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When David Copperfield escapes from the cruelty of his childhood home, he embarks on a journey to adulthood which leads him through comedy and tragedy, love and heartbreak, and friendship and betrayal.

The groundbreaking first book of an epic series that has changed the face of fantasy. The Way of Kings begins The Stormlight Archive. Speak again the ancient oaths: Life before death. Strength before weakness. Journey before Destination. Return to men the Shards they once bore. The Knights...

The Other Bennet Sister presents Mary Bennet in a whole new light as she becomes Austen's newest leading lady. Now a major BBC One TV series, starring Richard E. Grant, Ruth Jones and Ella Bruccoleri. Read by the amazing Kristen Atherton. One by one, the Bennet sisters have found their place...

Ernest Hemingway said, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn". One hundred years after its author’s death, this classic remains remarkably modern and poignantly relevant. In this new edition, Elijah Wood reads Huck in a youthful voice that may be the closest interpretation to Twain’s original intent. His performance captures the excitement and confusion of adolescence and adventure.

Raised and trained in seclusion at a secret fortress on the edge of the northern wilds of the Kingdom of Ashai, a young warrior called Rezkin is unexpectedly thrust into the outworld when a terrible battle destroys all that he knows. With no understanding of his life’s purpose and armed with masterful weapons mysteriously bestowed upon him by a dead king, Rezkin must travel across Ashai to find the one man who may hold the clues to his very existence.

'I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others...

Read by Julia Whelan, including an Author's Note read by Kristin, revealing her inspiration for telling the women's heroic stories, which had been either forgotten or entirely overlooked. Adored by millions and soon to be a major motion picture, The Women is a sweeping story of epic love...

Pip is an orphan, brought up in a village on the Essex marshes by his disagreeable sister and her husband Joe Gargery, the kind-hearted village blacksmith. Life is harsh and Pip has few prospects until he receives from an anonymous benefactor the chance of escaping the forge for a more promising life in London. But his expectations are fraught with difficulties as he is haunted by figures from his past such as the escaped convict Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham, and her proud, beautiful ward, Estella.

When young orphan, Oliver Twist, is sold into an apprenticeship with an undertaker, he leaves behind years of miserable servitude and mistreatment at an English workhouse. Hoping to move on to better things, he decides to escape his new, equally dreary surroundings and head to London. It is there that the novel unravels as Oliver meets a host of larger-than-life characters, including The Artful Dodger, a high-ranking member of a juvenile pickpocketing gang, and their elderly leader, Fagin.

To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry Maine was just their home town: familiar, well-ordered for the most part. A good place to live. It was the children who saw - and felt - what made Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers...

„Wir haben drei Aufgaben über das ganze Schuljahr verteilt, die das Können der Champions auf unterschiedliche Weise auf die Probe stellen … ihr magisches Können – ihre Kühnheit – ihre Fähigkeit zum logischen Denken – und natürlich ihre Gewandtheit im Umgang mit Gefahren.“ Hogwarts richtet das Trimagische Turnier aus: einen Wettkampf der drei größten Zauberschulen. Bewerben dürfen sich nur Hexen und Zauberer über siebzehn – was den vierzehnjährigen Harry Potter nicht davon abhält, von der Teilnahme und einem Sieg zu träumen.

Joshua not only missed the big game, had all of his scholarships pulled, and been banned from just about every college in Texas, but he's been expelled from his high school and has a court order barring him from even setting foot on school grounds. And adding insult to injury he's got to finish...

„Es gibt eine Verschwörung, Harry Potter. Eine Verschwörung mit dem Ziel, dieses Jahr in der Hogwarts-Schule für Hexerei und Zauberei die schrecklichsten Dinge geschehen zu lassen.“ Harry Potters Sommer hat es in sich: der schlimmste Geburtstag seines Lebens, düstere Prophezeiungen eines Hauselfs namens Dobby und eine waghalsige Rettung in einem fliegenden Auto mit Freund Ron Weasley am Steuer! Zurück an der Schule für Hexerei und Zauberei wird Harry von einem merkwürdigen Flüstern verfolgt, kurz bevor Schüler wie zu Stein erstarrt aufgefunden werden.

„Dort schwebte er, am Himmel über der Schule: der leuchtende grüne Totenkopf mit der Schlangenzunge, das Zeichen, das die Todesser hinterließen, wann immer sie in ein Gebäude eingedrungen waren … wo immer sie gemordet hatten …“ Dumbledore taucht eines Sommerabends im Ligusterweg auf: seine Zauberstab-Hand geschwärzt und verkümmert. Eine Erklärung dafür bleibt er Harry Potter aber schuldig. Doch der Schulleiter macht keinen Hehl daraus, was Misstrauen und Gerüchte längst verraten: Auch Hogwarts ist kein sicherer Ort mehr.

‘A triumph’ — Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The Appeal The Sunday Times Top Five Bestseller A BBC Two Between the Covers Book Club Pick A Guardian Best Crime and Thrillers of the Year Pick An epic and sweeping mystery set in Georgian high society, Laura Shepherd-Robinson's The...

Magical contemporary fantasy meets fantastical memoir in the new novel from a cult favourite, Jeff Noon. The Dust tells the story… 1968, Lancashire: It is Joe Sutter's last summer before going to secondary school. His world is like ours, but beyond and beside what we know is Greot; a vast...

„Sie teilen die Gedanken und Gefühle des Dunklen Lords. Der Schulleiter hält es nicht für ratsam, dass dies so bleibt. Er möchte, dass ich Ihnen beibringe, wie Sie Ihren Geist gegen den Dunklen Lord verschließen.“ Finstere Zeiten brechen über Hogwarts herein. Nachdem Dementoren Harry Potters Cousin Dudley angegriffen haben, ist klar: Voldemort schreckt vor nichts zurück, um Harry zu finden. Viele bestreiten die Rückkehr des Dunklen Lords, doch Harry ist nicht allein: Um ihn sammelt sich ein geheimer Orden am Grimmauldplatz - bereit, sich den dunklen Mächten entgegen zu stellen.

„Willkommen im Fahrenden Ritter, dem Nottransporter für gestrandete Hexen und Zauberer. Strecken Sie einfach die Zauberstabhand aus, steigen Sie ein und wir fahren Sie, wohin Sie wollen.“ Als der Fahrende Ritter eines Nachts mit quietschenden Reifen vor ihm zum Stehen kommt, beginnt Harry Potters drittes, alles andere als gewöhnliche Schuljahr in Hogwarts. Denn Sirius Black, Massenmörder und Anhänger Voldemorts, ist ausgebrochen - und er soll es auf Harry abgesehen haben.

Keane Morgan wouldn’t return any of my calls or texts, and I was pissed as hell about it. I didn’t want to drive from Seattle to L.A. with the guy any more than he wanted to drive with me, but I had no frickin’ choice in the matter—at least, not if I wanted to use his brother Dax’s coveted parking spot at UCLA. Okay, so it turned out Keane was objectively gorgeous, and, fine, pretty funny, too. But did he have to be so damned in love with himself? I mean, jeez, the cocky way he flashed those dimples was just so orchestrated.