Maximum Ride 5: Max by James Patterson

James Patterson’s bestselling Maximum Ride series is back, with Max and the gang as The Protectors. Someone–or something–is decimating ships and sea life off Hawaii’s coast, and Max and her flock find themselves sucked into the Navy’s top-secret investigation of the catastrophe. Their objective: Rescue Max’s activist mom from a wicked subterranean enemy. The hitch: They must dive deep into dark waters, where gruesome evil dwells… and for high-flying Maximum Ride, could there be anything more terrifying than being trapped in the great abyss? Now in paperback, this soaring new adventure takes Maximum Ride and the Flock into terrifying new territory–fans, hold your breath!

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Fang: A Maximum Ride Novel by James Patterson

Being a kid with wings–constantly on the run–has never been easy, and Max and her flock are getting tenser than ever. First, on a trip to Africa, they meet a mysterious billionaire whose intense scrutiny of the flock makes her fear the worst. Then, a cryptic message from a younggirl arrives, warning them “The sky will fall.” And as if an impending apocalypse weren’t bad enough, canny birdkid Angel makes a dire prophecy about Max’s soul mate: Fang will be the first to die.

Max’s desperate desire to protect Fang brings the two closer than ever. But can the team weather the storm, or will the turmoil rip them apart for the last time?

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Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon by Chuck Palahniuk

The author of the best-selling novel Fight Club reveals his favorite Portland, Oregon landmarks in this autobiographical travel guide that describes the City of Roses as “the home of America’s fugitives and refugees.” Covering a bit of culture and a bit of history, the guide begins with a Portland vocabulary lesson and then offers descriptive listings of selected restaurants (with key recipes), architecture, museums,swingers’ sex clubs (gay and straight), events, transportation,shopping, and photo opportunities, along with wry commentary from the author.

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Maximum Ride 4: The Final Warning by James Patterson

Hold on tight for the wildest ride yet as Max and the flock take on global warming–Earth’s biggest threat–in this #1 New York Times bestselling series.

Maximum Ride and the other members of the flock are just like ordinary kids–only they have wings and can fly. It seems like a dream come true…until they’re hunted by the world’s nastiest villains.

Max returns in a chilling adventure unlike any other. Safe havens for the six highly-sought-after winged kids have become increasingly hard to find, so the flock takes refuge in Antarctica with a team of environmentalists studying the effects of global warming. In this remote wilderness–whether pursued by corrupt governments, bio-engineered bad-guys, or the harsh forces of nature–survival of the fittest takes a new twist!

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Maximum Ride 3: Saving The World And Other Extreme Sports by James Patterson

In Maximum Ride 3: Saving The World And Other Extreme Sports, the time has arrived for Max and her winged “Flock” to face their ultimate enemy and discover their original purpose: to defeat the takeover of “Re-evolution”, a sinister experiment to re-engineer a select population into a scientifically superior master race…and to terminate the rest. Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel have always worked together to defeat the forces working against them–but can they save the world when they are torn apart, living in hiding and captivity, halfway across the globe from one another?

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Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer

Midnight Sun is still an unfinished manuscript because Stephenie withhold from continuing writing the novel due to the illegal leaks of the first twelve chapters posted on the net. The partial draft of Midnight Sun containing the first twelve chapters was published on Stephenie Meyer’s official site where she purposely made available for her readers and supportive fans from the time the novel has been compromised before its intended publication date. The incomplete draft of the Midnight Sun is still on hold and no one still knows when would it finally be completed and release for publication.

For Stephenie, she would begin working on Midnight Sun as soon as she no longer hear about it and when everyone has forgotten about it.

Here is the partial draft of the novel Midnight Sun. Hope you’ll enjoy it though it’s not yet complete.

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Christ The Lord: Out of Egypt by Anne Rice

Having completed the two cycles of legend to which she has devoted her career so far, Anne Rice gives us now her most ambitious and courageous book, a novel about the early years of CHRIST THE LORD, based on the Gospels and on the most respected New Testament scholarship.

The book’s power derives from the passion its author brings to the writing and the way in which she summons up the voice, the presence, the words of Jesus who tells the story.

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Maximum Ride 2: School’s Out – Forever by James Patterson

Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the “Flock”—Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel—are just like ordinary kids—only they have wings and can fly. It seems like a dream come true—except that they’re being hunted by half-human, half-wolf “Erasers” who can fly, too. In Book 2 of the series, the Flock members are taken under the wing of an FBI agent and try to live “normal” lives by going to school, making friends—and continuing their relentless search for their parents. But the Erasers return, forcing the Flock to abandon their search and make their escape once again. The voice inside Max’s head keeps telling her that it’s up to her to save the world, but this is especially challenging to do when she is faced with her ultimate match: a newer and better version of herself, Maximum Ride II. Max’s heart-stopping quest to investigate the mind-blowing mystery of her ultimate destiny continues in the scariest, strangest, and funniest James Patterson novel yet.

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Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson

Characters based on James Patterson’s international bestsellers When the Wind Blows and The Lake House are re-invented in Maximum Ride and are launched on the ultimate action-packed adventure full of humor and suspense.

Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride, better known as Max, knows what it’s like to soar above the world. She and all the members of the “Flock”—Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel—are just like ordinary kids—only they have wings and can fly. It may seem like a dream come true to some, but their lives can morph into a living nightmare at any time—like when Angel, the youngest member of the “Flock,” is kidnapped and taken back to the “School” where she and the others were genetically engineered by sinister scientists. Her friends brave a journey to Death Valley, CA, to save Angel, but soon enough, they find themselves in yet another nightmare—this one involving fighting off the half-human, half-wolf “Erasers” in New York City. Whether in the treetops of Central Park or in the bowels of the Manhattan subway system, Max and her adopted family take the ride of their lives. Along the way Max discovers from her old friend and father-figure Jeb—now her betrayed and greatest enemy—that her purpose is save the world—but can she?

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Listening in and Speaking Out: Advanced (with Audio)

Sharon Bode, "Listening in and Speaking Out: Advanced (with Audio)" 
Long.man 1981 | ISBN-10: 0582797373, 0582797802 | 144 pages, Audio CD | PDF, mp3 | 62,7 MB

LISO Advanced contains 10 Units.


Listening In and Speaking Out focuses on spontaneous spoken English with the aim of bridging the gap between "classroom English" an the English that students are likey to encounter on their own. The activities are based on two kinds of recordings meke by native speakers of English from various regions of the United States. The first recording in each unit is an unscripted, unrehearsed Monolog wich lasts approximately on minute. Each speaker describes a past experience or relates an anecdore in an informal manner, as if speaking to friends. The second recording in each unit is an unrehearsed Dramatization, also unscripted to ensure spontaneity wich lasts approximately a minute and a half. It incorporates some element of conflict or disagreement in order to expose students to expressions of strong feelings and to provide them with an opportunity to discuss a variety of emotional responses.


Because the language on the recording was unrehearsed and the interactions were spontaneous the learners will hear many instances of natural hesitations, interruptions, parenthetical expressions, unfinished sentences and awkward or "incorrect" grammatical construcions.


Sometimes they will hear very rapid speech an at other times slower rates of delivery. Through exposeure to the ordinary phenomena of spoken English in LISO, learner are given the opportunity to develop the skill of understanding real conversations in English spoken at normal speed.




In addition, the material provides:
1) An opportunity for students to speak informally.
2) A learning environment that is student-centered and.
3) Activities that help students develop the confidence, motivation and ideas for on-going


self-instruction.

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Dictionary of Common Errors,2 Edition

J.B. Heaton, Nigel D. Turton, "Dictionary of Common Errors,2 Edition" 
Lon.gman 1996 | ISBN-10: 0582237521 | 384 pages | Djvu | 2,7 MB

* Over 2500 alphabetical entries, with language notes giving clear explanations of the problems underling each error
* Authentic example sentences taken from the British National Corpus showing correct use in context 
*30 special language features focusing on key problem areas 
* Illustrations to aid comprehension and reinforce meaning 
* Comprehensive cross-references help you locate entries easily 
* Glossary of all grammatical terms used in the entries

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Pyrotechnics on the Page: Playful Craft That Sparks Writing

Ralph Fletcher, "Pyrotechnics on the Page: Playful Craft That Sparks Writing" 
St.nhouse Publishers | 2010 | ISBN: 1571107835 | 168 pages | PDF | 2,8 MB

Children have a natural affinity for language play; Pyrotechnics on the Page demonstrates how writing teachers can tap into it. This book provides a wealth of resources for teachers, including information on the roots and developmental importance of language play, a how-to on using the writer’s notebook as a playground for students to explore and experiment with verbal pyrotechnics, an in-depth look at the kind of language play commonly used by writers, twenty-four brand new craft lessons to bring pyrotechnics into the classroom, and an extensive bibliography of relevant mentor texts. Pyrotechnics on the Page is vintage Fletcher: personal, anecdotal, and practical.

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Ivan to Make You Laugh: Jokes and Novel, Nifty, and Notorious Names

Scott K. Peterson, Rick Walton, Ann Walton, "Ivan to Make You Laugh: Jokes and Novel, Nifty, and Notorious Names" 
First Avenue Editions | 2003 | ISBN: 1575057344 | 32 pages | PDF | 1 MB

Perfect for beginning readers, this laugh-out-loud joke book about nifty names will put a smile on your face!
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Filled with over 100 playful puns, goofy gigglers, sly spoofs, wacky illustrations, and more, each joke book in this laugh-out-loud series will keep kids howling for more!

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Writing: Processes, Tools and Techniques

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The International Encyclopedia of Communication

Wolfgang Donsbach, "The International Encyclopedia of Communication" 
W..ey-Bl..ell | 2008 | ISBN: 1405131993 | 6128 pages | PDF | 32 MB

Review
“Given the nature of the topic, this set offers articles that would be useful across the curriculum. Summing Up: Recommended. Libraries supporting communication departments or communication research in other fields; lower-level undergraduates and above.” (CHOICE, March 2009)


“This encyclopaedia ... .Genuinely impresses and supersedes the opposition. It’s combination of wide coverage, sensible construction, international reach, subject objectivity, and hospitality to natural language searches makes it attractive to libraries where extensive use will take place.” (Reference Reviews, January 2009)


Other works … do not match this work’s depth of scholarship. Definitive, authoritative, and scholarly, it is highly recommended for academic libraries large and small. (Library Journal)


Review
We recently (2 yrs ago) changed publishers to Blackwell. We did that primarily because Blackwell's has a high level entrepreneurial outlook. They're willing to take at look at projects that have a bit of risk, but in the end could serve academic populations very well… since we joined with Blackwell I've been brainstorming with them about numerous projects we could do that would help the world understand a little bit more about a) the communication discipline, and b) give more opportunities for our members to get their research out there so that it could be used by government, policy bodies, or by other people just interested in how people communicate. The Encyclopedia was one of those projects they agreed to take a look at. The ICA had done something very similar 20 years ago, but the whole scholar/academic world has gotten much more international, so we felt that it was time to re-do that whole project, and Blackwell was willing to tackle it and work with me on establishing a good, strong editorial board.
–Michael Haley, the Executive Director of the International Communication Association

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