📗 Management Gurus
👤 David Evans
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
Manager is a profession that appeared not so long ago. But it developed in every sector of business, service and production very fast. In this book you will read four stories about successful managers. They didn't only make amazing careers but also made their companies world leaders.
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👤 David Evans
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
Manager is a profession that appeared not so long ago. But it developed in every sector of business, service and production very fast. In this book you will read four stories about successful managers. They didn't only make amazing careers but also made their companies world leaders.
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📗 The Earthquake
👤 Laird Elizabeth
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
You will find a classic love triangle in the book. Sylvia is a young woman. She takes care of her ill mother. The family used to be rich, but everything changed after father's death. Gabriel is a young man, who is very kind and generous. He is Sylvia's old friend and he loves her. However, Sylvia loves Marco. Marco is a reach person. A great earthquake happens on one Saturday evening. The tragedy completely changes their lives.
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👤 Laird Elizabeth
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
You will find a classic love triangle in the book. Sylvia is a young woman. She takes care of her ill mother. The family used to be rich, but everything changed after father's death. Gabriel is a young man, who is very kind and generous. He is Sylvia's old friend and he loves her. However, Sylvia loves Marco. Marco is a reach person. A great earthquake happens on one Saturday evening. The tragedy completely changes their lives.
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📗 Vanity Fair
👤 William Makepeace Thackeray
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
Amelia is a daughter of successful businessman. Becky is an orphan, daughter of an artist and a French dancer. Amelia and Rebecca are friends. But Amelia is a rich and she can’t understand Becky’s problems. Amelia is going to be married to officer Osborn. She loves him very much. Rebecca was offered job of a governess in an aristocratic family. But before it she was invited to visit in Amelia’s house. Miss Sharp met Amelia’s brother and wanted to marry him but this cannot be done…
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👤 William Makepeace Thackeray
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
Amelia is a daughter of successful businessman. Becky is an orphan, daughter of an artist and a French dancer. Amelia and Rebecca are friends. But Amelia is a rich and she can’t understand Becky’s problems. Amelia is going to be married to officer Osborn. She loves him very much. Rebecca was offered job of a governess in an aristocratic family. But before it she was invited to visit in Amelia’s house. Miss Sharp met Amelia’s brother and wanted to marry him but this cannot be done…
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📗 How to be an Alien
👤 George Mikes
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
George Mikes says, 'the English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.' But they do have a sense of humour - they provide it by buying over three hundred thousand copies of a book that took them quietly and completely apart, a book that really took the Mikes out of them.
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👤 George Mikes
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
George Mikes says, 'the English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.' But they do have a sense of humour - they provide it by buying over three hundred thousand copies of a book that took them quietly and completely apart, a book that really took the Mikes out of them.
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📗 A Hacker's Revenge
👤 John Backhouse
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
Mr Henry Williams is an excellent bank manager and has limited computer skills. When Mr Williams was in Bermuda in his mind, dreaming about holiday, he heard a scream of his staff. All system had crashed. Someone obtained full control of the bank. The question appeared on display of a computer addressed to Mr. Henry. Someone asked him, was he ready for game?
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👤 John Backhouse
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
Mr Henry Williams is an excellent bank manager and has limited computer skills. When Mr Williams was in Bermuda in his mind, dreaming about holiday, he heard a scream of his staff. All system had crashed. Someone obtained full control of the bank. The question appeared on display of a computer addressed to Mr. Henry. Someone asked him, was he ready for game?
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📗 The Moonstone
👤 Wilkie Collins
📊#Advanced
📖 Description:
Rachel Verinder, a young Englishwoman, inherits a large Indian diamond on her eighteenth birthday. It is a legacy from her uncle, a corrupt English army officer who served in India. The diamond is of great religious significance as well as being extremely valuable, and three Hindu priests have dedicated their lives to recovering it.
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👤 Wilkie Collins
📊#Advanced
📖 Description:
Rachel Verinder, a young Englishwoman, inherits a large Indian diamond on her eighteenth birthday. It is a legacy from her uncle, a corrupt English army officer who served in India. The diamond is of great religious significance as well as being extremely valuable, and three Hindu priests have dedicated their lives to recovering it.
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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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👤 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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📗 Breakfast at Tiffany's
👤 Truman Capote
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
Holly Golightly is an unbelievable young woman. Holly wants to live in wealth and luxury. She manages to reach this goal. Despite of a quite young age she can charm almost everyone who spoke to her. Holly's nature doesn't let her stop and settle in a certain place. Her life is one big endless journey.
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👤 Truman Capote
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
Holly Golightly is an unbelievable young woman. Holly wants to live in wealth and luxury. She manages to reach this goal. Despite of a quite young age she can charm almost everyone who spoke to her. Holly's nature doesn't let her stop and settle in a certain place. Her life is one big endless journey.
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📗 Mr Bean in Town
👤 Richard Curtis
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
Mr. Bean decided to go to the restaurant on his Birthday, because he wanted to enjoy his celebration. He hadn't enough money for the order, so he choosed "steak tartare". He didn't like this food and big plate for food had bad impression on him. Mr. Bean didn't know what to do with it. And had found a great decision to hide the meat in things surrounding him.
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👤 Richard Curtis
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
Mr. Bean decided to go to the restaurant on his Birthday, because he wanted to enjoy his celebration. He hadn't enough money for the order, so he choosed "steak tartare". He didn't like this food and big plate for food had bad impression on him. Mr. Bean didn't know what to do with it. And had found a great decision to hide the meat in things surrounding him.
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📗 The Prestige
👤 Christopher Priest
📊#Advanced
📖 Description:
The protagonists are acclaimed 19th century stage magicians. The two talented men turn from partners into sworn enemies. Each of them will do anything to learn the secrets behind the magic tricks of his rival. So the main characters spend their lives trying to destroy each other. Finally, all the secrets are revealed. With its high tension, endless plot twists and provoking themes, this novel is rightfully considered one of the best modern books.
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👤 Christopher Priest
📊#Advanced
📖 Description:
The protagonists are acclaimed 19th century stage magicians. The two talented men turn from partners into sworn enemies. Each of them will do anything to learn the secrets behind the magic tricks of his rival. So the main characters spend their lives trying to destroy each other. Finally, all the secrets are revealed. With its high tension, endless plot twists and provoking themes, this novel is rightfully considered one of the best modern books.
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📗 The Year of Sharing
👤 Gilbert Harry
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
Have you ever wondered what will be with our planet in five hundred years? Richard lives in the world, which is significantly different from ours. They live in villages instead of cities. Tomorrow Richard is going somewhere deep into the forest. He cannot even imagine how many dangers are waiting for him there.
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👤 Gilbert Harry
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
Have you ever wondered what will be with our planet in five hundred years? Richard lives in the world, which is significantly different from ours. They live in villages instead of cities. Tomorrow Richard is going somewhere deep into the forest. He cannot even imagine how many dangers are waiting for him there.
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📗 The War Of The Worlds
👤 H. G. Wells
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
At the end of the nineteenth century, a metal object fell from the sky in the South of England and made a large hole in the ground. People came to learn, what had happened. When one end of the object started opening, the watchers realized it was hollow. But the creatures, which came out, were not homo sapiens... Gradually people began to realize that these creatures were from Mars.
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👤 H. G. Wells
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
At the end of the nineteenth century, a metal object fell from the sky in the South of England and made a large hole in the ground. People came to learn, what had happened. When one end of the object started opening, the watchers realized it was hollow. But the creatures, which came out, were not homo sapiens... Gradually people began to realize that these creatures were from Mars.
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📗 Mysteries of the Unexplained
👤 Kathy Burke
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
Space is a mysterious place. In the depths of space a lot of interesting and mysterious things can hide. Numerous stories about aliens - are they true or fiction? No one can answer for sure. Not only ordinary people, but also some astronauts say they have seen something strange. For many years it was kept secret, but today the information is publicly available.
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👤 Kathy Burke
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
Space is a mysterious place. In the depths of space a lot of interesting and mysterious things can hide. Numerous stories about aliens - are they true or fiction? No one can answer for sure. Not only ordinary people, but also some astronauts say they have seen something strange. For many years it was kept secret, but today the information is publicly available.
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📗 Cat Among the Pigeons
👤 Agatha Christie
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
A sophisticated detective Poirot has to solve another tangled case. One evening he had an unexpected guest. A schoolgirl Julia Upjohn told about series of awful crimes at her school 'Meadowbank' – from kidnapping to murders. Such series of crimes couldn't be solved sitting on a chair, so Hercule rushed to mentioned school immediately.
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👤 Agatha Christie
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
A sophisticated detective Poirot has to solve another tangled case. One evening he had an unexpected guest. A schoolgirl Julia Upjohn told about series of awful crimes at her school 'Meadowbank' – from kidnapping to murders. Such series of crimes couldn't be solved sitting on a chair, so Hercule rushed to mentioned school immediately.
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📗 The Hitch Hiker
👤 Tim Vicary
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
A man was standing on the road and waiting for somebody to pick him up. He did not look like a usual hitchhiker, so Sue Fraser decided to give him a lift. While they were going, they saw a huge car crash. A driver, who was the cause of the accident, explained to her everything. However, twenty years ago there was the same situation on that place.
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👤 Tim Vicary
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
A man was standing on the road and waiting for somebody to pick him up. He did not look like a usual hitchhiker, so Sue Fraser decided to give him a lift. While they were going, they saw a huge car crash. A driver, who was the cause of the accident, explained to her everything. However, twenty years ago there was the same situation on that place.
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📗 The Eyes of Montezuma
👤 Stephen Rabley
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
The Countess of Montalban died. She was the owner of the famous earrings 'The eyes of Montezuma'. These earrings had the two biggest diamonds in the country. Shortly before her death, the countess donated them to the museum. Somebody steals the Countess' earrings from the museum.
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👤 Stephen Rabley
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
The Countess of Montalban died. She was the owner of the famous earrings 'The eyes of Montezuma'. These earrings had the two biggest diamonds in the country. Shortly before her death, the countess donated them to the museum. Somebody steals the Countess' earrings from the museum.
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📗 Logan's Run
👤 William Nolan
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
Computer in all aspects of their lives manage people. They live in the city under the dome in comfortable life and spend their time in amusements. Everybody has to go through the ritual of "Carrousel". It means that if you are twenty-one years old you have to die. Logan is one of the police officers, who catch the runners.
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👤 William Nolan
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
Computer in all aspects of their lives manage people. They live in the city under the dome in comfortable life and spend their time in amusements. Everybody has to go through the ritual of "Carrousel". It means that if you are twenty-one years old you have to die. Logan is one of the police officers, who catch the runners.
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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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👤 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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📗 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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👤 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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📗 Alice in Wonderland
👤 Lewis Carroll
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
In the fairy tale, the reader can see dozens of complicated philosophical, mathematical and linguistic jokes. The girl Alice spends her time on the river bank. Suddenly she sees a strange white rabbit. Alice follows the rabbit and falls into a hole. The curious girl finds herself in a phantasmagoric world inhabited by many anthropomorphic creatures.
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👤 Lewis Carroll
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
In the fairy tale, the reader can see dozens of complicated philosophical, mathematical and linguistic jokes. The girl Alice spends her time on the river bank. Suddenly she sees a strange white rabbit. Alice follows the rabbit and falls into a hole. The curious girl finds herself in a phantasmagoric world inhabited by many anthropomorphic creatures.
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📗 A Moment of Madness
👤 Thomas Hardy
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
Almost all the familiar Baptists would easily agree that she is not a very interesting woman. But something begins to bother the woman. It turns out that a neighbor from her native village wants to marry her. He is much older and planned this wedding, even when she was a child. And now the parents say that she must accept this proposal.
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👤 Thomas Hardy
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
Almost all the familiar Baptists would easily agree that she is not a very interesting woman. But something begins to bother the woman. It turns out that a neighbor from her native village wants to marry her. He is much older and planned this wedding, even when she was a child. And now the parents say that she must accept this proposal.
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