The seventh scroll is nearly 4000 years old. Within it lie the clues to a fabulous treasure from an almost forgotten time. Duraid Al Simmu and his wife, Royan, discovered the scroll and made research notes on it. But Duraid is murdered, and Royan has to flee to England to seek refuge.
A2 to B1 Level Pre-intermediate Level Grades 7-8 / 1,400 words Peyton Farquhar attempts to destroy Owl Creek Bridge to prevent Northern troops from crossing. He is sentenced to hang, but the noose breaks, and he falls into the water...
Antiguo Egipto, tierra de los faraones. En la ciudad de Tebas, durante el festival de Osiris, la gente se reune para rendir homenaje a su rey. Taita, astuto esclavo eunuco, ve en el tan solo un simbolo de la decadencia del reino. Lastris, joven bella y noble, esta destinada a desposar al Faraon. Pero un apuesto oficial ha jurado vengar la muerte de su padre y llevarse a Lastris como botin.Dando un nuevo rumbo a su carrera literaria, Wilbur Smith ha creado esta magnifica novela ambientada en un pasado remoto donde la historia se confunde con la leyenda.Wilbur Smith es uno de los escritores de accion y aventura mas difundidos en el mundo de hoy. Lleva vendidos mas de cuarenta millones de ejemplares en catorce idiomas.
A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog - a dog from his worst dreams, a dog from hell. Between him and a terrible death stands only one person - the greatest dectective of all time, Sherlock Holmes
An old man is arrested when council workers find something in the wall of his house ; a young student gets a job as a building worker and makes a dangerous enemy ; a bank managers goes on holiday to a tropical island. When he goes fishing, his life changes for ever.
Fifteen men on a dead mans chest, ho, ho, ho! This refrain will be your introduction to the pirate world of young Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver.
When young investment banker Tim Ekaterin becomes involved in the cutthroat world of thoroughbred racing, he finds his life in business blown to smithereens. For suddenly the multimillion dollar loan he arranges to finance the purchase of a champion racehorse is threatened by an apparent defect in the animal. Then, as Tim desperately searches for answers, he falls headlong into a deadly deal of violence and murder. . . .
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