SEEONEE WOLF PACK FINDS MOWGLI, A FEARLESS LITTLE CHILD, NEAR THE MOUTH OF THE CAVE THEY LIVE IN. MOTHER WOLF INSTANTLY DEVELOPS A LIKING FOR THE "MAN S CUB", AS SHE CALLS HIM, AND HAPPILY BRINGS HIM UP. MOWGLI BEFRIENDS BAGHEERA, THE BLACK PANTHER, AND BALOO, THE BROWN BEAR, WHO INITIATE HIM INTO T..
When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her--freedom, prison or death.With The Testaments, the wait is over.Margaret
Atwood's sequel picks up the story more than fifteen years after Offred
stepped into the u..
When snow shuts down Greg Heffley’s middle school,
his neighborhood transforms into a wintry battlefield. Rival groups
fight over territory, build massive snow forts, and stage epic snowball
fights. And in the crosshairs are Greg and his trusty best friend,
Rowley Jefferson.
It’s a fight fo..
With the cold weather and the stress of the
approaching holiday season, the Heffleys decide to escape to a tropical
island resort for some much-needed rest and relaxation. A few days in
paradise should do wonders for Greg and his frazzled family.
But the Heffleys soon discover that paradise i..
The pressure’s really piling up on Greg Heffley. The
only thing he’s good at is playing video games, but his parents want
him to broaden his horizons by doing something—anything!—else.
When Greg finds an old video camera in his basement, he thinks he may
have discovered just the thing to prov..
Life was better in the old days. Or was it?
That’s the question Greg Heffley is asking as his town voluntarily
unplugs and goes electronics-free. But modern life has its conveniences,
and Greg isn’t cut out for an old-fashioned world.
With tension building inside and outside the Heffley home, ..
A family road trip is supposed to be a lot of fun . . . unless, of course, you’re the Heffleys.
The journey starts off full of promise, then quickly takes several
wrong turns. Gas station bathrooms, crazed seagulls, a fender bender,
and a runaway pig—not exactly Greg Heffley’s idea of a good ti..
Greg Heffley’s on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson,
has ditched him, and finding new friends in middle school is proving to
be a tough task. To change his fortunes, Greg decides to take a leap of
faith and turn his decisions over to chance. Will a roll of the dice
turn thin..
Love is in the air—but what does that mean for Greg Heffley?
A Valentine’s Day dance at Greg’s middle school has turned his world
upside down. As Greg scrambles to find a date, he’s worried he’ll be
left out in the cold on the big night. His best friend, Rowley, doesn’t
have any prospects eit..
Greg Heffley is in big trouble. School property has
been damaged, and Greg is the prime suspect. But the crazy thing is,
he’s innocent. Or at least sort of.
The authorities are closing in, but when a surprise blizzard hits,
the Heffley family is trapped indoors. Greg knows that when the snow ..
Greg Heffley has always been in a hurry to grow up. But is getting older really all it’s cracked up to be?
Greg suddenly finds himself dealing with the pressures of boy-girl
parties, increased responsibilities, and even the awkward changes that
come with getting older—all without his best frien..
It’s summer vacation, the weather’s great, and all
the kids are having fun outside. So where’s Greg Heffley? Inside his
house, playing video games with the shades drawn.
Greg, a self-confessed “indoor person,” is living out his ultimate
summer fantasy: no responsibilities and no rules. But Gr..
Let’s face it: Greg Heffley will never change his wimpy ways. Somebody just needs to explain that to Greg’s father.
You see, Frank Heffley actually thinks he can get his son to toughen
up, and he enlists Greg in organized sports and other “manly” endeavors.
Of course, Greg is able to easily sid..
Secrets have a way of getting out, especially when a diary is involved.
Whatever you do, don’t ask Greg Heffley how he spent his summer vacation, because he definitely doesn’t want to talk about it.
As Greg enters the new school year, he’s eager to put the past three months behind him . . . and on..
It’s a new school year, and Greg Heffley finds himself thrust into
middle school, where undersized weaklings share the hallways with kids
who are taller, meaner, and already shaving. The hazards of growing up
before you’re ready are uniquely revealed through words and drawings as
Greg record..
In the past decade Pakistan has become a country of immense importance to its region, the United States, and the world. With almost 200 million people, a 500,000-man army, nuclear weapons, and a large diaspora in Britain and North America, Pakistan is central to the hopes of jihadis and the fears of..
This masterpiece of science fiction is the fascinating story of Griffin, a scientist who creates a serum to render himself invisible, and his descent into madness that follows...
This short novel, already a modern classic, is the superbly told, tragic story of a Cuban fisherman in the Gulf Stream and the giant Marlin he kills and loses—specifically referred to in the citation accompanying the author's Nobel Prize for literature in 1954...
This book is about learning why we suffer and how to stop our pain from destroying us. It is a spiritual and psychological manual for healing and growth through our pain. It is about finding peace and purpose, no matter what we have been through. We live in a world where the moment we feel pain, we ..
The story of how the East India Company took
over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results of the
corporation running a country.In August 1765, the East India
Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and set up, in his place, a
government run by English traders who collected taxes ..
A Room of One s Own is a long feminist essay by Virginia Woolf which was first published in 1929. Woolf based her polemic on two lectures she delivered to two different Cambridge student societies at Newnham and Girton Colleges on 20 and 26 October 1928 respectively. Her famous quote a woman must ha..
If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets.The
great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to
explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary
entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular
ways to create th..
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
has been a bestseller since its first publication in 1963, selling many
millions of copies since its original publication. It is one of the
most brilliant and beloved spiritual self-help works of all time which
can help you heal yourself, banish your fears..
"For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From the moment young Jim Hawkins first encounters the sinister Blind Pew at the Admiral Benbow Inn until the climactic battle for treasure on a tropic isle, the novel creates scenes and characters that hav..
Young and attractive Catherine Moreland has an active imagination. A voracious reader of gothic novels, she believes that their horror can unfold in real life. She but truly begins to understand life and the way of the world when she visits Bath for winter festivities and then Northanger Abbey, the ..
Fanny Price is ten when her poor parents send her to live with Bertrams, their rich relatives at Mansfield Park. The new life, however, has its own disadvantages. Her cousins, save Edmund, mistreat her. Her other aunt, who lives at Mansfield parsonage, treats her worse. Nonetheless, she grows up to ..