Fiction

One day a stranger came to the city. He was wearing a black hat and was dragging an old suitcase. At first he was scary, but he started to do magic and... Foreigners generate mistrust, you know, and even more so when it comes...

Shama and Bahama Llama can't wait for winter - skating, snowballs, hot chocolate... and best of all, the Winter Woolly Party! But when The Big Freeze suddenly arrives they discover that their jumpers are in a sorry state! Cue a MAJOR PANIC as everyone...

The first book of the tetralogy, the Four Mysteries. In a secret cave, hidden among the winter-frozen waterfalls, five young friends open an old trunk and release a story that for many years had been locked up and forgotten. A mystery surrounds the past...

A novel for first readers that accompanies the story with small pills of popular science. Little Samantha doesn't think much about birds. They seem to her like nothing more than screaming animals that she and her cat chase for fun. Until one day, her...

How can Christmas be saved? Santa's in so much trouble. With his best reindeer missing he needs help on the double!

The little prince is a traveler of the universe. On each planet he meets an interesting character who enriches his mind and his heart. In this unique edition, readers of all ages will be able to accompany the little prince on his journey, and...

The American writer H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) knew how to create a unique narrative, moving away from traditional ghost stories to include science fiction elements in his intrigues, such as time travel or travel to other dimensions. This chilling anthology chooses his best stories...

The story of the friendship between a man and a wolf dog and how a real harmony between humans and animals can be achieved. With didactic cards, games and activities to interact with the story and the characters.

His robberies fill the front pages of the newspapers, his duels with the police keep us in suspense, the messages with which he mocks the nobles he has just robbed go from mouth to mouth and earns everyone's sympathy. Who is he? Lupine, Arsène...

London. 22nd December. Chief Inspector Brett Nightingale and Sergeant Beddoes have been called to a gloomy flat off Islington High Street. An elderly woman lies dead on the bed, and her trunk has been looted. The woman is Princess Olga Karukhin, an emigrant of...

Aunt Mildred declared that no good could come of the Melbury family Christmas gatherings at their country residence Flaxmere. So when Sir Osmond Melbury, the family patriarch, is discovered-by a guest dressed as Santa Klaus-with a bullet in his head on Christmas Day, the...

Jamie and Charlotte are looking for a winter break reprieve in Sussex after a fall semester that almost got them killed. But nothing about their time off is proving simple, including Holmes and Watson’s growing feelings for each other. When Charlotte’s beloved Uncle Leander...

Daniel Sullivan leads a complicated life. A New Yorker living in the wilds of Ireland, he has children he never sees in California, a father he loathes in Brooklyn, and his wife, Claudette, is a reclusive ex–film star given to pulling a gun on...

On a farm in western Missouri during the first half of the twentieth century, Matthew and Callie Soames create a life for themselves and raise four headstrong daughters. Jessica will break their hearts. Leonie will fall in love with the wrong man. Mary Jo...

Called a “magnificently crafted story... brimming with wisdom” by Howard Frank Mosher in The Washington Post Book World, Crossing to Safety has, since its publication in 1987, established itself as one of the greatest and most cherished American novels of the twentieth century. Tracing the lives,...

The plot of this novel is woven around the mysterious death of Canadian magnate Boy Staunton. The narration is carried out by Dunstan Ramsay, Staunton's childhood friend, who, when trying to clarify the circumstances of his death, will have no choice but to face...

“Can't cook but doesn't bite." So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an "A-1 housekeeper, sound morals, exceptional disposition" that draws the attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. That unforgettable season deposits the ever-whistling Rose Llewellyn and her...

In East Prussia, January 1945, the German forces are in retreat and the Red Army is approaching. The von Globig family's manor house, the Georgenhof, is falling into disrepair. Auntie runs the estate as best she can since Eberhard von Globig, a special officer...

Hank, Leland, Kip, and Ronny were all born and raised in the same Wisconsin town and are now coming into their own as husbands and fathers. One never left, still farming the family's land that's been tilled for generations, whereas the others did leave,...

Lexie Sinclair is plotting an extraordinary life for herself. Hedged in by her parents' genteel country life, she plans her escape to London. There, she takes up with Innes Kent, a magazine editor who introduces her to the thrilling, underground world of bohemian, post-war...