Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... 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. This edition of Henry James's classic ghost stories features an afterword by bestselling author Kate Mosse OBE. A young governess is employed to look after two orphaned siblings in a grand country house. Isolated and inexperienced, she is at first charmed by the children - but gradually suspects that they may not be as innocent as they seem. ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Roger Chillingworth arrives in New England after two years' separation from his wife, Hester Prynne, to find her on trial for adultery. She refuses to reveal her lover and is sentenced to wear a scarlet letter 'A' sewn onto her clothes. Resolving to discover the man's identity, Roger sets out to destroy his rival, while Hester desperately tries to protect her illegitimate daughter from a society determined to condemn them both. A smash hit in its day, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is the gripping tale of three New England ... |
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Every ending has a beginning. Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil coparenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After nearly two years separated, she is elated that for once, time is on their side, and she immediately says yes when Atlas asks her on a date. But her excitement is quickly hampered by the knowledge that, though they are no longer married, Ryle is still very much a part of her life-and Atlas Corrigan is the one man he will hate being in his ex-wife and daughter's life."Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Colleen Hoover tells fan ... |
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In the follow-up to their charming "What If It's Us", best friends Adam Silvera ("They Both Die At The End") and Becky Albertalli ( Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda ) reunite to give Arthur and Ben another shot at true love. Ben has spent his first year of college working on his fantasy manuscript with his writing partner Mario, who is a great Spanish tutor, and an even better kisser. So why can't he stop thinking about the fact that Arthur's back in town two years after they called it quits? Arthur is in New York for a dream internship on Broadway, with a boyfriend back at home that ... |
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Complete and unabridged with an afterword by Ned Halley. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... A baby is found by wood nymphs in the forest of Burzee. They raise him as their own and give him the name Neclaus. When he grows up, Neclaus has to leave the forest so he makes a home for himself in the laughing valley of Hohaha, where he lives amongst humans for the first time. He discovers there that many children are very poor and neglected so, to cheer them up, he whittles wooden toys as gifts. Eventually he makes presents for all the children and so the story of Santa Claus is born. Fashioned as a whimsical fairy tale, & ... |
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Държите в ръцете си уникално издание - книга албум на Живко Петров, побрала негови размисли, фотографии, най-вече нотите на композициите в двата му албума After 4 и Ten. 20 прелюдии за пиано съдържа пиеси, написани с обич и поклон пред мощта на музикалното изкуство. Това е своеобразна изповед, съчетание на текст, музика и образ, с приложена флашпамет с композициите от двата албума като подарък за почитателите на известния български пианист, композитор и аранжор."Пътят на истинския артист е изтъкан от търпение и пълна отдаденост. Егото е враг номер 1 на музиката." Живко Петров Живко Петров е композитор, ... |
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Every four years, the world's best athletes come together for one of the most exciting competitions in sport: the Olympic Games. After years of training, competitors in more than forty different sports win and lose their events, and set new world records, in front of crowds of people. The Olympic Games are more than two thousand five hundred years old. So how did they start, how have they changed over the years, and what have been some of the most important times in their history? Oxford Bookworms Library Factfiles are non-fiction graded readers from the Oxford Bookworms Library available for Levels 1 to 4 (CEFR A1 - ... |
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On his way to college, Pete sees a pretty blonde girl in the shopping mall. The girls runs towards him and gives him a cassette of film. Then she runs away. She is frightened. Two men are running after her. One of the men is big and heavy. He is wearing a red shirt. Pete takes the cassette to a film developing shop. One hour later, he has the photographs. One picture shows two men. They are near a church. A man in a suit is giving a large brown envelope to another man. This other man is big and heavy and he is wearing a red shirt. This book is in British English. Free resources including worksheets, tests and author data ... |
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Based on the story of Alexandre Dumas . Text adaptation by Clare West . ... It is the year 1627, and young d'Artagnan comes to Paris with a dream - to become a King's Musketeer. Three of these brave soldiers - Porthos, Athos and Aramis - soon become his friends. After a short time d'Artagnan has fallen in love and into great danger. Can the three musketeers and d'Artagnan fight against the evil plans of the beautiful Milady and the cruel Cardinal Richelieu? 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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"The textbook The Lingua Franca of Diplomacy: English for International Relations’ is a result of a years-long quest of the author for compiling a teaching aid of English for specific purposes in the fields of IR and foreign policy. This effort was necessitated by a practical reason - the absence of a relevant handbook, which has presented a major setback in the process of language training of bachelor degree students in IR and European Studies. Therefore, they constitute the main target group of potential users. It can also be of interest for students, specialising in Political Science, International Security, and ... |
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Based on the story of Daniel Defoe . Retold by Diane Mowat . ... "I often walked along the shore, and one day I saw something in the sand. I went over to look at it more carefully... It was a footprint - the footprint of a man!" By the book In 1659 Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked on a small island off the coast of South America. After fifteen years alone, he suddenly learns that there is another person on the island. But will this man be a friend - or an enemy? Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels ... |
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"The English Neighbour" is a resourceful, vivid, and tirelessly funny story about the clash and fusion of cultures in today{{~}}s age of globalization. Bulgaria. Middle of Nowhere. The fictional village of Plodorodno (meaning "fertile") is in dire straits. As Bulgaria is gradually opening to the outside world, many of its residents have emigrated in pursuit of a different life, while others cast their hopes on winning the lottery instead of on working the fertile land nearby. One fine day, a true Englishman named John buys a hose in the village and settles there. He is retired chemical engineer ... |
