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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down (Book 11) The pressure’s really piling up on Greg Heffley. The only thing he’s good at is playing video games, but his parents want him to broaden his horizons by doing something—anything!—else.   When Greg finds an old video camera in his...

The BFG Now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg! Starring Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill, Penelope Wilton, Jemaine Clement, Bill Hader, and Adam Godley. The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It’s lucky for Sophie that he is....

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Haruki Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he’d completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons...

Kafka on the Shore Kafka on the Shore is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never...

This stunning and elegiac novel by the author of the internationally acclaimed Wind-Up Bird Chronicle has sold over 4 million copies in Japan and is now available to American audiences for the first time. It is sure to be a literary event. Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young...

A Wild Sheep Chase A marvelous hybrid of mythology and mystery, A Wild Sheep Chase is the extraordinary literary thriller that launched Haruki Murakami’s international reputation. It begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a...

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage  marks a new direction in Murakami's fiction: a return to the lyrical realism not seen since his 1987 novel  Norwegian Wood , but set against the social realities of contemporary Japan.   Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of...

Hear the Wind Sing Acclaimed, best-selling Haruki Murakami's debut short novels, newly re-translated and in one English-language volume for the first time--with a new introduction by the author. After almost thirty years out of print, the first major works of fiction by...

Matilda "Her own small bedroom now became her reading-room and there she would sit and read most afternoons, often with a mug of hot chocolate beside her." Matilda's parents are stupid and nasty and fail to see the potential in their gifted daughter; they think she should be...

The Witches The Witches is an award-winning story by Roald Dahl about a boy, his grandmother, and a hotel full of witches. "This is not a fairy tale. This is about real witches." This is a book about 'real witches', the ones that absolutely loathe children and are...

George's Marvelous Medicine "Oh, how he hated Grandma! He really hated that horrid old witchy woman."   George's grandma is a horrid, grizzly, grumpy, selfish old woman with pale brown teeth and a puckered-up mouth like a dog's bottom, so George creates a very special...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows As he climbs into the sidecar of Hagrid's motorbike and takes to the skies, leaving Privet Drive for the last time, Harry Potter knows that Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters are not far behind. The protective charm that has kept Harry safe until...

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince When Dumbledore arrives at Privet Drive one summer night to collect Harry Potter, his wand hand is blackened and shrivelled, but he does not reveal why. Secrets and suspicion are spreading through the wizarding world, and Hogwarts itself is not...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Dark times have come to Hogwarts. After the Dementors' attack on his cousin Dudley, Harry Potter knows that Voldemort will stop at nothing to find him. There are many who deny the Dark Lord's return, but Harry is not alone: a secret order...

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire The Triwizard Tournament is to be held at Hogwarts. Only wizards who are over seventeen are allowed to enter – but that doesn't stop Harry dreaming that he will win the competition. Then at Hallowe'en, when the Goblet of Fire makes its selection,...

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban When the Knight Bus crashes through the darkness and screeches to a halt in front of him, it's the start of another far from ordinary year at Hogwarts for Harry Potter. Sirius Black, escaped mass-murderer and follower of Lord Voldemort, is on...

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Harry Potter's summer has included the worst birthday ever, doomy warnings from a house-elf called Dobby, and rescue from the Dursleys by his friend Ron Weasley in a magical flying car! Back at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for his...

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid - The Long Haul NEW YORK, NY, March 20, 2014—ABRAMS revs up its engines to announce that its Amulet Books imprint will publish Diary of a Wimpy Kid book 9 on November 4, 2014. The new book in the phenomenally successful series written and...