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HarperCollins
HarperCollins
Applegate, Katherine
¥90.51
If the kids can't sit still for the class performance, Roscoe's teacher could be in big trouble. Fortunately Roscoe has a plan to save her a super, mega, gonzo plan! What could go wrong?
All-American Girl
All-American Girl
Cabot, Meg
¥50.33
Top ten reasons Samantha Madison is in deep trouble 10. Her big sister is the most popular girl in school 9. Her little sister is a certified genius 8. She's in love with her big sister's boyfriend 7. She got caught selling celebrity portraits in school 6. And now she's being forced to take art classes 5. She's just saved the president of the United States from an assassination attempt 4. So the whole world thinks she is a hero 3. Even though Sam knows she is far, far from being a hero 2. And now she's been appointed teen ambassador to the UN And the number-one reason Sam's life is over1. The president's son just might be in love with her
Ramona the Pest
Ramona the Pest
Cleary, Beverly
¥44.73
Ramona Quimby is excited to start kindergarten. No longer does she have to watch her older sister, Beezus, ride the bus to school with all the big kids. She's finally old enough to do it too! Then she gets into trouble for pulling her classmate's boingy curls during recess. Even worse, her crush rejects her in front of everyone. Beezus says Ramona needs to quit being a pest, but how can she stop if she never was trying to be one in the first placeNewbery Medal winning author Beverly Cleary expertly depicts the trials and triumphs of growing up through a relatable heroine in Ramona Quimby. Supports the Common Core State Standards
Bloomability
Bloomability
Creech, Sharon
¥38.72
My second life began when I was kidnapped by two complete strangers . . . That the kidnappers are actually Aunt Sandy and Uncle Max makes no difference to thirteen-year-old Domenica Santolina Doone, better known as Dinnie--she just doesn't want to go. Dinnie's accustomed to change, with her family constantly moving for "opportunity"--but when her aunt and uncle whisk her far away to an international school in Switzerland, she's not sure she's ready to face this "opportunity" alone. All at once she finds herself in a foreign country, surrounded by kids from different cultures speaking all sorts of languages and sharing various beliefs. Home and her first life seem so far away. But new friendships and the awesome beauty of Switzerland begin to unlock thoughts and dreams within her. Her joys and struggles make up a rich tapestry of experiences she can find nowhere else. Switzerland begins to be more than a temporary home--it becomes a part of Dinnnie herself, the self she never knew she could be. Switzerland is the picturesque backdrop of Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech's new novel about a young girl discovering the beauty of nature, her place in the world, the value of friendship--and that life is full of wonderful "bloomabilites."
Ruby Holler
Ruby Holler
Creech, Sharon
¥39.13
"Trouble twins" Dallas and Florida are orphans who have given up believing there is such a thing as a loving home. Tiller and Sairy are an eccentric older couple who live in the beautiful, mysterious Ruby Holler, but they're restless for one more big adventure. When they invite the twins to join them on their journeys, they first must all stay together in the Holler, and the magic of the place takes over. Two pairs of lives grow closer, and are changed forever.
The Wanderer
The Wanderer
Creech, Sharon
¥44.73
The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in."Thirteen-year-old Sophie hears the sea calling, promising adventure and a chance for discovery as she sets sail for England with her three uncles and two cousins. Sophie's cousin Cody isn't sure he has the strength to prove himself to the crew and to his father. Through Sophie's and Cody's travel logs, we hear stories of the past and the daily challenges of surviving at sea as The Wanderer sails toward its destination -- and its passengers search for their places in the world.
Beastly
Beastly
Flinn, Alex
¥55.93
I am a beast. A beast. Not quite wolf or bear, gorilla or dog but a horrible new creature who walks upright a creature with fangs and claws and hair springing from every pore. I am a monster. You think I'm talking fairy talesNo way. The place is New York City. The time is now. It's no deformity, no disease. And I'll stay this way forever ruined unless I can break the spell. Yes, the spell, the one the witch in my English class cast on me. Why did she turn me into a beast who hides by day and prowls by nightI'll tell you. I'll tell you how I used to be Kyle Kingsbury, the guy you wished you were, with money, perfect looks, and the perfect life. And then, I'll tell you how I became perfectly . . . beastly.
M Is for Magic
M Is for Magic
Gaiman, Neil
¥44.73
Stories to delight, enchant, and surprise you. Bestselling author and master storyteller Neil Gaiman here presents a breathtaking collection of tales that may chill or amuse readers but always embrace the unexpected: A teenage boy who has trouble talking to girls finds himself at a rather unusual party. A sinister jack-in-the-box haunts the lives of the children who owned it. A boy raised in a graveyard makes a discovery and confronts the much more troubling world of the living. A stray cat fights a nightly battle to protect his adopted family from a terrible evil. These eleven stories illuminate the real and the fantastic, and will be welcomed with great joy by Neil Gaiman's many fans as well as by readers coming to his work for the first time.
My Weird School #11: Mrs. Kormel Is Not Normal!
My Weird School #11: Mrs. Kormel Is Not Normal!
Gutman, Dan
¥27.94
Something weird is going on! First the school bus gets a flat tire, and then Mrs. Kormel is totally lost in the middle of nowhere! Mrs. Kormel is the weirdest bus driver in the history of the world, and she's driving everyone crazy!
My Weird School #12: Ms. Todd Is Odd!
My Weird School #12: Ms. Todd Is Odd!
Gutman, Dan
¥27.94
Something weird is going on! Ms. Todd is subbing, and A.J. and his friends are sure she kidnapped Miss Daisy so she could take over her job. They’re going to have to do the detective work to get the goods on her. But it won’t be easy! Ms. Todd is the weirdest substitute teacher in the history of the world!
My Weird School #13: Mrs. Patty Is Batty!
My Weird School #13: Mrs. Patty Is Batty!
Gutman, Dan
¥27.94
Something spooky is going on! Mrs. Patty, the secretary, gives out the best Halloween candy in the history of the world! But her house is haunted! People say she's a witch and her husband is a ghost. Is it worth A.J.'s risking his life for the best candy ever?
Falsches Spiel Der Liebe
Falsches Spiel Der Liebe
Barbara Cartland
¥24.44
Roxana Brunts Cousine Caroline ist verzweifelt. Sie soll den Marquis von Quorn heiraten, liebt aber einen anderen. Als der Marquis aus ?u?erst egoistischen Gründen immer st?rker auf Heirat dr?ngt, lt sich Roxana aus Liebe zu Lady Caroline überreden, den Platz ihrer Cousine vor dem Altar einzunehmen. Doch ihr falsches Spiel wird entdeckt und der Marquis ist überrascht, welche Frau er da geheiratet hat. Kann das Paar dennoch Liebe finden?
A Dama de Branco
A Dama de Branco
Barbara Cartland
¥24.44
Valient pensou ter tido uma vis?o, quando num minuto, visualizou uma linda mulher de branco, passear ao fundo da galeria. Dizem que existia uma Dama de Branco, vagueando pelos corredores da mans?o de lorde Gerard, à procura do amado assassinado. Valient , o Conde de Trevarnon, seu convidado de honra, estremeceu quando percebeu que a podia ter visto, numa vis?o muito rápida, no fundo da galeria, mas num instante, ela desapareceu, deixando um perfume no ar de madressilvas. Será que existiam fantasmas naquela mans?o Será que ele, o homem mais cobi?ado da Corte, se estava apaixonando por um fantasmaDe uma coisa ele tinha a certeza, havia um grande mistério naquela mans?o que o intrigava. Ele queria saber a verdade. Desejava encontrá-la. Seria um fantasma de ilus?o, ou uma verdadeira e bela Dama de real corao?
Kiss from a Stranger
Kiss from a Stranger
Barbara Cartland
¥24.44
Horrified when her beloved dog, Rufus, is caught in a cruel snare while out walking in the estate of Arrow Castle, local Parson’s daughter Shenda is at first relieved when a handsome stranger comes to poor Rufus’s rescue and then at once she is abashed and confused when he claims a kiss – Shenda’s very first – as his reward. But then she is told that her father has been killed by a savage bull and that she must leave the family’s Vicarage forthwith. Penniless Shenda is obliged to take a job at Arrow Castle as a seamstress, where she stumbles across a letter from one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s spies to Society beauty Lucille Gratton, ‘the most beautiful Lady in England’, who is staying at The Castle. Reporting the discovery to the Earl, she finds that he is no other than her ‘gentleman stranger’ and just as she realises that she is falling in love with the heroic Earl of Arrow, she is embroiled in a counter-espionage plot that puts her young life – and her love for the Earl – in deadly peril.
La Fuente del Amor
La Fuente del Amor
Barbara Cartland
¥24.44
El Duque de Madrescourt, un hombre obstinado y dictatorial, informa a su hija, Lady Loretta, que ha hecho arreglos para que esta se case con el hijo del Duque de Sauerdun, un noble francés. Era costumbre, entre los aristócratas franceses y británicos, concertar matrimonios. A Loretta le horroriza la idea de tener que unirse a un hombre a quien jamás había visto en su vida y que además, no lo amaba. Mientras su padre se ausenta, para participar en una carrera de caballos, Lady Loretta decide escaparse a París, acompa?ada de una vieja doncella, dispuesta a ponerse en contacto con su prima Lady Ingrid, quien unos cuantos a?os atrás había abandonado a su marido, para fugarse con el atractivo Marqués de Galston, Loretta suplica a Ingrid, que la ayude a conocer a Fabián de Sauerdun, sin que él conozca su verdadera identidad. Era un plan impresionante, la única forma de escapar al matrimonio arreglado por su padre, pero también descubre que Fabián es muy diferente de lo que ella suponía… el destino tenía sus propios planes… y como se salvará la bella Loretta de las atenciones de un Donjuán parisinoEs relatado, en esta fascinante novela de Barbara Cartland.
An Angel In Hell
An Angel In Hell
Barbara Cartland
¥24.44
After years of caring for her ailing father, the Earl of Medwin, the ethereally beautiful young Lady Ancella Winn is pale, drawn and exhausted now that he has died and she is devastated. Worse still, she has nowhere to go, except for the home of her strait-laced and disapproving aunts. So when family friend and doctor, Sir Felix Johnson, suggests that it would be good for her health to travel to the French Riviera to work as the nurse-companion to an ageing Russian Princess, she nervously agrees. Although her new employer is difficult and demanding, Ancella is bewitched, first by the beauty of the C?te d’Azur and then by the Princess’s ineffably handsome son, Prince Vladimer. Caught up in the glamour of the Monte Carlo Casino, the den of iniquity against which her aunts had warned her in no uncertain terms, it seems that she has won the Prince’s heart as the feckless aristocrats around her lose fortunes at Roulette and Baccarat. But then to her horror her hopes of the love she has always dreamt about are dashed when it she finds that Prince Vladimer has betrayed her with the grasping but alluring Marchioness of Chiswick.
The Love Trap
The Love Trap
Barbara Cartland
¥24.44
Hugo, the Duke of Wynchester enjoys many affaires de coeur and his latest lover, the beautiful but scheming and spoilt Olive Lady Brandon, is trying to blackmail him into marriage by forcing her husband to divorce her. Storming angrily from her house, Hugo finds a strange stowaway aboard his carriage. It transpires that this frail elfin beauty is none other that Janeta Brandon, Olive’s step-daughter, and that she is fleeing the marriage her stepmother has arranged to an old man known to beat not only his servants and horses but also his late wife. When the Duke realises that Janeta means to kill herself rather than face a loveless marriage, he is struck by a cunning way to rescue them both by announcing their ‘engagement’. They are then married in a quiet ceremony in the Duke’s private Chapel. It is only when Janeta saves him from death by poisoning by the hand of her stepmother that the Duke realises that he has been in love with her from the moment he first saw her. But surely the scorned Olive’s fury will ensure their love is doomed before it can blossom.
Double the Love
Double the Love
Barbara Cartland
¥24.44
The beautiful Ariana Dancer is orphaned and has led a cheerless life in London with her disagreeable Guardian, Uncle Konstantin Bardici. He has shown little interest in his niece and she has been left very much to her own devices. One day Uncle Konstantin suggests that Ariana marry an Albanian Prince – one who is seeking an English wife and who claims to have fallen in love with her portrait – and it does not take much to persuade her to agree. Even before she sets out for Albania, she begins to dream of romance and her lonely heart ensures that she quickly fancies herself in love with a man she has never seen. She is sure in her heart that she will find everlasting happiness with Prince Stefan of Dukka in the depths of Albania.! But the journey she must take to fulfil her dreams is longer and more treacherous than she could ever have imagined. When she and her hapless maid are kidnapped en route to Castle Dukka by brigands, the rosy future she dreamed of becomes bitterly compromised. Soon life in the wild mountains begins to exert an unexpected pull, while the King of the Brigands turns out to possess an irresistible charm. Ariana discovers that love can have a double meaning and that image is not all that it seems. Forced to choose between honour and passion and faced with the responsibility of deciding life or death for the man she loves, she bravely makes the ultimate sacrifice. Even then Ariana’s torment is not over – Find out how Ariana unexpectedly finds all that she has been seeking, and more, in this exciting and unusual romantic tale by BARBARA CARTLAND
Corac?a?o Vencido
Corac?a?o Vencido
Barbara Cartland
¥24.44
Nesta história, o Duque de Darlington, tinha que se dar por vencido! Sempre era considerado, um Vencedor, pois estava acostumado a ganhar, sempre em todos os duelos e a ser assediado, pelas mais belas e sofisticadas mulheres de Londres. Mas, quando Felícia, entrou na sua vida, ele acabou por sucumbir, numa verdadeira armadilha. Acabou por se apaixonar por uma linda e jovem recém-saída de um Convento, ao qual ele salvara uns anos antes, quando ela era, ainda uma inocente menina! Mas agora transformada numa bonita e bela jovem mulher, apaixonara-se por ela profundamente. Como iria reagir Felícia, sua protegida e admiradora inocente, sendo ele seu Tutor, suspirava pelo seu amor e seus beijos, quando ela, marcada por um passado muito infeliz, sofria de um medo irracional dos homensComo mostrar àquela bonita jovem assustada, que a amava como mulherComo é que ela o iria aceitarSendo ele, o único homem em quem ela confiava e idolatrava como a um santo, por tê-la salvo de um grande sofrimento. Ele, corria o risco, de perdê-la para sempre!
Warriors: Secrets of the Clans
Warriors: Secrets of the Clans
Hunter, Erin
¥95.11
Now the truth can be revealed Look within to find: The mystical origins and secret legends of the Clans. An insiders' tour of the Clan camps and territories. The histories and characters of each Clan, and information about their leaders and medicine cats. Knowledge of cats outside the Clans. The tenets of the warrior code. Prophecies and omens, and how they have been fulfilled. And many more truths about the secrets, beliefs, and daily lives of the cats of the Clans.
Year's Best SF 15
Year's Best SF 15
Hartwell, David G.
¥55.91
Who knows what awaits us tomorrowMuch of the most innovative and exhilarating work performed in the boundary-less arena of SF is being done in the short form. This year's magnificent harvest gathered, as always, by acclaimed award-winning editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer offers glimpses of worlds and tomorrows that would have been inconceivable just a few years ago. Brilliant, bold, unusual, and soaring flights into the hitherto unforeseen yet increasingly possible future, Year's Best SF 15 offers truly breathtaking stories by some of speculative fiction's brightest lights, including: Stephen Baxter Nancy Kress Alastair Reynolds Geoff Ryman Bruce Sterling Peter Watts Robert Charles Wilson Gene Wolfe and others