Readers category: 272 books
Great Expectations: Part 2
Mandarin Companion Graded Readers: Level 2, Traditional Chinese Edition
Language: Chinese
Release Date: July 9, 2016
*** Traditional Chinese Edition ***
Now you can read books in Chinese that are fun and help accelerate language learning. Every book in the Mandarin Companion series is carefully written to use characters, words, and grammar that a learner is likely to know.
Level 2 is intended for Chinese...
The Ransom of Red Chief
Mandarin Companion Graded Readers: Level 1, Simplified Chinese Edition
Language: Chinese
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Trying to make some fast cash, two small-time crooks devise a plan to kidnap the son of a wealthy family in a village and hold him for ransom. When the kidnapped boy pulls out his Hong Hou (“Red Monkey”) costume, the two burglars realize they may be in for more than they planned. As their ransom...
Great Expectations: Part 1
Mandarin Companion Graded Readers Level 2, Traditional Chinese Edition
Language: Chinese
Release Date: July 9, 2016
*** Traditional Chinese Edition ***
Now you can read books in Chinese that are fun and help accelerate language learning. Every book in the Mandarin Companion series is carefully written to use characters, words, and grammar that a learner is likely to know.
Level 2 is intended for Chinese...
Emma
Mandarin Companion Graded Readers: Level 1, Traditional Chinese Edition
Language: Chinese
Release Date: September 4, 2017
***Traditional Chinese Edition***
Clever, rich, and single, the beautiful Ān Mò (Emma Woodhouse) is focused on her career as fashion designer in the glamor of 21st-century Shanghai. She sees no need for romance in her life, but when she tries to find a boyfriend for her new friend Fangfang...
The Ransom of Red Chief
Mandarin Companion Graded Readers: Level 1, Traditional Chinese Edition
Language: Chinese
Release Date: January 9, 2018
*** Traditional Character Edition ***
Trying to make some fast cash, two small-time crooks devise a plan to kidnap the son of a wealthy family in a village and hold him for ransom. When the kidnapped boy pulls out his Hong Hou (“Red Monkey”) costume, the two burglars realize they may be...
So Many Books
Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
"Gabriel Zaid's defense of books is genuinely exhilarating. It is not pious, it is wise; and its wisdom is delivered with extraordinary lucidity and charm. This is how Montaigne would have written about the dizzy and increasingly dolorous age of the Internet. May So Many Books fall...
Plotting the Reading Experience
Theory/Practice/Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
This book is about the experience of reading–what reading feels like, how it makes people feel, how people read and under what conditions, what drives people to read, and, conversely, what halts the individual in the pursuit of the pleasures of reading. The authors consider reading in all of its...
by Ashley Carter
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
This collection of tests provides practice for students preparing to take the new Latin language examinations at the WJEC examination board Levels 1 and 2. It also includes tests similar to those used in the OCR examination board GCSE examinations. The book is divided into five sections, each devoted...
The Committed Reader
Reading for Utility, Pleasure, and Fulfillment in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Committed utilitarian reading is either dominantly practical or more or less equally practical and fulfilling. Pleasurable reading is conceptualized as an important kind of casual leisure, experienced primarily as relaxation, active entertainment, and sexual stimulation (racy, pornographic stories)....
by Alice Savage
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Improve your language, reading speed, comprehension, and fluency in a fun and easy way. The Big Ideas readers help you learn about the world while you learn English.
The 15 stories and articles in Interesting People are written with carefully chosen vocabulary and grammar. They are good...
Makoto e-Zine #1
Makoto e-Zine
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Recommended for beginners and lower intermediates of Japanese.
PDF & MP3s of the stories read by a native Japanese speaker included--download link found on the first page. Listen while reading.
The Fun Japanese Not Found in Textbooks. If you like our readers and lessons, you will...
Don't Know Much About Literature
What You Need to Know but Never Learned About Great Books and Authors
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
From Homer to Harry Potter, from Chaucer to Charlotte's Web, acompelling book of quizzes on history's most influential literary worksand writers
Did a whale named "Mocha Dick" inspire Melville's masterpiece?
Who was the first poet to speak at a presidential inauguration?
Which French-speaking...
French Stories/Contes Francais
A Dual-Language Book
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
"The selections are good and the translations are excellent." ― Germaine Brée, New York University
Drawn from two centuries of French literature, these superb selections by ten great writers span a wide variety of styles, philosophies, and literary creeds. The stories reflect not only...
Russian Stories
A Dual-Language Book
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
The story, or novella, as a literary genre has a much shorter history in Russia than in some Western countries, but it has nevertheless produced important works by some of the greatest names in Russian literature. This dual-language volume contains 12 such stories — memorable tales by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky,...