'Cut iron with iron, What makes iron valuable, Big kuku tree and big silk-cotton tree, Fari and Kaunju -' Told and retold since the fourteenth century, this West African epic chronicles the story of the mighty warrior who saves his people and founds an empire. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
Despite the efforts of her brother, the FBI, and her parents, Meg Falconer is still missing and even Meg's kidnappers cannot find her since she always seems to give them the slip.
The novel revolves around their friendship and their differences, suggesting a metaphor for Scotland itself.
In the years following an emotional family tragedy, Irene Kelly and her detective husband, Frank Harriman, face a shocking DNA revelation.
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... Whitney Martinko, Amanda Moniz, Jess Roney, Jason Sharples, Adam Rothman, and the magnificent Jane Kamensky. Finding visual images to illuminate the boys' journey along the Reverse Underground Railroad was downright difficult, ...
While FBI agent Luke Falcon pursues a kidnapper responsible for the disappearance of his cousin's wife and son, he fears the worst as he slowly grows closer to the crime's only witness.
As the pages of her diary unfold, so, too, does the incredible story of one girl's fight for survival against overwhelming odds.
Now, as they were going out of the palace, they had a porter's lodge to go by; and it came in on my father, as he was perhaps the first private Hieland gentleman that had ever gone by that door, it was right he should give the ...
After the death of his parents, 17-year-old David Balfour is confronted by his uncle Ebenezer, who is jealous of his nephew's inheritance.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.