The second in L. Frank Baum's Oz series, The Marvelous Land of Oz, brings readers back to a fantastical journey with a young boy named Tip. Following Tip's adventure, we meet charming new characters, such as Jack the Pumpkinhead, the Wooden Sawhorse, and the Gump, as well as some familiar old ones, like the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman. After more than a hundred years since its first publication, …
Number One New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown returns with another suspenseful thriller Five years ago a disastrous fire gutted the police headquarters. Seven people died in the flames but thanks to four brave men, most of those inside were rescued. The next day, and forever after, they would be known to the world as heroes. Now, one of them has called Britt Shelley, a hotshot new…
On a rain-slick road, a car crash leaves only three survivors: an infant, a man clinging to his life, and Kendall Deaton. But she doesn't dare reveal any of their true identities to the authorities. Instead, she plans her escape. Her perilous flight begins. The best public defender in Prosper, South Carolina, Kendall had stumbled upon the town's chilling secret, making her marriage into a po…
n December 1792, Elizabeth Middleton, twenty-nine years old, unmarried and fiercly independent, leaves England for a remote mountain village in the wilderness of New York. She does so with a strong will and an unwavering purpose: to establish a school for all the village children - white, black and Native American - a purpose which sets her at odds not only with local slave owners, but her own …
Apa salahnya punya tubuh besar? Bagi keluarga Dawson yang sempurna, itu jelas menjadi masalah. Ayah, ibu, dan adik Victoria berambut dan bermata cokelat, bertubuh indah, serta rupawan. Victoria bongsor, montok, berambut pirang, bermata biru, dan tampak sangat biasa. Bagi ayahnya, dia akan selalu menjadi si “gadis besar”. Dan hanya berat badan Victoria yang ibunya ungkit dalam setiap kese…
Returning to England after a tragic loss, Alfie Budd is disillusioned by his father's infidelity and the effects of age on his beloved grandmother before he engages in a series of meaningless affairs in his quest to rediscover true love. By the author of Man and Boy. 50,000 first printing.
Khushwant Singh is at his best when poking fun at Indians. There are dozens of Sardarji jokes, all of them charmingly told...and many quite delightful ones on Pakistan. Witty, ribald, hilarious, no string of adjectives would suffice to describe this selection by the wittiest Sardarji of them all, and designed to give the reader a pain in the belly.
Khushwant Singh is at his best when poking fun at Indians. There are dozens of Sardarji jokes, all of them charmingly told...and many quite delightful ones on Pakistan. Witty, ribald, hilarious, no string of adjectives would suffice to describe this selection by the wittiest Sardarji of them all, and designed to give the reader a pain in the belly.
Khushwant Singh, humorist, racounteur, editor, short-story writer, novelist, commentator, has earned a new accolade - "the master spinner of jokes." He has been clubbed together with Birbal, Tenali Raman and Gopal Bhore as one of India's all time great humourists. His ability to make Indians laugh at themselves, and at their own foibles, has earned him a readership and fan following that is unp…
THE OLIVE FARM and THE OLIVE SEASON are television actress Carol Drinkwater's lyrical accounts of a new life in France; about her house Appassionata and the trials and tribulations of acquiring an olive farm, restoring it, farming the olives, overcoming the heartaches of taking on a 'new' French family and understanding slowly the workings and lifestyle of a vivacious Provencal community. THE O…