The official prequel to the eagerly anticipated video game Gears 5. ... Following Reyna Diaz's death at the hands of the Swarm, Kait seals her mother's tomb, swearing revenge. With her allies, including JD Fenix and Del Walker, she returns to New Ephyra to warn the Coalition of Ordered Governments: "The Swarm is coming". However, First Minister Jinn requires proof of the threat. She also demands their utter loyalty, driving a wedge between the allies. Joined by Marcus Fenix, Kait strikes out on her own while JD and Del embark on a sanctioned mission to prove that the threat is real. With the fate of ... |
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Oxford Bookworms Library Factfiles are non-fiction graded readers from the "Oxford Bookworms Library" available for Levels 1 to 4 (CEFR A1 - B2). Students learn about different countries and cultures, science and nature, history and historical figures all while practising and improving their English. Hollywood - nine big white letters against the Hollywood Hills. Every year millions of people come from all over the world and look up at this famous sign. Why do they come? They come to see the stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and to see the hand and foot prints outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre. They come ... |
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The award-winning author of The hate u give returns with a powerful story about hip hop, freedom of speech and fighting for your dreams, even as the odds are stacked against you. Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. As the daughter of an underground hip hop legend who died right before he hit big, Bri's got massive shoes to fill. But when her first song goes viral for all the wrong reasons, Bri finds herself at the centre of controversy and portrayed by the media as more menace than MC. And with an eviction notice staring her family down, Bri no longer just wants to make it - she has to. Even if ... |
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New York Times bestselling author Tahereh Mafi . ... When you're hiding from a world that hates you, who would make you risk everything to be seen again? It's the year after 9/11, and Shirin has just started at yet another new high school. It's a difficult time, but especially so for a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl who wears hijab. Shirin is never surprised by how horrible people can be. She hides away, drowning her frustrations in music and spending her afternoons break-dancing with her brother. But then Shirin meets Ocean James. He's the first person in forever who really seems to want to get to know ... |
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Illustrated by Peter Richardson. ... Private detective, Lenny Samuel, is hired by a Hollywood film studio. Someone has been making death threats against Gail Lane, a beautiful young film actress, and the studio boss asks Lenny to protect her. Lenny joins the film crew on location in Hollywood, Buenos Aires and Istanbul as he tries to stay out of trouble and solve the case. This book is in British English. Here you can find: extra grammar and vocabulary exercises; points for understanding comprehension questions; glossary of difficult vocabulary; free resources including exercises and points for understanding answer ... |
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Award-winning readers series of original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. The first killing went well. Perfectly, in fact. Though I always knew it would. I had planned it well. Arrangements, organisation – these are things I'm good at. Now I've discovered I'm good at killing too.' The police are in a race against time to catch the murderer before he kills again. And again … Paperback-only version. Also available with Audio CDs including complete text recordings from the ... |
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Rila Monastery is the stateliest historical monument of the Bulgarian's spirit. It's intricate and expressive architectural ensemble has been a treasure-house of priceless aesthetical relics and at the same time a living center of the nascency and evolution of the most progressive cultural-and-historical processes through the centuries. Viewed against th background of the rich architectural structure and of Bulgaria's church construction, it is not a solitary summit, but beyond all questions the highest one among the peaks of the country's national architecture. A permanent object of patriotic pride and of ... |
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"The Hunting Party" ще бъде шестият студиен албум на "Linkin Park" и техния първи след "Living Things" от 2012-та година. Част от гостуващите изпълнители в записа са Том Морело от "Rage Against The Machine" и Дарън Малакиан от "System Of A Down". Майк Шинода наскоро сподели, че новият албум на бандата е с "по-тежко" звучене от предишните и е реакция към това, което той описва като "пасивен" характер на новите групи."Linkin Park" ще издадат "The Hunting Party" само ден след тяхното шоу като хедлайнери на летния Download Festival в ... |
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Умален модел на военният самолет Supermarine Spitfire MkVb - британски едноместен изтребител от периода на Втората световна война. Известен е най-вече с успешните си прояви при отблъскването на немските въздушни нападения по време на Битката за Британия. Въоръжен с 8 картечници, калибър 7,69 mm. Усъвършенствания модел "Spitfire XII" развива скорост 635 km и е въоръжен с две оръдия с калибър 20 mm и четири картечници с калибър 7,92 mm. Височината на полета достига 11 500 метра. Изтребителят Mk.VB е разузнавателния вариант модификцията Mk.V на Supermarine Spitfire. Той е един от най-успешните "временни& ... |
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Умален модел на военен самолет - Messerschmitt Me 262 A-1a. Той е изтребител, използван от Германия по време на Втората световна война. За да може да сглобите и залепите този макет, ви е необходимо лепило . Елементите на модела са направени от едноцветна пластмаса. Моделът може да се оцвети с боички . Оригинално описание: The Me 262 was the first jet interceptor/fighter-bomber in the world to be produced in series and was used from June 1944. With a maximum speed of 865 km/h at an altitude of 6000 m, it operated against allied bomber formations. New shape Detailed surface structures with flush butt joints ... |
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"Преди известно време една доста високопоставена, но не по-високо от директор, личност без всякакъв повод изтърси на публично място, че съм произхождал от богато, аристократично семейство. Изплаших се, дълго време си въобразявах, че произхождам от такова семейство, и седнах да напиша биографията си още преди моето раждане само и само да докажа обратното на този човек и да му натъркам мутрата с неоспорими факти. Още отсега злорадствам, като си представя как чете моята биография, примигва и се изяда от гняв, че не може да ми прикачи ни един от греховете на оная презряна класа. Не, природата не само че не е ... |
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Разказите на младият автор Димитър Петров - Регин, събрани в новата му книга - "Парченца живот", изобразяват свят, в който са противопоставени бруталността и агресията на човешката доброта и обич, свят без нравствени и духовни ценности, на изпълнен с вяра и светли надежди свят. Героите и действията, които извършват в сюжетното развитие, са производни на заобикалящата ги реалност, но някъде - закодирано в подтекста, ще усетим нещо магично, иреално, метафизично. И точно това усещане завладява читателското внимание и любопитство. Историите, които разказва, са художествено пресътворени събития и човешки съдби, ... |
