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In the cold and foggy Christmas holidays, it doesn't seem as though the Five Find-Outers and Dog will have anything exciting to investigate. Fatty's got some wonderful new disguises, but there doesn't seem to be any mystery for them at all this time. Then Pip stumbles on a single furnished room in an otherwise deserted house. They try to find out whom the house belongs to, but they're not making much progress - until Fatty decides to go to the house to see what he can uncover. Suddenly trapped…

After the amazing twist at the end of Sweet Honey, the sixth and final book in Cathy Cassidy's Chocolate Box Girls series follows Jake, the Tanberry sisters' newly discovered half-brother . . . Jake Cooke has just had the surprise of his life. He's got four half-sisters that he never knew existed. When Jake's talent for trouble causes chaos at home, he runs away to meet his new family. Life in a rundown flat in Chinatown is a far cry from Tanglewood, where the days are filled with beach…

This exciting Read with Oxford story is ideal for children who are becoming indendent readers. Will Biff overcome her fear of bees to help some villagers in Africa to protect ther crops?  

Learn all about our solar system in this fascinating non-fiction book, perfect for young readers ready to begin reading independently.Read it yourself with Ladybird is one of Ladybird's best-selling reading series. For over thirty-five years it has helped young children who are learning to read develop and improve their reading skills.Each Read it yourself book is very carefully written to include many key, high-frequency words that are vital for learning to read, as well as a limited number…

رواية مؤثرة تقدم تأويلًا مباشرًا يقوم على كبسة زر للمذاق المرير للحياة اليومية، مطعمة بروح السخرية والمفارقة بصورة لا تضاهى، إنها قصة جيل كامل من العرب الذين دمرت حياتهم الإيديولوجيات التي هيمنت على السياسة العربية. تتضمن الرواية أيضًا حسًا فكاهيًا وروح دعابة متميزين ومقدرة غير عادية للكاتب على خلق عالم داخلي، فهي تروي قصة حكواتي لا مقدسات لديه، ينتهي به الأمر في باريس، مواصلًا حياته بين البارات ومحطات المترو، حالمًا بكتابة سيناريو عن والده الفران الأصم الأبكم، ولكنه بدلًا من ذلك يكتب نصًا…

  صور الجاحظ في كتابه البخلاء الذين قابلهم وتعرفهم في بيئته الخاصة خاصة في بلدة مرو عاصمة خراسان ، وقد صور الجاحظ البخلاء تصويراً واقعياً حسياً نفسياً فكاهياً ، فأبرز لنا حركاتهم ونظراتهم القلقة أو المطمئنة ونزواتهم النفسية، وفضح أسرارهم وخفايا منازلهم واطلعنا على مختلف أحاديثهم، وأرانا نفسياتهم وأحوالهم جميعاً، ولكنه لا يكرهنا بهم لأنه لا يترك لهم أثراً سيئاً في نفوسنا.ـ وقصص الكتاب مواقف هزلية تربوية قصيرة وقد عرض الكتاب بأسلوب…

Among Dostoevsky's later novels, The Adolescent occupies a very special place: published three years after The Devils and five years before his final masterpiece, The Karamazov Brothers, the novel charts the story of nineteen-year-old Arkady – the illegitimate son of the landowner Versilov and the maid Sofia Andreyevna – as he struggles to find his place in society and “become a Rothschild” against the background of 1870s Russia, a nation still tethered to its old systems and values but shaken…

Having travelled from her native New York to London to meet her relatives, Isabel Archer, a young, independently minded young woman, rejects the marriage proposals of two suitors in her determination to stay in control of her destiny. When she suddenly comes into a large legacy, Isabel believes that this windfall will finally ensure the freedom that she yearns for and embarks on an exhilarating journey through France and Italy, only to find her endeavours thwarted by the sinister plotting of…

In this dark and compelling short novel, Fyodor Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian general. Alexey tries to break through the wall of the established order in Russia, but instead becomes mired in the endless downward spiral of betting and loss. His intense and inescapable addiction is accentuated by his affair with the General’s cruel yet seductively adept niece, Polina. In The Gambler, Dostoevsky reaches the heights…

"The year is 1922, and young Nick Carraway moves to the village of West Egg, where he discovers that his neighbor is the eclectic millionaire Jay Gatsby. As he and Gatsby become acquainted, Nick is thrown into a world full of dazzling parties, unrequited love, and unchecked idealism. Gatsby, surrounded by riches, yearns for the love of a woman who chose another man. He waits for her every night, using a green light at the end of his dock to call out to her from across the water. Daisy, stuck…