Lynn Redgrave
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Illustrations in this ebook appear in vibrant full color on a full-color ebook device and in rich black and white on all other devices.
Narnia . . . where animals talk . . . where trees walk . . . where a battle is about to begin.
A prince denied his rightful throne gathers an army in a desperate attempt to rid his land of a false king. But in the end, it is a battle of honor between two men alone that will decide the fate of an entire
...3) Inkheart
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Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father Mo, a bookbinder, can "read" fictional characters to life when an evil ruler named Capricorn, freed from the novel "Inkheart" years earlier, tries to force Mo to release an immortal monster from the story.
4) Peter Pan
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In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbucker skills and the ever fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become real heroes of an even greater story when Peter Pan flies into their nursery one night and takes them on a journey over moonlit rooftops to the lush jungles of Neverland. Wendy and her brothers join Peter and the Lost Boys in an exhilarating life, free of grown-up...
5) Inkheart
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From internationally acclaimed storyteller Cornelia Funke, this bestselling, magical epic is now out in paperback!One cruel night, Meggie's father reads aloud from a book called INKHEART-- and an evil ruler escapes the boundaries of fiction and lands in their living room. Suddenly, Meggie is smack in the middle of the kind of adventure she has only read about in books. Meggie must learn to harness the magic that has conjured this nightmare. For only...
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Ayn Rand's famous 1957 classic, Atlas Shrugged, has become more widely read and influential with each passing year, thanks in part to its brilliant dramatization of Rand's Objectivist philosophy and its celebration of self-reliance, integrity, rationality, and productive effort. Like any great work of literature, however, Atlas Shrugged can be intimidating. Even those who have read and re-read it may feel they have not fully appreciated its vision...
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Peter McGowan (Kenneth Branagh, "Henry V") is an insomniac playwright who lives in L.A. He's now in the tenth year of a decade-long string of production flops. He finds himself bonding with a new neighbor's daughter (Robin Wright, "Forrest Gump") who has mild cerebral palsy. To top it all off, during one of his midnight walks, he meets his doppelgänger (Jared Harris, "Mad Men").
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Long-forgotten child star Baby Jane Hudson mostly neglects her wheelchair-bound sister Blanche's needs while selfishly spending her money on an alarming amount of liquor. Blanche achieved great success as an actress, and when her popularity resurges thanks to the omnipresence of television, Jane berates and abuses her, forcing Blanche to exert every effort to save herself despite her paralysis.
11) Jury Duty
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Courtroom antics surround the jury hearing an embezzlement case. A shy accountant is charged with the crime, but testimony by an overwhelmingly sexual secretary paints him as an extravagant lothario, garnering controversial press coverage and the sudden adoration of random women in the street. This prompts the judge to sequester the jury, trapping them and throwing them into disarray.