Karen Holmes Bücher

Frankreich, im Jahre 1815. Der 19-jährige sehr wohlhabende Edmond Dantès wird am Tag seiner Hochzeit fälschlicher Weise verhaftet und der Treue zu Napoleon angeklagt. Wegen seiner Rivalen Danglars und Fernand gibt es kein ordentliches Verfahren und so wird Edmond Dantès 14 Jahre lang im Gefängnis Château d’If eingesperrt. Im Gefängnis wird ihm von Abbé Faria, ebenfalls ein Gefangener, anvertraut, dass er einen Schatz auf der Insel Monte Christo lagernd hat und vermacht ihm diesen auch. Als Faria stirbt, lässt sich Dantès als Faria’s Leiche ins Wasser werfen und reist nach Monte Christo. Mit dem Schatz begibt er sich anschließend nach Paris, wo er als der noble Graf von Monte Christo auftritt. Dort trifft er auch auf die Schuldigen für seine ungerechtfertigte Haftstrafe und lässt beide dafür büßen…

When Peter Quill finds the Orb, he doesn't know that it is a stone with unimaginable power that everyone is looking for. Soon he is being chased by outlaws and aliens. But the real enemy is Ronan the Accuser, who wants to use the Orb's power to control the galaxy. Can peter bring together a... číst celé

George Mikes describes the strange things the English do and say.

Richard Branson's life is an adventure, from record-breaking balloon flights to courtroom battles with British Airways. This autobiography of the founder of the Virgin empire, offers an insight into the private and public world of this larger-than-life entrepreneur.

In the dark night of the soul . . . . If Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison hadn't been a woman, she might not have noticed the victim's shoes . . . . and that they didn't match the size given on the info sheet now so obviously misidentifying the dead blonde as a hooker named Della Mornay. Being so through, so good at the details, made Jane a top investigator; being a woman made the boys in the squadron want to see her fall on her face. But Jane Tennison was determined to catch the madman stalking women in London's street shadows. She had a prime suspect, and she needed to make the charges against him stick. She also needed to keep her own secret in check: she couldn't let anyone see that she was falling apart inside, as her obsession with cracking this case and breaking out from under the heel of the station house boy's club took over life, destroying her relationship with the man she loved, pushing her closer and closer to the dark urges of a killer . . . .

This classic has been simplified, the vocabulary controlled to a level of approximately 1300 words, and the sentence structures chosen with care for this pre-intermediate stage. The introduction gives information on the author and story, and exercises for comprehension and discussion are included.

George Mikes says, 'the English have no soul; they have the understatement instead'. But they do have a sense of humour - they provide it by buying over three hundred thousand copies of a book that took them quietly and completely apart, a book that really took the Mikes out of them.

Der 12jährige Billy, Sohn einer Bergarbeiterfamilie, boxt sich durch: Er hängt die Boxhandschuhe an den Nagel, um seiner Leidenschaft fürs Tanzen nachzugehen, und wird ein begnadeter Balletttänzer. - Der Roman zum Kultfilm.

The Ugly Duckling; The Nightingale; The Little Mermaid; The Emperor's New Clothes; Thumbelina.

When Patty Bergen sold a red pencil sharpener to the German prisoner in her father's store, a friendship was started that was to bring her much unhappiness, but also the greatest joy she'd ever known. An unusual and moving story set in wartime Arkansas.