This book recounts the adventures of a horse as he moves from life on a farm into the battles of World War I, the story of a friendship lasting through the toughest of tests. Through the eyes of the war horse, Joey, Michael Morpurgo tells this moving and powerful story of survival on the Western Front.
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3 books in one link: 100 years of solitude A best seller and critical success in Latin America, Europe, and the United States, One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of teh mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family. It is a rich and billiant chronicle of life and death and the tragicomedy of man. In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful, and tawdry story of the Buendia family one sees all mankind, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo one sees all of Latin America. love in the time of cholera ; of love and other demons
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Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Top selling book on Amazon. “This is a story about a mother, two daughters, and two dogs. This was supposed to be a story of how Chinese parents are better at raising kids than Western ones. But instead, it's about a bitter clash of cultures, a fleeting taste of glory, and how I was humbled by a thirteen-year-old".
Amy L. Chua is the John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Prior to starting her teaching career, she was a corporate law associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. She specializes in the study of international business transactions, law and development, ethnic conflict, and globalization and the law.
This series, comprising both original and simplified stories, is published at five levels and provides a choice of enjoyable reading material for all learners of English. This story takes place in England and Brazil, in the 1970s. There were not many fax machines then, and people could not send and receive e-mails. This story is about scientists and inventors. But at that time, everybody had to use the telephones and the postal services when they wanted to talk to each other, or send each other information.
