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Title: Born under a rare celestial eventLevel: Advanced (C1)#Story : Lira, a young woman born under a rare celestial event, is the key to an ancient prophecy that promises either salvation or destruction for the world. Raised in a secluded village, Lira is unaware of her destiny ...  عرض المزيد

Story Title: Aurenfall Level: Advanced Genre: Philosophical Fiction / Political AllegoryDescription: Aurenfall tells the story of a wandering city built on a radical principle: stability is never free, and responsibility cannot be deferred indefinitely. For generations, the city ...  عرض المزيد

Why modern communication still relies on ancient words and narratives.All communication and connection depend on one thing: language. That’s why Laura Spinney says understanding language — where it comes from and how it evolves over time — can help us use it more effectively.“Lan ...  عرض المزيد

The Blythe Girls - Helen, Margy and Rose by Laura Lee Hope audiobook. Genre: family Left suddenly to make their own way, three sisters from the country step into the noise and promise of New York City with little more than courage and each other. Helen Blythe, quiet but determine ...  عرض المزيد

In her writing, it is Kate DiCamillo's gift to make bearable the fact that joy and sorrow live so close, side by side, in life as it is (if not as we wish it to be). In this conversation, along with good measures of raucous laughter and a few tears, Kate summons us to hearts "cap ...  عرض المزيد

Jacke continues his journey through the list of the 25 Greatest Books of All Time with a look at Flaubert's "perfect novel," Madame Bovary (1856-57). Telling the story of the bored wife of a provincial doctor who enters into a series of infidelities, Flaubert's debut caused an im ...  عرض المزيد