Like most people, eleven year old Riley is guided by her Emotions: Joy, Disgust, Fear, Anger, and Sadness. With Joy as the lead Emotion, Riley has always been a happy girl. She loves her home in Minnesota, has great relationships with her mom and dad, and lives for playing hockey with her best friend. But when Riley and her parents move across the country to San Francisco, her world is turned …
When Jack and Annie came back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #2: The Knight at Dawn, they had lots of questions.How were castles built? What was it like to live inside a castle?Did horses really wear armor? How did boys train to become knights? It's time to be a Fact Tracker with Jack and Annie!
Life was better in the old days. Or was it? That's the question Greg Heffley is asking himself as his town voluntarily unplugs and goes electronics-free. But modern life has its conveniences, and Greg isn't cut out for an old-fashioned world. With tension building inside and outside the Heffley home, will Greg find a way to survive? Or is going "old school" just too hard for a kid like Greg?
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…
A British classic set in London in the 1880s. The powerful, patrician Forsyte family is rocked by news of a scandalous love affair. Bossiney stared at the woman as a man looks at a beautiful picture. Then he turned quickly to June and said, "Who is that woman? Please introduce me to her." June was very happy. Smiling with pleasure, she took Philip Bossiney up to the tall, graceful woman. :Th…
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…