A young woman with hypnotic green eyes and a practitioner of the world's oldest profession, Diva Mila is a superstar in the colourful and mystic world of clairvoyants, psychics, and fortune-tellers, which is why people flock to her in hopes of getting a glimpse into their futures. One of Diva Mila's most peculiar customers is the Assistant, who claims to be the mythical criminal boss Gorky's aide, though he is the boss of the underworld himself. A newly unemployed loser in his late 20s, Bor is dating the Assistant's only daughter. The criminal boss and his ever-silent wife despise the young man and want ... |
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Taryn Cornick barely remembers the family library. Since her sister was murdered, she's forgotten so much. Now it's all coming back. The fire. The thief. The scroll box. People are asking questions about the library. Questions that might relate to her sister's murder. And something called The Absolute Book. A book in which secrets are written - and which everyone believes only she can find. They insist Taryn be the hunter. But she knows the truth. She is the hunted... "The Absolute Book" is a tale of sisters, ancient blood, a forgotten library, murder, revenge and a book that might just have the ... |
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Why do we love something or someone is not a question we often ask ourselves. It is difficult to answer. Perhaps this is because love is a feeling that is not easy to catch in words. And that is why the book in front of you, that asks the question - Why do I love Bulgaria, makes you curious and especially because a foreigner has made the effort to answer this question. Hans Wissema is not a stranger to Bulgaria and Bulgaria is not a stranger to him, for several reasons. Some of the reasons you will understand when you read the book or perhaps you have already read his book (in Bulgarian translation) "Siberian ... |
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The hilarious and moving new book from funny fiction superstar Sam Copeland, author of the bestselling "Charlie Changes Into a Chicken". Uma Gnudersonn has a head full of questions: How can I save my home from being sold? Will my dad ever start talking again? And how do alpacas get drunk? But since her mum died, Uma's life has been short on answers. Then she finds a genius artificial intelligence called Athena who knows everything. Suddenly Uma has the answer to any question she can imagine - from the capital of Mozambique to the colour of her headteacher's underpants - and she's going to use them ... |
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Oxford Bookworms Library Factfiles are non-fiction graded readers from the Oxford Bookworms Library available for Levels 1 to 4 (CEFR A1 - B2). Students learn about different countries and cultures, science and nature, history and historical figures all while practising and improving their English. It is more than forty years since the Great Train Robbery. But what happened to the rest of the money that was taken? Two million pounds has never been found. Perhaps some of the robbers would like to know the answer to this question too... Many great crimes end in a question. Who really killed President Kennedy? What happened ... |
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This book is the result of several journeys from Sofia to Prague in the 1990s. It's based on the notes I kept during my travels. The borders had just opened, people were emigrating en masse, I stayed behind. That was my first time leaving the prison of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, and I traveled by bus. A journey out into the world and into myself. I discovered Prague, though the search for myself continues. Sometimes Prague is here, sometimes it is there, and the same is true for Sofia."Where would you like to go? Out into the world. It's not a question of the direction, but of the journey itself, ... |
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Today more than ever, love is the answer. Here is the classic instruction manual. Now reissued with a beautiful new cover, here is Erich Fromm's ground-breaking international bestseller that has shown millions of readers how to achieve rich, productive lives by developing their hidden capacities for love. Most of us are unable to develop our capacities for love on the only level that really counts-a love that is compounded of maturity, self-knowledge, and courage. Learning to love, like other arts, demands practice and concentration. Even more than any other art it demands genuine insight and understanding. In this ... |
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Improve your Skills: Reading for First (FCE) Student's Book prepares pupils for the First Reading tests. The book is full of exercises and examples to help develop key reading skills and build student confidence on how to approach the Reading tasks in FCE. This book comes with Answer Key. Improve your Skills for First is a four-book series for students preparing to take the Cambridge English: First (FCE) exam. The series aims to develop the skills, language and test techniques required to achieve success in the exam. The series can be used for self-study or in class. Each of the 12 topic-based units guides you ... |
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Improve your Skills: Writing for IELTS 4.5-6.0 Student's Book prepares pupils for the Academic IELTS Writing paper. The book is full of exercises and examples to help develop key Writing skills. Tips support students on how to approach the Writing tasks and build their confidence to ensure success in the exam. This book comes with Answer Key. Improve your Skills: Writing is available in 2 versions: with answers and without answers. This allows the exam preparation to be conducted both in groups and classes, and individually. Improve your Skills for IELTS 4.5-6.0 is a three book series for students preparing to take ... |
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Improve your Skills: Reading for IELTS 4.5-6.0 Student's Book prepares pupils for the Academic IELTS Reading paper. The book is full of exercises and examples to help develop key reading skills and build student confidence on how to approach the Reading tasks. Improve your Skills for IELTS 4.5-6.0 is a three book series for students preparing to take the IELTS exam. Each of the ten topic-based units systematically leads you through the tasks. This series is perfect for self-study or in class use. This book comes with Answer Key. This Book is available in 2 versions: with answers and without answers. This allows ... |
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Adaptation and activities by Janet Borsbey and Ruth Swan. ... A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens's most famous historical novel. Set in Paris and London at the time of the French Revolution, this is the story of two men, Frenchman, Charles Darnay, and Englishman, Sydney Carton. As the Revolution takes hold and the Terror begins, the two men's destinies bring them together in a powerful story of love, hate and revenge. We meet revolutionaries and aristocrats, and see the poverty of many in both London and Paris contrasted with the wealth of a few. Verbs: Present Perfect Continuous, Past Perfect Continuous, ... |
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One of the most widely-read books worldwide. Moby Dick is the saga of Captain Ahab and his continuous pursuit of Moby Dick, the great white whale who maimed him during their last encounter. Ismael, a young sailor, tells this classic American tale of the gigantic white whale and his obsessed hunter, Captain Ahab. Start your journey across the seas in famous whaling town of New Bedford, Massechusetts, and sail to unknown lands on the whaling ship Pequod. Meet Queequeg, the strange cannibal who teaches Ismael what a true friend is; First Mate Starbuck, who shows us the meaning of loyalty and hardwork, and all of the ship&# ... |
