Classics

Wuthering Heights tells the tale of Heathcliff, a young orphaned gypsy boy, who is brought to the windswept moors of Yorkshire....

With buried treasure, treacherous buccaneers, a young hero, and Long John Silver, the one-legged villain, Treasure Island remains one of the most popular of pirate adventures....

Set in the fourteenth century, the classic story of one boy's personal heroism when he loses the use of his legs...

The tales of this book explore and extend the world established by Ursula K. Le Guin's must-listen Earthsea Cycle. "The magic of Earthsea is primal; the lessons of Earthsea remain as potent, as wise, and as necessary as anyone could dream." (Neil Gaiman) This collection contains the novella "The...

Orphaned at 13, Rose goes to live with her Uncle Alec. Here she meets her seven spirited boy cousins with whom she has home-spun fun and many exciting adventures....

A second wonderful collection of Just William stories, selected and read by Martin Jarvis Richmal Crompton's stories featuring irrepressible schoolboy William Brown have been firm favourites with both young and old for decades. Perpetually scruffy, mud-stained and mischievous, he is a lovable...

Good Wives continues the story of the Little Women, the March sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy,

Heaven is no paradise : Reflections on Contentment, Happiness and Success is an Audible Original audiobook by Devdutt Pattanaik, narrated by himself.

"I write this sitting at the kitchen sink" is the first line of a novel about love, sibling rivalry, and a bohemian existence in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere....

Heroes Ralph, Jack and Peterkin set sail on the Arrow and are the only three survivors of a fearful shipwreck....

On her 29th birthday, Valency Stirling awakens to a life that she knows will never change. Under the thumb of an autocratic mother and a poor relation in a large domineering family, for years her only refuge has been in her dreams of a mystical Blue Castle, where beauty and kindness reign. To...

Phantásien ist in Gefahr. Das Nichts droht alles zu verschlingen, denn die Kindliche Kaiserin ist krank. Wenn ihr nicht geholfen wird, muss Phantásien sich auflösen. Bastian möchte helfen - aber wie? Phantásien ist doch nur eine fiktive Welt, in die er sich durch ein Buch hineinflüchtet...

Freckles is the only name he has ever known. His right hand is missing at the wrist, and he is haunted by not knowing how it happened. Raised since infancy in a Chicago orphanage, he speaks with a slight Irish accent and sings with a beautiful voice....

The groundbreaking National Book Award Finalist and Michael L. Printz Honor Book with more than 3.5 million copies sold, Speak is a bestselling modern classic about consent, healing, and finding your voice. "Speak up for yourself—we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of...

In this spirited and romantic saga of high adventure, a young heir named David Balfour meets his miserly uncle Ebenezer, who has illegally taken control of the Balfour estate. Ebenezer kidnaps David and plots to have him seized and sold into slavery on a ship to the Carolinas. A couple of days...

When ideas become weapons, who survives the lesson? In the shadowed streets of Pataliputra, a city built on order begins to rot from within. Symbols drawn in funeral ash appear overnight. Bodies fall — not at random, but with purpose.

Set in the tumultuous times of the Jacobite rebellion, Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped is a classic adventure story that has enthralled generations....

In the dusty village of Tenali, while others ploughed the land, a lazy boy dreamed beneath tamarind trees. Tenali Raman — sharp-tongued, sharp-minded, and dangerously underestimated — seemed destined to amount to nothing.

Weekly ballet classes are Harriet Morton's only escape from her intolerably dull life. So when she is chosen to join a corps de ballet which is setting off on a tour of the Amazon, she leaps at the chance to run away for good. Performing in the grand opera houses is everything Harriet dreamed of...

Fear walks the corridors of Fatehpur Sikri. And sometimes, it wears the face of a ghost. When Emperor Akbar is haunted by a mysterious drenched woman and his court begins to fracture under paranoia, poison, and betrayal, the empire stands on the brink — not of invasion, but of collapse from within.