Her Body and Other Parties - Stories
A highly anticipated debut by “one of the most ferociously ...
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
Collecting uniquely uncanny tales from the master of America...
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories (Barnes &...
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories brings togethe...
The Best Australian Yarns - And Other True Stories
Best Australian Yarns is a substantial and definitive collec...
Curious George: Zoo Night And Other Animal Stories DVD
Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region...
Curious George: Zoo Night And Other Animal Stories DVD
Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region...
The First Christmas and Other Bible Stories From the Ne...
A beautiful cloth-bound gift edition containing 16 of the be...
Strange But True Tales of Car Collecting - Drowned Buga...
Most car collectors exhibit a healthy enthusiasm for their f...
Too Scared To Cry - And other true stories from the nat...
A heartbreaking and inspiring collection of true fostering s...
The Ghosts Who Danced - and other spooky stories
Unique, illustrated collection of ghost stories for children...
The Woman in Black and Other Ghost Stories - The Collec...
‘No one chills the blood like Susan Hill’ Daily Telegraph ...
In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories - Reillust...
In a dark, dark room, in a soft, soft voice, tell a scary st...
Her Body And Other Parties - Stories
In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories - Reillustrated Edition
In a dark, dark room, in a soft, soft voice, tell a scary story! Newly reillustrated, this classic I Can Read full of spooky stories is perfect for beginning readers who love a bit of a scare. Victor RivasÂ’s silly and spooky art will introduce a new generation to stories inspired by traditional folktales like “The Teeth,” “In the Graveyard,” “The Green Ribbon,” “In A Dark, Dark Room,” Â...
Rio Grande and Other Verses
The perfect collector’s item – a beautiful facsimile edition of A. B. ‘Banjo’ Paterson’s classic ballads, published by Angus & Robertson during World War One as a gift from home to the soldier in the trenches. Rio Grande and Other Verses was published in 1917, when Banjo Paterson was himself was on active service in the Middle East. It includes poems such as ‘Mulga Bill’s Bicycle’, ‘The ...
The First Christmas and Other Bible Stories From the New Testament
A beautiful cloth-bound gift edition containing 16 of the best-known New Testament stories retold for children, by Enid Blyton, one of the world’s best-loved storytellers. The perfect Christmas gift. ’Enid Blyton’s retelling of Christ’s own stories and the meaning of His time on Earth is full of love – Christ’s love for us, our love for each other – and Enid’s caring and timeless love for...
Saltbush Bill, J.P., and Other Verses
The perfect collector’s item – a beautiful facsimile edition of A. B. ‘Banjo’ Paterson’s classic ballads, published by Angus & Robertson during World War One as a gift from home to the soldier in the trenches. Saltbush Bill, J.P., and Other Verses, with illustrations by Lionel Lindsay, was published in 1917, when Banjo Paterson was himself was on active service in the Middle East. It include...
The Gambler and Other Stories
The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s collection of one novella and six short stories reflecting his own life – indeed, ‘The Gambler’, a story of a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian General, was written under a strict deadline so he could pay off his roulette debts. This volume includes ‘Bobok’, the tale of a frustrated writer visiting a cemetery and...
A Dolls House and Other Plays
The plays in this volume, each written a decade apart, demonstrate different sides of Henrik Ibsen’s genius, but all deal with themes of alienation from society and the breaking down of convention. “A Doll’s House” portrays a woman questioning her duty to her husband and seeking to escape from the stifling confines of her marriage – a theme that shocked contemporary audiences and established ...
The Gruffalo's Child Song and Other Songs
Book Components1× 9781447200291, The Gruffalo’s Child and Other Songs, PaperbackAudio Components1× 9780230761735, The Gruffalo’s Child And Other Songs, Audio CDYou’ve read the books, now sing the songs! The Gruffalo’s Child returns with her very own song to introduce a truly monster musical session! As well as being the UK’s most successful picture book author and the 2011-2013 Children’s ...
The Complete Low-Fodmap Diet - A Revolutionary Plan for Managing Ibs and Other Digestive Disorders
A diet plan proven to relieve symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome and other digestive disorders—presented by the world’s leading experts and tailored to you “A must-have survival guide” —Gerard E. Mullin, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of Integrative GI Nutrition Services at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine “What can I do to feel better?” For years, million...
Circus and Other Stories
These four books, published in the Soviet Union between 1925 and 1927, were a collaboration between poet Samuil Marshak (1887-1964) and painter Vladimir Lebedev (1891 – 1967). Based on the idea that a children’s book is an important cultural object in its own right, they linked painting, poetry and typography and created the timeless precursor to the modern children’s picture book. In four bran...
My Life and Other Stuff I Made Up
A nail-biting – no, make that toe-biting – thrill ride through one boy’s life. Have you ever been kissed by a dog? Ever had to eat Vegemite off your sister’s big toe? Have you had a job delivering teeth? Has a bloodthirsty magpie ever been out to get you? Ever woken up to discover that everything hovers? And have you eaten 67 hot dogs in ten minutes? I have. I’m Tom Weekly. This book is full...
Indigenous and Other Australians Since 1901
As Australia became a nation in 1901, no-one anticipated that `Aboriginal affairs’ would become an on-going national preoccupation. Not `dying out’ as predicted, Aboriginal numbers recovered and – along with Torres Strait Islanders – they became an articulate presence, aggrieved at colonial authority’s interventions into family life and continuing dispossession. Indigenous and Other Austra...
Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder - And Other True Cases
An ideal family is targeted for death by the least likely enemy, who plotted their demise from behind bars…. A sexual predator hides behind multiple fake identities, eluding police for years while his past victims live in fear that he will hunt them down…. A modest preacher’s wife confesses to shooting her husband after an argument — but there’s more to her shattering story than meets the eye...
The Book of Self-Care - Remedies for Healing Mind, Body and Soul
Heal mind, body, and soul with this collection of self-care rituals and tips. Never has the idea of mindfully checking in with ourselves and creating a ‘whole body’ health – health that’s more than simply the absence of illness – been so appealing. In this guide to self-care, wellness educator Mary Beth Janssen offers practices to heal mind, body, and soul. She profiles a range of activities...
Dracula and Other Horror Classics (Barnes & Noble Omnibus Leatherbound Classics)
Dracula and Other Horror Classics collects the most memorable tales of horror by Bram Stoker. In addition to Dracula-the landmark vampire novel that set the pattern for virtually all vampire fiction written after its publication in 1897-this omnibus collects the novels The Jewel of Seven Stars and The Lair of the White Worm. It also includes a dozen of StokerÂ’s short tales of the macabre, includi...
Aurora Leigh and Other Poems
Aurora Leigh (1856), Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s epic novel in blank verse, tells the story of the making of a woman poet, exploring ‘the woman question’, art and its relation to politics and social oppression. The texts in this selection are based in the main on the earliest printed versions of the poems. What Edgar Allan Poe called ‘her wild and magnificent genius’ is abundantly in evidenc...
A Memoir of Jane Austen - and Other Family Recollections
‘I doubt whether it would be possible to mention any author of note, whose personal obscurity was so complete.’ James Edward Austen-Leigh’s Memoir of his aunt Jane Austen was published in 1870, over fifty years after her death. Together with the shorter recollections of James Edward’s two sisters, Anna Lefroy and Caroline Austen, the Memoir remains the prime authority for her life and continu...
Singing My Sister Down and Other Stories
‘We all went down to the tar-pit, with mats to spread our weight.’ So begins ‘Singing My Sister Down’, Margo Lanagan’s internationally acclaimed, award-winning short story. Singing My Sister Down and Other Stories brings together ten celebrated short stories, along with three new ones, from the extraordinarily talented author of Tender Morsels and Sea Hearts. A bride accepts her devastating...
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
“For the 75th anniversary of her birth, a Deluxe Edition of the master of the literary supernatural’s most celebrated book Angela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of Neil Gaiman, Audrey Niffenegger, J. K. Rowling, and other contemporary masters of supernatural fiction. In her masterpiece, The Bloody Chamber—which includes the story that is the basis of Neil Jordan’s ...
Living with Your Body and Other Things You Hate - Letting Go of the Struggle with What You See in the Mirror Using Accep...
ItÂ’s no secret that body image dissatisfaction has reached epidemic levels, but whatÂ’s less often understood is the effect that these unhealthy views about oneÂ’s body can have on a personÂ’s overall mental health, body image problems are often at the root of social anxiety . This book takes a unique approach to addressing readersÂ’ struggles with their body image, as readers will not find t...
The Woman in Black and Other Ghost Stories - The Collected Ghost Stories of Susan Hill
‘No one chills the blood like Susan Hill’ Daily Telegraph From the horrifying secret of Eel Marsh House in The Woman in Black to the supernatural terror unleashed by spiteful Leonora van Vorst in Dolly and the deadly danger posed by Professor Parmitter’s painting of Venice in The Man in the Picture, Susan Hill’s ghost stories never fail to raise the hairs on the back of your neck and keep you...
My Heart and Other Black Holes
“Alive with intensity, gut-wrenching honesty, moments of humor, and—of course—heart. Not to be missed.”—Nova Ren Suma, author of Imaginary Girls and The Walls Around UsA stunning novel about the transformative power of love, perfect for fans of Jay Asher and Laurie Halse Anderson.Sixteen-year-old physics nerd Aysel is obsessed with plotting her own death. With a mother who can barely look at ...