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Sixteen-year-old Jacques Rebière is living a humble life in rural France, studying butterflies and frogs by candlelight in his bedroom. Across the Channel, in England, the playful Thomas Midwinter, also sixteen, is enjoying a life of ease, resigned to follow his father's wishes and to pursue a career in medicine.

Portuguese Short Stories for Beginners (A2) Skill Level is crafted specifically for learners at the A2 level, offering 30 engaging short stories that strengthen and expand your comprehension of Brazilian Portuguese. Each story is designed to introduce intermediate grammar, practical vocabulary, and everyday sentence structures, helping you progress naturally in the language. To support your learning, every story includes a vocabulary list translating key words from Portuguese to English, making new terms and expressions clear.

Embark on your Italian learning adventure with Italian Short Stories for Beginners (A1) – Travel and Transport Edition. This carefully curated collection presents 20 bite-sized, real-world tales set in airports, train stations, bus stops, taxis, and more—each written at the A1 level to ensure clarity and build your confidence from the very first sentence.

Discover the techniques that will make your real estate business grow exponentially. This easy-to-comprehend guide will teach how to navigate the roadmap of social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Pinterest, Twitter, YouTube, Snapchat, and many more. An easy-to-comprehend manual that will guide you from beginning to end on what has to be done to succeed in today’s digital marketing arena.

In the heat of the French summer, young Englishman Stephen Wraysford travels to France and falls in love with his host's wife, Isabelle Azaire. When the world stops, their affair falters, and Stephen signs up. In a maze of tunnels under the trenches, Stephen finds the courage this war demands from the men in his command. And it is here that he will fight for everything he has ever known and loved.

The way of being is the end of the spiritual search and the beginning of the active expression of our divine identity. Love is what we are and the source of fullness. Love cannot be taught, only recognized. The happy recognition of being love, and living from it, is the final goal of Choose Only Love and of every true spiritual path. God is love. We are love. Being love in expression is the truth that sets us free.

Brought to you by Penguin. Birdsong is a mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations between WW1 and present day. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 1910. Amiens, Northern France. Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman, arrives in the French city to stay with the Azaire family. He falls...

The international bestseller that will help you transform your personal and professional life by changing the way you think. Today, the pressure to achieve is intense. To be at our best, we need our minds working at peak potential. But unless you train it, your mind stays on autopilot, stuck in...

En el verano de 2019, Puerto Rico vivió una revuelta popular originada por la publicación de las comunicaciones privadas del gobernador Ricky con su gabinete. Durante doce días, los boricuas no descansaron en manifestaciones de todo tipo, resultando en la eventual renuncia de Ricky. Esta novela de humor se desarrolla durante este periodo. "Vicente" vuelve a reunir a "Los Plomeros", el grupo clandestino que luchaba contra independentistas. Cuando el anciano se entera que su nieta pretende participar en una de las manifestaciones, conocida como el "perreo combativo", no tiene más remedio ...

Embark on your German learning adventure with German Short Stories for Beginners (A1) – Travel and Transport Edition. This carefully curated collection presents 20 bite-sized, real-world tales set in airports, train stations, bus stops, taxis, and more—each written at the A1 level to ensure clarity and build your confidence from the very first sentence.

Año 827. En su pequeña corte guerrera, Alfonso II el Casto, rey de Asturias y aliado de Carlomagno, recibe una extraordinaria noticia: en un bosque próximo a Iria Flavia, allá donde termina el mundo, han aparecido los restos del apóstol Santiago. ¿Es posible tal prodigio? El rey decide acudir al lugar, a fin de aclarar el misterio. En la comitiva marchan nobles enredados en intrigas, fieros soldados, cautivos sarracenos, monjes custodios de turbios secretos... un fiel reflejo de ese tiempo turbulento, cuyo epicentro es un rey determinado a salvar su reino.

Cuentan las crónicas que a finales del siglo VIII, en tiempos de guerra entre musulmanes y cristianos, el príncipe Mauregato escogía de entre las doncellas del reino a las más bellas para entregárselas al emir de Córdoba, Abderramán I, en el Tributo de las Cien Doncellas. Así comienza la historia de Alana, hija de un jefe de clan astur y un guerrero visigodo, obligada a abandonar su castro para formar parte del harén del emir. Alana tendrá que hacer acopio de toda su imaginación y su valor para escapar de su cautiverio... ya que el camino de regreso al norte está plagado de peligros.

This piece, which appeared in Outside magazine and was originally recorded for "Rough Water: Stories of Survival From The Sea," is about an old man, a Bequian harpooner, who uses a wooden sailboat to hunt humpback whales. The piece is an elegy of sorts - an unsentimental lament for something lost. Sebastian Junger is the internationally acclaimed author of The Perfect Storm, which spent over three years on the New York Times bestseller list and was the basis for a major motion picture starring George Clooney.

"Russian Short Stories for Beginners (A2) Skill Level: Russian Reading Practice" is specially crafted for learners progressing to the A2 level, offering 30 captivating short stories that build upon foundational skills and introduce you to new vocabulary and phrases. Each story features accessible yet progressively challenging sentence structures and essential expressions to boost comprehension and language use.

This was to be her last day alive. The renowned criminal psychologist Ira Samin prepared her suicide thoroughly. The death of her eldest daughter had weighed too heavily on her conscience for her to carry on and she yearned for one last drink to raise a toast to oblivion. Her morbid plans are interrupted and she is called in to negotiate a gruesome hostage situation at a radio station where a psychopath is playing a morbid game. While the show is on air, he calls people from the phonebook at random. If they pick up the phone with a certain slogan, a hostage is set free. If they don’t, then the hostage is unceremoniously shot.

Embark on your Polish learning adventure with Polish Short Stories for Beginners (A1) – Travel and Transport Edition. This carefully curated collection presents 20 bite-sized, real-world tales set in airports, train stations, bus stops, taxis, and more—each written at the A1 level to ensure clarity and build your confidence from the very first sentence.

No witnesses, no clues, no dead body. Josy, the twelve-year-old daughter of the well-known psychiatrist Viktor Larenz, disappears under mysterious circumstances. Her fate remains unsolved. Two years later, the grieving Viktor has retreated to a remote vacation home. But a beautiful stranger tracks him down there. She is tormented by delusions. In them, a little girl keeps appearing to her, who disappears without a trace just as Josy once did. Viktor begins therapy, which increasingly becomes a dramatic interrogation.

From the author of THE PERFECT STORM and WAR comes a book about why men miss war, why Londoners missed the Blitz, and what we can all learn from American Indian captives who refused to go home. Tribe is a look at post-traumatic stress disorder and the challenges veterans face returning to...

Embark on your Polish learning adventure with Polish Short Stories for Beginners (A1) – Food and Cooking Edition. This delightful collection brings you 20 bite-sized, tales set in kitchens, markets, cafés, and family tables—each written at the A1 level to ensure clarity and help you build confidence from the very first minute.

Spanish Short Stories for Intermediate (B1) Skill Level is crafted specifically for B1 learners, offering 30 immersive short stories that will elevate your Spanish comprehension skills. Each story is designed to introduce more complex sentence structures, conversational expressions, and essential vocabulary for intermediate learners, helping you solidify your understanding of the language.