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  Bone Swans

  C.S.E. Cooney

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  In this debut collection from C. S. E. Cooney, a swan princess hunted for her bones, a broken musician and his silver pipe, and a rat named Maurice bring justice to a town under fell enchantment. A gang of courageous kids confront both a plague-destroyed world and an afterlife infested with clowns but robbed of laughter. In an island city, the murder of a child unites two lovers, but vengeance will part them. Only human sacrifice will save a city trapped in ice and darkness. Gold spun out of straw has a price, but not the one you expect.

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  The Complete Brigadier Gerard -...

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  These charming adventures of the 19th century French brigadier by the creator of Sherlock Holms are “unjustly forgotten tales by a great master” (Michael Chabon).   Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his immortal character Sherlock Holmes, his tales of comic adventure featuring Brigadier Etienne Gerard, a French cavalry officer in the tine of the Napoleonic Wars, were equally beloved in their day. An old man who has retired in Paris, Gerard now recounts his escapades of younger days. In Napoleon’s service, he fights battles, breaks hearts, and confounds the English all across Europe. This volume collects all of Doyle’s Brigadier Gerard stories, originally published in The Strand Magazine between 1894 and 1903.   In The Complete Brigadier Gerard Stories “you will find adventure, action, romance, love and self-sacrifice, hair's-breadth escape and reckless courage, gallantry, panache and a droll, backhand humor that rivals that of P.G. Wodehouse. You will also find yourself, even more than with the celebrated stories of Holmes and Watson, in the hands of an indisputable artist. For more than any other adventure stories I know, these stories have a power to move the reader… unjustly forgotten tales by a great master" (Michael Chabon for NPR's You Must Read This).  "The Brigadier Gerard stories display all the narrative gusto of Doyle's more famous Sherlock Holmes, together with an irresistible warmth and humor."—Philip Pullman

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  Ashes in My Mouth Sand in My...

  Per Petterson

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  Young Arvid Jansen lives on the outskirts of Oslo. It's the early sixties; his father works in a shoe factory and his Danish mother works as a cleaner. Arvid has nightmares about crocodiles and still wets his bed at night, but slowly he begins to understand the world around him. Vivid images accompany each new event: A photo of his mother as a young woman makes him cry as he realizes how time passes, and the black car that comes to collect his father on the day Arvid's grandfather dies reminds him of the passing of his bullfinch. And then, one morning, his teacher tells his class to pray because a nuclear war is looming.

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  The Grudge

  Rachel Lawson

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  "I can't see you attacking a woman why don't you defend yourself Blake," said Blake's lawyer. "I never said I did, Gabriel," said Blake Alexander, "everyone is accusing me of fighting with her but she started the scuffle messed up herself attacked me and screamed I was attacking her on a crime scene." 
  "I believe you!" said the lawyer. 
  "I pay you to believe me," said Blake gruffly 
  "and yet I still believe you," said Gabriel. 
  "thank you no one else does," said Blake. 
  "Jnr does too we'll help clear your name," said Gabriel. 
  "thank you," said Blake not putting much hope in the help. 
  "Who called for a delivery of chicken," shouted 
  snr after he saw Gabriel in his masked chicken suit at the door. 
  "Hilarious Lance, where is jnr?" said the Chicken. 
  "I had an idea to clear your grandad's name," said the chicken. 
  "what is it?" asked Jnr. 
  "I need some help I found out where the woman who accused Blake of attacking her goes dancing and I need your help," said the chicken. 
  "Hello do you want to dance?" a handsome young man ask a lonely wallflower sitting watching the dancers. 
  "Yes thank you, sir," replied Fiona Lambert standing up. 
  They walked to the dance floor and waltzed.

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  The Haunted Man and the Ghost's...

  Charles Dickens

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  In this story, Dickens narrates the hair-raising experiences of a professor. As the protagonist dwells on his past sorrows and mistakes, a phantom visits him. It offers him a bizarre escape from painful recollections of yesteryear by offering to eradicate his memory. On seeing the professor turn into a man devoid of emotions, the reader realizes how empty one becomes without a

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  Fairy Tales Stories Vol: 1

  Hans Christian Andersen

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  This is a collection of a few stories by Hans Christian Andersen included - The Emperor's New Clothes - The Ugly Duckling - Thumbellina - The Brave Little Tin Soldier - There is No Doubt About It -

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