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I Am David
$15.00David’s entire twelve-year life has been spent in a grisly prison camp in Eastern Europe. He knows nothing of the outside world. But when he is given the chance to escape, he seizes it. With his vengeful enemies hot on his heels, David struggles to cope in this strange new world, where his only resources are a compass, a few crusts of bread, his two aching feet, and some vague advice to seek refuge in Denmark. Is that enough to survive? David’s extraordinary odyssey is dramatically chronicled in Anne Holm’s classic about the meaning of freedom and the power of hope.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – Slytherin Edition
$20.00Celebrate 20 years of Harry Potter magic with four special editions ofHarry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw … Twenty years ago these magical words and many more flowed from a young writer’s pen, an orphan called Harry Potter was freed from the cupboard under the stairs – and a global phenomenon started.Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stonehas been read and loved by every new generation since. To mark the 20th anniversary of first publication, Bloomsbury is publishing four House Editions of J.K. Rowling’s modern classic. These stunning editions will each feature the individual house crest on the jacket and sprayed edges in the house colours. Exciting new extra content will include fact files, profiles of favourite characters and line illustrations exclusive to that house. Available for a limited period only, these highly collectable editions will be a must-have for all Harry Potter fans in 2017.
The Memoirs of a Survivor
$26.00In a beleaguered city where rats and roving gangs terrorize the streets, where government has broken down and meaningless violence holds sway, a woman — middle-aged and middle-class — is brought a twelve-year-old girl and told that it is her responsibility to raise the child. This book, which the author has called “an attempt at autobiography,” is that woman’s journal — a glimpse of a future only slightly more horrendous than our present, and of the forces that alone can save us from total destruction.
At Home at the Zoo: Homelife and the Zoo Story
$22.00The Zoo Story. More than fifty years later, master playwright Edward Albee (Who s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?andThe Goat, or Who is Sylvia?) wrote a prequel to this classic.Home Storycontains the events in Peter s life immediately preceding his encounter with Jerry on the park bench and is every bit as powerful as the original. We meet Ann, Peter s wife, and see the conversation that compelled Peter to go for that fateful walk in the park. For the first time collected in one volume, At Home at the Zoois a must for any theater lover. “
The Year of the Runaways
$28.10In the north of England, a group of young Indian immigrants struggle to begin something new–to support their families; to build their futures; to show their worth; to escape their pasts. An epic for our times, The Year of the Runaways is a stunning work of fiction that explores what it means and what it costs to make a new life, the capaciousness of the human spirit, and the power of humanity in the face of unspeakable suffering.
The God of Small Things
$22.80A banquet for all the senses, said Newsweek of this bestselling and Booker Prize-winning literary novel–a richly textured first book about the tragic decline of one family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden love.
Untouchable
‘They think we are dirt because we clean their dirt’ Bakha is a young man, proud and strong; even attractive. He is also an Untouchable in India’s caste system. Sweeper and toilet-cleaner, the lowest of the low, he must warn others on the street so that he will not pollute them with his presence. As he seeks comfort in a wrapper of sweet jalebis, a violent encounter leads him to question his fate – and find an answer in the unlikeliest of places. Into this urgent 1935 re-creation of one day in the life of an Outcaste, Anglo-Indian author Mulk Raj Anand poured a vitality and fire that led him to be acclaimed as his country’s Dickens. With a new Introduction by Ramachandra Guha ‘It has gone straight to the heart of its subject and purified it.’ E. M. Forster
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
$17.10Bored on a hot afternoon, Alice follows a White Rabbit down a rabbit-hole – without giving a thought about how she might get out. And so she tumbles into Wonderland: where animals answer back, a baby turns into a pig, time stands still at a disorderly tea party, croquet is played with hedgehogs and flamingos, and the Mock Turtle and Gryphon dance the Lobster Quadrille. In a land in which nothing is as it seems and cakes, potions and mushrooms can make her shrink to ten inches or grow to the size of a house, will Alice be able to find her way home again?
Matilda
$13.50
The Secret Garden
$15.00After losing her parents, young Mary Lennox is sent from India to live in her uncle’s gloomy mansion on the wild English moors. She is lonely and has no one to play with, but one day she learns of a secret garden somewhere in the grounds that no one is allowed to enter. Then Mary uncovers an old key in a flowerbed � and a gust of magic leads her to the hidden door. Slowly she turns the key and enters a world she could never have imagined. With a heartwarming introduction by Sophie Dahl, The Secret Garden is one of the twelve best-loved classic stories being launched in the newly-branded Puffin Classics series in March 2008.
Frankenstein
$13.50Shelley’s suspenseful and intellectually rich gothic tale confronts some of the most important and enduring themes in all of literture–the power of human imagination, the potential hubris of science, the gulf between appearance and essence, the effects of human cruelty, the desire for revenge and the need for forgiveness, and much more. “The select bibliography by M.K. Joseph is of benefit to our students.”–Dr. Darlene J. Alberts, Ohio Dominican College “This has proved ideal for my Freshman class…compact, inexpensive, clearly printed with margins big enough to scribble in!”–Hilary Kaplan, University of California and Los Angeles “The best general edition of this classic text in terms of text, notes, and general design.”–Barry M. Katz, Stanford University “Indispensable for the study of Shelley’s Frankenstein.”–Eric Rabkin, University of Michigan “Marilyn Butlers introduction was comprehensive and informative and provided a valuable background for my general intro to lit students. The inclusion of the apprndices was also useful and thought-provoking.”–Stephanie Wardrop, Colorado State University
All Quiet in Vikaspuri
$45.00A Homeric tale of a man’s journey to the centre of the earth in search of the mythical river Saraswati, this graphic novel is set against the fictitious yet ever-so-real Water Wars of Delhi. It is a dystopian landscape where neighbourhoods fight brutal battles against each other and even victory must end in defeat.