Wonder (Palacio R J)(Paperback / softback)

Wonder (Palacio R J)(Paperback / softback)

Read the internationally bestselling book before you watch the major movie from Lionsgate, starring Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson. This special edition is complete with exclusive behind-the-scenes content. | The unforgettable and life-affirming story of August Pullman - a boy who's desperate to blend

Penguin Readers Level 3: Wonder (ELT Graded Reader) (Palacio R J)(Paperback / softback)

August 'Auggie' Pullman has been home-schooled all his life. Now he is starting fifth grade at a school in New York City. He doesn't want other students to look at him, but that isn't easy when he looks like he does.Penguin Readers is a series of popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and

We're All Wonders (Palacio R J)(Paperback / softback)

I know I can't change the way I look. But maybe, just maybe, people can change the way they see . Wonder is the unforgettable story of August Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face. With over 5 million copies sold, Wonder is a true modern classic, a life-changing read, and has inspired

Ice Cold Heart (Tracy P. J.)(Paperback / softback)

A violent murder. An ice-cold killer . . .On a bitterly cold winter night, Kelly Ramage leaves her suburban home, telling her husband she's going to meet a friend.But she never comes back.When her body is discovered, murdered in what seems to be a sex game gone horribly wrong, Detectives Gino and

Taking of Annie Thorne - 'Britain's female Stephen King' Daily Mail (Tudor C. J.)(Paperback / softback)

THEN One night, my little sister went missing. There were searches, appeals. Everyone thought the worst. And then, miraculously, she came back. She couldn't, or wouldn't, say what had happened. But she wasn't the same afterwards. She wasn't my Annie. Because sometimes my own little sister scared me

1 Page at a Time - A Daily Creative Companion (Kurtz Adam J.)(Paperback / softback)

A title, that gently (and not gently) pushes you through the year, gets you writing about your past, present, and future, facing your fears and then turning the page. Each of the 365 prompts presents a chance to draw, write, make a list, imagine, dream, or otherwise create something new

Chalk Man - The Sunday Times bestseller. The most chilling book you'll read this year (Tudor C. J.)(Paperback / softback)

A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR - 'A frightening Stephen King-esque coming-of-age story cum murder mystery. With new crime writers this dark, the future is bright' A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR - 'There are shades of Stephen King in this very creepy timeslip' ___________ It was only meant to be a

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; Seymour - an Introduction (Salinger J. D.)(Paperback / softback)

A haunting portrait of family tragedy from the acclaimed author of The Catcher in the Rye'He was a great many things to a great many people while he lived, and virtually all things to his brothers and sisters in our somewhat outsized family. Surely he was all real things to us: our blue-striped

Changing Mind - A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well (Levitin Daniel)(Paperback / softback)

In this ground-breaking book, Dr Daniel Levitin uses cutting-edge research from neuroscience and psychology to demonstrate the importance of the stage that follows the middle-age. Packed with engaging interviews with successful, creative individuals far beyond the conventional age of 'retirement',

Franny and Zooey (Salinger J. D.)(Paperback / softback)

A sharp and poignant snapshot of the crises of youth - from the acclaimed author of The Catcher in the Rye'Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go

Couples That Work - How To Thrive in Love and at Work (Petriglieri Jennifer)(Paperback / softback)

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) (Capek Karel)(Paperback)

A visionary work of science fiction that introduced the word 'robot' Written in 1920, premiered in Prague in 1921, and first performed in New York in 1922--garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word robot. Mass-produced as efficient laborers to serve man, Capek's Robots are

Territory of Light (Tsushima Yuko)(Paperback / softback)

'Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary freshness ... a Virginia Woolf quality' Margaret DrabbleTerritory of Light is the radiant story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her two-year-old daughter. Its twelve chapters follow the first year of the narrator's separation from her husband. The

How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A. Cup (Carr J.L.)(Paperback / softback)

In their new all-buttercup-yellow-stripe, Steeple Sinderby Wanderers, who usually feel lucky when their pitch is above water-level, are England's most obscure team. This uncategorizable, surreal and extremely funny novel is the story of how they start the season by ravaging the Fenland League and

Freakonomics - A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Levitt Steven D.)(Paperback)

In the summer of 2003,The New York Times Magazinesent Stephen J. Dubner, an author and journalist, to write a profile of Steven D. Levitt, a heralded young economist at the University of Chicago. Levitt was not remotely interested in the things that interest most economists. Instead, he studied the

Catcher in the Rye (Salinger J. D.)(Paperback)

The 'brilliant, funny, meaningful novel' (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature--and that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a lifelong love of books. 'If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want

The Bullet That Missed - Richard Osman

Phone (Self Will)(Paperback / softback)

'WHATEVER YOU DO hang on to the phone. . . . . . . . ! . . . . . . . . ! Feel the smoothness of its bevelled screen . . . . . . . . ! . . . . . . . . ! Place your thumb in the soft depression of its belly-button - turn it over and over. . . . . . . . ! . . . . . . . . ! A five hundred-quid worry

A Sliver of Darkness - C. J. Tudorová

**PRE-ORDER NOW - THIS HALLOWEEN PREPARE TO BE TERRIFIED WITH C. J. TUDOR'S FIRST COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES**A creak of the floorboard, a shiver down your spine, the feeling that you're not alone...Join a group of survivors who wash up on a deserted island only to make a horrifying discovery.Meet

Becoming - The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller (Obama Michelle)(Paperback / softback)

Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self, and a book club guide with 20 discussion questions and a 5-question Q&A, the intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States In her memoir, a work of

For Esme - with Love and Squalor - And Other Stories (Salinger J. D.)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of nine exceptional stories from the acclaimed author of The Catcher in the Rye'This is the squalid, or moving, part of the story, and the scene changes. The people change, too. I'm still around, but from here on in, for reasons I'm not at liberty to disclose, I've disguised myself so

Confederacy of Dunces - 'Probably my favourite book of all time' Billy Connolly (Toole John Kennedy)(Paperback / softback)

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book Review A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is

K. (Calasso Roberto)(Paperback / softback)

What are Kafka's stories about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Things that happen every day? But where and when? In this remarkable book, Roberto Calasso sets out not to dispel the mystery but to let it be illuminated by its own light. With his unique vision, imagination, and intellectual

Count Karlstein (Pullman Philip)(Paperback / softback)

The very first children's novel by Philip Pullman, Count Karlstien is a deliciously terrifying, wickedly funny adventure, beautifully illustrated by Peter Bailey.All Souls' Eve is a night when nobody in the village of Karlstein dares to leave their homes. For that is the night that Zamiel, the