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Mao's Last Dancer
The true story of a poor Chinese peasant boy who, plucked unsuspectingly at the age of ten from millions of others across the land to be trained as a ballet dancer, turned the situation to his advantage to become one of the world's greatest ballet stars. Li tells his story with charm and simplicity, wit...
The Chrysalids (Popular Penguins)
The Chyrsalids is set in the future after a devastating global nuclear war. David, the young hero of the novel, lives in a tight-knit community of religious and genetic fundamentalists, always on the alert for any deviation from the norm of God's creation. Abnormal plants are publicly burned, with much ...
Collected Short Stories Volume 1 - W. Somerset Maugham
"This classic collection of stories moves from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. It includes the famous story 'Rain', the tragedy of a narrow-minded and overzealous missionary and a prostitute, and 'The Three Fat Women of Antibes,' an extravagantly sardonic tale of abst...
Notes from Underground and the Double
'The best thing is to do nothing! Better conscious inertia! So, long live the underground!'Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of hose own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's groundbreaking Notes from Undergroundtells the story of his tortured life. With bitter irony, he ...
Blueberries for Sal
What happens when Sal and her mother meet a mother bear and her cub? ACaldecott Honor Book! "Kuplink, kuplank, kuplunk!" Sal and her mother a picking blueberries to can for the winter. But when Sal wanders to the other side of Blueberry Hill, she discovers a mama bear preparing for her own long winter. ...
The Desert War
Alan Moorehead was sent to cover the North Africa campaign in 1940 by the Daily Express and he followed its dramatic course all the way to 1943. The three books he subsequently wrote about his experiences - collected here as The Desert War - were acclaimed as classic accounts of the tussle between Montg...
Meet...Mary MacKillop (Meet...Famous Australians)
A picture book series about the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australian history, including St Mary MacKillop. Mary MacKillop is Australia's first saint. Mary was born in the 1800s and devoted her life to teaching children. Mary believed everyone should have the chance to learn, no matter ...
The Last Man in Russia: And the Struggle to Save a Dying Nation
The Last Man in Russia is a portrait of the country like no other; a quest to understand the soul of Russia. Award-winning writer Oliver Bullough travels the country from crowded Moscow train to empty windswept village, following in the footsteps of one extraordinary man, the dissident Orthodox priest F...
Rose Rivers
A wonderful new story starring friends old and new from the much-beloved Victorian world of Hetty Feather. Rose Rivers lives in a beautiful house with her artist father, her difficult, fragile mother and her many siblings. She has everything money can buy - beautiful dresses, horse-riding lessons, book...
Basically Famous (#2 Accidental Diary of B.U.G.)
It started with The Accidental Diary Of B.U.G. - now get ready for the second hilarious diary of unforgettable Billie Upton Green!School just got INTERESTING. Not only is Billie's class learning how to P.E.E. in the classroom (don't ask), they now have some very important contacts in the TV world.So as ...
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