Janet McAlpin Bücher

Als der elfjährige Mark sich für eine verbotene Zigarette in den Wald zurückzieht, ahnt er noch nicht, dass er sein Leben dadurch weit mehr gefährdet als durch den blauen Dunst. Der Junge gerät in die Gewalt eines Mafiaanwalts, der ihm ein tödliches Geheimnis verrät - und sich danach eine Kugel in den Kopf jagt. Unschuldig gerät Mark so in die Schusslinie von FBI und CIA, denn beide Organisationen haben größtes Interesse daran, das Geheimnis zu vertuschen. Nur die Anwältin Reggie Love steht auf seiner Seite - und muss alles daransetzen, das Leben ihres Klienten zu retten.

In 1891, the great detective, Sherlock Holmes, disappeared in Switzerland while working on a dangerous case. Everyone thought he was dead, but three years later he returned to England. Holmes and his friend, Dr Watson, had many more adventures together. Three of his most interesting cases feature in this book.

It is six years since the disaster at Jurassic Park and the park is now closed, the island deserted and the dinosaurs destroyed. However, there are rumours that something has survived on another island. Could the nightmare be beginning again?

[ Penguin Readers Level 3 ] When Isabel Archer, a young American woman with looks, wit, and imagination, arrives in Europe, she sees the world as `a place of brightness, of free expression, of irresistible action'. She turns aside from suitors who offer her their wealth and devotion to follow her own path. But that way leads to disillusionment and a future as constricted as `a dark narrow alley with a dead wall at the end'. In a conclusion that is one of the most moving in modern fiction, Isabel makes her final choice. The Portrait of a Lady is the masterpiece of James's middle period, and Isabel is perhaps his most engaging central character. This edition provides a challenging new introduction and detailed notes; the text is that of the New York Edition and includes Henry James's own Preface.