Award-winning readers series of original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. A spaceship crashes on a strange planet. The only survivor, Mary Mount, is taken prisoner by an alien civilization. In time she is allowed to return to her old planet with some of her new friends. But when they arrive back at her home, the plan seems to have changed. And Mary doesn't receive the welcome she expects. ... |
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Illustrated by Shane McGowan. ... The store has been here for only one year, but many people think that it has always been here. Above the door are faded brown letters which say: spice bazaar. "I, too, look as if I have always been here. When customers enter, they see an old bent woman with skin the color of sand. The foods in my store remind them of India – the land most of them left behind when they came to America. They don't know the truth about me, of course. They don't know that I'm not really old – that this body is not really mine. I am Tilo, the Mistress of Spices. I can see into the hearts and ... |
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Истории за секс и срещи след края на брака. Ако някой бе казал на четирийсет и шест годишната Лора Фрийдман Уилямс, че след няколко години ще преживее най-великолепния секс в живота си, и то с мъже, различни от съпруга ѝ, тя би му се изсмяла в лицето. Лора е щастливо омъжена неработеща майка с три деца и с планове да остарее до съпруга си. Е, сексът е вече донякъде по задължение, а и животът им наистина се върти основно около децата, но нима при другите е по-различно? И тогава идва шокиращото откритие - той има връзка. След пет месеца, изпълнени с бурни емоции, Лора за пръв път от двайсет и седем години се оказва ... |
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Finance-banking resource technologikal mafia-driven Materialismus. ... Lord Prof. prof. Dr. Momchil Dobrev - Halachev is the only research professor in three disciplines - physics, economics and law. In the distant 1985. In just one year, he graduated from the Ilmenau Technical University for three and a half years, and was immediately invited to work with Prof. K-H von Gothe in his laboratory, where under the guidance of the professor in February 1985 they discovered superconductivity, but were forbidden to it was published after Bulgarian State Security agents began to press Momchil Dobrev. 1987 The Nobel Committee ... |
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You'll never be able to find yourself if you're lost in someone else. Fallon meets Ben the day before her big move to New York. Their attraction is untimely but undeniable. They spend her last day in Los Angeles together and Fallon's eventful life becomes the inspiration Ben has sought for the novel he's always wanted to write. Over time and amidst the relationships and tribulations of their own separate lives, Ben and Fallon continue to meet on the same date every year. Until, one day, Fallon becomes unsure if Ben has been telling her the truth or fabricating a perfect reality for the sake of the ... |
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The New York Times bestseller from the Grammy-nominated indie rockstar "Japanese Breakfast", an unflinching, deeply moving memoir about growing up mixed-race, Korean food, losing her Korean mother, and forging her own identity in the wake of her loss, which brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her. In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humour and heart, she tells of growing up the only Asian-American kid at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of ... |
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A princess must have her prince. I have a heart for every year I've been alive. There are seventeen hidden in the sand of my bedroom. Every so often, I claw through the shingle to check they're still there. Buried deep and bloody. Princess Lira is siren royalty and revered across the sea until she is cursed into humanity by the ruthless Sea Queen. Now Lira must deliver the heart of the infamous siren killer or remain a human forever. Prince Elian is heir to the most powerful kingdom in the world, and captain to a deadly crew of siren hunters. When he rescues a drowing woman from the ocean, she promises to help ... |
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"Oxford Grammar for Schools" gives students the opportunity to explore grammar for themselves and encourages them to be aware of their progress through regular self-evaluation and review. As students activate their grammar through listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities, they activate their English. Covers all the grammar students need to know for the Cambridge exams Approximately 30 units per level - the right length for one academic year Clearly stated "I can". The learning outcomes for every unit: contextualised explanations; opportunities to practise grammar and to practise ... |
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"Oxford Grammar for Schools" gives students the opportunity to explore grammar for themselves and encourages them to be aware of their progress through regular self-evaluation and review. As students activate their grammar through listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities, they activate their English. Covers all the grammar students need to know for the Cambridge exams Approximately 30 units per level - the right length for one academic year Clearly stated "I can". The learning outcomes for every unit: contextualised explanations; opportunities to practise grammar and to practise ... |
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"Oxford Grammar for Schools" gives students the opportunity to explore grammar for themselves and encourages them to be aware of their progress through regular self-evaluation and review. As students activate their grammar through listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities, they activate their English. Covers all the grammar students need to know for the Cambridge exams Approximately 30 units per level - the right length for one academic year Clearly stated "I can". The learning outcomes for every unit: contextualised explanations; opportunities to practise grammar and to practise ... |
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Over 200 paintings, sculptures, photographs, and conceptual pieces trace the story of modern art's innovation and adventure. With explanatory texts for each work, and essays introducing each of the major modern movements, this is an authoritative overview of the ideas and the artworks that shook up standards, assaulted the establishment, and trailblazed new ideas. A blow-by-blow account of groundbreaking modernism. Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impressionists, began painting pictures with rapid, loose brushwork. ... |
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This is a book that traces the boundaries of home. Twenty-two stories dedicated to the road. Twenty-two essays about life on the verge of languages and worlds. "My Brother's Suitcase" is an anthology of twenty-two stories about the evasive nature of the modern concept of ‘e/im/migration.’ A book about the language we feel at home with. About the suitcases that we carry around the world-suitcases full of memories, old photos, and dreams of home."The reflective, funny and bittersweet stories in My Brother's Suitcase made me rummage through my own baggage, accumulated over twenty years of expat life ... |
