Janet McAlpin Knihy

Jedenáctiletý Mark Sway se stane svědkem sebevraždy neworleanského advokáta, obhájce mafiánských hrdlořezů, a ten mu krátce před svou smrtí prozradí za dramatických událostí důležité tajemství. Tak začíná napínavý příběh, jehož děj je vymezen jen několika desítkami hodin. O Marka se od této chvíle začne zajímat tisk, mafiáni i představitelé zákona. Inteligentní chlapec si uvědomuje, jaká hrozba visí nejen nad ním, ale i nad celou jeho rodinou, a najme si advokátku Reggii Loveovou, za jejíž nezištné pomoci svede vítězný boj proti všem protivníkům a zaslouží se tak o vyřešení případu horečně sledovaného celými Spojenými státy.

In 1891, the great detective, Sherlock Holmes, disappeared in Switzerland while working on a dangerous case. Everyone thought he was dead, but three years later he returned to England. Holmes and his friend, Dr Watson, had many more adventures together. Three of his most interesting cases feature in this book.

It is six years since the disaster at Jurassic Park and the park is now closed, the island deserted and the dinosaurs destroyed. However, there are rumours that something has survived on another island. Could the nightmare be beginning again?

[ Penguin Readers Level 3 ] When Isabel Archer, a young American woman with looks, wit, and imagination, arrives in Europe, she sees the world as `a place of brightness, of free expression, of irresistible action'. She turns aside from suitors who offer her their wealth and devotion to follow her own path. But that way leads to disillusionment and a future as constricted as `a dark narrow alley with a dead wall at the end'. In a conclusion that is one of the most moving in modern fiction, Isabel makes her final choice. The Portrait of a Lady is the masterpiece of James's middle period, and Isabel is perhaps his most engaging central character. This edition provides a challenging new introduction and detailed notes; the text is that of the New York Edition and includes Henry James's own Preface.