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Aladdin and Other Tales from the Arabian Nights
by W. Heath RobinsonFor the past two hundred years, Western readers, young and old alike, have been transported to the fabulous Orient by means of these remarkable stories, in which the everyday mingles on an equal footing with the uncanny and the miraculous. Accompanying the text are illustrations by W. Heath Robinson, which are themselves miracles of visual and imaginative sympathy.
Aladdin and the Magic Lamp
by Deborah HautzigWith the aid of a genie from a magic lamp, Aladdin fights an evil magician and wins the hand of a beautiful princess.
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
by Laurence HousmanA feckless boy is lured by a wicked magician into a trap but the scheme backfires — the boy, Aladdin, is left with a magical lamp and a genie who showers him with riches. Aladdin's wealth makes him an attractive suitor for the sultan's daughter, but when the evil sorcerer returns to kidnap the bride, the young hero must rescue his princess or die trying.This classic retelling of the ever-popular Middle Eastern folktale has entranced readers for over a century. Originally published in 1914 as part of Sindbad the Sailor and Other Stories from The Arabian Nights, this beautiful version by Laurence Housman features eight full-color images by Edmund Dulac, one of the era's most famous illustrators.
Aladdin Deluxe Step into Reading (Step into Reading)
by RH DisneyJoin Aladdin and Princess Jasmine from Disney Aladdin in this Step 2 deluxe Step into Reading early reader!Aladdin, Princess Jasmine, and the Genie are coming to theaters in May 2019 with the live-action release of Disney Aladdin! This Step 2 deluxe Step into Reading leveled reader based on the classic tale is perfect for children ages 4 to 6. Step 2 readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories. Step 2 is for children who recognize familiar words and can sound out new words with help.Disney Aladdin is an animated classic featuring beloved characters, an award-winning soundtrack, and a timeless tale of love and adventure.
Aladdin: Far From Agrabah
by Aisha SaeedThis stunning original novel will tell an all-new story set in the world of the new film, featuring Aladdin and Jasmine. A magic carpet ride full of adventure, suspense, and wonder written by New York Times Bestselling author Aisha Saeed, this story will be a must-read for any Aladdin fans who find themselves drawn into and enchanted by the magical world of Agrabah and beyond.
Aladdin: Jasmine and the Star of Persia
by DISNEY BOOK GROUPOne night, as Princess Jasmine and her husband Aladdin gaze at the night sky, Aladdin points to a star and tells Jasmine the story of the Star of Persia: the biggest, most beautiful jewel in the world. Legend has it that the jewel belonged to a beautiful queen, and after she died, her subjects hid the jewel in a tower, certain that no one could be worthy of its beauty again. Now Jasmine is determined to know if the story is true. So the next morning, Jasmine, Aladdin, Abu, and the Magic Carpet set off to find out! Will the friends be able to find the legendary jewel, or are all the stories just fiction?
Aladdin Live Action Novelization
by Disney Book GroupA beloved classic comes to life for a new generation in the upcoming Walt Disney Studios live action Aladdin film, and this thrilling novelization invites fans to revisit Aladdin's tale over and over again.
Aladdin: One True Love
by Annie AuerbachAladdin and Jasmine are happily married, and the Genie has returned from a trip around the world! But the Genie has been feeling blue. All his traveling has made him lonely, and he wishes he could find another genie to share his life with. So when Aladdin runs off to catch a kangaroo the Genie brought back from Australia, Jasmine recounts the story of how she found her one true love: Aladdin! Will Jasmine be able to cheer up the Genie and help him find his one true love?
Aladdin Princess Stories
by Hinkler BooksChildren will love this classic fairytale. Faithfully adapted from the original story, this beautiful princess story also features beautiful colour illustrations. Aladdin is perfect for story time and bedtime. Reading encourages imagination, builds understanding, opens new worlds and helps children reach their full potential.
Alafair Burke/Ellie Hatcher Collection
by Alafair BurkeFrom bestselling thriller author Alafair Burke come books 2-4 in her popular Ellie Hatcher series: 212, Angel's Tip, and Never Tell.
Alai Osai: Part I - Boogambam
by KalkiThis is the first part of the four parts novel which won the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award. The beautiful descriptions of pre-independence India, the little villages of Rajampettai and Devapattinam and the vivid portrayal of the main characters of this novel viz., Seeta, Dharini, Lalita, Raghavan Surya are the highlights of this novel.
Alai Osai: Part II - Puyal
by KalkiThis is the second part of the four parts novel which won the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award. The beautiful descriptions of pre-independence India, the little villages of Rajampettai and Devapattinam and the vivid portrayal of the main characters of this novel viz., Seeta, Dharini, Lalita, Raghavan Surya are the highlights of this novel.
Alai Osai: Part III - Erimalai
by KalkiThis is the third part of the four parts novel which won the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award. The beautiful descriptions of pre-independence India, the little villages of Rajampettai and Devapattinam and the vivid portrayal of the main characters of this novel viz., Seeta, Dharini, Lalita, Raghavan Surya are the highlights of this novel.
Alai Osai: Part IV - Pralayam
by KalkiThis is the fourth and concluding part of the four parts novel which won the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award. The beautiful descriptions of pre-independence India, the little villages of Rajampettai and Devapattinam and the vivid portrayal of the main characters of this novel viz., Seeta, Dharini, Lalita, Raghavan Surya are the highlights of this novel.
Alain Chartier: The Quarrel of the Belle Dame Sans Mercy (Routledge Medieval Texts #5)
by Joan E. McRaeBelle dame sans merci (Beautiful lady with no mercy) (1424) is not readily available in moden English translation elsewhere, making this an essential addition to any library with a medieval literature or French literature collection.
Alain Robbe-Grillet (Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction #16)
by John FletcherAlain Robbe-Grillet had traditionally been seen as an austere experimentalist in fiction, addicted to arid and interminable descriptions of objects like coffee pots, erasers and pieces of string. His own rather bellicose theoretical pronouncements were partly to blame for this unattractive picture, belied by the immense popular success of the film Last Year at Marienbad (1961) (made by Alain Resnais from Robbe-Grillet’s script) and the high critical esteem in which novels like Jealousy and The Voyeur are held. In his original study, first published in 1983, John Fletcher attempts to resolve this paradox by offering a new interpretation of Robbe-Grillet’s work which stresses the subversive qualities of his imagination and the disturbing power of his vision of a world of labyrinths and bizarre sexual stereotypes, haunted by images of love and loss.
Alamo Theory
by Josh Bell"Bell's work is a concoction of the surreal and the hyper-real, the hilarious and the devastating."-The New Yorker"One of the most tonally versatile young poets working today."-Boston Review"A contemporary knockout, Bell's poems run the gamut of good: they're seriously funny, bizarre, wry, ambitious, acrobatic, gorgeous. Sometimes they have zombies."-FlavorwireJoshua Bell's unnerving and darkly funny second collection of poems inhabits various personae-including a prominent series starring the garrulous and aging rock star Vince Neil from Mötley Crüe-through which he examines paranoid, misogynist, and murderous elements within contemporary American culture. Throughout are prose "movie poems" that feature zombies, a summer camp slasher, exorcism, and courtroom drama.From "The Creature":Like many humans, I enjoy lifting small, living things. Your wife qualifies, but doesn't like to be lifted. I guess it's probably because, as is true with many humans, your wife doesn't want to be eaten, and often we are lifted, by the bigger thing, right before it drops us on a rock and eats us. I understand, I say to your wife, lowering her body to the kitchen floor, her legs bending slowly as she takes back the weight I've returned to her, like an astronaut moving back into the gravity of the capsule...Josh Bell earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a PhD from the University of Cincinnati. He was a member of the creative writing faculty at Columbia University and is currently Briggs Copeland Lecturer at Harvard.
Alamut
by Vladimir Bartol Michael BigginsAlamut takes place in 11th Century Persia, in the fortress of Alamut, where self-proclaimed prophet Hasan ibn Sabbah is setting up his mad but brilliant plan to rule the region with a handful elite fighters who are to become his "living daggers." By creating a virtual paradise at Alamut, filled with beautiful women, lush gardens, wine and hashish, Sabbah is able to convince his young fighters that they can reach paradise if they follow his commands. With parallels to Osama bin Laden, Alamut tells the story of how Sabbah was able to instill fear into the ruling class by creating a small army of devotees who were willing to kill, and be killed, in order to achieve paradise. Believing in the supreme Ismaili motto "Nothing is true, everything is permitted," Sabbah wanted to "experiment" with how far he could manipulate religious devotion for his own political gain through appealing to what he called the stupidity and gullibility of people and their passion for pleasure and selfish desires. The novel focuses on Sabbah as he unveils his plan to his inner circle, and on two of his young followers -- the beautiful slave girl Halima, who has come to Alamut to join Sabbah's paradise on earth, and young ibn Tahir, Sabbah's most gifted fighter. As both Halima and ibn Tahir become disillusioned with Sabbah's vision, their lives take unexpected turns. Alamut was originally written in 1938 as an allegory to Mussolini's fascist state. In the 1960's it became a cult favorite throughout Tito's Yugoslavia, and in the 1990s, during the Balkan's War, it was read as an allegory of the region's strife and became a bestseller in Germany, France and Spain. Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, the book once again took on a new life, selling more than 20,000 copies in a new Slovenian edition, and being translated around the world in more than 19 languages. This edition, translated by Michael Biggins, in the first-ever English translation.
The Alamut Ambush (Murder Room #536)
by Anthony PriceSuperb, classic thriller from the CWA Gold Dagger award-winning author of Other Paths to Glory, rated 'alongside Le Carre and Deighton' GUARDIANA brilliant young electronics expert is killed by a car bomb seemingly meant for the head of the Foreign Office's Middle-Eastern Section. Intelligence officer Hugh Roskill is sent by David Audley on an investigation that takes him from London clubland to the Hampshire countryside, and deep into the complexities of Middle Eastern politics, to find the answer to two questions: who was the real target of the bomb? And what is Alamut?Against the backdrop of the Arab-Israeli conflict in the period before the Camp David Accords, Dr Audley and Colonel Butler are confronted with an assassin capable of turning the Middle Eastern conflict into Armageddon.
The Alamut Ambush
by Anthony PriceBy the CWA Gold Dagger award-winning author of Other Paths to Glory A brilliant young electronics expert is killed by a car bomb seemingly meant for the head of the Foreign Office's Middle-Eastern Section. Intelligence officer Hugh Roskill is sent by David Audley on an investigation that takes him from London clubland to the Hampshire countryside, and deep into the complexities of Middle Eastern politics, to find the answer to two questions: who was the real target of the bomb? And what is Alamut? Against the backdrop of the Arab-Israeli conflict in the period before the Camp David Accords, Dr Audley and Colonel Butler are confronted with an assassin capable of turning the Middle Eastern conflict into Armageddon.
Alan and Naomi
by Myron LevoyWhen Naomi, a refugee child from Nazi-occupied Paris who acts ‘crazy,’ moves into Alan Silverman’s building in New York, he does his best to avoid her. They slowly develop a deep and touching friendship.<P><P> Jane Addams Children’s Book Award Honor Book
Alan Apostrophe
by Barbara CooperA clever cast of characters is the key to this playful presentation of the rules of punctuation. Meet the Puncs is punctuation personified! Each delightfully illustrated member of the family has a fitting facial feature, and his or her brief biography is the picture of the perfect punctuation, with the character's corresponding mark prominently displayed. This captivating series will help even the youngest readers (and writers!) put punctuation in its place.
Alan Bradley's 3-Book Bundle (A Flavia de Luce Novel #1, 2, 3)
by Alan Bradley<P>New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley has enchanted readers worldwide with one of the most award-winning mystery series ever. <P>Featuring the irresistible, incorrigible eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, whom the Chicago Sun-Times called "a delightful, intrepid, acid-tongued new heroine," the family de Luce lives on the once glorious, now crumbling estate of Buckshaw, in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop's Lacey, where murder happens more than it should and the brilliant amateur detective (and dedicated poison enthusiast) spends equal time dodging her older sisters and solving the most ghastly of crimes. <P>For a captivating introduction to Flavia's world, here's a convenient ebook bundle of the first three novels of this beguiling series: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag, and A Red Herring Without Mustard. Includes an exclusive excerpt from Alan Bradley's forthcoming Flavia de Luce mystery, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, on sale November 1, 2011
Alan Cole Doesn't Dance
by Eric BellTo heartwarming cheer, Alan Cole came out to his school. But now what?In this follow-up novel to Alan Cole Is Not a Coward, Eric Bell deftly explores with nuance and humor how the first step to complete self-acceptance may mean actually putting your feet on the dance floor. This laugh-out-loud and poignant tale is perfect for fans of Gary Schmidt and Jerry Spinelli.Alan Cole has a problem: Ron McCaughlin. Ever since Alan revealed he’s gay, Ron has been bullying Alan with relentless fury. Alan can’t tell his parents why he’s really coming home with bruises—because they still don’t know the truth about him.Yet buoyed by the support of his classmates and with his friends Zack and Madison by his side, Alan thinks he can withstand the bullying and—just maybe—break through to Ron. But all things come to a head when Alan’s father asks that he take June Harrison to the upcoming Winter Dance. Never mind that Alan has two left feet, does not like girls, and might be developing feelings for a new boy at school.This resounding tale about friendship, family, and the many meanings of bravery will leave readers rooting for Alan and his gang of proud misfits once more.
Alan Cole Is Not a Coward
by Eric BellPerfect for fans of Tim Federle and Gary Schmidt, this is a hilarious and poignant tale about the trials of middle school when you’re coming of age—and coming out.Alan Cole can’t stand up to his cruel brother, Nathan. He can’t escape the wrath of his demanding father, who thinks he’s about as exceptional as a goldfish. And—scariest of all—he can’t let the cute boy across the cafeteria know he has a crush on him.But when Nathan discovers Alan’s secret, his older brother announces a high-stakes round of Cole vs. Cole. Each brother must complete seven nearly impossible tasks; whoever finishes the most wins the game. If Alan doesn’t want to be outed to all of Evergreen Middle School, he’s got to become the most well-known kid in school, get his first kiss, and stand up to Dad. Alan’s determined to prove—to Nathan, to the world, to himself—that this goldfish can learn to swim.May the best Cole win.