතීත මතක අලුත් කරමින්, ජීවිතයේ අලුත් සැමරුම් සමරන්නට එක්වුණු මිතුරු කැලක්…
ඔවුන්ගේ නිදහස අහුරමින්, නිවාඩු නිකේතනයට පැමිණි තවත් අමුත්තන් යුවළක්…
ඔවුන් සියල්ලන්ම පිළිගෙන මඟපෙන්වන, නිවාඩු නිකේතනය භාරව හිඳින නිහඬ ගැහැනියක් සහ ගුප්ත මිනිසෙක්…
ඔවුන්ගේ ජීවිත වල එක් එක් යුගයන්හි දෛවය විසින් ඔවුනොවුන්වම ඈඳා නිර්මාණය කරන ලද අඳුරුතම ඝට්ටනයන් ඒ දෙදින තුළදී හෙළිවනු ඇත. ඔවුන් තවදුරටත් ඔවුන්ම නොවනු ඇත. කාලයා විසින් වළදමන ලද රහස්, ඒ නව අවුරුදු සැඳෑවේදී යළි මතු වී ඔවුන්ගේ ජීවිත සදහටම වෙනස්කරනු ඇත.
ඔවුන්ගෙන් අයෙක් මිනීමරුවෙකි.
තවත් අයෙක් ඒ දඩයම් බිමෙන් කිසිදා පිටනොවනු ඇත.
ඒ හැන්දෑවේ, දඩබිම් පියසේ සාදයට ඔබටත් ඇරයුම් !
රු2,100.00
දේවතාපය
Highlights:
ක්රි.ව.80 දශකයේහිදී පමණ පැවති රෝම ග්රීක සභ්යත්ව යුගයෙහිදී
විසුවියස් ගිනි කඳු පිපුරුමෙන් විනාශයට පත්වු ඉතාලියෙහි පොම්පෙයි
නගරය පසුබිම කොටගත් ප්රේම වෘත්තාන්තයක් දේවතාපයට පසුබිම්
වෙයි.මුල් කෘතියේ ලේඛකයාගේ විශිෂ්ටත්වයත් පරිවර්තකයාගේ සිංහල,
ඉංග්රිසි භාෂා චතුරතාවත් එක්ව ගෙන නිමැවුණු අපුර්ව නිර්මාණයක්
ලෙස දේවතාපය හදුන්වන්නට කවුරු නම් මැලිවෙත්ද?
හුටපට වීදිය
Highlights:
හුටපට වීදිය
ඔවුන් ද මේ සමාජයේ ම සාමාජීකයන් ය.
අව්ව, වැස්ස, සුළඟ කාටත් නොමිලයේම
ලැබෙන්නා සේ ම ඔව්න්ට ද ඒ සියලු
දෙය ලැබුණි. එහෙත් ජිවිතය ජයගැනීම
සඳහා ඔවුන්ට මහත් අරගලයක් කරන්නට
සිදුවීම පෙර ආත්මවල පව් පින් පලදීම ද?
සමාජයේ වෙසෙන තවත් එක් මිනිස්
කොට්ඨාසයක්ගැන දශමයක් වු මේ කතාව
අප හැමගේම කතාවම විය නොහැකිද?
රු500.00
තුහින
Highlights:
දෙනෙත් පුරා නීති ගලන කදුළු වැල්…
සැගවීමට තව තව වැහැපන්…
මුවගින් ගිලිහෙන සෝක සුසුම් වැල්
නෑසීමට තව ගොරවාපන්…
රතු වූ නිල් නෙතු සගවා ගන්නට
වලාකුලේ ඔය සද වහපන්…
රිදුනු තැවුණු සිත සුවපත් කරන්නට..
පහන් තරුව යළි පායාපන්…
රු550.00
Daisy Jones and The Six
Highlights:
There was Daisy, rock and roll force of nature, brilliant songwriter and unapologetic drug addict, the half-feral child who rose to superstardom. There was Camila, the frontman’s wife, too strong-willed to let the band implode – and all too aware of the electric connection between her husband and Daisy. There was Karen, ice-cool keyboardist, a ferociously independent woman in a world that wasn’t ready for her.
ෆ්රැන්කන්ස්ටයින්
Highlights:
ස්වීස් ජාතික භෞතික විද්යාඥයකු වූ වික්ටර් ෆ්රැන්කන්ස්ටයින්
මානව වර්ගයාගේ අභිවෘද්ධිය උදෙසා විද්යාත්මක පර්යේෂණයන්හි
යෙදෙන්නේ, මිනිස්සිරුරු කොටස් එකතු කර කෘතිම මිනිසෙකු
නිර්මාණය කරයි. එහෙත් අසාමාන්ය දැවැන්ත සිරුරකින් හෙබි
කෘතිම මිනිසා ජීවය ලබන්නේ ඉතාම විකෘති,විකාර,විරූපි, බියකරු,
පිළිකුල් සහගත භූතයකු ලෙසය. ෆ්රැන්කන්ස්ටයින් මේ බියකරු මිනිස්
රකුසාගෙන් පලා යයි.
සිය විරූපි විකෘති බියකරු රූපයට බියෙන් සිය මැවුම්කරු විසින් සහ
මිනිස් සමාජය විසින් ප්රතික්ෂේප කරනු ලබන භූතයා සිය මැවුමකරුගෙන්
පලිගැනීමට ගන්නා එක් එක් පියවර නිසා ෆ්රැන්කන්ස්ටයින් අන්ත දුක්ඛිත
අසරණ කාලකණ්ණි බිහිසුණු අත්දැකීම් වලට මුහුණ දෙන හැටි විස්තරකෙරෙන
මෙම ත්රාසජනක විචිත්රාද්භූත විද්යා ප්රබන්ධ කතාව, විද්යාව තුළින් මනුෂ්යත්වයේ
ස්වභාවික සීමාවක් ඉක්මවා යෑමට තැත් කිරීමේදී ඇති විය හැකි අනිටු විපාක
ලොමු ඩැහැගන්වන අයුරින් ගෙන හැර දක්වයි.
මිහිරි සුන්දර පවුල් ජීවිතයක අගයත්, සමාජ සාධාරණත්වයක්,
මානව දයාවත්, සමකාලීනවිද්යා හා සමාජ දර්ශනයත් මිනිස් හැඟීම්
පිළිබඳ විස්තීර්ණ විග්රහයන්, සම්භාව්ය සාහිත්යමය ආභාෂයත්, මිනිස්
ස්වභාවය පිළිබඳ මූලික සිද්ධාන්තයන්ගේ හරයත් සංකලනය කර 1818 දී
මේරී ෂෙලී විසින් ලියන ලද ” ෆ්රැන්කන්ස්ටයින් ” විශ්ව සදාචාරයේ අගය
දක්වමින් ඓශ්චර්යමත් පසුබිම් මත ගොඩ නංවන ලද කාල්පනික විචක්ෂණ
භාවයේ ප්රතිරූපයක් ලෙසද, සම්භාව්ය විශ්ව සාහිත්ය ආරම්භයේ ශ්රේෂ්ඨ
ශෝකාන්ත කාව්යයක් ලෙසද අමරණීය ස්ථානයක් දිනා ඇත.
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Cool
Highlights:
“One day Robbie is hit by a car while running after his dog, Lucky. Unconscious, Robbie lies in hospital, unable to speak, move or eat. But he can hear; he is aware.
His friends and family try desperately to reach him – even Zola, his favourite Chelsea footballer, comes to see him. And still Robbie can’t ‘wake up’. Until one day, against hospital rules, Dad brings Lucky into the hospital. Can Lucky bring Robbie back to life?”
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Beezus and Ramona
Highlights:
“Having a little sister like four-year-old Ramona isn’t always easy for Beezus Quimby. With a wild imagination, disregard for order, and an appetite for chaos, Ramona makes it hard for Beezus to be the responsible older sister she knows she ought to be…especially when Ramona threatens to ruin Beezus’s birthday party. Will Beezus find the patience to handle her little sister before Ramona turns her big day into a complete disaster?
“”An important reminder of the good that can come when you throw yourself fully into any situation and draw outside the lines,”” says Brightly in their article “”12 Girls from Fiction Who Are Their Own Heroes.”””
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Elephant in the Garden
Highlights:
A thrilling and moving novel about an extraordinary animal caught up in a very human war, for anyone who loved The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips or The Butterfly Lion! By the award-winning former Children’s Laureate and author of War Horse. Dresden, 1945. Elizabeth and Karli’s mother works at the zoo, where her favourite animal is a young elephant named Marlene. Then the zoo director tells her that the dangerous animals — including the elephants — must be shot before the town is bombed. Unable to give Marlene up, their mother moves her into the back garden to save her! and then the bombs start to fall. Their home destroyed, the whole family must flee the bombed-out city and through the perilous, snow-covered landscape, all the while avoiding the Russian troops who are drawing ever closer. It would be hard enough to do, without an elephant in tow!
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