A dazzling collection of short fiction from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and Swing TimeZadie Smith has established herself as one of the most iconic, critically respected, and popular writers of her generation. In her first short story collection, she combines her power of observation and her inimitable voice to mine the fraught and complex experience of life in the modern world. Interleaving eleven completely new and unpublished stories with some of her best-loved pieces from The New Yorker and elsewhere, Smith presents a dizzyingly rich and varied collection of fiction. Moving exhilaratingly across genres and perspectives, from the historic to the vividly current to the slyly dystopian, Grand Union is a sharply alert and prescient collection about time and place, identity and rebirth, the persistent legacies that haunt our present selves and the uncanny futures that rush up to meet us. Nothing is off limits, and everything—when captured by Smith’s brilliant gaze—feel
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERPicking up where Fall of Giants, the first novel in the extraordinary Century Trilogy, left off, Winter of the World follows its five interrelated families?American, Ge
The Official Spider Test. What do you do when you see a spider? a. Lay on a BIG spidey smoocheroo. b. Smile, but back away slowly. c. Grab the closest object, wind up, and let it fly. d. Run away sc
An essential new edition—completely revised and updated, with four new chapters—of one of the most important books of the last two decades about how we think, work, and live, by Nobel Prize winner Ric
Melville?s continuing adventures in the South Seas?now for the first time in Penguin Classics Following the commercial and critical success of Typee, Herman Melville continued his series of South Sea
The inspiration for the major motion picture starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett?plus eighteen other stories by the beloved author of The Great GatsbyIN THE TITLE STORY, a baby born in 1860 begins l
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK An instant New York Times bestseller“Taut, chilling….Audrain has a gift for capturing the seemingly small moments that speak volumes about relationships.” ―The New York Times Book Review“Hooks you from the very first page and will have you racing to get to the end.” ―Good Morning AmericaA tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family―and a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for―and everything she fearedBlythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting mother―the kind that she herself never had―to her new baby Violet. But in the thick of motherhood’s exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter―she doesn’t behave like most children do.Or is it all in Blythe’s head? Her husband, Fox, says she’s imagining things. She’s a new mother who can’t trust her own instincts―but can we?Then their son Sam is born―and with him, Blyth
Drawn from the work of StoryCorps, the largest and most ambitious private oral history project in American history, comes this tapestry of the stories Americans have been sharing from their lives to l
Amber Brown thinks that second grae rules! But when her teacher says desks have to be kept clean, Amber knows that is one rule she cannot follow. She desperately wants the desk fairy, Deskarina, to
Songs about ducks and rabbits, cows and goats, frogs and mosquitoes, bears and raccoons, giraffes and monkeys are just the beginning in this delightful collection. A musical treat of lively action son
Cam Jansen's photographic memory is put to the test when Annie's tooth falls out? and disappears! Cam has a picture in her head of everything she sees. But does she have the picture she needs to solve
Perfect for beginning chapter book readers, the Cam Jansen series continues to be a bestseller after over thirty years. Each mystery features Cam—the fifth grade sleuth with the photographic memory—who solves the case with the help of her best friend, Eric.套書包含以下集數：#18：9780142402894/Cam Jansen and the Catnapping Mystery#19：9780142403198/Cam Jansen and the Barking Treasure Mystery#20：9780142403549/Cam Jansen and the Birthday Mystery#21：9780142403556/Cam Jansen and the School Play Mystery#22：9780142403266/Cam Jansen and the First Day of School Mystery#23：9780142402900/Cam Jansen and the Tennis Trophy Mystery#24：9780142404171/Cam Jansen and the Snowy Day Mystery#25：9780142406946/Cam Jansen and the Valentine Baby Mystery#26：9780142410745/Cam Jansen and the Secret Service Mystery#27：9780142411940/Cam Jansen and the Mystery Writer Mystery#28：9780142414569/Cam Jansen and the Green School Mystery#29：9780142416716/Cam Jansen and the Basketball Mystery#30：9780142419588/Cam Jansen and the Wedding
Embark on a reading adventure with the adorable and imaginative Clara and Clem!When Clara and Clem build a car out of blocks, they have no idea where it will take them. But with a little imagination,
One minute I was looking for my retainer in the bathroom. The next, I was staring at a boy who looked just like me. And I don't mean my reflection! What's going on here?
What I wanted was a cute little kitten. Instead, I got a tough tomcat that talks. And that's not all! He says he's my Great-Grandpa Julius and he needs my help. And messy litter box or not, family is
Cam and Eric?s class is going on a field trip to the zoo. But Eric can?t find his permission slip, and without it, he can?t go on the field trip. Where did it go? Did he drop it somewhere? Was it stol
At her school's Green Fair, Cam and her friends are learning how to keep the earth green. Everyone is having fun at the exhibits - until a student-s remote-controlled car goes missing! Was it stolen?
If you give in to temptation and give a bored little mouse your iPhone, even for ten minutes, he’s probably going to beam to some faraway place beyond time, space, and the sound of your pleading voice
From patriotic songs that stir the soul to cowboy songs of early settlers, this is a terrific collection of songs about America. Children can learn as they hear “The Star Spangled Banner,” the names
The year 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern classic of “negative utop
