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Hugh Walpole
Bright pavilions the fifth book of a series of six volumes of The Chronicles of Harris. As a historical background, the stormy Elizabethan England, including her enemy Queen of Scots. The story tells how one family shared fidelity and frustrated love. If you like to plunge into history, then this book is for you.
William Le Queux
On this particular morning, about ten oclock, the seafront was already full of men in flannels and lounge-suits, and women in garments of muslin and other such flimsy materials usually affected at the seaside, for stifled and jaded Londoners had flocked down there, as usual, to enjoy the sea air and all the varied attractions which Southport never fails to offer.
Harold Bindloss
Construction master Cassidy was popular with the people around him. Although he was a strict employer, everyone was pleased with his work. He did a lot of difficult railway work in western Canada. But how will his character affect his reputation and performance?
The Bront Story - With Audio Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library
Vicary, Tim
A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Tim Vicary. On a September day in 1821, in the church of a Yorkshire village, a man and six children stood around a grave. They were burying a woman: the man's wife, the children's mother. The children were all very young, and within a few years the two oldest were dead, too. Close to the wild beauty of the Yorkshire moors, the father brought up his young family. Who had heard of the Bronts of Haworth then? Branwell died while he was still a young man, but the three sisters who were left had an extraordinary gift. They could write marvellous stories - Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall . . . But Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bront did not live to grow old or to enjoy their fame. Only their father was left, alone with his memories.
The Bront Story Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library
Vicary, Tim
A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Tim Vicary On a September day in 1821, in the church of a Yorkshire village, a man and six children stood around a grave. They were burying a woman: the man's wife, the children's mother. The children were all very young, and within a few years the two oldest were dead, too. Close to the wild beauty of the Yorkshire moors, the father brought up his young family. Who had heard of the Bronts of Haworth then? Branwell died while he was still a young man, but the three sisters who were left had an extraordinary gift. They could write marvellous stories - Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall . . . But Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bront did not live to grow old or to enjoy their fame. Only their father was left, alone with his memories.
Carolyn Wells
The steamship Pinnacle leaves New York on its way to Liverpool. Suspicions are raised and cast when a first class passenger, a shrewd oil man, is murdered, his head battered in by blows of the sinister bronze hand, modeled from Rodins original, which the victim had prized as his mascot. The apparent motive is theft of jewelry for his new wife, whom no one can track down, not even knowing if the marriage has happened yet. But, who killed Oily Cox? What part did the bronze hand play in the murder? What was the real motive? Such are the questions which Fleming Stone, enlisted as a disguised passenger on shipboard, sets out to answer in his clever, inimitable manner. So a locked ship mystery and an enjoyable one!
Herbert George Wells
The Brothers A Story. Herbert George Wells was a prolific English writer who wrote in a variety of genres, including the novel, politics, history, and social commentary. Wells returned to a literary genre in which he had always excelled: the satire written in the form of an allegory. In a land torn apart by civil war, Bolaris was fiercely loyal to the Strong Men. So when Number Four informed him that Ratzel, leader of the enemy, had been captured, it was naturally a cause for celebration that was until Bolaris actually met his great opponent? The likeness between Bolaris and Ratzel was so remarkable that Bolaris was left in no doubt that they were related brothers, or perhaps even twins. As sworn enemies, and now as his captor, Bolaris had to work out a way to discover the truth of his identity and do so without sacrificing his loyalty.
The Brothers Hawthorne. Bracia Hawthorneowie. The Inheritance Games. Tom IV
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Czterej bracia. Dwie trudne misje. Zapierająca dech w piersiach przygoda trwa. Genialna kontynuacja bestsellerowej serii The Inheritance Games. Grayson Hawthorne został wychowany na następcę swojego dziadka, miliardera Tobiasa Hawthornea. Lecz teraz wielki Tobias Hawthorne nie żyje, a jego rodzina została wydziedziczona, jednak lekcje, których udzielił wnukom, nadal procentują. Kiedy przyrodnie siostry Graysona popadają w kłopoty, ich brat zjawia się, żeby zrobić to, w czym jest najlepszy rozwiązać problem skutecznie, precyzyjnie i bezwzględnie. Nie zamierza się przy tym wplątywać w żadne pułapki emocjonalne. Jameson Hawthorne jest nałogowym ryzykantem, poszukiwaczem mocnych wrażeń i hazardzistą uwielbiającym każdą grę. Kiedy ni stąd, ni zowąd zgłasza się do niego ojciec z prośbą o przysługę, Jameson nie umie odmówić sobie podjęcia wyzwania. Będzie musiał zinfiltrować najbardziej ekskluzywny podziemny klub hazardowy w Londynie, do którego należą ludzie bogaci, wpływowi i szlachetnie urodzeni, a przy okazji dokonać rzeczy niemal niemożliwej zwyciężyć w grze o najwyższą stawkę. Na szczęście dla Jamesona Hawthornea niemożliwe nie istnieje. Wciągnięci w ryzykowne rozgrywki na przeciwnych krańcach świata Grayson i Jameson z pomocą pozostałych braci oraz dziewczyny, która odziedziczyła fortunę ich dziadka muszą zgłębić swoje najskrytsze myśli, emocje i pragnienia, by zdecydować, kim chcą być i ile każdy z nich gotów jest poświęcić dla zwycięstwa.