Maara Strickland

The story begins in 1629, when the pride of the Dutch East India Company, the Batavia, is on its maiden voyage en route from Amsterdam to the Dutch East Indies, laden down with the greatest treasure to leave Holland. The magnificent ship is already boiling over with a mutinous plot that is just about to break into the open when, just off the coast of Western Australia, it strikes an unseen reef in the middle of the night.

Today is the big day - Jill and Apples are going to compete at the horse show! Even waking up extra early to get Apples prepped can’t dampen the Pony Scouts’ excitement on this special day. But when Jill catches a glimpse of the competition, she starts to get nervous. How will she and Apples measure up? Beginning readers will get caught up in the excitement of the Pony Scouts’ equestrian outing. A sweet story of friendship and ponies, this is the perfect book for young horse lovers.

Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Aibileen is a black maid raising her 17th white child. Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is the sassiest woman in Mississippi: a wonderful cook with a gossip's tongue. Graduate Skeeter returns from college with ambitions, but her mother will not be happy until she's married. Although world's apart, Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny's lives converge over a clandestine project that will change the town of Jackson forever.

Against the stirring background of the French Revolution, Jean Valjean first encounters the savage injustice of the law, then the gentleness and grace of God. This masterpiece about an ex-convict's escape from his past - and the redeeming power of forgiveness - has enthralled audiences worldwide as a great novel... a major motion picture... and a blockbuster musical play.