Veronika Decides to Die

Veronika has everything she could wish for - young and pretty, with plenty of attractive boyfriends, a steady job, a loving family. Yet Veronika is not happy and one winter's morning she takes an overdose of sleeping pills, only to wake up some time later in the local hospital. There she is told that her heart is now irreparably damaged and she has only a few days to live...
Through these intense days Veronika comes to realize that every second of existence is a choice we all make between living and dying. This is a moving and uplifting song to life, one that reminds us that every moment in our lives is special and precious.

By Nightfall: A Novel

Peter Harris, a dispirited Soho gallery owner in his midforties, arrives home to find his wife in the shower and marvels at how lithe she looks through the steam, then realizes that he’s admiring her much younger brother. Called the Mistake, or Mizzy, he’s a lost soul, a junkie and moocher as sexy as he is manipulative. Mizzy appears just as Peter, brooding, romantic, and self-deprecating, is grappling with his failings as a father and an art dealer. 

FIRST IMPRESSIONS Elementary Reading Skills

FIRST  IMPRESSIONS is a lively reading skills book for elementary students. Based on slightly adapted authentic texts,the material is carefully designed to develop a variety of reading skills and build up students’ confidence to enjoy reading in English.

Goosebumps 22 - Ghost Beach

The Sadler siblings, Terri and Jerry, are sent by their parents to spend a month on the beachfront with their distant cousins Brad and Agatha Sadler, an elderly but lovable eccentric couple. In the course of fooling around on the beachfront, the siblings meet a trio of young kids flying bat-shaped kites. The five children set out to stop a horrible ghost from terrorizing their beach town.

Goosebumps 23 - Return of the Mummy

A year after his previous encounter with the mummy, Gabe flies back to Egypt to attend the grand public opening of the pyramid Uncle Ben was excavating in the last book. Nila Rahmad, a reporter for the Cairo Sun, accompanies Uncle Ben as he opens the tomb. After finding a live mummy, Nila reveals that she is the mummy's sister and is over 4000 years old.