New Classics

In "The Emperor's New Clothes", two weavers tell the emperor that they can make him a new suit of clothes that is invisible to people who are unfit for their positions or who are stupid or incompetent. Con men, the two weavers actually outfit the emperor in nothing, but will anyone be willing to tell the emperor that he is naked? As an idiom, the story's title refers to things that are accepted as common knowledge in spite of being obviously untrue.

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Renowned author and historian Jackie French takes us back in time to Greece and Rome and explores young heroes in ancient myths and legends whose stories will now be told. Forget what you know about Cleopatra, the Egyptian queen with a fantastic hairstyle. That's only part of the story. Before...

A masterpiece of European imagination, The Sufferings of Young Werther is the classic Sturm und Drang tale of youthful angst and tragedy. The acclaimed translator Stanley Corngold brings new passion and precision to Goethe's timeless novel of obsessive love and madness in this magnificent new translation.

Movement Medicine is the kind of audio download you'll really want to listen to. Accompanying their incredible book, this contains a heady mix of meditations, workings and music to exercise and exorcise your mind, body and spirit. This audio download (of the double CD of the same name) contains...

NEVER BEFORE ON AUDIO! ALL-NEW PRODUCTIONS OF TWENTY-FOUR CLASSIC ERNEST HEMINGWAY STORIES. This brand-new audio collection from the iconic Pulitzer and Nobel Prize–winning author is a listener’s delight. The two dozen short stories presented here have never been published on audio; these...

قوطعت وجبة عشاء هيركيول بوارو في أحد مقاهي لندن عندما تسر له امرأة شابة بأنها على وشك أن تقتل، كانت المرأة تشعر بالهلع الشديد، ولكنها رجت بوارو ألا يحاول العثور على قاتلها وعقابه، وأصرت على أن العدالة ستتحقق بمجرد أن تموت في وقت لاحق من تلك الليلة، نما الى علم بوارو أن ثلاثة من نزلاء أحد الفنادق الأنيقة في لندن قد قتلوا، وتم وضع أزرار أكمام في فم كل منهم، هل هناك علاقة بين المرأة المذعورة وجريمة القتل ؟ بينما كان بوارو يحاول حل خيوط ذلك اللغز كان القاتل يجهز غرفة أخرى من غرف الفندق من أجل ضحيته الرابعة، لغز شديد الغموض لن يحل خيوطه الاالمحقق البلجيكي الموهوب وخلايا مخه الرمادية الصغيرة.

أشعر بالكثير من الامتنان إلى الأشخاص الرائعين التالية أسماؤهم، والذين كرسوا أنفسهم من أجل إلهام الآخرين: جيمس بريكارد، ماثيو بريكارد، هيلاري سترونج، كريستيان ماكفيل، جوليا وايلد، ليديا ستون، نيكي وايت، وجميع العاملين في مؤسسة أجاثا كريستي المحدودة، دافيد براون، كايت إلتون، لاورا دي جيسيبي، سارة هودجسون، فليس دينهام، وإلى جميع العاملين في مؤسسة هاربر كولينز في المملكة المتحدة، دان مالوري، كايتلين هاري، جينيفر هارت، كاثرين جوردون، دانييل بارتلت، لياتي ستيهليك، مارجو ويزمان، وفريق عمل ويليام مارو، بيتر شتراوس، وماتيو تيرنر من مؤسسة روجر وكولريدج ووايت.

He was once called Dracula, but in Chicago in our day he is known as Matthew Maule. John Southerland, like the rest of the Southerland family, calls him Uncle Matthew. After all he's an Old Friend of the Family and he has risked his un-life more than once to protect the Southerlands. But with Matthew rendered comatose by a fiendish plot from beyond time, the Southerlands must rise to his defense - and battle 500 years’ worth of Dracula's enemies.

The Resolution is the fourth installment in The New Homefront Series where patriotic Americans struggle to survive while fighting the evil and tyranny that pervades their new world. As the country continued to struggle amidst the fallout from the orchestrated collapse, the United Nations and other foreign entities continued to increase their influence, taking advantage of a nation desperate for order.

Journey with Drakulya into the Grand Canyon where the Earth reveals her story layer by layer, where she hides her secrets in the Great Unconformity, and where eons of time are carved and scrambled in stone. In the unworldly world of Deep Canyon, Drakulya confronts a rogue nosferatu sculptor who would capture in stone the awesome power of time, life energy, and primal consciousness. A nosferatu who would capture in time, anyone to serve his purpose, even a young runaway searching for her father and her remembered childhood home.

Inspired by personal experience, this is a very fresh and funny MG series by CBCA shortlisted author Samera Kamaleddine. I didn't always live with seven old people and one middle-aged cavoodle called Christine ... Claudia Smith's parents have left her to (temporarily) live with her grandparents...

The year is 1865. 34-year-old Annie, freshly married, sets sail for New Zealand where she will serve as a helpmeet for her second husband, Fred. They live in Christchurch until they can build their house in the sheep-farming Canterbury High Country.

Cast off on a raft with a runaway slave down the great Mississippi and a boy who couldn't dream of a greater adventure. With each bend of the river, each town, comes a chance encounter, perhaps with a king or duke wrapped in the schemes of scoundrels or a young girl caught amidst a family feud. On a journey with a friend dreaming of freedom, it's full of mischief, full of fun, and the adventures of a lifetime.

"The New Machiavelli" purports to be written in the first person by its protagonist, Richard "Dick" Remington, who has a lifelong passion for "statecraft" and who dreams of recasting the social and political form of the English nation. Remington is a brilliant student at Cambridge, writes several books on political themes, marries an heiress and enters parliament as a Liberal influenced by the socialism of a couple easily recognisable as the Webbs, only to go over to the Conservatives.

Eine gefühlvolle Familiengeschichte, in der motorradfahrende und feministische Bären, weiße Vergewaltiger und schwarze Rächer...

Who hasn't dreamed of running away to a more exciting life? Toby Tyler is one boy who did just that, spending 10 weeks working for the circus as it toured New England in the 1870s. But was this great adventure everything he dreamed it would be? Toby Tyler or, Ten Weeks with a Circus is a classic story beloved by generation after generation of children. Author James Otis Kaler actually traveled with the Phineas T. Barnum Circus as a young reporter, and he used his firsthand knowledge to acquaint children with the behind-the-scenes details of what the circus is really like, while introducing the unforgettable character of Toby Tyler.

When a vain emperor becomes obsessed with wearing only the most magnificent clothes, he hires two cunning weavers who promise him a magical outfit that only the wise can see. Eager to impress his kingdom, the emperor parades through the city, completely unaware that the spectacle is about to unravel in the most unforgettable way.

Were you a child, teenager or young adult in the 80s or 90s and want to relive the best years of your life? Well now you can travel back in time and embrace your over-the-top fashion sense that’s dying to come out! Put on your shoulder pads, oversized jewellery and perm your hair. Or get those baggy jeans and Parker Jackets out once again!

One of the great overlooked voices of modern Irish literature, once hailed as “magnificent” by The New York Times, Mary Lavin’s fiction is now being revived for a new generation of readers in this definitive volume, selected and introduced by Colm Tóibín. During her lifetime, Irish...