Oliver Marks has just served ten years for the murder of one of his closest friends - a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he's released, he's greeted by the detective who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened ten years ago. As a young actor studying Shakespeare at an elite arts conservatory, Oliver noticed that his talented classmates seem to play the same roles onstage and off - villain, hero, tyrant, temptress - though Oliver felt doomed to always be a secondary character in someone else's story. But when the teachers ... |
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"Актьорите по природа са избухливи - алхимични създания, съставени от възпламенителни елементи: емоция, его и завист. Ако ги нагрееш и смесиш, понякога получаваш злато. А друг път бедствие." Оливър Маркс е излежал десетгодишната си присъда за убийство, което може, а може и да не е извършил. Детектив Колбърн, човекът, който го е вкарал зад решетките, се среща с него извън затвора, за да научи най-после истината за драматичните събития, разиграли се преди едно десетилетие. Тогава Оливър заедно с още шестима свои колеги е студент последна година по актьорско майсторство в престижната академия Делъкър. Освен ... |
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Based on the story of Isaac Asimov. Retold by Rowena Akinyemi. ... A human being is a soft, weak creature. It needs constant supplies of air, water, and food; it has to spend a third of its life asleep, and it can't work if the temperature is too hot or too cold. But a robot is made of strong metal. It uses electrical energy directly, never sleeps, and can work in any temperature. It is stronger, more efficient - and sometimes more human than human beings. Isaac Asimov was one of the greatest sciencefiction writers, and these short stories give us an unforgettable and terrifying vision of the future. Classics, ... |
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Are you ready to stay up all night? Rebecca meets Gone Girl in this shocking, unpredictable thriller with a twist that will leave you reeling... The TikTok sensation from the author of "It Ends With Us". Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough ... |
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Retold by Richard Rogers. ... London in the 1830s was no place to be if you were a hungry ten-year-old boy, an orphan without friends or family, with no home to go to, and only a penny in your pocket to buy a piece of bread. But Oliver Twist finds some friends - Fagin, the Artful Dodger, and Charley Bates. They give him food and shelter, and play games with him, but it is not until some days later that Oliver finds out what kind of friends they are and what kind of 'games' they play... Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has ... |
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A vivid and immersive tale of one woman's reckless mission to make sense of the events that shattered her childhood, and made her who she is. Summer, 1989: ten year old Suzanne is drawn like a magnet to her father's forbidden world of electric guitars and tricked out cars. When her mother remarries, she jumps at the chance to tag along on the concert tour that just might be Gil and the Kills' wild ride to glory. But fame has sharper fangs than anybody realized, and as the band blazes up the charts, internal power struggles set Gil and his group on a collision course destined for a bloody reckoning - one ... |
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"Five Nights at Freddy's" fans won't want to miss this pulse-pounding collection of three novella-length tales that will keep even the bravest FNAF player up at night... Haunted by the past... To avoid confronting an ugly truth, Nole falls prey to a monster that punishes past transgressions. Growing weaker by the day, nine-year-old Jake looks back on the time before he was sick, imagining life as if he were well again. And, forever desperate to prove his worth to his arrogant brother and distant father, Toby chases victory at an arcade game with horrifying consequences. But in the unpredictable world of ... |
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"A Cook's Book" is the story of Nigel Slater's life in the kitchen. From the first jam tart Nigel made with his mum standing on a chair trying to reach the Aga, through to what he is cooking now, this is the ultimate Nigel Slater collection brimming with over 200 recipes. He writes about how his cooking has changed from discovering the best way to roast a chicken to the trick to smoky, smooth aubergine mash. He gives the tales behind the recipes and recalls the first time he ate a baguette in Paris, his love of jewel-bright Japanese pickled radishes and his initial slice of buttercream-topped ... |
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Двуезично издание на български и английски език. Съставител: Станимир Йотов. ... Интерактивно помагало за изучаване на английски език за средно ниво и напреднали. Новаторски и динамичен метод за самообучение. Това иновативно помагало е насочено към всички, които изучават английски език. То съдържа списъци с интригуващи въпроси, разделени в тематични групи, през които можете да преминавате сами или с помощта на свой познат. Това е най-простият и лесен начин: да упражните езиковите си умения; да съчетаете приятното с полезното; да говорите на английски свободно и естествено; да учите чужд език в собствения си дом; ... |
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"Тази книга, лиричен самоотчет на един от най-значителните майстори зидари на днешната българска култура, свидетелства за мъчителното съзряване на съвременната душевност - сложна, нестройна, неуседнала, противоречива. Тя е същевременно и запис на съзряването на една модерна поезия през еманципацията и от традиционните мелодични симетрии на рими и метрика към вглъбената discordia concors на все по-органичния свободен стих с неговия стремеж към постоянно изплъзващата се вътрешна хармония. Преход от юношеската омая на сетивата към зрялата будност на духа, изправен с усвоения опит на цяла световна цивилизация пред ... |
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A troubled young mother yearns for a shot at redemption in this heartbreaking yet hopeful story from #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover. After serving five years in prison for a tragic mistake, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her four-year-old daughter. But the bridges Kenna burned are proving impossible to rebuild. Everyone in her daughter's life is determined to shut Kenna out, no matter how hard she works to prove herself. The only person who hasn't closed the door on her completely is Ledger Ward, a local bar owner and one of the few remaining ... |
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Complete and unabridged with an afterword by Anna South. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... When red-headed orphan Anne Shirley arrives at Green Gables, she feels sure she's found the home she has always longed for. Her new adoptive parents, the Cuthberts, are less certain - they had asked the orphanage for a boy. But before long, Anne's irrepressible optimism and loving nature charms them. While her temper is unpredictable and her extravagant imagination makes her dreamily whimsical and prone to comic mishap, they come to love Anne as if she were their own child. A celebration of the transformative power ... |
