Designed to match the new look Miss Marple series. Read by the superb Stephanie Cole. Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernise the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Worse, she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairs...In fear, Gwenda turned to Miss Marple to exorcise her ghosts. Between them, they were to solve a 'perfect' crime committed many years before.
When a mysterious doll appears on Tommy's doorstep, he is curious, and that evening, when he picks it up, its heart actually appears to be beating, then the threads of its eyes unravel and a strange green eye appears. Before long, Tommy is forced to flee a seemingly indestructable adversary.
This textbook introduces undergraduate students of language and linguistics to the basic ideas, insights, and techniques of contemporary semantic theory. The book starts with everyday observations about word meaning and use primarily and then gradually zooms in on the question of how speakers manage to meaningfully communicate with phrases, sentences, and texts they have never come across before. Extensive English examples provide ample illustration.
Agatha Christie - Mrs McGinty's Dead (BBC Dramatization) Mrs McGinty is murdered because she has recognised someone in her village as a notorious killer - but can Hercule Poirot and Ariadne Oliver find out who it is before the killer strikes again?
Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick. What Lou doesn't know is she's about to lose her job or that knowing what's coming is what keeps her sane. Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he knows exactly how he's going to put a stop to that. What Will doesn't know is that Lou is about to burst into his world in a riot of colour. And neither of them knows they're going to change the other for all time.