Anya used to dream of moving to Britain to start a brand-new life. But as she sits in a school where nobody understands her, she dreams of Polish summer skies and the place where she once belonged. Then Anya meets bad boy Dan. He's no angel, but she's sure there's a sweeter side to him. And when things begin to fall apart, Anya realizes she's not alone - how can Dan be such bad news when being with him feels like heaven?

George R.R. Martin's A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE -- the story so far.The greatest epic work of the modern age is now available in acollectible box set. A GAME OF THRONES has been adapted into a hitHBO original series.

Thick Face, Black Heart is a profound distillation of ancientChinese wisdom and experience filtered through a modern Asianbusiness perspective. Blending stories and principles drawn fromChinese military history and modern entrepreneurship, author Chushows that success is achievable by anyone who follows the lessonsin this invaluable guide and learns how to: develop and employintuition as a business tool, master defeat, acquire a killerinstinct, solve the mystery of money, thrive among the cunning andruthless, and much more.

In "The Persian Expedition", Xenophon, a young Athenian noblewho sought his destiny abroad, provides an enthralling eyewitnessaccount of the attempt by a Greek mercenary army - the Ten Thousand- to help Prince Cyrus overthrow his brother and take the Persianthrone. When the Greeks were then betrayed by their Persianemployers, they were forced to march home through hundreds of milesof difficult terrain n adrift in a hostile country and underconstant attack from the unforgiving Persians and warlike tribes.In this outstanding de*ion of endurance and individualbravery, Xenophon, one of those chosen to lead the retreating army,provides a vivid narrative of the campaign and its aftermath, andhis account remains one of the best pictures we have of Greeksconfronting a 'barbarian' world.

A treasury of Lewis’s thought, gathered from all of his morethan forty books and his uncollected essays, on subjects as variedas sin, hell and heaven, the Trinity, and love and sex. Edited andwith a Preface by Clyde S. Kilby.

'Every family is a ghost story ...' As a child, CharleyBenetto was told by his father, 'You can be a mama's boy or adaddy's boy, but you can't be both.' So he chooses his father, onlyto see him disappear when Charley is on the verge of adolescence.Decades later, Charley is a broken man. His life has been destroyedby alcohol and regret. He loses his job. He leaves his family. Hehits rock bottom after discovering he won't be invited to his onlydaughter's wedding. And he decides to take his own life. Charleymakes a midnight ride to his small hometown: his final journey. Butas he staggers into his old house, he makes an astonishingdiscovery. His mother - who died eight years earlier - is there,and welcomes Charley home as if nothing had ever happened. Whatfollows is the one seemingly ordinary day so many of us yearn for:a chance to make good with a lost parent, to explain the familysecrets and to seek forgiveness.

Elena Gilbert is once again at the centre of magic and dangerbeyond her imagining. And once more, Stefan isn't there to help!Elena is forced to trust her life to Damon, the handsome but deadlyvampire who wants Elena, body and soul. They must journey to theslums of the Dark Dimension, a world where vampires and demons roamfree, but humans must live as slaves of their supernatural masters.Damon's brother, the brooding vampire Stefan whom Elena loves, isimprisoned here, and Elena can only free him by finding the twohidden halves of the key to his cell. Meanwhile, the tensionbetween Elena and Damon mounts until Elena is faced with a terribledecision: which brother does she really want to be with? The drama,danger and star-crossed love that fills each Vampire Diaries bookis in full effect here, with Elena Gilbert once again filled withsupernatural powers.

Bestselling novelist Sheldon's memoir is reminiscent of his colorful novels, a rags-to-riches yarn replete with struggle, an indomitable hero and eventual glamour. It opens with a 17-year-old Sheldon preparing to commit suicide in Chicago in 1934. "[L]onely and trapped," he wanted to attend college but couldn't afford it. Thankfully, his father intervened, and the young man got a new lease on life. He went from being an RKO theater usher to a struggling songwriter, then a top-flight Hollywood screenwriter in a few short years. For the next 30-odd years, Sheldon wrote and directed films, meeting studio honchos and stars like Kirk Douglas, Judy Garland and Marilyn Monroe. The author's impressive achievements include a WWII flying stint, a screenwriting Oscar for 1947's The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, a Tony for writing the 1959 Broadway hit Redhead, the creation of four classic TV series (including I Dream of Jeannie) and several bestsellers (Bloodline; The Sands of Time; etc.). Yet these accomplishments came

F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the great voices in the history ofAmerican literature, is best known today for his novels, but duringhis lifetime his fame stemmed primarily from his prolificachievements as one of America's most gifted short story writers."The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is one of his most memorablecreations. "I was born under unusual circumstances." And so begins the film"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," adapted from the 1920s storyby F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man whois born in his eighties andages backwards. A man, like any of us, unable to stop time. Wefollow his story set in New Orleans from the end of World War I in1918, into the twenty-first century, following his journey that isas unusual as any man's life can be. Directed by David Fincher,"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a time traveler's tale ofthe people and places Benjamin Button bumps into along the way, theloves he loses and finds, the joys of life and the sadness ofdeath, and what lasts beyond time.

Part melodrama and part parable, Mitch Albom's The Five PeopleYou Meet in Heaven weaves together three stories, all told aboutthe same man: 83-year-old Eddie, the head maintenance person atRuby Point Amusement Park. As the novel opens, readers are toldthat Eddie, unsuspecting, is only minutes away from death as hegoes about his typical business at the park. Albom then tracesEddie's world through his tragic final moments, his funeral, andthe ensuing days as friends clean out his apartment and adjust tolife without him. In alternating sections, Albom flashes back toEddie's birthdays, telling his life story as a kind of progressreport over candles and cake each year. And in the third and lastthread of the novel, Albom follows Eddie into heaven where themaintenance man sequentially encounters five pivotal figures fromhis life (a la A Christmas Carol). Each person has been waiting forhim in heaven, and, as Albom reveals, each life (and death) waswoven into Eddie's own in ways he never suspected. Each soul h

In seven witty, lucid, tough-minded essays, Lewis considersquestions that challenge the faith of modern Christians. Hediscusses such topics as the efficacy of prayer, the various usesof the phrase I believe, the religious implications of life onother planets, the meaning of words like culture and religion, andthe idea of the Second Coming.

Nine strokes from an old country church toll out the death ofan unknown man and call Lord Peter Wimsey to one of his mostbaffling cases. Set in the strange, flat fen-country of EastAnglia, this is a classic tale of suspense by a master ofmystery.

Theodore Boone is back in a new adventure, and the stakes arehigher than ever. When his best friend, April, disappears from herbedroom in the middle of the night, no one, not even Theo Boone -who knows April better than anyone - has answers. As fear ripplesthrough his small hometown and the police hit dead ends, it's up toTheo to use his legal knowledge and investigative skills to chasedown the truth and save April. Filled with the page-turningsuspense that made John Grisham a number one internationalbestseller and the undisputed master of the legal thriller,Theodore Boone's trials and triumphs will keep readers guessinguntil the very end.

One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory,Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain is a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure,a stirring story,and a luminous evocaion of a vanished America in all its savagery,solitude,and splendor. Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg,Inman,a Confederate soldier,decidet to walk backto his home in the Blue Ridge mountains and to Ada,the woman he loved there years before.His trek across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders,bounty hunters and witches,both helpful and malign.At the same time,Ada is trying to revive her father's derelict farm and learn to survieve in a world where the old certainties have been swept away.As it interweaves their.Cold Mountain asserts itself as authentic American Odyssey-hugely powerfrl,majestically lovely,and keenly moving.

At the age of seventy, after a gap of twenty years, Jorge LuisBorges returned to writing short stories. In "Brodieas Report," hereturned also to the style of his earlier years with its brutalrealism, nightmares, and bloodshed. Many of these stories,including aUnworthya and aThe Other Duel, a are set in the machoArgentinean underworld, and even the rivalries between artists aresuffused with suppressed violence. Throughout, opposing themes offate and free will, loyalty and betrayal, time and memory flickerin the recesses of these compelling stories, among the best Borgesever wrote.

Deux jumeaux, Jean et Paul, forment un couple fraternel si uniqu'on l'appelle Jean-Paul. Mais Jean veut briser cette cha?ne etessaie de se marier. Paul fait échouer ce projet. Désespéré, Jeanpart seul en voyage de noces à Venise. Paul se lance à sa poursuiteet accomplit un long voyage initiatique autour du monde. A traversdes aventures multiples et de nombreux personnages, comme lescandaleux oncle Alexandre, surnommé le dandy des gadoues, ce romanillustre le grand thème du couple humain.

It is more than a century since the ascetic, gaunt and enigmatic detective, Sherlock Holmes, made his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet. From 1891, beginning with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the now legendary and pioneering Strand Magazine began serialising Arthur Conan Doyle's matchless tales of detection, featuring the incomparable sleuth patiently assisted by his doggedly loyal and lovably pedantic friend and companion, Dr Watson. The stories are illustrated by the remarkable Sydney Paget from whom our images of Sherlock Holmes and his world derive and who first equipped Holmes with his famous deerstalker hat. The literary cult of Sherlock Holmes shows no sign of fading with time as each new generation comes to love and revere the penetrating mind and ruthless logic which were the undoing of so many Victorian master criminals.

Monsieur Linh est un vieil homme. Il a quitté son villagedévasté par la guerre, n’emportant avec lui qu’une petite valisecontenant quelques vêtements usagés, une photo jaunie, une poignéede terre de son pays. Dans ses bras, repose un nouveau-né. Lesparents de l’enfant sont morts et Monsieur Linh a décidé de partiravec Sang Di?, sa petite fille. Après un long voyage en bateau, ilsdébarquent dans une ville froide et grise, avec des centaines deréfugiés. Monsieur Linh a tout perdu. Il partage désormais un dortoir avecd’autres exilés qui se moquent de sa maladresse. Dans cette villeinconnue où les gens s’ignorent, il va pourtant se faire un ami,Monsieur Bark, un gros homme solitaire. Ils ne parlent pas la mêmelangue, mais ils comprennent la musique des mots et la pudeur desgestes. Monsieur Linh est un c?ur simple, brisé par les guerres etles deuils, qui ne vit plus que pour sa petite fille. PhilippeClaudel accompagne ses personnages avec respect et délicatesse. Ilcélèbre les thème

The Dharma Bums was published one year after Onthe Road made Jack Kerouac a celebrity and a spokesperson forthe Beat Generation. Sparked by his contagious zest for life, thenovel relates the adventures of an ebullient group of Beatnikseekers in a freewheeling exploration of Buddhism and the searchfor Truth.