If a novel is long and torrid love affair, full of ups and downs and highs and lows, then a short story is just a quick kiss from a stranger in the dark - a fleeting, but intense experience that grips the heart, fires up the blood and lingers in the memory. This collection of darkly disturbing tales will suck you into the weird and wonderful world of the author's imagination, populated by vengeful witches, ravenous zombies, serial killers, alien monsters, bloodthirsty androids and even a man who feeds on dreams. Emil Minchev is born in 1984 in Sofia, Bulgaria, and has published six novels and a short story ... |
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Based on the story of Wilkie Collins . Text adaptation by Merinda Wilson . ... The Moonstone is a beautiful yellow diamond that was stolen from the statue of a Moon god in India. When Franklin Blake brings it to Rachel Verinder's house in Yorkshire for her birthday, it brings bad luck with it. How many people will the Moonstone hurt? How many must die before the diamond's revenge is complete? Dominoes is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers students a fun reading experience while building their language skills. With integrated activities and on-page glossaries the new edition of the series ... |
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Based on the story of Gerald Durrell . Text adaptation by Bill Bowler . ... The weather in England that summer had been so awful that Gerald's mother sold the family house and took her children to live on the Mediterranean island of Corfu. Between lessons, the ten-year-old Gerald was free to walk round the sunny island and discover the wonderful people and animals living there. This is the story of Gerald's adventures with the fascinating animals of Corfu, and, of course, with his surprising family and their friends. Dominoes is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers students a fun reading ... |
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Based on the story of Charles Dickens . Text adaptation by Susan Kingsley . ... Thomas Gradgrind believes that facts and money are more important than feelings and imagination. After Sissy Jupe - a circus child - is left alone in the world, Gradgrind takes her into his house, looking after her and teaching her facts with his own children Tom and Louisa. Some years later the Gradgrind family meets hard times. Louisa becomes a prisoner in a loveless marriage, and Tom has problems at work. In the end, Thomas Gradgrind learns the importance of feelings and imagination. Listen along with downloadable MP3 audio. Dominoes ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Now a major motion picture with a hugely star studded cast, featuring the likes of Robert Downey Jr., Tom Holland, Emma Thompson, Antonio Banderas and Selena Gomez. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Doctor Dolittle is one of the most delightful and fascinating characters in children's literature. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition of The Story of Doctor Dolittle is ... |
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Chief Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis went into the house. Inside the sitting-room, the light was still switched on and a gas fire was burning. The dead body of a young man was lying on the carpet, in front of the fire. Near the body, on a small table, stood a bottle of sherry and a wine glass. The bottle almost full, the glass was almost empty. Morse smelt the sherry which was left in the glass. "This smells like cyanide, Lewis", he said. "This man was probably poisoned." From the Book This book is in British English. Here you can find: notes about this story; points for understanding ... |
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"Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old" is a guide to the biggest issue we all face. Ageing - not cancer, not heart disease - is the world's leading cause of death and suffering. What would the world be like if we could cure it? Living disease - free until the age of 100 is achievable within our lifetimes. In prose that is lucid and full of fascinating facts, "Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old" introduces us to the cutting edge research that is paving the way for this revolution. Computational biologist Andrew Steele explains what occurs ... |
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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. Twenty-five million people come to England every year, and some never go out of London. But England is full of interesting places to visit and things to do. There are big noisy cities with great shops and theatres, and quiet little villages. You can visit old castles and beautiful churches - or go to festivals with ... |
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Съгласете се, че си е стрес: отваряш вратата, а на прага ти - бебе. Не точно твое... И няма значение, че жилището ти е охранявано като Форт Нокс и просто няма начин незабелязано да се промъкне някой отчаян шегаджия. Но точно това виждат ококорените очи на Кейт Морисън, богатата наследница на верига хотели, свикнала на необуздана свобода и предизвикателен начин на живот: спящо новородено момиченце пред нейния праг... и никой наоколо. Но как, по дяволите? И кой? И защо на нея? Решена да задържи новороденото, докато не научи коя е майка му, Кейти е с пълни ръце и не се нуждае от Дийн - да се върти наоколо и да рови където ... |
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Библиотека "Любов и Съдба". ... За какво си мечтае една практична млада жена? Заета по цял ден със загробваща работа като сервитьорка, самотната майка Джесика Ман няма време за губене с онзи безгрижен тексасец с великите мечти и кльощавия портфейл. Точно това вижда тя, когато Джак Морисън се настанява на вечеря в заведението, където тя работи. Собственото ѝ бедно детство кара Джеси да се закълне пред себе си, че ще направи възможно най-доброто за своя малък син, а това вероятно означава да намери финансово стабилен съпруг… какъвто изобщо не се вижда на хоризонта. Но Коледа е съвсем близо, на Джеси никак ... |
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Книгата е част от поредицата "Нова българска лира" на издателство "Ерго". ... "Тези красиви и сдържани стихотворения, с изчистена форма и богата образност, пулсират с несекващ блясък. Докато ги четях, сякаш можех да доловя как мълчанията, от които са направени, се процеждат в правдиви и необходими думи." Ричард МакКан "Поезията на Владимир Левчев притежава оригинален глас, чиято мъдрост засенчва годините му... Откровения мрачни, и същевременно красиви." Уилям Меридит "Поезията му е място, от което не искаш да си тръгнеш. Усещаме присъствието на широко скроен дух, който пише ... |
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101 въпроса, задавани на интервю за работа, от които никога вече няма да се боите. Предстои ви интервю за работа, но не можете да си подготвите отговор за всеки въпрос. От хилядите възможни, кои ще ви зададат всъщност? След подробно проучване на стотици интервюиращи и хиляди интервюирани тази книга най-накрая ще ви даде отговорите. "Защо точно ти?" е базирана на директна информация от топ интервюиращите в неповторимата мрежа за набор на персонал на REED. Книгата предлага отлични техники за подготовка, целта на които е да се научите как да отговаряте на най-популярните въпроси и, преди всичко, как да възприемете ... |
