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Improve your language skills and enjoy this collection of short stories for beginners!Reading can be a powerful tool in language learning, offering a multitude of benefits that improve understanding and enjoyment of the new language. Here are some of the main benefits:Expanding Vocabulary: Reading exposes you to new words in context, which is crucial for building vocabulary. Learning new words through stories can be more effective than rote memorization because you will see...

SKAGBOYS, TRAINSPOTTING, PORNO:DA QUESTI LIBRI I FILM TRAINSPOTTING E T2 TRAINSPOTTINGDiretti da Danny Boyle e Ewan McGregorUn pugno di ragazzi a Edimburgo e dintorni: Mark Renton, Sick Boy, Spud, Begbie e i loro «soci». Il racconto sboccato e travolgente della loro vita, fatta di sesso, droga e violenza. I libri di Irvine Welsh che hanno fatto epoca e dato voce a un’intera generazione sono disponibili per la prima volta in un solo ebook.

Seeing the future is hard, but facing it will be explosiveA Seer has surfaced—but she's blind!Chloe Santos is an immortal with a whole world of problems. The victim of an attempted murder that left her blind, horribly disfigured, and stuck with powers everyone thought eradicated, it's safe to say she's at a low point in her life. But then she's blackmailed into investigating a kidnapping with links to her past. It could put herself, and everyone she cares about, in danger.

The dark sea lifted him up once more. This time the moonlight broke from the strangling cloud cover and revealed the undulating waters before him. Adrift, his legs moving with just enough energy to keep him afloat, he thought he was living a plane crash survivor's worst nightmare. That was when he saw them, dotting the crests and valleys of the black water, their pale, corpse-like hide dully reflecting the light from above...a shiver of sharks.So begins the short story "Shiver"--th...

In 2033 the Earth you know has changed.Meteors fill the sky and pummel the Earth. Cities have crumbled or vanished in atomic fire. Mankind struggles to rebuild, but can barely survive. The old maps are useless. The old ways are dead. All that matters now is power…HorsepowerOne man rises above the rest: Clutch. The last Tribesman. He rides across the blasted lands searching for the men who killed his people, moving from one island of humanity to another, praying his ...

A HOLLOW HEARTConnor Williams is haunted by the ghosts of the people he has lost, and is consumed by revenge against the forces that took his loved ones from him. The Great War and all its horrors has left him a shell of the man he used to be. The only thing stopping him from becoming a monster is Sarah Dawson, the girl he'd left behind.Sarah knows she's in trouble. With her father dying and a floundering bakery to run, love is the last thing she needs. But Connor is a lure...

Creative Cross-Disciplinary Entrepreneurship responds to educational demands created through dramatic changes in the nature of business, by describing how to develop a cross-disciplinary curriculum in Entrepreneurship that further increases students' knowledge base in specific areas of interest and the development of an 'entrepreneurial mindset.'

After a wonderful summer of sailing, Verity Gallant just wants life to stay the same forever. But as she should know by now, not everything in life turns out as we would like. The land is shifting beneath the ancient harbour town of Wellow, causing mysterious caves to appear in cliff faces, terrifying rock falls, and dangerous landslides. And the earth isn't the only thing crumbling . . . Verity is thrilled that Jeb has returned, but their feelings for each other threaten her friendship wi...

A. I. TriggerAn Artificially Intelligent Short StoryAlbert and Giada are two scientists in love, and they want to share that love with their robot, ADAM. Love, however, can't be programmed, and so they search for the elusive Artificial Intelligence Trigger that will spark real emotion in their creation.This robot love story was written as part of a contest. I'll let the contest's own words explain: "One winner's original story will be published in the Simon & Schust...

A Harry Houdini Short NovelCoffeyville, Kansas, is known as the "Town that stopped the Dalton Gang." Many shots were fired in the early days of Coffeyville…but there was one lone bullet, fired some years after the Daltons were laid low, that passed unnoticed by most. One man, however, would never forget; a young Harry Houdini, still some years before fame would find him. The events of Coffeyville would ricochet down through the years, giving Houdini the ammunition he would need to ...

During the Civil War, the majority of the 583 Union generals studied here were afflicted by disease, injured by accidents, or suffered wounds. Following the war, they often suffered lingering diseases and the effects of unhealed wounds. Medical Histories of Union Generals includes a glossary of medical terms as well as a sequence of medical events during the Civil War listing wounds, accidents, and deaths. With his earlier book on Confederate generals, Dr. Welsh has produced a “must have” ...

From official records, personal letters, and postwar memoirs, Jack D. Welsh, M.D., has compiled the medical histories of 425 Confederate generals. The generals' early military experience, at West Point and in Florida, Mexico, or on the western frontier, meant that hundreds of them were exposed to and immunized against the diseases that killed so many soldiers in the Civil War, while many also were wounded or lost limbs. In addition, several survived street fights, duels, and shooting accid...