When Jack and Annie came back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #47 Abe Lincoln at Last! they had lots of questions. What was it like to grow up in a log cabin? How did Lincoln become president? What was his family like? Why did United States fight the Civil War? It's time to be a Fact Tracker with Jack and Annie!
Do you have the courage to confront your demons? The Valkyries are a force to be reckoned with - warrior women who roam the Mojave desert on motorbikes, leather-clad despite the heat. But they are also spiritual beings and it is to them that Paulo Coelho is led in the search for his own guardian angel. For forty days and nights, Paulo and his wife travel with the Valkyries, battling again…
Veronika has everything she could wish for - young and pretty, with plenty of attractive boyfriends, a steady job, a loving family. Yet, Veronika is not happy and one winter's morning she takes an overdose of sleeping pills, only to wake up some time later in the local hospital. There she is told that although she is alive, her heart is now irreparably damaged and she has only a few days to liv…
How do we find the courage to be true to ourselves - even if we are unsure of who we are? That is the central question posed by Paulo Coelho's riveting new work, The Witch of Portobello. It is the story of Athena, a mysterious young woman born in Romania, raised in Beirut and living in London. Her life is told by the many who knew her well - or hardly at all.
It begins with a glimpse or a passing thought. It ends in obsession. The Zahir. One day a renowned author discovers that his wife, a war correspondent, has disappeared leaving no trace. Was she kidnapped, blackmailed, or simply bored with their marriage? His search for her - and for the truth of his own life - takes him from South America to Spain, France, Croatia and, eventually, the ble…
Some sisters are good friends, some are not. Sometimes there is more hate in a family than there is love. Kain is beautiful and has lots of men friends, but she can be very unkind to her sister Marcia. Perhaps when thew were small, there was love between them, but that was a long time ago. They say that everybody has one crime in them. Perhaps they only take an umbrella that does not belong to…
Before. Miles "Pudge" whole existence has been one big nonevent, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave the "Great Perhaps" (Francois Rabelais, Poet) event more. He heads off the sometimes crazy, oossibky unstable, and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeus…
It's about New York society between 1913 and 1925. Anthony Patch smiled at Gloria, the girl who was beautiful with golden hair. "You're the most beautiful girl I've ever seen," he said. They are young, beautiful, charming and aimless. But their extravagant lifestyle forces them further and further into debt.
It's about New York in1992 Nick Carraway buys a house on Long Island. The house next door is owned by the fabulously rich and handsome Jay Gatsby. Nick's cousin, Daisy is young, beautiful and desperately unhappily married. Nick soon finds himself an intermediary between the reunited lovers, Daisy and Gatsby.
'They were long and thin as water insects, but they had a slow, snake-like way of walking. They had shiny hair and sharp cheekbones. They were six women and two men ...' When the American models leave the Malaysian island after their fashion shoot, they take away more than just photographs, and leave behind a family that will never be the same again.