Its 1845 & blight has destroyed the precious potato crop leaving Ireland starving. Phyllis works hard to support her struggling family but when her mothers health deteriorates she sets off in search of her rebel brother & is soon swept up in the fight for a free & fair Irel&... ...

The clock is ticking for Sam Temple & the kids of Perdido Beach but its not the big one-five that they face now; its starvation that threatens the FAYZ. In an abandoned mineshaft a faceless animal lurks pulling the strings toying with human & mutant alike. & hes hungry
- hungry in the darkness. An uneasy calm has settled over Perdido Beach. But soon fear explodes into desperation as starvation sets in & the mob look to place blame. For the normals the buck must stop somewhere: with the freaks. More & more kids are developing strange powers & just as frighteningly so are the animals in the FAYZ: talking coyotes swimming bats & deadly worms with razor-sharp teeth are just the beginning. For Sam Temple the strain of leadership is beginning to show & hes got more than just dwindling rations & in-fighting to worry about
- Caine is back with the psychotic whiphand Drake by his side. & in the background lies the greatest danger of all
- & he too needs to be fed.


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I know youll return. These are his grandmothers last words to him. He has them in his head as he boards the truck at 3am on a freezing mid-January morning in 1945. They keep him company during the long journey to Russia. They keep him alive
- through hunger pain & despair
- during his time in the brutal Soviet labour camps. & eventually they bring him back home. But when he does return he finds that an embarrassed traumatised silence hangs over his harrowing experiences. Even with his two friends fellow Romanian-Germans who survived the camps with him the memories that have branded them so indelibly seem impossible to put into words. This is the major new novel from one of the most important international writers writing at the height of her creative abilities.

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In recent decades interest in hunger artists has greatly diminished. Kafka published two collections of short stories in his lifetime A Country Doctor: Little Tales (1919) & A Hunger Artist: Four Stories (1924). Both collections are included in their entirety in this edition which also contains other uncollected stories & a selection of posthumously published works that have become part of the Kafka canon. Enigmatic satirical often bleakly humorous these stories approach human experience at a tangent: a singing mouse an ape an inquisitive dog & a paranoid burrowing creature are among the protagonists as well as the professional starvation artist. A patient seems to be dying from a metaphysical wound; the war-horse of Alexander the Great steps aside from history & adopts a quiet profession as a lawyer. Fictional meditations on art & artists & a series of aphorisms that come close to expressing Kafkas philosophy of life further explore themes that recur in his major novels. Newly translated & with an invaluable introduction & notes Kafkas short stories are haunting & unforgettable. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more. ...

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the annual Hunger Games a fight to the death on live TV. But Katniss has been close to death before
- & survival for her is second nature. The Hunger Games" is a searing novel set in a future with unsettling parallels to our present. Welcome to the deadliest reality TV show ever..."
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Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the annual Hunger Games a fight to the death on live TV. But Katniss has been close to death before
- & survival for her is second nature. The Hunger Games" is a searing novel set in a future with unsettling parallels to our present. Welcome to the deadliest reality TV show ever..."
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Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the annual Hunger Games a fight to the death on live TV. But Katniss has been close to death before
- & survival for her is second nature. The Hunger Games" is a searing novel set in a future with unsettling parallels to our present. Welcome to the deadliest reality TV show ever..."
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First in the ground-breaking HUNGER GAMES trilogy. Set in a dark vision of the near future a terrifying reality TV show is taking place. Twelve boys & twelve girls are forced to appear in a live event called The Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed. When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her younger sister's place in the games she sees it as a death sentence. But Katniss has been close to death before. For her survival is second nature. ...

A is for... Action Scenes. The Hunger Game trilogy is full of nail-biting action & tense battle scenes. B is for... Bestselling Books. The Hunger Games & Catching Fire the first two books in the series were each New York Times bestsellers & Mockingjay topped all US bestseller lists. C is for... Suzanne Collins the author of the books. She has also adapted The Hunger Games for the much-awaited upcoming film starring Jennifer Lawrence & Liam Hemsworth. ...

This title is first in the ground-breaking Hunger Games" trilogy. Set in a dark vision of the near future a terrifying reality TV show is taking place. Twelve boys & twelve girls are forced to appear in a live event called The Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed. When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her younger sisters place in the games she sees it as a death sentence. But Katniss has been close to death before. For her survival is second nature." ...