There was a wild crashing sound, a ripping of metal, and the plane blew through the trees, out over the water and down, down to slam into the lake . . .
Brian is a city bo...
From bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Clements, a quirky, imaginative tale about creative thought and the power of words that will have readers inventing their ...
"Watch closely," said Mrs. Jewls. "You can learn much faster using a computer instead of paper and pencil." Then she pushed the new computer out the window The children al...
There has been a terrible mistake. Wayside School was supposed to have been built with thirty classrooms all next to each other in a row. Instead it was built with the thi...
Recognized today as the undisputed master of the American Gothic horror story, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) revealed his genius in tales of death, terror, evil and perversi...
Edgar Allan Poe invented detective fiction with these three mesmerising stories of a young eccentric named C. Auguste Dupin: 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', 'The Mystery ...
Nero Wolfe, gourmet and connoisseur, who can solve a crime without leaving his desk, is investigating the murder of a beautiful model with his assistant, Archie Goodwin. N...
Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hire...
Michael Sandel's Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? invites readers of all ages and political persuasions on a journey of moral reflection, and shows how reasoned deba...
Вниманию читателей предлагается полный, неадаптированный текст известного детективного романа А.Кристи "Убийство в Восточном экспрессе" (1933). Издание рассчитано на лиц, ...
There is a dangerous atmosphere at Stonygates, a centre for young riminals. When Miss Marple visits her friend there she can sense the danger, too. One evening during her ...
"Мужчины без женщин" (1927) - один из первых сборников Эрнеста Хемингуэя, в котором четко определились нравственные темы, которым писатель отдавал все свое внимание, - вел...
Count Dracula is a vampire. He drinks people's blood. When he leaves his lonely castle in the mountains of Transylvania to come to England, Professor Helsing is the only o...
He is not beautiful. His mother does not want him, children run away from him. People laugh at him, and call him "The Elephant Man".
Then someone speaks to him - and li...
When Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to meet Count Dracula, he soon realises that he has made a big mistake. What is happening in the lonely castle? Where does Cou...
Сборник содержит 7 адаптированных рассказов знаменитой английской писательницы XX века. Текст каждого рассказа снабжен упражнениями, направленными на отработку лексики и г...
Читателям предлагаются неадаптированный оригинальный текст и классический перевод знаменитого романа Маркуса Зусака «Книжный вор».
Это история о жизни и смерти. О силе сл...
Можно ли представить себе мир, в котором нет книг? Когда держать книги дома, читать их - опасно, ибо преследуется по закону? Когда интерактивное телевидение успешно служи...
After Richard Abernethie's funeral, his will is read out to his family. His sister, Cora, shocks everyone by saying "He was murdered, wasn't he?"
When Cora is murdered ...