HOW TO BE GOOD by Nick Hornby
| GENRE: fiction, contemporary, humour London GP Katie Carr always thought she was a good person. With her husband David making a living as 'The Angriest Man in Holloway', she figured she could put up with anything. Until, that is, David meets DJ Goodnews and becomes a good person too. A far-too-good person who starts committing crimes of charity like taking in the homeless and giving their kids' toys away. Suddenly Katie's feeling very bad about herself, and thinking that if charity begins at home, then maybe it's time to move... |
TIGER BAY BLUES by Catrin Colley
| GENRE: romance, women's fiction Pontypridd 1930. At 18 Edyth is the plain, intelligent one of Harry and Sali Evans's five daughters, until a chance meeting with handsome curate Peter Slater throws her life into turmoil. Head over heels in love, she sacrifices her own ambitions of a college education and career, and defies her parents' opposition so she can help Peter realize his dream of running his own parish. The church sends Peter to Butetown, a dockland area of Cardiff, commonly known as Tiger Bay. There Edyth and Peter encounter rich cultures from all corners of the world, cultures that flourish despite desperate poverty and depression. It is a society where creed, language, and the color of a family's skin doesn't matter—as long as the borders that separate Tiger Bay from the city aren't crossed. Then Edyth discovers exactly why her parents were so opposed to her marriage—Peter has a dark secret that has not only blighted his life but also hers. It is a secret that threatens to destroy her love and their marriage. |
HUNTED by Carla Norton
| GENRE: thriller, crime From the acclaimed author of The Edge of Normal, a riveting new thriller. |
CLEAN BREAK by Val McDermid
| GENRE: mystery, crime Kate, a Manchester-based private investigator, is definitely not amused when thieves steal a Monet painting from a stately home where she has arranged the security. The theft is clearly the work of professionals: they penetrate alarm systems, enter quickly, grab only what they have come for, and disappear into the night. Kate feels responsible. And, according to her contract, she owes Henry Naismith, owner of Birchfield Place, thirty hours of her time to try to find his Monet. The police will search, too, but Kate has sources that the authorities could never touch. And if finding a missing Monet isn't difficult enough, Kate must also confront a deadly case of industrial sabotage. Someone may be intent on putting the Kerrchem company out of business. What seems at first to be a simple instance of blackmail soon turns into a shocking case of murder. |
RANDOM by Craig Robertson
| GENRE: thriller, fiction Glasgow is being terrorised by a serial killer the media have nicknamed The Cutter. The murders have left the police baffled. There seems to be neither rhyme nor reason behind the killings; no kind of pattern or motive; an entirely different method of murder each time, and nothing that connects the victims except for the fact that the little fingers of their right hands have been severed. |
WHO WANTS TO BE A STAR by Julia Allen and Margaret Iggulden
| LEVEL: A1 WERSJA UPROSZCZONA Tina Daniels is thirteen years old and a star. She sings beautifully, and everyone loves her. Her mother has big ideas about Hollywood, but Tina is not happy. One day she goes away on a train. Who does she meet? What does she see? Read about Tina’s new life. |
STORIES OF OTHER WORLDS by H.G. Wells
| LEVEL: A2+ WERSJA UPROSCZONA A mountain climber, high in the Andes, falls into a strange valley. In London, a man is looking for a green door. A third man tries to help an unhappy ghost. Each of these exciting stories shows us two very different worlds. But which is better? And can we really be happier in another world? |
SECRET CODES by Ken Beatty
| LEVEL: B1+ WERSJA UPROSZCZONA For thousands of years people have used codes and ciphers to keep secrets from people who will do anything to learn them. How did secret messages cause a queen to lose her head? How have lost languages finally been understood? How did one little-known language help a country win a war? Read this book to find out. |
HORRID HENRY'S MONSTER MOVIE by Francesca Simon
| GENRE: children's, funny, fiction Horrid Henry is a horrid boy who loves doing unimaginable horrible things. He throws food, he snatches things, he pushes, shoves and pinches. He has a younger brother called Perfect Peter. He is an extremely perfect boy who does uncountable good deeds. |
HORRID HENRY'S WORLD RECORDS by Francesca Simon
| GENRE: children's, funny, fiction Horrid Henry is a horrid boy who loves doing horrible things. The most words spelled backwords is 14. How many can Henry spell forwards? Find out in Horrid Henry’s amazing book of WORLD RECORDS. |
A STRANGE PAIR by Kevin Hadley
| LEVEL: A2 wersja uproszczona Duet złodziei dokonuje serii nietypowych napadów w Warszawie. Na trop szajki wpadają detektywi Nowak i Pawluk, próbujący przewidzieć kolejne kradzieże i zrozumieć motywy postępowania przestępców. Historia, którą odkrywają, wstrząśnie prasą i podzieli społeczeństwo. |
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS by Agatha Christie
| LEVEL: B1 wersja uproszczona A train journey from Turkey to France is delayed by thick snow. So when a passenger on the train is found murdered in his bed, it is the perfect opportunity for Agatha Christie's famous detective, Hercule Poirot to prove his ability and solve the crime using the power of his brain. |
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM by William Shakespeare
| Genre: Comedy Escaping the Athenian court to marry, Hermia and Lysander tak refuge in a nearby wood. There, too, are Helena and Demetrius and the King and Queen of the fairies, Oberon and Titania. Oberon orchestrates a series of mischievous and magical tricks by which love is transformed, misplaced, deceived, revealed and, finally, restored. |
SPIES by Michael Frayn
| Genre: fiction, historical, war In the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith and Stephen live the only immediate signs of the Second World War are the blackout at night and a single random bombsite. But the two boys start to suspect all is not as it seems when one day Keith announces a disconcerting discovery: the Germans have infiltrated his own family. And when the secret underground world they have dreamed up emerges from the shadows they find themselves engulfed in mysteries far deeper and more painful than they had bargained for. |
MOONE BOY: THE FISH DETECTIVE by Chris O'Dowd and Nick V. Murphy
| GENRE: children's, humour Martin Moone loves Christmas. But this year family Moone is on a budget, and Martin's gift list is being downsized. If he wants a Game Boy, he's going to have to work for it. So his imaginary friend, Sean, suggests he get a job... |
MURDERABILIA by Craig Robertson
| GENRE: crime, thriller The first commuter train of the morning slowly rumbles away from platform seven of Queen St station. And then, as the train emerges from a tunnel, the screaming starts. Hanging from the bridge ahead of them is a body. Placed neatly on the ground below him are the victim's clothes. Why? |
KNOW ME NOW by CJ Carver
| GENRE: crime, thriller A thirteen-year-old boy commits suicide. |
THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
| GENRE: classic, historical fiction, romance The story is of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his new love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession," it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s. |
AMAZON RALLY by Eduardo Amos and Elisabeth Prescher
| LEVEL: A1 wersja uproszczona Brian and David are on a motorcycle rally in the Amazon jungle. It is a difficult race. The roads are not very good and there is a lot of rain. But those are not the only problems in the jungle... |
RIP VAN WINKLE & THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW by Washington Irving
| LEVEL: A1 wersja uproszczona In the first of these stories, Rip Van Winkle sleeps for over twenty years, and then wakes up to a world that he no longer understands. In the other story, Ichabod Crane, the school teacher, meets a headless rider in the middle of a dark night. These two classic tales of the supernatural by Washington Irving have been popular for nearly two hundred years. |
ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND by Lewis Carroll
| LEVEL: A2 wersja uproszczona There, on top of the mushroom, was a large caterpillar, smoking a pipe. After a while the caterpillar took the pipe out of its mouth and said to Alice in a slow, sleepy voice, 'Who are you?' What strange things happen when Alice falls down the rabbithole into Wonderland! She has conversations with the Caterpillar and the Cheshire Cat, goes to the Mad Hatter's tea party, plays croquet with the King and Queen of Hearts... |
THE LAST SHERLOCK HOLMES STORY by Michael Dibdin
| LEVEL: B1 wersja uproszczona For 50 years after Dr Watson's death, a packet of papers, written by the doctor himself, lay hidden in a locked box. The papers contained an extraordinary report of the case of Jack the Ripper and the horrible murders in the East End of London in 1888. The detective, of course, was the great Sherlock Holmes - but why was the report kept hidden for so long? This is the story that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle never wrote. It is a strange and frightening tale... |
TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE by Alexander McCall Smith
| LEVEL: B1+ wersja uproszczona Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's first female private detective, has a difficult case to solve. At the same time, she is looking forward to a new life with Mr JLB Matekoni. She has known him for a long time, and she understands him. Or does she? She learns that he can still surprise her. |
BLEAK HOUSE by Charles Dickens
| LEVEL: B1+ wersja uproszczona The legal case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce has become a joke to some. People are born, marry and die, and still the case continues. But will the lives of Ada and Richard be ruined, like the lives of others before them, by the expectation of money? And how will their friend Esther be affected by secrets from her past? |
THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE & OTHER STORIES by Stephen Crane
| GENRE: historical fiction The Red Badge of Courage is one of the greatest war novels of all time. It reports on the American Civil War through the eyes of Henry Fleming, an ordinary farm boy turned soldier. It evokes the chaos and the dull clatter of war: the acrid smoke, the incessant rumours of coming battles, the filth and cold, the numbing monotony, the unworldly wail of the dying. Like an impressionist painter, Crane also captures the strange beauty of war: the brilliant red flags against a blue sky, steel bayonets flashing in the morning sun as soldiers step off into battle. In the midst of this chaotic outer world, he creates an intricate inner world as he takes us inside the head of Henry Fleming. |
FIFTY SHADES DARKER by E.L. James
| GENRE: romance, adult Daunted by the singular sexual tastes and dark secrets of the beautiful, tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new career with a Seattle publishing house. But desire for Christian still dominates her every waking thought, and when he proposes a new arrangement, Anastasia cannot resist. They rekindle their searing sensual affair, and Anastasia learns more about the harrowing past of her damaged, driven, and demanding Fifty Shades. |
SHOPAHOLIC TIES THE KNOT by Sophie Kinsela
| GENRE: chick lit Life has been good for Becky Bloomwood: She’s become the best personal shopper at Barneys, she and her successful entrepreneurial boyfriend, Luke, are living happily in Manhattan’s West Village, and her new next-door neighbor is a fashion designer! But with her best friend, Suze, engaged, how can Becky fail to notice that her own ring finger is bare? Not that she’s been thinking of marriage (or diamonds) or anything . . . Then Luke proposes! |
SHOPAHOLIC ABROAD by Sophie Kinsela
| GENRE: chick lit The irresistible heroine of Confessions of a Shopaholic is back! And this time Becky Bloomwood and her credit cards are headed across the Atlantic.... |
THE UNDOMESTIC GODDESS by Sophie Kinsela
| GENRE: chick lit Workaholic attorney Samantha Sweeting has just done the unthinkable. She’s made a mistake so huge, it’ll wreck any chance of a partnership. |
FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley
| GENRE: gothic horror, romance Frankenstein is a young, idealistic student of natural philosophy who, finding the secret of giving life to matter, creates a living being. The monstrous creation, though tender-hearted and gentle in nature, inspires fear in those who meet him and must hide away from society. |
THE DIARY OF A NOBODY by George and Weedon Grossmith
| GENRE: classic, fiction, humour Weedon Grossmith's 1892 book presents the details of English suburban life through the anxious and accident-prone character of Charles Pooter. Pooter's diary chronicles his daily routine, which includes small parties, minor embarrassments, home improvements, and his relationship with a troublesome son. |
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE by William Shakespeare
| GENRE: classic, drama Antonio, the merchant of Venice, and Shylock the money-lender have struck a bargain whereby Shylock will lend Antonio some money provided that if Antonio cannot repay him, Shylock can claim a pound of Antonio's flesh. Antonio's ships are lost and Shylock seeks to enforce the contract. As Jew conflicts with Christian, the ancient argument for justice tempered by mercy is pleaded by Portia. |
THE PROBLEM WITH PARADISE by Lesley Dahl
| GENRE: adventure Nobody gets why Casey's upset. She's just been informed that she's spending the ENTIRE summer on some deserted tropical island with her father, his new wife, and her two brothers. Her father will study the endangered sea turtle, her brothers will drive her crazy, and Casey's sure she will die of boredom while dreaming of all the fun she could have been having with her friends back home. |
RAIN MAN by Leonore Fleischer
| GENRE: drama Charlie Babbitt thinks he will get a lot of money when his father dies. However the money goes to someone he doesn't know - a man who lives in hospital and is the brother Charlie never knew he had. The two meet and so starts a surprising new life for both of them. A deeply emotional story and also a major film starring Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman. |
NO MEAN CITY by A. McArthur and H. Kingsley Long
| GENRE: historical fiction No book is more associated with the city of Glasgow than No Mean City. First published in 1935, it is the story of Johnnie Stark, son of a violent father and a downtrodden mother, the 'Razor King' of Glasgow's pre-war slum underworld, the Gorbals. The savage, near-truth descriptions, the raw character portrayals, bring to life a story that is fascinating, authentic and convincing. |
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