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 at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension. Before, during, and after reading activities included in the back of each book strengthen student comprehension. Audio versions of selected titles provide great models of intonation and pronunciation of difficult words.
This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. ...
In 1967, when Roland Haynes arrives in the Channel Island of Alderney to write his first novel, little does he know that there's a story waiting for him. A ghostly encounter sets him on a search for Aurelie, a beautiful island girl who went missing during the Nazi Occupation. Together with Louis Ferrier, Aurelie's boyfriend from the past, Roland unravels the story of a courageous young woman who paid the price of defying the Nazis. Set on the wild, sea-swept island of Alderney, this novel combines fact and fiction to create a tragic love story and a chilling warning of how human power, used...
In 1967, when Roland Haynes arrives in the Channel Island of Alderney to write his first novel, little does he know that there's a story waiting for h...
A collection of 15 stories, each one with an unusual flavour, conveying its message in a slightly off-beat way. In 'Eternal Youth' a woman seeks a solution to her fear of ageing, but the terrible conclusion is unexpected. Set in Italy, 'Tarantella' describes how a young woman finds inner peace in a bizarre way. How do a middle-aged couple on a holiday to recapture the bliss of their first honeymoon find their lives renewed by ending up isolated by a hurricane? Reading these stories, you are transported into a world with a different quality, so that by the time you have finished, you will see...
A collection of 15 stories, each one with an unusual flavour, conveying its message in a slightly off-beat way. In 'Eternal Youth' a woman seeks a sol...
Wer war Jack the Ripper wirklich? Und wie ist es ihm gelungen, sich der Justiz zu entziehen? Tausend Verdachtsmomente und viele Theorien, die sich über ihn angesammelt haben, seit der Zeit, in der er das viktorianische London in Schrecken versetzte, haben nichts genützt, um das Geheimnis um ihn zu lüften. Dieses Buch, das den Fall und Zeugenaussagen der damaligen Zeit wieder aufnimmt, zeigt neue Wahrheiten über den berühmtesten Mörder der Kriminalgeschichte.
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Wer war Jack the Ripper wirklich? Und wie ist es ihm gelungen, sich der Justiz zu entziehen? Tausend Verdachtsmomente und viele Theorien, die sich üb...
