Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. But Katniss has been close to death before - and survival, for her, is second nature. "The Hunger Games" is a searing novel set in a future with unsettling parallels to our present. Welcome to the deadliest reality TV show ever... ...

I say to you all, once again--in the light of Lord Voldemort?s return, we are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. Lord Voldemort?s gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing an equally strong bond of friendship More...and trust. So spoke Albus Dumbledore at the end of Harry Potter?s fourth year at Hogwarts. But as Harry enters his fifth year at wizard school, it seems those bonds have never been more sorely tested. Lord ...