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Jules Verne's classic adventure book Around the World in 80 Days was first released in 1872. It relates the tale of wealthy Englishman Phileas Fogg, who wagers at the Reform Club with his pals that he can travel around the globe in 80 days or less. Together with Passepartout, his valet, Fogg embarks on his voyage. Along the route, the two run into a number of difficulties, such as storms, bandits, and political instability. Regardless of the challenges they encounter, Fogg and Passepartout are committed to winning the wager. They explore many various nations and cultures while traveling by rail, ship, and even elephant. Detective Fix is also after Fogg because he thinks Fogg is a bank robber. The classic adventure book Around the World in 80 Days is sure to enthrall and motivate readers of all ages. It is a tale about the beauty of the earth, the value of friendship, and the influence of dreams.

The story is about Whitehorn the miller's efforts to find a match for his beautiful daughter, Jurga, against various calamities with and among suitors, neighbors, priests and other inhabitants of the village, and ultimately against the devil's spell. The interesting plot made the novel popular as juvenile literature, too. Most of Whitehorn's Windmill (Baltaragio malūnas) was written in 1942, during the German occupation. Bearing a lyrical style that gives full rein to the oral folktale tradition Lithuania is famous for, the novel is by turns romantic, farcical, fantastic, and tragic. The sense of spirituality that permeates the work reflects Lithuania's pagan roots that were overlaid with an occasionally over-zealous Catholicism not so very long ago.

Prepared by the Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation A comparison of the three versions of Anne Frank's diary; Anne's original entries; the diary as she herself edited it while in hiding; and the best-known version, edited by her father. B & W photographs throughout. Introduced by Harry Paape, Gerrold Van Der Stroom, and David Barnouw With a summary of the report by the State Forensic Science Laboratory of the Ministry of Justice compiled by H.J.J. Hardy Edited by David Barnouw and Gerrold Van Der Stroom Translated by Arnold J. Pomerans and B.M. Mooyaart-Doubleday

The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it. "To Kill A Mockingbird" became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic. Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, "To Kill A Mockingbird" takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.

Could you survive on your own in the wild, with every one out to make sure you don't live to see the morning? In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before—and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weight survival against humanity and life against love.

Keturiolikmetei Grytai sunku prisitaikyti steriliai išvalytame pasaulyje, kuriame nelikę pojūčių nei jausmų. Visi daiktai, spalvos, kvapai perkelti į sistemą, kurioje intensyviai bendrauja žmonės. Tačiau Gryta niekaip neįstengia būti kaip visi. Jai nesiseka paisyti draudimo bėgioti stadione ir susitikinėti su gyvais žmonėmis. Ji slapta klausosi pasakojimų apie tai, kaip kadaise žmonės taškydavosi balose, liesdavo vienas kitą, bučiuodavosi, įsimylėdavo. Kartą apytuščiame stadione ji sutinka panašų į save. Beveik tuo pat metu pasiekia žinia, kad sistema sugalvojo, kaip dar geriau kontroliuoti žmones. Grytai ir naujajam jos bičiuliui Mantui teks apsispręsti, likti sistemoje ar sprukti iš jos. Tik ar tai įmanoma? Ir kokia tokio pasirinkimo kaina? „Atjunk“ – knyga apie tai, kuo galime virsti netolimoje ateityje.

A middle-grade story about family, friendship, and growing up when you're one step away from homelessness. Twelve-and-three-quarter-year-old Felix Knutsson has a knack for trivia. His favorite game show is Who What Where When; he even named his gerbil after the host. Felix's mom, Astrid, is loving but can't seem to hold on to a job. So when they get evicted from their latest shabby apartment, they have to move into a van. Astrid swears him to secrecy. He can't tell anyone about their living arrangement, not even Dylan and Winnie, his best friends at his new school. If he does, she warns him, he'll be taken away from her and put in foster care. As their circumstances go from bad to worse, Felix gets a chance to audition for a junior edition of Who What Where When, and he's determined to earn a spot on the show. Winning the cash prize could make everything okay again. But things don't turn out the way he expects...

In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. It is not simply that their families disapprove; the Montagues and the Capulets are engaged in a blood feud. In this death-filled setting, the movement from love at first sight to the lovers’ final union in death seems almost inevitable. And yet, this play set in an extraordinary world has become the quintessential story of young love. In part because of its exquisite language, it is easy to respond as if it were about all young lovers.

Sixty years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.