Fly High is a motivating four-level course for young learners that integrates reading, grammar, writing, listening, and speaking skills in a fun and engaging way. Language is presented in humorous cartoon stories and follows the adventures of the Fly High characters.
Into That Silent Sea - Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961 - 1965
Into That Silent Sea tells the intimate stories of the men and women, American and Russian, who made the space race their own and gave the era its compelling character. These pages chronicle a varied and riveting parade of human stories, including a look at Yuri Gagarin's harrowing childhood in war-ravaged Russia and Alan Shepard's firm purchase on the American Dream. It also examines the controversial career of cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, and the remarkable struggle and ultimate disappointment of her American Counterparts.
Added by: sorrow5haven | Karma: 4.05 | Fiction literature | 26 July 2011
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J.L. Borges - The Aleph and Other Stories, 1933-1969BY J.L. Borges -
The Aleph and Other Stories, 1933-1969: Together with Commentaries and an Autobiographical Essay.
Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges’s most fully realized human characters.
He more than anyone renovated the language of fiction and thus opened the way to a remarkable generation of Spanish-American novelists. Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, José Donoso, and Mario Vargas Llosa have all acknowledged their debt to him. (J.M. Coetzee, The New York Review of Books)
He has lifted fiction away from the flat earth where most of our novels and short stories still take place. (John Updike)
This is a complete collection of the superb short stories which have appeared in: "Over To You", "Kiss Kiss", "Someone Like You", "Switch Bitch" and eight further stories.
Beecher White, a young archivist, spends his days working with the most important documents of the U.S. government. He has always been the keeper of other people's stories, never a part of the story himself . . . Until now.
