Author: George P. Pelecanos
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Fiction - Anthologies, Series & Short Stories General
Category:Fiction - Crime & Mystery General

Best-selling crime author Pelecanos dazzles and terrifies with his first ever anthology. Pimps, whores, gangsters and con-men run rampant in a side of Washington, DC most never see. On the heels of the stunning success o ...

Author: George P. Pelecanos
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Fiction - Crime & Mystery General

Lorenzo Brown is fresh out of the clink. The former drug enforcer has vowed to go straight and found himself a job as an officer for the Humane Society. He patrols downtown DC looking for ill-treated pets - but in the co ...

Author: George P. Pelecanos
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Fiction - General
Category:Fiction - Modern & Contemporary

On April 4th, 1968, Dr King is assassinated on the balcony of his motel in Memphis, Tennessee. And black America rises as one to condemn the slaying of their hero. For one week, it seems that the whole country will fall. ...

Author: George P. Pelecanos
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Fiction - Crime & Mystery General

Set in darkest, downtown Washington, HELL TO PAY begins with Quinn and Strange dealing with the usual detritus of the world's most violent city - a bent cop and a missing teenage-girl-turned-hooker - but then a senseless ...

Author: George P. Pelecanos
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Fiction - Crime & Mystery General

Wilton Cooper is at a movie when he notices a white boy walk into the projection booth. When he comes out, his shirt covered in blood, Cooper knows he's found his partner. When Dimitri and Marcus, small time drug dealers ...

Author: George P. Pelecanos
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Fiction - Crime & Mystery General

Derek Strange and Terry Quinn are ex-cops turned private detectives in Washington, DC. Hired to investigate the death of an off-duty black police officer at the hands of a white policeman, Strange and Quinn are faced wit ...

Author: George P. Pelecanos
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Fiction - Crime & Mystery General

Washington, D.C., 1995. What should have been a straightforward restaurant robbery goes horribly wrong. Several workers are shot in cold blood the gunman's brother is killed by the police a young boy is run over by a car ...

Author: George P. Pelecanos
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Fiction - Crime & Mystery General

Washington DC, 1946. For two local young men, Pete Karras and Joey Recevo, the easiest way to find work after the war is by turning to crime - providing a little muscle for a local boss, Mr Burke, who runs a protection r ...

Author: George P. Pelecanos
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Fiction - Crime & Mystery General

The second volume of the DC Quartet, set in Washington DC in 1986, a city torn apart by the the cocaine trade. The only man prepared to do anything about it is Marcus Clay. But his wife has thrown him out and his best fr ...

Author: George P. Pelecanos
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Fiction - Crime & Mystery General

When Thomas Flynn leaves his son, seventeen year old Chris, at Pine Ridge, a juvenile prison near Washington, D.C., his heart is broken but his mind is made up: Chris will have to pay for the mistakes he's made. Inside, ...

Author: George P. Pelecanos
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Fiction - Crime & Mystery General

Classic reprints from: Edward P. Jones, George Pelecanos, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, James Grady, Julian Mayfield, Marita Golden, Elizabeth Hand, Julian Mazor, Ward Just, Jean Toomer, Roach ...

Author: Crowe Lyles Carolyn
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Fiction - Modern & Contemporary

If you like the South, and the rich characters there, and you love Mark Twain, then this will become your favorite. The author of "The Longing" takes a turn from suspense to a book of love, shame, and secrets. This book ...

Author: Lucy Hawking & Stephen Hawking
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Family
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Social Situations
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Social Situations Self-esteem & Self-reliance
Category:Childrens Fiction - General
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Prior Years Years 7-8

Take a roller coaster ride through the vastness of space and, in the midst of an exciting adventure, discover the mysteries of physics, science and the universe with George, his new friends next door - the scientist Eric ...

Author: Lucy Hawking & Stephen Hawking
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Childrens Fiction -

'We are going', said Annie, 'on a great cosmic journey. So listen up, Savers of Planet Earth, and prepare to meet the Universe'. George's best friend Annie needs help. Her scientist father, Eric, is working on a space pr ...

Author: Roald Dahl
Binding: Hardback Book
Category:Childrens Fiction - Classics

George's grandma is a grizzly, grumpy old woman with pale brown teeth and a small puckered up mouth like a dog's bottom. When he can't stand her any longer, George decides to cure her nastiness for good. He concocts a ve ...

Author: Roald Dahl
Binding: CD
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

George's grandma has some very odd views. In fact, she's not a very nice person at all. She thinks caterpillars and slugs are delicious and likes to crunch on beetles best of all. George can do nothing right in Grandma's ...

Author: Roald Dahl
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

George creates a very special medicine to cure his grandma of her nasty habits.

Author: Roald Dahl
Binding: CD
Category:Childrens Fiction - Classics
Category:Childrens Fiction - Humorous Stories
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Prior Years Years 3-4

A Taste of her own medicine

George's grumpy grandma needs something stronger than her usual medicine to cure her grouchiness. A special medicine, a remedy for everything. George knows just what to put in it, and he ...

Author: Lucy Hawking & Stephen Hawking
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Social Situations
Category:Childrens Fiction - Nature & the Natural World

From the author of the phenomenal bestseller, A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME. A collaboration with his daughter on his first ever children's book. Take a rollercoaster ride through the vastness of space and, in the midst of an ...

Author: Roald Dahl
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Childrens Fiction - Classics
Category:Childrens Fiction - Humorous Stories

Georgeas grouchy grandma needs a taste of her own medicine, and George knows just the right ingredients to put into it!

Author: Mary O'Keefe Young, Anna Grossnickle Hines & others H A Rey
Binding: Hardback Book
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Reference
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Reference Dictionaries

The world's most curious monkey investigates new words in this lively picture dictionary for young children.
Curious George's Dictionary is an engaging picture dictionary specially designed for children from preschoo ...