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This series contains original, unsimplified short stories written by famous classic and modern writers. All the collections come with substantial support material for each story, including a short summary; description of major themes; pre-reading vocabulary activities; post-reading language and comprehension exercises; a literary analysis section and essay questions. The Macmillan Literature Collections are aimed at Advanced readers and will help ease students' transition from graded Readers to authentic reading, giving them the joy of feeling that they are finally reading and studying literature just as it was written.

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Популярная серия Macmillan Readers включает более 170 адаптированных произведений классической и современной художественной литературы. 1845 год, Америка. Мальчик Гек решает незаметно покинуть городишко Ганнибал, спасаясь от свирепости своего отца. Итак, Гек начинает свое путешествие на плоту по реке Миссисипи в компании с беглым рабом Джимом.

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"This is wonderful, Professor Challenger"! I said. "You have found a place which no one knows about - a lost world. A world where creatures from the past still live". "But nobody in London believes my story", said the Professor. "People say the drawing and the photograph are fakes - they aren't real". "I want to return to the Lost World. Other people must see the Lost World. Then everyone will know it is real"! Retold by Anne Collins.

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Four men are trapped in the forest. Heavy rain has turned the tracks into mud. The bridge across the river is broken. The men looked at the broken bridge and at the rushing water. Pedro spoke first: "How can we get back to base now?" • Extra grammar and vocabulary exercises • Free resources including worksheets, tests and author data sheets. • Audio CD/download available for this title

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A modern, action-packed detective story. Salahadin El Nur is an inspector in the Antiquities Department of the Egyptian police. The death of a visiting European archaeologist leads Salahadin to investigate the whereabouts of a priceless statuette. He is soon on the trail of a gang of international smugglers.

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One of Jane Austen's finest works. Emma is the story of a wealthy and beautiful girl whose favourite hobby is matchmaking. But when she tries to bring her friend Harriet together with Mr Elton, a young widower, the results are disastrous. Emma is the amusing and wonderful story of a young woman's journey towards self-knowledge and true love.

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Phileas Foog makes a bet with his friends that he can travel around the world in 80 days. This is the wonderful story of Phileas's adventures as he travels from country to country with his servant Passepartout.

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It's a new year and Bridget has a boyfriend at last; the handsome and successful lawyer, Mark Darcy! But soon the beautiful - and determined - Rebecca appears on the scene to steal Mark away. Heartbroken and confused, Bridget decides to go on holiday to Thailand with her friend Shazzer. There Bridget's problems only get worse.

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Take a Valium. Have a party. Go on a demo. Shoot a soldier. Make a bang. Bed a friend. That's your problem-solving system... But haven't we tried all that? Howard Kirk, product of the Swinging Sixties, radical university lecturer, and one half of a very modern marriage, is throwing a party. The night will have all sorts of repercussions: for Henry Beamish, Howard's desperate and easily neglected friend, and for Howard's wife Barbara, promiscuous 70s liberal and exhausted victim of motherhood. The History Man is Malcolm Bradbury's masterpiece, the definitive campus novel and one of the most influential novels of the 1970s. Funny, disconcerting and provocative, Bradbury brilliantly satirizes a world of academic power struggles as his anti-hero seduces his away around campus. But beneath the surface is an altogether more affecting portrait: it reveals a marriage in crisis and demonstrates the fragility of the human heart.

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With a sparkly foil cover, "My Magical Flying Pony" takes readers on a truly fantastical journey with a beautiful flying pony. With push, pull and turn mechanisms, little ones will have lots of fun taking part in the flying pony's exciting adventure! Yujin Shin's beautifully coloured illustrations are paired with gentle rhyming text to create a perfect flying pony world, with bright, sparkling detail and things to spot in four magical scenes. "My Magical Flying Pony" is the eighth book in the exciting My Magical series, based on the popular Busy Book format. Enjoy more magical adventures with "My Magical Unicorn", "My Magical Mermaid", and "My Magical Fairy".

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Elizabeth Taylor is known internationally as one of the most beautiful and talented women ever to grace the silver screen. She has won two Academy Awards and starred in over sixty films. She is just as well known for her tempestuous personal life, marrying eight times and suffering through innumerable health problems. A cultural icon, she has been written about before. but never like this. This moving book traces for the first time Elizabeth's journey through the dark and often lonely world of a fame unparalleled in the 1960s and 1970s, a time during which alcohol and drugs played a major part in her life. It would be with her fifth (and sixth) husband Richard Burton (with whom she made twelve movies, including Cleopatra) that she would learn life lessons about love and loyalty that would inform the rest of her life and, finally, be the catalyst for her recovery from alcoholism in the 1980s. This book also details her philanthropic work as an AIDS activist in the 1990s as well as her stunning success as a business woman today (with a multi-million-dollar fragrance). Based on years of research, this is not just a star's biography. it's an unforgettable woman's story.

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Macmillan Readers adaptation of Ian Fleming's The Man with the Golden Gun. Scaramanga is a cold-blooded killer with connections to the KGB and the Cuban Secret Police. There is only one man skilled and brave enough to go after him - 007, James Bond. To carry out the mission, Bond ends up in Jamaica, where he meets two old friends.

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The Improve your IELTS Skills series are aimed at students between bands 4.5 and 7.5. The series has three preparation courses, Academic Reading, Academic Writing, and Listening and Speaking. The courses develop language, skills and test technique to help students achieve a higher IELTS score The three books in the series may be used together as a complete course or may be used to target specific skills. Or they may be used separately to supplement other coursebooks. Key Features: 10 units in each book, each with corresponding topics Ideal for self-study as well as in class, with step-by-step guidance and a clear answer key Techniques boxes throughout each book, reinforce key points on how to approach the various tasks in IELTS 140 minutes' listening and pronunciation practice on the AudioCD with the Listening and Speaking book Practice tests at the end of each unit.

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Designed to prepare students for success in the updated 2015 Cambridge English: First (FCE) examination through exam-style questions and 'Further Practice and Guidance' sections. Packed with two audio CDs containing all the audio for the Listening sections of the exam. This is a 'With Key' edition.

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In May 1941 Lena Mukhina was an ordinary teenage girl, living in Leningrad, worrying about her homework and whether Vova - the boy she liked - liked her. Like a good Soviet schoolgirl, she was also diligently learning German, the language of Russia's Nazi ally. And she was keeping a diary, in which she recorded her hopes and dreams. Then, on 22 June 1941, Hitler broke his pact with Stalin and declared war on the Soviet Union. All too soon, Leningrad was besieged and life became a living hell. Lena and her family fought to stay alive; their city was starving and its citizens were dying in their hundreds of thousands. From day to dreadful day, Lena records her experiences: the desperate hunt for food, the bitter cold of the Russian winter and the cruel deaths of those she loved. A truly remarkable account of this most terrible era in modern history, The Diary of Lena Mukhina is the vivid first-hand testimony of a courageous young woman struggling simply to survive.

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Evie loves running her beach cafe in Cornwall but with a baby on the way, she's been told to put her feet up. Helen's come to Cornwall to escape the stress of city living. She hopes a seaside life will be the answer to all her dreams. When she sees a job advertised at the cafe it sounds perfect. But the two women clash and sparks fly. Can the pair of them put aside their differences in a crisis?

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"My wife! I think she's dead!". Matt frantically calls to park rangers, explaining that he and his wife, Marie, were out hiking when she stumbled on a cliff edge and fell into the raging river below. They start a search but aren't hopeful: no one could have survived that fall. It's a tragic accident. But when police discover Matt's first wife also died in suspicious circumstances - a fire in their family home - they have a lot more questions for him. Is Matt a grieving husband, or has he just killed his second wife? Detectives Loren and Spengler dig into the couple's lives to see what they can unearth. And they find that love's got teeth, it's got claws, and once it hitches you to a person, it's tough to rip yourself free. So what happens when you're done making it work?

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Meet the Dream Team! Turning nightmares into incredible adventures! Erika's had a bad day. But going to sleep upset means bad dreams. She finds herself stranded in the Dreamscape along with a mob of hungry Heebie Jeebies - and to make matters worse, she's being hunted by a terrifying Angermare! Enter the Dream Team! Can they help Erika overcome her worries and get home, or will she be trapped forever? Attack of the Heebie Jeebies is the first in a fun and engaging colour illustrated series from Tom Percival, exploring anxiety in in children through action and adventure.

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Return to the world of Amy Wilson's A Girl Called Owl in this sparkling seasonal novel Owl and the Lost Boy, from "the rising star of children's fantasy". Being stuck in an eternal summer is not fun. Especially when you're Jack Frost's daughter. Owl's friend Alberic - who also happens to be the Earl of Autumn's son - is missing. Determined to find him and end the perpetual summer, Owl and her best friend Mallory embark on an adventure that will take them deep into the magical world of time itself. But Alberic's disappearance is shrouded in secret, and there's more going on than meets the eye. As an epic battle of the elements approaches, will Owl and Alberic be able to control their magic and restore the natural world? Lose yourself in this glittering story of friendship, nature and the elements told with Amy Wilson's trademark magic and heart.

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You are my joy, my little one - my brightest shining star. This world of ours is full of love because of who you are! Tell your little one just how much you treasure them with this touching, tender rhyme.