In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr Locke, she feels little different from the artefacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored and utterly out of place. But her quiet existence is shattered when she stumbles across a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure and danger. Each page reveals more impossible truths about the world, and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own."A gorgeous, aching love letter to stories, ... |
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How did i fall? Easy. He turned my world upside down. Fast-paced and sizzling with a forbidden enemies-to-lovers romance, My Fault is the first book in international bestselling author Mercedes Ron's Culpables trilogy. This suspenseful YA series untangles the threads of love, trauma, and secrets, perfect for fans of Ugly Love and After. Seventeen-year-old Noah Morgan loves her quiet, normal life in Toronto. But when her mother returns from a cruise unexpectedly married to a billionaire and announces they are moving to L.A., Noah is suddenly shoved out of her comfort zone and into a glittering world of illegal ... |
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A small boy creates a shelter for his sadness, a safe space where Sadness is welcome, where it can curl up small, or be as big as it can be, where it can be noisy or quiet, or anything in between. The boy can visit the shelter whenever he needs to, every day, sometimes every hour, and the two of them will cry and talk or just sit, saying nothing. And the boy knows that one day Sadness may come out of the shelter, and together they will look out at the world, and see how beautiful it is. A poignant and heart-warming picture book exploring the importance of making space and time for our own griefs, small or large, ... |
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From the mythical charm of the Song of the Nibelungs to the stunning scapes of fairy-tale castles, impressive bridges and thick forests, the Danube, Europe's second longest river, tickles the imagination of people from all over the world. Passau, Vienna, Budapest and Belgrade have long been on the travel maps. But what about the Bulgarian section of the river? What about Vidin, Ruse, Svishtov and Silistra? Little known and even less travelled, the Bulgarian stretch of the Danube is a gem in its own right. There, Roman ruins coexist with vibrant bird colonies and quiet ports, romantic sunsets paint in pink ornate ... |
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"Not all love stories are written the same way. Ours had torn chapters, missing paragraphs, and a bittersweet ending."Luna Rexroth is everyone’s favorite wallflower. Sweet. Caring. Charitable. Quiet. Fake. Underneath the meek, tomboy exterior everyone loves (yet pities) is a girl who knows exactly what, and who, she wants - namely, the boy from the treehouse who taught her how to curse in sign language. Who taught her how to laugh. To live. To love. Knight Cole is everyone’s favorite football hero. Gorgeous. Athletic. Rugged. Popular. Liar. This daredevil hell-raiser could knock you up with his gaze alone, but ... |
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"This book was begun in the quiet, news - free, cold winter days of January 2015 and completed amid the heat of summer, when again news took a holiday, in August and September 2015. Given that it is a slim volume, it is not that I am a slow writer, on the contrary; there was a hiatus of seven months between the ending of chapter three and the start of work on chapter four. The news business makes its demands makes it's demands on the editor of a news website..." Foreword and Acknowledgements Clive Leviev - Sawyer was a senior political journalist in South Africa before moving to Bulgaria at the end of 2001 ... |
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"Oxford Bookworms Library Factfiles" are non-fiction graded readers from the "Oxford Bookworms Library" available for Levels 1 to 4 (CEFR A1 - B2). Students learn about different countries and cultures, science and nature, history and historical figures all while practising and improving their English. More than 20 million visitors come to Scotland each year. Some love it for its long white beaches and quiet green hills. Some like the busy cities, with their shops and museums, castles, and parks. Others come to see the home of their parents and grandparents, to hear Scottish music, to find their ... |
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Oxford Bookworms Library Factfiles are non-fiction graded readers from the Oxford Bookworms Libraryo available for Levels 1 to 4 (CEFR A1 - B2). Students learn about different countries and cultures, science and nature, history and historical figures all while practising and improving their English. On a quiet sea, the biggest ship in the world is waiting. There is no noise from the engines. Up in the night sky there are hundreds of stars. Behind the ship, an iceberg - a great mountain of ice - goes slowly away into the black night. In the beautiful first-class rooms rich passengers eat and listen to music. Down in the ... |
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Oxford Bookworms Library Factfiles are non-fiction graded readers from the Oxford Bookworms Library available for Levels 1 to 4 (CEFR A1 - B2). Students learn about different countries and cultures, science and nature, history and historical figures all while practising and improving their English. What is Japan? It is everything new and modern: the Tokyo Sky Tree, 634 metres high; amazing cameras and phones; karaoke and manga; trains going past at 300 kilometres an hour. And it is everything ancient too: beautiful palaces; high mountains and hot springs; cherry blossom in the spring; quiet gardens with water and trees. ... |
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Oxford Bookworms Library Factfiles are non-fiction graded readers from the "Oxford Bookworms Library" available for Levels 1 to 4 (CEFR A1 - B2). Students learn about different countries and cultures, science and nature, history and historical figures all while practising and improving their English. Twenty-five million people come to England every year, and some never go out of London. But England is full of interesting places to visit and things to do. There are big noisy cities with great shops and theatres, and quiet little villages. You can visit old castles and beautiful churches - or go to festivals with ... |
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The greatest war novel of all time. ... Paul Baumer enlisted with his classmates in the German army of World War I. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. And as horrible war plods on year after year, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principles of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against each other - if only he can come out of the war alive. "The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably ... |
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Woodend was a small, quiet village with no shops, no visitors. Then a stranger came and opened the Corner Shop. That summer, visitors came to Woodend. And customers came secretly to the shop. They wanted help and the stranger helped them. This book is in British English and here you can find a story and points for understanding comprehension questions. There are exercises at the end of the book. Included CD contains audio versions of all the chapters of the book. ... |