You can’t stop the future. You can’t rewind the past.The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play.Clay
Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name
on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes
recorded by Hannah Baker–his classmate ..
This is not a fairy-tale. This is about real witches.
Real witches don't ride around on broomsticks. They don't even wear
black cloaks and hats. They are vile, cunning, detestable creatures who
disguise themselves as nice, ordinary ladies. So how can you tell when
you're face to face with on..
Danny’s life seems
perfect: his home is a gypsy caravan, he’s the youngest car mechanic
around, and his best friend is his dad, who never runs out of wonderful
stories to tell. And when Danny discovers his father’s secret, he’s off
on the adventure of a lifetime. Here’s Roald Dahl’s famous s..
Captured by a giant! The
BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly.
It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the
middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater, the
Bonecruncher, or any of the other giants-rather than the BFG-she..
Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an ex..
A Tale of Two Cities
is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent
upheaval of the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most
popular of his works, it compresses an event of immense complexity to
the scale of a family history, with a cast of characters tha..
For over a generation (c. 1935 - c. 1970) the Coffee House of Lahore was the greatest intellectual and literary powerhouse in North India and later in Pakistan . The book covers the likes of Nasir Kazmi, Habib Jalib, Abdus Salam, Ejaz Batalavi, Hamidullah Khan Burki, Altaf Gauhar, Tajammul Hussain a..
Eleven Minutes
is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose
first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age,
she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead
believing that “love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer. . ..
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, ..
Mr Willy Wonka is the most extraordinary chocolate maker in the world.And
do you know who Charlie is? Charlie Bucket is the hero. The other
children in this book are nasty little beasts, called: Augustus Gloop - a
great big greedy nincompoop; Veruca Salt - a spoiled brat; Violet
Beauregarde ..
Since its immediate success in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work "her own darling child" and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print." Th..
"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which..
Presented By Peter AveryMantiqu t-Tair is one of the masterpieces of Persian literature of which a complete and annotated translation into English is here presented for the first time as The Speech of the Birds . The text revolves around the decision of the birds of the world to seek out a king. The..
Kahlil Gibran’s masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Published in 1923, it has been translated into more than twenty languages, and the American editions alone have sold more than nine million copies.The Prophet is a collection of poetic essays th..
'In what may be
Dickens's best novel, humble, orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty
work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman — and one
day, under sudden and enigmatic circumstances, he finds himself in
possession of "great expectations." In this gripping tale of crime ..
Changing misconceptions one hero at a time. This much needed children’s book empowers children with stories of 20 famous and little known Muslim heroes who were trailblazers. Winner of Fofky s Reader s Choice Middle Grade Book Award 2021. Do you know the story of the first nurse or the female founde..