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Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone
J. K. Rowling
Hither the incredibly pop Harry Potter books, by J.K. Rowling. In Book i, a mysterious letter of the alphabet, delivered past the friendly giant Hagrid, wrenches Harry from his dreary, Muggle-ridden being: Nosotros are pleased to inform you that you lot have been accepted at Hogwarts Schoolhouse of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Of form, Uncle Vernon yells nearly unpleasantly, I AM Non PAYING FOR SOME CRACKPOT One-time FOOL TO TEACH HIM MAGIC TRICKS! Soon enough, nonetheless, Harry finds himself at Hogwarts with his owl Hedwig... and that southward where the real adventure humorous, haunting, and suspenseful begins. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer south Rock, offset published in England as Harry Potter and the Philosopher south Rock, continues to win major awards in England. So far it has won the National Book Award, the Smarties Prize, the Children s Book Award, and is curt-listed for the Carnegie Medal, the U.K. version of the Newbery Medal. This magical, gripping, brilliant book a future archetype to be sure will go out kids clamoring for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. (Ages 8 to 13).
Vanish
Sophie Jordan
An Impossible Romance.Biting Rivalries.Mortiferous Choices.To save the life of the boy she loves, Jacinda did the unthinkable: She revealed the most closely guarded secret of her kind. Now, dorsum within the protection of her pride, she is seen as a traitor. As isolated as she is, Jacinda has no regrets—because of her, Volition is still alive, even if she can never encounter him over again, even if he has no memories of that fateful night. . . . Then, against all odds, Volition finds her and asks her to run abroad with him. But the price of following her heart may exist higher than she ever could have imagined.In bestselling author Sophie Jordan's dramatic follow-upwards to Firelight, forbidden love burns brighter than always.
Harry Potter and the Bedroom of Secrets
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is the second novel in the Harry Potter serial written by J. K. Rowling. The plot follows Harry'southward second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, during which a series of messages on the walls on the school'south corridors warn that the "Bedroom of Secrets" has been opened and that the "heir of Slytherin" volition kill all pupils who practice non come from all-magical families. These threats are followed by attacks which leave residents of the school "petrified". Throughout the year, Harry and his friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger investigate the attacks, and Harry is confronted by Lord Voldemort, who is attempting to regain total power.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Burn down
J. K. Rowling
In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J. Chiliad. Rowling offers upward equal parts danger and delight--and any number of dragons, house-elves, and expiry-defying challenges. Now xiv, her orphan hero has only two more than weeks with his Muggle relatives before returning to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Yet one night a vision harrowing enough to make his lightning-bolt-shaped scar fire has Harry on edge and contacting his godfather-in-hiding, Sirius Blackness. Happily, the prospect of attending the season's premier sporting consequence, the Quidditch World Cup, is enough to make Harry momentarily forget that Lord Voldemort and his sinister familiars--the Expiry Eaters--are out for murder. Readers, nosotros will cast a giant invisibility cloak over whatsoever more plot and reveal only that You lot-Know-Who is very much afterwards Harry and that this yr there will be no Quidditch matches betwixt Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin. Instead, Hogwarts will vie with 2 other magicians' schools, the stylish Beauxbatons and the icy Durmstrang, in a Triwizard Tournament. Those called to compete will undergo three supreme tests. Could Harry be one of the lucky contenders?
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J. One thousand. Rowling
Readers beware. The bright, breathtaking conclusion to J. Yard. Rowling'due south spellbinding series is not for the faint of heart--such revelations, battles, and betrayals await in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows that no fan will brand it to the end unscathed. Luckily, Rowling has prepped loyal readers for the finish of her series by doling out increasingly dark and dangerous tales of magic and mystery, shot through with lessons about honour and antipathy, love and loss, and right and wrong. Fearfulness not, yous will notice no spoilers in our review--to tell the plot would ruin the journeying, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is an odyssey the likes of which Rowling'due south fans take non yet seen, and are not probable to forget. But nosotros would exist remiss if nosotros did not offer ane small suggestion before yous commence on your final adventure with Harry--bring plenty of tissues. The heart of Volume vii is a hero's mission--non just in Harry'south quest for the Horcruxes, but in his journey from boy to man--and Harry faces more danger than that institute in all 6 books combined, from the directly threat of the Decease Eaters and you-know-who, to the subtle perils of losing organized religion in himself. Attentive readers would do well to remember Dumbledore'due south alert about making the option betwixt "what is correct and what is like shooting fish in a barrel," and know that Rowling applies the same hard principle to the conclusion of her series. While fans will find the answers to hotly speculated questions about Dumbledore, Snape, and you-know-who, it is a testament to Rowling'southward skill as a storyteller that even the almost acute and careful reader will exist taken by surprise. A spectacular finish to a astounding series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is a bittersweet read for fans. The journey is hard, filled with events both tragic and triumphant, the battlefield littered with the bodies of the love and despised, only the final chapter is as brilliant and blinding every bit a phoenix'south flame, and fans and skeptics alike will sally from the confines of the story with total but heavy hearts, dizzy and grateful for the experience.
Harry Potter and the Gild of the Phoenix
J. Grand. Rowling
east iv Up-Harry has just returned to Hogwarts after a lonely summer. Dumbledore is uncommunicative and most of the students seem to think Harry is either conceited or crazy for insisting that Voldemort is back and equally evil equally e'er. Angry, scared, and unable to confide in his godfather, Sirius, the teen magician lashes out at his friends and enemies akin. The head of the Ministry building of Magic is adamant to discredit Dumbledore and undermine his leadership of Hogwarts, and he appoints nasty, pink-cardigan-clad Professor Umbridge as the new Defense Confronting the Dark Arts instructor and Loftier Inquisitor of the school, bringing misery upon staff and students alike. This bureaucratic nightmare, added to Harry'due south sure knowledge that Voldemort is condign more than powerful, creates a desperate, Kafkaesque feeling during Harry'due south fifth year at Hogwarts. The adults all seem evil, misguided, or simply powerless, so the students must take matters into their ain hands. Harry's confusion about his godfather and father, and his credible rejection by Dumbledore make him question his own motives and the condition of his soul. Also, Harry is now fifteen, and the hormones are showtime to boot in. There are a lot of hugger-mugger doings, a piffling romance, and very niggling Quidditch or Hagrid (more reasons for Harry's gloom), just the power of this volume comes from the immature magician's struggles with his emotions and identity. Particularly moving is the unveiling, after a concluding devastating tragedy, of Dumbledore's very potent feelings of attachment and responsibility toward Harry. Children volition enjoy the magic and the Hogwarts mystique, and young developed readers will detect a rich and compelling coming-of-age story as well.
Sharp Objects
Gillian Flynn
FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GONE GIRL
Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling consignment: she must render to her tiny hometown to encompass the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-yr-old with an eerie grip on the town. At present, installed in her former bedroom in her family'due south Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a chip as well strongly. Indomitable past her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story—and survive this homecoming.
Peter Pan
J. 1000. Barrie
Peter Pan is a grapheme created past Scottish novelist and playwright J. Thou. Barrie. A mischievous boy who tin fly and never grows up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood adventuring on the small isle of Neverland as the leader of his gang, the Lost Boys, interacting with mermaids, Native Americans, fairies, pirates, and occasionally ordinary children from the earth outside of Neverland. In addition to two distinct works by Barrie, the character has been featured in a variety of media and merchandise, both adapting and expanding on Barrie's works.
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
Jane Austen's commencement published piece of work, meticulously constructed and sparkling with her unique witMarianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in dearest with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor'south warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel feel of love - and its threatened loss - the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to discover personal happiness in a society where status and coin govern the rules of dear. This edition also includes explanatory notes and textual variants between first and 2d edition. For more than than lxx years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking earth. With more than than i,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the serial to provide administrative texts enhanced by introductions and notes past distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, likewise as up-to-date translations by accolade-winning translators.
The Mistake in Our Stars
John Green
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything merely final, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. Just when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Child Support Grouping, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.
The Blood of Olympus
Rick Riordan
Though the Greek and Roman crewmembers of theArgo II take made progress in their many quests, they still seem no closer to defeating the earth mother, Gaea. Her giants have risen—all of them—and they're stronger than e'er. They must be stopped earlier the Feast of Spes, when Gaea plans to accept 2 demigods sacrificed in Athens. She needs their blood—the blood of Olympus—in order to wake.
The demigods are having more frequent visions of a terrible battle at Campsite Half-Blood. The Roman legion from Camp Jupiter, led by Octavian, is almost within hit altitude. Though information technology is tempting to take the Athena Parthenos to Athens to use equally a surreptitious weapon, the friends know that the huge statue belongs back on Long Island, where it "might" exist able to finish a state of war between the two camps.
The Athena Parthenos will go west; theArgo II will go e. The gods, however suffering from multiple personality disorder, are useless. How can a handful of young demigods promise to persevere confronting Gaea'southward army of powerful giants? As dangerous as it is to head to Athens, they have no other option. They accept sacrificed too much already. And if Gaea wakes, information technology is game over.
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
You tin observe the redesigned cover of this edition Here. Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and nearly demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's begetter. Afterward Mr Earnshaw'southward death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's blood brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to render years later as a wealthy and polished man. He gain to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly vehement, just the achieved handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
J. K. Rowling
For twelve long years, the dread fortress of Azkaban held an infamous prisoner named Sirius Black. Convicted of killing xiii people with a unmarried expletive, he was said to be the heir credible to the Dark Lord, Voldemort.Now he has escaped, leaving only two clues as to where he might be headed: Harry Potter's defeat of You-Know-Who was Blackness'due south downfall as well. And the Azkban guards heard Black muttering in his sleep, "He's at Hogwarts...he's at Hogwarts."Harry Potter isn't safe, non fifty-fifty inside the walls of his magical school, surrounded by his friends. Because on top of it all, there may well be a traitor in their midst.
Gulliver'south Travels into Several Remote Nations of the Earth
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels has been called many things: Menippean satire, children'southward story, proto-Scientific discipline Fiction and fifty-fifty the forerunner of the modern novel. Published seven years after Daniel Defoe's wildly successful Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels may exist read as a rebuttal of Defoes optimistic account of man capability. In The Unthinkable Swift: The Spontaneous Philosophy of a Church of England Man Warren Montag argues that Swift was concerned to refute the notion that the individual precedes society, every bit Defoe'due south novel seems to suggest. Swift regarded such thought as a dangerous endorsement of Thomas Hobbes' radical political philosophy and for this reason Gulliver repeatedly encounters established societies rather than desolate islands. The captain who invites Gulliver to serve as a surgeon aboard his ship on the disastrous third voyage is named Robinson. Mayhap one of the reasons for the book'southward classic status is that it tin can be seen as many things to many different people. Wilder Publications is a greenish publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste product and helps us continue prices low while greatly reducing our bear upon on the environment.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
J. K. Rowling
The war confronting Voldemort is not going well; even the Muggles have been affected. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of fourth dimension, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses. And withal . . . equally with all wars, life goes on. Sixth-twelvemonth students learn to Apparate. Teenagers flirt and fight and fall in honey. Harry receives some extraordinary aid in Potions from the mysterious One-half-Blood Prince. And with Dumbledore's guidance, he seeks out the total, circuitous story of the boy who became Lord Voldemort -- and thus finds what may be his only vulnerability.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
Dorothy is a young girl who lives with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry and her trivial dog Toto on a farm in the Kansas prairies. One twenty-four hour period, Dorothy and Toto are defenseless up in a cyclone that deposits her farmhouse into Munchkin State in the magical Land of Oz. The falling firm has killed the Wicked Witch of the East, the evil ruler of the Munchkins. The Good Witch of the North arrives with iii other grateful Munchkins and gives Dorothy the magical Silvery Shoes that once belonged to the Wicked witch. The Adept Witch tells Dorothy that the just way she can return home is to go to the Emerald City and enquire the great and powerful Wizard of Oz to assistance her. As Dorothy embarks on her journey, the Good Witch of the North kisses her on the forehead, giving her magical protection from harm. On her way downwards the yellowish brick road, Dorothy attends a feast held past a Munchkin man named Boq. The next day, Dorothy frees the Scarecrow from the pole on which he is hanging, applies oil from a can to the rusted connections of the Tin can Woodman, and meets the Cowardly Panthera leo. The Scarecrow wants a encephalon, the Tin Woodman wants a heart, and the Cowardly Panthera leo wants courage, and then Dorothy encourages the three of them to journeying with her and Toto to the Emerald City to inquire for help from the Wizard. Later several adventures, the travelers enter the gates of the Emerald City and encounter the Guardian of the Gates, who asks them to wear green tinted spectacles to proceed their eyes from being blinded by the city's brilliance. Each one is called to run across the Magician: Dorothy sees the Wizard as a giant head on a marble throne, the Scarecrow as a lovely lady in silk gauze, the Tin can Woodman as a terrible beast, the Cowardly Panthera leo every bit a ball of burn down. The Magician agrees to help them all if they kill the Wicked Witch of the Due west, who rules over Oz'due south Winkie Country. The Guardian warns them that no one has ever managed to defeat the witch.
Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn
On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne'due south 5th wedding ceremony. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick'due south clever and cute married woman disappears. Husband-of-the-Yr Nick isn't doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the gradient and shape of his wife'south head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on border. Under mounting force per unit area from the police and the media—too as Amy's fiercely adoring parents—the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he'due south definitely biting—just is he really a killer?
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send 1 boy and one girl to announced in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games," a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her female parent and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to correspond her district in the Games. The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may alter but 1 affair is constant: impale or exist killed.
Fallen Crest High
Tijan
Bricklayer and Logan Kade are two brothers who did their own thing. They were rich and expected to attend Samantha'south schoolhouse, Fallen Crest University. They chose public school and now she has to live with them. The problem is that she doesn't care at all: nearly them, about her friends, about her cheating fellow, or even near her parent's divorce. Just maybe that's a good thing. Maybe change is a good thing.
Me Before You
Jojo Moyes
They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose . . .
Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life—steady swain, close family—who has barely been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex–Principal of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an blow. Will has always lived a huge life—big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel—and at present he'southward pretty sure he cannot live the way he is.
Will is acerbic, moody, bossy—but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more than to her than she expected. When she learns that Will has shocking plans of his ain, she sets out to show him that life is even so worth living.
A Beloved Story for this generation and perfect for fans of John Light-green'due southThe Fault in Our Stars,Me Before Yous brings to life two people who couldn't have less in common—a heartbreakingly romantic novel that asks,What do you do when making the person you beloved happy also means breaking your own centre?
Seduced in the Dark
C. J. Roberts
Volume 2 OF THE Night DUET The exciting, titillating, and action-filled conclusion to Captive in the Night. What is the cost of redemption? Rescued from sexual slavery by a mysterious Pakistani officer, Caleb carries the weight of a debt that must be paid in claret. The road has been long and fraught with incertitude, but for Caleb and Livvie, it'southward all coming to an stop. Can he give up the adult female he loves for the sake of vengeance? Or will he make the ultimate sacrifice? Quote: It seemed to Caleb, the nature of homo beings revolved around one empirical truth: nosotros want what we cannot have. For Eve, it was the fruit of the forbidden tree. For Caleb, it was Livvie.
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