Hilariously funny, this is perfect for fans of Blackadder and Horrible Histories! Brutus, the dastardly Black Baron, has challenged his wimpy cousin to a duel. A duel to the death! Poor Prince all he really wants to do is marry Lady Violetzka, and maybe write some badly rhyming poems. `Be proud my pounding heart, my knocking knees knock less. Stand firm my armour! (And my underpants and vest!)...` Enter Tassie Ripley - she travels back in time with a cunning plan to save the Prince. It involves the hokey kokey, a talking horse, and a wax candle stuck to her head. With Tassie`s help, medieval history will read Bravo for Billy and Bashings for Brustus!
ISBN: 978-1-4052-4231-8
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: август 2011
From the Iron Age to the Industrial Revolution, the Romans to the Regency, few things have mirrored society or been affected by its upheavals as much as the food we eat and the way we prepare it. In this involving history of the British people, Kate Colquhoun celebrates every aspect of our cuisine from Anglo-Saxon feasts and Tudor banquets, through the skinning of eels and the invention of ice cream, to Dickensian dinner-party excess and the growth of frozen food. Taste tells a story as rich and diverse as a five-course dinner.
ISBN: 978-0-7475-9306-5
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Contemporary / British English (Available June 2008) In this collection of Roald Dahl`s finest stories we meet some quite ordinary people who behave in extraordinary ways. There is a man who is sure he can hear plants scream and the wife who discovers a perfect way to get rid of her husband. And there`s a woman who finds an unusual use for a leg of lamb
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8254-5
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
In this collection of Roald Dahl`s finest stories we meet some quite ordinary people who behave in extraordinary ways. There is a man who is sure he can hear plants scream and the wife who discovers a perfect way to get rid of her husband. And there`s a woman who finds an unusual use for a leg of
ISBN: 978-1-4082-7664-8
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: август 2011
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
Discover the pleasure of reading with this new seven-level series of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks specifically written for teenagers and young adults. 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; a Japanese master chef must prepare his own last meal. Graded to seven levels with the teenage language learner in mind, Cambridge Discovery Readers exposes students to English in a lively and engaging way. Attractive and original...
ISBN: 978848323-542-3
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: июнь 2012
Discover the pleasure of reading with this new seven-level series of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks specifically written for teenagers and young adults. 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; a Japanese master chef must prepare his own last meal. Graded to seven levels with the teenage language learner in mind, Cambridge Discovery Readers exposes students to English in a lively and engaging way. Attractive and original...
ISBN: 978848323-545-4
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: сентябрь 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
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
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
- 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
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.
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
