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Title: Twelve Minutes to LandingLevel: Intermediate (B1-B2)DescriptionFlight attendant Sofia Navarro has seen storms, crying babies, and one passenger who tried to open the emergency door by mistake. But nothing prepares her for the evening both pilots of Flight 214 become sudden ...  Show more

Title: The Thirteenth BellLevel: Advanced (C1-C2)DescriptionIn the mountain kingdom of Orvan, twelve great bells tell the hours, and every child knows the rhyme that explains why there is no thirteenth: ring it, and the god sleeping beneath the mountain will wake. Sael, a deaf ap ...  Show more

Hrolf Kraki must avenge his father by confronting his step-father...and brother-in-law. Don't worry, though, the weirdness of last week gets ironed out when we enter more familiar territory for the Viking legends. Our wonderful one-eyed wanderer makes an appearance, kings battle ...  Show more

The Saga of the Volsungs continues, with a princess held captive by the man who killed her father, and her brother roaming the forest waging a covert guerrilla war...or just robbing people for the fun of it? There are berserker werewolves, magic swords, and a battle of really stu ...  Show more

Publisher's Summary

Trapped 1,300 years in the past, they have one mission: survive.

In the 23rd century, humanity has been hunted to the verge of extinction by an alien race. When an exploratory ship accidentally travels back in time to Viking-age ...

Swords, dragons, werewolves, Vikings, betrayal, and revenge are all hallmarks of the thrilling, yet little known, Saga of the Volsungs, the story of an ill-fated medieval Nordic family. One of J.R.R. Tolkien's first Nordic reads, it's a tale of honor, love, loss, and vengeance, a ...  Show more