The Grim Life

With an Introduction by Dr Pamela Knights, Department of English Studies, Durham University. With this intensely moving short novel, Edith Wharton ...

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Reducere. Gary Paulsen has owned dozens of unforgettable and amazing dogs. In each chapter he tells of one special dog, among them Cookie, the sled dog who s...

A powerful, award-winning novel about friendship. Phyllisia Cathy--She is fourteen. Her problems seem overwhelming: New York, after life on her sun...

Reducere. Published in 1893, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets shocked a world unprepared for its grim and starkly realistic exploration of a pretty young girl's...

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Reducere. When twelve-year-old Florence boards the crowded horse-drawn coach in London, she looks forward to a new life with her great uncle and aunt at Crut...

A red-haired princess loses her family and her kingdom... Now she must rise and fight for her thronePrincess Yona lives an ideal life as the only p...

DescriptionImagine waking to a world where every last human has been mysteriously turned to stone... One fateful day, all of humanity turned to sto...

Will make you grin, grimace and gain gruesome lessons about the perils of modern life Aunt Grizelda (Grizelda Schwarz, born October 31st, 1832, in ...

DescriptionDuring his work in hospice, Joseph H. Schlereth has become more and more convinced that discovering and accepting what matters in life s...

Goku's adventure from the best-selling classic manga Dragon Ball continues in this new series written by Akira Toriyama himself Ever since Goku bec...

Despite her family's poor circumstances, the author recalls a childhood filled with family pride and neighborliness; of making do with whatever cam...

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Set in the mud and stench of the Somme this is a grim, sardonic tale of war that let William Boyd to say this is the finest novel to come out of th...

Reducere. Second Grave on the LeftDarynda Jones If you hang around with dead people, life can deliver a whole world of trouble. Take it from Charley Davidson...

``Kirkman, creator of ``The Walking Dead`` series, has launched another grim and civilization-menacing serial. The artwork of Azaceta is bold and c...

From the double Man Booker prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall', this is a dark fable of lost faith and awakening love amidst the moors. Fetherhough...

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-On what slender threads do life and fortune hang- Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortres...

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A late addition to the publishing schedule for February, this is a new Chief Inspector Banks novel. On a beautiful June day in the Yorkshire Dales ...

A search for a missing son... and a toxic mystery that threatens the globe.'Did a 1981 Dean Koontz thriller predict the coronavirus outbreak?' - Da...

DescriptionHOW A LITTLE DOG CHANGED THE WORLD The true story of one little dog who helped bring an end to puppy farming in the UK. Lucy, a Cavalier...

Postcards is the diary of a psychopath, relayed in a collection of interconnected short stories revolving around a central character at various sta...

Arnold Bennett's superb London novel - both a story about one grim household and a panorama of the life of a great city.

Now with a fresh new look and introduction, comes Jennifer Donnelly's astonishing, Printz Honor-winning debut--the story of a young woman's coming-...

Reducere. 961H.G, Wells' timeless story of arrogance and monstrosity caused consternation when it was first released. Edward Prendick is stranded on a remote...

In Lily's care, a walled garden at an old country estate begins to blossom and the greening magic of this new life touches each of Motthoe's cast o...

"Houellebecq captures precisely the cynical disillusionment of disaffected youth."Booklist"This boy needs serious therapy. He may be beyond help."T...

In Why Grow Up, the latest volume in the Philosophy in Transit series, world-renowned philosopher Susan Neiman looks at growing up as an ideal with...

Celebrate House Stark from HBO's smash hit television series Game of Thrones with this artfully designed ruled notebook. Noble, stoic, and resilien...

A middle-aged American works out in a Paris gym - an ordinary day, except that he catches the eye of a stranger, Julien, a young French architect w...

Reducere. Brimming with deliciously mysterious magic, political intrigue, and a passionate heroine who will do anything to save the ones she loves--this high...

Harrowingly honest and strangely uplifting, this is a courageous testimony written from the soul of a unique, if not peculiar, woman whose tale tra...

Reducere. Set in the world of the New York Times-bestselling Winner's Trilogy, Marie Rutkoski's The Midnight Lie is an epic LGBTQ romantic fantasy about lear...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Larissa IoneZhubaal, fallen angel assistant to the Grim Reaper, has spent decades searching for the angel he loved and lost...

DescriptionJoslyn My life was an absolute mess, and it was slowly killing me. Dismay and anguish defined my everyday life. Until Wilder. He became ...

DescriptionMina Grime is unlucky, unpopular and uncoordinated; until she saves her crush's life on a field trip, changing her High School status fr...

Reducere. Everything sparkles inside the French court, and nothing shines brighter than Queen Marie Antoinette. But on the grim streets of Paris, the people ...

Reducere. An abused, grief-stricken, and impoverished Sonny has all but given up on life. That is, until he meets death, by way of the Grim Reaper. The Reape...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Wise and funny. . . . The Lorrie Moore short story, or the Tina Fey memoir, of cleaning tutorials. Dwight Garner, The New...

For Jody, growing up in the late eighties and early nineties in the small Louisiana town of Hammond with his best friend Jack was filled with wonde...

After eight years in the Sudan, Ewan Colquhoun returns home minus an eye and arm. His cold, grim childhood home hasn't changed except for the boy h...

DescriptionIn the days leading up to her wedding to Darcy O'Mara, Lady Georgiana Rannoch takes on the responsibilities of a grand estate, but provi...

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DescriptionThe first great German novel - an extraordinary recreation of the horrors of the Thirty Years War, written by a veteran of the conflict ...

"The Wrong Family is your new obsession. It's full of twists you'll never see coming and you'll be breathless until the end. Trust me: you've never...

Where there is wealth and power, there's always someone willing to do anything to take it.England, 1381: Delia's idyllic life as daughter of an ear...

Reducere. First appearing in 1899 The Awakening is regarded as work presaging both feminist fiction and literary modernism. The author's clear vision of a wo...

After You've Gone in paperback, it is a moving, sublime love story set in the cataclysmic decades around the turn of the twentieth century. Henry D...

Reducere. Sunny, an escapee from a farm where she was kept as a dairy slave, is now an activist who fights to liberate other slaves from their hopeless, grim...

Reducere. Amateur sleuth Trisha Carson is being watched. By a laptop that tracks her online life. By a blue-eyed athlete who guides her through an open water...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom a very young age he was a savage in the making, as he robbed and murked his way to a reputation that was both feared and respected ...

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DescriptionFor fans of The Graveyard Book and Through the Woods comes a different kind of YA fantasy graphic novel, in which a teen boy's search fo...

Hollywood's hot playboy stuntman Randall Mackey replaced the adrenaline rush of his career in the SEAL Teams with another life courting danger, but...

DescriptionLonging to escape her restricted life in 1890s Oakland, California, feisty 17-year-old Beatrice Blake confronts her mother and deserts h...

Reducere. Winner of the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Brave, clear-eyed, and passionate, Stakes Is High is the book we need to guide us past crisis mode a...

Reducere. "This upsetting account of a Los Angeles serial killer, written with passion by Christine Pelisek, an investigative crime reporter who spent 10 yea...

Reducere. DescriptionMina Grime is unlucky, unpopular and uncoordinated; until she saves her crush's life on a field trip, changing her High School status fr...

They say, "You can't judge a book by its cover, " and the same is true for entrepreneur and business mogul Teresa Caldwell, Manager and mother to s...

Lord Garson's dilemma. Hugh Rutherford, Lord Garson, loved and lost when his fianc e returned to the husband she'd believed drowned. In the three y...

This is an intoxicating tale of love and wonder, mothers and daughters, spiritual values and the grim legacy of slavery on the French Antillean isl...

Reducere. When Marianna was spirited away by unknown raiders, everyone expected a ransom demand to soon follow. Such was the peril of everyday royal life in ...

In this stunning, fantastical debut novel from a bold new voice in the bestselling traditions of Christopher Moore and Jasper Fforde, a ferryman fo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ace MaskWhen Elizabeth and her collie become a certified therapy dog team, they bring comfort, support and love to many peo...

Reducere. DescriptionThe third book in the Unfortunate Fairy Tale series.All that gillters is not gold.When something precious is stolen from sixteen-year-ol...

Reducere. Harry McCallion was a trained killer, fighting in the world's trouble spots with ruthless professionalism.Born 'a ragged-arsed kid from the backstr...

Reducere. The women in Sherlock Holmes's life have grown tired of toiling in his shadow. Matters come to a head when the Great Man declines to help a despera...