The Story of the Stone Vol 4: The Debt of Tears

Cao, Xueqin, Minford, John, Kao E

The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), also known by the title of The Dream of the Red Chamber, is the great novel of manners in Chinese literature. Divided into five volumes, of which The Debt of Tears is the fourth, The Story of the Stone charts the glory and decline of the illustrious Jia family (a story...

Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-speaking Peoples Since 1500

Peter H. Wilson

Iron and Blood is a startlingly ambitious and absorbing book, encompassing five centuries of political, military, technological and economic change to tell the story of the German-speaking lands, from the Rhine to the Balkan frontier, from Switzerland to the North Sea. Wilson's narrative considers every...

Break the Curse (#1 Shower Land)

Nat Amoore

Quantum Leap meets The Magic Faraway Tree in a hilarious junior fiction series where getting in the shower might send you to another world! Felix hates Mondays. Dad's yelling at him to get up. His little brother, Olly, is being super annoying. So when Felix shuts the bathroom door, he wishes he could ge...

Superman Vol. 2: the Chained

Joshua Williamson; Gleb Melnikov (Illustrator)

Superman has learned that Lex Luthor kept a prisoner beneath Stryker's Island for decades. Who are they and why did Lex lock them up? Can Superman unlock the secrets of the Chained? The Man of Steel is challenged like never before when the menace called The Chained is freed from deep beneath Supercorp! ...