The new graded readers series of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks especially written for teenagers. A collection of short stories themed around food and drink: a bed and breakfast owner is determined that one of her guests should try her famous `Full English Breakfast`; a scientist invents an additive that increases peoples` attraction to certain food; a young boy learns to cook with the help of a great uncle and a magic ingredient; and a Japanese master chef must prepare his own last meal. This paperback is in American English.
ISBN: 978-0-521-14889-4
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: август 2011
Tatiana is eighteen years old, pregnant and widowed when she escapes war-torn Leningrad to find a new life in America. But the ghosts of her past do not rest easily. She becomes obsessed with the belief that her husband, Red Army Major Alexander Belov, is still alive and needs her Meanwhile, oceans and continents away in the Soviet Union, Alexander, having barely escaped execution, is leading a battalion of soldiers considered expendable by Soviet high command. New recruits survive only days. Yet Alexander is determined to take them across the ruins of Europe in one last, desperate bid to escape Stalin`s death machine, and see Tatiana once
ISBN: 978-0-00-711889-2
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2012
The epic voyage of the spacecraft Leonora Christine will take her and her fifty-strong crew to a planet some thirty light-years distant. But, because the ship will accelerate to close to the speed of light, for those on board subjective time will slow and the journey will be of only a few years` duration. Then a buffeting by an interstellar dustcloud changes everything. The ship`s deceleration system is damaged irreperably and soon she is gaining velocity. When she attains light-speed, tau zero itself, the disparity between ship-time and external time becomes almost impossibly great. Eons and galaxies hurtle by, and the crew of the Leonora Christine speeds into the unknown.
ISBN: 978-0-575-08258-8
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Set in Whitechapel in 1888, The Tea Rose is a tale of a love lost and won, of a family`s destruction, of murder and revenge - and one young woman`s quest to escape the poverty of her childhood and make her fortune in the tea trade. Fiona Finnegan is the spirited, ambitious daughter of an Irish dock worker. She longs to break free from the squalid lanes and alleys of Whitechapel, where she has a job in a tea factory. With the love of her life, Joe Bristow, she dreams of escaping the poverty and opening her own tea shop. But one by one her dreams fall apart as her father is killed in a dock accident, Joe is seduced by another woman, and her mother is viciously murdered - a suspected victim of Jack, the Ripper. Devastated, her life in...
ISBN: 978-0-00-720800-5
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
The teachings of don Juan is the story of a remarkable journey: the first awesome steps on the road to becoming a "man of knowledge" - the road that continues with "A Separate Reality" and "Journey to Ixtlan".
Jenny is very tall for her age, and when her mum makes her dress smartly for her first day at a new school, she looks very grown-up indeed. So grown-up, in fact, that when she arrives at the school, she is mistaken for a new teacher, and left in charge of a classroom of kids! Jenny`s first instinct is to escape, but on her way out she gets caught by Miss Ice, the strict school principal, who is not very impressed to find a new teacher sneaking around the corridors. Petrified by the terrifying Miss Ice, Jenny is forced to keep up the act, and soon finds herself in all sorts of tricky situations, culminating in a rather explosive chemistry lesson. How long will it be before Jenny is found out? Will she and her pupils survive the day?...
ISBN: 978-0-7475-8039-3
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Contemporary / American English (Available February 2008) When Frank McCourt becomes a teacher in New York, he finds himself standing in front of bored, confused, angry students. Will he fail as a teacher? Or can he use his miserable Irish childhood to help his students? This is the true story of one man`s surprising, upsetting, but sometimes very funny experiences in the classroom.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8233-0
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Серия книг Penguin Readers, включающая классические и современные произведения, предлагает литературу для изучающих английский язык на уровнях Beginner – Advanced. Увлекательное чтение может дополняться аудиозаписями.
ISBN: 978-1-4082-9443-7
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
- A series of fun stories using very simple synthetic phonic-based text. - Synthetic phonic learning is the process of reading by sounding the individual sounds of a word and then blending them together to read the word as a whole. - With fold out flaps to make the reading experience more interactive. - Written in conjunction with an educational psychology expert.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-7717-7
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Usborne Phonics Readers have been created in consultation with a language expert, taking into account the latest research on the most effective ways of teaching reading. Children who have just learned to read can enjoy the lively stories with very little guidance from an adult, gaining the experience and enthusiasm they need to become fully confident readers. Stephen Cartwright`s delightful illustrations complement the text and are designed to stimulate further interest. Fold-out pages add to the enjoyment.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-7727-6
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Everyone loves Jen Greenley. But being the world`s best listener doesn`t always get you too far. Until Jen`s asked to look after `Lucas Smith` - better known as Luke Striker, Hollywood`s most famous teenage movie star,...
ISBN: 978-0-330-43300-6
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
"Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series` combination of high interest level and low reading age makes it suitable for both English-speaking teenagers with limited reading skills and students of English as a second language. Many titles in the series also provide access to the pre-20th century literature strands of the National Curriculum English Orders. "Penguin Readers" are graded at seven levels of difficulty, from "Easystarts" with a 200-word vocabulary, to Level 6 (Advanced) with a 3000-word vocabulary. In addition, titles fall into...
ISBN: 978-0-582-36368-7
Издательство:
Longman
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The old rules no longer apply - anybody with a spare AK47 or a knowledge of kitchen chemistry can become a player. In a nondescript office building in suburban Maryland, `The Campus`, set up with the knowledge of President John Patrick Ryan identifies and locates terrorist threats - then deals with them, in whatever manner is necessary. It`s an organisation always on the lookout for new recruits - men like Jack Ryan Jr, the President`s son. Filled with the exceptional realism and cutting-edge authenticity that are his hallmarks, this is Clancy at his best - and there is none better
ISBN: 978-0-425-19740-0
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Elizabeth has wanted two things her entire life to keep her happy and fulfilled - an Italian husband and lots of rosy-cheeked bambini. The first is ticked off now she`s bagged dark and sexy Roberto, the second is proving harder to achieve. But when Roberto loses his job and decides to leave London for Italy and the family business, Elizabeth hopes the change in lifestyle might help her relax and boost her chances of conceiving. Except, no matter how much ice cream she eats in the sun-drenched piazza, it`s impossible to relax when her wily mother-in-law (the original black widow) seems hellbent on destroying her language barrier is tricky, as is Roberto`s beautiful, significant ex who practically lives next door. Is Elizabeth`s desire for...
ISBN: 978-0-14-102479-0
Издательство:
Книжный мир
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Elizabeth has wanted two things her entire life to keep her happy and fulfilled - an Italian husband and lots of rosy-cheeked bambini. The first is ticked off now she`s bagged dark and sexy Roberto, the second is proving harder to achieve. But when Roberto loses his job and decides to leave London for Italy and the family business, Elizabeth hopes the change in lifestyle might help her relax and boost her chances of conceiving. Except, no matter how much ice cream she eats in the sun-drenched piazza, it`s impossible to relax when her wily mother-in-law (the original black widow) seems hellbent on destroying her language barrier is tricky, as is Roberto`s beautiful, significant ex who practically lives next door. Is Elizabeth`s desire for...
ISBN: 978-0-14-103976-3
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
"She had read about stalkers, but they belonged in a different, faraway world. She had no idea who it could be, who would want to harm her. She was trying desperately not to panic, but lately her sleep had been filled with nightmares, and she had awakened each morning with a feeling of impending doom."
ISBN: 0-00-651224-0
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: февраль 2007
Ashley, elegant yet haunted...Toni, sultry as well as vivacious...Alette, lovely and totally without conceit...three beautiful young women suspected of committing a series of horrifying murders. One of the most bizarre murder trials of the century is about to begin and reveal an astounding, startling piece of medical evidence almost impossible to believe. Sweeping from London to Rome, from Quebec to San Francisco, this latest tale from the world`s reigning master storyteller is so much more than a mystery: It is a searching, riveting, and, finally, triumphant foray into the dark, wild depths of the human heart.
ISBN: 0-446-60720-7
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
In "Tell Me Lies", Jennifer Crusie, author of "Crazy for You", dishes up a funny, sexy suspenseful novel about small-town secrets, big-time betrayals and the redemptive power of love, laughter and chocolate brownies.
Tell-All is many things: a Sunset Boulevard-inflected homage to Old Hollywood when grand dames like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford ruled the roost. A Douglas Sirk-inspired melodrama full of big gestures and muted psychic torment. A veritable Tourette`s Syndrome of rat-tat-tat name-dropping, from the A-list to the Z-list. A merciless send-up of Lillian Hellman`s habit of butchering the truth that will have Mary McCarthy cheering from the beyond. Our narrator is Hazie Coogan, who for decades has tended to the outsized needs of Katherine `Miss Kathie` Kenton, a star of the wattage of Elizabeth Taylor and the emotional torments of Judy Garland. The survivor of multiple marriages, career comebacks and cosmetic surgeries, Miss Kathie lives the...
ISBN: 978-0-09-955529-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
There have been eighty requests to send an Observer into the hinterlands of the planet Aka to study the natives. Much to everyone`s surprise, the eighty-first request is granted, and Observer Sutty is sent upriver to Okzat-Ozkat, a small city in the foothills of Rangma, to talk to the remnants in hiding of a cult practising a banned religion. On Aka, everything that was written in the old scripts has been destroyed; modern aural literature is all written to Corporation specifications. The Corporation expects Sutty to report back so the non-standardised folk stories and songs can be wiped out and the people `re-educated`. But Sutty herself is in for an education she never imagined.
ISBN: 0-441-01123-3
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: апрель 2004