It's difficult to imagine a harder first act to follow than The Kite Runner: a debut novel by an unknown writer about a country many readers knew little about that has gone on to have over four million copies in print worldwide. But when preview copies of Khaled Hosseini's second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, started circulating at Amazon.com, readers reacted with a unanimous enthusiasm that few of us could remember seeing before.
Tank Girl is the creation of Worthing comic artists Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin. She first appeared in Deadline magazine, and quickly rose like a metaphor, to reach international fame, in an ultimately poorly drawn and apatheticly handled disaster.
Serialized in Deadline magazine for the last year, Tank Girl drives her tank around a futuristic Australia, ruled by President Paul Hogan and terrorized by a mafiosi of hard-drinking kangaroos. Her associates include her kangaroo boyfriend/sidekick Booga and a gay koala bear
The Image of the World: 20 Centuries of World Maps
Though technology has changed the tools of navigation available to us, maps are still the irreplaceable foundation of place and orientation. In this updated edition of Image of the World, map expert Peter Whitfield guides readers through a collection of some of the most extraordinary examples of maps—both visually stunning and historically revealing.
A Tale of Two Cities (Level 5 Audio CD NO BOOK) Compass Classic Readers:Charles Dickens' historial saga is part of the Classic Readers series. English language learners of all ages will enjoy developing their vocabulary and reading fluency as they read about the astute but self-indulgent English barrister Sydney Carton, the virtuous French aristocrat Charles Darnay and his wife, and the enchantingly upstanding Lucie Manette in the midst of the French Revolution. Students and teachers alike will be entranced with this sweeping historical drama of persecution, revolution and ultimately, spiritual redemption in A Tale of Two Cities.
Rocky and Ginger help the chicken escape from Tweedy's Farm.
Based on the popular film "Chicken Run" by DreamWorks, this is a level 2 reduced complexity book from Penguin Young Readers. Aimed at children aged 7-9 (700 words) Up to 200 hours of English
