Are we right in the way we are raising our children? Are we passing on what is best or simply what we know? Are we preparing them for their future? The Confident Child helps parents and teachers to realise their own abilities in the work of enabling and empowering children. Dr Reamonn O Donnchadha points […]
Blending the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history, Wild Swans has become a bestselling classic in thirty languages, with more than ten million copies sold. The story of three generations in twentieth-century China, it is an engrossing record of Maos impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in […]
Asterix and Obelixs Birthday: The Golden Book is a collection of short stories and marks the Golden Jubilee of the Asterix comic book series. This book is the 34th episode of the series and is authored by Albert Uderzo and Rene Goscinny. The plot begins in the year 1 AD and later explains the events […]
Gaul was divided into three parts. No, four parts – for one small village of indomitable Gauls still held out against the Roman invaders. BOOK 7 The Romans persuade a Gaulish chief to challenge Vitalstatistix to single combat. This poses no threat until Getafix is hit by a flying menhir and forgets how to make […]
The story begins, as all of Asterix??s adventures do, by invoking the state of Gaul at the time ?? occupied by the Romans, though not entirely. The one small village of indomitable Gauls still holding out against the invaders is slowly zoomed into. In this first ever adventure, the Romans, led by Centurion Crismus Bonus […]
The Gauls have only one fear: that the sky may fall on their heads tomorrow. But tomorrow never comes, says Chief Vitalstatistix. Or does it? It looks as if its come at last for Asterix, Obelix and the other villagers. And some surprising new characters fall along with the sky. Our friends soon find themselves […]
Who is Geronimo Stilton? That me! I run a newspaper, but my true passion is writing tales of adventure. Here is New Mouse City, the capital of Mouse Island, My books are all bestsellers. My stories are full of fun tastier than Swiss cheese and tangier than extra sharp cheddar. They are whisker-licking good stories […]
The story of this steamy novel centers on an amoral young Italian aristocrat with a penchant for violence who owes his extravagant lifestyle to the favors of a mafia overlord. So when he is asked to silence four witnesses due to testify against the mob, the aristocrat is more than happy to comply in a […]
When Swiss-born Hugues Martin sees a small, run-down hotel in New York for the rough diamond it is, he transforms it into a beautiful boutique hotel of impeccable elegance, run with the precision and attention to detail he learned through his hotelier training in Europe. Renowned for its unparalleled service, the Hotel Vendome soon becomes […]
Mills And Boon An Indecent Proposition (February 2012) by Carol Marinelli is a tale of passion and the subtle art of seduction. The book portrays how rich and powerful men use all their possible means to achieve what they want. The story is about Zander Kargas, a man who has struggled hard in life to […]
In Geronimo Stilton #18 Shipwreck On The Pirate Islands, the 18th installment of the series, Geronimo is cajoled by his family into going on a vacation to Pirate Islands for a getaway. At first, Geronimo is not too thrilled with idea. He is too occupied with the demands of his career to just get up […]
You cannot have an ego because you are the ego: Consciousness identified with a name and form as a separate entity. The sage responds to his name being called therefore, the sage has an ego. The ordinary man also responds to his name being called. What is the difference between the ego of the sage […]
Life bubbled with short stones. They were always coming to the surface of my mind. ——–H. G.Wells. Herbert George Wells was one of the most prolific writers in the history of literature and wrote works in nearly every genre, including short stories and non-fiction. He was one of the founders of Science Fictions and an […]
Two brothers bound by tragedy. A fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past. A country torn by revolution. A love that lasts long past death. This extraordinary, emotionally riveting new novel, set in India and America, expands the scope and range of one of our most beloved storytellers: the Pulitzer Prize-winning, #1 New York Times […]