“Special Circumstances”: The words have sent chills down Tallys spine since her days as a repellent, rebellious ugly. Back then Specials were a sinister rumor — frighteningly beautiful, dangerously strong, breathtakingly fast. Ordinary pretties might live their whole lives without meeting a Special. But Tallys never been ordinary. And now shes been turned into one […]
This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the “spice of spices.” Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it […]
From a master of contemporary fantasy comes a novel of imaginative power unlike any youve ever encountered… In A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin has created a genuine masterpiece, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill the pages of the first volume in an epic series […]
When Richard Mayhew stops one day to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk, his life is forever altered, for he finds himself propelled into an alternate reality that exists in a subterranean labyrinth of sewer canals and abandoned subway stations. He has fallen through the cracks of reality and has landed […]
It is 1953 and Pearlie, a dutiful housewife, finds herself living in the Sunset district of San Francisco, caring not only for her husband??s fragile health but also for her son, who is afflicted with polio. Then, one Saturday morning, a stranger appears on her doorstep and everything changes. All the certainties by which Pearlie […]
Amos Ozs new fiction presents a surreal and unsettling portrait of a village in Israel. A picture of the community takes shape across seven stories, in which a group of characters appear and return. Each villager is searching for something, yet in this almost dreamlike world nothing is certain, nothing is resolved. An old man […]
Upon the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Charlotte struggles to keep the familys woolen mill running in the face of an overwhelming mortgage and what the local villagers believe is a curse, but when a man capable of spinning straw into gold appears on the scene she must decide if his help is worth the […]
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. […]
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she??s made it out of the bloody arena alive, she??s still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what??s worse, President Snow has made it clear that […]
The land of Terre dAnge is a place of unsurpassed beauty and grace. Its inhabited by the race that rose from the seed of angels, and they live by one simple rule: Love as thou wilt. Ph??dre n?? Delaunay was sold into indentured servitude as a child. Her bond was purchased by a nobleman who […]
India??s top ten best-loved animal fables come to life in theis bnew collection by Bittie Mithal, with superb illustrations. Here you??ll meet rts of smart, silly and clever creatures, like the monkey who manages to out-wit the hungry crocodile, the clever parrots who help their friend escape from her cage, and the wily old heron […]
First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters–beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys–commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece […]
Vanished tells the story of a man and woman faced with an almost unthinkable tragedy??the mysterious abduction of their son. In the late 1930s, in the shadow of the Lindbergh kidnapping, and as war looms in Europe, Marielle Patterson shares and elegant Manhattan brownstone with her husband, Malcolm, and their little boy, Teddy. Though the […]
By a professional working in Mumbai film industry, director. a new novel reflecting her experiences, fun read and informative on Hindi film-making. Parvati has learnt her lesson late in life, but she has learnt it well all men are bastards. While working in an ad film company, she had met karan, her ??Mr Right??. Unfortunately, […]