Fiction in foreign languages

What can make a person leave his comfortable life and, despite the threat to life, following the voice of his heart, fight for what he loves, when peaceful days suddenly turn into war? What happens to a person steamrolled with repressive system, seeking to destroy, demolish and turn to ashes ...

A family road trip is supposed to be a lot of fun . . . unless, of course, you re theHeffleys.The journey starts off full of promise, then quickly takes several wrong turns.Gas station bathrooms, crazed seagulls, a fender bender, and a runaway pig not exactly Greg Heffley s idea of a good time...

Greg Heffleys on a losing streak His best friend Rowley Jefferson has ditched him and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task To change his fortunes Greg decides to take a leap of faith and turn his decisions over to chance Will a roll of the dice turn things around ...

In this seventh entry in the best-selling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, Greg Heffley continues to document his rites (and wrongs) of passage, this time by reflecting back on traumatic times before tweendom. By the time his account makes it from prenatal read-alouds to the present day, it’s clea...

It's book six of Jeff Kinney's award winning, bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, and life isn't getting any easier for Greg Heffley! Over the past few days we've been running low on food, and if the snow doesn't melt quick I don't know WHAT we're gonna do. Greg is in big trouble. Sc...

'I laughed, I cried, I smiled, and I pondered throughout the entire book. You know you just finished reading something great when you get towards the end and you start to panic because you don't want it to end.' Sam, Diary of a Wimpy kid fan Dive into Jeff Kinney's fifth instalment of his rib-t...

It's the summer, and we're back with Greg Heffley and his crazy family in the fourth mega-selling instalment of Jeff Kinney's hilarious Diary of a Wimpy Kid series! The way I like to spend my summer holidays is in front of the TV, playing video games with the curtains closed and the light t...

'This book was AWESOME! I loved it all. I can't decide which part was my favourite. I loved the book.' Amazon Customer ROK It's the third instalment of Jeff Kinney's award winning Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, but will it be third time lucky for our hero, Greg Heffley? It's not easy for me to t...

I liked the diary of the wimpy kid because it was very, very very funny. Jeff Kinney should continue to write these awesome books.' Margaret Moran, Diary of a Wimpy Kid fan In the second book of Jeff Kinney's bestselling series, team up with Greg Heffley once again, this time to try and take o...

The pressure's really piling up on Greg Heffley. The only thing he's good at is playing video games, but his mother wants him to broaden his horizons by doing something-anything!-else. When Greg finds an old video camera in his basement, he thinks he may have discovered just the thing to prove...

Diary of a Wimpy Kid #10: Old School by Jeff Kinney. More of Greg Heffley's hilarious journal stories about his adolescent life. This bestselling book is based on the original internet comic at Funbrain.com that is viewed on average by over 70,000 readers a day. Korean translation by Song Sun ...

Let me get something straight: this is a JOURNAL not a diary... The other thing that I want to clear up right away is that this was MOM's idea, not mine.' Things aren't going well for Greg Heffley. He's been thrust into a new school where undersize weaklings share the corridors with kids who are ...

Whether you're trying your hand at painting for the first time or honing your artistic ability, Artist's Painting Techniques is the handiest guide to teach you how to paint. Starting with the basics such as observational skills and learning how to draw, Artist's Painting Techniques will guide yo...

From the admiralty to the miner's strike, from the Battle of Britain to eventual victory over Nazi Germany, Churchill oversaw some of the most important events the world has ever seen. Winning the Nobel Prize in Literature for his personal writing and cautioning against a powerful Soviet Russ...

WHAT VALUABLE COMPANY IS NOBODY BUILDING? The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them. It’s easier to copy a model than to make something new: doing w...

The New York Times Bestseller, acclaimed by author such as Freakonomics co-author Steven D. Levitt, Black Swan author Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Nudge co-author Richard Thaler, Thinking Fast and Slow offers a whole new look at the way our minds work, and how we make decisions. Why is there more...

Do you realise you, and all the people you know, play games? All the time? Sexual games, marital games, complex games that you're not even aware of as you go about your usual life? You might play games like 'Alcoholic' or 'The Frigid Woman' at weekends, or perhaps 'Ain't it awful' or 'Kick me'...

Was there a beginning of time? Could time run backwards? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries? These are just some of the questions considered in an internationally acclaimed masterpiece which begins by reviewing the great theories of the cosmos from Newton to Einstein, before d...

As he climbs into the sidecar of Hagrid's motorbike and takes to the skies, leaving Privet Drive for the last time, Harry Potter knows that Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters are not far behind. The protective charm that has kept Harry safe until now is now broken, but he cannot keep hiding. ...

When Dumbledore arrives at Privet Drive one summer night to collect Harry Potter, his wand hand is blackened and shrivelled, but he does not reveal why. Secrets and suspicion are spreading through the wizarding world, and Hogwarts itself is not safe. Harry is convinced that Malfoy bears the Dar...