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Luke Dantry s stepfather Henry is the only family he has left in the world. So he s pleased to be helping Henry with his work, even if it means the project he s assigned to is profiling online extremists and collecting data on them.When Luke is abducted in bizarre circumstances, he expects Henry to come through with the ransom - but Henry is in way over his head and unable to help. So Luke has to make his own escape from the right-wing fanatics on his tail, the authorities who think he's a wanted man, and various mysterious organisations who are missing ten million dollars.

When Benjamin Button father arrives at hospital he is surprised and ashamed to find his new baby boy is a weathered, aged man, for all appearances no younger than seventy years old. As time goes by, young Benjamin no longer requires a cane, his hair ceases to be grey, his limbs become less frail, his wrinkles less deep. As Benjamin becomes increasingly youthful with the passing years, his family wonders why he persists in the embarrassing folly of living in reverse. In this imaginative fable of ageing and the short stories "Bernice Bobs her Hair" and "A Diamond as Big as the Ritz. Scott Fitzgerald displays his unmatched gift as a writer of short stories.

With his fourth novel, legendary barfly Charles Bukowski follows the path of his alter ego Henry Chinaski through the high school years of acne and rejection, drinking his way through the Depression, and ends at the start of World War 2.

The Dharma Bums appeared just one year after the author's explosive On The Road had put the Beat Generation on the literary map and Kerouac on the best-seller list. The same expansiveness, humour and contagious zest for life that sparked the earlier novels sparks this one too, but through a more cohesive story. The books follow two young men engaged in a passionate search for dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen way, which takes them climbing into the high sierras to seek the lesson of solitude.

Henry Chinaski, an outcast, a loner and a hopeless drunk, drifts around America from one dead-end job to another, from one woman to another and from one bottle to the next. Uncompromising, gritty, hilarious and confessional in turn, his downward spiral is peppered with black humour. Factotum follows Charles Bukowski's bestselling Post Office, his highly autobiographical first novel. Bukowski's Beat Generation writing reflects his slum upbringing, his succession of menial jobs and his experience of low life urban America. He died in 1994 and is widely acknowledged as one of the most distinctive writers of the last fifty years.

"You're the Best Bear in All the World" said Christopher Robin. "Am I?" said Pooh hopefully. Meet the world's favourite bear in this delightful collection, in which Pooh gets into a tight place, nearly catches a woozle, and discovers the wrong sort of honey - amongst other things.

One of the most magical and uplifting of shakespeare's plays, a midsummer night's dream is a celebration of love and all its joys.

As the second step in a major rebrand programme‚ HarperCollins is relaunching 10 more hilarious Dr. Seuss books‚ including such all−time favourites as How the Grinch Stole Christmas!‚ Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? and Dr. Seuss′ Sleep Book. In response to consumer demand‚ the bright new cover designs incorporate much needed guidance on reading levels‚ with standard paperbacks divided into three reading strands − Blue Back Books for parents to share with young children‚ Green Back Books for budding readers to tackle on their own‚ and Yellow Back Books for older‚ more fluent readers to enjoy. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! belongs to the Yellow Back Book range. It has also been adapted for the big screen‚ and is now a blockbuster movie starring the irrepressible Ji

'This terse account of an American girl's breakdown and treatment gains its considerable power from an objectivity that is extraordinary considering the nature of the material. Sylvia Plath's attention had the quality of ruthlessness...imagery and rhetoric is disciplined by an unwinking intelligence.' Stephen Wall, Observer The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing boundaries between fiction and reality and helped to make Plath an enduring feminist icon. It was published under a pseudonym a few weeks before the author's suicide.

Whwn penniless Michael Rogers discovers the beautiful house at Gypsy's Acre and then meets the heiress Ellie, it seems that all his dreams have come true at once. But he ignores an old woman's warning of an ancient curse, and evil begins to stir in paradise.

As Michael soon learns: Gypsy's Acre is the place where fatal 'accidents' happen....