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William and Kate Factfiles Stage 1
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William and Kate Factfiles Stage 1William and Kate Factfiles Stage 1

English graded reader series for secondary level to adult

Everybody took photos of Prince William when he first arrived at the University of St Andrews. Crowds of photographers came to the little Scottish town next to the sea and took pictures of this new student - the nineteen-year-old grandson of the Queen of England.
But nobody photographed Kate Middleton on her first day at the university. She moved in quietly, ready to begin her studies in art history. She was just an ordinary student with an ordinary future in front of her. Or was she?

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Go, Lovely Rose and Other Stories - Bookworms 3
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Go, Lovely Rose and Other Stories - Bookworms 3Go, Lovely Rose and Other Stories - Bookworms 3A warm summer night. The moon shines down on the quiet houses and gardens. 

Everyone is asleep. Everyone except the man in pyjamas and slippers, standing on the wet grass at the end of his garden, watching and waiting . . . In these three short stories, H. E. Bates presents ordinary people like you and me. But as we get to know them better, we see that their feelings are not at all ordinary. In fact, what happens to them – and in them – is passionate, and even extraordinary. Could this happen to you and me?

 

 
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Ripley's Game - Penguin Readers - Level 5
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Ripley's Game - Penguin Readers - Level 5Ripley's Game - Penguin Readers - Level 5

One night, Tom Ripley is insulted by a man at a party. An ordinary person would just be upset by this, but Tom Ripley is not an ordinary person. Months later, when a friend asks him for help with two simple murders, he remembers the night and plans revenge. He starts a game - a very nasty game, in which he plays with the life of a sick and innocent man. But how far will he go?
 
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The Accidental Dictionary: The Remarkable Twists and Turns of English Words
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The Accidental Dictionary: The Remarkable Twists and Turns of English WordsThe Accidental Dictionary: The Remarkable Twists and Turns of English Words

Brimming with hidden histories and tantalising twists, The Accidental Dictionary tells the extraordinary stories behind ordinary words.
 
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American Teens Talk
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American Teens TalkIn the summer of 2009, I had a wonderful opportunity to spend three weeks with a group of Tajik English teachers. One of the teachers said that her students would like to have a book of stories about American teenagers. When I returned home, I couldn’t find a book like that, so I began to interview ordinary young people about their everyday lives and send the interviews to some English teachers and learners. When I asked teenagers for an interview, they almost always said, “But I don’t do anything special.” I told them, “That’s exactly what I want: ordinary life and ordinary English.”
 
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