Escaping from an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl gets lost on the Alaskan tundra and is befriended by a wolf pack.

All people call him the Number Killer. A calculating assassin who aways leaves a numerical calling card.

The professor has a nephew; he's his research partner. They have this theory, he's slightly mad but they must go and find out [if it is true]. Actual classic mythology has said that Mt. Sneffels [a volcano with a glacier covering its summit in western Iceland] is a portal to the center of the earth

Through brimming with exciting exploits, this journey is also metaphorical - a spiritual and psychological trip to the center of the human soul. While many of Verne`s scientific speculations have been proven, it is this author`s remarkable ability to fashion a rousing tale full of compelling characters, extraodinary adventures, and provocative ideas that ensures he will be read for years to come.

Jude the Obscure - which was received with such outrage that Thomas Hardy never wrote another novel - is the wrenching story of a man who struggles to rise above his working-class origines. This strikingly modern account of a dramatic conflict between flesh and spirit has become a timeless classic.

This children's novel is about a young Yupik girl experiencing the changes forced upon her culture from outside