The prophet
ISBN : 9780140194470
Translated into more than twenty languages, The Prophet, a treasury of counsel on human life, has given uplift and balm to millions around the world. Author Kahlil Gibran (1883-193 1), Lebanese poet, philosopher and artist, accompanies the work with his visionary drawings. Gibran's Prophet speaks, among many things, of eating and drinking, work and play, possessions, crime, and love and death - haunting words of wisdom in a masterpiece likely to be with us always.
The Testaments
ISBN : 9781784708214
The Republic of Gilead is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, two girls with radically different experiences of the regime AiIlk come face to face with the legendary, ruthless Aunt Lydia. But how far will each go for what she believes ?
Jemima J
ISBN : 9780140276909
Treated like a slave by her thin and bitchy flatmates, lorded over at the Kilburn Herald by the beautiful Geraldine (less talented, but better paid), her only consolation is food. What with that and her passion for her charming, sexy colleague Ben, she knows her life needs changing. But can Jemima reinvent herself? Should she? A brilliantly funny, honest novel from the author of Straight Talking, about ugly ducklings and swans, about attraction, addiction and the meaning of true love.
Artemis fowl and the lost colony
ISBN : 9780141339146
Ten millennia ago, the fairy People were defeated in a great battle with mankind, forcing them to move underground. Only the eighth family of fairies remained undefeated: the demons. But now one demon has discovered the secrets of the fairy world, and if humans get hold of this information the fairies are in BIG trouble. Only one person can prevent this disaster - teenage criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl. Action packed and full of humour - a must-read for boys and girls aged 10+.
Simone de beauvoir what is existentialism?
ISBN : 9780241475232
It is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of absurdity'How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth century's great philosophers explore the absurdity of our notions of good and evil, and show instead how we make our own destiny simply by being.One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.>
Dear Evan Hansen - The Novel
ISBN : 9780241361887
High-school senior Evan Hansen has always struggled to belong. But when the notoriously troubled Connor Murphy took his own life, he did so in possession of a letter Evan had written to himself. Now everyone thinks they were best friends. As Evan feeds the lie, and helps Connor's family deal with their grief, it's clear that he isn't invisible anymore. Every day is suddenly amazing. Evan convinces himself he's doing the right thing. Until everything starts to go wrong...