BOLETÍN 2 - DONACIONES

Biblioteca EOI Cartagena
Boletín de novedades 2
Curso 2015/2016
Especial donaciones

FRANCÉS
Lecturas adaptadas
Mystère sur le Vieux-Port / Pascale Paoli
Ed. Hachette, 2010
ISBN 978-2-01-155738-4
63 p. + CD audio
Nivel A1
À Marseille, Mathias, un jeune peintre
argentin, disparaît. Où est Mathias?, Est-il en
danger?. André et Lola partent à sa recherche.
Pendant ce temps, Mathias vit une étrange
aventure...
Train de nuit / Dominique Renaud
Ed. Santillana français, 2009
ISBN 978-2-09-031397-0
47 p. + CD audio
Nivel A1
Pour son travail, Tehri, une jeune Finlandaise,
doit faire un stage à Nice. Elle préfère voyager
en train car elle n‘aime pas l‘avion. C‘est
l‘occasion pour elle de s‘arrêter à Prague et de
passer un moment avec son père qui habite
là-bas. Mais le voyage en train est moins
tranquille que prévu...

INGLÉS
Lecturas adaptadas
The Queen of Death / John Milne
Ed. Macmillan, 2005
87 p.
ISBN 978-0-2300-3520-1
Intermediate, B1
"The archeologist - Dr John Farrow - said he
knew where to find the secret tomb of Queen
Axtarte. He went to Egypt. He told his story to the
newspapers. When Farrow mysteriously
disappears, Chief Inspector Salahadin suspects a
gang of smugglers is involved. But he is also
worried. He has read the words of Queen
Axtarte's curse: '... anyone who enters my tomb -
anyone who steals from my tomb - anyone who
touches my body - that person will die a terrible
death. And many more will die with him'."
British and American Short Stories / J.
Thurber, w. Somerset Maugham, D:H: Lawrence
and others
Ed. Longman, 1994
83 p.
ISBN 0-582-09681-2
Upper intermediate
These stories paint colourful pictures of life in
Britain and America in the past. In them we meet
some unusual people, such as the old
countryman who falls asleep in a grave and the
dreamy boy who wakes up one day to find a bird
making a nest in his hair.
There are funny stories about the trick people
play, and frightening ones about stange
experiences. There is the man who tries to catch
a ghost, and the child who grows to depend on
his rocking horse, not for pleasure but for
information.

The Turn of the Screw / Henry James
Ed. Longman, 2008
47 p.
ISBN 978-1-4058-8205-7
Pre-Intermediate
A young woman comes to a big house to teach
two young children. It‘s her first job and she
wants to do it well. But she begins to see
strange things – the ghosts of dead people. Do
the ghosts want the children?
Robin Hood / Retold by Liz Austin
Ed. Penguin, 2000
41 p.
ISBN 0-582-421195
Elementary
The story of Robin Hood is very famous. Robin
Hood robbed rich people and gave the money
to poor people. He loved adventure, and he
was the best fighter in England. The greedy
Sheriff of Nottingham hated Robin, and the
beautiful lady Marian loved him. His most
famous adventures are in this book.

Dangerous Game / William Harris
Ed. Longman, 1992
60 p.
ISBN 0-582-53681-2
Intermediate
―Some time after my wife died, I realized that
my bedroom was haunted...‖ So writes
William Harris at the beginning of his
mysterious manuscript. Only his friend, Louis;
learns the secret of the haunted room. He
finds the manuscript and re-tells the story
here, for you...
The Mystery of the Tomb / Marisa
McGreevy
Ed. Burlington Books, 2002
35 p.
ISBN 9963-46-571-4
Pre-Intermediate
Jack, Tom and Danny must write a scary
story for their teacher, but can‘t decide on a
topic. So one Saturday night, they go to a
cemetery to try to fing ghosts. They find their
‗ghost‘ – but they find a lot more than they
expected!

The Ring / Bernard Smith
Ed. Longman, 2008
57 p.
ISBN 978-1-4058-8202-6
Pre-Intermediate
One day Rafael was well; the next day he
was completely mad. What happened to
him? The story of Rafael and his gold ring
is a strange story of murder, mystery and
love. Many people know part of the story.
But only Rafael knows the true facts. And
Rafael is mad.
Teacher Man / Frank McCourt
Ed. Longman, 2008
79 p.
ISBN 978-1-4058-8233-0
Intermediate
When Frank McCourt becomes a teacher in
New York, he finds himself standing in front
of bored, confused, angry students. Will he
fail as a teacher? Or can he use his
miserable Irish childhood to help his
students? This is the true story of one man‘s
surprising, upsetting, but sometimes very
funny experiences in the classroom.

My Cousin Rachel / Daphne du Maurier
Ed. Macmillan, 2005
87 p.
ISBN 978-0-2300-3531-7
Intermediate, B1
I was in the carriage ready to leave when a
last letter arrived from Ambrose:
For God’s sake, come quickly! Rachel, my
torment, has won. I am dying. Come quickly,
or it will be too late!
I began my journey with a terrible fear in my
heart. It was the 10th of July. I knew I could
not reach Ambrose until the middle of
August.
The Thirty-Nine Steps / John Buchan
Ed. Longman, 1986
90p.
ISBN 0-582-53752-5
Upper-Intermediate
A man is running away. His life is in danger.
He is hunted both by the police and a cruel
enemy. He must stay free –and alive- to
give the warning that his country is about to
be attacked. But will anyone believe him
before it is too late?
The thirty-nine steps is one of the most
exciting of all secret agent stories. Written
long before Ian Fleming ever thought of
James Bond, The thirty-nine steps remains
as popular as the famous names of today.

L. A. Movie / Philip Prowse
Ed. Macmillan, 2005
135 p. + 3 CD audio
ISBN 978-1-4050-7711-8
Upper, B2
Private detective, Lenny Samuel, is
hired by a Hollywood film studio.
Someone has been making death
threats against Gail Lane, a beautiful
young film actress, and the studio boss
asks Lenny to protect her. Lenny joins
the film crew on location in Hollywood,
Buenos Aires and Istanbul as he tries
to stay out of trouble and solve the
case.
The Black Cat / John Milne
Ed. Macmillan, 2005
68 p. + CD audio
ISBN 978-1-4050-7638-8
Elementary, A2
Yesterday morning, an archeologist was
found dead in a Cairo hotel. The
archeologist was called Pearson. The
police are making enquiries.

About a Boy / Nick Hornby
Ed. Longman, 2008
91 p. + 2 CD audio
ISBN 978-1-4058-8450-1
Intermediate
Will Freeman wants an easy life
with no responsibilities. But then
he meets Marcus –an unusual
twelve-year-old boy with serious
problems.
About a Boy is a modern classic –
a very funny story about a very
serious bubject: love. It‘s also a
popular movie starring Hugh
Grant.
Obras literarias
Paths of Glory / Jeffrey Archer
Ed. Macmillan, 2009
403 p.
ISBN 978-0-230-53143-7
Some people have dreams that are so
magnificent that if they were to achieve them,
their place in history would be guaranteed.
Francis Drake, Robert Scott, Charles
Lindbergh, Amy Johnson, Edmund Hilary, Neil
Armstrong, and Lewis and Clark are among
such individuals.
But what if one man had such a dream, and
once he‘d fulfilled it, there was no proof that he
had achieved his ambition?
Paths of Glory is the story of such a man. But
not until you‘ve turned the last page of this
extraordinary novel, will you be able to decide if
George Mallory should be added to this list of
legends, because if he were, another name
would have to be removed.

Maeve Binchy / The Return Journey
Ed. Orion, 2009
294 p.
ISBN 978-1-4072-3522-6
There are star-crossed travellers who take
each other‘s bags by mistake, only to learn
that when you unlock a stranger‘s suitcase
you enter a stranger‘s life; the house-sitter
who moves into her client‘s life as well as her
home; a holiday for four in Greece which has
surprising consequences; and the chance
encounter at an airport which unites an
unlikely group of people.
Full of love, loss, revelations and
reconciliation, this enchanting collection
shows Maeve Binchy at the height of her
powers.
Mildred D. Taylor / Roll of Thunder, Hear
My Cry
Ed. Puffin Books, 2004
276 p.
ISBN 0-14-240112-9
Humillation and fear seem to rule the lives of
Cassie Logan and her family. But they have
one thing that no one can take away-their
land. And with that to hold them together,
nothing can tear them apart.

Minaret / Leila Aboulela
Ed. Bloomsbury, 2005
276 p.
ISBN 0-7875-7626-2
Minaret is a provocative, timely, and engaging
novel about a young Muslim woman—once
privileged and secular in her native land and now
impoverished in London—gradually embracing
her traditional faith. With her Muslim hijab and
down-turned gaze, Najwa is invisible to most
eyes, especially to the rich families whose
houses she cleans in London.
Twenty years ago, Najwa, then at university
in Khartoum, would never have imagined that
one day she would be a maid. An upper-class
Westernized Sudanese, her dreams were to
marry well and raise a family. But a coup forces
the young woman and her family into political
exile in London.
Soon orphaned, and with her twin brother sent to
jail on a drug charge, she finds solace and
companionship within the Muslim community.
Then Najwa meets Tamer, the intense, lonely
younger brother of her employer. They find a
common bond in faith and slowly, silently, begin
to fall in love. Written with directness and force,
Minaret is a lyric and insightful novel about Islam
and an alluring glimpse into a culture Westerners
are only just beginning to understand.

The House on Mango Street / Sandra
Cisneros
Ed. Bloomsbury, 2004
110 p.
ISBN 978-0-7475-6087-6
Told in a series of vibrant vignettes, The
House on Mango Street is the story of
Esperanza Cordera, a young girl growing
up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago. For
Esperanza, Mango Street is a desolate
landscape of concrete and run-down
tenements where she discovers the hard
realities of life - the fetters of class and
gender, the spectre of racial enmity and
the mysteries of sexuality.
Capturing her thoughts and emotions in
poems and stories, Esperanza is able to
rise above hopelessness and create for
herself "a house all of my own quiet as
snow, a space for myself to go" in the
midst of her oppressive surroundings.
A Matter of Honour / Jeffrey Archer
Ed. Pan Books, 2003
429 p.
ISBN 978-1-4472-2639-0
Adam Scott listens to the reading of his
father's will, aware that the contents can
only be meagre. The Colonel, after all, had
nothing to leave - except a letter he had
never opened himself, a letter that can
only bring further disgrace to the family
name.
Against his mother's advice, Adam opens
the letter, and immediately realizes his life
can never be the same again. The
contents leave him with no choice but to
follow a course his father would have
described as a matter of honour.

The Witch of Portobello / Paulo Coelho
Ed. Harper Collins, 2007
346 p.
ISBN 978-0-00-725187-2
This is the story of Athena, or Sherine, to
give her the name she was baptised with.
Her life is pieced together through a series
of recorded interviews with those people
who knew her well or hardly at all – parents,
colleagues, teachers, friends,
acquaintances, her ex-husband.
The novel unravels Athena's mysterious
beginnings, via an orphanage in Romania,
to a childhood in Beirut. When war breaks
out, her adoptive family move with her to
London, where a dramatic turn of events
occurs…
Athena, who has been dubbed 'the Witch of
Portobello' for her seeming powers of
prophecy, disappears dramatically, leaving
those who knew her to solve the mystery of
her life and abrupt departure.
A Spot of Brother / Mark Haddon
Ed. Vintage Books, 2007
503 p.
ISBN 978-0-099-50743-7
At fifty-seven, George is settling down to a
comfortable retirement, building a shed in
his garden, reading historical novels,
listening to a bit of light jazz. Then Katie, his
tempestuous daughter, announces that she
is getting remarried, to Ray. Her family is not
pleased - as her brother Jamie observes,
Ray has 'strangler's hands'. Katie can't
decide if she loves Ray, or loves the way he
cares for her son Jacob, and her mother
Jean is a bit put out by the way the wedding
planning gets in the way of her affair with
one of her husband's former colleagues.
And the tidy and pleasant life Jamie has
created crumbles when he fails to invite his
lover, Tony, to the dreaded nuptials.
Unnoticed in the uproar, George discovers a
sinister lesion on his hip, and quietly begins
to lose his mind.

The Kite Runner / Khaled Hosseini
Ed. Bloomsbury, 2007
324 p.
ISBN 978-0-7475-9488-8
1970s Afghanistan: Twelve-year-old Amir is
desperate to win the local kite-fighting
tournament and his loyal friend Hassan
promises to help him. But neither of the boys
can foresee what will happen to Hassan that
afternoon, an event that is to shatter their
lives.
After the Russians invade and the family is
forced to flee to America, Amir realises that
one day he must return to an Afghanistan
under Taliban rule to find the one thing that
his new world cannot grant him: redempiton.
Change we can believe in / With a Foreword
by Barack Obama
Ed. Canongate, 2008
291 p.
ISBN 978-1-84767-432-6
The election of Barack Obama as President of
the United States is a defining moment in
American history. After years of failed policies
and failed politics from Washington, this is our
chance to reclaim the American dream. Barack
Obama has proven to be a new kind of leader –
one who can bring people together, be honest
about the challenges we face, and move this
nation forward. Change We Can Believe
In outlines his vision for America.
In these pages you will find bold and specific
ideas about how to fix our ailing economy and
strengthen the middle class, make health care
affordable for all, achieve energy
independence, and keep America safe in a
dangerous world. Change We Can Believe
In asks us not just to believe in Barack
Obama‘s ability to bring change to Washington,
it asks us to believe in our ability to change the
world.

Series en DVD
Mujeres desesperadas. Primera
Temporada / Marc Cherry
Edita El Mundo
Episodios 7, 8, 9 y 10
Idiomas: español e inglés
Subtítulos: español e inglés
Disco 4: Episodio 7 - Todo lo que puedas
hacer; Episodio 8 - Culpable.
Disco 5: Episodio 9 - Sospechas; Episodio 10
- Vuelve conmigo
Sexo en Nueva York. La temporada 1
completa / Darren Star
Edita Paramount
Episodios del 1 al 12.
Idiomas:inglés, español, francés, italiano.
Subtítulos: inglés, danés, holandés, francés,
noruego, sueco.
Disco 1: Episodio 1 - Sexo en Nueva York;
Episodio 2 - Modelos y mortales; Episodio 3 -
Bahía de cochinos casados; Episodio 4 - El
valle de los veinteañeros; Episodio 5 - El
poder del sexo femenino; Episodio 6 - Sexo
secreto.
Disco 2: Episodio 7 - Los monógamos;
Episodio 8 - Tres es multitud; Episodio 9 - La
liebre y la tortuga; Episodio 10 - Reunión
prenatal; Episodio 11 - La sequía; Episodio 12
- Oh, mis fieles, venid a mí.

Libros de texto, gramáticas y diccionarios
Fowler’s Modern English Usage / Ernest
Gowers
Ed. Oxford University Press, 1983
725 p.
ISBN 0-19-281389-7
Modern English Usage deals with the points
of grammar, syntax, style, and the choice of
words; with the formation of words and their
spelling and inflexions; with pronunciation;
and with punctuation and typography. Its
great popularity is based not only on its
usefulness, but also on its iconoclasm and
wit. Fowler is at his most readable and funny
on such unpromising subjects as split
infinitives or ‗the false first-personal ONE‘,
and when debunking affectation. Wellthumbed
copies of MEU will today fall open
naturally at the indispensable entries on
disinterested, due to, jargon, sociologese, or
which, that, who.This revised edition was
undertaken by Sir Ernest Gowers (the
author of Plain Words).
Advanced Grammar in Use. Second
Edition / Martin Hewings
Ed. Cambridge, 2005
294 p. + CD-ROM
ISBN 978-0-521-53291-4
Advanced Grammar in Use second edition
is a fully updated version of the successful
grammar title.

English File. Self-study Edition 1 / Clive
Oxenden, Paul Seligson.
Ed. Oxford University Press, 2002
ISBN 84-673-0457-X
Curso de inglés para jóvenes y adultos
especialmente diseñado para el autoaprendizaje
y para programas de
enseñanza a distancia. Cubre 120 horas
de inglés por nivel.
Incluye: Manual del alumno; Gramática y
Práctica; Transcripciones y Solucionario;
Guía del alumno; CD audio (3); CD audio
‗Listen and Speak‘; CD-ROM
English File. Self-study Edition 2 / Clive
Oxenden, Paul Seligson.
Ed. Oxford University Press, 2002
ISBN 84-673-0459-6
Curso de inglés para jóvenes y adultos
especialmente diseñado para el autoaprendizaje
y para programas de
enseñanza a distancia. Cubre 120 horas
de inglés por nivel.
Incluye: Manual del alumno; Gramática y
Práctica; Transcripciones y Solucionario;
Guía del alumno; CD audio (3); CD audio
‗Listen and Speak‘; CD-ROM

English File. Self-study Edition 3 / Clive
Oxenden, Paul Seligson.
Ed. Oxford University Press, 2002
ISBN 84-673-0461-8
Curso de inglés para jóvenes y adultos
especialmente diseñado para el autoaprendizaje
y para programas de
enseñanza a distancia. Cubre 120 horas
de inglés por nivel.
Incluye: Manual del alumno; Gramática y
Práctica; Transcripciones y Solucionario;
CD audio (2); CD audio ‗Listen and Learn‘.

ITALIANO
Fai bei sogni / Massimo Gramellini
Ed. Longanesi, 2012
209 p.
ISBN 978-88-304-2915-4
Fai bei sogni è la storia di un segreto celato in una
busta per quarant‘anni. La storia di un bambino, e
poi di un adulto, che imparerà ad affrontare il dolore
più grande, la perdita della mamma, e il mostro più
insidioso: il timore di vivere.
Fai bei sogni è dedicato a quelli che nella vita
hanno perso qualcosa. Un amore, un lavoro, un
tesoro. E rifiutandosi di accettare la realtà, finiscono
per smarrire se stessi. Come il protagonista di
questo romanzo. Uno che cammina sulle punte dei
piedi e a testa bassa perché il cielo lo spaventa, e
anche la terra.
Fai bei sogni è soprattutto un libro sulla verità e
sulla paura di conoscerla. Immergendosi nella
sofferenza e superandola, ci ricorda come sia
sempre possibile buttarsi alle spalle la sfiducia per
andare al di là dei nostri limiti.
Massimo Gramellini ha raccolto gli slanci e le ferite
di una vita priva del suo appiglio più solido. Una
lotta incessante contro la solitudine,
l‘inadeguatezza e il senso di abbandono, raccontata
con passione e delicata ironia. Il sofferto traguardo
sarà la conquista dell‘amore e di un‘esistenza piena
e autentica, che consentirà finalmente al
protagonista di tenere i piedi per terra senza
smettere di alzare gli occhi al cielo.

Sostiene Pereira / Antonio Tabucchi
Ed. Feltrinelli, 2014
214 p.
ISBN 978-00-07-88304-0
Lisbona, un fatidico agosto del 1938, la solitudine, il
sogno, la coscienza di vivere e di scegliere, dentro
la Storia.
Un grande romanzo civile. Due premi nazionali
come il Viareggio-Repaci e il Campiello e il Prix
Européen Jean Monnet. Ventidue traduzioni
all'estero. Una memorabile interpretazione
cinematografica di Marcello Mastroianni.
Una storia che continua a suscitare il fascino e la
meraviglia delle opere destinate a durare nel
tempo.