Part Wonder Woman, part Vikings - and all heart. Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient, god-decreed rivalry against the Riki clan. Her life is brutal but simple: train to fight and fight to survive. Until the day she sees the impossible on the battlefield - her brother, fighting with the enemy - the brother she watched die five years ago. Eelyn loses her focus and is captured. Now, she must survive the winter in the mountains with the Riki, in a village where every neighbour is an enemy, every battle scar possibly one she delivered. But when the Riki village is ... |
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Award-winning readers series of original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. Six stories about a world we cannot explain. A film star discovers the dangers of dancing with a stranger. A man comes face-to-face with his father's history. An Irish-American family cannot escape someone from the past. A woman doesn't listen to warnings about an old tree. An English writer slowly becomes more and more Japanese. And a killer watches himself die in hospital. ... |
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"Laurent spoke slowly. If your husband was dead, we could be happy together. If... If he was dead, Therese repeated. She looked down at her lover. Her eyes looked very dark in her pale face. Sometimes, people die suddenly, she said." From the Book This book is in British English. Here you can find: extra grammar and vocabulary exercises; notes about the life of Emile Zola; points for understanding comprehension questions; glossary of difficult vocabulary; free resources including worksheets, tests and author data sheet at www.macmillanreaders.com. There are exercises at the end of the book. Included ... |
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Bestselling author of "Divergent". Sequel to "Carve the Mark". ... He'd die for him. She'd kill for him. The lives of Cyra Noavek and Akos Kereseth are ruled by their fates, spoken by the oracles at their births. The fates, once determined, are inescapable. Akos is in love with Cyra, in spite of his fate: he will die in service to Cyra's family. And when Cyra's father, Lazmet Noavek - a soulless tyrant, thought to be dead - reclaims the Shotet throne, Akos believes his end is closer than ever. As Lazmet ignites a barbaric war, Cyra and Akos are desperate to stop him at any cost. For ... |
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"The Best of 2005 - 2013" включваща най-доброто от кариерата на Авенджед Севънфоулд. Сетът от два диска ще съдържа 18 песни от най-продаваните албуми на Авенджед Севънфоулд през периода 2005 - 2013, включващ "City Of Evil", "Avenged Sevenfold", "Nightmare" и "Hail To The King". В компилацията има и кавър на "Paranoid" на Блек Сабат, оригинално издаден в трибют албума на Warner "Covered, A Revolution in Sound", както и песните на Авенджед Севънфоулд, написани за видео игри - "Carry On" (Call Of Duty II) и "Not Ready To Die" (Call Of ... |
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Illustrated by Fausto Biabchi. ... "I have got to do it, because she has given me a reason to do it which I will not say out loud. She must die, because if she doesn't die she'll deceive other men. I'll put out the light of this torch, and then I'll put out the light of her life." From the Book When Othello, the Moorish general of Venice, marries Desdemona, the daughter of a rich Venetian, he must prove that they are really in love. But his "honest" friend Iago has other plans, for power revenge. They travel to the island of Cyprus, and Iago works to set Othello against his new wife ... |
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Изданието включва актуалните теми за писмения изпит за Немска езикова диплома ( Deutsches Sprachdiplom B2/C1), предвидени за 2023, 2024 и 2025 година. Настоящото помагало е предназначено за ученици от 10. клас, 11. клас и 12. клас на паралелките с интензивно изучаване на немски език в езиковите гимназии и предлага тренировъчни примери за писмения изпит за Немска езикова диплома (DSD B2/C1). Помагалото включва най-актуалните теми, предвидени за 2023, 2024 и 2025 година от областите Konsum in Deutschland, Tourismus in Deutschland, Kindheit und Jugend in Deutschland, Medienlandschaft in Deutschland и съдържа общо 44 ... |
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Can you love someone you can never touch? Stella Grant likes to be in control - even though her totally out of control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life. At this point, what Stella needs to control most is keeping herself away from anyone or anything that might pass along an infection and jeopardize the possibility of a lung transplant. Six feet apart. No exceptions. The only thing Will Newman wants to be in control of is getting out of this hospital. He couldn't care less about his treatments, or a fancy new clinical drug trial. Soon, he'll turn eighteen and then he’ll be able to ... |
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В романа Сибир. Come on baby light my fire, Василий Димов преплита историите на трима неразделни приятели, които се учат да градят живота си, да обичат, да следват мечтите си в Москва в началото на 80 -те години. Дали обаче съществува действителна промяна и отишла ли си е съветската реалност? Как да запазиш човешкото в себе си, когато е останала единствено надеждата за намиране на истината? Light My Fire Запали огъня ми Знаеш, че ще е невярно. Знаеш, че ще съм лъжец, ако ти кажа: Момиче, по-високо не можем да стигнем! Хайде, скъпа, запали огъня ми. Опитай да възпламениш нощта. За колебания времето свърши. Да се ... |
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For thousands of years the dead body of the young king Tutankhamun slept under the sands of Egypt. Then, in the autumn of 1922, Howard Carter and his friends find and open his tomb door. These are exciting times, and Carter's young helper Tariq tells the story in his diary. But soon people begin to die. Who or what is the killer? Is Tutankhamun angry with them for opening his tomb? And who is the beautiful French girl with the face of Tutankhamun's long-dead wife? Dominoes is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers students a fun reading experience while building their language skills. With ... |
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Illustrations by Gay Glasworthy. ... The weather was terribly hot. Hot winds blew and the air was full of red dust. But everyone knew that the hottest weather came before the rain. In September the rain clouds would gather. But September came and there were no rain clouds in the sky. At the cattle posts, far out in the bush, the wells began to dry up and the cattle began to die... This book is in British English. Here you can find: points for understanding comprehension questions; glossary of difficult vocabulary; free resources including worksheets, tests and author data sheet at www.macmillanreaders.com. ... |
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Illustrated by John Dillow and Peter Harper. ... "I knew that I was hundreds of miles from the places merchant ships went. I was sure that I was going to die on this lonely island, completely alone. When I thought about this the tears ran down my face. I felt sorry that I had been born." From the Book The young Robinson Crusoe ignores his father's advice and decides to become a sailor. But Crusoe is soon caught up in violent storms and finds himself shipwrecked on a remote island. He will have to live on this island for the next twenty-eight years. This book is in British English. Here you can find: ... |
