Mária Borbás Books

One of a series designed as an introduction to literature. It is graded into six levels, and each book contains an introduction and exercises. It is designed for students of English as a foreign or as a second language, and for reluctant readers. This is a family saga set in Australia.

„Christie-t ​​karácsonyra! Így hirdette az angol kiadója évtizedeken keresztül Agatha Christie új könyvét. Bizonyára nem csak üzleti fogásról volt szó: maga a krimi királynője akart boldog ünnepeket kívánni az olvasóinak egy új könyvvel minden évben. Mert Christie számára a karácsony különösen fontos volt, ami abból is tudható, hogy több regényében és elbeszélésében is az ünnep szolgáltatja a hátteret az eseményekhez. Az egyikben Hercule Poirot vidéken tölti a karácsonyt, és az ünnep reggelén holttestet talál a hóban, amely aztán eltűnik… A második történet főhőse szintén Poirot, aki majdnem negyven évvel később megint kénytelen egy vidéki kúriában karácsonyozni, és a herceg ellopott rubinját kell megkeresnie. Majd megint csak Poirot következik, és egy gyűlölködő család emlékezetes leírása. A szeretet ünnepén a családfőt holtan találják, és a jelenlevők közül senki sem sajnálja. Végül azért Miss Marple is kap egy emlékezetes karácsonyi szerepet. Egy vidéki szállodában gyilkosság történik az ünnepek alatt, és csak a szelíd, kék szemű vénkisasszony lát át a gonosztevő mesterkedésén. Az írónő karácsonyi krimijeit most először gyűjtöttük össze magyarul is egy kötetben.” (a Kiadó)

As the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his father and for a powerful, magical knife.

The Leonides family live together in a large and crooked house in a wealthy London suburb. When the elderly millionaire Aristide Leonides is murdered with a fatal injection, the family reluctantly suspect his glamorous, young second wife. Charles Hayward, who is engaged to the late millionaire's granddaughter, observes the family closely and makes a terrible and shocking discovery...

Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his counting house when he died - his pockets were later found to contain traces of cereals. An incident in the parlour confirmed Jane Marple's suspicion that here she was looking at a case of crime by rhyme.

The Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing's first novel is a taut and tragic portrayal of a crumbling marriage, set in South Africa during the years of Arpartheid.

'Anyone who murdered Colnonel Protheroe, ' declared the parson, brandishing a carving knife above a joint of roast beef, 'would be doing the world a favour!' It was a careless remark for a man of the cloth. And one which was to come back and haunt the clergyman just a few hours later - when the Colonel is found shot dead in the clergyman's study. But as Miss Marple soon discovers, the whole village seems to have had a motive to kill Colonel Protheroe. -- back cover

According to Vonnegut's alter ego, science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13 February 2001. It is a moment when the universe suffers a crisis of consience. Should it expand or make a great big bang? It decides to back up a decade to 1991, making everyone in the world ten years of deja vu and a total loss of free will - not to mention reliving every nanosecond of one of the tawdriest and most hollow decades. In 1996, dead centre of the 're-run' Vonnegut is wrestling again with Timequake I, a book he couldn't write the first time and won't be able to now. As he struggles, he addresses, with his trademark wicked wit, the relationship between memory and deja vu, humanism, sucicide, the Great Depression and World War Two as the last generational character builders, the loss of American eloquence, the obsolescent thrill of reading books, and what 'extended family' really means.