When lightning strikes there can only be trouble - as Jessica Mastriani finds out when she and best friend Ruth get caught in a thunderstorm. Not that Jess has ever really avoided trouble before. Instead of cheerleading there are fistfights with the football team and month-long stints in detention - not that detention doesn\'t have its good points - like sitting next to Rob - the cutest senior around!

The SS was one of the most important institutions of Third Reich Germany, yet it is also among the least well understood. From the end of 1935, the SS had control over all police and internal security duties in Germany and the militarised Waffen SS had more than eight hundred thousand men serving in the field, in direct rivalry with the traditional German armed forces, the Wehrmacht. Making use of

Truly original, CENSORING AN IRANIAN LOVE STORY is an incredibly imaginative yet always charming love story set in contemporary Iran that crackles with wit, verve and social comment: Sara falls in love with Dara through secret messages hidden in code in the pages of books that have been outlawed, but then something quite extraordinary and unexpected happens. Through adeptly handled asides to the reader,

The activities in Dominoes keep students engaged in the stories and help to reinforce their understanding of the key language. They can be completed at home or in class. The project activities in Dominoes build on the themes from the story and encourage s

On 14 February 1989, Valentine\'s Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been \'sentenced to death\' by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being \'against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran\'. So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced

\"Factfiles\" is a sub-series of \"Bookworms\" with a non-fiction angle, providing factual information for students who are not so much interested in fiction.

Must-have short story collection by Garth Nix, containing thirteen stories all introduced by the author himself. ACROSS THE WALL brings together an eclectic mix of Garth Nix\'s writing spanning several years. The opening story is the 2005 World Book Day novella and Old Kingdom story NICHOLAS SAYRE AND THE CREATURE IN THE CASE, winner of two prestigious Aurealis Awards. The rest of the collection includes

Energetic and cosmopolitan, the Batrakani family fate is entwined with that of their adopted land, Egypt, as it is caught in the upheavals of the 20th century. Georges Bey Batrakani is the patriarch of this family of Greek Catholic, French-speaking Syrians, living in a Muslim Cairo run by the British. He is driven by the need to achieve the wealth necessary for the luxury he craves. His chosen method

First in a two volume collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of \'Empire of the Sun\', \'Crash\' and \'Super-Cannes\'. The new edition is introduced by Adam Thirwell. With eighteen novels over four decades - from \'The Drowned World\' in 1962 to his final novel \'Kingdom Come\' in 2006 - J.G. Ballard is known as one of Britain\'s most celebrated and original novelists. However, during

When Harriet Westaway receives an unexpected letter telling her she’s inherited a substantial bequest from her Cornish grandmother, it seems like the answer to her prayers. She owes money to a loan shark and the threats are getting increasingly aggressive: she needs to get her hands on some cash fast. There\'s just one problem - Hal\'s real grandparents died more than twenty years ago. The letter has

This witty and irreverent collection of essays presents Eco\'s playful but unfailingly accurate takes on everything from militarism, computer jargon, Westerns, librarians and bureaucrats to meals on airplanes, Amtrak trains, bad coffee, express mail, fax machines and pornography. An uncanny combination of the profound and the profane.Upozornenie: Vzhľadom na častejšie obmeny vydaní tejto knihy v zahraničí,

While the economy of his small South American country collapses, President Veracruz joins his improbable populace of ex-soldiers, former guerillas, unfrocked priests and reformed though by no means inactive whores, in a bizarre search for sexual fulfillment. But for Cardinal Guzman, a man tormented by his own private demons, their stupendous, hedonistic fiestas represent the epicenter of all heresies.

Freuen Sie sich darauf, was diesem herrlich verrückten Autor für seine neue Protagonistin eingefallen ist! Die aberwitzige Geschichte der jungen Afrikanerin Nombeko, die zwar nicht lesen kann, aber ein Rechengenie ist, fast zufällig bei der Konstruktion nuklearer Sprengköpfe mithilft und nebenbei Verhandlungen mit den Mächtigen der Welt führt. Nach einem besonders brisanten Geschäft setzt sie sich

Since the first kiss recorded on film in 1896, erotic moving images have stimulated viewers and outraged public bodies. This book explores the meaning of eroticism and gives an overview of sex on the big screen by exploring different forms of sexual behavior or taboo-breaking in film. Included are intimate looks at ten of the most erotic movies ever made: including Last Tango in Paris, Betty Blue,

In gleicher Ausstattung wie die bereits erschienenen Sonderausgaben Das Glasperlenspiel\", \"Unterm Rad\" und \"Siddhartha\" liegt nun auch Hesses einflußreichster Roman \"Der Steppenwolf\" vor. Die Ausgabe enthält in einem Anhang erstmals den kompletten Zyklus der Krisis-Gedichte, einem lyrischen Tagebuch der Jahre 1925 bis 1926, aus dem dieses internationale Kultbuch vieler Generationen hervorgegangen

Ein kleines, verschwiegenes Tal in Kalifornien. Hier lebt seit den sechziger Jahren eine Hippie-Kommune. Nun aber soll ihr Dorf einem Stausee weichen. Doch die “Kinder von Eden” wollen sich nicht aus ihrem Paradies vertreiben lassen und greifen in ihrer Not zu einem wahnwitzigen Plan: Sie drohen der Regierung, ein Erdbeben stattfinden zu lassen, das entsetzliche Folgen haben wird. Niemand nimmt ihre

\'I\'m not afraid of storms, for I\'m learning how to sail my ship.\' Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - four \"little women\" enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England The charming story of the March sisters, Little Women has been adored by generations. Readers have rooted for Laurie in his pursuit of Jo\'s hand, cried over little Beth\'s death, and dreamed of travelling through Europe

The complete Maze Runner series released with a sophisticated new look in a stunning box set - perfect for older readers. In a post-apocalyptic reality, violence, disease and lies threaten to destroy much more than the lives of the young Gladers. But the truth is more dangerous than any of them could have imagined. The Maze is only the beginning ...

Le colonel Bentry a toutes les raisons d’être contrarié. On le tire de son sommeil pour lui faire constater un désagrément terrible : une femme, inconnue et vêtue de la manière la plus vulgaire qui soit, a été trouvée étranglée dans la bibliothèque de son manoir. Heureusement, la demeure des Bentry est voisine de Saint-Mary-Mead, le village de Miss Marple… Dans son autobiographie, Agatha Christie déclarait