Boletin de novedades nº3 - Especial donaciones

Biblioteca EOI Cartagena
Boletín de novedades nº3
Curso 2015 /2016
Especial donaciones 2

LECTURAS ADAPTADAS
THE LOST WORLD / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Nelson, 1992, 79 pág.
ISBN 0-17-556535-X
Level 3. Vocabulary Range: 1000 words
Newspaper reporter Ed Malone is looking for
adventure. He finds it when he agrees to go to
the Amazon jungle with the famous Professor
Challenger and two others. On this fantastic
journey of adventure and danger, the four
men find a Lost World – a world of prehistoric
animals and of danger. A classic story by Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock
Holmes.
RIP VAN WINKLE AND OTHER STORIES /
Washington Irving
Longman, 1991, 42 pág.
ISBN 0-582-03046-3
Stage 2: 900 word vocabulary
The best classic stories beautifully retold in
easy English and illustrated in full colour.

NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH / George Kershaw
Cambridge University Press, 1999, 79 pág.
ISBN 0-521-65623-0
Level 4: 1500 word vocabulary
Hu is a teenage student at an international
school in the exciting city of Bangkok. She has a
problem with one of the teachers and does not
know what to do. An adventure in a national
park, acting in a musical, and the help of friends
make Hu realise that she must tell nothing but
the truth.
WHITE FANG: The Story of a Wolf-dog /
Jack London
Longman, 1968, 76 pág.
ISBN 0-582-53498-4
Stage 4: 1500 word vocabulary
A classic adventure novel detailing the
savagery of life in the northern wilds.
Its central character is a ferocious and
magnificent creature, half dog, half
wolf, through whose experiences we
feel the harsh rhythms and patterns of
wilderness life among animals and
men.

THE PRINCE AND THE POOR BOY / Mark Twain
CollinsELT, 1978, 80 pág.
ISBN 0-00-370089-5
Level 2: 600 words
―Prince Edward stood in Tom’s rags, and Tom wore
his kingly clothes. A strange thing! When Tom put
on the Prince’s clothes he looked like the Prince.
And when the Prince put on Tom’s rags, he looked
like Tom‖. Many strange adventures begin when
these two boys change clothes. One boy is the son
of the King of England. The other is a boy from a
very poor family.

NOVELA
REBECCA’S TALE / Sally Beauman
Time Warner, 2002, 627 pág.
ISBN 0-7515-3313-0
April 1951. It is twenty years since the
death of Rebecca, the hauntingly
beautiful first wife of Maxim de Winter. It
is twenty years since the inquest, which
famously –and controversially- passed a
verdict of suicide. Twenty years since
Manderley, the de Winter’s ancient
family seat, was razed to the ground. But
Rebecca’s tale is just beginning...
THE HOLIDAY HOME / Fern Britton
Harper, 2013, 352 pág.
ISBN 978-0-00-746854-6
Each year, the Carew sisters embark on their
yearly trip to the family holiday home, Atlantic
House, set on a picturesque Cornish cliff.
Prudence, the hard-nosed businesswoman, is
about to get a shock reminder that you should
never take anything for granted. Constance,
the homemaker, has always been out-witted
by her manipulative sibling, but this year she’s
finally had enough.
When an old face reappears on the scene,
years of simmering resentments reach boiling
point, and a long-buried secret is about to bite
them all on the bottom. Is this one holiday that
will push them all over the
Edge, or can Constance and Pru leave the
past where it belongs?

ALL FUN AND GAMES UNTIL SOMEBODY
LOSES AN EYE / Christopher Brookmyre
Abacus, 2005, 407 pág.
ISBN 0-349-11745-4
Jane Fleming, forty-six and three years a
grandmother, has always played by the rules,
never hurt anybody, never lied, never even had
a parking ticket. But she’s about to put all that
right in a very big way...
THE CERTAIN AGE / Elizabeth Buchan
Penguin Books, 2004, 372 pág.
ISBN 0-141-00980-2
Siena, a 21st century woman, has so far
managed to avoid the tick of the biological
clock –her high- powered career as a
stylist, making over a succession of tired,
fraught housewives, has given her a horror
of the toll a family can take on a woman.
Without children she can control her own
wonderful, ordered life. Only thing is, her
husband Charlie longs for a baby...

GHOST HEART / R.J. Ellory
Orion, 2004, 390 pág.
ISBN 978-1-4072-2149-6
Annie O’Neill observes life from her secondhand
bookstore in Manhattan. She is 30,
single, and tired of the quiet anonymity of her
life. So when a strager arrives –Forresterwho
knew her father, Annie is intrigued, for
Annie’s father has been dead for twenty
years.
Forrester tells Annie s story of love and loss,
murder and betrayal, taking her from the gas
chambers of Auschwitz to the gangs of 1960s
New York.
As the story unfolds, Annie’s own life alters
course and she embarks on a relationship
with a man she barely knows. But will Annie
find the truth before the truth finds her...?
HER MOTHER’S DAUGHTER / Marilyn French
Pan Books, 1988, 869 pág.
ISBN 0-330-30436-4
'Through sheer hard work and determination,
Anastasia Dabrowski had found success. As a
world-famous photo-journalist she had achieved
an independent life under the alias Stacey
Stevens - a name that revealed nothing for her
Polish immigrant ancestry.
Now, nearing 50 and survivor of two marriages,
she is determined to understand the legacy that
binds her to the past: a legacy of grief, of women
making bitter sacrifice for the sake of their
children - who in turn seem destined to re-enact
their mothers' lives.
Only by reaching out through the mists of
despair, can Stacey Stevens forge a new peace
with her children and her past, and pay the price
that true independence demands.'

DARKMARKET / Misha Glenny
Vintage Books, 2011, 409 pág.
ISBN 978-0-099-54655-9
The benefits of living in a digital, globalized society
are enormous; so too are the dangers. The world
has become a law enforcer’s nightmare and every
criminal’s dream. We bank online; shop online; date,
learn, work and live online. But have the institutions
that keep us safe on the streets learned to protect us
in the burgeoning digital world? Have we become
complacent about our personal security—sharing our
thoughts, beliefs and the details of our daily lives
with anyone who might care to relieve us of them?
In this fascinating and compelling book, Misha
Glenny, author of the international best
seller McMafia, explores the three fundamental
threats facing us in the twenty-first century:
cybercrime, cyberwarfare and cyberindustrial
espionage. Governments and the private sector are
losing billions of dollars each year fighting an evermorphing,
often invisible and often supersmart new
breed of criminal: the cyber criminal.
SECOND CHANCE / Jane Green
Penguin Books, 2008, 447 pág.
ISBN 978-0-141-02173-7
Holly Macintosh is sitting round her kitchen table
with her oldest friends – friends she hasn’t seen
since school - now reunited by an unexpected
tragedy and catching up on the past 20 years.
On the surface, they are all successful and
happy. But scratch a little deeper after that extra
glass of wine and it’s not quite so straightforward:
Paul and Anna are struggling to have a baby,
Saffron the actress is still waiting for that really
big break that – at 39 – is looking less and less
likely, and Olivia, always the wallflower of the
group, is newly single and mourning her lost love.
And what about Holly Mac? Can she and her
husband Marcus get their marriage back on track
for the sake of the children? Or has someone just
come back into her life who will change
everything forever?

TRAFFICKED / Sophie Hayes
Harper Collins, 2012, 308 pág.
ISBN 978-0-00-743888-4
When Sophie Hayes was 24, she went to Italy
to visit the man who had become her best
friend. They spent an idyllic weekend together
and Sophie began to realise that she had found
a man she might be able to love and trust.
But as she got ready to fly back to England,
everything changed, Kas became violent as he
told her of his intention to force her into
prostitution - and Sophie's world collapsed.
She wasn't going anywhere.
Relentless, gripping and utterly terrifying –
Trafficked is the story of how a British girl was
forced into the dark and dangerous world of the
sex trade - and how she survived.
TWISTED / Jonathan Kellerman
Headline, 2005, 531 pág.
ISBN 0-7553-0739-9
Detective Petra Connor is working Hollywood
Homicide solo. She’s struggling with a baffling
drive-past murder when Isaac Gomez, a
young research prodigy, tells her he’s found
something she might want to take a look at.
His theory that there’s a connection between
six unsolved murders committed in the LAPD
area over the past six years, all at around
midnight on June 28, seems fanciful at first –
but soon the links become clearer.
Something evil has managed to conceal itself
between the dry pages of the files: a series of
killings so meticulously constructed that the
mind behind them would have remained
invisible without Isaac’s sharp probing. And
June 28 is just a month away – will Petra be
able to stop the murderer from striking again?

BILLY STRAIGHT / Jonathan Kellerman
Warner Books, 1999, 585 pág.
ISBN 0-7515-2321-6
A young boy witness a murder, but who will find him first
...the cops or the killer?
When beautiful Lisa Boehlinher Ramsey is found
brutally stabbed to death in Los Angeles' Griffith Park, a
highly sensitive investigation begins for Detective Petra
Connor and her partner Sty Bishop. For Lisa was the
ex-wife of TV star Cart Ramsey, and she had publicly
revealed how Ramsey had beaten her up, so suspicion
must fall on the millionaire actor. But this is the L.A.,
home of media frenzy and O.J.Simpson, and the brass
at LAPD do not want history repeated.
Meanwhile, forensic evidence points to a witness to the
murder: twelve-year-old Billy Straight - a very scared
little boy, too frightened to come forward, and when
Lisa's parents put a reward out on him, only Petra
realises the peril in which this child has been placed.
In a thrilling new novel, Jonathan Kellerman has a story
by turns terrifying and deeply affecting, and created an
inforgettable believe heroine, as well as telling an L.A.
murder story that will leave lights on everywhere.
ROBERT LUDLUM’S THE BOURNE SANCTION /
Eric Van Lustbader
Orion, 2009, 614 pág.
ISBN 978-0-7528-8466-0
You can’t outrun your past…
For university professor David Webb – forever
caught between two identities – life can never be
ordinary. Lately he seems to have found some
well-earned normality. But David is still haunted by
the splintered nightmares of his former life – as
Jason Bourne.
Soon he finds himself embroiled in a Central
Intelligence operation to hunt down a terrorist
organization planning a major attack, and is
plunged into the deadliest and most tangled
assignment of his double life – and the murky
underworld he’s been trying to escape.
With his own side trying to take him down, all the
wile an assassin as brilliant and damaged as
himself is getting closer by the minute . . .

DYING LIGHT / Stuart Macbride
Harper, 2006, 519 pág.
ISBN 978-0-00-719316-5
It's summertime in the Granite City: the sun is
shining, the sky is blue and people are dying...
It starts with Rosie Williams, a prostitute, stripped
naked and beaten to death down by the docks - the
heart of Aberdeen's red light district. For DS Logan
McRae it's a bad start to another bad day.
Rosie won’t be the only one making an unscheduled
trip to the morgue. Across the city, six people are
burning to death in a petrol-soaked squat, the doors
and windows screwed shut from the outside. And
despite Logan's best efforts, it's not long before
another prostitute turns up on the slab...
Stuart MacBride's distinctive grittiness, gallows
humor and lively characterization are to the fore in
this unputdownable serial killer tale.
CRIMSON RAIN / Meg O’Brien
Mira Books, 2003, 394 pág.
ISBN 1-55166-932-3
Paul and Gina Bradley were unable to have
children, and adopting one-year-old twin girls
seemed like an answer to desperate prayers. But
when one of the girls is caught trying to kill her
sister, Paul and Gina have little choice but to return
the disturbed child to the care of St Sympatica's
orphanage.
Now, sixteen years later, the Bradley family is
crumbling. Paul and Gina have drifted apart and
the only light in their lives is Rachel, the child they
raised. But Rachel is beginning to act like a total
stranger, and they begin to wonder if she isn't
suffering from the same problems that plagued her
twin.
When Rachel disappears just after Christmas, Paul
and Gina are forced to pull together - for the sake
of their family, for their very survival ...

BIG STONE GAP / Adriana Trigiani
Pocket Books, 2002, 320 pág.
ISBN 0-7434-4012-9
Big Stone Gap is a sleepy hamlet where kids get
married and start families at eighteen, and stay for
ever. So thirty-five-year old Ave Maria Mulligan is
something of an oddity. A self-proclaimed spinster,
as the local pharmacist she's been keeping the
townsfolk's secrets for years.
Now Ave Maria is about to discover a scandal in
her own family's past that will blow the lid right off
her quiet, uneventful life. Soon she's juggling two
unexpected marriage proposals and conducting a
no-holds-barred family feud.
With an unforgettable cast of characters and a
heroine with an extraordinary story to tell, all living
in this quirky, remarkable town where even
Elizabeth Taylor pays a visit, Big Stone Gap is a
wonderfully vibrant, unashamedly feel-good debut.
BRAINCHILD / George Turner
Headline, 1996, 407 pág.
ISBN 0-7472-3812-X
Trainee journalist David Chance was raised in a
state orphanage. Years later he receives a
communication from a man claiming to be his father.
Arthur Hazard is no ordinary man, but one of twelve
genetically engineered supermen. Three groups of
four children were artificially created, each with a
specialized form of super-intelligence, but of the
'Nursery Children' only C Group were real all-round
geniuses. These four committed suicide before
David's birth.
Rumour has it that just before their fatally dramatic
gesture their leader, Conrad, initmated that they may
have left a vital intellectual legacy behind them.
Arthur encourages David to investigate the life and
death of C Group, leading him into a terrifying web of
deceit and betrayal.....
Brain Child is a mystery treasure hunt steeped in
scientific intrigue, a masterpiece of characterization
and intelligent speculation.