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Nancy Taylor

    January 1, 1947
    Nancy Taylor
    The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
    L.A. Confidental
    Robinson Crusoe
    The gift of the magi and other stories
    Schindler's list
    Crime and Punishment
    • Crime and Punishment

      • 576 pages
      • 21 hours of reading

      Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the gloomy slums of St. Petesburg, must endure relentless physical and mental punishments as retribution for his act of murder

      Crime and Punishment
      4.7
    • Schindler's list

      • 96 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became a saviour. This is the extraordinary story of Oskar Schindler, who risked his life to protect Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland and who was transformed by the war into a man with a mission, a compassionate angel of mercy.

      Schindler's list
      4.4
    • O. Henry's stories are very famous. He writes about New York, Texas, Oklahoma ... Money and love are often problems. But how is a story going to finish? You never know. Readers always remember his stories -- page 4 of cover

      The gift of the magi and other stories
      4.2
    • Robinson Crusoe

      • 272 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      The adventures of Robinson Crusoe who was marooned on a desert island for twenty years.

      Robinson Crusoe
      4.2
    • It is Christmas, 1951, Los Angeles. A city where the police are as corrupt as the criminals, six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three L.A.P.D. detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and violent careers

      L.A. Confidental
      4.1
    • The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

      • 664 pages
      • 24 hours of reading

      Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This beautiful edition, featuring an afterword by John Grant, is the perfect way to experience this unforgettable tale. An emotionally stirring story, Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is rightfully considered to be one of the finest novels ever written. Rejected by fifteenth-century Parisian society, the bell-ringer Quasimodo believes he is safe under the watchful eye of his master, the Archdeacon Claude Frollo. But after Quasimodo saves the beautiful Romani girl Esmeralda from the gallows and brings her to sanctuary in the cathedral, he and Frollo's mutual desire for her puts them increasingly at odds, before compassion and cruelty clash with tragic results.

      The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
      4.0
    • The mummy returns

      • 48 pages
      • 2 hours of reading

      Contemporary / American English This is the second exciting Mummy movie. Ten years after their last battle with Imhotep, Evelyn and Rick O'Connell are back in Egypt. It is the Year of the Scorpion and people in Egypt are afraid. Somebody has to kill the Scorpion King, or the world will end.

      The mummy returns
      4.0
    • Michael Jordan

      • 20 pages
      • 1 hour of reading

      Original / American English Michael Jordan, the Chicago Bulls' number 23, is very famous. And he can fly! Maybe he is the best basketball player of all time. But where did he come from? How did he start in basketball? Read about his life and about his love of basketball.

      Michael Jordan
      3.8
    • The Five People You Meet in Heaven

      • 196 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      A specially produced paperback edition -- with flaps -- of the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller, that has sold more than six million copies in hardcover Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. His days are a dull routine of work, loneliness, and regret. Then, on his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies in a tragic accident, trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden, but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by five people. These people may have been loved ones or distant strangers. Yet each of them changed your path forever. One by one, Eddie's five people illuminate the unseen connections of his earthly life. As the story builds to its stunning conclusion, Eddie desperately seeks redemption in the still-unknown last act of his life: Was it a heroic success or a devastating failure The answer, which comes from the most unlikely of sources, is as inspirational as a glimpse of heaven itself. In The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom gives us an astoundingly original story that will change everything you've ever thought about the afterlife -- and the meaning of our lives here on earth. With a timeless tale, appealing to all, this is a book that readers of fine fiction, and those who loved Tuesdays with Morrie, will treasure.

      The Five People You Meet in Heaven
      3.9
    • Catherine Morland falls in love with a young clergyman while vacationing in Bath, and his father, thinking her wealthy, invites her to be a guest at Northanger Abbey, the family's country estate. He orders her out of the house when he discovers she is not wealthy. But Henry goes after her and persuades her to marry him.

      Northanger Abbey
      3.7
    • First Offense

      • 448 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      Surviving a murder attempt on her life, probation officer Ann Carlisle wonders if the unknown assailant could be the young drug dealer in her charge, an accused rapist facing trial, or her own husband. Reprint.

      First Offense
      3.6
    • Herz der Finsternis

      Und andere Erzählungen

      • 342 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Kolonialwarenhändler erschließen den Dschungel von Belgisch-Kongo im Dienste der Mächte Europas. Der berüchtigte Mr Kurtz, erfolgreichster aller Elfenbein-Lieferanten, beutet gnadenlos die Ureinwohner aus und lässt sich als Gott verehren. Zunehmend wird er Opfer seiner eigenen Allmachtsphantasien ... Der Horror lauert überall, wo der vermeintlich zivilisierte Westen glaubt, Heil bringen zu müssen.

      Herz der Finsternis
      3.6
    • Mandarin Classic: The Red Pony

      • 85 pages
      • 3 hours of reading

      Publisher: Mandarin Date of Publication: 1997 Binding: soft cover Edition: NEW EDITION Condition: Near Fine Description: 074931740X

      Mandarin Classic: The Red Pony
      3.5
    • The Brethren

      • 366 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison. One was sent up for tax evasion. Another, for skimming bingo profits. The third for a career-ending drunken joyride. Meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a little jailhouse justice, and contemplate where their lives went wrong. Or they can use their time in prison to get very rich—very fast. And so they sit, sprawled in the prison library, furiously writing letters, fine-tuning a wickedly brilliant extortion scam—while events outside their prison walls begin to erupt. A bizarre presidential election is holding the nation in its grips, and a powerful government figure is pulling some very hidden strings. For the Brethren, the timing couldn’t be better. Because they’ve just found the perfect victim.

      The Brethren
      3.5
    • William Tell

      • 32 pages
      • 2 hours of reading

      [Penguin Readers Level 1]William Tell is a good man, but his country is a dangerous place. The Swiss people don’t like the Austrian emperor or his governor in Switzerland. Can William Tell help them in their fight with the Austrians? Or is he a man of peace?

      William Tell
      3.1
    • Building Skills for the TOEFL

      Test of English as a Foreign Language

      • 538 pages
      • 19 hours of reading

      Building Skills for the TOEFL "RM" Test teaches the skills and examination techniques needed for students to score well on the TOEFL "RM" Test (paper and pencil). TOEFL "RM" tactics pages throughout the book provide useful hints on developing language skills, using the practice materials, and test-taking strategies. The course -- Clear, systematic, step-by-step preparation.-- Short, timed TOEFL "RM" practice exercises.-- Two complete TOEFL "RM" practice tests, including the Test of Written English, to thoroughly prepare students for the exam.

      Building Skills for the TOEFL
    • Ich sehe dich

      366 liebevolle Vaterworte für dein Herz

      Wünschst du dir, Gott würde hörbar zu dir sprechen? Mit seiner liebevollen Vaterstimme, ganz persönlich zu dir? Er tut das – auf jeder einzelnen Seite der Bibel. Lass dir seine Worte zusprechen, direkt zu deinem Herzen, jeden Tag aufs Neue. Mach dich auf eine einzigartige Entdeckungsreise durch das Buch der Bücher und zu unserem persönlichen Gott. Gott spricht zu dir – kannst du ihn hören?

      Ich sehe dich