Synopsis: First there were ten--a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unkonwn to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they're unwilling to reveal--and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. One by one they fall prey. Before the weekend is out, there will be none. And…

Synopsis: "Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible…

Synopsis: From Newbery medalist Linda Sue Park, an emotional novel based on a true story. Nya goes to the pond to fetch water for her family. She walks eight hours every day. Salva walks away from his war-torn village. He is a "lost boy" refugee, destined to cover Africa on foot, searching for his family and safety. Two young people . . . two stories. One country: Sudan. This mesmerizing dual narrative follows two threads--one unfolding in 2008 and one in…

Synopsis: A stunning repackage of a companion to Mildred D. Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, with cover art by two-time Caldecott Honor Award winner Kadir Nelson!The son of a prosperous landowner and a former slave, Paul-Edward Logan is unlike any other boy he knows. His white father has acknowledged him and raised him openly-something unusual in post-Civil War Georgia. But as he grows into a man he learns that life for someone like him is not easy…

Synopsis: A new, beautiful updated edition of Tom Stoppard’s best-loved play and one of Grove Atlantic’s bestselling backlist titles, published with a new introduction by Tom Stoppard to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its debutRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is one of the most enduring and frequently performed plays of contemporary theater and has firmly established itself in the dramatic canon. Acclaimed as a modern masterpiece, it is the…

Synopsis: “Readers won’t be able to get enough of these dope-ass characters.” —Elizabeth Acevedo, author of Clap When You Land Hitch meets The Sun Is Also a Star in this “mega swoon-worthy, effortlessly cool” (Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author) novel about a self-professed teen love doctor with a popular radio segment who believes he can get a girl who hates all things romance to fall in love with him in only three dates. Prince Jones is…

Synopsis: Previously published in hardcover as The Penguin Roget's College Thesaurus in Dictionary Form, this all-new paperback edition contains more than 5,000 new words and phrases with synonyms and antonyms for each word listed alphabetically for quick, convenient use. Includes 30 new categories and famous quotes and phrases as examples of usage.

Synopsis: For use in schools and libraries only. We've Got A Job tells the little-known story of the 4,000 black elementary, middle and high school students who voluntarily went to jail in Birmingham, Alabama, in May 1963. Fulfilling Mahatma Gandhi's and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s precept to "fill the jails," the students succeeded in desegregating one of the most racially violent cities in America. The astonishing events surrounding the Children's…

Synopsis: The inspiring story of the 1963 Birmingham Children's March as seen through the eyes of four young people at the center of the action.The 1963 Birmingham Children's March was a turning point in American civil rights history. Black Americans had had enough of segregation and police brutality, but with their lives and jobs at stake, most adults were hesitant to protest the city's racist culture. So the fight for civil rights lay in the hands of…

Synopsis: The Picture of Dorian Gray is an 1891 philosophical novel by Irish writer and playwright Oscar Wilde. First published as a serial story in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, the editors feared the story was indecent, and without Wilde's knowledge, deleted five hundred words before publication. Despite that censorship, The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral sensibilities of British book reviewers, some of whom said that…

Synopsis: Lois Lowry's Gathering Blue continues the quartet beginning with the quintessential dystopian novel, The Giver, followed by Messenger and Son.Kira, an orphan with a twisted leg, lives in a world where the weak are cast aside. When she is given a task that no other community member can carry out, Kira soon realizes that she is surrounded by many mysteries and secrets. No one must know of her plans to uncover the truth about her world—and to find…

Synopsis: The classic translation of The Odyssey, now in paperback.This edition also features a map, a Glossary of Names and Places, and Fitzgerald's Postscript. Line drawings precede each book of the poem.Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer's Odyssey is the best and best-loved modern translation of the greatest of all epic poems. Since 1961, this Odyssey has sold more than two million copies, and it is the standard translation for three generations…

Synopsis: Nine-year-old Carl is not happy. His mother is moving him to Mexico. He doesn't speak Spanish. He misses all of his favorite foods. He doesn't have any friends. The idea is ridiculous. He's desperately unhappy. Carl doesn't want to go to Mexico! When he starts finding sick and starving stray dogs on the streets of Guanajuato, he finds out he s not the only one who is miserable. But did he find them in time or is it already too late?Carl no…

Synopsis: Intended for the college student, this collection of the plays and poems is prefaced by extensive historical background and critical analysis

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Synopsis: Translated by William Henry Giles Kingston. Do you enjoy classic literature in easy-to-carry paperback? Then you'll love The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss! Perhaps you read The Swiss Family Robinson in school as a youth or maybe this is your first time reading Johann David Wyss's masterpiece or maybe you're a teacher buying the book for your children's literature class. Either way, enjoy Johann David Wyss's The Swiss Family Robinson…

Synopsis: When a Swiss couple and their four sons are shipwrecked on an isolated island, they adapt to their "New Switzerland" using many imaginative methods of farming and animal taming.

Synopsis: Los Manuscritos constituyen el texto filosófico fundamental de Marx. En ellos aparece su concepción del hombre en su relación con el trabajo y la alienación que informará todo su análisis posterior de la sociedad capitalista y que culmina en El Capital. Ángel Prior nos ofrece todos los elementos precisos para que el lector no especializado (desde el estudiante de bachillerato al de primeros cursos de la universidad pasando por cualquier lector…