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Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone
J. K. Rowling
Here the incredibly popular Harry Potter books, by J.Thou. Rowling. In Book 1, a mysterious letter, delivered past the friendly giant Hagrid, wrenches Harry from his dreary, Muggle-ridden existence: We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Of course, Uncle Vernon yells most unpleasantly, I AM NOT PAYING FOR SOME Crackpot Quondam FOOL TO TEACH HIM MAGIC TRICKS! Soon enough, however, Harry finds himself at Hogwarts with his owl Hedwig... and that south where the real adventure humorous, haunting, and suspenseful begins. Harry Potter and the Magician s Stone, commencement published in England as Harry Potter and the Philosopher s Stone, continues to win major awards in England. And so far it has won the National Volume Honour, the Smarties Prize, the Children southward Book Award, and is short-listed for the Carnegie Medal, the U.K. version of the Newbery Medal. This magical, gripping, brilliant book a hereafter archetype to be certain will leave kids clamoring for Harry Potter and the Bedchamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. (Ages viii 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 nearly closely guarded secret of her kind. Now, back within the protection of her pride, she is seen as a traitor. Equally isolated as she is, Jacinda has no regrets—because of her, Will is still live, even if she can never run across him again, even if he has no memories of that fateful night. . . . And so, confronting all odds, Volition finds her and asks her to run away with him. But the cost of following her middle may be college than she e'er could have imagined.In bestselling author Sophie Jordan's dramatic follow-upwardly to Firelight, forbidden love burns brighter than e'er.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
J. Grand. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is the second novel in the Harry Potter series written past J. G. Rowling. The plot follows Harry's 2d year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, during which a series of messages on the walls on the school's corridors warn that the "Bedchamber of Secrets" has been opened and that the "heir of Slytherin" will kill all pupils who practice non come up from all-magical families. These threats are followed past attacks which go out 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 full power.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
J. K. Rowling
In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J. Thou. Rowling offers up equal parts danger and delight--and whatsoever number of dragons, house-elves, and expiry-defying challenges. Now fourteen, her orphan hero has only two more than weeks with his Muggle relatives earlier returning to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. All the same 1 night a vision harrowing enough to make his lightning-bolt-shaped scar burn has Harry on edge and contacting his godfather-in-hiding, Sirius Black. Happily, the prospect of attention the flavour'due south premier sporting upshot, the Quidditch Globe Loving cup, is enough to make Harry momentarily forget that Lord Voldemort and his sinister familiars--the Death Eaters--are out for murder. Readers, we will bandage a giant invisibility cloak over any more than plot and reveal just that You-Know-Who is very much after Harry and that this year there will be no Quidditch matches betwixt Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin. Instead, Hogwarts will vie with two other magicians' schools, the stylish Beauxbatons and the icy Durmstrang, in a Triwizard Tournament. Those chosen to compete will undergo three supreme tests. Could Harry be one of the lucky contenders?
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J. K. Rowling
Readers beware. The brilliant, breathtaking conclusion to J. One thousand. Rowling's spellbinding serial is non for the faint of heart--such revelations, battles, and betrayals await in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows that no fan will get in to the end unscathed. Luckily, Rowling has prepped loyal readers for the cease of her series by doling out increasingly night and dangerous tales of magic and mystery, shot through with lessons about accolade and antipathy, love and loss, and right and wrong. Fright not, you will find no spoilers in our review--to tell the plot would ruin the journey, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is an odyssey the likes of which Rowling'southward fans have not yet seen, and are not likely to forget. Only we would be remiss if we did not offering i small suggestion before you embark on your final chance with Harry--bring plenty of tissues. The centre of Volume 7 is a hero'due south mission--not but in Harry's quest for the Horcruxes, but in his journeying from boy to man--and Harry faces more than danger than that found in all 6 books combined, from the direct threat of the Decease Eaters and you-know-who, to the subtle perils of losing faith in himself. Circumspect readers would do well to remember Dumbledore'south warning about making the choice between "what is right and what is like shooting fish in a barrel," and know that Rowling applies the same difficult 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's skill as a storyteller that even the almost acute and careful reader volition be taken by surprise. A spectacular finish to a phenomenal series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is a bloodshot read for fans. The journeying is hard, filled with events both tragic and triumphant, the battlefield littered with the bodies of the love and despised, merely the final chapter is as brilliant and blinding as a phoenix's flame, and fans and skeptics alike will emerge from the confines of the story with full but heavy hearts, giddy and grateful for the experience.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
J. K. Rowling
eastward 4 Upwardly-Harry has just returned to Hogwarts after a solitary 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 as evil equally ever. Angry, scared, and unable to confide in his godfather, Sirius, the teen wizard lashes out at his friends and enemies alike. The head of the Ministry building of Magic is determined to discredit Dumbledore and undermine his leadership of Hogwarts, and he appoints nasty, pink-cardigan-clad Professor Umbridge as the new Defence Against the Night Arts teacher and High Inquisitor of the school, bringing misery upon staff and students alike. This bureaucratic nightmare, added to Harry'southward sure knowledge that Voldemort is becoming more powerful, creates a desperate, Kafkaesque feeling during Harry'due south 5th year at Hogwarts. The adults all seem evil, misguided, or simply powerless, so the students must take matters into their ain hands. Harry'south confusion virtually his godfather and father, and his apparent rejection by Dumbledore make him question his own motives and the condition of his soul. Also, Harry is now fifteen, and the hormones are beginning to kicking in. There are a lot of secret doings, a piddling romance, and very little Quidditch or Hagrid (more reasons for Harry's gloom), but the ability of this book comes from the young magician'south struggles with his emotions and identity. Particularly moving is the unveiling, after a concluding devastating tragedy, of Dumbledore's very stiff feelings of zipper and responsibility toward Harry. Children volition savour the magic and the Hogwarts mystique, and immature adult readers will find a rich and compelling coming-of-historic period story as well.
Sharp Objects
Gillian Flynn
FROM THE #one NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING Writer OF GONE Daughter
Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has inappreciably spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac female parent or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful 13-year-old with an eerie grip on the boondocks. Now, installed in her quondam bedroom in her family unit's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit as well strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her ain past if she wants to get the story—and survive this homecoming.
Peter Pan
J. Thousand. Barrie
Peter Pan is a graphic symbol created past Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie. A mischievous boy who can wing and never grows up, Peter Pan spends his never-catastrophe childhood adventuring on the pocket-sized island of Neverland every bit the leader of his gang, the Lost Boys, interacting with mermaids, Native Americans, fairies, pirates, and occasionally ordinary children from the globe outside of Neverland. In improver to ii distinct works by Barrie, the character has been featured in a multifariousness of media and merchandise, both adapting and expanding on Barrie's works.
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
Jane Austen'due south outset published piece of work, meticulously constructed and sparkling with her unique witMarianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing simply unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sis Elinor'southward warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and allusion. Meanwhile Elinor, e'er sensitive to social convention, is struggling to muffle her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love - and its threatened loss - the sisters acquire that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to detect personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love. This edition also includes explanatory notes and textual variants between outset and second edition. For more than lxx years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English language-speaking world. With more than than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and beyond genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide administrative texts enhanced past introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and gimmicky authors, every bit well every bit up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
The Mistake in Our Stars
John Green
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical phenomenon that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters of a sudden appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.
The Blood of Olympus
Rick Riordan
Though the Greek and Roman crewmembers of theArgo II accept made progress in their many quests, they still seem no closer to defeating the world mother, Gaea. Her giants have risen—all of them—and they're stronger than always. They must be stopped earlier the Feast of Spes, when Gaea plans to accept two demigods sacrificed in Athens. She needs their blood—the blood of Olympus—in social club to wake.
The demigods are having more frequent visions of a terrible battle at Camp Half-Blood. The Roman legion from Camp Jupiter, led by Octavian, is nearly within striking distance. Though it is tempting to take the Athena Parthenos to Athens to use as a secret weapon, the friends know that the huge statue belongs back on Long Island, where it "might" be able to stop a war between the 2 camps.
The Athena Parthenos will become west; theArgo II will become eastward. The gods, still suffering from multiple personality disorder, are useless. How can a scattering of young demigods hope to persevere against Gaea's army of powerful giants? Every bit unsafe 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 can find the redesigned cover of this edition HERE. Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic beloved betwixt Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine'south male parent. Afterwards Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine'south blood brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years after as a wealthy and polished homo. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his old miseries. The activity of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished 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. Thou. Rowling
For twelve long years, the dread fortress of Azkaban held an infamous prisoner named Sirius Black. Convicted of killing 13 people with a single curse, he was said to be the heir apparent to the Dark Lord, Voldemort.Now he has escaped, leaving only ii clues as to where he might exist headed: Harry Potter's defeat of You-Know-Who was Black'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, not even within the walls of his magical schoolhouse, surrounded by his friends. Because on top of it all, at that place may well be a traitor in their midst.
Gulliver'southward Travels into Several Remote Nations of the Earth
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver'south Travels has been chosen many things: Menippean satire, children'south story, proto-Science Fiction and even the forerunner of the modern novel. Published seven years later Daniel Defoe's wildly successful Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels may be read as a rebuttal of Defoes optimistic account of human being capability. In The Unthinkable Swift: The Spontaneous Philosophy of a Church of England Homo Warren Montag argues that Swift was concerned to refute the notion that the individual precedes society, as Defoe's novel seems to suggest. Swift regarded such thought as a unsafe endorsement of Thomas Hobbes' radical political philosophy and for this reason Gulliver repeatedly encounters established societies rather than desolate islands. The helm who invites Gulliver to serve equally a surgeon aboard his ship on the disastrous third voyage is named Robinson. Possibly one of the reasons for the volume'south classic status is that information technology tin be seen equally many things to many dissimilar people. Wilder Publications is a dark-green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste material and helps united states go on prices depression while greatly reducing our impact on the surroundings.
Harry Potter and the Half-Claret Prince
J. K. Rowling
The war against Voldemort is non going well; fifty-fifty the Muggles accept been affected. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses. And all the same . . . as with all wars, life goes on. 6th-twelvemonth students learn to Apparate. Teenagers flirt and fight and autumn in beloved. Harry receives some extraordinary assist in Potions from the mysterious Half-Blood Prince. And with Dumbledore's guidance, he seeks out the full, complex story of the boy who became Lord Voldemort -- and thus finds what may be his only vulnerability.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Fifty. Frank Baum
Dorothy is a young girl who lives with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry and her little dog Toto on a farm in the Kansas prairies. Ane mean solar day, Dorothy and Toto are caught upwardly in a cyclone that deposits her farmhouse into Munchkin Country in the magical State of Oz. The falling firm has killed the Wicked Witch of the East, the evil ruler of the Munchkins. The Skillful Witch of the North arrives with 3 other grateful Munchkins and gives Dorothy the magical Silver Shoes that once belonged to the Wicked witch. The Good Witch tells Dorothy that the but way she tin can return abode is to get to the Emerald City and ask the great and powerful Wizard of Oz to help 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 mode down the yellow brick road, Dorothy attends a banquet held by 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 Woodman, and meets the Cowardly Panthera leo. The Scarecrow wants a brain, the Tin Woodman wants a heart, and the Cowardly Lion wants backbone, so Dorothy encourages the three of them to journey with her and Toto to the Emerald City to ask for help from the Wizard. After several adventures, the travelers enter the gates of the Emerald City and run into the Guardian of the Gates, who asks them to vesture light-green tinted spectacles to keep their eyes from being blinded by the city'south brilliance. Each one is called to see the Wizard: Dorothy sees the Wizard as a giant head on a marble throne, the Scarecrow as a lovely lady in silk gauze, the Tin Woodman as a terrible beast, the Cowardly King of beasts as a ball of fire. The Wizard agrees to help them all if they impale the Wicked Witch of the Westward, who rules over Oz's Winkie Land. The Guardian warns them that no one has ever managed to defeat the witch.
Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn
On a warm summer forenoon in Northward Carthage, Missouri, information technology is Nick and Amy Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are existence fabricated when Nick's clever and cute wife disappears. Married man-of-the-Twelvemonth Nick isn't doing himself whatsoever favors with blench-worthy daydreams nearly the gradient and shape of his wife's head, but passages from Amy'due south diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on border. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media—as well as Amy's fiercely doting parents—the town golden male child parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he'south definitely bitter—but is he really a killer?
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
In the ruins of a identify one time known as Northward America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded past twelve outlying districts. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. Equally part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send ane male child and 1 daughter to appear in an annual televised result called, "The Hunger Games," a fight to the death on live Idiot box. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives lonely with her mother and younger sis, regards it as a death judgement when she is forced to correspond her commune in the Games. The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change just 1 thing is constant: impale or exist killed.
Fallen Crest Loftier
Tijan
Stonemason and Logan Kade are two brothers who did their ain thing. They were rich and expected to attend Samantha's school, Fallen Crest Academy. They chose public school and now she has to live with them. The problem is that she doesn't intendance at all: about them, almost her friends, almost her cheating boyfriend, or even about her parent'due south divorce. Just perhaps that'due south a good thing. Perchance alter is a good thing.
Me Before You
Jojo Moyes
They had nothing in common until beloved gave them everything to lose . . .
Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life—steady swain, close family unit—who has barely been farther afield than their tiny hamlet. She takes a badly needed job working for ex–Principal of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair spring after an accident. Will has always lived a huge life—big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel—and at present he's pretty sure he cannot live the way he is.
Will is acerbic, moody, bossy—just Lou refuses to care for him with child gloves, and soon his happiness means more than to her than she expected. When she learns that Will has shocking plans of his own, she sets out to show him that life is even so worth living.
A Love Story for this generation and perfect for fans of John Green'sThe Fault in Our Stars,Me Before You brings to life two people who couldn't have less in common—a heartbreakingly romantic novel that asks,What do you practise when making the person you love happy also means breaking your own center?
Seduced in the Dark
C. J. Roberts
Volume TWO OF THE Dark DUET The heady, titillating, and activity-filled determination to Captive in the Dark. What is the price of redemption? Rescued from sexual slavery past a mysterious Pakistani officer, Caleb carries the weight of a debt that must exist paid in blood. The route has been long and fraught with incertitude, but for Caleb and Livvie, information technology's all coming to an stop. Can he surrender the woman he loves for the sake of vengeance? Or will he make the ultimate sacrifice? Quote: It seemed to Caleb, the nature of human being beings revolved around one empirical truth: we want what we cannot have. For Eve, it was the fruit of the forbidden tree. For Caleb, it was Livvie.
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