“First off, I didn't mean to kill my Dad.” Sam Croker did just that and yet it was the least of his problems. Crash-landed and alone in the South American rainforest, kilometers from anywhere, with no equipment or survival skills would be the ultimate challenge for almost anyone. But Sam has been paraplegic for years. He can’t walk. Has no feeling in his legs. Has no food, and no means to obtain it. If he lasts three days without being drowned, poisoned, or eaten it will be a miracle. That miracle arrives from two unexpected directions—a hideous face carved into a tree which invades Sam’s fevered mind as if it were alive and the disabled girl who worships it as her God—and so the first glimmers of possible rescue begin to shine. But the Kik-Kik wants to keep Sam for herself and drug smugglers want to hunt down and kill them all. Tree Face and the Cripple is a story of survival against the odds and an awkward, unlikely friendship based on profound misunderstandings. It is both a high-action suspense thriller with a shattering climax, and a spiritual journey for Sam from bitter, defeated, spoilt, rich kid, into someone altogether stronger. Well, it could be, if Sam lives that long.

The book includes famous fairy tale The Cripple by Hans Christian Andersen fully illustrated all-color (12 color illustrations) by Maria Tsaneva and adapted in corresponding English-German paragraphs. The book is an excellent way to read Paragraph by Paragraph Translation along your kids. Your little one can follow along as each individual English paragraph is paired with the corresponding German paragraph. The paragraphs are not long, so there is no need to do a lot of back and forth to see the German translation and the English text. The text is relatively simple vocabulary and grammar wise, but not very simple at all, so for beginners this should be a great challenge.

Prepare to enter a world where the norms of human behavior—even the rules governing time and gravity—are set on their heads. This dark and wry fable begins with the narrator waking up and discovering he is missing an arm. He has no idea how he lost it or how to find it—but as he searches the chaotic, often surreal streets of Bombay, he meets an absurd and marvelous cast of characters who offer him clues: a woman selling rainbows, a beggar living under an egg cart, a coffin maker who builds finger-sized caskets, a giant who lives underwater, a homeless boy riding the rails. They all lead him to Baba Rakhu, master of the underworld, who will reveal the story of his lost arm—for a price. Funny and wise, violent and tender, The Cripple and His Talismans is an impressive debut. A bestseller in Canada, it has been compared to the works of Samuel Beckett, Lewis Carroll, and Salman Rushdie.

Erikson delivers the final installment of his "New York Times"-bestselling series, Malazon Book of the Fallen.

On the night of her birth, she was bullied and raped in her bed. She was pregnant with a vile child, but she didn't know who her father was.Before she was reborn seven years ago, her big mistake had not yet occurred. Even if it was incomplete, she still had to go against the heavens and change her fate.Ruthless? Heart of steel? Venomous Snake Lady? Heh ... Where did she come from?In this life, she came here for revenge, but she did not know that her rebirth was a conspiracy that had been plotted for many years! Chess pieces? Abandoned? Danger lurked in every direction as she fell into a quagmire.In the current era, he was the ruler of the empire. He was meticulous and precise in his calculations. She was always on guard against him as if he were stepping on thin ice.If the truth of rebirth was exposed, what would be the extent of his sincerity?

Diane Reaves attempts to share the painful events of her personal tragedies endured as a survivor of severe child abuse at the hands of her own mother. As well as, enduring the violent suicide of her father. Wishing to convey to many other survivors their own ability to forgive the unforgivable. Believing that all survivors have the chance to break the cycle, instead of repeating it. With each story shared, this survivor, hopes to teach others that something good can come out of something bad.

Final volume in a trilogy set in a fantastically imagined medieval Rome. Thomas Neville continues his search for the well-disguised demons who are destroying moral values in his world.