Award-winning readers series of original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. A tragic love story is uncovered as journalist Clare Crowe goes to Switzerland to bring home a relative's body. Clare's grandfather has been found frozen in a glacier, 74 years after a climbing accident. Clare knows this could make an interesting story for her newspaper, but as she investigates her grandfather's last climb, she learns that the accident wasn't as simple as she had first thought. ... |
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Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. Eighteen-year-old Francesca comes to England to achieve her life-long ambition of learning to fly. The first lessons go really well and Doug, her instructor, describes her as a natural pilot. But when Doug's actions lead Francesca to question his motives, she starts to lose her confidence. Her dream of independence in the sky is in danger. ... |
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Those who have it already speak Bulgarian! ... "Bulgarian for English Speakers" is a brand new self-study book specially designed to meet the needs of anybody intending to learn Bulgarian well in a short time. Whoever you are - a student, a businessperson or a visitor to the country, this book is for you. "Bulgarian for English Speakers" contains all the knowledge that you need, emphasizing on real-world tasks. The book includes many dialogues and other texts specially created to help you speak and be understood. It develops your vocabulary systematically and also covers all the required grammar skills. ... |
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An explosive story from the mad genius behind Chainsaw Man and Look Back! Young filmmaker Yuta contemplates suicide after the death of his mother, but a chance meeting with a mysterious girl will alter his life in an explosive way. From the mad genius behind Chainsaw Man and Look Back comes a new story about coping with loss. Yuta's moviemaking career started with a request from his mother to record her final moments. After her death, Yuta meets a mysterious girl named Eri, who takes his life in new directions. The two begin creating a movie together, but Eri is harboring an explosive secret. ... |
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Денят, в който Скарлет умира, е преломен за всички, които обича, но най-вече за самата нея. Не е справедливо, че никога няма да има възможността да постигне мечтите си, да изживее любовта или да остарее с любимите си хора - и всичко това само защото е спряла да помогне на непознат. Само че тя все още е тук... - където и да е това тук - и наблюдава ефекта на пеперудата, който смъртта ѝ има върху най-близките ѝ. Иви не може да си представи живота си без Скарлет и определено не може да прости на Нейт, когото обвинява за смъртта на най-добрата си приятелка. Но той постоянно се появява в най-тежките ѝ ... |
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Cia Special Agent Ethan Hunt and his highly skilled Impossible Mission Force specialize in perilous, last-chance assignments. An expert of intrigue and a master of disguise, Ethan has never failed to bring a case to a successful close. Until now. Their latest operation-to retrieve a top-secret list of undercover American agents in Europe-is moving along smoothly when something goes terribly wrong, and the secret government list vanishes. In a final, brutal twist, Ethan himself is accused of betraying his country. ... |
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Nora's life has been going from bad to worse. Then at the stroke of midnight on her last day on earth she finds herself transported to a library. There she is given the chance to undo her regrets and try out each of the other lives she might have lived. Which raises the ultimate question: with infinite choices, what is the best way to live?"Such a beautiful book." Zoe Ball, BBC Radio 2 "Filled with warmth and humour." Sunday Times "A celebration of life's possibilities." Guardian ... |
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Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. Heartstopper is the bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel: this new edition - with a cover including Alice Oseman's artwork and photographs showing characters from the Netflix show - also contains exclusive pages from Alice's original TV scripts. Charlie and Nick are at the same school, but they've never met... until one day when they're made to sit together. They quickly become friends, and soon Charlie is falling hard for Nick, even though he doesn't think he has a chance. But love works in surprising ways, and Nick is more interested in Charlie than ... |
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Artemisia is training to be a Gray Sister, a nun who cleanses the bodies of the deceased so that their souls can pass on; otherwise, they will rise as spirits with a ravenous hunger for the living. She would rather deal with the dead than the living, who trade whispers about her scarred hands and troubled past. When her convent is attacked by possessed soldiers, Artemisia defends it by awakening an ancient spirit bound to a saint's relic. It is a revenant, a malevolent being that threatens to possess her the moment she drops her guard. Wielding its extraordinary power almost consumes her - but death has come to ... |
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Set in a rich, high-fantasy world inspired by ancient Rome, Sabaa Tahir's "An Ember in the Ashes" told the story of Laia, a slave fighting for her family, and Elias, a young soldier fighting for his freedom. Now, in A Torch Against the Night, Elias and Laia are running for their lives. After the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial soldiers hunt the two fugitives as they flee the city of Serra and undertake a perilous journey through the heart of the Empire. Laia is determined to break into Kauf - the Empire's most secure and dangerous prison to save her brother, who is the key to the Scholars' ... |
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From Brandon Sanderson - author of the №1 New York Times bestselling "Stormlight Archive" and its fourth massive installment, "Rhythm of War" - comes a new hefty novella, "Dawnshard". Taking place between "Oathbringer" and "Rhythm of War", this tale (like Edgedancer before it) gives often-overshadowed characters their own chance to shine. When a ghost ship is discovered, its crew presumed dead after trying to reach the storm-shrouded island Akinah, Navani Kholin must send an expedition to make sure the island hasn't fallen into enemy hands. Knights Radiant who fly too ... |
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The second of Julia Quinns 's bestselling and beloved "Bridgerton novels", now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix. This is Anthony Bridgerton's story... 1814 promises to be another eventful season, but not, This Author believes, for Anthony Bridgerton, London's most elusive bachelor, who has shown no indication that he plans to marry. And in all truth, why should he? When it comes to playing the consummate rake, nobody does it better... Lady Whistledown's Society Papers, April 1814. Having spent his twenties in a rakish pursuit of pleasure (whilst taking care to ensure the financial ... |