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Pendant l'école, nous avons appris des choses que nous n'utilisons probablement pas aujourd'hui. Cependant, le langage est essentiel à presque tous les aspects de la condition humaine. Comment élargissez-vous votre entreprise au-delà de votre continent pour plus de ventes? Comment allez-vous exprimer votre amour pour la jeune fille qui vient de passer? Comment obtenez-vous des indications pour un hôtel, depuis l'aéroport d'Heathrow? Avec la connaissance du langage, c'est ainsi.

Le Forfait D'Apprentissage Bilingue Par Excellence Pour Les Débutants! À l'école, on a appris des trucs qu'on n'utilise pas aujourd'hui. Cependant, le langage est essentiel à presque tous les aspects de la condition humaine. Comment étendre vos activités au-delà de votre continent pour augmenter vos ventes? Comment vas-tu exprimer ton amour pour cette femme fatale qui vient de passer? Comment obtenir les directions d'un hôtel, depuis la Gare du Nord? Avec la connaissance du langage, voilà comment.

While in school, we learned stuff we probably don’t use today. However, language is essential to almost every aspect of the human condition. How do you expand your business beyond your continent for more sales? How are you going to express your love for that femme fatale that just walked past? How do you get directions to a hotel from the Gare du Nord? With the knowledge of language, that’s how.

When Fiona and James Brett move into their fashionable London home, they discover the attic room harbours a dark and deadly secret. James locks himself away inside, ostensibly to take up oil painting, but he soon becomes moody, even violent. Local prostitutes are being attacked, and then the Bretts’ Polish cleaner is murdered. Another murder soon follows and this time it is even more close to home. James’s former lover is found mutilated, mirroring the Whitechapel killings of over a century ago.

In Nazi Germany, young Manfred is hardly aware of the influence that draws him into the existing political system. After the War he changes his name and builds up a new career, starting a family, first in the States, later in Britain. While his friends and family have no idea of his activities during the War, his daughter Nora and his grandson Andrew, being interested in recent history, begin to suspect their (grand-)father’s dark secret.

Alan, Sam, Alice, and Aurora operate behind enemy lines on L-Day: the Allied liberation of the Occupied South. The partisans suffer grievous losses linking up with friendly forces. Hitler mercilessly crushes an SS coup. The Brotherhood of the Purifying Flame takes advantage of the chaos to pursue its holy mission. 

Sam, Alan, Alice, and Aurora continue to fight against the German forces occupying England. The guerrillas sabotage SS plans to build a concentration camp and also prepare for L-Day, the Allied liberation of the occupied south. The partisans take steps to deal with a traitor amongst their ranks.

Alan, Sam, Alice, and Aurora continue to fight against the German Forces occupying Hereward. The Nazis plan to achieve a Final Solution of the Jewish problem in Great Britain. The partisans carry out a daring and audacious mission to kidnap two top ranking enemy officers visiting Occupied England. Young Lions Prey is the fifth book in the Young Lions series and is a fast-paced, gritty novel set in an alternative history of the Second World War.

Miles Platting is pulled from the ruins of a shipwreck into a world in which no one will speak to him. The founder of Lingua Franca - a naming-rights agency committed to renaming every UK town after a corporate sponsor - Miles recounts the story of his quest for linguistic supremacy to anyone who'll listen. Confined to his hospital bed in a deathly quiet ward, Miles seeks to find his colleagues and reunite with his true love. But in doing so, Miles must confront his deepest held convictions and consider what's in a name in a world where the spoken word has been replaced with silence.

A chance encounter, a road accident, an air crash, a holdup at a bank: How do such events connect people? How do people see the situations from their different perspectives? Three narrative strands follow the lives of three individuals - Peter, Cathy and Ivan - through the second half of the 20th century, from postwar austerity and mediocrity in the 1950s and 1960s to the fast-moving lifestyle of the present decade, whereby the plot is embedded in real events of the period.  

A further collection of entertaining short stories to complete the author's trilogy of worldwide adventures. His intriguing tales are spiced with lively encounters and astute observations, full of humor and wit. His fascinating historical facts are particularly enlightening, and will have you saying, "Really? I didn't know that."  

This small book is a tribute to Iceland's way of life - a tribute via the reports of Swiss spy Hans-Ueli Stauffacher, a spy whose mission is to understand why the Icelanders are happier than the Swiss.

The year is 1948. Reverend Bernard Paltoquet and his friend Dr. Robbie MacTavish go on a tour of Europe and encounter a mystery in a Bergen forest. Why are the ghosts of two children haunting a fir tree? The following Christmas, that very tree turns up in the church hall, and the ghosts of the children with it. It seems they cannot rest until their murderer has been brought to justice, and only the psychic Robbie can help, even though he doesn’t speak a word of Norwegian! It seems an impossible task, but Robbie is determined to help them despite all the obstacles in his way.

What is the dreadful secret hiding behind the front door of an insignificant South London terraced house? Following a triple killing in 1896, a series of murders occur sporadically in the same house, culminating in the murder of the new occupant's girlfriend more than a century later. But is there a connection or are they coincidences? Reverend Bernard Paltoquet is determined to find out. He gradually discovers what links the murders and finally unlocks the mystery that has kept 57 Bockhampton Road in the grip of an unidentifiable evil influence for so many years.  

Without a doubt, Jimmy Giddion’s previous hacking exploits appear to reap everything he hoped for, until by chance he discovers his adversaries were responsible not only for his parents' sad demise, but with duping him into taking part. Although he now has the life he craves with his family and new wife, the deep-seated urge to reverse the wrong that had been done overwhelms him. Once again with the help of his friend and confidant Paul Max, they devise an ingenious hacking scam so sophisticated, even our pair of computer vigilantes doubt it would succeed.

Following the tragic disappearance of his parents and unborn sibling, Jimmy Giddion is torn from his life in the States to a solitary existence in Africa. During these formative years, he discovers a rare talent for computer hacking and decides to use his skills to find his family,. But he is soon thrown into a world of corruption embroiled in modern-day diamond mine claim jumping.  

The extraordinary challenges facing our well-established character now known as Bill Pascal are all too evident as William Forester seeks to remain invisible to the outside world. A chance encounter leaves him feeling vulnerable once more, and he steps up his efforts to discredit and bankrupt the man he holds responsible for the years of struggle he has encountered. The ever-present doubt that his anonymity will be revealed forces him to take extreme measures to exert the just deserts he has waited so long for.

The transition from educated family man to wealthy land owner and well-liked pillar of the Caribbean community, William Forester, having morphed into "Bill Pascal", remains more determined than ever to seek revenge against his wealthy adversary. While not losing sight of his goal of being reunited with his wife and children with his ill-gotten gains intact, with the help of his friend Paul Max, he continues his journey of retribution.

These fun stories for children aged 5 to 7 years are about the adventures of different buses in the Little Bus Company and are set in rural England during the last 20 years. 

The year is 1961. Barney Carmichael is about to take on his toughest case yet when a mysterious and glamorous woman walks into his office unannounced. Her request is simple: find her son. It is soon clear that the task is far from simple, however. In fact, the more Barney and brother Jim delve into the mystery, the more confusing it becomes. Meanwhile, Barney’s friend, Inspector Tony Halliday of Scotland Yard, seeks his help in solving a series of baffling murders.