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This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students reading confidence. Introductions…
With an Introduction by James Tiptree, Jr. More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people`s minds. --Wall Street Journal Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick to have been the greatest science fiction writer on…
LGBTQ cinema is out in force at Sundance Film Festival, proclaimed USA Today. The acerbic coming-of-age movie is adapted from Emily M. Danforth`s novel, and stars Chloë Grace Moretz as a lesbian teen who is sent to a gay conversion therapy center after…
A fable that reveals the wisdom to create a life of passion, purpose, and peace.
The new Hercule Poirot novel – another brilliant murder mystery that can only be solved by the eponymous Belgian detective and his ‘little grey cells’. Since the publication of her first book in 1920, Agatha Christie wrote 33 novels, two plays and more…
All six books in the #1 New York Times bestselling Mortal Instruments series, now available in a collectible paperback boxed set. Enter the secret world of the Shadowhunters with this handsomely packaged boxed set that includes City of Bones, City of…
Sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is an ordinary teenager, who likes hanging out in Brooklyn with her friends. But everything changes the night she witnesses a murder, committed by a group of teens armed with medieval weaponry. The murderous group are Shadowhunters,…
This is the second book in the bestselling urban fantasy trilogy, The Mortal Instruments.With her mother in a coma and her father hell-bent on destroying the world, Clary is dragged deeper into New Yorks terrifying underworld of werewolves, demons and…
This title is the third and final instalment in the bestselling urban gothic fantasy sequence, The Mortal Instruments. With two of the Mortal Instruments now in Valentines hands, the world of the Shadowhunters teeters on the brink of civil war. Jace…
A murder takes place at the vicarage in the small village of St. Mary Mead, its victim is the least favorite of the local population. Therefore, there are numerous people suspicious. Miss Marple, who appears in this story by Agatha Christie for the first…
Beware! Peril to the detective who says: It is so small it does not matter Everything matters.’ After the Great War, life can never be the same again. Wounds need healing, and the horror of violent death banished into memory. Captain Arthur Hastings…
Charles Bravo died from the poison antimony. He took three days to die, and the doctors could do nothing to help him. There were three people who had reasons for wanting Charles Bravo dead - Florence Bravo herself, Charles Bravo s new young wife; Dr…
Allegra is an unusual name. It means happy in Italian, but the little girl in this story is sometimes very sad. She is only five years old, but she tells Adrian, her new friend, that she is going to die soon. How does she know? And who is the other Allegra?…
Manor Hall is an old dark house with a mystery. Nobody can go into the music room. But one night Tom and Milly hear something. The noise is coming from the music room. Tom and Milly open the door. Someone in the music room is singing. Tom and Milly are…
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway`s magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. This story of heroic endeavour won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. It stands as a unique and timeless vision…
Following two Top Ten bestsellers in comes the beautiful, poignant and utterly compelling new novel from Jojo Moyes. Suppose your life sucks, Your husband has done a vanishing act, your stepson is being bullied and your daughter has a once in a lifetime…
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young… If it was only the other way! Wildes first and only published novel…
Jazyková úroveň B1 - B2. Podle příběhu Oscara Wilda.
Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with conspiracy both ghastly and mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian priests are strangled with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses by night. Every…
THE THRILLER ONLY A PRESIDENT COULD WRITE. Former President Bill Clinton and global thriller master James Patterson have joined forces to create the most anticipated book of 2018. The President is Missing. Amid an international crisis, the impossible…
We have to leave our house in London, Mother said to the children. Were going to live in the country, in a little house near a railway line. And so begins a new life for Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis. They become the railway children - they know all the…
The past is another country, the old saying goes. The same might be said of the future. But which country? For Europeans and Americans today, the answer is Russia. Todays Russia is an oligarchy propped up by illusions and repression. But it also represents…
Hes Swedens most prolific serial killer. Jurek Walter is serving a life sentence. Kept in solitary confinement, he is still considered extremely dangerous by psychiatric staff. Hell lull you into a sense of calm. Mikael knows him as “the sandman”. Seven…
Little Mary Lennox is a bad-tempered, disagreeable child. When her parents die in India, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle in a big, lonely, old house. There is nothing to do all day except walk in the gardens - and watch the robin flying…
Jan opened his wooden box and took out the silver sword. This will bring me luck, he said to Mr Balicki. And it will bring you luck because you gave it to me. The silver sword is only a paper knife, but it gives Jan and his friends hope. Hungry, cold,…
New from the author of THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA: it’s a match made in hell. Sweeping from Wimbledon to the Caribbean, from LA to mega yachts in the Med, The Singles Game is a brilliantly entertaining romp through a world where the stakes are high – and…
Adrift after her sister Baileys sudden death, Lennie finds herself torn between quiet, seductive Toby—Baileys boyfriend who shares her grief—and Joe, the new boy in town who bursts with life and musical genius. Each offers Lennie something she desperately…
The night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. He walks through the silent house, but finds only wet footprints on the stairs. In the garden looms a solitary figure: a snowman bathed in cold moonlight, its black eyes glaring…