This third volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Carol Emshwiller, Neil Gaiman, Elizabeth Hand, Paul Park, RJ Parker, Robert Reed, Rachel Swirsky, Peter Watts, Gene Wolfe, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Asimov's, F&SF, Strange Horizons, Subterranean, Tor.com, and other top venues, The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy is your guide to magical realms and worlds beyond tomorrow.
English Short Stories: Including 'The Boy That Runs' (CEFR Level B1+)
Not just a boring grammar book: Learn English with four fast-paced short stories written for English language learners. In this book, we go from the stormy seas of Scotland to the snowy streets of St. Petersburg; while learning morals of friendship, courage and appreciation along the way. Each story contains various exercises on comprehension, grammar, vocabulary and even creative writing. Each time you re-read a story you'll gain a deeper meaning, and pick-up vocabulary and grammar structures you weren't aware of before. This is a book written for both pleasure and education. Graded at CEFR Level B1+, this book is most suitable for intermediate or advanced level speakers of all ages.
The Last Warner Woman features compelling settings, masterful story-tellers, a mystery, colorful characters, and language that resonates with beauty. The novel can also be read as an unobtrusive treatise on storytelling that invites comparisons between Western ways of knowing the world and traditional ways of understanding the world. It is presented not as a contest, but rather a statement of how we see individually and collectively.
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits is a 2005 novel by Moroccan American author Laila Lalami. First published in the United States, it offers a wider view of the immigration phenomenon from North Africa to Europe.
Are you scared Gordon' asks Heather. Four friends talk of ghosts in a hotel in Scotland. That night Gordon sees and hears something strange in his room. But is it really the ghost of Lord McCoy These six stories tell of ghosts friendly sad and bad from Britain Australia New Zealand America and Egypt
