Lessings powerful and liberating feminist classic–now available in a beautiful trade paperback edition. Alternating between a conventional novel, involving Anna and her friend Molly, and Annas journal entries, the notebooks reflect various aspects of Annas personal and political upheavals.
A business classic, How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling is for anyone whose job it is to sell. Whether you are selling houses or mutual funds, advertisements or ideas — or anything else — this book is for you. When Frank Bettger was twenty-nine he was a failed insurance salesman. By […]
Set at the Jolly Roger, a posh vacation resort for the rich and famous on the southern coast of England, Evil Under the Sun is one of Agatha Christie??s most intriguing mysteries. When a gorgeous young bride is brutally strangled to death on the beach, only Hercule Poirot can sift through the secrets that shroud […]
The sequel to Pollyanna finds the effervescent orphan on the verge of womanhood. Her crippled legs cured, Pollyanna takes her glad heart to cheer new friends in Boston before travelling to Europe with Aunt Polly and Dr Chilton. But growing up brings sorrows as well as joys, and when she returns after six years, with […]
At the start of Awakened, the pulse-pounding eighth installment of the bestselling House of Night series, Zoey has returned, mostly whole, from the Otherworld to her rightful place as High Priestess at the House of Night. Her friends are just glad to have her back, but after losing her human consort, Heath, will Zoey??or her […]
How can Mia bear it? Michael, her one true love, has gone away to college, leaving her to face a new school year alone (well, nearly). With a potential eco-disaster in Genovia, a new English teacher who cant stand her and a totally transformed Boris to get used to, life for the worlds most reluctant […]
Jason has a problem. He doesn??t remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl. Apparently he has a girlfriend named Piper. His best friend is a kid named Leo, and they??re all students in the Wilderness School, a boarding school for ??bad kids?, as Leo puts it. What he […]
The Morningstar Agency is an organisation that has existed across the world for many centuries. Its agents are powerful, charismatic individuals; some more than human, some merely unique. It is rumoured that the Agency President, Mr. Morningstar, is immortal, and has a remarkable degree of influence on our history. Terror on the Titanic, the first […]
Meet the members of the Sunset Club: Pandit Preetam Sharma, Nawab Barkatullah Baig and Sardar Boota Singh. Friends for over forty years, they are now in their eighties. And every evening, at the sunset hour, they sit together on a bench in Lodhi Gardens to exchange news and views on the events of the day, […]
This indispensable compendium of popular misconceptions, misunderstandings and common mistakes culled from the hit BBC show, “QI. The noticeably stouter “QI Book of General Ignorance” sets out to show you that a lot of what you think you know is wrong. If, like Alan Davies, you still think the Henry VIII had six wives, the […]
When A.P.J. Abdul Kalam wrote India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium with Y.S. Rajan in 1998, little did they expect the magnitude of the response they would get. The idea that India could actually be a developed nation in a short time rather than remain condemned to a subsistence diet of marginal improvements […]
Marriage is out of the question! A successful horse breeder and self-proclaimed rake, Harry Lester samples women like wines. But after having his heart trampled upon by someone he actually loved, he has no intention of falling for a woman again, let alone be ensnared by the trap of marriage. Now, with a large inheritance […]
Chases first novel, set in and around Kansas City, was exceedingly popular when it first came out. Based on Ma Barkers gang, and inspired by Faulkners Sanctuary: Miss Blandish – innocent, exquisite, vulnerable heiress – is kidnapped by a gang of ruthless hoods whove never tried big-time crime. Foiled by their own vicious ineptitude and […]
Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship.
The highly anticipated sequel to the #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling book! Secrets have a way of getting out, especially when a diary is involved. Whatever you do, don??t ask Greg Heffley how he spent his summer vacation, because he definitely doesn??t want to talk about it. As Greg enters the new school year, he??s […]
The highly anticipated third book in the critically acclaimed and bestselling series takes the art of being wimpy to a whole new level. Let??s face it: Greg Heffley will never change his wimpy ways. Somebody just needs to explain that to Greg??s father. You see, Frank Heffley actually thinks he can get his son to […]