Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence. The international bestseller that has touched millions of readers around the world is now available in a deluxe illustrated edition, featuring powerful illustrations by acclaimed artist Oliver Jeffers. Berlin, 1942: When Bruno returns home from school one day,...

Two humans and two aliens, who are traveling to distant reaches of space to prevent a future catastrophe, crash on a ringworld apparently created by superior technologies.

Even though identical twins Anny and Allie are different in many ways, there is much confusion as to who's who. Young readers follow the twins as they dream up a series of imaginative and hilarious plans to help teachers, friends, and family tell them apart--and discover how lucky they are to have each other along the way!

The recovery of the magnificent gem in Lord Attenbury's dazzling heirloom launched a shell-shocked young aristocrat on his career as a detective in 1921. Thirty years later, a happily married Lord Peter has just shared the secrets of that mystery with his wife, the detective novelist Harriet Vane. Suddenly, the new Lord Attenbury—grandson of Lord Peter's first client—seeks his help to prove who owns the emeralds. As Harriet and Peter

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Centuries after a huge meteor destroyed life on Earth, a group of people and their cloned children, and their children's children monitor conditions on Earth from their safe spot, Tycho Base.

An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interact in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of young factory workers have disappeared.

The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape. "One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country....

Pilot Rayford Steele begins to suspect that something is horribly wrong when most of the passengers on his plane disappear without a trace. After landing he finds that millions of people around the world have also vanished, leaving behind disorderliness and confusion. Soon he and reporter Buck Williams, a passenger on Rayford's flight, seek out the truth behind the mass disappearances, which leads to some very sinister forces.