Fiona Davis est une auteure à succès du New York Times, reconnue pour ses romans historiques profondément ancrés dans des bâtiments emblématiques de New York. Ses récits tissent habilement des mystères et des secrets dissimulés dans les murs de lieux célèbres, explorant les liens profonds entre les habitants du passé et du présent. Forte de son expérience d'actrice et de journaliste, Davis apporte une perspective unique sur la nature humaine et la vie urbaine dans sa fiction. Son écriture est atmosphérique et captivante, entraînant les lecteurs dans le pouls vibrant de New York.
Focusing on B1-B2 level grammar, this book offers a structured approach for teenage and young adult learners. It presents grammatical concepts in engaging contexts, supplemented by clear explanations and tips to avoid common errors. The carefully graded exercises encourage creative application of grammar, while extensive revision activities help students track their progress. Designed for both classroom and self-study, this edition excludes answers and the CD-ROM, making it ideal for guided learning environments.
The Kung Fu Panda films are popular around the world, known for their humour
and fun characters. The Starter Level Popcorn ELT Reader The Animals of Kung
Fu Panda introduces children to the real animals the film characters are based
on.
Extensive reading is essential for improving fluency and there is a real need
in the ELT classroom for contemporary, low-level reading material for younger
learners. This reader is based on the hit 2011 animated movie Rio about Blu, a
domesticated macaw who goes to Rio de Janeiro to save his species. This is one
of three readers based on the film.
"New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis transports us back to 1950s Manhattan and glamorous Radio City Music Hall in her thrilling new novel about a talented young Rockette and a mysterious bomber terrorizing New York City. New York City, 1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion Brooks knows she should be happy. Her college sweetheart is about to propose and sweep her off to the life everyone has always expected they'd have together: a quiet house in the suburbs, Marion staying home to raise their future children. But instead, Marion finds herself feeling trapped. So when she comes across an opportunity to audition for the famous Radio City Rockettes-the glamorous precision-dancing troupe-she jumps at the chance to exchange her predictable future for the dazzling life of a performer. Meanwhile, the city is reeling from a string of bombings orchestrated by a person the press has nicknamed the "Big Apple Bomber," who has been terrorizing the citizens of New York for sixteen years by planting bombs in popular, crowded spaces. With the public in an uproar over the lack of any real leads after a yearslong manhunt, the police turn in desperation to Peter Griggs, a young doctor at a local mental hospital who espouses a radical new technique: psychological profiling. As both Marion and Peter find themselves unexpectedly pulled in to the police search for the bomber, Marion realizes that as much as she's been training herself to blend in-performing in perfect unison with all the other identical Rockettes-if she hopes to catch the bomber, she'll need to stand out and take a terrifying risk. In doing so, she may be forced to sacrifice everything she's worked for, as well as the people she loves the most"-- Provided by publisher
Extensive reading is essential for improving fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for contemporary, low-level reading material for younger learners. The Smurfs are popular with children all over the world, famous for their charming personalities and exciting adventures. Clumsy Smurf wants to make some magic so he steals a page from Gargamel's spell book. But the spell turns Clumsy into a green monster! Can Papa Smurf reverse the spell or will Clumsy stay green forever?
Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for motivating, contemporary graded material that will instantly appeal to students. One Direction is one of the most popular boy bands in the world with hundreds of thousands of fans. Read all about Louis, Liam, Zayn, Niall and Harry and their extraordinary rise to fame
Sara, a servant in 1884 is given the opportunity to move to America and manage the grand New York apartment house, The Dakota. It offers her a world of possibility, including being close to the Dakota's famous architect, Theo. A hundred years later in 1984, interior designer Bailey is fresh out of rehab and is tasked with helping her cousin redesign her apartment in the famous Dakota. Once there, Bailey learns all about the building's history, including its architect Theo, and the mad woman named Sara who stabbed him to death.
Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue, returns with a tantalizing novel about the secrets, betrayal, and murder within one of New York City's most impressive Gilded Age mansions.
Eight months since losing her mother in the Spanish flu outbreak of 1919, twenty-one-year-old Lillian Carter's life has completely fallen apart. For the past six years, under the moniker Angelica, Lillian was one of the most sought-after artists' models in New York City, with statues based on her figure gracing landmarks from the Plaza Hotel to the Brooklyn Bridge. But with her mother gone, a grieving Lillian is rudderless and desperate--the work has dried up and a looming scandal has left her entirely without a safe haven. So when she stumbles upon an employment opportunity at the Frick mansion--a building that, ironically, bears her own visage--Lillian jumps at the chance. But the longer she works as a private secretary to the imperious and demanding Helen Frick, the daughter and heiress of industrialist and art patron Henry Clay Frick, the more deeply her life gets intertwined with that of the family--pulling her into a tangled web of romantic trysts, stolen jewels, and family drama that runs so deep, the stakes just may be life or death.
Nearly fifty years later, mod English model Veronica Weber has her own chance to make her career--and with it, earn the money she needs to support her family back home--within the walls of the former Frick residence, now converted into one of New York City's most impressive museums. But when she--along with a charming intern/budding art curator named Joshua--is dismissed from the Vogue shoot taking place at the Frick Collection, she chances upon a series of hidden messages in the museum: messages that will lead her and Joshua on a hunt that could not only solve Veronica's financial woes, but could finally reveal the truth behind a decades-old murder in the infamous Frick family
