"Will you please come back and play for the club Aoife?". Aidan asks his twin sister this question every week. Twins, Aoife and Aidan Power, along with their four best friends love playing Gaelic football. They spend most evenings after school playing football in the green in their picturesque rural village of "Droichead Beag". Aoife and Aidan are skilful and fast but when they combine on the same team, "Twin Power" is unleashed and they have an almost telepathic communication on the pitch...

"The Lost Cup? You don't want to know about that". Aidan has been thwarted at every turn, in his efforts to find out where the mysterious lost cup is hidden, or if it even really exists.A year after the escapades of Gaelic football mad twins, Aoife and Aidan Power, along with their four best friends in Twin Power: Throw In, the Droichead Beag gang are back!However, all is not rosy. Cracks are starting to show as the gang's strong foundation creaks under th...

A fascinating political travelogue that traces the life and work of George Orwell, author of 1984 and ANIMAL FARM, in Southeast AsiaOver the years the American writer Emma Larkin has spent traveling in Burma, also known as Myanmar, she's come to know all too well the many ways this brutal police state can be described as "Orwellian." The life of the mind exists in a state of siege in Burma, and it long has. But Burma's connection to George Orwell is not merely meta...

Aoife and Aidan Power love playing Gaelic football.They're so skilful and fast their friends call them 'Twin Power'.Every young Gaelic footballer dreams of playing in Féile, the biggest competition there is. Both Aoife and Aidan's teams are vying to qualify, but what will happen now that the twins are on separate boys' and girls' teams for the first time?With secondary school to navigate, new teams to get used to, and a family mystery to solve … it's...

An incisive, unprecedented report on life inside Burma from the author of Finding George Orwell in BurmaOn May 2, 2008, an enormous tropical cyclone made landfall in Burma, wreaking untold havoc and killing more than 138,000 people. In No Bad News for the King, Emma Larkin, a Westerner who has been traveling to and secretly reporting on Burma for years, uses her extraordinary access and intimate understanding of the Burmese people to deliver a bea...

Discover the bone-chilling adventures that made Goosebumps one of the bestselling children's book series of all time. Now with all-new bonus materials! Samantha Byrd is a klutz. An accident waiting to happen. And that makes her the least popular member of the girls' basketball team. But all of that is about to change. Sam's met someone who can grant her three wishes. Too bad Sam wasn't more careful when she asked for each one... It's another fan-favorite prequel to R.L. Stine's blockbuster...

From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation!Mama Mia!Lucky Karen. She is going to be the queen of Pizza Express for one whole month. That means wearing a crown, and having her picture taken, and being on TV. Karen thinks she is so great. The kids at school think Karen is a pest. So Karen is going to make up with everyone. She is going to throw the biggest pizza party ever. Long live karen t...

From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation!Whodunit?Karen loves playing on her big sister's softball team, Kristy's Krushers. But then Karen sees strange things going on at practices. Softball gloves and bats are disappearing. Pages are missing from Kristy's notebook. Who is doing this? And why? Karen and her friends are going to try to find out. Can they save Kristy's Krushers?

Every so often a love story comes along to remind us that sometimes, in our darkest hour, hope shines a candle to light our way.The No. 1 million-copy bestseller which has captured thousands of hearts worldwide, THE LETTER tells the story of two women whose paths are destined to cross, and how one woman's devastation leads to the other's salvation...⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'An amazing, heartwrenching, unforgettable story'⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'This...

From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation!Dear Maxie...The kids in Ms. Colman’s class are writing letters to some second-graders in New York City. Karen thinks having a pen pal is so, so cool. But then her pen pal turn out to be a big bragger. Mazie says she is better than Karen at everything. This makes Karen so mad. So she starts making things up. But now Mazie’s class is coming to visi...

This is the true story of Jimmy Cryans. A story of growing up in Glasgow's east end during the fifties and sixties and how he became involved in a life of crime. Jimmy speaks about the various characters he met and his dealings with some of Britain's major criminals. He reveals how petty theft and shoplifting quickly snowballed into armed robbery with raids on banks, jewelers and security vehicles. But Jimmy's story also explains his lifelong quest to find himself and how it eventually led...

The children of murder victims are targeted by a copycat killer in this detective thriller by "the new-wave leader of crime fiction" (Lee Child).Detective Tom Thorne specializes in solving the London Police Department's most difficult murder cases. When he's called into what seems like an ordinary domestic crime scene, he thinks he's caught a break. A woman has been murdered by someone she knows. Thorne plans to question the husband, arrest him, and get back to his...