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Free, online language-learning in languages that include Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), Tagalog, Greek, and more. Mango has English language courses (ESL) for speakers of 19 different languages, including Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and Russian.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from the origins of English--and what they reveal about the lives of the earliest English speakers. Old English is the language you think you know until you actually hear or see it. Unlike Shakespearean English or even Chaucer's Middle English, Old English--the language of Beowulf--defies comprehension by untrained modern readers. Used throughout much of...
3) Chaucer
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Profiles the eventful life of master fourteenth-century English poet Geoffrey Chaucer, recounting his life as a courtier, diplomat, and literary luminary, who was also indicted for rape, sued for debt, and captured in battle.
4) 遮天
Author
Publisher
Cloudary Corporation
Pub. Date
2010
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
辰东耗时三年之力作!神奇的九龙拉棺、玄妙的北斗星域,拥有荒古圣体的叶凡,带你探索上古遗秘!
Author
Language
English
Description
Motherless, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip, and is told that the word means "slave girl." Learning that words relating to women's and common folks' experiences often go unrecorded, Esme begins...
9) The sonnets
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's sonnets side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes.
10) 唐砖
Author
Publisher
Cloudary Corporation
Pub. Date
2012
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
金戈铁马的豪情,气吞日月的帝王,百战浴血的猛将,高冠博带的高士,父慈子孝,盛世延绵,这是我的大唐!
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"What should be a cozy and fun-filled weekend deep in the English countryside takes a sinister turn in Ruth Ware's suspenseful, compulsive, and darkly twisted psychological thriller. Leonora, known to some as Lee and others as Nora, is a reclusive crime writer, unwilling to leave her "nest" of an apartment unless it is absolutely necessary. When a friend she hasn't seen or spoken to in years unexpectedly invites Nora (Lee?) to a weekend away in an...
12) Lullabies
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Set to a musical theme, love's poetic journey in this new, original collection begins with a Duet and travels through Interlude and Finale with an Encore popular piece from the best-selling Love & Misadventure. Lang Leav's evocative poetry speaks to the soul of anyone who is on this journey. Leav has an unnerving ability to see inside the hearts and minds of her readers. Her talent for translating complex emotions with astonishing simplicity has won...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Orwell's world famous satire on dictatorship told through a story about the happenings of an English country farm and the animal inhabitants who find it their duty to rebel against the sometimes cruel owner and prove themselves every bit mankind's intellectual equal.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This wise and entertaining guide by one of the great editors of our time offers timeless tools for making meaning clear. Refresh your writing. Unravel convoluted sales talk written to deceive. See through political campaigns erected on a tower of falsehoods. Fake news is but one of the pimples of a literate civilization under siege. Slovenly English! Billions of words come at us every day with unimaginable velocity and shriveled meaning, in social...
19) 天珠变
Author
Publisher
Cloudary Corporation
Pub. Date
2010
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
人有本命珠,当意、体双珠同时出现在一个人身上的时候,即为天珠。周维清就是一位修炼着天珠变的弓箭手!
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