Author: John EscottPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780194792530
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Word count 26,500 CD: American English Bestseller
American Crime Stories
Author: Publisher: Oxford University
ISBN: 9780194230797
Category : Detective and mystery stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
'Curtis Colt didn't kill that liquor store woman, and that's a fact. It's not right that he should have to ride the lightning - that's what prisoners call dying in the electric chair. Curtis doesn't belong in it, and I can prove it.' But can Curtis's girlfriend prove it? Murder has undoubtedlybeen done, and if Curtis doesn't ride the lightning for it, then who will? These seven short stories, by well-known writers such as Dashiel Hammett, Patricia Highsmith, and Nancy Pickard, will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Author: William Thackeray
Author: Jane AustenOxford Bookworms Library: Stage 6: Cry Freedom
Author: John BrileyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780194792561
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
They said Steve Biko was a man of violence; then why did he talk of peace? They said he wanted revolution; so why did he talk of friendship? They said he died of hunger; why was his body broken and bruised ? This is the story of a man's fight with the government of South Africa. It is the story of ail people who prefer truth to lies. It is the story of ail people who cry 'Freedom', and who are not afraid to die.
Author: Jackie MaguireThe Murders in the Rue Morgue
Author: Edgar Allan PoePublisher: SAMPI Books
ISBN: 6585934016
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
"The Rue Morgue Murders" is a pioneering tale in the mystery genre, in which detective Auguste Dupin uses his acute observation and logic to solve a brutal double murder in Paris, revealing a surprising and unusual outcome.
Author: Alison BaxterNanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Author: Emma ThompsonPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408812061
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Nanny McPhee embarks on a brand new adventure in this brilliant, funny and captivating novel based on the new Nanny McPhee film. The Green family is trying to survive the war in their house in the country, but unfortunately they are not out of harm's way. A wicked uncle is intent on getting his hands on the family fortune and the children miss their father who is away fighting who knows where, and then their horrible cousins arrive! Life is not easy in the Green household . . . Thank heavens for Nanny McPhee!
The Hundred Secret Senses
Author: Amy TanPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143119087
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The "wisest and most captivating novel" (Boston Globe) from the author of the bestselling The Valley of Amazement and the new memoir Where the Past Begins Set in San Francisco and in a remote village of Southwestern China, Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses is a tale of American assumptions shaken by Chinese ghosts and broadened with hope. In 1962, five-year-old Olivia meets the half-sister she never knew existed, eighteen-year-old Kwan from China, who sees ghosts with her "yin eyes." Decades later, Olivia describes her complicated relationship with her sister and her failing marriage, as Kwan reveals her story, sweeping the reader into the splendor and violence of mid-nineteenth century China. With her characteristic wisdom, grace, and humor, Tan conjures up a story of the inheritance of love, its secrets and senses, its illusions and truths.
