Corky is a champion windsurfer and Shiner is still learning. Shiner has mixed feelings about going on holiday with Corky as he doesn't think he'll be able to cope with surfing at sea after only practising on the reservoir. However, not only does Shiner cope with the sea, but he joins Corky in rescuing a boy - an illegal immigrant - who has been abandoned on an offshore island. Together the boys outrun and outwit the men behind the immigration scam and secure the boy's freedom.
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson confront a chilling mystery on the moors in this classic tale by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A country doctor visits 221B Baker Street, recounting the eerie legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles, which warns the Baskerville family descendants to avoid the moors, lest they encounter a devilish beast. While such a story may seem absurd to a rational mind, the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville, accompanied by the discovery of giant hound footprints near his body, compels Holmes and Watson to investigate. As they delve deeper, they uncover a web of intrigue where nothing is as it appears. The Hound of the Baskervilles stands as one of the most celebrated Sherlock Holmes stories, showcasing masterful detection and spine-tingling suspense.
Mitchell McDeere, a top Harvard Law student from rural Kentucky, has his sights set on a prestigious career. He chooses the Memphis firm of Bendini, Lambert & Locke, known for its high salaries and zero turnover. However, Mitch's excitement turns to suspicion as he uncovers troubling events: two partners die in a mysterious diving accident, the firm boasts about its lack of resignations, and its security measures are alarmingly excessive. His investigation leads to a shocking revelation: the firm is controlled by a powerful Chicago crime family. Caught between the FBI, seeking an informant, and the firm, which offers wealth or threats to his life, Mitch faces a perilous choice.
In a separate narrative, Darby Shaw, a law student in New Orleans, finds herself entangled in a deadly conspiracy after preparing a legal brief that inadvertently exposes a political scandal following the assassination of two Supreme Court justices. As she becomes a target, Darby goes underground and teams up with an ambitious reporter to unravel the truth. Together, they navigate a violent cover-up that stretches from Louisiana's bayous to the corridors of power, where someone is determined to eliminate any evidence of a horrific crime.
Claws is an Elementary-level book written by John Landon for the Macmillan Readers Series. This book tells the story of Larry who applies for a job as a cook for a team on an expedition in the mountains of Afghanistan searching for the fearsome Toruk. Will they find this scary creature that has killed people before?
Des reliques d'or, des pierres précieuses, des pièces d'argent..., commente le guide. Le seigneur de Roquépine reçut ce trésor en dépôt et l'enfouit dans une cachette connue de lui seul. Hélas ! il emporta son secret dans sa tombe... " " Wouf ! " fait Dagobert, réprobateur. Claude et ses trois cousins sont fascinés par ces explications. Venus visiter les ruines de Roquépine, les voici entraînés dans une passionnante chasse au trésor...
This is one of a series of graded readers for elementary to intermediate level English, designed to lead into levels 4 and 5 of Simple Stories. Some robbers steal money and escape in a stolen car. A diamond necklace is stolen from a museum. Everyone who works at the museum could be guilty, but who really took it and why? There are approximately three pages of pre- and post-reading exercises in this book.
Love Among the Haystacks and Other Stories gathers together all of Lawrence's short stories not collected in the Prussian Officer volume. It offers a range of work from Lawrence's earliest surviving published story, 'A Prelude', to 'New Eve and Old Adam' written at the height of his early maturity in 1913. Each story in this edition appears in a new, authoritative text based on the manuscripts, typescripts, corrected proofs and early printings drawn from libraries and private collections in England, Italy and America. All the stories have thus been stripped of the layers of errors introduced by typists, editors and printers in their previous publication. John Worthen's introduction sets out the composition and publication history of each story, and gives a full account of the context in which it was created. A textual apparatus records all variant readings and explanatory notes explain allusions, dialect forms and foreign words.
"There were five of us altogether - five children, I mean, not counting my mother and father, who don't really have much to do with the stories. They don't know about all the adventures I'm going to tell you - and the ones they did know about...well, you'll see what they thought of them!"
Finalmente hai recuperato le Pergamene di Kettsuin, e il tuo Dio Kwon ti appare circonfuso da un'aureola di luce: ma non è ancora giunto per te il momento di sapere chi era il tuo vero padre... per adesso il tuo compito è di raggiungere l'Isola Mistica dei Sogni Tranquilli. Tuttavia sarà un viaggio che ti riserverà molte sorprese...
Město TAK je největším doupětem zlodějů, pirátů a hrdlořezů, jaké kdy civilizovaný svět poznal. V tomto městě vyvrhelů žijí dva piráti proslulí nesmírnou hrabivostí, smělými nájezdy a nepočetnými boji tváří v tvář smrti. Jedním z těchto lotrů je Abdul Řezník. Tím druhým jsi TY! Jen jeden z vás může být králem pirátů. Uzavřete tedy sázku; začíná boj o poklad a závod s časem. Ale který z vás zvítězí?
