A family road trip is supposed to be a lot of fun ...unless, of course, you\'re the Heffleys. The journey starts off full of promise, then quickly takes several wrong turns. Gas station bathrooms, crazed seagulls, a fender bender, and a runaway pig - not exactly Greg Heffley\'s idea of a good time. But even the worst road trip can turn into an adventure - and this is one the Heffleys won\'t soon forget.

Contemporary / American English Detective Somerset has seven days before he can retire from work and escape from the city. Detective Mills is starting his first week on the job. This story is about seven days and seven shocking murders. The serial killer has one thing on his mind - seven deadly sins.

A breathtaking addition to the history of Malaz -- the new epic fantasy from the co-creator of this extraordinary imagined world. Greymane believed he\'d outrun his past. With his school for swordsmanship in Falar, he was looking forward to a quiet l ife, although his colleague Kyle wasn\'t as enamoured with things outside the mercenary company, the Crimson Guard. However, it seems it is not so easy

A breathtaking new collection of translations of poems by Rumi, one of the world\'s most loved mystical teachers and bestselling poets. Beautifully packaged and illustrated with paintings and Persian calligraphy, this is an ideal gift. Jalal-uddin Rumi was born in what is now Afghanistan in 1207. His poetry has inspired generations of spiritual seekers, both from his own Sufi school and well beyond.

One Night in Italy is a charming, funny and heartwarming novel from Lucy Diamond, author of The Beach Cafe. Is Italian really the language of love? A new class of students hopes to find out. Anna\'s recently been told the father she\'s never met is Italian. Now she\'s baking focaccia, whipping up tiramisu and swotting up on her vocabulary, determined to make it to Italy so she can find him in person.

The Bronte family was a literary phenomenon unequalled before or since. Both Charlotte\'s Jane Eyre and Emily\'s Wuthering Heights have won lofty places in the pantheon and stirred the romantic sensibilities of generations of readers. For the first time ever, Penguin Classics unites these two enduring favorites with the lesser known but no less powerful work by their youngest sister, Anne. Drawn from

What can you do to make the world a better place? Libby and her husband Jason have moved back to his hometown to turn the family B&B into a boutique hotel. They have left London behind and all the memories - good and bad - that went with it. The injured woman Libby finds lying in the remote country road has lost her memory. She doesn\'t know why she came to be there, and no one seems to be looking

Experimental Formats 2 collects innovative books, brochures, and catalogs featuring the most diverse ideas used in publications of every description. In the ever-increasing struggle to command consumers’ attention, adding value has become the weapon of choice, and in this battle alternative formats, folding, binding, and printing methods will bring you success. The book examines every aspect of designing

This accessible phrase book should be just the right size to fit into your pocket. Organized by subjects such as everyday phrases, hotels and travelling around, it uses a simple system of imitated pronunciation. The menu guide defines hundreds of ingredients and dishes.

The author of TV Book Club\'s SPIES OF THE BALKANS returns with a hugely evocative thriller set in wartime Paris. Frederic Stahl, born of Viennese intelligentsia, ran away to sea at the age of seventeen. Embarking in America, his matinee idol looks and Old-World charm took him to Hollywood, and a life of movies and women. But by autumn 1939, the unease in Europe has spread even to Stahl\'s glamorous

A message from the Captain: \'On behalf of myself and the entire Ayoade team, welcome to Ayoade on Top. At last, the definitive book about perhaps the best cabin-crew dramedy ever filmed: View from the Top, starring Gwyneth Paltrow.\' Buckle up for the flight of your life. \'The most profoundly silly book on film I\'ve ever read and somehow one of the most insightful too.\' Edgar Wright \'A brilliant

The Forsyte Saga is the first part of John Galsworthy\'s magnificent, well-loved \"Forsyte Chronicles\", which trace the changing fortunes of the wealthy Forsyte dynasty through fifty years of material triumph and emotional disaster. \"The Forsyte Saga\" begins as the nineteenth century is drawing to a close, and the upper middle classes, with their property and propriety, are becoming a dying section

It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio’s Winesburg College. And why is he here and not at a local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hardworking neighbourhood butcher seems to have

Of all Jack London\'s fictions none have been so popular as his dog stories. In addition to The Call of the Wild, the epic tale of a Californian dog\'s adventures during the Klondike gold rush, this edition includes White Fang, and five famous short stories - `Bâtard\', `Moon-Face\', `Brown Wolf\', `That Spot\', and `To Build a Fire.

Beginning with a general overview of film noir and covering its most important themes chapter by chapter (lovers plan murder, corrupt police, doomed love, psychological noir, etc.), this copiously illustrated handbook provides instant and in-depth access to the film noir genre for amateurs and aficionados alike. Among the films covered are these \"top ten\": Double Indemnity, Kiss Me Deadly, Gun Crazy,

Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la SeineEt nos amoursFaut-il qu\'il m\'en souvienneLa joie venait toujours après la peine Ces vers du \"Pont Mirabeau\", comme ceux de \"La Chanson du mal-aimé\" ou de \"Zone\", tous issus du recueil Alcools ont fait la fortune littéraire d\'Apollinaire, et un grand classique de la poésie. Toutefois, ce classicisme ne doit pas faire oublier qu\'en son temps ce recueil constitua

VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions. A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call \'objectivity\'. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship\'s officer, he and his friends idealise the man at first; but it

This beautiful collection of love poems gathers together thousands of years of timeless verse from around the world. From Shakespeare to Rossetti, traditional English classics sit alongside the works of Eastern writers such as Ibn \'Arabi and Rumi, as well as lesser known gems from the indigenous peoples of Africa, Australasia, and the Americas. Exploring the many facets of love - desire, devotion,

Imagine David Nicholls\'s One Day as retold by Woody Allen and you\'ll get a pretty good idea of what to expect with Gabriel Roth\'s The Unknowns. It\'s not easy to pursue the most alluring woman in North America when you\'re a misfiring circuit of over-analytical self-doubt and she has a way with a killer line and a perfectly raised eyebrow. Even, that is, when you\'ve survived your teen years as

After his deadliest battle to date, Batman is bruised, battered and scarred. And forever changed. Now, on the streets of Gotham, in place of the cape and cowl roams an 8-foot mechanized suit of armor. More powerful than ever before, Batman\'s pursuit of justice has never been more swift or efficient. But who is the new Dark Knight? And why is he...or she here? In the most shocking chapter in Scott