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In the south of France, secrets meander through the sun-drenched countryside like grapevines, and like fine wine, they grow richer with every year that passes. But Franny Marten knows little of this world. All that meanders through her tiny cottage in California is the dream of falling in love. Franny thought that dream might come true — until she meets her lover's wife! But just as Franny feels her heart break one too many times, she receives a mysterious letter in the mail that changes everything...

Dickens' classic rags-to-riches tale of Pip, an orphan who inherits a mysterious fortune and all of the troubles that go with it. The dynamic teen-oriented cover makes this the book to have in stock.

It’s a hot Californian summer and Suze’s best friend, Gina, is visiting from New York. Bliss! All Suze wants to do is check out the cute guys down at the beach. Unfortunately, being a mediator makes hanging out like any normal teenager pretty hard. So Suze is hardly surprised when a fatal car accident wreaks havoc on her perfect summer. The spirits of four high-school students are hungry for revenge. And if Suze tries to protect their target, she might find herself involved in a nasty ‘accident’ of her own...

Suze should be spending the summer vacation at the beach. Instead she's been forced to get a babysitting job at a swanky resort. She'd expected to look after some boring brat, so Suze is surprised to find that her charge is actually a budding mediator – with a totally hot older brother. Not that Suze's head could be turned by some guy – she's pledged her heart to Jesse, the most gorgeous ghost ever. But it's tough when the boy you love doesn't seem to love you back, and it's even tougher when you think you've found his 150-year-old grave in your backyard. Suze knows it's dangerous to dig up the past, but how can she focus on babysitting when she could be close to discovering who killed Jesse?

To the Romans, the greatest enemy the Republic ever faced was not the Goths or Huns, nor even Hannibal, but rather a ferocious and brilliant king on the distant Black Sea: Mithridates Eupator VI, the last king of Pontus, known to history as Mithridates the Great. At age eleven, he inherited a small mountain kingdom of wild tribesmen whom his wicked mother governed in his place. Sweeping to power at twenty-one-years-old, he proved to be a military genius and a man intent on ousting the Romans from the Black Sea coast territories. For over forty years, Rome sent its greatest generals to contain Mithridates, but time and again he embarrassed the Romans with devastating defeats. Each time Rome declared victory, Mithridates considered it merely a strategic retreat and soon came roaring back with a more powerful army than before. From the author of the acclaimed «The Ten Thousand and Gods and Legions», comes a fascinating recreation of a wickedly cunning and ruthless king who would stop at nothing to protect his people-and who would go down in history as one of the greatest and most formidable warriors of the ancient world.

It is the greatest bounty hunt in history. The targets are the finest warriors in the world-commandos, spies, terrorists. And they must all be dead by 12 noon, today. The price on their heads: almost $20 million each. Among the names, one stands out. The enigmatic Marine, Shane Schofield, who goes by the call-sign «Scarecrow». Schofield is plunged into a race around the world, pursued by a fearsome collection of international bounty hunters. The race is on and the pace is frantic as he fights for survival, in the process unveiling a vast international conspiracy and the terrible reason why he cannot, under any circumstances, be allowed to live! He led his men into hell in Ice Station. He protected the President against all odds in Area 7. But this time it's different, because he is the target. With all of his trademark action, Matthew Reilly continues to establish himself as one of the top thriller writers of today.

The Battle of Gettysburg has become the great «what if» of American history. Gettysburg unfolds an alternate path and creates for General Robert E. Lee the victory he might have won. Full of dramatic battle scenes, military strategy, and captivating period details, Gettysburg stands as a remarkable entry in the pantheon of Civil War literature and as a vivid novel of the realities of war. The year is 1863, and General Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia are poised to attack the North and claim the victory that could end the brutal conflict. Launching his men into a vast sweeping operation, General Lee, acting as he did at Chancellorsville, Second Manassas, and Antietam, displays the audacity of old. He knows he has but one more good chance to gain ultimate victory. Now Lee's lieutenants and the men in the ranks, imbued with this renewed spirit of the offensive, embark on the Gettysburg Campaign that many dream «should have been»...

Dr. Stephen Swain has found himself locked in the after-hours darkness of the New York Public Library. It isn’t a mistake. He’s been entombed in the historic sanctuary for a reason—as the guest of an unknown host, chosen for a night of fun and games. He’s unprepared. He’s afraid. And he’s not alone. Six other contestants roam the black halls, room by room, floor by floor, in the dead silence. Each strapped with an explosive set to detonate should they escape before the night is over. The terms are simple: seven players enter—only one will leave. Now Swain must navigate the labyrinth to outwit the unknown moves of his mysterious opponents, and to outlast the unimaginable dangers that await him. Against insurmountable odds the contest has begun. Should he win, the greatest, most unfathomable terror lies at the night’s end: the very reason behind the game…

Georgia, SuSu, Teeny, Linda and Diane have been friends for more than thirty years. But when Pru Bonner, black sheep of the group, falls off the wagon so hard it shakes their world, “the girls” stage a hilarious kidnapping in Vegas to help their childhood friend clean up her act. As the women confront their pasts along with their hazardous adventure, they discover surprising strength in themselves and their friendships. Laughter is spiced with secrets, surprises, and pitfalls aplenty, including a midlife pregnancy test, the perils of internet dating, an all-expense-paid plastic surgery cruise, and a surprise celebration that proves it's never too late for love. As in «The Red Hat Club», these irrepressible heroines face the challenges of friendship in sickness and in health, with heart and indomitable humor. So join The Red Hats and remember that age is all in your head, calories should always be in chewable form (Diet Coke with chocolate éclairs!), and that when all else fails, your Red Hats will see you through.

Our story begins in the year 1001 and the toddler, Thorgils Leiffson, son of Leif the Lucky and Thorgunna, arrives on the shores of Brattahlid in Greenland to be brought up in the fostercare of a young woman — Gudrid. Thorgils is a rootless character of quicksilver intelligence and adaptability. He has inherited his mother’s ability of second sight and his destiny lies beyond the imagination of those around him. Virtually orphaned, he is raised by various mentors, who teach him the ancient ways and warn him of the invasion of the ‘White Christ’ into the land of the ‘Old Gods’. Thorgils is guided by a restless quest for adventure and the wanderlust of his favoured god, Odinn. His fortunes take him into many dangerous situations as well as to the brink of death by execution, in battle, disease and shipwreck… Packed with wonderfully reimagined Viking sagas and adventures, and fascinating and unique characters, «Viking — Odinn's Child» gives historical novel writing a new dimension.

Sunday morning, New Year's Day, Inverness airport and a seasonal burst of highland snow grounds all flights. Lucy finds herself agreeing to share her hire car and the drive back to London with a total stranger, the man standing behind her in the queue. Their drive becomes a journey through a winter wonderland, a cocooned world inside a world. For just a few hours Lucy is separated from reality and finds herself thinking and behaving in a way she never would in normal life. And then several weeks later, when life has begun to re-establish itself so that Lucy can no longer even remember his face, and blushes whenever she tries, an ad appears: a small red car on a dark green poster emblazoned with the words LUCY BLUE, WHERE ARE YOU? I SAW YOU in Inverness airport. You were the girl in the blue coat arguing with the man from Rentacar at 8.30 am on Sunday 12 February. I was standing behind you... He wasn't meant to do this. They were not meant to ever see each other again. And reading the ad, Lucy could only wish passionately that she had never laid eyes on him, let alone the hands and lips (and everything else too) in a Welcome Break motel, junction 17, just north of Edinburgh.

This book is intended for undergraduates on courses in drama, theatre or performing arts, providing an informative and accessible guide to the subject. It will help students understand their main textbooks and wider reading, will be a source of definitions for use in essays and other assignments, and will be especially useful as a revision aid. Each chapter begins with a brief introduction to the concepts it embraces, followed by an alphabetical listing of those concepts. Students are encouraged to use the frequent cross-referencing as a means of seeing their studies in a wider context and with an integrated approach. The book has a fully comprehensive index, allowing the reader to follow themes running through the entries.

A wonderful rhyme book full of action and noise — guaranteed to make kids love poetry! Whenever I'm tired of being me I swing around like a chimpanzee. Are you tired of being you? Here's a whole bookful of things you can do! There are rhymes to make you wriggle and giggle, shrug and sigh, snap like a crocodile and slither like a snake. Julia Donaldson's verse jumps off the page and Nick Sharratt's snazzy illustrations add to the fun.

Here Comes Super Bus is a four-level story-based primary course. Each unit is built around a central story which is linked to a topic of special interest to children.

Here Comes Super Bus is a four-level story-based primary course. Each unit is built around a central story which is linked to a topic of special interest to children.

Additional reading material to accompany the Jump Aboard course.

Saucy, shimmering, loud and larger than life — come get your sugar fix! It's survival of the fittest at Ravendene Comprehensive — the terrifying teenage jungle for which Kim Lewis must trade her safe, posh private school. But help is at hand — in the unlikely form of the rude, raucous, toxic and tantalising Maria (aka Sugar) Sweet, queen of the 'Ravers'. As Kim falls quickly under her spell, and gambles her good-girl past for an exciting life of late-night parties and daring emotion, she must ask herself a disturbing question: has she fallen in love with her best friend?

The Student's Book of Level 2 of Get Ready for Business. •A workplace context with characters students can relate to •An optional TOEIC® test-type practice page for each unit

For his many devoted readers, Philip K. Dick is not only one of the «one of the most valiant psychological explorers of the 20th century» (The New York Times) but a source of divine revelation. In the riveting style that won accolades for The Adversary, Emmanuel Carrère follows Dick's strange odyssey from his traumatic beginnings in 1928, when his twin sister died in infancy, to his lonely end in 1982, beset by mystical visions of swirling pink light, three-eyed invaders, and messages from the Roman Empire. Drawing on interviews as well as unpublished sources, he vividly conjures the spirit of this restless observer of American postwar malaise who subverted the materials of science fiction — parallel universes, intricate time loops, collective delusions — to create classic works of contemporary anxiety.

With «Wizard's First Rule» and seven subsequent masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled readers worldwide with the unique sweep of his storytelling. Now Goodkind returns with a new novel of Richard and Kahlan, the beginning of a sequence of three novels that will bring their epic story to its culmination. After being gravely injured in battle, Richard awakes to discover Kahlan missing. To his disbelief, no one remembers the woman he is frantically trying to find. Worse, no one believes that she really exists, or that he was ever married. Alone as never before, he must find the woman he loves more than life itself....if she is even still alive. If she was ever even real.

From America's premier fantasy writer — #1New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of «Crossroads of Twilight» — comes «New Spring: The Novel». For three days battle has raged in the snow around the great city of Tar Valon. In the city, a Foretelling of the future is uttered. On the slopes of Dragonmount, the immense mountain that looms over the city, is born an infant prophesied to change the world. That child must be found before the forces of the Shadow have an opportunity to kill him. Moiraine Damodred, a young Accepted soon to be raised to Aes Sedai, and Lan Mandragoran, a soldier fighting in the battle, are set on paths that will bind their lives together. But those paths are filled with complications and dangers, for Moiraine, of the Royal House of Cairhien, whose king has just died, and Lan, considered the uncrowned king of a nation long dead, find their lives threatened by the plots of those seeking power. «New Spring», the novella first published in «Legends», related some of these events, in compressed form; «New Spring: The Novel» tells the whole story.

Explorers – серия книг, написанных специально для детей младшего школьного возраста с учетом их интересов и возрастных особенностей. Серия разбита на восемь уровней, состоит из 64 названий и может быть использована с любым учебным пособием по английскому языку для начальной школы. Серия включает в себя как современную прозу и классические произведения, так и научно-популярную литературу.

Explorers – серия книг, написанных специально для детей младшего школьного возраста с учетом их интересов и возрастных особенностей. Серия разбита на восемь уровней, состоит из 64 названий и может быть использована с любым учебным пособием по английскому языку для начальной школы. Серия включает в себя как современную прозу и классические произведения, так и научно-популярную литературу.

Explorers – серия книг, написанных специально для детей младшего школьного возраста с учетом их интересов и возрастных особенностей. Серия разбита на восемь уровней, состоит из 64 названий и может быть использована с любым учебным пособием по английскому языку для начальной школы. Серия включает в себя как современную прозу и классические произведения, так и научно-популярную литературу. Young Explorers 2 is aimed at children aged 7-8. The stories have been written using high-frequency words, plus story-specific words which, as far as possible, are clarified by illustrations. Each Reader contains one complete story.