Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

Title: Peter Pan
Author: J.M. Barrie
Blurb: Do you believe in fairies? One night Peter Pan flies into the home of the Darling children, and so begins a magical adventure with Peter, the fairy Tinkerbell, the lovely Wendy, and the evil Captain Hook.

Adapted into various motion pictures.

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Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

Title: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Author: Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
Blurb: Nick's just seen the girl who dumped him walk in with a new guy. What else can he do but ask the strange girl next to him to be his girlfriend for the next five minutes?

Norah would do anything to avoid conversation with not not-friend girl who dumped Nick ... and to get over the Evil Ex whom Norah never really totally dumped. What else can she do but answer Nick's question by making out with him?

With one electric, unexpected kiss, the five-minute couple of Nick and Norah set off on an uncharted adventure called the "first date" that will turn into an infinite night of falling in and out (and in and out, and maybe in and maybe out) of love. Theirs is a first date of music, laughter, heartache, confusion, passion, taxi driver wisdom, and a jacket named Salvatore. And of course a killer soundtrack.

As Nick and Norah wander through the middle-of-the-night mystic maze of Manhattan, they share the kind of night you want to never end, where every minute counts and every moment flickers between love and disaster.

Adapted into a motion picture starring Michael Cera and Kat Dennings.

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Being Elizabeth Bennet by Emma Campbell Webster

Title: Being Elizabeth Bennet: Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventure
Author: Emma Campbell Webster
Blurb: Elizabeth Bennet is the wittiest and most attractive heroine in English literature. And in Being Elizabeth Bennet, you have the opportunity to become her.

You will be faced with delicate challenges and dangerous choices. Whether you accept Mr Darcy the first time he professes his attachment, decide to elop with Mr Wickham or succeed in avoiding a murderous Lady Catherine de Bourgh, this is your chance to rewrite Jane Austen.

However, choose with caution: Being Elizabeth Bennet is packed with character and plot twists that may thwart your chances of happy union with Pemberley's most eligible bachelor. You must complete five stages - and successfully negotiate your way through Austen's five other novels - before you can choose to accept Mr Darcy. But if your fate does not appeal, simply return to page one and create another new Jane Austen adventure.

Based on the popular books of Jane Austen.

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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne

Title: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Author: John Boyne
Blurb: Nine year old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boys who live a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas.

Bruno's friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation. And in exploring what he is unwittingly a part of, he will inevitably become subsumed y the terrible process.

Now adapted into a motion picture.

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Return to Labyrinth by Jake T Forbes

Title: Return to Labyrinth
Author: Jake T. Forbes
Artwork: Chris Lie
Blurb: The Goblin King has kept a watchful eye on Toby: his minions secretly guiding and protecting the child...

Legions of Goblins work behind the scenes to ensure that Toby has whatever his heart desires...

Preparing him for the day when he will return to the Labyrinth and take his rightful place beside Jareth as the heir to the Goblin Kingdom.

That day has come...

...But no one has told Toby.

An original story set in the world of the hit movie!

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Pay it Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Title: Pay It Forward
Author: Catherine Ryan Hyde
Blurb: It all started with a school project:

Think of an idea for world change and put it into action.

Whilst this proved a little ambitious for most of his classmates, twelve-year-old Trevor thought he would start by doing something good for three people. But instead of paying him back, he would ask them to 'pay it forward' by doing a favor for three more people. If it all went to plan, Trevor thought, it could be the start of a long chain of human kindness...

Sound unlikely? Well other people had their doubts too - Trevor's teacher, his classmates, his mother, in fact everyone in his small California town. It could never really work...could it?

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How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young

Title: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
Author: Toby Young
Blurb: In 1995 high-flying British journalist Toby Young left London for New York to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Other Brits had taken Manhattan - Alistair Cook, Tina Brown, Anna Wintour - so why couldn't he?

But things did not go according to plan. Within the space of two years he was fired from Vanity Fair, banned from the most fashionable bar in the city and couldn't get a date for love or money. How to Lose Friends and Alienate People is Toby Young's bestselling account of the five years he spent steadily working his way down the New York food chain, from glossy magazine to crash-test dummy for interactive sex toys.

Now a Motion Picture featuring Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Jeff Bridges and Gillian Anderson.

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Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

Title: Rebecca
Author: Daphne Du Maurier
Blurb: Working as a lady's compnaion, the heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Her future looks bleak until, on a trip to the South of France, she meets Max de Winter, a handsome widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. She accepts, but whisked from glamourous Monte Carlo to the ominous and brooding Manderley, the new Mrs de Winter finds Max a changed man. And the memory of his dead wife Rebecca is forever kept alive by the forbidding housekeeper, Mrs Danvers...

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The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Title: The Lovely Bones
Author: Alice Sebold
Blurb: My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him once about fertilizer.

This is Susie Salmon, speaking from heaven - which looks a lot like her school playground, with the good kind of swing sets, counsellors to help newcomers adjust, and friends to room with. Everything Susie wants appears as soon as she thinks of it - except the one thing she wants most: to be back with the people she loved on earth.

Watching from her place in heaven, Susie sees her happy, suburban family devastated by her death, isolated even from one another as they each try to cope with their terrible loss alone. Over the years, her friends and siblings grow up, fall in love, do all the things she never had the chance to do herself.

But life is not quite finished with Susie yet....

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