The Greatest Short Stories Leo TolsThe Russian novelist and moral philosopher Leo Tolstoy (1828 1910) ranks as one of the world's great writers and his "War and Peace" has been called the greatest novel ever written. The purpose of all true creative art, he believed, is to teach. But the message in all his stories is presented with such humor that the reader hardly realizes that it is strongly didactic. The seven parts into which this book is divided include the best known Tolstoy

and the meaning to be found in the ordinary

'Absolutely charming and unexpectedly poignant'

Funny and relatable middle-grade series

I’d like to share with you the following: Every thought we think and every word we speak creates our future

Barbed wire

empowerment and healing

Jeff Kinney is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and creator of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Awesome Friendly Kid series

but I'm wondering if you could have my back for once

Kirstie continues her love affair with everything handmade

forcing us to confront the strange pleasure of being wounded

And have Wagon Wheels really got smaller since your childhood

we are presented a life of immense beauty and endurance