Effie's still not over her parents splitting up a year ago and her dad and his awful new girlfriend are posting photos everywhere (with the hashtags #viagraworks and #sexinyoursixties).
Meet Rebecca Bloomwood. She has a great flat, a fabulous wardrobe full of the season's must-haves, and a job telling other people how to manage their money. She spends her leisure time ... shopping.
What follows is a wild, big-hearted adventure as Charlie and the Stone Age boy set out together to find what they have lost - their courage, their hope, their family and their way home.
L'idée de Samuel était belle et folle : monter l'Antigone de Jean Anouilh a Beyrouth. Voler deux heures a la guerre, en prélevant dans chaque camp un fils ou une fille pour en faire des acteurs.
Il trahissait depuis pres de vingt ans. L’Irlande qu’il aimait tant, sa lutte, ses parents, ses enfants, ses camarades, ses amis, moi. Il nous avait trahis. Chaque matin. Chaque soir
Excellent reading in either Spanish or English, the eight short stories in this collection by authors including Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Márquez and Camilo José Cela have been chosen for their readability and literary merit.
This second volume of short stories contains more diverse and lively writing from the Spanish-speaking world, including Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, Cuban author Norberto Fuentes, and Spanish native Ana María Matute.
West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly-graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the children of Charles and Lilian England, a wealthy couple form a powerful dynasty of mill owners, she hopes it will be the fresh start she needs.
London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London's Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the child she has never known.
One of the world's most beloved science fiction writers, Stanislaw Lem was famed for his wryly comic, outlandish imaginings of the relationship between humans and technology.
A new era of exciting adventures and shocking revelations continues to unfold, as the legendary Star Wars saga sweeps forward into astonishing new territory.
Forty years after the Battle of Yavin a dangerous new era in the Star Wars epic begins–the revelations are shocking, the stakes desperate, and the enemy everywhere.