Level 3 — 150-160 Headwords The Miller’s daughter is in trouble. A strange little man with a funny hat offers her his help, but he wants a lot in return… see what happens next in this classic story and share the quest for the little man’s strange name.
This is a full-color, beautifully illustrated book with plenty of fun activities for students. A CD / CD-ROM with the full text of the story and a song is available as well
A few special humans are endowed with paranormal abilities, and it is Caleb O'Hara's gift of precognition that saves his family from certain death when the aliens attack Earth, nearly obliterating the human race. Having moved his brothers and wife to a remote cabin, they make a new home for themselves. But the lack of female companionship sees Caleb's brothers growing restless and frustrated, and Caleb knows that life as they know it must change if the family is to stay together - something that must happen if they are to live through the next challenge from the Alvian invaders.
Take on these fiendish puzzles devilishly created to either make or break your IQ. They're the toughest examples of the most popular logic puzzle types: Find the Missing Figure, Guess the Picture Sequence, Detect What Word or Letter Comes Next, Odd One Out, Missing the Symbols, Number Crunching, Cryptograms, and more. There's a Nightmare Before Christmas puzzle, and Sherlock Holmes returns to solve the mystery of which of three brothers broke his window, plus dozens more too hard to even describe here.
The Limbourg Brothers: Reflections on the Origins and the Legacy of Three Illuminators from Nijmegen
Although the Nijmegen artists Herman, Paul and Jean de Limbourg were barely thirty years old when they suddenly died in 1416, they could already look back on a formidable career. Now, even almost six hundred years after their creation, their colourful and highly refined miniatures in the Belles Heures and Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry still speak vividly to our imagination.
The men of E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne, volunteered for this elite fighting force because they wanted to be the best in the army--and avoid fighting alongside unmotivated, out-of-shape draftees. The price they paid for that desire was long, arduous, and sometimes sadistic training, followed by some of the most horrific battles of World War II. Actor Cotter Smith--a veteran of numerous TV movies and Broadway plays--spins Stephen Ambrose's tale with almost laconic ease...
