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Thirteen of the most accomplished YA authors deliver a label-defying anthology that includes 10 short stories, a graphic novel, and a one-act play about topics like gentrification, acceptance, untimely death, coming out, and poverty, and ranging in genre from contemporary realistic fiction to adventure and romance. This collection will inspire you to break conventions, bend the rules, and color outside the lines.

Nine-year-old Louis Drax lies in a coma in a hospital bed, re-living the events that led to his near-fatal fall into a ravine. Despite being attracted to the boy's mother Natalie Drax, Louis' doctor, Pascal Dannachet, begins reluctantly to question her version of Louis' accident and the apparent culpability of her missing husband. As the boy struggles to communicate from within his coma, the chilling truth emerges....

The California desert. A four-year-old boy disappears, plunging his parents into the public hell of a media witch-hunt. But the desert is inexplicable and miraculous, and the family's fate is bound up with that of all those who have travelled before them through this brutally powerful landscape. Multilayered and a compulsively readable, Gods Without Men is a heartfelt exploration of our search for pattern and meaning in a random and chaotic universe.

From the vast lore surrounding King Arthur, Camelot, and the Knights of the Round Table comes an anthology of gender-bent, race-bent, LGBTQIA+ inclusive retellings.

تظهر مروة بحالة يُرثى لها في قسم الرياض بعد عشر سنوات اختطاف. يطلب الرائد عبدالله من المحققة سلافة استجوابها قبل اصطحابها إلى بيت أهلها في جدة، لتعود إلى أمها التي...

In this collection, Melvyn Bragg surveys how English has evolved over 1,000 years. He starts by looking at the disappearance of old dialects like that of Cumbria, and how English has been enriched by foreign languages, from Latin and Old French to dozens more as conquest, trade and immigration played their part in recent centuries. He also examines new coinages, puns and wordplay; how accents and social class are entwined; swear words; attempts to stop the evolution of language in its tracks and, lastly, the many varieties of English that are spoken around the world today.

Michelle Obama's legacy transcends categorization. Mrs. Obama was not only our first black first lady; she was President Obama's equal partner in marriage and parenthood and a tireless advocate for women's rights, education, healthy eating, and exercise. Her genre-busting personal style encouraged others to speak, to engage, even to dress as they wished.

Adeline, a mute who takes refuge in a convent, haunted by memories of her past; Sebastien, a young Jewish banker whose love for the beautiful Isabelle will change the course of his life dramatically; Tristan, a nine-year-old boy whose family moves from Paris to settle in a village that is seemingly untouched by war. Utterly compelling and with a shocking true story at its core, The Silent Hours is an unforgettable portrayal of love and loss.

It's 1965 and Rosie Churchill has arrives at run-down Castaway House. But when she uncovers a scandal locked away in the old house, she soon realises that secrets never stay buried for long. In 1924 fresh-faced Robert Carver comes to Castaway House to spend the summer with his cousin, Alec Bray. But the Brays are a damaged family. As Rosie begins to learn more about Robert, the more their stories, old and new, entwine.

At 25, West-End dancer Ellie Wakefield should be having the time of her life. The only problem is, since waking up in a 300-year-old vampire’s leaky cellar, Ellie’s been very much dead. William James Austen has fallen hard. He’s spent the last year loving Ellie from afar and now he’s finally able to be truthful about who and what he is. But this time, Will might just have bitten off more than he can chew.

On an evening like any other, 9-year-old Katie Mackey, daughter of the most affluent family in a small town on the plains of Indiana, sets out on her bicycle to return some library books.

When Antonia Fraser met Harold Pinter she was a celebrated biographer and he was Britain's finest playwright. Both were already married - Pinter to the actress Vivien Merchant and Fraser to the politician Hugh Fraser - but their union seemed inevitable from the moment they met: 'I would have found you somehow', Pinter told Fraser. Their relationship flourished until Pinter's death on Christmas Eve 2008 and was a source of delight and inspiration to them both until the very end.

Resurrecting buried scandals, audacious hoaxes and private tragedies, Emma Donoghue has written a sequence of short stories about peculiar moments in the history of the British Isles. Here artists mix with poisoners and countesses rub shoulders with cross-dressers, vicars and revolutionaries; the Second Coming is proclaimed in Scotland; and a miniature girl becomes a tiny skeleton in a London museum.

This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great - the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. Each book tells the story of one of America's icons in a lively, conversational way that works well for the youngest nonfiction listeners and that always includes the hero's childhood influences. This volume tells the story of Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon.

या कहाण्या आहेत बड्या शहरातल्या पॉश सोसायट्यांमध्ये राहणार्‍या, फाइव्ह स्टार हॉटेलांच्या कॉन्फरन्स हॉलमध्ये...

जगातले कोणतेही दु:ख, कोणतीही समस्या पहिली नसते किंवा अखेरची. प्रत्येक पुढच्याला ठेच लागलेली असते, पण मागचे कोणीच...

पु.ल.देशपांडे यांनी वेगवेगळ्या प्रसंगी लिहिलेले अनेक लेख खिल्ली मध्ये प्रकाशित झालेले आहेत. यामध्ये एका गांधी...

The son of a poor widow, Aladdin is an idle boy easily deceived by a sorcerer pretending to be Aladdin's long lost uncle. The sorcerer tricks Aladdin into trying to find an oil lamp left in a magic cave, where Aladdin gets tripped. But armed with a magic ring, the oil lamp, and the help of their genies, Aladdin escapes from the cave and achieves wealth and happiness. But the sorcerer is still determined to get his hands on that magic lamp.

The world was shocked by leaked evidence of UFOs that the US government admitted was real, but what is the reason behind these alien visitors and their presence on Earth? Has the human race evolved with the help of extraterrestrial visitors from other planets?

The Occult has long been shrouded in secrecy, understood only by the initiated, yet its influence on the course of history is undeniable. From ancient witches and mystics to modern day prophets and secret societies, the hidden forces of the Occult have shaped beliefs, power structures, and world events. This compelling audiobook explores the dark, mysterious realms of the Occult like never before–revealing the truths lurking in the shadows.