"A jewel of a book." --"Daily Mail"
It is the 1960s, in London's West End, and Freddie is the formidable proprietress of the Temple Stage School, which supplies child actors for everything from Shakespeare to musicals to the Christmas pantomime. Of unknown age and provenance, Freddie is a skirt[...]
Winner of the Booker Prize
On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of the slightly disreputable, the temporarily lost, and the patently eccentric live on houseboats, rising and falling with the great river s tides. Belonging to neither land nor sea, they cling to one another in a motl[...]
Short-listed for the Booker Prize
A beautiful book, a perfect little gem. BBC "Kaleidoscope"
A marvelously piercing fiction. "Times Literary Supplement"
In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop the only bookshop in the s[...]
Short-listed for the Booker Prize
"Fitzgerald was the author of several slim, perfect novels. "The Blue Flower" and "The Beginning of Spring" both had me abuzz for days the first time I read them. She was curiously perfect."-- Teju Cole, author of "Open City"
"Writing so precise and liltin[...]
The secret is out--DROON is the series that kids, parents, and teachers are talking about There are now over 9 million DROON books in print.
Neal, Julie, and Keeah are on a quest to find the wizard Galen and his all-powerful Moon Medallion. But this is no ordinary mission, for the Moon Medallio[...]
Tells a story of unhappiness and foreboding, but also one of hope and the redemptive power of friendship. This work is narrated by the two very different voices of Jack and Holly - a pair whose unlikely bond, formed around the pigs Jack rears in secret, is threatened by the intolerance of those arou[...]
Krissie and Sarah - best friends for years - have always wanted different things from life. Krissie has no desire to settle down, whereas Sarah married a doctor in her early twenties and is dying to start a family. So when Krissie becomes pregnant after a fling and Sarah can't seem to conceive, thin[...]
Will Marion has two perfect kidneys. His daughters aren't so lucky. Question is: which one should he save? Will's 47. His wife bailed out when the twins were in nappies and hasn't been seen since. He coped OK by himself at first, giving Georgie and Kay all the love he could, working in a boring admi[...]
Lies, rumours and guilt snowball, causing the parents, Joanna and Alistair, to slowly turn against each other. Finally Joanna starts thinking the unthinkable: could the truth be even more terrible than she suspected? And what will it take to make things right?[...]
20 Ella Fitzgerald classics arranged for piano, vocal and chors. Manhattan * With a Song in My Heart * Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye * The Man I Love * A Fine Romance * Blue Moon * Mack the Knife * Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) * Love for Sale * It's All Right with Me * What Is This Thing Called Love[...]
The fabulous parties of Gatsby,s mansion are legendary - guests dance tll dawn. But whose face is Gatsby searching for in the crowds? And what secret sorrow lies behind his great fortune?[...]
'York Notes Advanced' offer an accessible approach to English Literature. This series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, 'York Notes Advanced' introduce students to sophisticated analysis, a range of[...]
XSLT is a powerful language for transforming XML documents into something else. That something else can be an HTML document, another XML document, a Portable Document Format (PDF) file, a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file, a Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) file, Java code, or a number of [...]
XML, the Extensible Markup Language, is everywhere: the syntax of choice for newly designed document formats across almost all computer applications. Now used daily by developers, XML is living up to its reputation as one of the most important developments in document interchange in the history of c[...]
Although Ruby is an easy language to learn, in the heat of action you may find that you can't remember the correct syntax for a conditional or the name of a method. This handy pocket reference offers brief yet clear explanations of Ruby's core components, from operators to reserved words to data str[...]
A guide to Ruby programming covers such topics as regular expressions, arrays, classes and modules, hashes, strings, and XML.[...]
(Note-for-Note Keyboard Transcriptions). 14 of Stevie's most popular songs transcribed note-for-note for keyboard: Boogie on Reggae Woman * Hey Love * Higher Ground * I Wish * Isn't She Lovely * Lately * Living for the City * Overjoyed * Ribbon in the Sky * Send One Your Love * Superstition * That G[...]
"We must consider that we shall be A City Upon a Hill, the eyes of all people upon us," John Winthrop told his Pilgrim community crossing the Atlantic to found the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Four centuries later, Americans are still building Cities Upon a Hill. In "Cities on a Hill" Pulitzer Prize-w[...]
It's time to rediscover the wonderful books we all cherish.Published in 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise, became the novel that defined an era and launched his literary career. This is the story of Amory Blaine, "romantic egotist," and his journey from prep school to Pr[...]
Virgil's great epic transforms the Homeric tradition into a triumphal statement of the Roman civilizing mission. Translated by Robert Fitzgerald.
"Fitzgerald's is so decisively the best modern Aeneid that it is unthinkable that anyone will want to use any o[...]
A vibrant self-portrait of an artist whose work was his life. In this new collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald's letters, edited by leading Fitzgerald scholar and biographer Matthew J. Bruccoli, we see through his own words the artistic and emotional maturation of one of America's most enduring and ele[...]