This book contains 200 reviews of significant fiction and nonfiction published in 2008. It provides coverage for works that are likely to be of particular interest to the general reader, and that will stand the test of time.
By filtering the thousands of books published every year down to 200 notable titles, the editors have provided the busy librarian with an excellent reader's advisory tool and patrons with fodder for book discussion groups and a guide for choosing worthwhile reading material.
Good book when you prepare for a cultural section of any lesson at the given level. Students enjoy it. The teacher's factsheets and answers are added to the end of the file.
William Shakespeare is perhaps the most famous playwright of all time. Plays such as Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream are still performed now, nearly 400 years after his death.
Fascinating stories about Shakespeare’s life and his plays are brought to life in this invaluable Reader about one of the world’s great writers.
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An officer in His Majesty’s Secret Service during World War II, Fleming burst onto the literary scene in 1953 with the first in his series of spy novels, thrilling readers for over fifty years.
007 is the ultimate man of action, his high-stakes missions propelling him to exotic locales where he seduces exceptional (and exceptionally named) women. He bests some of literature’s most sinister masterminds and he does it all mixing glamour and grit, subterfuge and style.
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Jeffrey Archer - To Cut A Long Story Short
The story will engross and astonish, peopled with a rich assortment of truly memorable characters: the intoxicating woman who appears to her lover only once every six years; the British diplomat who employs his rather creative -- if not entirely ethical -- financial talents for a greater good; the millionaire who declares himself bankrupt to test the love and loyalties of those closest to him.
Jeffrey Archer - Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less
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Jeffrey Archer - Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less
The conned: an Oxford don, a revered society physician, a chic French art dealer, and a charming English lord. They have one thing in common. Overnight, each novice investor lost his life's fortune to one man. The con: Harvey Metcalfe. A brilliant, self-made guru of deceit. A very dangerous individual. And now, a hunted man.
