The Dark - Lemony Snicket & Jon Klassen

Remember A Series of Unfortunate Events?
I do. Such an awesome work by Lemony Snicket, some people to this day still can't distinguish the character from the author :)
Well he is back.
Collaborating with Jon Klassen he writes another great book that is our Book of the Week, The Dark.

It tells a story of a child named Laszlo who is afraid of the dark.
The dark lives in the same house as Laszlo but mostly it spends its time in the basement. It doesn't visit Laszlo in his room.
Until one night it does.

Escape from Camp 14 - Blaine Harden

North Korea is popular in the media lately after their bravado comment about war with the United States of America.

The popularity made me searching for book about North Korea in www.bookdepository.co.uk.
And I found this one:

A book that tells a gripping tale of one man's remarkable escape from North Korean political prison camp to freedom in the west.

Twenty-seven years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. 

Located about 55 miles north of Pyongyang, the labor camp is a 'complete control district,' a no-exit prison where the only sentence is life. 

No one born in Camp 14 or in any North Korean political prison camp has escaped.

No one except Shin.

This is his story.

And the Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini

So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one...

Afghanistan, 1952.
Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and stepmother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters. To Abdullah, Pari - as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy for which she was named - is everything. More like a parent than a brother, Abdullah will do anything for her, even trading his only pair of shoes for a feather for her treasured collection. Each night they sleep together in their cot, their heads touching, their limbs tangled.
One day the siblings journey across the desert to Kabul with their father.

Win Awesome Camera and Your Own Lonely Planet Cover

40 years ago newlyweds Tony and Maureen Wheeler completed an overland trip from London to Australia. It was too amazing an experience to keep to themselves. Urged on by their friends, they created their first travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap. Within a week they'd sold 1,500 copies, and Lonely Planet was born. Forty years and over hundred million guidebooks later, Lonely Planet is the world's leading travel guide publisher, with over 500 titles available across 9 languages.

To celebrate 40 years of amazing travel experiences Lonely Planet are sponsoring this great competition. Lonely Planet books have always been known for their distinctive, evocative covers and now it's your chance to have your very own! Simply take a photo that encapsulates the spirit of your local street, village, town, city, or region and that you think would make a great Lonely Planet guidebook cover. The winner will be the entry that best conveys a flavour of a place, or a different take on the obvious; and which contains rich authoritative visual information about the destination, with a strong point of focus, bold composition, and colour. The winning image will be respectful and will have been taken with an awareness of the cultural sensitivities of the place.

Inferno - Dan Brown

The world is waiting for Inferno.
Are you too?

Dan Brown is a well-known writer, known at first through his controversial book, The Da Vinci Code.

In his international blockbusters The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, and The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown masterfully fused history, art, codes, and symbols.

In this riveting new thriller, Brown returns to his element and has crafted his highest-stakes novel to date. In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology, Robert Langdon, is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history’s most enduring 
and mysterious literary masterpieces…