Publisher: Qasim Idrees
In this 1911 novelization of Barrie's most beloved play, Peter Pan, Peter partners with the motherly and kind Wendy, and finds himself engaged in all sorts of adventures, including fighting murderous pirates. A classic tale for readers of all ages, Peter and Wendy vividly captures the spirit of childhood.
Safety is not meant for Sadie: After the Forgotten Waters wash her away, she finds her way to shore, travels through a burnt forest, and finds refuge in a small cabin. That is, she finds refuge until the angry Queen of Ashthoreth, determined to destroy Sadie, drags her down through the Valley of Mud. With unexpected help from a trusted friend, Sadie manages to escape, but soon finds herself in front of yet another enemy: Serpythia. In one final act of resistance, Stadie stabs the serpent. Before it perishes, though, it swallows her. She travels through Serpythia’s belly and finds an entire world inside, containing all those who were swallowed over the years and were never able to leave. Is this Sadie’s final journey? Is this where her road comes to an end? Or is there something more to discover, something hidden within the living walls that now contain her?This book is intended for mature audiences and contains disturbing content that may cause the reader to delve into his or her own land of fantasy…just like Sadie. This ebook contains the twenty-second and twenty-third novellas in Nicole Arlyn’s epic dark fantasy series, The Sugarspear Chronicles.Show book
Winner of the Bath Novel Award 2020 When lonely and socially isolated translator, Gareth, takes up traditional Japanese archery in 1990s Bristol, he learns that to study Kyudo is to reach out, to another culture, another time, other people… But when one of them reaches back, two lives that should never have touched become strangely entangled. In wartime Tokyo, Tanaka Mie finds herself wandering the burned-out ruins of her dead parents' fire-bombed home with only hazy recollections of how she survived. Setting out on a hike to a mountain village shrine, away from the charred city, she begins a life to which she is not sure she is entitled, a life which feels like living on the other side of the sky. To visit the past or the future, even in imagination, is to change it. But it is also to be changed. The Arrow Garden is a delicately-wrought tale of truth, selfhood, and acceptance, which transcends time in its lyrical exploration of what it means to live.Show book
In the world of Magismondo, magical powers are rare and in high demand. Shape shifters, thought whisperers, aromaticians, water drivers, and fire makers are all treasured jewels in the royal collections. That is, when they're found. Arrow knows nothing of all this. She's just a 17-year-old girl, who lives with her parents in a forest cabin near the village of The Beeches far from the court of the kingdom of Wolverfield. Nevertheless, Arrow already knows that the tiny spark that will sometimes appear in the palm of her hand has the power to flare up at the most inconvenient times. One day, Arrow gets into a fight with her arch nemesis, Fenri, and fails to suppress her anger and control her magical powers. Soon, rumors of her unruly fire powers reach the royal palace and force Arrow to flee The King's soldiers. Her escape brings her to the capital city of Rimshield, where street fights and public disorder are punishable by deportation to the Golgutu prison camp beyond the sea. Now, Arrow must learn to control her temper, lest she be forced to spend the rest of her days among Wolverfield's most hardened criminals. Join Arrow on a grand adventure in Magismondo!Show book
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards: A futuristic masterpiece, “perhaps the most important war novel written since Vietnam” (Junot Díaz). In this novel, a landmark of science fiction that began as an MFA thesis for the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and went on to become an award-winning classic—inspiring a play, a graphic novel, and most recently an in-development film—man has taken to the stars, and soldiers fighting the wars of the future return to Earth forever alienated from their home. Conscripted into service for the United Nations Exploratory Force, a highly trained unit built for revenge, physics student William Mandella fights for his planet light years away against the alien force known as the Taurans. “Mandella’s attempt to survive and remain human in the face of an absurd, almost endless war is harrowing, hilarious, heartbreaking, and true,” says Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Junot Díaz—and because of the relative passage of time when one travels at incredibly high speed, the Earth Mandella returns to after his two-year experience has progressed decades and is foreign to him in disturbing ways. Based in part on the author’s experiences in Vietnam, The Forever War is regarded as one of the greatest military science fiction novels ever written, capturing the alienation that servicemen and women experience even now upon returning home from battle. It shines a light not only on the culture of the 1970s in which it was written, but also on our potential future. “To say that The Forever War is the best science fiction war novel ever written is to damn it with faint praise. It is . . . as fine and woundingly genuine a war story as any I’ve read” (William Gibson). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Joe Haldeman including rare images from the author’s personal collection.Show book
