This is a story about a mole. Not any old mole, but The Mole. He grew up in suburban Surrey with his parents and decided one day, like all moles do, to leave the molehill and set off to see the real world. His adventures have many ups and downs, some lucky scrapes and a few near misses and he meets some interesting characters along the way, as well as visiting some amazing places.

This is a story about a mole. Not any old mole, but The Mole. He grew up in suburban Surrey with his parents and decided one day, like all moles do, to leave the molehill and set off to see the real world. His adventures have many ups and downs, some lucky scrapes and a few near misses and he meets some interesting characters along the way, as well as visiting some amazing places.

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic, beloved novel of two boy geniuses dreaming up superheroes in New York’s Golden Age of comics, now with special bonus material by the author “It's absolutely gosh-wow, super-colossal—smart, funny, and a continual pleasure to read.”—The Washington Post Book World One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of Entertainment Weekly’s 10 Best Books of the Decade • Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize A “towering, swash-buckling thrill of a book” (Newsweek), hailed as Chabon’s “magnum opus” (The New York Review of Books), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a triumph of originality, imagination, and storytelling, an exuberant, irresistible novel that begins in New York City in 1939. A young escape artist and budding magician named Joe Kavalier arrives on the doorstep of his cousin, Sammy Clay. While the long shadow of Hitler falls across Europe, America is happily in thrall to the Golden Age of comic books, and in a distant corner of Brooklyn, Sammy is looking for a way to cash in on the craze. He finds the ideal partner in the aloof, artistically gifted Joe, and together they embark on an adventure that takes them deep into the heart of Manhattan, and the heart of old-fashioned American ambition. From the shared fears, dreams, and desires of two teenage boys, they spin comic book tales of the heroic, fascist-fighting Escapist and the beautiful, mysterious Luna Moth, otherworldly mistress of the night. Climbing from the streets of Brooklyn to the top of the Empire State Building, Joe and Sammy carve out lives, and careers, as vivid as cyan and magenta ink. Spanning continents and eras, this superb book by one of America’s finest writers remains one of the defining novels of our modern American age. Winner of the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award and the New York Society Library Book Award

A young man's journey to find a new home for his family after they lose their farm. Set in the eary 1900's, this book contains very controversial opinions about health, animal rights, human rights, government and injustice. Many of these discussions are with a toad. While eloquent and cute, this book is a serious picaresque novel filled with Socratic dialogue. Get a better quality eBook version with flowing text at HoboJack.com

Look It's a fairy ring When the mole sisters sneak up on a fairy ring, but find not a fairy in sight, they decide they shall be fairies instead With flower hats, and grass skirts, they make fantastic fairies, but maybe it's better to just be moles....' The irresistible and irrepressible Mole Sisters turn any dull situation into an opportunity for fun. Their positive approach to life and unrelenting optimism will appeal to all ages, young and old, and will be come a firm favourite with every reader.

Our story begins in the pretty and remote village of Elfington, surrounded by a vast forest of ancient trees, set in the hollow of an enormous and long extinct volcano. Freddie Fountain, is a happy-go-lucky 10 year old boy with blond hair and bright blue eyes, who lives in the idyllic village of Elfington. Because he is always ready to help and fix problems for his friends, family and the villagers, they call him, FREDDIE FIXIT. When Freddie's not helping people, he can be found exploring the forest 'his forest' as he calls it, where he spends many happy hours. One day a chance discovery draws Freddie into a world of long forgotten magic and mystery. His journey leads him into dangerous, mystical and magical adventures where his very life is at risk. Freddie becomes involved in a prophesy made by the Five Great Wizards that ruled the land of Enchantica more than a thousand years ago. He is pulled into a world that he never imagined could possibly exist. He becomes instrumental in the vanquishing of invading ancient inter-dimensional and supernatural monsters bent on destroying his world, but he needs the help of a powerful wizard that lived a very long time ago. Follow Freddie Fixit on his incredible adventures, feel joy in his success, share in his tears, watch as he achieves the impossible and be in awe of the power of magic.

An exuberant mole refuses to believe that his human neighbors consider him a pest.