📗 King's Ransom
👤 Ed Mcbain
📊#UpperIntermediate
📖 Description:
Douglas King has been in the shoe business almost all his life. All this time he worked for Granger Shoe – one shoe company where he started as a boy. Now Douglas is a part-owner of Granger Shoe and has a good share of it. Doug has great plans connected with this company. He is going to implement them in the near future. Suddenly two unexpected events happen and ruin all Doug's plans.
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👤 Ed Mcbain
📊#UpperIntermediate
📖 Description:
Douglas King has been in the shoe business almost all his life. All this time he worked for Granger Shoe – one shoe company where he started as a boy. Now Douglas is a part-owner of Granger Shoe and has a good share of it. Doug has great plans connected with this company. He is going to implement them in the near future. Suddenly two unexpected events happen and ruin all Doug's plans.
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📗 Cinderella Man
👤 Marc Cerasini
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
It is the legendary biography, which can inspire you for achievements and give you a confidence in yourself. This book is about a unique man - James Braddock. His life costs not only a film, but also a book. Braddock dreamt about his returning to sport and regaining his glory and his dignity. Finally, he took the great opportunity and mounted the ring for obtaining the world title.
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👤 Marc Cerasini
📊#Intermediate
📖 Description:
It is the legendary biography, which can inspire you for achievements and give you a confidence in yourself. This book is about a unique man - James Braddock. His life costs not only a film, but also a book. Braddock dreamt about his returning to sport and regaining his glory and his dignity. Finally, he took the great opportunity and mounted the ring for obtaining the world title.
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📗 Henry VIII and His Six Wives
👤 Janet Hardy Gould
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
King Henry VIII was an influential leader of his time. However, today he is mostly remembered for having six wives. He was known as a good king but a terrible husband. All his wives were very unhappy. There are many legends and rumors concerning Henry's life. This book allows the reader to get more insight into what was really happening in the King's palace.
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👤 Janet Hardy Gould
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
King Henry VIII was an influential leader of his time. However, today he is mostly remembered for having six wives. He was known as a good king but a terrible husband. All his wives were very unhappy. There are many legends and rumors concerning Henry's life. This book allows the reader to get more insight into what was really happening in the King's palace.
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📗 Christmas in Prague
👤 Joyce Hannam
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
Josef was born in Prague, but he left his home city when he was a young man. He is an old man now, and he would like to see Prague again before he dies. But he is afraid. He still remembers another Christmas in Prague, many long years ago – a Christmas that changed his life for ever .
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👤 Joyce Hannam
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
Josef was born in Prague, but he left his home city when he was a young man. He is an old man now, and he would like to see Prague again before he dies. But he is afraid. He still remembers another Christmas in Prague, many long years ago – a Christmas that changed his life for ever .
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📗 Ireland
👤 Tim Vicary
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
This book will introduce Ireland to you. This country is incredibly beautiful. There are many mountains and rivers. One can see emerald greenery there. Certainly, you have heard that the Irish are the most drinking people in Europe. That they are the descendants of the redheaded Celts. The book contains an overview on geography, sport, history, religion, language, music, dance and wars.
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👤 Tim Vicary
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
This book will introduce Ireland to you. This country is incredibly beautiful. There are many mountains and rivers. One can see emerald greenery there. Certainly, you have heard that the Irish are the most drinking people in Europe. That they are the descendants of the redheaded Celts. The book contains an overview on geography, sport, history, religion, language, music, dance and wars.
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📗 Jennifer Lopez
👤 Rod Smith
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
A heroine of this story is a Latin American girl from a poor American emigrant family. She reached the tops in the show business, cinema and garment business. It was thanks to her nature talent and enormous diligence. Nowadays Jennifer Lopez is a recognized queen of pop music who drives men crazy around the world with her bright beauty.
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👤 Rod Smith
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
A heroine of this story is a Latin American girl from a poor American emigrant family. She reached the tops in the show business, cinema and garment business. It was thanks to her nature talent and enormous diligence. Nowadays Jennifer Lopez is a recognized queen of pop music who drives men crazy around the world with her bright beauty.
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📗 The upper Berth
👤 F. Marion Crawford
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
The man Brisbane tell the history, which is happened with him, when he had to travelling on his favourite ship named "Kamtschatka". Of course, after when you'll have known this story, you’d understand why Brisbane don’t sailing on it anymore. But at that time, in hot summer he came on his cabin number 105, he was going to America. Our hero noticed strange behavior of the steward.
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👤 F. Marion Crawford
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
The man Brisbane tell the history, which is happened with him, when he had to travelling on his favourite ship named "Kamtschatka". Of course, after when you'll have known this story, you’d understand why Brisbane don’t sailing on it anymore. But at that time, in hot summer he came on his cabin number 105, he was going to America. Our hero noticed strange behavior of the steward.
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📗 Three men in a boat
👤 Jerome K-Jerome
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
Once in the evening, three friends were sitting smoking at Jay in the evening and were discussing the diseases from which they suffered terribly. They came to the conclusion that all their troubles due to overwork and they urgently need a vacation. Later Gorge joined them and the journey began.
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👤 Jerome K-Jerome
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
Once in the evening, three friends were sitting smoking at Jay in the evening and were discussing the diseases from which they suffered terribly. They came to the conclusion that all their troubles due to overwork and they urgently need a vacation. Later Gorge joined them and the journey began.
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📗 Casualty
👤 Peter Viney
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
Gail is a nurse in the casualty department. A man has been severely injured in a car crash. His face is unrecognizable, but there is information that he's a famous rock star Alex Hayle. The singer is supposed to be on concert tour worth10 million pounds. But instead of it he's in a coma and the doctors say his condition is serious.
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👤 Peter Viney
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
Gail is a nurse in the casualty department. A man has been severely injured in a car crash. His face is unrecognizable, but there is information that he's a famous rock star Alex Hayle. The singer is supposed to be on concert tour worth10 million pounds. But instead of it he's in a coma and the doctors say his condition is serious.
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📗 Leonardo Da Vinci
👤 Clarke Georgia
📊#UpperIntermediate
📖 Description:
Leonardo da Vinci is a man who was more than for hundred years ahead of his time. He achieved a stunning success in various areas. He was the first who understood the human anatomy. Leonardo da Vinci is the clearest example of the universal man. Even nowadays Leonardo da Vinci remains one of the most mysterious and brilliant people of the second millennium.
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Наш второй канал - Английский лексикон
👤 Clarke Georgia
📊#UpperIntermediate
📖 Description:
Leonardo da Vinci is a man who was more than for hundred years ahead of his time. He achieved a stunning success in various areas. He was the first who understood the human anatomy. Leonardo da Vinci is the clearest example of the universal man. Even nowadays Leonardo da Vinci remains one of the most mysterious and brilliant people of the second millennium.
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Наш второй канал - Английский лексикон
📗 Crime and Punishment
👤 Fyodor Dostoyevsky
📊#Advanced
📖 Description:
It is one of the most difficult works in the creativity activity of the writer and in Russian classical literature. The young student Rodion Raskolnikov commits a crime. He kills an old woman. He does it not because he is poor and cannot pay for his education or flat. He does it to prove himself that he has the right to commit such acts. But all the acts have their consequences.
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👤 Fyodor Dostoyevsky
📊#Advanced
📖 Description:
It is one of the most difficult works in the creativity activity of the writer and in Russian classical literature. The young student Rodion Raskolnikov commits a crime. He kills an old woman. He does it not because he is poor and cannot pay for his education or flat. He does it to prove himself that he has the right to commit such acts. But all the acts have their consequences.
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📗 At the Old Swimming Hole
👤 Sara Paretsky
📊#UpperIntermediate
📖 Description:
Alicia, Vicotia's friend, invited her to swimming competition. The starting gun was fired and six bodies threw themselves into the water. The water around the second swimmer was turning red. Victoria jumped to the water and helped to lift that woman from water. The woman was dead a few minutes after this accident. At night the telephone rang and some voice in the telephone said her Alicia was lucky but at next time she won't...
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👤 Sara Paretsky
📊#UpperIntermediate
📖 Description:
Alicia, Vicotia's friend, invited her to swimming competition. The starting gun was fired and six bodies threw themselves into the water. The water around the second swimmer was turning red. Victoria jumped to the water and helped to lift that woman from water. The woman was dead a few minutes after this accident. At night the telephone rang and some voice in the telephone said her Alicia was lucky but at next time she won't...
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📗 The True Story of Pocahontas
👤 Kelly Reinhart
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
This is a story about a strong love that would overcome all obstacles and even stop a bloody war. Pocahontas was a native chief's daughter. She was eleven when, sitting on the top of a cliff, she saw a big ship in the sea approaching the coast. The ship was full of white people who were searching for gold in the New World. All native tribes were certain that war was upon them and would start as soon as the ship would reach the land.
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👤 Kelly Reinhart
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
This is a story about a strong love that would overcome all obstacles and even stop a bloody war. Pocahontas was a native chief's daughter. She was eleven when, sitting on the top of a cliff, she saw a big ship in the sea approaching the coast. The ship was full of white people who were searching for gold in the New World. All native tribes were certain that war was upon them and would start as soon as the ship would reach the land.
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📗 Shakespeare - His Life and Plays
👤 Will Fowler
📊#UpperIntermediate
📖 Description:
A lifetime adventure expecting you on these pages, from Shakespeare’s birth to his death. Phenomenal writer left us an immortal legacy. But what had influenced of his development like actor and writer? Who were the prototypes of heroes in his works? It’s all about William’s career, private life and lot of other interesting facts which you would not find at Wikipedia. Shakespeare in fashion forever.
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👤 Will Fowler
📊#UpperIntermediate
📖 Description:
A lifetime adventure expecting you on these pages, from Shakespeare’s birth to his death. Phenomenal writer left us an immortal legacy. But what had influenced of his development like actor and writer? Who were the prototypes of heroes in his works? It’s all about William’s career, private life and lot of other interesting facts which you would not find at Wikipedia. Shakespeare in fashion forever.
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📗 The Hound of the Baskervilles
👤 Conan Doyle
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
This legend has been passing from age to age of Baskervilles family. Two hundreds years ago at Baskerville Hall near bog was living Sir Hugo Baskerville. He was an aristocrat, alcoholic and rowdy. Once he was killed by a big black dog with shining eyes and mouth nearby of bogs. This dog punished his evil. Put a point in this deadly history would try Sherlock Holms.
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👤 Conan Doyle
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
This legend has been passing from age to age of Baskervilles family. Two hundreds years ago at Baskerville Hall near bog was living Sir Hugo Baskerville. He was an aristocrat, alcoholic and rowdy. Once he was killed by a big black dog with shining eyes and mouth nearby of bogs. This dog punished his evil. Put a point in this deadly history would try Sherlock Holms.
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📗 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
👤 Mark Twain
📊#UpperIntermediate
📖 Description:
It is one of the first novels written in colloquial English with the usage of jargonisms. This story describes a lot of different small towns and nationalities living near the Mississippi river. The book is full of sarcasm and mockery of many prejudices of that time including racism. The novel was published in 1884.
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👤 Mark Twain
📊#UpperIntermediate
📖 Description:
It is one of the first novels written in colloquial English with the usage of jargonisms. This story describes a lot of different small towns and nationalities living near the Mississippi river. The book is full of sarcasm and mockery of many prejudices of that time including racism. The novel was published in 1884.
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📗 An African Story
👤 Roald Dahl
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
The man was preparing to become a pilot. Once he took a plane and flew to watch wild animals during maneuvering exercises in the sky. He damaged the wing of the plane, but was able to return to the airport. The next time the pilot was unlucky - the aircraft's engine died out and he had to make an emergency landing. He saw a small hut and went to her. There lived an old man who grew food. He warmly welcomed the pilot and allowed him to live in his hut.
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👤 Roald Dahl
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
The man was preparing to become a pilot. Once he took a plane and flew to watch wild animals during maneuvering exercises in the sky. He damaged the wing of the plane, but was able to return to the airport. The next time the pilot was unlucky - the aircraft's engine died out and he had to make an emergency landing. He saw a small hut and went to her. There lived an old man who grew food. He warmly welcomed the pilot and allowed him to live in his hut.
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📗 The No1 Ladies Detective Agency
👤 Alexander Smith
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
Mma Ramotswe was born in a small African village Mochudi. A little girl went to church every Sunday and quickly realized the difference between good and bad. She finished school and became the best student. But her husband turned out a geek who beat her and eventually had escaped. So when her father left her a small inheritance she decided to start a detective agency, which will punish scoundrels like her husband.
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👤 Alexander Smith
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
Mma Ramotswe was born in a small African village Mochudi. A little girl went to church every Sunday and quickly realized the difference between good and bad. She finished school and became the best student. But her husband turned out a geek who beat her and eventually had escaped. So when her father left her a small inheritance she decided to start a detective agency, which will punish scoundrels like her husband.
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📗 The Death of Karen Silkwood
👤 Joyce Hannam
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
The book is based on a true story that took place in Oklahoma in1970s. Karen leaves her position of a secretary and finds a new job at one nuclear factory. The salary is good and the job is interesting. Karen makes many new friends and finds a boyfriend. She really likes the job. But everything changes when one evening the alarm system activates.
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👤 Joyce Hannam
📊#PreIntermediate
📖 Description:
The book is based on a true story that took place in Oklahoma in1970s. Karen leaves her position of a secretary and finds a new job at one nuclear factory. The salary is good and the job is interesting. Karen makes many new friends and finds a boyfriend. She really likes the job. But everything changes when one evening the alarm system activates.
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📗 Fenrir's Chain
👤 Chris Rose
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
Fenrir was a huge wolf. God Tyr loved to play with him when Fenrir was a cub. But he grew and became bigger and stronger. The gods realized that Fenrir was too dangerous and could kill all of them. They decided to tie the wolf so that he could not harm anyone. But which chain on earth would be able to hold such a monster? The gods went to the dwarves who made the hammer of Thor and lots of other incredible things.
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👤 Chris Rose
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
Fenrir was a huge wolf. God Tyr loved to play with him when Fenrir was a cub. But he grew and became bigger and stronger. The gods realized that Fenrir was too dangerous and could kill all of them. They decided to tie the wolf so that he could not harm anyone. But which chain on earth would be able to hold such a monster? The gods went to the dwarves who made the hammer of Thor and lots of other incredible things.
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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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