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This beautiful HarperCollins Children’s Classics edition of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women is the perfect addition to any bookshelf. During the hardships of the American Civil War, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March are facing Christmas without their father. Little Women is their story – a tale of four very different sisters, their adventures and ambitions, their relationship with their neighbour Laurie and ultimately their moving journey from girls to women. This charming and timeless story inspired by Louisa May Alcott’s own life is not only one of the best-loved children’s books of all time, but also one of the most widely read and bestselling novels in American literature. Complete your library with HarperCollins Children’s Classics.

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Featuring the original illustrations by Sir John Tenniel, this beautiful HarperCollins Children’s Classics edition is perfect for every bookshelf. On a warm summer afternoon, inquisitive young Alice tumbles down a rabbit-hole into Wonderland. In this strange, unforgettable world, Alice meets the anxious White Rabbit and the grinning Cheshire cat, joins a mad tea-party with the Hatter and the March Hare, plays croquet with the frightening Queen of Hearts and encounters many other iconic characters that have captured the imagination of children for generations. Lewis Carroll’s surreal tale has become one of the most famous, influential and beloved books ever written, delighting readers young and old for over 150 years. Complete your library with HarperCollins Children’s Classics.

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This beautiful HarperCollins Children’s Classics edition of J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan is the perfect addition to any bookshelf. One night, the mythical Peter Pan appears in the nursery of Wendy, John and Michael Darling and an extraordinary adventure begins. With a sprinkle of Tinker Bell’s fairy dust, Peter teaches the three children to fly and whisks them away to Neverland. There they embark on daring adventures with mermaids, fairies, lost boys – and the vengeful pirate Captain Hook. Since his creation, J. M. Barrie’s boy who wouldn’t grow up has become a cultural icon, and this witty, imaginative story full of mischief, magic and bravery is one of the best-loved children’s classics of all time. Complete your library with HarperCollins Children’s Classics.

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This beautiful HarperCollins Children’s Classics edition of L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables is the perfect addition to any bookshelf. Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert are looking to adopt a boy to help out on their farm – so when the orphanage delivers a red-haired eleven-year-old girl named Anne instead, they are determined to fix the mistake. However, as Anne’s vibrant character and vivid imagination brighten up their home, the Cuthberts soon realise Anne must stay at Green Gables. The inimitable Anne Shirley is fanciful, talkative and dramatic, and this charming novel describing her joyful adventures, close friendships and school rivalries in the town of Avonlea is an enduring children’s classic loved by millions. Complete your library with HarperCollins Children’s Classics.

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This beautiful HarperCollins Children’s Classics edition is perfect for every bookshelf. Sara Crewe’s life is almost a fairy tale, and she is the fairy princess in it, happy and rich with a father who loves her dearly. But, in one horrible moment, that is all taken away. Sara is now alone at Miss Minchin’s boarding school in London, orphaned and penniless. What she’d once been called in flattery is quickly whispered in mockery: Princess Sara. However, Sara will realise there is more to a princess than gowns and jewels. Even dressed in rags and tatters, she can be a princess inside. Anyone can.From the author of The Secret Garden comes a story brimming with heart and hope, beloved by generations of readers. Complete your library with HarperCollins Children’s Classics.

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This beautiful HarperCollins Children’s Classics edition is perfect for every bookshelf. Despite his better judgement, eccentric English gentleman Phileas Fogg has wagered half his fortune on a whim – and a foolish one at that. He must travel around the world in eighty days or lose it all. Fogg is determined not to lose, no matter the typhoons, bison or Scotland Yard detectives that get in his way. By steamer, train, sledge and boat, on foot and on elephant back, Fogg and his beleaguered valet journey the globe, crossing land and sea in the greatest of races. The most celebrated of Jules Verne’s Voyages extraordinaires series, this riotous adventure story has inspired countless films, plays and trips around the world. Complete your library with HarperCollins Children’s Classics.

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This is the story of love, commitment and the flowering of the human spirit against the background of South Africa’s apartheid. Frightened that their baby sister Dineo will die, thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother Tiro run away from their grandmother to Johannesburg to find their mother, who works there as a maid. Their journey illustrates at every turn the grim realities of apartheid – the pass laws, bantustans, racism, the breakdown of family life. The opulence of the white “Madam’s” house contrasts starkly with the reality that Naledi and Tiro face – that their baby sister is suffering from starvation, not an incurable disease. This edition of Beverley Naidoo’s classic story includes a special “Why You’ll Love This Book” introduction by Michael Rosen, former Children’s Laureate.

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Cerca del año 1000, Almanzor amenaza una y otra vez el norte de la península Hibérica. Unos misteriosos barcos arriban a la costa tarraconense y dejan un extraño presente en el pequeño puerto de Cubelles. Este es el inicio de la emocionante peripecia vital de dos muchachos que acabarán viajando al Alto Urgell, cuando el conde Armengol I está a punto de unirse a la gran alianza de condes y magnates que han decidido independizarse definitivamente del reino franco y, a la vez, romper con las antiguas servidumbres impuestas por el poderoso califato de Córdoba.En medio de todo esto, una mujer joven se debatirá para liberarse de las ataduras de su cerrado mundo familiar y social.Sanchez Adalid nos presenta un gran friso narrativo que recrea, con agilidad y destreza, el agitado inicio del segundo milenio: la vida en los castillos y campamentos guerreros, las peculiares relaciones entre nobles y clérigos, la rica cultura monacal, las costumbres cotidianas, el amor, la guerra, el miedo y

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Willa Parker, la habitante 646 y la menos popular de What Cheer, Iowa, se dirige a la Costa Este a empezar una nueva vida.Ha elegido ella esa nueva vida? No, porque eso sería demasiado sencillo, y nada en la vida de Willa es sencillo. A su famosa y aclamada madre se le ha ocurrido la idea de enviarla al carísimo y exclusivo colegio Pembroke, donde entra solo gracias a la importancia de su apellido.Pero ella no tiene intención de encajar en Pembroke. Decide que no piensa quedarse mucho. Ni en el colegio ni en el planeta. Pero cuando conoce a la peculiar y deslumbrante Remy Taft, la chica más rica y misteriosa del centro, empieza a vislumbrar un lugar en este mundo extraño, un hueco en el que tal vez pueda encajar.Cuando Willa mira a Remy, ve a una chica que lo tiene todo. Pero, para esta, tenerlo todo conlleva un precio. Y, a medida que va perdiendo el control, siente que Remy se le escapa.En el fondo de su alma, Willa siempre ha querido pertenecer a algún luga

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“Third Rail gets off to a ripping start and never lets off the gas. Rory Flynn is a suspense writer to watch.”—Jess Walter, author of the best-selling Beautiful Ruins   Harvard-educated Eddy Harkness was a rising star in an elite Boston Police Department narcotics unit—until he was blamed for the death of a Red Sox fan in the chaotic aftermath of a World Series win. Scapegoated and exiled, Harkness now empties parking meters in the sleepy town of Nagog while struggling to clear his name.   Then one night his police-issued Glock disappears. Unable to report the theft, he starts a secret search—just as a string of fatal accidents leads him to uncover a dangerous new smart drug, Third Rail. With only a plastic gun to protect him, Harkness begins a high-stakes investigation that leads him into the top levels of Boston’s power base, where politicians and criminals intertwine to deadly ef

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Ever since the Queen mysteriously disappeared and the King went mad five years ago, Princess Charlie has lived a wild and mostly unsupervised life in the country of Quale—until now. With the discovery of a letter in the Queen''s handwriting, Charlie embarks on a quest to find her mother and save the kingdom from a revolution. However, her journey pulls Charlie deeper into an entangling web of lies and secrets—as twisted as the dark castle—where nothing is as it seems.

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With this extraordinary first volume in an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century.In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse—mathematical genius and young Captain in the U.S. Navy—is assigned to detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt. The mission of Waterhouse and Detachment 2702—commanded by Marine Raider Bobby Shaftoe-is to keep the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy''s fabled Enigma code. It is a game, a cryptographic chess match between Waterhouse and his German counterpart, translated into action by the gung-ho Shaftoe and his forces.Fast-forward to the present, where Waterhouse''s crypto-hacker grandson, Randy, is attempting to cre

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A beautiful graphic adaptation of George Orwell’s timeless and timely allegorical novel. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” In 1945, George Orwell, called “the conscience of his generation,” created an enduring, devastating story of new tyranny replacing old, and power corrupting even the noblest of causes. Today it is all too clear that Orwell’s masterpiece is still fiercely relevant wherever cults of personality thrive, truths are twisted by those in power, and freedom is under attack. In this fully authorized edition, the artist Odyr translates the world and message of Animal Farm into a gorgeously imagined graphic novel. Old Major, Napoleon, Squealer, Snowball, Boxer, and all the creatures of Animal Farm come to life in this newly envisaged classic. From his individual brushstrokes to the freedom of his page design, Odyr’s adaptation seam

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.A poignant and powerful story of the American South in the 1960s and of one woman who risks her life for the people she loves from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, now available in a new edition featuring an introduction by Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage.“A classic novel of both feminism and the Civil Rights movement.” —Ms. Magazine“My life suddenly made sense when I encountered Alice Walker''s fiction.” —Tayari Jones Meridian Hill, a dedicated and courageous young activist in the 1960s, works to create peace and understanding through her civil rights work, touching the lives of all those she meets even when her health begins to deteriorate. With the old rules of Southern society collapsing around her, her coworkers quitting and moving to comfortable homes and lives, and others turning to more violent means o

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Kendare Blake returns to the world of the Aristene in this epic fantasy novel as a young member of the order faces down old loves and old foes. A must-read for fans of Victoria Aveyard and Shelby Mahurin. The cost was steep, but Reed is officially an Aristene.And not just any Aristene, but a Glorious Death, guiding only those heroes whose glory costs them their lives. It is a heavy burden, but to forget the prince she left behind, Reed throws herself into it, harvesting heroes at what some say is a reckless pace.So when Lyonene is summoned to guide a princess to a glorious marriage, Reed sees an opportunitya hero who isnt fated to dieand they secretly arrange for Reed to go in her place. But instead of an easy mission, she arrives to find chaos: an old enemy is rising to threaten the Aristene, and one of the princesss suitors is Hestion, whom Reed still loves, and who may yet love her.Reed has

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A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and The Cabin at the End of the World.In June 1993, a group of young guerilla filmmakers spent four weeks making Horror Movie, a notorious, disturbing, art-house horror flick.The weird part? Only three of the film’s scenes were ever released to the public, but Horror Movie has nevertheless grown a rabid fanbase. Three decades later, Hollywood is pushing for a big budget reboot.The man who played “The Thin Kid” is the only surviving cast member. He remembers all too well the secrets buried within the original screenplay, the bizarre events of the filming, and the dangerous crossed lines on set that resulted in tragedy. As memories flood back in, the boundaries between reality and film, past and present start to blur. But he’s

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