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  Amazing Aviators: A2-b1 (Collins...

  F. H. Cornish, Fiona MacKenzie

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  The inspiring stories of 5 people who changed history. 
  Contents: 
  Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, who helped humans to fly 
  Louis Blériot, the first person to cross the sea in an aeroplane 
  Charles Lindbergh, first to cross the Atlantic alone 
  Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic 
  Amy Johnson, the British woman who broke flying records 
  BRITISH ENGLISH 
  Word count: 9,498 
  Headword count: 906 
  PLUS: visit www.collinselt.com/readers for videos, teacher resources and self-study materials. 
  This book is Level 2 in the Collins ELT Readers series. 
  Level 2 is equivalent to CEF level A2–B1. 
  About the Amazing People series: 
  A unique opportunity for learners of English to read about the exceptional lives and incredible abilities of some of the most insightful people the world has seen. 
  Each book contains five or six short stories, told by the characters themselves, as if in their own words. The stories explain the most significant parts of each character’s life, giving an insight into how they came to be such an important historic figure. 
  After each story, a timeline presents the most major events in their life in a clear and succinct fashion. The timeline is ideal for checking comprehension or as a basis for project work or further research. 
  Created in association with The Amazing People Club. 
  About Collins ELT Readers: 
  Collins ELT Readers are divided into four levels: 
  Level 1 – elementary (A2) 
  Level 2 – pre-intermediate (A2–B1) 
  Level 3 – intermediate (B1) 
  Level 4 – upper intermediate (B2) 
  Each level is carefully graded to ensure that the learner both enjoys and benefits from their reading experience.

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  The Life and Adventures of Nat Love

  Nat Love

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  Nat Love was born a slave, emancipated into abject poverty, grew up riding the range as a cowboy and spent his maturity riding the rails as a Pullman Porter. For me, the most amazing thing about him is that despite the circumstances of his life, which included being owned like a farm animal solely because of the color of his skin and spending later decades living and working as an equal with white coworkers, he was an unrepentant racist! Convinced that the only good Indian was a dead one, and that all Mexicans were "greasers" and/or "bums," he rarely passed up a chance to shoot a member of either group, whether in self-defense or cold blood, and shows no sign of having appreciated the difference. At one point, he fell in love with a Mexican girl but, apparently unable to tolerate this reality, considered her "Spanish." Nat Love was a fascinating character who lived in equally interesting times, and one only wishes his autobiography was much longer and more detailed. summary by ohsostrange

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  JOHN STUART MILL - Ultimate...

  John Stuart Mill

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  John Stuart Mill is considered to be one of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, who contributed greatly to social theory, political theory and political economy. This meticulously edited collection covers all areas of the author's interests and clearly represents his work and principal ideals: hierarchy of pleasures in Utilitarianism, liberalism and early liberal feminism.
  Contents:   
  The Autobiography
  Utilitarianism 
  The Subjection of Women 
  On Liberty 
  Principles of Political Economy 
  A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive 
  Auguste Comte and Positivism 
  Three Essays on Religion 
  Considerations on Representative Government 
  England and Ireland 
  Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy 
  Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St. Andrews 
  Memorandum of the Improvements in the Administration of India During the Last Thirty Years 
  Remarks on Bentham's Philosophy 
  Socialism 
  Speech In Favor of Capital Punishment 
  The Contest in America 
  The Slave Power 
  Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform 
  A Few Words on Non-Intervention

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  Crime Classics: Incredible...

  Elliott Lewis

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  A surprisingly good story of a truly amazing rogue of old England. Maria has just come home from a party dressed to kill. She’s come home to discover a robber, the famous John Shepherd who removes Maria’s earrings, slowly and her rings. She was face to face with John Shepherd and for the rest of her life she’d have something to talk about…

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  Under Five Flags

  Marta L. Tullis

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  This book is a memoir of my husband (Hackchan Rhee) for the first 25 years of his life. It addresses not only his family life, but his family life as portrayed against the historical backdrop of Korea, which was often dangerous, and full of rigor. Reader needs to be able to be forthright, but also be capable of expressing the tension and difficulty in various situations.

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  Waiting - The True Confessions...

  Debra Ginsberg

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  “[Ginsberg's] poignant, gently written stories of waitressing are metaphors for life.”  —Dallas Morning News 
  A veteran waitress dishes up a spicy and robust account of life as it really exists behind kitchen doors.Part memoir, part social commentary, part guide to how to behave when dining out, Debra Ginsberg's book takes readers on her twenty-year journey as a waitress at a soap-operatic Italian restaurant, an exclusive five-star dining club, the dingiest of diners, and more. While chronicling her evolution as a writer, Ginsberg takes a behind-the-scenes look at restaurant life—revealing that yes, when pushed, a server will spit in food, and, no, that's not really decaf you're getting—and how most people in this business are in a constant state of waiting to do something else.Colorful, insightful, and often irreverent, Ginsberg's stories truly capture the spirit of the universal things she's learned about human nature, interpersonal relationships, the frightening things that go on in the kitchen, romantic hopes dashed and rebuilt, and all of the frustrating and funny moments in this life. Waiting is for everyone who has had to wait for their life to begin—only to realize, suddenly, that they're living it.

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