6 days, 13 hours and 37 minutes to go . . . Florentyna Kane is the first elected female President of the United States. But even on the very day that she is sworn into office, powerful forces are already in motion to take her life. The FBI learns of a plot to silence her. By 8.30 p.m. that night, five people know all the details. By 9.30 p.m., four of them are dead. FBI agent Mark Andrews a…
It's Beth birthday, so everyone is delighted when the Land of Birthdays arrives at the top of the Faraway Tree. It's time for the most magical party the've ever had!
Amelia Jane is big, bad and the terror of the toy cupboard! In this book, she gives the toys some terrible scares with her mischief and gets poor Teddy to carry her home without him knowing it. Sometimes the toys get their own back...Ages 5+.
What one man can invent, another can discover
It tells of the orphan Heidi and her idyllic existence with her gruff grandfather in the mountains. When she is sent to live in a city, comic chaos ensues, and eventually it is arranged that Heidi should return to the mountains. Together she and her friend Peter, the goat-herd, achieve wondrous changes in the community in which they live.
Ben-Hur is better known as a film than as a novel. Cinematic in scope and narrative, it was nevertheless as a book that it first met huge popular success on its publication in 1880. Intended as a moral and inspirational narrative, Judah Ben-Hur's life parallels that of Jesus as he makes a journey of discovery and enlightenment through the Mediterranean world from Jerusalem through Nazareth to t…
Help Leo the Lion find all the answers to his questions and meet his friends along the way in this delightful Jungle Story Book!
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…