Penny Wade travels to Barcelona to perform in a concert with her orchestra. But the trip is not quite what she imagined. Her double bass goes missing and her boyfriend is acting very strangely. One night everyone is woken by screams and the orchestra manager is found dead on the street outside their hotel. Did he fall from the hotel window or was he pushed? And what has Penny's missing double bass got to do with it?
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. It was just a normal Friday evening in Moreland Road. Jason was listening to his iPod and couldn't hear his mother shouting. Nina wasn't sure how to tell her husband about her news. Maggie smiled as she thought about her holiday romance in Chile. Sam looked worried – money trouble again. Then that evening something happened which changed all of their lives. Paperback-only version.
Some people in the world of sport are heroes only because they are the best at their sport. But the sportsmen and sportswomen in this book - Oscar Pistorius, Michael Phelps, Wilma Rudolph and Natalie du Toit - are all that and much more. All of them went through bad times and learned to be stronger people through sport. Because it isn't living through good times, but living through bad times that makes you into a true hero!
This book contains an adapted text of the famous novel "North and South" by the English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. A fascinating story of true love is shown against the background of the confrontation between the North and South of England in the late nineteenth century. The events take place in the northern city of Milton, where the Hale family is moving from southern Helston. Successful industrialist John Thornton becomes a student of Mr. Hale, who, having renounced the priesthood, works as a teacher. Thornton meets Margaret Hale, who impresses him with her kindness, dignity and willpower.
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. His most famous works are "Treasure Island" and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. "The Rajah's Diamond" is a collection of four wonderful short stories: "Story of the Bandbox," "Story of the Young Man in Holy Orders," "Story of the House with the Green Blinds," and "The Adventure of Prince Florizel and a Detective."...
