Popular Literature

With more than 80 of the most popular and loved poems in the English language, this collection is one of the most comprehensive anthologies of its kind. It covers a remarkable range, from the striking visions of Blake and Shelley and the insights of Keats to lighter but equally memorable verse by Tennyson.

Twenty-five years ago, a group of ninth-graders produced a Saturday Night Live-style videotape to cheer up their ailing friend. The show's running time was only 90 minutes, but it had a lasting impact: Becca laughed her way through recovery, and the group - Jordana, Seth, Holly, and Lex - became her supporting cast for life. On the silver anniversary of Becca Night Live, the friends reunite over the Fourth of July to celebrate Becca's good health - but nothing goes as planned. The happy holiday-card facades everyone's been hiding behind quickly crumble.

Indie Blackwood is a popular cheerleader with a football-star boyfriend. On the surface, her life looks perfect. But when a guy dies right before her eyes and an ancient family Bible is stolen, Indie's world spirals into darkness. Turns out, Indie has a destiny. And it involves much more than pom-poms and parties. If she doesn't get the Bible back, every witch on the planet will die. And that's seriously bad news for Indie, because according to Bishop, the hot warlock who has an uncanny knowledge of everything that matters, she's a witch, too.

1920s Liverpool is the beautifully portrayed setting for The Sisters O'Donnell - a delightful saga about three young Irish women building new lives for themselves, from best-selling author Lyn Andrews. Perfect for fans of Anne Baker, Dilly Court and Nadine Dorries. Throughout County Tipperary the three sisters were known as the Sisters O'Donnell. They all have red hair but little else in common. Together they move to Liverpool in the 1920s to make a new life for themselves - although each sister intends to go about it in her own sweet way.

The Lord of the Rings is intended to be applicable to the real world of relationships, religion, pleasure, pain, and politics. Tolkien himself said that his grand tale of wizards, orcs, hobbits, and elves was aimed at truth and good morals in the actual world.

Clara Wilson is your typical clichéd teen fiction protagonist with exactly two friends, no social life and a 4.0 GPA. She has been in love with Alec Evans, the unattainably popular football quarterback and her next-door neighbor, forever. She thinks she is in for a quiet senior year until Jake Henderson arrives. Bad boy extraordinaire, he's arrogant, rude, undeniably gorgeous and shares a past with Clara that she wants to do nothing more than to forget. Caught between two boys, Clara’s life is turned upside down in the most ridiculous of ways.

Бестселлер The New York Times. Лучшая книга года по версии Amazon. Лучшее романтическое фэнтези Young Adult. НЕ ПРИНУЖДАЙ МЕНЯ ОСТАВИТЬ ТЕБЯ И ВОЗВРАТИТЬСЯ ОТ ТЕБЯ. Лу, Рид, Коко и Ансель бегут из столицы, и их портреты висят на каждом столбе — теперь им уже нигде не спрятаться. Чтобы выжить, им нужны сильные союзники.КУДА ТЫ ПОЙДЁШЬ, ТУДА И Я ПОЙДУ. Лу хочет защитить себя и тех, кого любит, от коварных игр Морганы. В своём желании она становится всё более отчаянной — и обращается к тёмной магии.

Speed: the most demonized - and misunderstood - drug in the land. Deprived of the ingrained romantic mysticism of the opiate or the cosmopolitan chic of cocaine or the mundane tolerance of marijuana, there is no sympathy for this devil. Yet speed - crystal meth, amphetamines, Dexedrine, Benzedrine, Adderall; crank, spizz, chickenscratch, oblivious marching powder, the go-fast - is the most American of drugs: twice the productivity at half the cost, and equal opportunity for all.

Службу подпоручика Юрия Ромашова нельзя было назвать гладкой. Постоянные стычки с офицерами, насмешки, порицание и недовольство командования. Все это не добавляло оптимизма в жизнь молодого офицера. Он чувствовал себя одиноко и подавлено. Последний каплей стала гибель солдата в одной из рот.

Мы привыкли к тому, что у большинства сказок нет конкретного автора, все они объединены общим словом "народные". А вот у сказок, представленных в этом сборнике, есть, вернее был автор - Анна Куприяновна Барышникова, или просто бабушка Куприяниха - одна из лучших русских сказочниц.

Tori Rodriguez leads the perfect life. Or so everyone thinks. Perfect hair, perfect clothes, perfect family. But what no one knows is that she's secretly struggling to keep it together, even as she leads the cheer squad to nationals. Noah has never had it easy. His clothes come second-hand, not off designer racks, and his home life is far from ideal. With his knowledge about computers, he's determined to make it to college and beyond, even if everyone else has a free ticket. The minute Noah meets Tori, he thinks she's just another entitled queen bee.

Senior spring at Alexandria Prep was supposed to be for sleeping through class and partying with friends. But for Anna Soler, it's going to be a lonely road. She's just been dumped by her gorgeous basketball star boyfriend - with no explanation. Anna's closest friends, the real ones she abandoned while dating him, are ignoring her. The endearing boy she's always had a complicated friendship with is almost too sympathetic. But suddenly Anna isn't the only one whose life has been upended.

Paski and her father move to Southern California, where his comic strip has been optioned for a movie. At her new high school, money is everything and the haters rule, especially beautiful, cruel Jessica Nguyen. While Paski tries to concentrate on mountain biking and not thinking too much about ultra-hot Chris Cabrera, she is troubled by visions.

The Cocaine Chronicles contains tough tales by a cross-section of today's most thought-provoking writers. Featuring brand-new stories by: Susan Straight, Lee Child, Laura Lippman, Ken Bruen, Jerry Stahl, Nina Revoyr, Bill Moody, Emory Holmes II, James Brown, Gary Phillips, Jervey Tervalon, Kerry E. West, Donnell Alexander, Deborah Vankin, Robert Ward, Manuel Ramos, and Detrice Jones.

One of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists, Joshua Cohen arrives with his first collection of nonfiction, the culmination of two decades of writing and thought about life in the digital age. In essays, memoir, criticism, diary entries, and letters—many appearing here for the first time—Cohen covers the full depth and breadth of modern life.

In this insightful and provocative book, comics-industry veteran Danny Fingeroth explores the backgrounds of the most well-known superheroes and their creators—largely young American Jewish men from Eastern European backgrounds. These innovators include Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Will Eisner, and Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. In Disguised as Clark Kent, Fingeroth explores how the creators’ Jewish backgrounds helped make superheroes the most familiar popular-culture icons of all.

In recent years, nicotine has become as verboten as many hard drugs. The literary styles in this volume are as varied as the moral quandaries herein, and the authors have successfully unleashed their incandescent imaginations on the subject matter, fashioning an immensely addictive collection.

Wren Martin is socially awkward. She blocks off herself to the world, hiding behind her favorite hoodie. All she wants to do is keep a low profile and graduate with high enough grades to qualify for a college scholarship. But then, a babysitting job leads her to cross paths with Asher Reed, Eastview Highʼs notorious athlete. When a field injury kick-starts his senior year, he begins to dedicate his free time and attention to Wren...and maybe she might not want to be invisible after all.

Childhood rivals Alana and Xavier meet again after six years apart. As the two begin to spend more time together, Alaina realizes that Xavier is no longer the same boy she used to know. As she tries to help him fight his inner demons and reckon with his tragic past, the two slowly begin falling in love.

Ein Schicksalsschlag ändert Maddies Leben von einer Minute zur anderen. Auf einmal ist ihre Tochter schwer krank, ihr Mann hat eine Geliebte und die Krankenversicherung ist nicht bezahlt. Alles scheint hoffnungslos, doch Maddie gibt nicht auf und als der attraktive Dr. Baker ihr ein unmoralisches Angebot macht, nimmt sie es an, um ihr Kind zu retten. Aber was ist, wenn auf einmal Gefühle ins Spiel kommen, die nicht geplant waren?