Motherless Sara Crewe was sent home from India to school at Miss Minchin's. Her father was immensely rich and he become 'show pupil' - a litlle princess. Then her father dies and his wealth disappears, and sara has to learn to cope with her changed circumstances.
There are new additions at Malory Towers boarding school in Cornwall. And one of them is a girl called Zerelda who is all the way from the USA. It's not just the girls who will face challenges this year, though. Bill's horse, Thunder, suffers from colic and Darrell must work with Bill to stop him lying down!
Ghost Stories Of Henry James by Henry James. With an Introduction and Notes by Martin Scofield, University of Kent at Canterbury Henry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story. His stories explore the region which lies between the supernatural or straightforwardly marvellous and the darker areas of the human psyche. This edition includes…
In the highly anticipated continuation of the Land of Stories series, Conner learns that the only place to fight the Masked Man's literary army is inside his own short stories! When the twins and their friends enter worlds crafted from Conner's imagination, finding allies no one else could have ever dreamed of, the race begins to put an end to the Masked Man's reign of terror. Can the twins fin…
Project Exodus - a mission to transport 300 Americans from 2070 to AD 54 to overthrow the Roman Empire - has gone catastrophically wrong. Half arrived seventeen years earlier, during the rign to Caligula.
Egypt has been struck by a series of terrible plagues, killing its crops and crippling its people. Then the ultimate disaster befalls the kingdom. The Nile fails. The waters that nourish and sustain the land dry up. Something catastrophic is taking place in the distant and totally unexplored depths of Africa, from where the mighty river springs. In desperation the Pharaoh sends Taita, the only…
It is New Year's Eve, the last day of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War. Dr. Kay Scarpetta plunges into the murky depths of a ship graveyard to recover the very human remains of Ted Eddings, an investigative reporter. What kind of story was Eddings chasing below the icy surface of the Elizabeth River? And why did Scarpetta receive a phone call from someone reporting the death before…
Cordelia Carstairs seems to have everything she ever wanted. She’s engaged to marry James Herondale, the boy she has always loved; she has a new life in London with her best friend Lucie; and she bears the sword Cortana, a legendary hero’s blade.