Based on the story of O. Henry . Text adaptation by Bill Bowler . ... What does a poor young woman do when she loses her boyfriend or wants to find one? What little lies do we tell to make ourselves look better in the eyes of those that we love? How can a friend save someone who is sure that they are going to die? What happens when someone's clever plans all go wrong? These sweetly surprising short stories - about both good times and bad - are sometimes sad, and sometimes funny. But all of them are sure to make you think. Dominoes is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers students a fun reading ... |
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Retold by Janet Hardy-Gould . ... When the Emperor calls every man to join the army and fight the enemy, Mulan's father is old and ill, and cannot go. Wearing men's clothes and riding a horse, Mulan leaves her family and fights bravely for the Emperor in her father's place. She is soon a hero for all the soldiers in the Chinese army. One of them, Ye Ming, is her best friend. But does he know that she is a woman? And can Mulan fall in love with a friend? Dominoes is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers students a fun reading experience while building their language skills. With integrated ... |
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Retold by Janet Hardy-Gould . ... Hercules is the strongest man in the world, but one day he does something very bad. The priestess at Delphi tells him: "The gods are angry with you. For twelve years you must work for King Eurystheus, and do twelve tasks for him. When you finish, the gods can forgive your crime." Some tasks are easier, and some tasks are more difficult. Can Hercules finish all twelve of them? And what happens when he does? Dominoes is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers students a fun reading experience while building their language skills. With integrated activities and ... |
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One cold winter morning, a famous movie star and her teenage daughter are driving along a country road... A blue van is waiting for them. Tom is in the van, but he's not a kidnapper - he's an artist. He usually draws pictures for adventure stories. Now he's in a real life adventure. Dominoes is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers students a fun reading experience while building their language skills. With integrated activities and on-page glossaries the new edition of the series makes reading motivating for learners. Each reader is carefully graded to ensure each student reads from the ... |
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The idea of this book is to emphasize - on the example of analysing select emblematic pieces of Victorian and post-Victorian poetry - that the Past matters as it informs the mind about its present state and about actuality in the general sense of the word. My theoretical premises have been modern European ontophilosophy, existential ethics and hermeneutics. A scholar's academic past - flawed as it may be - contains the scholar's own personal experiental past (and thus a morsel of a general communal past. and vice versa. It is the author's humble hope therefor that some of the ideas and issues raised in this ... |
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По романа на Франсис Скот Фицджералд , преразказан от Ричард Ларкман. ... Scott Fitzgerald's third novel was published in 1925 and has justifiably become a 20th century literary classic."– Gatsby ?" - asked Daisy urgently. – What Gatsby? Could it be the same young army lieutenant whom Daisy Fay met five years ago - and who owns a sumptuous house on Long Island, where New York society enjoys the best parties on offer? Is it just coincidence that Gatsby lives across the bay from Daisy - now married to wealthy polo-player Tom Buchanan?" From the novel As one man's mysterious dream moves towards its ... |
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Compiled and edited by Nevena Dishlieva-Krysteva. ... This anthology contains twenty-six personal tales of youthful adventures, ridiculous hairstyles, bootleg cassette tapes, mafia thugs, hitchhiking and guitar-playing, free falling, and hopes for a bright future. All this took place against the backdrop of political and social cataclysms during the most vertiginous decade in Bulgaria’s recent history. A chronicle of euphoria, aspirations, and painful collapse. Stories from the '90s is the third and final book in the series of themed anthologies published by ICU , which also include My Brother's Suitcase and ... |
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The hilarious and moving new book from funny fiction superstar Sam Copeland, author of the bestselling "Charlie Changes Into a Chicken". Uma Gnudersonn has a head full of questions: How can I save my home from being sold? Will my dad ever start talking again? And how do alpacas get drunk? But since her mum died, Uma's life has been short on answers. Then she finds a genius artificial intelligence called Athena who knows everything. Suddenly Uma has the answer to any question she can imagine - from the capital of Mozambique to the colour of her headteacher's underpants - and she's going to use them ... |
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At Zalindov, the only person you can trust is yourself. Seventeen-year-old Kiva Meridan is a survivor. For ten years, she has worked as the healer in the notorious death prison, Zalindov, making herself indispensable. Kept afloat by messages of hope from her family, Kiva has one goal and one goal only: stay alive. Then one day the infamous Rebel Queen arrives at the prison on death's door and Kiva receives a new message: Don't let her die. We are coming. The queen is sentenced to the Trial by Ordeal: a series of elemental challenges against the torments of air, fire, water, and earth, assigned to only the most ... |
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Based on the story of Jonathan Swift . Retold by Clare West . ... "Soon I felt something alive moving along my leg and up my body to my face, and when I looked down, I saw a very small human being, only fifteen centimetres tall... I was so surprised that I gave a great shout." By the book But that is only the first of many surprises which Gulliver has on his travels. He visits a land of giants and a flying island, meets ghosts from the past and horses which talk... Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading ... |
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"I killed a man before I turned six. Today I`m turning ninety-two. It is autumn. In the stillness of the street, the chestnut trees lazily relinquish their leaves. At the end of the century in wich my time was fated to flow with a memory bloodied from the very beginning.""The Migration" ... |
