Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student\`s ability. Rarotonga, in the beautiful Pacific Cook Islands, is the setting for a daring robbery. When master-thief Wolfgang Peters arrives on the island, Inspector Janet Hunter of the New Zealand Police is waiting for him. Will Peters manage to escape justice once again, or will Hunter and the Rarotongan police catch him? Paperback-only version. Also available with Audio CD including complete text recordings from the book.

ISBN: 978-0-521-73289-5
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The Black Robe is an 1881 epistolary novel. In this story of relationships, psychological contortion, and deceit, a priest comes between an impressionable man and the young woman he loves. Collins is best known for originating the genre of the "sensation novel" that is the precursor of the modern suspense and detective novels.

ISBN: 978-5-521-07095-4
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018

ISBN: 9780140449631
Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: январь 2007

ISBN: 9781409117711
Издательство: Orion Books
Дата выхода: январь 2007

ISBN: 9781526600790
Издательство: Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: январь 2022

ISBN: 9780349142661
Дата выхода: январь 2017

The now global phenomenon of graffiti was first captured in New York by a professional photographer, Jon Naar, in early 1973. The Faith of Graffiti, the first and most celebrated book about this controversial new art form, reproduced just over forty selections from the hundreds of photographs he took. Now more than one hundred thirty never-before-published pictures from that landmark body of work, together with a selection of key photographs from The Faith of Graffiti, are brought together in a book destined to become a classic in its own right. Presented full-frame, at high resolution, and with meticulous attention to the original color, this book brings to life the gritty, exciting New York of the early 1970s and the raw visual power...

ISBN: 978-3-7913-3796-8
Издательство: Prestel
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

This is the latest instalment in the most famous thriller series of them all. Bourne is back, and this time the stakes are higher than `s enemies are gathering force. Severus Domna, a secret and ancient cabal, has called forth its members from around the globe, with one objective: to vanquish the last person capable of destroying their bid to de-stabilize the world economy - Jason Bourne. But how can they possibly succeed where so many others have failed? By turning Bourne`s most trusted friend into his greatest - and most deadly - enemy. Now Bourne finds himself in a world where friend and foe go hand-in-hand. Bourne`s journey will lead him down a path of brutal murder and destruction - one from which there is no

ISBN: 978-1-4091-2139-8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011

This summer, 2010, Veronica Henry will bring us THE BEACH HUT. A wonderful novel of linked short stories, each focussing on a gaily painted row of beach huts on the picturesque Woolacoombe beach in Devon. Just as each beach hut has a girl`s name painted above the door, each has its own individual story. Ronnie has spent many summers eavesdropping on what goes on in them. Various comings and goings, the people who hire them, the people who own them, and what goes on in the huts on this beautiful beach over a long, hot, lazy

ISBN: 978-1-4091-1995-1
Издательство: Orion Books
Дата выхода: январь 2013

"The Best of Sherlock Holmes" is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle`s fifty-six short stories featuring the arch-sleuth. Basing his selection around the author`s own twelve personal favourites, David Stuart Davies has added a further eight sparkling stories to Conan Doyle`s `Baker Street Dozen` creating a unique volume which distils the pure essence of the world`s most famous detective. Within these pages the reader will encounter the greatest collection of villains and the weirdest and most puzzling mysteries ever seen in print. And there at the centre, in a London swathed in eddies of fog and illuminated by gaslight, is to be found the remarkable character of Sherlock Holmes and his staunch...

ISBN: 1-85326-748-1
Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 1998

Father Christmas, a sickly Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, an elf who gets locked in the workshop, the story of the birth of the list goes on in this wonderful volume of stories for young readers all about Christmas. Lavishly illustrated throughout by a plethora of brilliant artists, including Sue Hellard, Michael Foreman, Eleanor Taylor and Ian Beck.

ISBN: 978-0-7475-9344-7
Издательство: Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011

When William Kamkwamba was just 14 years old his parents told him that he must leave school and come and work on the family farm as they could no longer afford to $80 a year tuition fees. This is the story of his refusal to give up on learning and reading. A story of passion, determination and remarkable achievements. Malawi is a country battling AIDS, drought and famine, and in 2002, a season of floods, followed by the most severe famine in fifty years, brought it to its knees. Like the majority of the population, William`s family were farmers. They were totally reliant of the maize crop. By the end of 2001, after many lean and difficult years, there was no more crop. They were running out of food - had nothing to sell - and had months...

ISBN: 978-0-00-731619-9
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011

ISBN: 9780099922803
Дата выхода: январь 2019

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. He was a celebrity during his lifetime for works like "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Treasure Island". Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. This volume consists of two amazing stories: mysterious "The Body-Snatcher" and intriguing "The Story of a Lie". .

ISBN: 978-5-521-07793-9
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018

"The Baker & McKenzie International Arbitration Yearbook 2008" is second in the annual series established by the Firm in 2007. This year, the collection of articles on international arbitration is not limited to the European experience, but comprises reports from around the world. Leading lawyers of the Firm`s International Arbitration Practice Group, a subdivision of the Firm`s Global Dispute Resolution Practice Group, share their views on recent developments in national laws relating to arbitration, and address current trends and tendencies in the relevant judicial practice. Additionally, "Baker & McKenzie" has asked the contributors to report on a special topic: the attitude of national courts regarding the independence and...

ISBN: 978-5-466-00398-7
Издательство: Волтерс Клувер
Дата выхода: март 2009

ISBN: 9781409116868
Издательство: Orion Books
Дата выхода: январь 2023

Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. The Beautiful and Damned, first published in 1922, is Fitzgerald`s second novel. It explores and portrays New York society and the American Eastern elite during the Jazz Age before and after "the Great War" and in the early 1920s.

ISBN: 978-5-521-07704-5
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018