Explore the latest books of this year!
Bookbot

Kieran McGovern

    Kolymsky Heights
    Jaws
    Washington Square
    Picture of Dorian Gray
    Rain man
    Race Against Time
    • Catherine Sloper is forbidden by her wealthy father to marry the fortune-hunting Morris Townsend. She secretly promises to marry Townsend when he is ready, but then realizes that Townsend is only waiting for her father to change his mind about her inheritance.

      Washington Square2008
      3.7
    • The Wave

      • 147 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      The Wave is based on a true incident that occurred in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969. The powerful forces of group pressure that pervaded many historic movements such as Nazism are recreated in the classroom when history teacher Burt Ross introduces a "new" system to his students. And before long The Wave , with its rules of "strength through discipline, community, and action", sweeps from the classroom through the entire school. And as most of the students join the movement, Laurie Saunders and David Collins recognize the frightening momentum of The Wave and realize they must stop it before it's too late.

      The Wave2008
      3.5
    • Love by design - A2

      • 64 pages
      • 3 hours of reading

      Love by Design was written by Kieran McGovern for Elementary-Level readers. The story explains how Tom has failed his exams and now cannot study photography at Art College. Bored with his job at the library he does not know what to do. One day a beautiful girl called Rita walks into the library and the couple's futures become linked.

      Love by design - A22002
      2.9
    • Picture of Dorian Gray

      • 80 pages
      • 3 hours of reading

      'When we are happy, we are always good', says Lord Henry, 'but when we are good, we are not always happy.' Lord Henry's lazy, clever words lead the young Dorian Gray into a world where it is better to be beautiful than to be good; a world where anything can be forgiven - even murder - if it can make people laugh at a dinner party.

      Picture of Dorian Gray2000
      4.2
    • The classic, blockbuster thriller of man-eating terror that inspired the Steven Spielberg movie and made millions of beachgoers afraid to go into the water. Experience the thrill of helpless horror again -- or for the first time!

      Jaws1999
      3.6
    • Kolymsky Heights

      • 436 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      Kolymsky Heights. A Siberian permafrost hell lost in endless nights, the perfect setting for an underground Russian research station. It's a place so secret it doesn't officially exist; once there, the scientists are forbidden to leave. But one scientist is desperate to get a message to the outside world. So desperate, he sends a plea across the wildness to the West in order to summon the one man alive capable of achieving the impossible ...

      Kolymsky Heights1997
      3.5
    • Penguin Readers: The Wave

      • 48 pages
      • 2 hours of reading

      The Wave is based on a true incident that occurred in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969. The powerful forces of group pressure that pervaded many historic movements such as Nazism are recreated in the classroom when history teacher Burt Ross introduces a "new" system to his students. And before long The Wave , with its rules of "strength through discipline, community, and action", sweeps from the classroom through the entire school. And as most of the students join the movement, Laurie Saunders and David Collins recognize the frightening momentum of The Wave and realize they must stop it before it's too late.

      Penguin Readers: The Wave1996
    • This popular series of readers has now been completely revised and updated, using a new syllabus and new word structure lists. Readability has been ensured by means of specially designed computer software. Words that are above level but essential to the story are explained within the text,illustrated, and then reused for maximum reinforcement.

      Oxford Progressive English Readers - 2: Stories from Greek Tragedies1994
    • "Charlie Bebbitt thinks he will get a lot of money when his father dies. But the money goes to someone he does not know. He is a man who lives in a special hospital, and is the brother Charlie never knew. The two men meet and this is the start of a surprising new life for the both of them." --Back cover. Graded reader with exercises, glossary, and cassette tape. Suitable for self-study, building vocabulary, and developing reading and listening skills

      Rain man1994
      4.3