Janet McAlpin Bücher

Ein Kind mit einem tödlichen Geheimnis Eigentlich wollte der elfjährige Mark auf der Waldlichtung nur eine verbotene Zigarette rauchen. Doch dann beobachtet er den Selbstmordversuch eines Unbekannten. Vergeblich versucht Mark dazwischenzugehen. Aber bevor der Mann, ein Mafia-Anwalt namens Jerome Clifford, stirbt, verrät er ihm ein gefährliches Geheimnis. Nun wird Mark von der Mafia ebenso wie vom FBI gejagt, da Cliffords Information für beide Organisationen außerordentlich bedeutsam ist. Mark verbündet sich mit der engagierten Anwältin Reggie Love, die ihre jungen Klienten verzweifelt aus der Schusslinie zwischen Mafia, Polizei, Justiz und Politik zu ziehen versucht. Reggie weiß genau: Sie haben nur eine einzige Chance ...

Ten years after his supposed death in the swirling torrent of the Reichenbach Falls locked in the arms of his arch enemy Professor Moriarty, Arthur Conan Doyle agreed to pen further adventures featuring his brilliant detective. In this collection of tales, Doyle had lost none of his cunning or panache, and the magic remains unchanged and undimmed.

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.