The Olympic Games: 1000 Headwords ( Bookworms Factfiles) [Illustrated] (Paperback) by Steve Flinders (Author)
"Factfiles" are a sub-series of "Bookworms" with a non-fiction angle, providing factual information for students of English who are not so much interested in fiction. This Stage 3 reader takes a look at the Olympic Games.
It’s Not News, It’s Fark is Drew Curtis’s clever examination of the state of the media today and a hilarious look at the go-to stories mass media uses when there’s just not enough hard news to fill a newspaper or a news broadcast. Drew exposes eight stranger-than-fiction media patterns that prove just how little reporting is going on in the world of reporters today.
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Stories: All-New Tales
This collection of 27 never-before published stories from an impressive cast—Roddy Doyle, Joyce Carol Oates, and Stuart O'Nan, among others—sets out to shift genre paradigms. The overarching theme is fantastic fiction, or fiction of the imagination, with fantasy being used in the most broad-sweeping sense rather than signaling the familiar commercial staples of elves, ghouls, and robots. Consequently, the collection's offerings run a wide gamut. In Joe Hill's Devil on the Staircase, an Italian boy commits a crime of passion and subsequently meets an emissary of Satan.
Adventure stories filled with danger, action, and unusual events have been popular with readers from ancient times to the present day. The Encyclopedia of Adventure Fiction covers the very best of adventure fiction, from classics such as Charles Dickens's 'A Tale of Two Cities' and Joseph Conrad’s 'The Secret Agent' to tales that have enthralled younger readers for many years, such as 'Treasure Island' and 'The Wizard of Oz', to the finest of today's adventure stories. Written by a well-known writer of horror and science fiction, this essential reference will delight and intrigue any reader.
