The Pearl is a haunting & timeless tale of the dangers of unexpected wealth by Nobel prizewinner John Steinbeck author of The Grapes of Wrath It is one of The Originals from Penguin
- iconic outspoken first Kino is a desperately poor Mexican pearl diver But when he finds ' The Pearl of the World' he believes that his life will be magically transformed Obsessed by his dreams Kino is blind to the greed fear & even violence the pearl arouses in his neighbours
- & himself The Originals are the pioneers of fiction for young adults From political awakening war & unrequited love to addiction teenage pregnancy & nuclear holocaust The Originals confront big issues & articulate difficult truths The collection

Includes:: The Outsiders
- SE Hinton I Capture the Castle
- Dodie Smith Postcards from No Man's Land
- Aidan Chambers After the First Death
- Robert Cormier Dear Nobody
- Berlie Doherty The Endless Steppe
- Esther Hautzig Buddy
- Nigel Hinton Across the Barricades
- Joan Lingard The Twelfth Day of July
- Joan Lingard No Turning Back
- Beverley Naidoo Z for Zachariah
- Richard C O' Brien The Wave
- Morton Rhue The Red Pony
- John Steinbeck The Pearl
- John Steinbeck Stone Cold
- Robert Swindells


















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When Scarlet's grandma goes into a retirement home she must sort through her belongings in the cramped flat above a shop in Crouch End north London Here Scarlet comes across a real treasure a novel that Gran wrote imagining the life of a girl just like Scarlet who once upon a time lived in the flat & worked in a cake shop downstairs But as Scarlet reads about Ruby's life in Victorian London she begins to realise this is no piece of fiction
- Ruby was real! A real life facing real danger
- & a mystery that unravels to the present day

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The Pearl Sister is the fourth book in the number one international bestselling Seven Sisters series by Lucinda Riley Ce Ce D' Apliese has never felt she fitted in anywhere Following the death of her father the elusive billionaire Pa Salt
- so-called by the six daughters he adopted from around the globe & named after the Seven Sisters star cluster
- she finds herself at breaking point Dropping out of art college Ce Ce watches as Star her beloved sister distances herself to follow her new love leaving her completely alone In desperation she decides to flee England & discover her past; the only clues she has are a black-&-white photograph & the name of a woman pioneer who lived in Australia over one hundred years ago En-route to Sydney Ce Ce heads to the one place she has ever felt close to being herself the stunning beaches of Krabi Thailand There amongst the backpackers she meets the mysterious Ace a man as lonely as she is & whom she subsequently realizes has a secret to hide A hundred years earlier Kitty Mc Bride daughter of an Edinburgh clergyman is given the opportunity to travel to Australia as the companion of the wealthy Mrs Mc Crombie In Adelaide her fate becomes entwined with Mrs Mc Crombie's family including the identical yet very different twin brothers impetuous Drummond & ambitious Andrew the heir to a pearling fortune When Ce Ce finally reaches the searing heat & dusty plains of the Red Centre of Australia she begins the search for her past As something deep within her responds to the energy of the area & the ancient culture of the Aboriginal people her creativity reawakens once more With help from those she meets on her journey Ce Ce begins to believe that this wild vast continent could offer her something she never thought possible a sense of belonging & a home

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The Pearl Sister is the fourth book in the number one international bestselling Seven Sisters series by Lucinda Riley Ce Ce D' Apliese has never felt she fitted in anywhere Following the death of her father the elusive billionaire Pa Salt
- so-called by the six daughters he adopted from around the globe & named after the Seven Sisters star cluster
- she finds herself at breaking point Dropping out of art college Ce Ce watches as Star her beloved sister distances herself to follow her new love leaving her completely alone In desperation she decides to flee England & discover her past; the only clues she has are a black-&-white photograph & the name of a woman pioneer who lived in Australia over one hundred years ago En-route to Sydney Ce Ce heads to the one place she has ever felt close to being herself the stunning beaches of Krabi Thailand There amongst the backpackers she meets the mysterious Ace a man as lonely as she is & whom she subsequently realizes has a secret to hide A hundred years earlier Kitty Mc Bride daughter of an Edinburgh clergyman is given the opportunity to travel to Australia as the companion of the wealthy Mrs Mc Crombie In Adelaide her fate becomes entwined with Mrs Mc Crombie's family including the identical yet very different twin brothers impetuous Drummond & ambitious Andrew the heir to a pearling fortune When Ce Ce finally reaches the searing heat & dusty plains of the Red Centre of Australia she begins the search for her past As something deep within her responds to the energy of the area & the ancient culture of the Aboriginal people her creativity reawakens once more With help from those she meets on her journey Ce Ce begins to believe that this wild vast continent could offer her something she never thought possible a sense of belonging & a home

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Afghan-American Nadia Hashimi's literary debut novel is a searing tale of powerlessness fate & the freedom to control one's own fate that combines the cultural flavor & emotional resonance of the works of Khaled Hosseini Jhumpa Lahiri & Lisa See In Kabul 2007 with a drug-addicted father & no brothers Rahima & her sisters can only sporadically attend school & can rarely leave the house Their only hope lies in the ancient custom of bacha posh which allows young Rahima to dress & be treated as a boy until she is of marriageable age As a son she can attend school go to the market & chaperone her older sisters But Rahima is not the first in her family to adopt this unusual custom A century earlier her great-great grandmother Shekiba left orphaned by an epidemic saved herself & built a new life the same way Crisscrossing in time The Pearl the Broke Its Shell interweaves the tales of these two women separated by a century who share similar destinies But what will happen once Rahima is of marriageable age? Will Shekiba always live as a man? & if Rahima cannot adapt to life as a bride how will she survive? ...

Where do pebbles come from? How were they made? This book tells the story of a pebble from its origins in a fiery volcano 480 million years ago to a busy modern landscape Readers follow the processes of rock formation & erosion that create new pebbles all over the world ...

Selected for Simon Mayo's BBC Radio 2 Book Club Secretly steaming open envelopes & reading the letters inside Bilodo has found an escape from his lonely & routine life as a postman When one day he comes across a mysterious letter containing a single haiku he finds himself avidly caught up in the relationship between a long-distance couple who write to each other using only beautiful poetry He feasts on their words vicariously living a life for which he longs But it will only be a matter of time before his world comes crashing down around him ...

By night the Peculiars are a travelling sideshow but during the day Sheba Sister Moon & Monkey Boy put their unusual talents to use solving the crimes no one else cares about For the stolen children of London's poorest the Peculiars are their only hope 256 pages Larwood Kieran ...

Two Supreme Court Justices are dead Their murders remain unsolved Darby Shaw a brilliant & beautiful New Orleans legal student draws up a speculative legal brief which links the deaths & uncovers an astonishing presidential conspiracy When her boyfriend is atomised in a car bomb it becomes clear that somebody is intent on silencing Darby for good Somebody who will stop at nothing to preserve the secrets of the Pelican Brief ...

Two Supreme Court Justices have been murdered & a lone law student (Julia Roberts) turns her suspicions about the deaths into a speculative brief that sends shock waves into the highest levels of government She & a determined investigative reporter (Denzel Washington) want to tell the world what they have uncoveredif they live to tell it The race is in on & these two are more than runners they&re moving targets Certificate 12 Running Time 141 Minutes Language English Subtitles English Danish Dutch Finnish French German Italian Korean Spanish (Both Castilian & Latin) Norwegian Brazillian Portuguese Portuguese & Swedish Number Of Discs 1 ...