Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, with its wildly original narrative structure, is a postmodern masterpiece from the author of Lolita, skewering the politics of academia, the struggle for interpretation, and the infinite subjectivity of human experience, published in Penguin Modern Classics. The American po...

The Lost Hero (Heroes of Olympus Book 1)

Rick Riordan

Jason has a problem. He doesn't remember anything before waking up in a bus full of kids on a field trip. Apparently he has a girlfriend named Piper and a best friend named Leo. They're all students at a boarding school for "bad kids." What did Jason do to end up here? And where is here, exactly?   Pi...

The Other Facts of Life

Morris Gleitzman

Ben stared at the images on the TV screen half in fascination, half in horror. He had never seen anything like this. It was incredible. It was awful. He needed answers . . . There are some things Ben doesn't understand, so his dad is sent in to explain the facts of life. But it's the other facts that a...