What could be more intriguing to Amelia Peabody and her irresistible, irascible husband, Emerson ("the Father of Curses"), than meeting a masked stranger who offers to show them an Egyptian queen`s lost tomb? The mysterious disappearance of that midnight visitor before he can disclose the secret! Thus begins Amelia`s newest adventure along the Nile. Helped or hampered by two teenagers, their son Ramses and their beautiful ward, Nefret, the Emersons set sail for Thebes to find the hidden tomb of Queen Tetisheri. With them is a timid (or is she?) governess named Miss Marmaduke. Soon to join the expedition are Amelia`s sister-and brother-in-law, Evelyn and Walter, whose marriage is going through a rocky patch. As usual, archaeology is only...
ISBN: 0-446-60398-8
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that takes over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed. Wanderer, the invading `soul` who has been given Melanie`s body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too-vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn`t expect: the former tenant of her body refusing to relinquish possession of her mind. Melanie fills Wanderer`s thoughts with visions of the man Melanie loves - Jared, a human who still lives in hiding. Unable to separate herself from her body`s desires, Wanderer yearns for a man she`s never met. As outside forces make Wanderer and...
An exciting new series which provides reading and language learning at five levels. As well as enjoyable stories and texts, each book provides a range of integrated activities designed to develop reading skills, consolidate vocabulary, and offer personalised project work. Each book is supported by a CD-ROM which contains additional activities and the complete audio recording. What`s special about Penguin Active Reading? Beautiful illustrations, photographs, maps and diagrams help to bring the stories alive and reinforce meaning Integrated activities help your students think about the story/text in advance, check comprehension, learn new vocabulary and practise key grammar structures Outside the classroom - a bank of ideas for project...
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8454-9
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
The Hollywood family film is one of the most popular, commercially-successful and culturally significant forms of mass entertainment. This book is the first in-depth history of the Hollywood family film, tracing its development from its beginnings in the 1930s to its global box-office dominance today. Noel Brown shows how, far from being an innocuous amusement for children, the family film has always been intended for audiences of all ages and backgrounds. He tells the story of how Hollywood`s ongoing preoccupation with breaking down the barriers that divide audiences has resulted in some of the most successful and enduring films in the history of popular cinema. Drawing on multiple sources and with close analysis of a broad range of...
How shall we begin? This is the story of a book called The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy—not an Earth book, never published on Earth and, until the terrible catastrophe occurred, never seen or even heard of by any Earthman. Nevertheless, a wholly remarkable book. or This is the story of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a number-one best seller in England, a weekly radio series with millions of fanatic listeners, and soon to be a television spectacle on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. or This is the story of Arthur Dent, who, secnds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, is plucked off the planet by his friend, Ford Prefect, who has been posing as an out-of-work actor for the last...
ISBN: 978-1-4000-5292-9
Издательство:
АСТ/Астрель
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
