Tender is the Night is a story set in the hedonistic high society of Europe during the ‘Roaring Twenties’. A wealthy schizophrenic, Nicole Warren, falls in love with Dick Diver - her psychiatrist. The resulting saga of the Divers’ troubled marriage, and their circle of friends, includes a cast of aristocratic and beautiful people, unhappy love affairs, a duel, incest, and the problems inherent in the possession of great wealth. Despite cataloguing a maelstrom of interpersonal conflict, Tender is the Night has a poignancy and warmth that springs from the quality of Fitzgerald's writing and the tragic personal ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "The Call of the Wild" tells the story of Buck, a domestic dog who is kidnapped from his home in California and forced to pull sleds in the Arctic wasteland. White Fang, by contrast, is the tale of a crossbreed who is three-quarters wolf and a quarter dog, and who must endure considerable suffering in the wilderness before being tamed by an American and taken to live in California. Extraordinary both for the vividness of their descriptions and the success with which they imagine life from a non-human perspective, Jack London's classics of ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... When the chance discovery of an ancient cryptogram reveals a path to the Underworld, the adventurous Professor Otto Lidenbrock sets off to Iceland, determined to reach the centre of the earth. But nothing can prepare him and his nephew Axel for what they will find beneath the ground; measureless caverns and vast subterranean seas reveal all of the earth's known history and more, while dinosaurs do battle, giant men herd mastodons, and danger and excitement wait around every corner. Richly illustrated by Édouard Riou, the French painter and ... |
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Increasing effectiveness through situational leadership. New and updated edition. ... Become a good leader and motivate others! With a new foreword by Ken Blanchard adapting "The One Minute Manager" techniques to enable successful leadership to happen. Using different ways to motivate different kinds of people. "Leadership and the One Minute Manager" goes straight to the heart of management as it describes the effective, adaptive styles of Situational Leadership. In clear and simple terms it teaches how to become a flexible and successful leader, fitting your style to the needs of the individual and ... |
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Двуезично издание на български и английски език. ... "По стъпките на Апостола" е първият пътеводител, в който се показват местата на паметта, свързани с живота и организаторската дейност на Васил Левски . Началото на пътуването, което предлагаме, започва от родния му дом в Карлово и продължава през десетки градове и села в България, Сърбия, Румъния и Турция. Пътеводителят включва и маршрути за екскурзии и планински походи, при които могат да се видят запазените тайни къщи, църкви и манастири, училища и читалища, дюкяни и ханове, където е пребивавал Апостола, неговите вещи, оръжия и документи в музеите, ... |
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For thousands of years the dead body of the young king Tutankhamun slept under the sands of Egypt. Then, in the autumn of 1922, Howard Carter and his friends find and open his tomb door. These are exciting times, and Carter's young helper Tariq tells the story in his diary. But soon people begin to die. Who or what is the killer? Is Tutankhamun angry with them for opening his tomb? And who is the beautiful French girl with the face of Tutankhamun's long-dead wife? Dominoes is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers students a fun reading experience while building their language skills. With ... |
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"I have heard that for mortals, the feeling of falling in love is very like the feeling of fear." Jude has tricked Cardan onto the throne, binding him to her for a year and a day. But the new High King does everything in his power to humiliate and undermine her, even as his fascination with her remains undimmed. Meanwhile, a traitor in the court is scheming against her. Jude must fight for her life and the lives of those she loves, all while battling her own complicated feelings for Cardan. Now a year and a day seems like no time at all... An intoxicating and bloodthirsty sequel to the New York Times ... |
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The international №1 bestseller. From the author of "The Notebook". ... There are times when destiny and love collide. This story is one of them. Hope Anderson is at a crossroads. After six years with her boyfriend, she is no longer sure what she wants, and when her father becomes ill she heads to her family's cottage at Sunset Beach in North Carolina to make some difficult decisions. Tru Walls has been summoned across an ocean from where he was born and raised in Zimbabwe by a letter from a man claiming to be his father. In journeying to Sunset Beach, Tru hopes to unravel the mystery surrounding his ... |
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Retold by Sue Arengo . ... Read the famous tale of the old shoemaker. How do the elves help him? Children love stories. Bring the magic of good storytelling into your classroom with Classic Tales , and they'll love their English lessons too. This edition of the award-winning series uses traditional tales to bring English to life through more than 30 beautifully illustrated stories. Word Count: 527. ... |
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How far would you go to save those you love? Lowrie and Shen are the youngest people on the planet after a virus caused global infertility. Closeted in a pocket of London and doted upon by a small, ageing community, the pair spend their days mudlarking and looking for treasure - until a secret is uncovered that threatens their entire existence. Now Lowrie and Shen face an impossible choice: in the quiet at the end of the world, they must decide what to sacrifice to save the whole human race... ... |
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It is with pleasure that I write a preface to the English version of this book, "The Black Sea, the Flood and Ancient Myths" It was originally written in Bulgarian by the distinguished father and son team of oceanographers, Petko and Dimitar Dimovi, and it is a major geologic past. ... |
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When Enola Holmes, sister to the detective Sherlock Holmes, discovers her mother has disappeared, she quickly embarks on a journey to London in search of her. But nothing can prepare her for what awaits. Because when she arrives, she finds herself involved in the kidnapping of a young marquess, fleeing murderous villains, and trying to elude her shrewd older brothers-all while attempting to piece together clues to her mother's strange disappearance. Amid all the mayhem, will Enola be able to decode the necessary clues and find her mother? ... |
