Oxford Bookworms Stage 3
Graded reader version of the popular book, about life love and everything else in between. Have a box of tissues ready, while you listen to this graded reader. Book added by alst1!
He is not beautiful. His mother does not want him, children run away from him. People laugh at him, and call him 'The Elephant Man'. Then someone speaks to him - and listens to him! At the age of 27, Joseph Merrick finds a friend for the first time in his life. This is a true and tragic story. It is also a famous film.
AUDIOBOOK: Hell Island
Four groups of special forces are being parachuted into Hell Island with no idea who or what will they be fighting once they get there. Can the best of the US armed forces defeat their unknown enemy? Definitely one for the boys, it's action-packed.
It is an island that doesn't appear on any maps. A place where secret tests have been going on. Tests that have gone terribly wrong...
When all contact with the island is suddenly lost, four crack special-forces units are dropped in. Their mission: to land on Hell Island and discover what has happened.
Nothing can prepare them for what they find there. You could say they've just entered hell. Only that would be wrong.
This is much, much worse.
AUDIOBOOK: Robin Hobb - The Liveship Traders Trilogy (unabridged audiobooks + text)
Ship of Magic (1998)
Mad Ship (1999)
Ship of Destiny (2000)
The Liveship Trader's Trilogy takes place in Jamaillia, Bingtown and the Pirate Isles, on the coast far to the south of the Six Duchies. The war in the north has interrupted the trade that is the lifeblood of Bingtown, and the Liveship Traders have fallen on hard times despite their magic sentient ships. At one time, possession of a Liveship, constructed of magical wizard wood, guaranteed a Trader's family prosperity. Only a Liveship can brave the dangers of the Rain Wild River and trade with the legendary Rain Wild Traders and their mysterious magical goods, plundered from the enigmatic Elderling ruins. Althea Vestrit expects her families to adhere to tradition, and pass the family Liveship on to her when it quickens at the death of her father. Instead, the Vivacia goes to her sister Keffria and her scheming Chalcedean husband Kyle. The proud Liveship becomes a transport vessel for the despised but highly profitable slave trade.
Althea, cast out on her own, resolves to make her own way in the world and somehow regain control of her family's living ship. Her old shipmate Brashen Trell, the enigmatic woodcarver Amber and the Paragon, the notorious mad Liveship are the only allies she can rally to her cause. Pirates, a slave rebellion, migrating sea serpents and a newly hatched dragon are but a few of the obstacles she must face on her way to discovering that Liveships are not, perhaps, what they seem to be, and may have dreams of their own to follow.
