Heat and Dust
Title | Heat and Dust PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | British |
ISBN | 0671646575 |
Winner of the Booker Prize as best novel of the year in 1983, Heat and Dust was also made into a major motion picture starring Julie Christie, now regarded by many as a classic.
Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 5: Heat and Dust
Title | Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 5: Heat and Dust PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008-01-24 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9780194792271 |
Word count 24,125
The Joy Luck Club
Title | The Joy Luck Club PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Tan |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2006-09-21 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101502738 |
“The Joy Luck Club is one of my favorite books. From the moment I first started reading it, I knew it was going to be incredible. For me, it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime reading experiences that you cherish forever. It inspired me as a writer and still remains hugely inspirational.” —Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians Amy Tan’s beloved, New York Times bestselling tale of mothers and daughters, now the focus of a new documentary Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir on Netflix Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and history continue. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery.
Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 3: The USA
Title | Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 3: The USA PDF eBook |
Author | Alison Baxter |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 80 |
Release | 2007-12-13 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9780194233910 |
Word count 10,188 CD: American English Suitable for younger learners
The President's Murderer
Title | The President's Murderer PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Bassett |
Publisher | Oxford University |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9780194229531 |
The President is dead! A man is running in the night. He is afraid and needs to rest. But there are people behind him - people with lights, and dogs, and guns. A man is standing in front of a desk. His boss is very angry, and the man is tired and needs to sleep. But first he must find the other man, and bring him back - dead or alive. Two men: the hunter and the hunted. Which will win and which will lose? Long live the President!
Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 1: Under the Moon
Title | Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 1: Under the Moon PDF eBook |
Author | Rowena Akinyemi |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2007-12-06 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9780194789226 |
Word count 5,320
Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 2: William Shakespeare
Title | Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 2: William Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Bassett |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2007-12-27 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9780194790765 |
Word count 9,135