Raised in isolation and home-schooled by her strict grandparents, the only experience Birdie has had of the outside world is through her favourite crime books. But everything changes when she takes a summer job working the night shift at a historic Seattle hotel. There she meets Daniel Aoki, the hotel's charismatic driver, and together they stumble upon a real-life mystery: a famous reclusive writer-never before seen in public-is secretly meeting someone at the hotel. To uncover the writer's puzzling identity, Birdie must come out of her shell, and in doing so, realize that the most confounding mystery of all ... |
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When seven lives collide. ... When they got in the lift, they were strangers. Sasha, who is desperately trying to deliver a parcel; Hugo, who knows he's the best-looking guy in the lift and is eyeing up; Velvet, who knows what that look means; Dawson, who used to be on TV, used to be handsome, and is sincerely hoping no one recognizes him; Kaitlyn, who's losing her sight but won't admit it; and Joe, who shouldn't be here at all, but wants to be here the most. And one more person, who will bring them together again on the same day every year. Every day told seven ways in this unique collaborative novel. ... |
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One of the crucial questions, which emerges in the process of the EU expansion is "How to avoid the alienation of the values and rights from the vivid culture of the European nations?" No doubt, they should not be limited to formal principles of communication. The point is to determine what should be done within the frame of politics, economy, education, healthcare, legislation, art, etc. in order to implement the principles of the European culture as guidelines for European citizens. Discussing rights and values in the Enlarging EU, it is usually assumed that the new member states are going to adopt the ... |
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A Contrastive Corpus-Based Study of Link Words in The Academic Writing of Advanced Bulgarian Learners of English. "When almost a quarter of a century ago I got involved in my first real corpus creation task, the state of technological development, not only in our country but worldwide, was such that everything concerning the processes of collection, annotation and tagging of electronic databases as well as development of software tools for their processing sounded like talk taken from some science fiction novel or movie. To have millions of words in electronic form and be able to process them seemed, as Sinclair ( ... |
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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. Is there anyone who has not looked at the dark sky, and the shining points of light above us, and asked themselves questions about what is out there? Where did our planet come from? When did the universe begin? Could we live on another planet? And one question above all - is there life anywhere else in ... |
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Historical novel. ... The historical plot encompasses the period between 1840 and 1885. The crossing of the paths of people of different nationalities knits together the entire novel. Bulgarians, Romanians and Serbs support each other in their struggle for independence. They meet diplomats and the kings of European monarchies in order to obtain entreaties and favorable attitude towards nascent Bulgarian uprising and the Serbian-Turkish War. And so the geographical borders of the novel prove to be infinite. Britain with its "eternal and perpetual interests", is portrayed; France, torn apart by internal ... |
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Quick reads by great writers. This book is a special edition of "Quick Reads" series. ... "To buy books would be a good thing", observed Arthur Schopenhauer , "if we also could buy the time to read them". All devoted readers long for more time to spend with their books, and the next best thing to buying time is making the most of the available moments. "Great Short Short Stories: Quick Reads by Great Writers" offers that opportunity. An outstanding collection of 30 brilliant short stories, each just six or fewer pages in length, it provides the chance to absorb an entire story (or ... |
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To explore the Tarot is to explore ourselves, to be reminded of the universality of our longing for meaning, for purpose and for a connection to the divine. This 600-year-old tradition reflects not only a history of seekers, but our journey of artistic expression and the ways we communicate our collective human story. For many in the West, Tarot exists in the shadow place of our cultural consciousness, a metaphysical tradition assigned to the dusty glass cabinets of the arcane. Its history, long and obscure, has been passed down through secret writing, oral tradition, and the scholarly tomes of philosophers and sages. ... |
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Роман за Цар Константин Тих Асен. През 1257 г. Константин Тих е издигнат от болярите за български цар. Той сключва брак с Ирина, дъщеря на никейския император Теодор II Ласкарис и внучка на Иван Асен II, като по този начин придобива правото на фамилното име Асен и става част от династията Асеневци. През 1261 г. Византийската империя е възстановена и император Михаил VIII Палеолог се опитва да върне предишното ѝ величие. Той предлага на овдовелия през 1268 г. цар Константин Тих Асен брак с племенницата си Мария. Бракът е сключен, но императорът не изпълнява обещанията си да върне като зестра отнети преди това от ... |
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Наоми не просто е избягала от сватбата си. Тя е дошла на помощ на своята близначка в малкото градче Нокъмаут, където жителите уреждат споровете си по старомодния начин - с юмруци и бира. Обикновено в тази последователност. Но за нещастие, безотговорната ѝ близначка Тина изобщо не се е променила и изчезва без предупреждение, задигайки вещите ѝ. Наоми се оказва без пари, кола и работа в непознатото градче, но за сметка на това се сдобива с нещо неочаквано - с грижата за единайсетгодишна племенница, за чието съществуване дори не е подозирала. Нокс е лошото момче на Нокъмаут и предпочита живота си точно както ... |
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They Wish They Were Us meets The Queen's Gambit in the world of competitive Scrabble when a teen girl is forced to investigate the mysterious death of her best friend a year after the fact when her Instagram comes back to life with cryptic posts and messages. Catalyst 13 points noun: a person or thing that precipitates an event or change When Najwa Bakri walks into her first Scrabble competition since her best friend's death, it's with the intention to heal and move on with her life. Perhaps it wasn't the best idea to choose the very same competition where said best friend, Trina Low, died. It might be ... |
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Разследванията на комисар Де Анджелис. Насилствените събития шокират мирните провинции на Болоня, когато един кмет е убит, а друг е заплашен. Комисар Де Анджелис разследва... Адаптираната книга съдържа: граматика и речник на ниво A1; подробни бележки за езика и културата; оригинална и интригуваща история, чието действие се развива в Болоня; разнообразни упражнения за практикуване на четене с разбиране, комуникация и лексика; отговори на упражненията. Аудио книгата с драматизация по текста е достъпна за безплатно сваляне в mp3 формат на сайта на издателство "Casa delle Lingue". ... |
