The House Around The Corner

What is it that makes the House-at-the-Corner different from any other house in the world? The Farrell family lives there - five children and their father and mother.

Life in the House-at-the-Corner is much like any other place, until waspish Aunt Grace comes to stay. She is very sharp-tongued with a habit of interfering in other people's affairs - particularly the children's.

Adventures soon start to happen thick and fast and life in the house is never the same again!

Book three in the Harbor Hills saga.

Naughty Nana and the Old House Around the Corner is the sequel to the fun book Naughty Nana. This book tells a Halloween story when Nana Regina was eight years old. Regina was funny and cheeky. But sometimes, she was a bit naughty too. One of her favourite times of the year was Halloween. She loved dressing up in scary costumes and walking on the streets for trick or treating. On the year Regina turned eight, her mum told her that she could go trick or treating without an adult. She said that Regina could go with her sister Vera, who was ten years old, and with her best friend Layla, who was nine years old. Before they left, Regina’s mum told the girls, “Do not go to the old house around the corner.” Do you think Regina listened to her mum? Let’s read to find out! Naughty Nana and the Old House Around the Corner will entertain kids between ages seven and ten.

Naughty Nana and the Old House Around the Corner is the sequel to the fun book Naughty Nana. This book tells a Halloween story when Nana Regina was eight years old. Regina was funny and cheeky. But sometimes, she was a bit naughty too. One of her favourite times of the year was Halloween. She loved dressing up in scary costumes and walking on the streets for trick or treating. On the year Regina turned eight, her mum told her that she could go trick or treating without an adult. She said that Regina could go with her sister Vera, who was ten years old, and with her best friend Layla, who was nine years old. Before they left, Regina’s mum told the girls, “Do not go to the old house around the corner.” Do you think Regina listened to her mum? Let’s read to find out! Naughty Nana and the Old House Around the Corner will entertain kids between ages seven and ten.

A Kitchen in the Corner of the House collects twenty-five gem-like stories on motherhood, sexuality, and the body from the innovative and perceptive Tamil writer Ambai. In A Kitchen in the Corner of the House, Ambai's narrators are daring and courageous, stretching and reinventing their homes, marriages, and worlds. With each story, her expansive voice confronts the construction of gender in Tamil literature. Piecing together letters, journal entries, and notes, Ambai weaves themes of both self-liberation and confinement into her writing. Her transfixing stories often meditate on motherhood, sexuality, and the liberating, and at times inhibiting, contours of the body.

"A captivating tale to savor about a woman whose buried past threatens her picture perfect family life. Felicia is a wonderfully flawed, compelling main character, one who has stayed with me long after I finished the book. A winning novel from a writer to watch." -Benilde Little, bestselling author Felicia Lyons, a stressed out stay-at-home mom, struggles to sprint ahead of the demands of motherhood while her husband spends long days at the office. Felicia taps, utters mantra, and breathes her way through most situations, but on some days, like when the children won’t stop screaming her name or arguing over toy trucks and pretzel sticks, she wonders what it would be like to get in her car and drive away. Then one evening the telephone rings, and in a split second the harried mother’s innocent fantasy becomes a hellish reality. The call pulls her back into a life she’d rather forget. Felicia hasn’t been completely honest about her upbringing, and her deception forces her return to the Philadelphia of her childhood, where she must confront the family demons and long buried secrets she thought she had left behind. From a phenomenal fresh voice in fiction, comes the compelling story of what happens when the dream falls apart. Sadeqa Johnson's Second House from the Corner is an unforgettable tale of love, loss, rediscovery, and the growing pains of marriage.

With a gorgeously redesigned cover and the original black and white interior illustrations by Ernest Shepard, this beautiful edition of the beloved sequel to Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner, is sure to delight new and old fans alike! Pooh and Christopher Robin’s escapades in the Hundred Acre Wood continue! Piglet, Eeyore, and other familiar friends encounter the energetic Tigger for the first time, whose bounce first, think later personality brings new excitement. With more Heffalump hunts and funny moments in store, each chapter is a new adventure!

House of Splendid Isolation is a newly reissued novel from Edna O’Brien, the author of Girl—“one of the most celebrated writers in the English language” (NPR’s Weekend Edition). The heartbreaking dilemmas and the noble and bloody history of Ireland come vividly to life in the tale of Josie, a widow living in a solitary house outside an Irish village, whose home becomes the hideout of an IRA terrorist.