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The Secret History by Donna Tart
Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and for ever.Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's cult bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.
Inferno Hardcover
‘Seek and ye shall find.’With these words echoing in his head, eminent Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon awakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. Nor can he explain the origin of the macabre object that is found hidden in his belongings.A threat to his life will propel him and a young doctor, Sienna Brooks, into a breakneck chase across the city of Florence. Only Langdon’s knowledge of hidden passageways and ancient secrets that lie behind its historic facade can save them from the clutches of their unknown pursuers.With only a few lines from Dante’s dark and epic masterpiece, The Inferno, to guide them, they must decipher a sequence of codes buried deep within some of the most celebrated artefacts of the Renaissance – sculptures, paintings, buildings – to find the answers to a puzzle which may, or may not, help them save the world from a terrifying threat…Set against an extraordinary landscape inspired by one of history’s most ominous literary classics, Inferno is Dan Brown’s most compelling and thought-provoking novel yet, a breathless race-against-time thriller that will grab you from page one and not let you go until you close the book.
The Alchemist: The Bestselling Tale of a Shepherds Journey.
Like the one-time bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Alchemist presents a simple fable, based on simple truths and places it in a highly unique situation. And though we may sniff a bestselling formula, it is certainly not a new one: even the ancient tribal storytellers knew that this is the most successful method of entertaining an audience while slipping in a lesson or two. Brazilian storyteller Paulo Coehlo introduces Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who one night dreams of a distant treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. And so he's off: leaving Spain to literally follow his dream. Along the way he meets many spiritual messengers, who come in unassuming forms such as a camel driver and a well-read Englishman. In one of the Englishman's books, Santiago first learns about the alchemists--men who believed that if a metal were heated for many years, it would free itself of all its individual properties, and what was left would be the "Soul of the World." Of course he does eventually meet an alchemist, and the ensuing student-teacher relationship clarifies much of the boy's misguided agenda, while also emboldening him to stay true to his dreams. "My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy confides to the alchemist one night as they look up at a moonless night. "Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself," the alchemist replies. "And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity." --Gail Hudson
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As a boy, young Robinson was forever eager to go to sea, and when he disobeys his parents and first sets sail so begins his extraordinary life of adventures. Shipwreck, pirates, slavery and adversity all awiat him in this classic story of one man's struggle to endure and survive. One of the first novels written in English, Defoe's unforgettable tale is justifiably among the most widely published books ever written. Other titles available in this series: TREASURE ISLAND KING SOLOMON'S MINES THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON THE CALL OF THE WILD THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD
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H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines has entertained generations of readers since its first publication in 1885. Following a mysterious map of dubious reliability, a small group of men trek into southern Africa in search of a lost friend-and a lost treasure, the fabled mines of King Solomon. Led by the English adventurer and fortune hunter Allan Quartermain, they discover a frozen corpse, survive untold dangers in remote mountains and deserts, and encounter the merciless King Twala en route to the legendary hoard of diamonds.
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The Kite Runner of Khaled Hosseini's deeply moving fiction debut is an illiterate Afghan boy with an uncanny instinct for predicting exactly where a downed kite will land.Growing up in the city of Kabul in the early 1970s, Hassan was narrator Amir's closest friend even though the loyal 11-year-old with "a face like a Chinese doll" was the son of Amir's father's servant and a member of Afghanistan's despised Hazara minority.But in 1975, on the day of Kabul's annual kite-fighting tournament, something unspeakable happened between the two boys.
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'Key in the lock all right, sir. On the inside. Mr Ackroyd must have locked himself in,'Poor Roger Ackroyd. He knew that the woman he loved had been harbouring a guilty secret - she poisoned her first husband. And yesterday she killed herself.But guilty secrets rarely stay secret. Who had been blackmailing her before her death? Had it really driven her to suicide? And would it all be revealed in the letter that arrived in the evening post? Sadly Roger Ackroyd wasn't going to live long enough to find out...
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દરેક દસકાઓમાં એક એવું પુસ્તક પ્રકાશિત થાય છે જે તેના વાચકોના જીવનને હંમેશ માટે બદલી નાંખે છે. પૉલો કોએલોનું `ઍલ્કેમિસ્ટ' એવું જ એક અદ્ભુત પુસ્તક છે. આ એ અમર પુસ્તકનો અધિકૃત અનુવાદ છે. આ પુસ્તક વિશ્વની 67 ભાષાઓમાં પ્રકાશિત થયું છે અને પૉલો કોએલોનાં પુસ્તકોની 10 કરોડ ઉપરાંત નકલોનું વેચાણ વિશ્વભરમાં થયેલું છે. આ કથા આપણને આપણા હૃદયનો અવાજ સાંભળવાની, આપણા જીવનમાં વિખરાયેલાં ચિહ્નો અને શુક્નોને યોગ્ય સમયે ઓળખી પોતાનાં સ્વપ્નાં પૂરાં કરવા માટે પ્રયત્નશીલ રહેવાની કળા શીખવે છે. —- ઍલ્કેમિસ્ટમાંથી મને શીખવા મળ્યું છે કે – ખુદમાં વિશ્વાસ રાખો અને યાત્રા ચાલુ રાખો. મલાલા યુસુફઝાયી [નૉબલ પુરસ્કાર વિજેતા] * * * પૉલો કોએલોના શબ્દોમાં આપણને વિશ્વાસ બેસે છે. એ શીખવે છે કે મક્કમ મનોબળ, પ્રેમ અને ઈચ્છાશક્તિથી આપણે આપણું અને બીજાં અનેક લોકોનું ભવિષ્ય બદલી શકીએ છીએ. બરાક ઓબામા [અમેરિકાના પૂર્વ રાષ્ટ્રપતિ] * * * પૉલોને હું મારાં શ્રેષ્ઠ શિક્ષક માનું છું. આજે પણ ઍલ્કેમિસ્ટને હું ઓશીકે રાખું છું. ઓપ્રા વિનફ્રે [કલાકાર] * * * સમગ્ર વિશ્વ અને વિવિધ સંસ્કૃતિના લોકોને સ્પર્શતી પૉલોની અજોડ આવડતને તેમને વિશ્વદૂત બનાવ્યા છે. બાન કી-મૂન [UN સેક્રેટરી જનરલ] * * * જીવનમાં ફોકસ થવા માંગતી દરેક વ્યક્તિ માટે આ પુસ્તક વાંચવું અનિવાર્ય છે. રસેલ ક્રો [કલાકાર]
Julius Caesar- Graphic Novel
Rome, 44BC, the great general Julius Caesar arrives home from war as the sole ruler of Rome. The citizens cheer the conquering hero, but not all are pleased to see him return. Many fear that with nobody to oppose him, this military genius will become a cruel dictator. A conspiracy takes shape that ensnares the proud Brutus, one of Caesar's most trusted allies, in an assassination plot that will change the course of history.What is most important, Shakespeare asks, loyalty to your leaders or to your country? Can good ever come of evil actions, and are those who speak of freedom always trustworthy?Now imagined as a thrilling graphic adventure, William Shakespeare's classic retelling of actual historical events is revealed as a timeless political thriller - a bloody saga of friendships betrayed, alliances destroyed, and a nation torn apart by civil war.
Treasure Island
One-legged Long John Silver, treacherous Captain Billy Bones, wicked Black Dog and the terrifying Blind Pew are the most cruel and frightening pirates ever to sail the high seas! They all dream of finding Captain Flint's buried treasure, but it is young Jim Hawkins who finds Flint's map of Treasure Island. Can Jim and his friends outwit these bloodthirsty pirates and claim the glorious bounty? Treasure Island, the most famous pirate story ever told, has been thrilling young readers for generations with its tales of buccaneers, buried gold and X marks the spot.
Brave New World (Pre-loved)
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone in feeling discontent, harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations, where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress...Huxley's ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece.
Casino Royale (Pre-loved)
Le Chiffre is a businessman with expensive tastes, and SMERSH's chief operative in France. But as his dissolute lifestyle threatens to ruin him, his only hope is to risk his paymasters' money at the card table.James Bond, the finest gambler in the service, is given a deadly new mission: to outplay Le Chiffre and shatter his Soviet cell.Amidst the opulence of Casino Royale, the two men face each other for a game with the highest stakes of all.
The Handmaid's Tale (Pre-loved)
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like all dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire — neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful evocation of twenty-first century America gives full rein to Margaret Atwood's devastating irony, wit and astute perception.
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'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the thirties. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story, an anti-racist novel, a historical drama of the Great Depression and a sublime example of the Southern writing tradition.
Charlottes web for class 5 and above
One spring morning a little girl called Fern rescues a runt and names him Wilbur. But then Wilbur is sent to live on a farm where he meets Charlotte, a beautiful large grey spider. They become best friends and, when Wilbur is faced with a dreadful fate, Charlotte must find a very clever way to save him.--back cover
Murder on orient express
Agatha Christie’s most famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside.Isolated and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer – in case he or she decides to strike again.
