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Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: About a quarter of the people in the world today speak or use English. In homes and schools, offices and meeting rooms, ships and airports, people are speaking English... How has this happened? How did English begin, and what will become of it in the future? The history of the English language is a journey through space and time, from thousands of years ago to today and beyond, and to all parts…

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Hank Morgan is a happy young man in Connecticut, USA, in 1879 until one day someone runs into his office and shouts, Come quickly, Boss! Two men are fighting. After this, something very strange happens to him, and his life changes forever.

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: I'm not a thief. I'm an innocent man, shouts Brown. He is angry because he is in prison and the prison guards hate him. Then one day Brown has an idea. It is dangerous — very dangerous.

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Every day is the same. Nothing exciting ever happens to me, thinks Adam one boring Monday morning. But today is not the same. When he helps a beautiful young woman because some men want to take her bag, life gets exciting and very, very dangerous.

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: It is the year 650 in England. There is war everywhere because the old king is dead and he has no son. Only when the new king comes can the fighting stop and the strange, magical story of King Arthur begin. But first, Merlin the ancient magician has to find a way of finding the next king...

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Bill and Sam arrive in the small American town of Summit with only two hundred dollars, but they need more and Sam has an idea for making a lot of money. When things start to go very wrong, both men soon regret their visit — and their idea.

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: You're a brave man, but I am afraid for you, says Lady Marian to Robin of Locksley. She is afraid because Robin does not like Prince John's new taxes and wants to do something for the poor people of Nottingham. When Prince John hears this, Robin is suddenly in danger — great danger.

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: There's a new girl in town, says Joe, and soon Steve is out looking for her. Marietta is easy to find in a small town, but every time he sees her something goes wrong... and his day goes from bad to worse.

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: How does it work? Jack asks when he opens his present — a mobile phone. Later that night, Jack is a prisoner in a taxi in the empty streets of the dark city. He now tries his mobile phone for the first time. Can it save his life?

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: I am a vampire killer... and now I need help, says Professor Fletcher to Colin. Colin needs a job and he needs money — but do vampires exist or is the professor crazy?

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: It's an interesting job, says Sally about her work at Happy Hills. And today is a very exciting day because Zapp the famous singer is coming. Everybody is having a wonderful time. But suddenly something goes wrong — very wrong.

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Give me the money, says the robber to the Los Angeles security guard. The guard looks at the gun and hands over the money. The robber has long blond hair and rides a motorcycle — and a girl with long blond hair arrives at Kenny's motel — on a motorcycle. Is she the robber?

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: It is the year 2030, and an e-mail message arrives at New York Cafe: I want to help people and make them happy! But not everybody is happy about the e-mail, and soon the police and the President are very interested in the New York Cafe.

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: When Tonya and her friends decide to sail around the world they want to see exciting things and visit exciting places. But one day, they meet an orca — a killer whale — one of the most dangerous animals in the sea. And life gets a little too exciting.

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Every day someone steals money from people near the shops. We must stop this, says Dan, a police officer. The police use TV cameras but it is not easy because there are so many suspects — who is the robber?

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Sally is always running — and she has her phone with her all the time: at home, on the train, at work, at lunchtime, and at the shops. But then one afternoon suddenly she has a different phone... and it changes her life.

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Six women are dead because of the Whitechapel Killer. Now another woman lies in a London street and there is blood everywhere. She is very ill. You are the famous detective Mycroft Pound; can you catch the killer before he escapes?

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: The empty centre of Australia. The sun is hot and there are not many people. And when Bill meets a man, alone, standing on an empty road a long way from anywhere, he is surprised and worried. And Bill is right to be worried. Because there is something strange about the man he meets. Very strange...

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Everything's ready now. We can do the experiment, says your assistant Joe. You are the famous scientist Mary Durie working in a laboratory in Alaska. When you discover something very new and valuable, other people want to try to steal your idea — can you stop them before they escape?

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: You are in a small plane, going across the Rocky Mountains. Suddenly, the engine starts to make strange noises... Soon you are alone, in the snow, at the top of a mountain, and it is very, very cold. Can you find your way out of the mountain?