On the banks of the Mississippi, Tom Sawyer & his friends seek out adventure at every turn. Then one fateful night they witness a murder. The boys swear never to reveal the secret & run away to be pirates & search for hidden treasure. But when Tom gets trapped in a cave with the murderer, can he escape unharmed? Richard Peck is an American novelist known for his young adult books. He was awarded American`s highly prestigious Newbery Medal in 2001 for his novel ”A Year Down Yonder”. ...

The exploits of Tom Sawyer, a consummate prankster with a quick wit, captivate children of all ages. Yet through the novel`s humorous escapades, from the episodes of the whitewashed fence & the ordeal in the cave to the trial of Injun Joe, Mark Twain explores deeper themes within the adult world Tom will one day join. These include the baser human instincts of dishonesty & superstition, murder & revenge, starvation & slavery. This edition features a new introduction & notes by leading Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen. ...

On the banks of the Mississippi, Tom Sawyer & his friends seek out adventure at every turn. Then one fateful night they witness a murder. The boys swear never to reveal the secret & run away to be pirates & search for hidden treasure. But when Tom gets trapped in a cave with scary Injun Joe, can he escape unharmed? ...

Are you ready to splash your way through an interactive adventure? Water has been here for millions of years. There`s a lot of it around & it gets everywhere! Join in the journey to discover where water comes from & why we need it. Follow water`s many adventures & along the way you`ll pull tabs, turn wheels, open flaps & reveal pop-ups, in this hands-on approach to science. ...

An interactive pop-up journey all about you & your fascinating brain! Pull tabs, spin wheels, lift flaps & reveal the GIANT pop-ups to learn all you ever needed to know about how your brain works. Find out how fast neurons zip around the body carrying messages & delve into a world of external & internal senses. Explore how the brain controls every thought & every movement, even when you are asleep & dreaming. Neuroscience for beginners & much, MUCH more! With colourful, graphic illustrations, engaging bitesize facts & surprising statistics covering vital curriculum topics, you`ll never look at your brain the same way again. Offering a hands-on approach to a tricky subject, this is the perfect interactive learning tool covering topics in key stage 2 Science. Find more pop-up journeys in The Adventures of Water & The Adventures of Earth. Dan Green has an MA in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University & has written over 35 books for children, including the Basher Science series, which has sold over 2 million copies around the world. He lives in London. www.dangreenbooks.com Sean Sims is a talented & successful designer & illustrator whose clients have included the BBC, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Virgin & Vodafone. He lives in Brighton. https://seansims.carbonmade.com ...

ON THE SATURDAY MORNING OF JANUARY 9, 1993, WHILE JEAN CLAUDE ROMAND WAS KILLING HIS WIFE & CHILDREN, I WAS WITH MINE IN A PARENT-TEACHER MEETING... With these chilling first words, acclaimed master of psychological suspense Emmanuel Carrere begins his exploration of the double life of a respectable doctor, eighteen years of lies, five murders, & the extremes to which ordinary people can go. ...

Virgil`s Aeneid, inspired by Homer & inspiration for Dante & Milton, is an immortal poem at the heart of Western life & culture. Virgil took as his hero Aeneas, legendary survivor of the fall of Troy & father of the Roman race, & in telling a story of dispossession & defeat, love & war, he portrayed human life in all its nobility & suffering. ...

Robert Fagles` award-winning translations of Homer`s twin works ” The Iliad” & ” The Odyssey” have sold more than a million copies & become classics in their own right. With this stunning modern verse translation, Fagles introduces Virgil`s ” Aeneid” to a whole new generation of readers & completes the classic triptych at the heart of Western civilisation. ” The Aeneid” tells the story of an epic voyage in which Aeneas crosses stormy seas, becomes entangled in a tragic love affair with Dido of Cathage, descends to the world of the dead
- all the way tormented by the vengeful Juno, Queen of the Gods
- & finally reaches Italy, where he will fulfil his destiny: to found the Roman people. A stirring tale of arms & heroism, dispossession & defeat, & an unsparing portrait of a man caught between love, duty, & fate, ” The Aeneid” brings to life a whole world of human passion, nobility, & courage. Fagles` new translation retains all of the gravitas & humanity of the original as well as its powerful blend of poetry & myth. Featuring an illuminating introduction to Virgil`s world from noted scholar Bernard Knox, this new ” Aeneid” lends a vibrant, contemporary voice to the literary achievement of the ancient world.

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Three people in three countries in three different eras. Ursule in 1864 lives the life of a kitchen skivvy in Paris. Dexter in 1965 is an American GI in Vietnam. Dante in 2015 is a Catholic priest in Palermo, Sicily. For Ursule the Prussians are closing in. For Dexter it`s the Vietcong. For Dante it is the mafia. How can they escape but, more than that, how can misery become rapture? In contemporary Britain a fourth person holds all the strings in his hands as he rises silently & gracefully above the earth. In this tour de force of imagination Stuart Campbell follows the brilliant John Mc Pake & the Sea Beggars with a tale that defies time & gravity & takes the reader to a place few have ever been & fewer still come back from. ...

Intrigued by an exquisite & mysterious amulet on an antique dress from Kohistan, `land of mountains` in Pakistan, Sheila Paine began an epic quest that took her from the peaks of the Himalaya to the shores of Greece. In this, the first part of her journey, she set off alone & undaunted for the rugged Hindu Kush, her only possessions a tiny rucksack & a litre of vodka. Over the course of several months she followed endless clues
- the patterns on a woman`s dress, pendants hanging outside village houses to ward off djinns, scraps of embroidery in a bazaar
- that took her to some of the most remote & inhospitable places in the world. She travelled to Makran & in Pakistan, an area closed completely to foreigners, & to Iran, where she was constantly watched by government minders. She was smuggled into Afghanistan by a band of mujahedin, & then forged on into Iraq & Turkish Kurdistan from Iran, before one final piece of evidence led her to the small town of Razgrad in eastern Bulgaria & news of the amulet she so tirelessly sought.

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