📗 Sink or Swim
👤 Andy Cowle

📊#UpperIntermediate

📖 Description:
Eddie was slowly drinking champagne. He was standing on the deck of a cruise liner, looking at the waves overboard. Soon his wife came to the deck. She looked great and the couple began to flirt, as at the beginning of dating. The musicians were playing instruments in the corner, the lighting created a comfortable atmosphere. Several couples were dancing.

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📗 Stories from the Five Towns
👤 Arnold Bennett

📊#PreIntermediate

📖 Description:
This book created by an English writer and journalist was published in 1905. There are four short stories about people from five towns. The stories are filled with irony, satire and easiness. The cycle opens with the 'News of the Engagement'. This story is about one son who tries to tell his mother about his engagement. He does not know how to do it better as she is a widow and he is her only child.

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📗 N or M?
👤 Agatha Christie

📊#Intermediate

📖 Description:
The actions take place in the 1940s. In their youth, the Beresfords used to rest on the deserved laurels as smart detectives. Now they are tired of inactivity and uselessness. Suddenly Tommy gets a great opportunity to uncover the Nazi agents' atrocities who arranged the murder of Farquhar.

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📗 Weep Not, Child
👤 James Ngugi

📊#Advanced

📖 Description:
This story took place in Kenya when it was a British colony. The K. A. U. – the Kenyan African Union – was formed by the black Kenyan leders in 1944. But the British colonial rulers refused to recognize the leaders of the K. A. U. and did not allow them to have the right of vote and responsibility.

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📗 Roads of Destiny
👤 O. Henry

📊#Intermediate

📖 Description:
David is a shepherd from a small village. Once he quarrels with his bride. He decides to leave home and look for happiness in the new lands. The guy is a poet, which greatly affects his personality. He meets an aristocrat, who promised to marry his daughter off to the first comer.

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📗 The Fall of the House of Usher
👤 Edgar Allan Poe

📊#PreIntermediate

📖 Description:
The narrator has receives an odd letter from an old friend. The contents of the letter revealed that Usher is suffering from numerous illnesses, both mental and physical. Roderick excitedly welcomes the narrator. They are talking. The narrator has been spending several days attempting to cheer up Roderick, but it is unable. Roderick suggested that this house is making him sick, something which the narrator has already suspected.

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📗 Between Two Worlds
👤 Stephen Rabley

📊#Elementary

📖 Description:
It is a short and simple story about kind and professional people who live in Australia. When somebody needs help in those places, the doctors use the planes. Bob Mills is one of them. Joanna Jimbuku is a nurse. She works together with Bob Mills. An eighteen-month girl was very ill. After the examination Flying Doctor had to take the baby to Sydney.

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📗 The Last Unicorn
👤 Gammack J. E.

📊#Elementary

📖 Description:
Megan had to leave London with its traffic and noise according to the prescription of her mother's doctor. She had been a lonely child. Megan had spent six months in London and hadn't found any friends. And now she came to this marvelous island where her uncle lived. On the way to her uncle Megan saw a unicorn which disappeared as quickly as it appeared.

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📗 Madame Bovary
👤 Gustave Flaubert

📊#Advanced

📖 Description:
Charles Bovary graduates from the college. His mother helps him to get a doctor's job. One day Charles goes to examine another patient - a local farmer. He meets a farmer's daughter Emma, who is very pretty. Charles starts communicating with Emma and after a while decides to ask for her hand. But when the young couple begins to live together, Emma suddenly realizes her true feelings.

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📗 Fugu
👤 Brennan Frank

📊#Elementary

📖 Description:
Taro is very good at cooking fugu. Fugu is a poisonous fish. If it is not prepared carefully enough, it can be deadly. One night two men come and demand to talk to Taro. They are dangerous gangsters from a famousf Japanese society of criminals called Yakuza. Unexpectedly the men want Taro to try the dish first

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📗 The Sign Of Four
👤 Conan Doyle

📊#PreIntermediate

📖 Description:
A young lady named Mary Morstan came to consult Holmes upon a case which she is assure is very unusual. Miss Morstan's father has been disappeared several years previously under suspicious circumstances. A few years after this disappearance have appeared an advertisement in a paper asking for Miss Morstan to reveal her address. Miss Morstan has now received a letter which urges her to meet with the sender that night.

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📗 A Study in Scarlet
👤 Conan Doyle

📊#Intermediate

📖 Description:
Sherlock complains about the absence of the real criminals in London. It's the reason why he can't use his methods in practice. But suddenly he got a lucky opportunity from Scotland Yard. His friend who works there, told him about a strange murder committed in an empty house.

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📗 The Old Man and the Sea
👤 Ernest Hemingway

📊#PreIntermediate

📖 Description:
The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.

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📗 The Monkey King
👤 Wu Cheng

📊#Intermediate

📖 Description:
China's most popular traditional novel, Journey to the West is the thrilling story of the Monkey King and his epic quest, with his trusted companions, to redeem himself. They face fantastic foes, demons and monsters during their amazing adventures traveling to the Western paradise.

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📗 The Incredible Journey
👤 Burnford Sheila

📊#PreIntermediate

📖 Description:
Not only people can be fearless before setting off on a great adventure. A cat and two dogs find the right time to run away from their new owner's house. A long journey of hundreds kilometers through the Canadian woods is waiting for them.

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📗 Swan Lake
👤 Jenny Dooley

📊#Elementary

📖 Description:
Is there anything that can make sad Prince Zigfried happy again? Why is he so attracted to the beautiful white swan with the golden crown? Will he find his bride among all the princesses his mother has invited to the Royal Ball? How much harm can evil Rocford and his daughter do? Will love be the winner once again? Retold by Jenny Dooley.

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