Jeremy Page Libros

Having received a cryptic message ten years after her father's sudden disappearance, a young woman asks Sherlock Holmes to solve the mystery

'These were the nights when the German bombers growled through the sky, their bellies full with steel and cordite. When the moon was low their dark shapes and still darker shadows came over the coast. On one of those nights it all began for me - war, after all, starts many things, and even though I wasn't born for another twenty-five years, my story began there.' It is May 1945 and as church bells ring out Victory in Europe over the Norfolk saltmarshes, Goose's daughter Lil is born. But as Lil enters Goose's world, her father leaves it, in a makeshift boat bound - or so the story goes - for Germany, his home. Forty years later it is Lil's son, Pip, who begins to make sense of his family's fragmented history. Who was his grandfather, who fell from the sky into Goose's life and then disappeared as suddenly as he came? What was the truth of his mother, Lil, who lived and lost her way between the creeks and the samphire? And what does it all mean for Pip?

What must it be like to hold a wild bird not much larger than a small child, and know for certain that within your arms, you are holding the last one of a species? Inspired by a true story of 19th century European explorers who killed an entire species of a beautiful Penguin-like bird called the Great Auk, in order to sell the carcasses to museums around the world, this is a tale of a young man joining a hunting ship to the Arctic in the hope of finding a remaining live specimen. A historical novel about love, obsession and extinction.

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A classroom tested English-course for adults and young adults, "Inside Out" has been designed to develop real-life communicative skills and powers of self-expression. Creative grammar work: learners organize and develop their knowledge of grammar. Easy-to-use exercises put rules into pratice - and are then recycled as speaking activities. All grammar work is backed up with clear summaries. Personalized speaking tasks: a series of challenging speaking tasks focuses on learners' own experiences and opinions. Choices within tasks encourage learners to take charge of interactions. Structured planning time is built into tasks, improving both fluency and accuracy. Contextualized lexis: lexical items are seen in context, showing how words and phrases function and how they collocate with each other. Focus exercises highlight and recycle lexis to help learners build a bigger and better active vocabulary. Realistic listening and reading: a rich selection of accessible and entertaining texts: cartoons, postcards, letters and extracts from newspapers, magazines and novels. Listenings include conversations, interviews and classic pop songs recorded by the original artists.

As a lead-in to preparation for the Cambridge First Certificate examination, Think Ahead to First Certificate offers intermediate students following general communicative courses a bridge to the accuracy required for FCE, particularly in the areas of structure, vocabulary and writing skills.

As a lead-in to preparation for the Cambridge First Certificate examination, Think Ahead to First Certificate offers intermediate students following general communicative courses a bridge to the accuracy required for FCE, particularly in the areas of structure, vocabulary and writing skills. The course combines high-interest texts with a clear focus on skills and vocabulary building. A reference section encourages students to use the language they have acquired to create their own reference source for prepositions, irregular verbs, phrasal verbs, functions and grammar. Think Ahead to First Certificate has been designed to be used independently of, or as a lead-in to, its companion title, Think First Certificate. The workbook provides additional practice and consolidation of the language and skills introduced in the coursebook. It also aims to develop students' independent study skills by encouraging them to build up their own study reference source as they progress through the material. The workbook material is flexible and can be used for additional classroom practice or for homework.

Nach dem Unfalltod seiner vierjährigen Tochter Freya und der Trennung von seiner Frau Judy sieht sich Guy mit einem Leben konfrontiert, das allen Sinn verloren zu haben scheint. Um den Bemühungen Anteil nehmender Freunde auszuweichen, zieht er sich von jeglicher Gesellschaft zurück auf sein Boot in die Abgeschiedenheit der rauen See vor der Küste Norfolks. Guy hat nicht vor, sein Schicksal anzunehmen. Jeden Abend trifft er Freya und Judy wieder – in seinem Tagebuch, in dem er das Leben seiner Familie beschreibt, wie es hätte sein können. In dieser erträumten Welt reist er mit der nun zehnjährigen Freya durch den Süden der USA, um Judy bei ihrer beginnenden Karriere als Sängerin zu unterstützen. Doch die Realität holt Guy ein: Zwei Frauen, Mutter und Tochter, ankern mit ihrem Boot in seiner Nähe und üben eine seltsame Anziehungskraft auf ihn aus. Diese Begegnung stellt Guy vor eine schwere Entscheidung. Denn während er sich, inspiriert von Marta und Rhona, vorsichtig dem wirklichen Leben annähert, entgleitet ihm Stück für Stück die gelebte Welt seines Tagebuchs . . .