English short stories for beginners and intermediate learners - engaging short stories to learn English and build your vocabulary by Language Guru, author.
"Are you learning English as a second language or English as a foreign language? If so, that's great! We would like to help you on your journey to learn English to fluency. With our book English Short Stories for Beginners and Intermediate Learners, you can practice reading English while working on your English vocabulary and grammar skills as an ESL learner. The stories contained within this book were written with both beginner and intermediate ESL learners in mind, so you will find plenty of n
The bright sword - a novel of King Arthur by Grossman, Lev, author.
"Collum, a brilliantly gifted young knight from the provinces, arrives at Camelot two weeks after the Battle of Camlann, hoping to compete for a spot on the Round Table. But he finds the city empty, King Arthur dead, and the Table destroyed. The remainingsix knights aren't the mighty heroes, the legends, like Lancelot and Gawain and Tristram and Galahad. These are the survivors, a grab-bag of minor oddball knights from the margins-Sir Palomides, the Saracen Knight; Sir Bedivere, Arthur's one-han
To seize a queen by Buckley, Fiona, author.
"1594. Ursula Stannard is attending on her half-sister, Queen Elizabeth, when she receives an urgent summons from Sir Robert Cecil. Cornishman Master Roskilly was fished out of the sea by Sir Francis Godolphin, and has a shocking tale of being snatched bypirates and put on a slave vessel to Constantinople before his audacious escape. And he's not the only one . . . Folk in Cornwall are mysteriously disappearing. But why are only exceptional or unusual individuals being kidnapped, and could there