Mice struggle to live safely and prosper among all of the world’s harsh conditions and predators. Thus the Mouse Guard was formed. They are not simply soldiers; rather, they are guides for common mice looking to journey without confrontation from on hidden mouse village to another. The Guard patrol borders, find paths through dangerous territories, watch weather patterns, and keep the mouse territories free of predators. Follow the adventures of three of the Guard’s finest-Lieam, Saxon, and Kenzie-as they seek to uncover a traitorous plot against the Guard.

Sometimes the only person you can trust is a dead man. Prohibition era gangsters grew rich on vice. But unknown to the masses, a more sinister power controlled the crime cartels, using greed, gluttony, lust and other sins to fuel a much more lucrative trade: mortal souls. The long-standing feud between two of the families is about to end thanks to a deal to consolidate power. But before things can be finalized, the bookkeeper tasked to broker the deal is kidnapped. Hoping to find the missing bookkeeper before the deal falls apart, Big Al pulls Eddie’s corpse out of a ditch and puts him on the case.

Our gumshoe Eddie now finds himself caught up in the middle of a sinister web of kidnapping, murder, and damnation. Things would go so much smoother if he could just stop getting himself killed. It’s a curse, but there are worse curses to have in this dark and crazy world.

Bryson de-mythologizes his native land-explaining how a dusty desert hamlet with neither woods nor holly became Hollywood, how the Wild West wasn’t won, why Americans say ‘lootenant’ and ‘Toosday’, how Americans were eating junk food long before the word itself was cooked up – as well as exposing the true origin of the G-string, the original $64,000 question and Dr Kellogg of cornflakes fame.

In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs. He endures January’s frosty mistral as it comes howling down the Rhône Valley, discovers the secrets of goat racing through the middle of town, and delights in the glorious regional cuisine. A Year in Provence transports us into all the earthy pleasures of Provençal life and lets us live vicariously at a tempo governed by seasons, not by days.

The story of Victor Frankenstein and of the monstrous creature he created has held the reading public spellbound since its publication almost a century and a half ago. On the surface, it is a novel of tense and steadily mounting horror; but on a more profound level, it offers searching illumination of the human condition in its portrayal of a scientist who oversteps the bounds of conscience, and of a monster brought to life in an alien world, ever more desperately attempting to escape the torture of his solitude. A brilliant exercise in the macabre, written with near-hallucinatory intensity, Frankenstein represents one of the most striking flowerings of the Romantic imagination.

Of it’s contemporary significance, Harold Bloom writes: “The greatest paradox and most astonishing achievement of Mary Shelley’s novel is that the monster is more human than his creator. This nameless being, as much a modern Adam as his creator is a modern Prometheus, is more lovable than his creator and more hateful, more to be pitied and more to be feared, and above all able to give the attentive reader that shock of added consciousness in which aesthetic recognition compels a heightened realization of th self.”

A volunteer Red Cross probationer’s ‘year-in-the-life’ account of a British military hospital during The Great War. From the inside of the book, “These sketches have been written from day to day in the scanty moments of ‘off duty’ time from the wards. They aim at giving a picture of life at a large military hospital. Although the characters are fictitious, all the incidents have actually occurred, and the conversations have been faithfully recorded.”

The extraordinary story of the building of the Scottish lighthouses by the ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson. For centuries the seas around Scotland were notorious for shipwrecks. Mariners’ only aids were skill, luck, and a single coal-fire light on the east coast, which was usually extinguished by rain. In 1786 the Northern Lighthouse Trust was established, with Robert Stevenson appointed as chief engineer a few years later-the beginning of a partnership spanning almost two centuries and four generations of the same family, which included the writer Robert Louis Stevenson.

Welcome to Pippi. An absurd and rollicking story of Pippi who lives without any grownups in a little house at the edge of the village. Not that she lives alone-Mr. Nilsson, the monkey, and Horse live there too; and Tommy and Annika from next door spend as much time with her as possible. And who wouldn’t, for with Pippi around you just never can tell what may happen next. The matter-of-fact way in which her absurd adventures are related is one of the chief charms of this story, full of the kind of hilarity that appeals to children.

A feast of historical murder and mystery tales. This sparkling new anthology of 26 stories of mystery and intrigue ranges over three thousand years, from Ancient Babylon to spies on the Titanic. Brand new tales as well as rare reprints from writers such as Ian Rankin, Lynds S. Robinson, Margaret Frazer and Peter Tremayne. Edited by Edgar Award winner Mike Ashley.

Here is the heartwarming true story of Dr. James Herriot, a country veterinarian whose unique courage, warmth, humor, and natural storytelling ability have captures the heart of America. A bestseller brimming with love and wisdom.