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Novinka! Pritjagatelnoe fentezi o smertnoj devushke-tselitelnitse i temnom zhestokom printse fejri, chju dushu zakhvatila opasnaja magicheskaja sila. Istorija ot nenavisti do ljubvi, kovarnye fejri, tajnyj dar i magija, tma, oborotni! Daniella - tselitelnitsa i odnazhdy otpravljaetsja v mir fejri za travami. Odnako tam ee pokhischajut ljudi printsa-fejri Kalilla: im dlja chego-to nuzhny sposobnosti devushki. Teper vmeste s temnym printsem i ego prispeshnikami Danielle pridetsja otpravitsja k gore Ruin, gde toj predstoit istselit otravlennuju krov Kalilla. Odnazhdy devushka uznaet, chto etot monstr - ee sudba: i dar, i prokljatie... Pochti 9 tys. otzyvov na seriju na Amazon! Kharizmatichnye, jarkie fejri, kazhdyj so svoej individualnostju. Krasivyj i umnyj prints, no on prokljat, i lish ej pod silu ego spasti.
You’ve only just met.But she already knows you so well. When Rachel moves into the spare room in Mary’s flat, everyone is quick to jump to the conclusion that there’s something strange about her. Everyone apart from Mary. And when Rachel starts sleepwalking, the flatmates’ fears grow. But there’s something about the new girl that Mary can’t help but trust, and having recently escaped a toxic relationship, she needs the support. Rachel becomes a friend and an ally, and Mary soon discovers that they have more in common than she ever could have imagined. In fact, Rachel seems to know more about Mary than she knows about herself… A twisty and unnerving psychological thriller, perfect for fans of Erin Kelly’s He Said, She Said and Laura Marshall’s Friend Request. ***** WHY READERS ARE GIVING THE NEW GIRL *FIVE STARS* ‘A really accomplished debut’ ‘Wow is all I have to say’ ‘I didn't see the ending coming at all. I thought I had it worked out, but was pleased to be wrong!’ ‘I devoured this in one sitting’ ‘A GRIPPING read’ ‘I spent my day off getting through this in one sitting. It really is that good’ ’It kept me hooked right to the end. I would recommend this to everyone…’
Secrets can pull you under… In remote Oyster Creek, a beautiful young mother and her little baby have gone missing. But it was no secret that Delilah Waters never wanted children. She wasn’t coping with the baby, and everyone believes she leapt to her death, taking her child with her. Everyone except Liz Dawson. Wrestling with her own demons, Liz risks everything to uncover a truth that becomes more complex with every twist. Of all people, Liz knows that just because someone is a reluctant mother, it doesn’t mean they don’t love their child. And it doesn’t mean they’re capable of murder… does it? The Woman in the Window meets The Hand that Rocked the Cradle, Across the Water explores the darker side of motherhood, the pressure to conform, and how women’s choices shape their fate. ‘This story pulled me in from the first page! With fabulously complex characters and a dark, twisty plot, this is a psychological thriller you won't want to put down. A cleverly woven together tale – I thoroughly enjoyed the journey.’ Sam Carrington, number one bestselling author of I Dare You ‘It is most certainly a page turner… I would certainly recommend this to anyone who likes a dark, psychological thriller that keeps you guessing.’ Joy Ellis, international bestselling author of DI Nikki Galena series ‘A gripping read that really pulls you in from the start. Keeps you hooked until the last page.’ Reader review ‘I couldn't put this one down.’ Reader review ‘A dark, compelling story with twisted, complex characters! I raced through it.’ Reader review
Vocabulary and Grammar for the TOEFL iBT® Test
Ingrid Wisniewska
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
2023
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Master essential grammar, boost your vocabulary, and improve your TOEFL score! Collins Vocabulary and Grammar for the TOEFL iBT® Test is designed to help students master the vocabulary and grammar that they require to get a high score in the TOEFL iBT test. This book also exposes students to the task types they will encounter in the test. There are tips and strategies for how to approach the various test tasks which will enable students to improve their skills, gain confidence, and achieve the score they need. Collins Vocabulary and Grammar for the TOEFL iBT® Test features:• An overview of each part of the TOEFL iBT test• Twenty thematically-organised units of vocabulary, & twenty units of grammar practice, identifying the key grammar points most needed in each part of the test• Audio available online• Full audio script and answer key – ideal for use in the classroom and for self-study• Academic word list – a useful reference tool containing the key vocabulary students need for the TOEFL iBT test Each unit is laid out in a clear, easy-to-follow style with practice activities and guidance to enable efficient practice for the TOEFL iBT test. Each unit contains:• Overview – for quick reference on the core vocabulary or grammar of the unit• Study tips – to help students to remember what they have learned and improve their study technique• Test practice activities – set in the style that students will encounter them in the test, to help familiarize students with all aspects of the test• Test tips – useful tips to help students improve their performance on Test day• Vocabulary building feature – to increase students’ lexical ability Collins Vocabulary and Grammar for the TOEFL iBT® Test is powered by language from the Collins COBUILD corpus. The 20-billion-word Collins Corpus is the world’s largest database of the English language and is updated every month. You can be sure the language you learn is up-to-date. TOEFL and TOEFL IBT are registered trademarks of ETS in the United States and other countries. This publication is not endorsed or approved by ETS.
Vocabulary and Grammar for the TOEFL iBT® Test
Ingrid Wisniewska
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
2024
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Master essential grammar, boost your vocabulary, and improve your TOEFL score! Fully updated to match the new test from July 2023, Collins Vocabulary and Grammar for the TOEFL iBT® Test is designed to help students master the vocabulary and grammar that they require to get a high score in the TOEFL iBT test. This book also exposes students to the task types they will encounter in the test. There are tips and strategies for how to approach the various test tasks which will enable students to improve their skills, gain confidence, and achieve the score they need. Collins Vocabulary and Grammar for the TOEFL iBT® Test features: • An overview of each part of the TOEFL iBT test • Prepares you for all three options of the TOEFL iBT test – on a computer at a test center, the Home Edition, and the TOEFL iBT Paper Edition • Twenty thematically-organised units of vocabulary, & twenty units of grammar practice, identifying the key grammar points most needed in each part of the test • Audio available online • Full audio script and answer key – ideal for use in the classroom and for self-study • Academic word list – a useful reference tool containing the key vocabulary students need for the TOEFL iBT test • Additional unit containing practice questions, tips, and sample answers for the new Writing question 2: Academic discussion Each unit is laid out in a clear, easy-to-follow style with practice activities and guidance to enable efficient practice for the TOEFL iBT test. Each unit contains: • Overview – for quick reference on the core vocabulary or grammar of the unit • Study tips – to help students to remember what they have learned and improve their study technique • Test practice activities – set in the style that students will encounter them in the test, to help familiarize students with all aspects of the test • Test tips – useful tips to help students improve their performance on Test day • Vocabulary building feature – to increase students’ lexical ability Collins Vocabulary and Grammar for the TOEFL iBT® Test is powered by language from the Collins COBUILD corpus. The 20-billion-word Collins Corpus is the world’s largest database of the English language and is updated every month. You can be sure the language you learn is up-to-date. TOEFL and TOEFL IBT are registered trademarks of ETS in the United States and other countries. This publication is not endorsed or approved by ETS.
In 2002, Colombian senator, anticorruption crusader, and presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt was kidnapped by leftist guerrillas. She was their prisoner for more than six years. Until now.Until Death Do Us Part is the deeply personal autobiography of an extraordinary woman who gave up a life of comfort and safety to become a political leader in a country slowly being demolished by terrorism, violence, fear, and a pervasive sense of hopelessness. A memoir that reads like a fast-paced political thriller--at once poignant, chilling, and inspiring--it is a story of a reformer, a mother, a patriot whose love for her country and faith in democracy gave her the courage to stand up to the power that has subjugated, intimidated, or corrupted all those who opposed it . . . and ultimately paid an unimaginable price for her commitment.
In Sync is an exciting, innovative, easy-to-use four-level course that reflects the lives and experiences of teenagers. In Sync stimulates learning and broadens students' horizons through lessons that engage both intellectually and emotionally. The course includes the red filter, a unique learning tool that can be used to facilitate mastery of key grammar points. Features Brings language learning to life with up-to-date topics and real-life teenage issues, problem-solving puzzles, and realistic communication activitiesEnables students to succeed through achievable and motivating lessons, extra practice in the Student Book, and mixed-ability exercises in the Language Builder
But just before the big day, Poppa is in a terrible accident. And now all Mibs wants is a savvy that will save him. In fact, Mibs is so sure she'll get a powerful savvy that she sneaks a ride to the hospital on a rickety bus with her sibling and the preacher's kids in tow. After this extraordinary adventure - full of talking tattoos and a kidnapping - not a soul on board will ever be the same.
It starts out with small things, but then it gets worse. To top it all off, someone outside the family has witnessed his destruction. Now, in addition to trying to figure out how to control or scumble his savvy, he's got to worry about how to protect the family secrets. Over the course of one amazing summer, Ledge learns a lot about himself and his family, makes a new and very unlikely friend, and learns to appreciate his newfound skills.
Ingrid Law delivers another heartwarming story about the magic of friendship and the power of family in this companion to her Newbery Honor-winning Savvy Gypsy Beaumont has always been a whirly-twirly free spirit, so as her thirteenth birthday approaches, she hopes to get a magical ability that will let her fly, or dance up to the stars. Instead, she wakes up on her birthday with blurry vision . . . and starts seeing flashes of the future and past. But when Momma and Poppa announce that her very un-magical, downright mean Grandma Pat has Alzheimer's and is going to move in with them, Gypsy's savvy--along with her family's--suddenly becomes its opposite. Now it's savvy mayhem as Gypsy starts freezing time, and no one could have predicted what would happen on their trip to bring Grandma Pat home . . . not even Gypsy. With her trademark style and whimsical, beautiful language, Ingrid Law has written another wonderfully moving companion to her Newbery Honor-winning Savvy.
In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a dangerous rescue effort draws the ears and eyes of the entire country. A two-and-a-half-year-old girl has fallen down a mine shaft--"the only sound is an astonished tiny intake of breath from Ursula as she goes down, like a penny into the slot of a bank, disappeared, gone." It is as if all hope for life on the planet is bound up in the rescue of this little girl, the first and only child of a young woman of Finnish extraction and her Chinese-American husband. One TV viewer following the action notes that the Wong family lives in a decrepit mobile home and wonders why all this time and money is being "wasted on that half-breed trailer-trash kid." In response, the novel takes a breathtaking leap back in time to visit Ursula's most remarkable ancestors: a third-century-B.C. Chinese alchemist; an orphaned playmate of a seventeenth-century Swedish queen; Professor Alabaster Wong, a Chautauqua troupe lecturer (on exotic Chinese topics) traveling the Midwest at the end of the nineteenth century; her great-great-grandfather Jake Maki, who died at twenty-nine in a Michigan iron mine cave-in; and others whose richness and history are contained in the induplicable DNA of just one person--little Ursula Wong.Ursula's story echoes those of her ancestors, many of whom so narrowly escaped not being born that her very existence--like ours--comes to seem a miracle. Ambitious and accomplished, Ursula, Under is, most of all, wonderfully entertaining--a daring saga of culture, history, and heredity.
From the extraordinary Colombian French politician and activist Ingrid Betancourt, a stunning debut novel about freedom and fate Set against the backdrop of Argentina's Dirty War and infused with magical realism, The Blue Line is a breathtaking story of love and betrayal by one of the world's most renowned writers and activists. Ingrid Betancourt, author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Even Silence Has an End, draws on history and personal experience in this deeply felt portrait of a woman coming of age as her country falls deeper and deeper into chaos. Buenos Aires, the 1970s. Julia inherits from her grandmother a gift, precious and burdensome. Sometimes visions appear before her eyes, mysterious and terrible apparitions from the future, seen from the perspective of others. From the age of five, Julia must intervene to prevent horrific events. In fact, as her grandmother tells her, it is her duty to do so--otherwise she will lose her gift. At fifteen, Julia falls in love with Theo, a handsome revolutionary four years her senior. Their lives are turned upside down when Juan Per n, the former president and military dictator, returns to Argentina. Confronted by the realities of military dictatorship, Julia and Theo become Montoneros sympathizers and radical idealists, equally fascinated by Jesus Christ and Che Guevara. Captured by death squadrons, they somehow manage to escape. . . .In this remarkable novel, Betancourt, an activist who spent more than six years held hostage by the FARC in the depths of Colombian jungle, returns to many of the themes of Even Silence Has an End. The Blue Line is a story centered on the consequences of oppression, collective subservience, and individual courage, and, most of all, the notion that belief in the future of humanity is an act of faith most beautiful and deserving.
Even Silence Has an End: Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle
Ingrid Betancourt
PENGUIN BOOKS
2011
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"Betancourt's riveting account...is an unforgettable epic of moral courage and human endurance." -Los Angeles Times In the midst of her campaign for the Colombian presidency in 2002, Ingrid Betancourt traveled into a military-controlled region, where she was abducted by the FARC, a brutal terrorist guerrilla organization in conflict with the government. She would spend the next six and a half years captive in the depths of the Colombian jungle. Even Silence Has an End is her deeply moving and personal account of that time. The facts of her story are astounding, but it is Betancourt's indomitable spirit that drives this very special narrative-an intensely intelligent, thoughtful, and compassionate reflection on what it really means to be human.
Life in a New Language
Ingrid Piller; Donna Butorac; Emily Farrell; Loy Lising; Shiva Motaghi-Tabari; Vera Williams Tetteh
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC
2024
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International migration and the social diversity it creates constitute one of the key global challenges of the early 21st century. Language and communication barriers can compromise equitable access in diverse societies, and where socioeconomic disadvantage becomes entrenched, it poses risks to security, productivity and quality of life. Clearly this is an important issue, and migrants and their language choices are heavily politicized; though political and media debates often rely on anecdotal conjecture or are ill-informed. Life in a New Language examines the language learning and settlement experiences of 130 migrants to Australia from 34 different countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America over a period of 20 years. Reusing data shared from six separate sociolinguistic ethnographies, the book illuminates participants' lived experience of learning and communicating in a new language, finding work, and doing family. Additionally, participants' experiences with racism and identity making in a new context are explored. The research uncovers significant hardship but also migrants' courage and resilience. The book has implications for language service provision, migration policy, open science, and social justice movements.
Life in a New Language
Ingrid Piller; Donna Butorac; Emily Farrell; Loy Lising; Shiva Motaghi-Tabari; Vera Williams Tetteh
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC
2024
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International migration and the social diversity it creates constitute one of the key global challenges of the early 21st century. Language and communication barriers can compromise equitable access in diverse societies, and where socioeconomic disadvantage becomes entrenched, it poses risks to security, productivity and quality of life. Clearly this is an important issue, and migrants and their language choices are heavily politicized; though political and media debates often rely on anecdotal conjecture or are ill-informed. Life in a New Language examines the language learning and settlement experiences of 130 migrants to Australia from 34 different countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America over a period of 20 years. Reusing data shared from six separate sociolinguistic ethnographies, the book illuminates participants' lived experience of learning and communicating in a new language, finding work, and doing family. Additionally, participants' experiences with racism and identity making in a new context are explored. The research uncovers significant hardship but also migrants' courage and resilience. The book has implications for language service provision, migration policy, open science, and social justice movements.
This newly selected edition of William Morris's works brings together poetry and prose, lectures, articles, and letters from his life, ordered chronologically, with an introduction highlighting his pressing and prescient writing on matters of the natural and built environment, human and non-human relations, internationalism, migration, and social justice, as well as the wide range of his literary and artistic concerns. Expert textual notes draw attention to the interconnectedness of Morris's writing and its rich literary, historical, and political contexts and sources: this is work that reaches back to tales of personal, dynastic, and political passion in medieval Europe or the craftsmanship of ancient Persia as deftly as it lambasts Victorian work practices and living conditions in Britain or sets out to correct misconceptions about the nature of social revolution; it creates visions of a just, equal, and beautiful future from re-told or imagined pasts. This selection includes lyric, epic, and narrative poetry and a range of prose writings that tell stories, conjure worlds, rouse their readers to action, and urge them to care for the earth, its inhabitants, its beauty, and its histories. It demonstrates the continuing power of Morris's writings to speak to the present with as lively, particular, and provocative a voice as it spoke to its own time.
Step Forward 2: Language for Everyday Life Student Book and Workbook Pack
Ingrid Wisniewska; Jayme Adelson-Goldstein
Oxford University Press, USA
2006
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Step Forward is a standards-based, four-skills course that integrates language instruction into meaningful, real-life contexts. The program ensures learners' mastery of the language related to civics, the workplace, the community, and academics.
A la recherche du temps perdu occupies an undisputed place in the unfolding intellectual history of the 'moi' in France. There is, however, a general tendency in writing on this novel to celebrate the wonders of the moi sensible uncritically. This effaces all that is morally dubious or frankly experimental about Proust's account of selfhood. It denies the rigour with which Proust tries to understand exactly why it is so difficult to explain one's own actions to another. The great party scenes, for example, or the countless digressions, read like manuals on how acts of self-justification take place. Proust, however, is not merely interested in some kind of taxonomy of excuses, hypocrisy, disingenuousness, and Schadenfreude. He wants to know why self-justification tends to be interpreted as indicative of moral or psychological weakness. He asks himself whether self-justification informs isolated moments of everyday existence or whether it endures in an overall conception of self that lasts an individual's lifetime. He investigates whether it dictates the functioning of an entire social group. Can we decide, he asks, whether justifying one's self should be written off as morally repugnant, or taken seriously as evidence of moral probity?