Partly autobiographical, this is first of the internationallyacclaimed trilogy by Judith Kerr telling the unforgettable story ofa Jewish family fleeing from Germany at the start of the SecondWorld WarSuppose your country began to change. Suppose that withoutyour noticing, it became dangerous for some people to live inGermany any longer. Suppose you found, to your complete surprise,that your own father was one of those people.That is what happenedto Anna in 1933. She was nine years old when it began, too busywith her schoolwork and toboganning to take much notice ofpolitical posters, but out of them glared the face of Adolf Hitler,the man who would soon change the whole of Europe – starting withher own small life.Anna suddenly found things moving too fast forher to understand. One day, her father was unaccountably missing.Then she herself and her brother Max were being rushed by theirmother, in alarming secrecy, away from everything they knew – homeand schoolmates and well-loved toys – right out o
Kernel Fleck has always known he's weird. He sees lights.Strange, multi-colored patches of light, swirling through the air.But it's not until a window opens into a demon world, with horrificconsequences, that Kernel discovers his powers. As a Disciple, hismission is to hunt vicious, powerful demons to the death...
借助魔法神刀,莱拉和威尔穿梭于各个险象环生的黑暗世界,与恶魔、鬼怪、教会,甚至上帝的摄政王进行着殊死战斗。为了神圣的事业,在爱的感召下,阿斯里尔勋爵和库尔特夫人与邪恶的摄政王搏斗在一起,同归于尽…… 威尔、莱拉和马隆,也就是预言中的亚当、夏娃和蛇终于会合了,阻止了尘埃的流失。但是,阿斯里尔勋爵的天堂共和国无法永久地存在,因为人和精灵只有在属于自己的世界里才能生存,他们可以通过窗口穿越世界,但不能长久。同时这些窗口又会导致尘埃的流失,而且每打开一个即生出一个吞噬精灵的妖怪,所以所有的窗口必须关闭,只可以留下一个。已深深相爱的莱拉和威尔将惟一的窗口留给了鬼魂世界,让亡灵可以从冥府进入到人间获得重生。而等待两个回归各自世界的少年的,却是那不可抗拒的命运和犹如生死之隔的永别……
Fire! It's all around me, fierce, intense, out of control. Ifeel the hair on my arms singe and know I have only seconds beforeI burst into flames. Total panic. There's a horrible shriekingsound, piercing and destructive. My eardrums and eyeballs shouldburst. "It's hell!" I moan. One boy's life ripped to shreds before hiseyes... One wrathful demon master hell-bent onrevenge... An army of grisly Demonata on the rampage... It's the end of the world as we know it.
At the age of fourteen, Francisco Jimenez, together with hisolder brother Roberto and his mother, are caught by la migra.Forced to leave their home, the entire family travels all night fortwenty hours by bus, arriving at the U.S. and Mexican border inNogales, Arizona. In the months and years that follow, Francisco,his mother and father, and his seven brothers and sister not onlystruggle to keep their family together, but also face crushingpoverty, long hours of labor, and blatant prejudice. How theysustain their hope, their goodheartedness, and tenacity is revealedin this moving sequel to The Circuit. Without bitterness orsentimentality, Francisco Jimenez finishes telling the story of hisyouth.
Nine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We live among you. But we are not you. We can do things you dream of doing. We have powers you dream of having. We are stronger and faster than anything you have ever seen. We are the superheroes you worship in movies and comic books—but we are real. Our plan was to grow, and train, and become strong, and become one, and fight them. But they found us and started hunting us first. Now all of us are running. Spending our lives in shadows, in places where no one would look, blending in. we have lived among you without you knowing. But they know. They caught Number One in Malaysia. Number Two in England. And Number Three in Kenya. They killed them all. I am Number Four. I am next.
Film tie-in edition of the best-selling classic work offantasy of Bilbo Baggins' adventures in Middle-earth, featuring thecomplete story told in both films, with a striking cover image fromPeter Jackson's THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY and drawings andmaps by J.R.R. Tolkien. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys acomfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than thepantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment isdisturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteendwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on anunexpected journey 'there and back again'. They have a plot to raidthe treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and verydangerous dragon...The prelude to The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbithas sold many millions of copies since its publication in 1937,establishing itself as one of the most beloved and influentialbooks of the twentieth century.
0in 0in 0pt" No Fear Shakespeare gives you the completetext of The Tempest on the left-hand page, side-by-side with aneasy-to-understand translation on the right. 0in 0in 0pt" Each No Fear Shakespeare contains
这是一个不凡的世界,人的灵魂是一个以动物形式存在的精灵,且人与精灵密不可分,不然,生命将不复存在。 13岁的莱拉,长在这世界的牛津大学,没有家庭之爱,不识富有、强大但已成故的父母,更不知自己身负震撼世界的诅咒;她终日与玩伴及他们的精灵自由自在地嬉闹,长成了一个诡计多端、恣意妄为且谎话连篇的野女孩。然而,可怕的预言无法抗拒,莱拉注定要承担起救世主之责,扮演人类之母夏娃角色;人人畏惧的“尘埃”出现了,饕餮游荡在城市各个角落,玩伴接连莫名失踪,快乐时光彻底完结于密友罗杰的失去,巨大的阴谋正在酝酿之中…… 于是,在这个唯她可懂、能预知未来的黄金罗盘——真理仪的帮助下,浑然不觉险恶的莱拉决定去寻找被邪恶科学家掠走的孩子们,从此开始了拯救世界的艰难之旅;她朝着未知的北极而去;等待她的,有披
De*ion of this Book The wildly popular series by K.A. Applegate is back! The first six books of Animorphs return, with striking new lenticular covers that morph. It all started with the dreams. But Cassie didn't pay much attention to them. She and her friends have been having nightmares ever since they acquired the power to morph. But when Cassie discovers that Tobias has been having dreams too -- the exact same dreams -- about the ocean, and a voice that's calling to them for help, she decides it's time to start listening. Now she and the others have to figure out if the dreams are a message, or a trap.
Things used to be normal in Casper, Alabama. Charity Pittmanwas a regular fourteen-year-old, the perfect daughter, following inher preacher father's footsteps. But then Adrienne arrived, withher big-city ways and artsy ideas. Reverend Pittman thinks she'sthe devil incarnate. Charity thinks she's amazing.But no one knowswhat to think of Adrienne when she claims she's seen Jesus.In theheartening and humorous book that made the National Book Awardshortlist, Han Nolan visits a small town that's praying for amiracle but heading for disaster.Reader's guide and an interviewwith the author included.
My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.' Auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things - eating ice cream, playing on his Xbox. He feels ordinary - inside. But ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids aren't stared at wherever they go. Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life. Now, for the first time, he's being sent to a real school - and he's dreading it. All he wants is to be accepted - but can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them, underneath it all? Now featuring a brand-new chapter told by bully Julian, WONDER is a funny, frank, astonishingly moving debut to read in one sitting, pass on to others, and remember long after the final page.
Beranabus and Dervish are gone. Bec has formed an unholyalliance with Lord Loss. Kernel is blind, held on Earth against hiswill. Grubbs is mad with grief and spinning out of control. The demons are crossing. The Disciples are falling. The Shadow is waiting. Welcome to the end. Steel your stomachs and grit your teeth--the tenthbook in the saga of the battle between Earth and the hoardes of theDemonata waiting to destroy our world will be blood-curdling,bone-rending, and truly terrible. Bec, Kernel, and Grubbs areprepared for the fight of their lives. Are you?
Book De*ion Many months have passed since the cataclysmic Battle ofMount Hyjal, where the demonic Burning Legion was banished fromAzeroth forever. But now, a mysterious energy rift within themountains of Kalimdor propels three former warriors into thedistant past -- a time long before orcs, humans or even high elvesroamed the land. A time when the Dark Titan Sargeras, and his demonpawns persuaded Queen Azshara and her Highborne to cleanse Azerothof its lesser races. A time when the Dragon Aspects were at theheight of their power -- unaware that one of their own would soonusher in an age of darkness that would engulf the world of...WarCraft. In the first chapter of this epic trilogy, the outcome ofthe historic War of the Ancients is forever altered by the arrivalof three time-lost heroes: Krasus, the dragon mage whose greatpower and memories of the ancient conflict have inexplicablydiminished; the human wizard Rhonin, whose thoughts are dividedbetween his family and the seductive source of his
The classic bestseller behind this year’s biggest movie, this definitive paperback edition features nine illustrations and two maps drawn by J.R.R. Tolkien, and a preface by Christopher Tolkien. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an unexpected journey ‘there and back again’. They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon… The prelude to The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit has sold many millions of copies since its publication in 1937, establishing itself as one of the most beloved and influential books of the
As the mysterious Shadow builds an army of demons, GrubbsGrady and his team search desperately for answers. But when theyfollow up a new lead, it takes them to an old, unexpected foe - theLambs. "We spot the werewolves as we skim the treetops. Mutated,vicious, hairy monstrosities, all fangs, claws and muscles. Thebeast within me tries to force its way to the surface, howlingsilently at its warped brethren. I've never rid myself of thewolf..."
De*ion of this Book The wildly popular series by K.A. Applegate is back! The first six books of Animorphs return, with striking new lenticular covers that morph. When Tobias and his friends were given the power to morph, they were also given an important warning: Never stay in a morph for more than two hours. But Tobias broke the time limit, and now he's trapped in the body of a hawk -- forever. When he discovers an important Yeerk secret, Tobias knows he has to do everything in his power to destroy it. But to do so, he'll have to contend with a part of himself that's wrestling for control. A part that isn't human.
Lights. Camera. Slawter! Grubbs Grady and his half-brother Bill-Eare thrilled to join their uncle Dervish as onset consultants forthe newest movie by cult horror producer David A Hayms. Shot in adeserted town renamed Slawter, the demon-themed movie is to beHayms's masterpiece. But as strange incidents disrupt the set,Grubbs begins to wonder whether more than filming is afoot.
As demonic Fomorii ravage their land, Bec and a band of warriorcompanions leave their devastated rath to answer a plea for help.An orphaned priestess-in-training, Bec hopes the journey will helpher solve the mysteries of her birth. But fighting demons has asteep price...