ENGLISHIN60 MINUTESLearn tocopein an hour with importanteverydaysituationsin English. The audio CDincludes: *The most important words, phrasesand sentencesinan entertainingstorywith lots ofsongs inEnglish * 5sceneswith 17catchysongsto sing along:
Here we go!-Onthe day!- Travel -Get to work!-Let's goeat?
The story of Penelope - as told by herself. In The Odyssey, Penelope - daughter of King Icarius of Sparta, and the cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - is portrayed as the quintessential faithful wife. Atwood's dazzling retelling of the old myth is as haunting as it is wise and compassionate, as disturbing as it is entertaining. With incomparable wit and verve, she gives the story of Penelope new life and reality.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 21 October 2011
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A Song for Lya
This novella, A Song for Lya, is the story of two telepaths investigating religious suicides on an ancient world. This story, I have to admit, gave me chills up my spine for several days. I could not stop thinking about it in the shower, in the elevator, on the bus. It was absolutely fantastic and haunting, and as always with Martin, struck a cord at the center of the human condition.
Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner (Bloom's Guides)
In "The Kite Runner", history and personal responsibility come together in the story of Amir, an Afghan boy who is haunted by the guilt of betraying his childhood friend Hassan, the son of his father's servant. In the background loom the many tumultuous changes that have gripped Afghanistan in the years since Amir's carefree kite-flying childhood. From the fall of the monarchy through the Soviet invasion to the mass exodus of refugees to Pakistan and the United States to the rise of the Taliban regime, the story of Amir and Hassan emerges as the story of Afghanistan itself.
With each crime writer picking up the story in their usual locale, each of the authors tell a gripping story of murder, betrayal and intrigue. Running through each story is a charm bracelet which brings bad luck wherever it's found. Set in locations ranging from nineteenth-century Georgia to wartime Leeds, the book features stories from contributors such as Peter Robinson (writing about 1940s Leeds), Fidelis Morgan, Lynda La Plante (1970s Britain), Val McDermid (1980s Scotland) and Mark Billingham tackling contemporary London.
