Who, me? Princess?

Izumi Tanaka has lived an uneventful seventeen years in her small, mostly white, northern California town, keenly aware of all the ways in which her family is different from most of her classmates’. But then Izumi discovers a clue to her previously unknown father’s identity . . . and he’s none other than the Crown Prince of Japan. Which means outspoken, irreverent, can-burp-the-alphabet Izzy is literally a princess.

Soon she’s traveling overseas to meet the father she never knew and discover the country she's only dreamed of. But being a princess isn’t all ball gowns and tiaras. There are conniving cousins, a hungry press, a scowling but handsome bodyguard who just might be her soulmate, and thousands of years of tradition and customs to learn practically overnight. Izzy soon finds herself caught between worlds, and between versions of herself―back home, she was never “American” enough, and in Japan, she must prove she’s "Japanese" enough. Will Izumi crumble under the weight of the crown, or will she live out her fairytale, happily ever after?

In the past two months, Thabo has experienced many exciting things.

He has:

• Flown to Mars;
• Met two Martians;
• Almost been eaten by a pod of seriously dodgy aliens;
• And also flown off Mars.

Now, Thabo and all his friends - human and alien - are on their way to the planet Gliese. Everything will go super-smoothly ... Right?!

Flora has anterograde amnesia. She can't remember anything day-to-day: the joke her friend made, the instructions her parents gave her, how old she is. Then she kisses a boy - her first kiss - and the next day she remembers it. The first time she's remembered anything since she was ten. But the boy is gone.

Desperate to hold onto the memory and feelings of love, she sets off to the Arctic to find him.

Why can she remember Drake? Could he be the key to everything else she's forgotten?

Vendettas, liggeraakte, trotse stamme en rebelle wat die Romeine in die maquis ontduik – dit is 50 v.C. in Korsika. Asterix en Obelix help hoofman Verinniwereldkitikitikitix om praetor Opsysenuvius se planne te fnuik en om teen Julius Caesar se leër op te staan. Want die Korsikane hou vol dat hulle net ’n Korsikaan as keiser sal aanvaar …

Asterix in Korsika is die 20ste boek in die gewilde Asterix-reeks.

J.K. Rowling's screenwriting debut is captured in this exciting hardcover edition of the Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them screenplay.

When Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York, he intends his stay to be just a brief stopover. However, when his magical case is misplaced and some of Newt's fantastic beasts escape, it spells trouble for everyone...

Inspired by the original Hogwart's textbook by Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them: The Original Screenplay marks the screenwriting debut of J.K. Rowling, author of the beloved and internationally bestselling Harry Potter books. A feat of imagination and featuring a cast of remarkable characters and magical creatures, this is epic adventure-packed storytelling at its very best. Whether an existing fan or new to the wizarding world, this is a perfect addition for any film lover or reader's bookshelf.

(Please note: This is the screenplay edition, so it's written in a movie script format and not a novelized format.)

This is a story with a beginning and an end that begins again.

Like everything and everyone around her, Blou Feetjie is part of the cycle of life. She wishes everyone happiness as she laughs and frolics gaily. Sometimes she plays near ten Very Special Stones that share their ancient wisdom with her.

She has to sit very quietly and listen very carefully to how she can make life easier, and better, and more beautiful, and happier, and lighter, and dearer, for others.

Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. The play will receive its world premiere in London’s West End on July 30, 2016.

It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn’t much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband and father of three school-age children. While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.

(Please note: This is the special script rehearsal edition, so it's written in a screenplay format and not a novelized format.)

“ … Ons noem jou Mysti,� sê Ravka, “dit pas by jou ... dis misterieus en mooi.� Mysti word in die sneeu in Lapland wakker. Verkluim. Met geen idee wie sy is of waar presies sy is nie. Ravka ontferm hom oor haar. Hy en sy ma Tóva neem Mysti onder hulle vlerk terwyl sy haar geheue probeer herwin. Intussen help sy Ravka by die rendiersentrum in Menetetty om getraumatiseerde rendiere te versorg, en raak al liewer vir hom. Maar iets onverklaarbaar gebeur in die nag met haar. Haar lyf verander en vervorm. Sy verstaan nie wat met haar gebeur nie. Mysti besluit om die raad van ’n heks in die vervloekte Iselande woud te gaan opsoek – voor Ravka uitvind daar is iets fout met haar. Wanneer Mysti moet kies waar sy wil bly, daag Cosmo, iemand uit haar verlede, op. Hy het haar kom haal om terug te neem na die woud waar sy vandaan kom. Saam met hom onthou sy al meer wie sy is. Is Ravka regtig wie hy sê hy is? Wie is Ozymoz? En hoe pas die legende van Joulupukki by die raaisel in?

The million-copy bestselling author and BookTok sensation Monica Murphy is back with a swoon-worthy Lancaster Prep spin-off romance . . .

Young heiress Scarlett Lancaster is turning eighteen and her dad has promised to hire a famous musician for her party. Delight turns to disappointment when it’s revealed that her dad hired Tate Ramsey, former lead singer of a band that hasn’t been popular for years.

Tate, after years of alcohol- and drug-fueled partying, is sober and ready for a comeback and blows the audience away with his performance―though Scarlett herself still isn’t impressed. But when they talk after he leaves the stage, their encounter ends in a kiss that surprises them both―and immediately goes viral.

The kiss propels them into the spotlight. Riding the wave of stardom, the two agree to start a fake relationship.

But before long they discover their feelings might not be fake after all . . .

A stunning new YA thriller from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder!

18-year-old Bel has lived her whole life in the shadow of her mom’s mysterious disappearance. Sixteen years ago, Rachel Price vanished and young Bel was the only witness. Rachel is gone, presumed dead.

The case is dragged up from the past when the Price family agree to a true crime documentary. Bel can’t wait for filming to end, for life to go back to normal. But then Rachel Price reappears, and life will never be normal again . . .

Since her mother left, Pearl has spent more and more time in the ocean, fishing to help her father pay the bills.

But when she gets mixed up with a group of illegal abalone poachers and starts diving near a restricted wreck, Pearl meets an ancient sea monster named Otto—who isn’t quite as monstrous as she thought. And when Otto’s enemies come back to finish what they started, Pearl is the only one who can save him, but only if she has the courage to let go of her past and open up to others—including the girl from class she’s got a crush on.

With her one-eyed pup sidekick and a whole lot of nerve, Pearl may just be able to save Otto and finally tell the truth to her father… and, more importantly, to herself. With vibrant full-color illustrations, Pearl of the Sea is a South African adventure story exploring how we are both bound to and freed by nature, seen through the eyes of a tough teen-aged heroine determined to live life by her own rules.

Greg Owen, die ou wat sy eie pa vir die wolwe gegooi het, is 'n eerstejaar op Stellenbosch. Klaar met hacking. Ingeskryf vir 'n graad in Sportwetenskap. Maar sal hy ooit van die skadu van Lawson Kollege en Project Nursery Rhyme kan wegkom? As jy wil wraak neem, moet jy twee grafte grawe, besef hy gou, in hierdie vervolg op die topverkoper Onderwêreld. Verkorte skooluitgawe van die topverkoper. 'n Gratis leesgids is beskikbaar.

It is twenty years since the events of La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life-changing journey.

It is almost ten years since readers left Lyra and the love of her young life, Will Parry, on a park bench in Oxford's Botanic Gardens at the end of the ground-breaking, bestselling His Dark Materialssequence.

Now, in The Secret Commonwealth, we meet Lyra Silvertongue. And she is no longer a child . . .

The second volume of Philip Pullman's The Book of Dust sees Lyra, now twenty years old, and her daemon Pantalaimon, forced to navigate their relationship in a way they could never have imagined, and drawn into the complex and dangerous factions of a world that they had no idea existed. Pulled along on his own journey too is Malcolm; once a boy with a boat and a mission to save a baby from the flood, now a man with a strong sense of duty and a desire to do what is right.

Theirs is a world at once familiar and extraordinary, and they must travel far beyond the edges of Oxford, across Europe and into Asia, in search for what is lost - a city haunted by daemons, a secret at the heart of a desert, and the mystery of the elusive Dust.

The Secret Commonwealth is truly a book for our times; a powerful adventure and a thought-provoking look at what it is to understand yourself, to grow up and make sense of the world around you. This is storytelling at its very best from one of our greatest writers.

Mense glo daar’s ’n vloek oor Stormwater. Die see roep elke jaar sy slagoffers. Is dit waarom Caleb se pa se vliegtuig neergestort het?

Caleb moet sy matriekvakansie opoffer om om die geheim te ontrafel. Freya word ook gedwing om haar somer in die vreemde kusdorp deur te bring – asof vars lug 'n kitskuur sal wees vir haar kroniese siekte. Saam speel hulle speurder.

Maar wat as die waarheid 'n tsunami is wat wag om hulle te verswelg?

Die dood. Dis al waaraan Lumi kan dink en in ’n poging om seker te maak dat sy verder as haar sewentiende verjaarsdag leef, word sy deur haar peetouers in ’n kosskool vir tienerfae gesit. Hier vind sy haarself vasgevang in ’n web van onbeheerbare faemagte, nuwe vriende en ’n vyand wat net nie wil los nie.

En dan is daar Colden Breakspear. Die ligtekop, blou-oog Kruisfae wat haar gedagtes gevangene hou, maar iets pla.

Waarom is hy amper belangriker as wat sy is vir twee van die sterkste faemonarge in Tír na hÓige? En wat presies het hulle ouers met alles te doen?

Be transported to the breathtaking African landscape with this gorgeous board book for children (aged 3 and up) featuring real-life, high-quality sounds of African bush animals, from the roaring lion, laughing hyenas and trumpeting elephants. Coupled with the sounds are unique and fascinating facts, stunning photographs that appeal to both young and old alike.

The Little Book of Safari Animal Sounds is the perfect gift for anyone who loves nature and provides a wonderful new way of recognising wild animals in their habitats.

Sounds featured in this sound book are:

• Lion,
• African bush elephant,
• black-backed jackal,
• grey go-away bird,
• plains zebra,
• chacma baboon,
• African fish eagle,
• spotted hyena,
• hippopotamus,
• bubbling kassina frog,
• pearl-spotted owlet
• and cheetah.

"There is something I’m missing … something I’ve forgotten. But what?"

Trapped in a world in which she clearly does not belong, Annabel tries to make the most of her life despite the strange abnormalities. However, that all changes in a single day. Now in a world as dangerous as it is wonderful, she discovers her life intertwined with both questions and dark magic.

Following the inquiry of a mysterious visitor, Annabel and her two best friends embark on a journey to save countless lives before it’s too late. Astonishing revelations are made along the way, foreshadowing the massive journey ahead ... and then there’s still the lingering question.

What happened eight years ago?

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Chloe Gong comes two captivating new novellas surrounding the events of Foul Lady Fortune and following a familiar cast of characters from the These Violent Delights Duet!

In A Foul Thing, Roma and Juliette have established themselves as the heads of an underground weapons ring in Zhouzhuang, making a living the way they do best while remaining anonymous in their peaceful, quiet life. But when they hear about several Russian girls showing up dead in nearby towns, they decide to investigate—and ultimately discover that this mystery is much closer to home than they ever imagined.

In This Foul Murder, Benedikt and Marshall have been summoned by Roma to find the elusive scientist, Lourens, and bring him to Zhouzhuang. Time is of the essence aboard the week-long Trans-Siberian Express, but when someone is murdered on board, Benedikt and Marshall convince the officer in charge not to stop the train so that they aren’t thrown off-schedule. Instead, they pretend that they are investigators and promise they can solve the murder, but as they dig deeper, they realize that the murder might having surprising ties to their own mission…

Tot nou toe was hoërskool nie eintlik ’n pretrit vir Greg Heffley nie. Wanneer die dorp dreig om die vervalle gebou toe te maak, is hy min gespin.

Maar toe Greg besef hy sal na ’n ander skool as sy beste vriend, Rowley Jefferson, gestuur word, sing hy ’n ander deuntjie.

Kan Greg en sy klasmaats die skool red voordat die deure finaal gesluit word? Of is dit die begin van ’n splinternuwe hoofstuk in Greg se lewe?

Die sprokies van Grimm is bekend en geliefd oor die wêreld heen.

Marita van der Vyver stel in hierdie pragbundel ’n persoonlike keur saam van veertig van die Grimmbroers se mooiste sprokies, wat sy self uit Duits vertaal het. Hier is bekendes soos Rooikappie, Die wolf en die sewe bokkies, Die musikante van Bremen, Klein Duimpie, Die Paddaprins, Raponsie en Sneeuwitjie, asook minder bekende sprokies soos Die ganswagtertjie, Beervel, Die goue voël en Ysterhans. Die internasionaal bekroonde kunstenaar Piet Grobler se onweerstaanbare illustrasies skenk nuwe dimensie aan ’n skatkis van magiese verhale wat oud en jonk sal betower. 'n Herdruk in sagteband.

An African fantasy-adventure graphic novel inspired by the mythology of the Zambezi River and the history of the Kariba Dam, one of the largest dams ever constructed.

Siku has always called the Zambezi River her home. She understands the water – and strangely enough, it seems to understand her, too, bending to her will and coming to her aid in times of need. But things are changing on the river – a great dam is being built, displacing thousands of Shonga people – and things are changing in Siku, too, as her ability to manipulate water grows out of control, and visions of a great serpent pull her further from reality and her loving father, Tongai.

When Tongai ventures to the Kariba Dam to find a cure for Siku and never returns, she sets off to find him with the help of Amedeo, the young son of Kariba’s chief engineer. Together, they traverse elephant graveyards, rugged jungles, and ancient ruins, outrunning pirates, bootleggers, and shape-shifting prophets ready to use Siku to their own advantage. But she soon discovers that her father has been shielding a terrible secret: Siku is actually the daughter of Nyaminyami, the Great River Spirit, and the only way to bring about the necessary rumuko – a ritual which has brought balance to the Zambezi for centuries – is for Siku to give up the only life she’s ever known.

With the future of the Shonga resting on her shoulders, Siku must journey to the source of the river to understand the ancient power hidden within her.

A gripping near-future thriller in a world turned upside-down . . . for fans of Suzanne Collins, Emily St John Mandel, Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer.

Welcome to the Arcadia. Once a luxurious cruise ship, now it is home to the stranded. For forty years, they have lived, and died, on the water. A place of extreme haves and have-nots, gangs and make-shift shelters, its people are tyrannized by a country they can see but can't get to. A country that says it doesn't want them.

Esther is a loyal citizen, working flat-out for a rare chance to live a life on land. Nik is a rebel, intent on liberating the Arcadia once and for all. Together, they will change the future . . .

Complete with love triangles, betrayals and fights for freedom - this is the unmissable YA debut of 2022

Escape to Hogwarts with the unmissable series that has sparked a lifelong reading journey for children and families all over the world!

Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news - Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The magic starts here.

Includes:

• The Philosopher's Stone
• The Chamber of Secrets
• The Prisoner of Azkaban
• The Goblet of Fire
• The Order of the Phoenix
• The Half-Blood Prince
• The Deathly Hallows

The Ickabog is coming… A mythical monster, a kingdom in peril, an adventure that will test two children’s bravery to the limit. Discover a brilliantly original fairy tale about the power of hope and friendship to triumph against all odds, from one of the world’s best storytellers.

The kingdom of Cornucopia was once the happiest in the world. It had plenty of gold, a king with the finest moustaches you could possibly imagine, and butchers, bakers and cheesemongers whose exquisite foods made a person dance with delight when they ate them. Everything was perfect – except for the misty Marshlands to the north which, according to legend, were home to the monstrous Ickabog. Anyone sensible knew that the Ickabog was just a myth, to scare children into behaving. But the funny thing about myths is that sometimes they take on a life of their own.

Could a myth unseat a beloved king? Could a myth bring a once happy country to its knees? Could a myth thrust two children into an adventure they didn’t ask for and never expected?

If you’re feeling brave, step into the pages of this book to find out…

The world’s bestselling teenage spy takes on a new and daring mission.

This much-awaited new book in the bestselling Alex Rider series continues Alex’s fight against the deadly assassins encountered in the last book, Nightshade. Alex still has unfinished business with this sinister group made up of brainwashed children, not least trying to reunite MI6 chief Mrs Jones, along with her long lost son and daughter. The adventure takes us deep into the life-changing world of augmented reality, where even Alex will struggle to succeed against the technology.

A thrilling new challenge for the world’s best-loved teen superspy.