"The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wild. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St Jame's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage,...

Detective Kit Piper is kidnapped by two men who apparently weren't interested in making sure they had the right target. When the kidnappers make a pit stop for food and a hooker, she seizes her chance to escape. No one is more surprised than Simon Ward when he discovers Kit face-first on the floor, wrapped in a soggy blanket the next morning. On top of that, she's black-and-blue and bruised all over. Kit's starting to think she may have misinterpreted...

A story that tells the enduring power of a mother's kiss-who can measure such love.

Every page is full of forest creatures and other things to spot, match and talk about.

Rory, the little Orca, follows his big dream of seeing the beautiful northern lights and sets out on an adventure to find them. Along the way he meets a beautiful beluga, a sleepy polar bear and a fox who loves to dance.

"The world will know her name. The average person spends 33 years of their life asleep. But, in this mysterious shadow world, how can we ever know who we really become? In 2019, Anna Ogilvy was a budding twenty-five-year-old writer with a bright future ahead of her. Then, one night, she stabbed two people to death with no apparent motive and hasn’t woken up since. Her deep sleep is known by neurologists as ‘resignation syndrome’, a rare functional...

The sensational killings that have rocked San Francisco appear to be unrelated except in their brutality. But detective Lilndsay Boxer senses ther's some thread connecting them all.