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Glenda Jackson stars in this compelling drama series inspired by Émile Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, highlighting different aspects of contemporary Britain. In 2015, double Oscar winner Glenda Jackson made a triumphant return to acting in Radio 4's Blood, Sex and Money, a radical reimagining of Émile Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle. Now, she reprises her role as matriarch/narrator in this eclectic mix of dramas inspired by Zola's novels, but set in modern Britain.

Michael Patrick Smith grew up in a ramshackle farmhouse where his father beat the walls and threw dinner plates. As a restless young man left unmoored by the crashing economy, Smith cut a path to North Dakota to rent a mattress on a flophouse floor. Sleeping boot to beard with the other rough-edged men looking to earn a cent drilling for oil, Smith wanted the work to burn him clean - of his violent upbringing, his demons, his disjointed, doomed relationships. He did not expect, among these quick-fisted, foul-mouthed hands, to find a community.

If you're seeking greater understanding of how the original and contemporary accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision fit together, this audiobook will help you. Joseph’s remarkable 1820 vision of God the Father and his Son Jesus Christ is one of the best attested divine visions in recorded history.

Once every 10,000 years, the walls between worlds grow thin. The stars align and Hell is close. It is the time of The Sha'Daa. The mysterious Johnny The Salesman is up to his usual tricks, offering dark magic trades if one is brave enough to barter with him. Johnny's latest ally, the immortal tattoo artist Haumea, just might have the answer to saving the planet from destruction, if she can create enough supernatural tattoos at Mom's Bane tattoo parlor to turn the tide against evil.

There is something quite special about this fine collection of tales of terror from the Sceptered Isle, each and every one crafted in the dead of the night by twisted, fevered minds, who have brought the darkest denizens of the blackest shadows crawling and slithering to life to terrify those brave souls amongst you who dare to listen.

Human cloning. Technology evolves faster than we do. The law shields us from our worst temptations. But the opportunity is there, dangling just out of reach - perfection and ascension or delusion and destruction. The choice is ours. In this collection of clone-themed stories, 10 of today’s top speculative fiction writers explore our morality and built-in societal restraints and reflect upon our state of grace. Similar is not necessarily the same.

Ce livre est parfait pour les débutants qui veulent vérifier leur niveau d'anglais. C'est aussi un excellent outil pour les apprenants de niveau supérieur qui ont besoin de revoir ou d'identifier toute lacune dans leurs connaissances.

Découvrez vos points forts et vos points faibles en anglais grâce aux tests de grammaire: Nous vérifions votre niveau grammatical du débutant à l'intermédiaire. Articles en anglais général: Nous vérifions votre compréhension générale de l'anglais à travers des articles intéressants. Tests de prononciation des verbes : Nous vérifions votre compréhension des phrasal verbs. Des tests idiots. Nous vérifions votre compréhension des phrasal verbs.

Découvrez vos forces et faiblesses en anglais à travers: 10 chapitres qui testent votre anglais général. Ce sont des sections de lecture qui testent votre compréhension générale de l'anglais. Vous aurez besoin d'un bon niveau de vocabulaire intermédiaire pour pouvoir compléter ces chapitres.

Nous avons longuement réfléchi à la façon dont nous pouvions tester correctement votre anglais à un niveau avancé. En fin de compte, nous avons décidé que la seule façon de le faire était d'enregistrer les gens qui parlaient de divers sujets. Ils n'utilisaient pas de scripts ou n'essayaient pas de rendre les choses faciles, ils parlaient naturellement. C'est de l'anglais non écrit, pas un manuel d'anglais standard.

This book is perfect for English learners who want to check their level. It’s also great for learners who need to review or identify any gaps in their knowledge. Get started today and find out...How good is your English?

We thought long and hard about how we could properly test your English at an advanced level. In the end, we decided the only way to do it was to just record people speaking about various topics. They didn't use scripts or try to make it easy. They just spoke naturally. This is real, unscripted English, not a standard English textbook. So, basically, either you understand them and are an advanced English speaker, or you don't, and you aren't.

This book is perfect for intermediate level English learners who want to check their English language proficiency. It’s also great for higher level learners who need to review or identify any gaps in their knowledge. If you score above 75 percent, then you have passed the intermediate level in English and are ready to move on to the advanced level.

Young Luke Pettigrew, a hero at the Battle of Shiloh, awakens in the bedroom of an unfamiliar Tennessee farmhouse - with no immediate memory of what brought him there. The only thing he knows with certainty, is that his life will never be the same. Smith takes listeners on a (historically accurate) wild ride through the end days of the American Civil War with Luke coming-of-age while exploring themes of addiction, love, and self worth. As the Civil War draws to a close, so does Luke's lifetime of searching. Ultimately, he finds redemption in the least likely of places.

Discover your English strengths and weaknesses through 14 chapters which test specific grammar points that you should know at the beginner/elementary level.

Over our many years teaching English, we have identified three points that will help you learn easily. It needs to be interesting. If you want to progress to English fluency, you need to be having fun or be interested in what you are doing. All of the articles in this audiobook are based on interesting real-life stories. We cover everything from "news" to "business" and "lifestyle", and everything in-between.

This 30th issue of Tales from the Canyons of the Damned consists of five sharp, suspenseful, thought provoking short stories - each from a different featured master of speculative fiction. This issue includes the short stories: "Something Bad" by Jeremy Essex, "On a Front Porch on a November Afternoon" by M. Regan, "The End of the World and a Super 88" by Michael Ezell, "Winning in Real Estate" by Lara Frater, and "The Lost Tapes - Shane Starr" by Daniel Arthur Smith.

The places in this book are shunned, abandoned, and forgotten. They do not exist, and yet here you will find the stories of people who have gone and survived to tell their tales. These are the postcards from the void, frightful evidence of places that should not be, and yet exist in our nightmares. Should you dare to venture into these blighted places, remember: Don't talk to strangers, don't stray far from home, and never, ever go in alone.

Andree de Jongh (Dedee) is a real WWII 25 year old heroine who was miffed of her country's (Belgium) abdication to Hitler. She vows to find a way to escort downed British and later American fliers out of Europe and back to England via the Pyrenees and Gilbraltar. With unbelievable courage, bravery and wit, she forms an escape route called the Comete Line with the help of friends and volunteers. Even though the Gestapo has targeted her and her associates, she defies them at every turn and her Line becomes the most successful escape system in the entire war.

In this compelling investigation, Michael Smith explores the critical moment in a spy's life: that split-second decision to embrace a double life.