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Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully adapted versions are shorter with the language targeted at upper-intermediate learners (CEF level B2). Each reader includes: • A CD with a reading of the adapted story• Helpful notes...
2) Final Word
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Recorded Books, Inc
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2023
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It rained the day we went to see Brandon Winterton's grave. Hope Smith can't stand rich people—the dictionary magnate family the Wintertons most of all. Not since she and her twin brother, Gordon, learned that their dad was one. So when Gordon enters the family into the Winterton's charity spelling bee, Hope wants nothing to do with it. But with their mom losing her job and the family facing eviction from the motel where they live, they desperately...
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High-flying city cop Susan never expected to wind up in Hampstead, Kansas-a sleepy little town where there are more pigs than people. But she moved here to be with the man she loved. One year after his murder, the folk of Hampstead need police chief Susan more than ever. Professor Carena Egersund is out walking in the woods when a dog comes bounding over. Carena looks for the owner-and spots a dead body floating face-down in the creek! A few days...
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1957 - Young Queen Elizabeth II is finding her way in a challenging world as the United Kingdom must adjust to having neither an empire nor a set place in post-war Europe.
As she travels the world to try and build bridges, the Queen is advised by the 'men in moustaches', as Philip calls them - her father's old courtiers, who may or may not have her best interests at heart. One of them is trying to sabotage her: that much she is sure of.
And then...
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Someone's preying on Aberdeen's growing Polish population. The pattern is always the same: men abandoned on building sites, barely alive, their eyes gouged out and the sockets burned. With the victims too scared to talk, and the only witness a paedophile who's on the run, Grampian Police is getting nowhere fast. The attacks are brutal, they keep on happening, and soon DS Logan McRae will have to decide how far he's prepared to bend the rules to get...
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Orla and Kate have been best friends forever. Together they've faced it all - be it Orla's struggles as a new mother or Kate's messy divorce. And whatever else happens in their lives, they can always look forward to their annual weekend away. This year, they're off to Lisbon: the perfect flat, the perfect view, the perfect itinerary. And what better way to kick things off in style than with the perfect night out? But when Orla wakes up the next morning,...
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Super-spy Paul Chavasse – one of Jack Higgins's most extraordinary heroes – embarks on a mission to Albania, only to find himself at the centre of a deadly double-cross, fighting for his life. It's a trip that agent Paul Chavasse will never forget. His destination: the isolated republic of Albania on the Adriatic coast, at a time when the regime is at its most repressive and the people live in daily fear of the ruthless secret police. His job:...
9) Ghosts from the Library: Lost Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (A Bodies from the Library spe
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It is said that books are written to bring sunshine into our dull, grey lives – to show us places we want to escape to, lives we want to live, people we want to love. But there are also stories that can only be found in the deepest, darkest corners of the library. Stories about the unexplained, of lost souls, of things that go bump before the silence. Before the screaming. And some stories just disappear. Stories printed in old newspapers, broadcast...
10) Geese a Laying
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The maternity ward: the last place you'd associate with criminal activity. Which makes it as good a place as any to carry it out... Another story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season.
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Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at learners of English. Mrs Boynton, a cruel and hated woman, is found dead in the ancient city of Petra. Was it just a weak heart...
12) Gold Rings
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There is never a good time to look upon the face of a dead loved one. But Mr Unwin has dedicated his life to helping the bereaved. While helping himself at the same time... Another story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season
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The newspapers called us the Seven Wonders. We were a group of friends, that's all, and then Toby died. Was killed. Murdered.
1905. A decade after the grisly murder of Oxford student Toby Feynsham, the case remains hauntingly unsolved. For Jeremy Kite, the crime not only stole his best friend, it destroyed his whole life. When an anonymous letter lands on his desk, accusing him of having killed Toby, Jem becomes obsessed with finally uncovering the...
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Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at learners of English. There is a dangerous atmosphere at Stoneygates, a centre for young criminals. When Miss Marple visits her...
15) Lords a Leaping
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Lord Peter Forsyth-Leven, MSP, is about to discover that having it all just means you've got more to lose... Another story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season.
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When the FBI assembles a BAU unit to hunt down killers who strike during natural disasters, Agent Tori Spark finds herself in the eerie wake of catastrophic emergencies-while hunting down deadly killers...
In the wake of a devastating hurricane, FBI Agent Tori Spark plunges into a coastal town to hunt a sinister killer. As nature's wrath wreaks havoc, will Tori find and stop him before he strikes again?
AMIDST THE DARKNESS (A Tori Spark FBI...
17) Hard Rain
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From the Tony Hillerman Prize-winning author of Pay Dirt Road comes Hard Rain, Samantha Jayne Allen's mesmerizing next novel set in a hardscrabble Texas town dealing with disaster.
In shock and found clinging to a tree branch, Bethany Richter is pulled from thrashing floodwaters that have decimated the town of Garnett, Texas and killed a dozen others.
Six months after solving the murder of a local waitress, Annie McIntyre is working as an apprentice...
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A dark and twisty psychological thriller from a rising star in the genre, perfect for fans of THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR. When Helen moves into an exciting new neighbourhood, she finds herself in a web of evil with no escape. When Helen moves abroad with her loving husband Gary, she can't wait to meet her fellow expat teachers from the local International School. But her new start is about to become her worst nightmare… As soon as the charming family...
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Billy Partridge wasn't really cut out to be a cat burglar, but it was "do the job, or come up with thirteen grand by Thursday, or have both legs shattered." "Do the job" seemed the least worst option. But he's about to find out just how bad the least worst option can be... The first story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season
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Amateur sleuth Violet Brewster wants to embrace the quiet village life, but a decades-old mystery threatens to disrupt the peace of her new hometown...
Ex-journalist Violet Brewster is keen to make a good first impression in her new community, having just moved to the small village of Merrywell. When Violet hears about the mystery of Helen Slingsby, who disappeared from the village forty years earlier, she decides to help uncover what happened. But...