Review
"The Marino Mission...a better read than prior attempts at this concept, which tried too hard to cram in large words." (Miami Herald, February 26, 2005)
Added by: fmaria | Karma: 166.56 | Fiction literature | 11 February 2008
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Discovered in 1779, the Rosetta Stone is one of the most famous monuments to have survived from Ancient Egypt. Its bilingual inscription in three different scripts provided the key that enabled scholars, and in particular the Frenchman Jean-Francois Champollion, to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs for the first time. This illustrated booklet tells the story of the stone from its discovery and arrival in the British Museum to its eventual decipherment. It also includes a full translation of the inscription.
Oxford Bookworms Stage 3
Graded reader version of the popular book, about life love and everything else in between. Have a box of tissues ready, while you listen to this graded reader. Book added by alst1!
Another great book from Gatehouse, because: "A beginner reader is not a beginner thinker".
Weeding Cane is a story that really does work on many levels. Everything is a metaphor for something and it is presented with the kind of intelligent, earthy domestic poetry that very few writers manage.
"How do we arrange the world? How do we arrange our lives? And how do we love and hold ourselves together when we begin to crack? Classic themes explored with a fresh and agile mind. There is more to this story than it seems. Yes it is black, but yes, it is universal.”
Benjamin Zephaniah, Poet
TREASURES (audiobook)
A story of family... the Osbornes -- two sisters and a brother --
united by family ties but split apart by different dreams. Lara, the
happy young wife, longs for the family that will make her life whole.
Connie, wild and lovely, is more like her brother Eddy -- bright,
ambitious, and ready to seize all that life has to offer. A story of
choices... Connie is looking for wealth -- to make or to marry. Lara,
staying behind in a small Ohio town, finds everything she cherishes
threatened by fate and by her own blind commitment. And Eddy, as Wall
Street's "wonder boy," can make millions... if he ruthlessly uses his
family and friends. A story of marriages... Lara's held together by
devotion, Connie's shattered by infidelity and betrayal, and Eddy's
rocked by shame and prison. Torn by conflicting loyalties, they are a
family caught in the tides of scandal... and swept toward a fate where
dreams may end or be born again.