A rash of horrifying crimes tears through the city, throwing it into complete chaos and terrorizing everyone living there. Immediately it becomes clear that they are the work not of an amateur but of a calculating, efficient, and deadly mastermind. Happy reading. James PAtterson is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of all time. He is the author of some of the most popular ser…
At last, King Lear in language everyone can understand. Shakespeare's heart-rending tale of pride, rejection and love unfolds in this clear, modern version. The story of an old man's fall from kingship, power and riches to poverty and friendlessness, painfully groping towards real understanding and love, is told in plain, everyday language. The complete original text is laid out side-by-side…
The Capital Building, Washington DC: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon believes he is here to give a lecture. He is wrong. Within minuters of his arrival, a shocking object is discovered. It is a gruesome invitation into an ancient world of hidden wisdom.rnrnWhen Landon's mentor, Peter Solomon - promenent mason and philanthropist - is kidnapped, Langdon realizes that his only hopes of saving h…
The best documentary account of an American crime ever written.....The book chills the blood and exercises the intelligence.... harrowing" - The New York Review of Books. A remarkable, tensely exciting, moving, superbly written 'true account' - The New York Times. On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Chutter family were savagely murdered by bla…
As soon as Geppetto finishes carving him, the wooden puppet named Pinocchio starts misbehaving - playing tricks, running away, telling lies, and generally causing an uproar wherever he goes. In spite of his behaviour, Pinocchio yearns to be a real boy, but first he must prove himseld to be good and kind. Come aling on his many wild escapades as the mischievous puppet learns for himself what it …
Passion drew him into a new world and trickery has kept him there. But as he finds path in a dangerous life, he will learn his notions of home, and oh his people might not be quite as he believed. Beautifully illustrated by Bonnie Helen Hawkins, this is a stunning and original modaern fairytale of love. loss and revenge, against a powerful back drop of a adventure on the high seas, and frama…
When Mary Lennox comes to live with her uncle and her sickly cousin in their big house on the Yorkshire Moors, she is lonely and ill-tempered-until a robin shows her the key to a secret garden long forgotten. Now, with the help of some new friends, Mary transforms the secret garden into a place of peace and beauty, finding her own happiness and the love of her adopted family aling the way. rnrn…
One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it-it was the black kitten's fault enterely.rn For the white kitten had been having its face washed by the old cat for the last quarter of an hourrn ( and bearing it pretty well, considering) so you see that it couldn't have had any had in the mischief.
Art and arson,the poetry of D. H. Lawrence and pulp pornography, hero-worship and sexual debasement, totems, and taboos - out of narrative elements like these National Book Award-winner Joyce Carol Oates, oneof the most adroit voices in contemporary American fiction, contrives a startling, suspenseful tale that turns a sunny idyll of New England college campus life into a lurid nightmare. A …