👤 Irene Trimble
📚 «The Curse of the Black Pearl (Pirates of the Caribbean)»
✔️ Level: Elementary
📌 Description:
The Black Pearl, a cursed pirate ship that haunts the seas with tattered black sails and a vicious crew, has just materialized in Port Royal and stolen away the governor's daughter, Elizabeth Swann.
Will Turner, a young blacksmith in love with Elizabeth, sets sail to rescue her by whatever means necessary--even enlisting the help of a pirate!
Enter Captain Jack Sparrow, a cunning and charismatic pirate with his own personal stake in the mission...the Black Pearl was once his ship and he aims to get it back.
#Elementary
📚 «The Curse of the Black Pearl (Pirates of the Caribbean)»
✔️ Level: Elementary
📌 Description:
The Black Pearl, a cursed pirate ship that haunts the seas with tattered black sails and a vicious crew, has just materialized in Port Royal and stolen away the governor's daughter, Elizabeth Swann.
Will Turner, a young blacksmith in love with Elizabeth, sets sail to rescue her by whatever means necessary--even enlisting the help of a pirate!
Enter Captain Jack Sparrow, a cunning and charismatic pirate with his own personal stake in the mission...the Black Pearl was once his ship and he aims to get it back.
#Elementary
👤 J. K. Rowling
📚 «Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone»
✔️ Level: Pre_Intermediate
📌 Description:
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling.
The first novel in the Harry Potter series and Rowling's debut novel, it follows Harry Potter, a young wizard who discovers his magical heritage on his eleventh birthday, when he receives a letter of acceptance to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Harry makes close friends and a few enemies during his first year at the school, and with the help of his friends, Harry faces an attempted comeback by the dark wizard Lord Voldemort, who killed Harry's parents, but failed to kill Harry when he was just 15 months old.
#Pre_Intermediate
📚 «Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone»
✔️ Level: Pre_Intermediate
📌 Description:
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling.
The first novel in the Harry Potter series and Rowling's debut novel, it follows Harry Potter, a young wizard who discovers his magical heritage on his eleventh birthday, when he receives a letter of acceptance to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Harry makes close friends and a few enemies during his first year at the school, and with the help of his friends, Harry faces an attempted comeback by the dark wizard Lord Voldemort, who killed Harry's parents, but failed to kill Harry when he was just 15 months old.
#Pre_Intermediate
👤 J. K. Rowling
📚 «Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets»
✔️ Level: Intermediate
📌 Description:
The plot follows Harry's second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, during which a series of messages on the walls of the school's corridors warn that the "Chamber of Secrets" has been opened and that the "heir of Slytherin" would kill all pupils who do not come from all-magical families. These threats are found after attacks which leave residents of the school "petrified" (frozen like stone). Throughout the year, Harry and his friends Ron and Hermione investigate the attacks.
#Intermediate
📚 «Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets»
✔️ Level: Intermediate
📌 Description:
The plot follows Harry's second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, during which a series of messages on the walls of the school's corridors warn that the "Chamber of Secrets" has been opened and that the "heir of Slytherin" would kill all pupils who do not come from all-magical families. These threats are found after attacks which leave residents of the school "petrified" (frozen like stone). Throughout the year, Harry and his friends Ron and Hermione investigate the attacks.
#Intermediate
👤 J. K. Rowling
📚 «Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban»
✔️ Level: Intermediate
📌 Description:
The book follows Harry Potter, a young wizard, in his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Along with friends Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger, Harry investigates Sirius Black, an escaped prisoner from Azkaban who they believe is one of Lord Voldemort's old allies.
#Intermediate
📚 «Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban»
✔️ Level: Intermediate
📌 Description:
The book follows Harry Potter, a young wizard, in his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Along with friends Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger, Harry investigates Sirius Black, an escaped prisoner from Azkaban who they believe is one of Lord Voldemort's old allies.
#Intermediate
👤 J. K. Rowling
📚 «Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire»
✔️ Level: Pre_Intermediate
📌 Description:
The Triwizard Tournament is to be held at Hogwarts. Only wizards who are over seventeen are allowed to enter - but that doesn't stop Harry dreaming that he will win the competition. Then at Hallowe'en, when the Goblet of Fire makes its selection, Harry is amazed to find his name is one of those that the magical cup picks out. He will face death-defying tasks, dragons, and dark wizards, but with the help of his best friends, Ron and Hermione, he might just make it through - alive!
#Pre_Intermediate
📚 «Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire»
✔️ Level: Pre_Intermediate
📌 Description:
The Triwizard Tournament is to be held at Hogwarts. Only wizards who are over seventeen are allowed to enter - but that doesn't stop Harry dreaming that he will win the competition. Then at Hallowe'en, when the Goblet of Fire makes its selection, Harry is amazed to find his name is one of those that the magical cup picks out. He will face death-defying tasks, dragons, and dark wizards, but with the help of his best friends, Ron and Hermione, he might just make it through - alive!
#Pre_Intermediate
👤 J. K. Rowling
📚 «Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix»
✔️ Level: Pre_Intermediate
📌 Description:
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the fifth book in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter book series. It was one of the most widely-anticipated books of the series, since there was a wait of three years between it and the previous book, Goblet of Fire. At 38 chapters, it is also the longest book in the series, having jokingly been labelled as heavier than a refrigerator (by Stephen Fry at the Royal Albert Hall event) and used as a benchmark for the size of the next two books.
#Pre_Intermediate
📚 «Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix»
✔️ Level: Pre_Intermediate
📌 Description:
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the fifth book in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter book series. It was one of the most widely-anticipated books of the series, since there was a wait of three years between it and the previous book, Goblet of Fire. At 38 chapters, it is also the longest book in the series, having jokingly been labelled as heavier than a refrigerator (by Stephen Fry at the Royal Albert Hall event) and used as a benchmark for the size of the next two books.
#Pre_Intermediate
👤 J. K. Rowling
📚 «Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince»
✔️ Level: Advanced
📌 Description:
In a brief statement on Friday night, Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge confirmed that He Who Must Not Be Named has returned to this country and is once more active. "It is with great regret that I must confirm that the wizard styling himself Lord - well, you know who I mean - is alive and among us again," said Fudge.' These dramatic words appeared in the final pages of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. In the midst of this battle of good and evil, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince takes up the story of Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, with Voldemort's power and followers increasing day by day ...
#Advanced
📚 «Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince»
✔️ Level: Advanced
📌 Description:
In a brief statement on Friday night, Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge confirmed that He Who Must Not Be Named has returned to this country and is once more active. "It is with great regret that I must confirm that the wizard styling himself Lord - well, you know who I mean - is alive and among us again," said Fudge.' These dramatic words appeared in the final pages of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. In the midst of this battle of good and evil, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince takes up the story of Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, with Voldemort's power and followers increasing day by day ...
#Advanced
👤 Rowling J.K.
📚 «Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows»
✔️ Level: Advanced
📌 Description:
As he climbs into the sidecar of Hagrid’s motorbike and takes to the skies, leaving Privet Drive for the last time, Harry Potter knows that Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters are not far behind.
The protective charm that has kept Harry safe until now is now broken, but he cannot keep hiding.
The Dark Lord is breathing fear into everything Harry loves, and to stop him Harry will have to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes.
The final battle must begin – Harry must stand and face his enemy
#Advanced
📚 «Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows»
✔️ Level: Advanced
📌 Description:
As he climbs into the sidecar of Hagrid’s motorbike and takes to the skies, leaving Privet Drive for the last time, Harry Potter knows that Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters are not far behind.
The protective charm that has kept Harry safe until now is now broken, but he cannot keep hiding.
The Dark Lord is breathing fear into everything Harry loves, and to stop him Harry will have to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes.
The final battle must begin – Harry must stand and face his enemy
#Advanced
👤 Kazuo Ishiguro
📚 «Never Let Me Go»
✔️ Level: Advanced
📌 Description:
As a child, Kathy - now thirty-one years old - lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her ...
#Advanced
📚 «Never Let Me Go»
✔️ Level: Advanced
📌 Description:
As a child, Kathy - now thirty-one years old - lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her ...
#Advanced
👤 Oscar Wilde
📚 «The Picture of Dorian Gray»
✔️ Level: Intermediate
📌 Description:
Dorian is a good-natured young man until he discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty.
As he gradually sinks deep into a frivolous, glamorous world of selfish luxury, he apparently remains physically unchanged by the stresses of his corrupt lifestyle and untouched by age. But up in his attic, hidden behind a curtain, his portrait tells a different story.
#Intermediate
📚 «The Picture of Dorian Gray»
✔️ Level: Intermediate
📌 Description:
Dorian is a good-natured young man until he discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty.
As he gradually sinks deep into a frivolous, glamorous world of selfish luxury, he apparently remains physically unchanged by the stresses of his corrupt lifestyle and untouched by age. But up in his attic, hidden behind a curtain, his portrait tells a different story.
#Intermediate
👤 Andy Weir
📚 «The Martian»
✔️ Level: Advanced
📌 Description:
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first men to walk on the surface of Mars. Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first man to die there.It started with the dust storm that holed his suit and nearly killed him—and that forced his crew to leave him behind, sure he was already dead. Now he’s stranded millions of miles from the nearest human being, with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his food would be gone years ...
#Advanced
📚 «The Martian»
✔️ Level: Advanced
📌 Description:
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first men to walk on the surface of Mars. Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first man to die there.It started with the dust storm that holed his suit and nearly killed him—and that forced his crew to leave him behind, sure he was already dead. Now he’s stranded millions of miles from the nearest human being, with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his food would be gone years ...
#Advanced
👤 V.C.Andrews
📚 «Flowers in the Attic»
✔️ Level: Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
This is the extraordinary novel that has captured millions in its spell! All across America - and around the world millions of readers have been captivated by this strange, dark, terrifying tole of passion and peril in the lives of four innocent children, locked away from the world by a selfish mother.
#Upper_Intermediate
📚 «Flowers in the Attic»
✔️ Level: Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
This is the extraordinary novel that has captured millions in its spell! All across America - and around the world millions of readers have been captivated by this strange, dark, terrifying tole of passion and peril in the lives of four innocent children, locked away from the world by a selfish mother.
#Upper_Intermediate
👤 Neil Gaiman
📚 «The Ocean at the End of the Lane»
✔️ Level:Advanced
📌 Description:
A man returns to the site of his childhood home where, years before, he knew a girl named Lettie Hempstock who showed him the most marvelous, dangerous, and outrageous things, but when he gets there he learns that nothing is as he remembered.
#Advanced
📚 «The Ocean at the End of the Lane»
✔️ Level:Advanced
📌 Description:
A man returns to the site of his childhood home where, years before, he knew a girl named Lettie Hempstock who showed him the most marvelous, dangerous, and outrageous things, but when he gets there he learns that nothing is as he remembered.
#Advanced
👤 Donna Tartt
📚 «The Goldfinch»
✔️ Level:Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph - a sweeping story of loss and obsession, of survival and self-invention, of the deepest mysteries of love, identity and fate.
#Upper_Intermediate
📚 «The Goldfinch»
✔️ Level:Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph - a sweeping story of loss and obsession, of survival and self-invention, of the deepest mysteries of love, identity and fate.
#Upper_Intermediate
👤 Haruki Murakami
📚 «The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle»
✔️ Level:Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II.
#Upper_Intermediate
📚 «The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle»
✔️ Level:Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II.
#Upper_Intermediate
👤 Sylvia Nasar
📚 «A beautiful mind»
✔️ Level:Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
In this powerful and dramatic biography Sylvia Nasar vividly recreates the life of a mathematical genius whose career was cut short by schizophrenia and who, after three decades of devastating mental illness, miraculously recovered and was honored with a Nobel Prize.
#Upper_Intermediate
📚 «A beautiful mind»
✔️ Level:Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
In this powerful and dramatic biography Sylvia Nasar vividly recreates the life of a mathematical genius whose career was cut short by schizophrenia and who, after three decades of devastating mental illness, miraculously recovered and was honored with a Nobel Prize.
#Upper_Intermediate
👤 Sara Gruen
📚 «WATER FOR ELEPHANT»
✔️ Level:Advanced
📌 Description:
Orphaned and penniless at the height of the Depression, Jacob Jankowski escapes everything he knows by jumping on a passing trainand inadvertently runs away with the circus. So begins Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen’s darkly beautiful tale.
#Advanced
📚 «WATER FOR ELEPHANT»
✔️ Level:Advanced
📌 Description:
Orphaned and penniless at the height of the Depression, Jacob Jankowski escapes everything he knows by jumping on a passing trainand inadvertently runs away with the circus. So begins Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen’s darkly beautiful tale.
#Advanced
👤 Chuck Palahniuk
📚 «Invisible Monsters»
✔️ Level:Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
The narrator of the story is an unnamed disfigured woman who goes by multiple identities, notably Daisy St. Patience and Bubba Joan—identities that were given to her by Brandy Alexander, with whom she spends the majority of the book. The novel opens on the wedding day of Evie Cottrell, whose house is burning to the ground.
#Upper_Intermediate
📚 «Invisible Monsters»
✔️ Level:Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
The narrator of the story is an unnamed disfigured woman who goes by multiple identities, notably Daisy St. Patience and Bubba Joan—identities that were given to her by Brandy Alexander, with whom she spends the majority of the book. The novel opens on the wedding day of Evie Cottrell, whose house is burning to the ground.
#Upper_Intermediate
👤 Victoria Helen Stone
📚 «Jane Doe»
✔️ Level:Advanced
📌 Description:
Jane’s days at a Midwest insurance company are perfectly ordinary. She blends in well, unremarkably pretty in her floral-print dresses and extra efficient at her low-level job. She’s just the kind of woman middle manager Steven Hepsworth likes—meek, insecure, and willing to defer to a man. No one has any idea who Jane really is. Least of all Steven.
#Advanced
📚 «Jane Doe»
✔️ Level:Advanced
📌 Description:
Jane’s days at a Midwest insurance company are perfectly ordinary. She blends in well, unremarkably pretty in her floral-print dresses and extra efficient at her low-level job. She’s just the kind of woman middle manager Steven Hepsworth likes—meek, insecure, and willing to defer to a man. No one has any idea who Jane really is. Least of all Steven.
#Advanced
👤 Agatha Christie
📚 «THE MURDER AT THE VICARAGE»
✔️ Level:Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
In St. Mary Mead, no one is more despised than Colonel Protheroe. Even the local vicar has said that killing him would be doing a service to the townsfolk. So when Protheroe is found murdered in the same vicar's study, and two different people confess to the crime, it is time for the elderly spinster Jane Marple to exercise her detective abilities.
#Upper_Intermediate
📚 «THE MURDER AT THE VICARAGE»
✔️ Level:Upper_Intermediate
📌 Description:
In St. Mary Mead, no one is more despised than Colonel Protheroe. Even the local vicar has said that killing him would be doing a service to the townsfolk. So when Protheroe is found murdered in the same vicar's study, and two different people confess to the crime, it is time for the elderly spinster Jane Marple to exercise her detective abilities.
#Upper_Intermediate
