What if you found out that your family isn't yours at all? How far would you go to protect them? A gripping new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of "The Girl Before"... Pete Riley answers the door one morning and lets in a parent's worst nightmare. On his doorstep is Miles Lambert, a stranger who breaks the devastating news that Pete's son, Theo, isn't actually his son he is the Lamberts', switched at birth by an understaffed hospital while their real son was sent home with Miles and his wife, Lucy. For Pete, his partner Maddie, and the little boy they've been raising ... |
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She lives next door. She knows your secrets. You must be our new neighbors! Mrs. Lowell gushes and waves across the picket fence. I clutch my daughter's hand and smile back: but the second Mrs. Lowell sees my husband a strange expression crosses her face. In that moment I make a promise. We finally have a family home. My past is far, far behind us. And I'll do anything to keep it that way... I used to clean other people's houses-now, I can't believe this home is actually mine. The charming kitchen, the quiet cul-de-sac, the huge yard where my kids can play. My husband and I saved for years to give our ... |
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The sequel to the book Play Along. ... Hallie. When I was eleven, my family moved next door to his. When I was sixteen, we fell for each other. And when I was nineteen, we broke each other's hearts. Six years later, I've landed an internship with a big-name interior designer in a new city. Unfortunately, that city just so happens to be the one he plays hockey for. I thought Chicago was big enough to avoid him, until I unknowingly move in right next door. Even worse? My new job means I have to renovate his house. I may have loved Rio deLuca once - but I'm not that same girl anymore. Rio. I never thought I&# ... |
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This collection contains fifteen of O. Henry's short stories. "The Gift of the Magi" is the most famous of his classic tales, but the stories that follow here give the reader a deeper and richer sample of O. Henry's storytelling art. The text has been simplified and made easier to read for the enjoyment of readers who study English. It is appropriate for intermediate to advanced learners. О.Henry (1862 - 1910) was a widely popular American short story writer, famous for his dry humor, wordplay and clever surprise endings. "O. Henry's finest work... reveal such a depth of understanding of the ... |
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Based on the story of Thomas Hardy. Retold by Clare West. ... On a stormy winter night, a stranger knocks at the door of a shepherd's cottage. He is cold and hungry, and wants to get out of the rain. He is welcomed inside, but he does not give his name or his business. Who is he, and where has he come from? And he is only the first visitor to call at the cottage that night... In these three short stories, Thomas Hardy gives us pictures of the lives of shepherds and hangmen, dukes and teachers. But rich or poor, young or old, they all have the same feelings of fear, hope, love, jealousy... Classics, modern fiction, ... |
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A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Why has the mild mannered Dr. Jekyll suddenly begun to associate with the ugly and violent Mr. Hyde? And why are they never seen together? When Jekyll's old friend Utterson tries to solve these mysteries he uncovers a horrific story of suffering and brutality that eventually leads to the terrible revelation of Mr. Hyde's true identity. Accompanied here by three other memorable stories of horror, murder and the supernatural, "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" is a masterpiece of Victorian Gothic literature by Robert Louis Stevenson, and one of the most ... |
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Based on the story of Oscar Wilde. Text adaptation by Bill Bowler. ... The three stories in this book are about ordinary people, people like you and me; but they find themselves in surprising situations. Lord Arthur Savile, a rich man with no enemies, finds out that he must do something terrible before he can marry. Poor young Hughie Erskine gives money to an old beggar - but the beggar is not what he seems. And Lord Murchison falls in love with a mystery woman - but what is the strange secret behind the door in Cumnor Street? Dominoes is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers students a fun reading ... |
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Книгата Другата Айнщайн ни разкрива света на една блестяща и изключителна жена, чиято светлина е останала засенчена от огромната слава на Айнщайн. Това е историята на неговата съпруга - брилянтна физичка сама по себе си, чийто принос към специалната теория на относителността е предмет на оживени спорове и може би е вдъхновена от нейни дълбоки и лични прозрения. Милева Марич винаги е била малко по-различна от другите момичета. Повечето жени на двайсет години вече са омъжени, а тя изучава физика в елитен университет в Цюрих, заобиколена от млади мъже, които се опитват да надминат блестящите ѝ изчисления. Но Милева е ... |
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Умален модел на танк - Israeli Merkava Main Battle Tank. Комплектът съдържа: елементи за сглобяване на танка 1 фигура на войник лепенки схема и инструкции с картинки "Стъпка по стъпка" за сглобяване на танка За да може да сглобите и залепите този макет, ви е необходимо лепило. Елементите на модела са направени от едноцветна пластмаса. Моделът може да се оцвети с боички. Оригинално описание: In 1948, one of the many problems facing the new Jewish state of Israel was a total absence of armoured fighting vehicles, and the restrictions applied to nations who had tanks, but were refused the ability to ... |
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Complete and unabridged. ... 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. Readers and critics were scandalized by The Awakening when it was first published, but it is now regarded as among the boldest and earliest examples of feminist fiction. It is published here with a selection of Chopin's strikingly perceptive short stories and introduced by Dr J. Michelle Coghlan, a specialist in American literature. In The Awakening, Edna Pontellier is on holiday ... |
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When the young salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a monstrous insect, his shock and incomprehension are coupled with the panic of being late for work and having to reveal his appearance to family and colleagues. Although over the following weeks he gradually becomes used to this new existence confined within the bounds of the apartment, and his parents and sister adapt to living with a grotesque bug, Gregor notices that their attitudes towards him are changing and he feels increasingly alienated. One of the masterpieces of twentieth-century world literature, The Metamorphosis is accompanied in ... |
