First in the contemporary Gossip Girl series about New York City's most fabulous high school crowd. Set in New York's glamorous Upper East Side, this book presents a narrative that follows the thrills and spills (with Jimmy Choo shoes and shopping at Barneys mixed in along the way) of its richest and most beautiful teenage residents.

A young Brahmin searches for ultimate reality after meeting with the Buddha. His quest takes him from a life of decadence to asceticism, from the illusory joys of sensual love with a beautiful courtesan, and of wealth and fame, to the painful struggles with his son and the ultimate wisdom of renunciation.

The old man has gone 84 days without catching a fish, everything about him is old except his eyes, they are the colour of the sea. He finally catches a fish, but this is no ordinary fish, nor is his fierce and determined response.

* Zora Neale Hurston's masterpiece is perhaps the most widely read and highly regarded novel in the entire canon of African American literature.

Tells the story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. This work talks about love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man.

Charlotte Usher has always felt invisible at school. But now she has a plan to break into the popular crowd and nothing is going to stop her. Not even death.

Composed towards the end of the first millennium of our era, the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is a Northern epic and a classic of European literature. In this new translation, Seamus Heaney has produced a work that is true, line by line, to the original poem.

Now a major motion picture starring Michael Cera (Junoe, Superbad) and Kat Dennings (The 40 Year-Old Virgin), Nick and Nora's 'Infinite Playlist' is a comedy about two teens thrust together for one hilarious, sleepless night of adventure in a world of mix tapes, late-night living and live, loud music.

Chris Creed grew up as the class freak - the bullies' punching bag. After he vanished, the weirdness that had once surrounded him began spreading. Sixteen year-old Torey Adams' search for answers opens his eyes to the lies, the pain, and the need to blame someone when tragedy strikes, and his once-safe world comes crashing down around him.

Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive and he is one of the powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show his weakness. When outsiders threaten the traditions of his clan, he takes violent action. Will the great man's pride eventually destroy him?

From the author of Story of a Girl comes an amazing story of friendship and human emotion about two outcasts who are reunited in high school after years of being separated-only to find that the bond between them still remains.

Jason Carrillo has always only had eyes for a basketball scholarship for college. Now he only has eyes for Kyle. New and exciting teen fiction for gay young adults.

Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This title presents an account of that atrocity: the ever-increasing horrors he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a world that stripped him of humanity, dignity and faith.

The clash of ancient rules and modern expectations swirl together in this cool, urban 21st century faery tale.

This is the story of Edna Pontellier, a beautiful young wife and mother who discovers her true feelings and identity through her love for Robert Lebrun, and in so doing challenges the bourgeois assumptions of her day. This title features music by Chopin, Grieg and Widor.

Alice is 15 years old and appears a perfectly normal teenager; she diets, goes out with boys, and gets good marks at school. Without her parents being properly aware, she tries drugs and falls into addiction. The difference between Alice and a lot of other kids on drugs is that Alice keeps a diary.

At the Manhattan School for Arts, where everyone is 'different' and everyone is 'special', Gretchen Yee feels ordinary. She sits alone at lunch, drawing pictures of spider-man, so she won't have to talk to anyone; has a crush on Titus but won't do anything about it and has no one to hang out with when her best (and only real) friend Katya is busy.

Greasers, Rockers, different place, different name - but wherever they are, they're outsiders; the rough, tough, long-haired boys from the other side of town, with little hope of Mustangs, madras shirts and the good things of American life in the Sixties.

Mia Thermopolis, a 14-year-old princess, announces on TV that her mum is pregnant by her algebra teacher and that she plans to marry him. A right royal fuss ensues. Mia's Grandmere is all set to plan the year's biggest society wedding. Everyone will be there, but will the bride and groom?