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This antique book contains a detailed treatise on how to win at the card game Gin Rummy, with information on rules, terminology, odds, and technique. The perfect book for those with an interest in either learning the game or honing their existing skills, How to Win at Gin Rummy is not to be missed...

a 144 page junior novel based on the upcoming Disney film A Christmas Carol

Two 30-minute absurd comedies for radio or stage. In The Last Remake of King Kong, Kong has evolved into something very close to a human, and, holy mackerel!, along with Ann Darrow, he acts out his angst-ridden, heroic quest to get back to Skull Island. In Channel Zer-0, Benny Bupkis kvetches and tinkers with 1950s TVs in hopes of finding a frequency of an alternate reality. Oy vey is mir!

A graded reader for learners of English (EFL) Level 3 - A2/B1 Intermediate (1) Word count: 11,679 Long ago, Shelley and Rosemary had been best friends. When Rosemary gets an unexpected letter asking her to meet Shelley in Paris, Rosemary knows she must go, because Shelley has written "I...

Farm lands are each year being brought closer to markets by steam and electric roads; telephone and telegraphic wires give immediate service; and the daily distribution of mails brings the producer into close touch with the consumer. The day of isolation and seclusion has passed, and the farmer is...

A graded reader for learners of English (EFL) Level 1 - A1/A2 Starter (1) Word count: 3,023 Steven, Imran and James are university students. They live next to an old hospital. James is telling his friends about the ghost in the hospital. Steven laughs. He doesn't believe the story. He says,...

On 25 December 1941, the day of Hong Kong's surrender to the Japanese, Admiral Chan Chak—the Chinese government's chief agent in Hong Kong—and more than 60 Chinese and British intelligence, naval and marine personnel made a dramatic escape from the invading army. They travelled on five small motor...

The author comes from a distinguished family in Hong Kong. His father, Yu Wan, was an eminent figure in educational circles both before and after the Second World War. In Part I of this book, there is a detailed description of the unique circumstances under which the author, as a matriculation student,...

Colonial administrator, writer, explorer, Buddhist, and friend to China's last emperor, Sir Reginald Johnston (18741938) was a distinguished sinologist with a tangled love and family life that he kept secret even from his closest friends. Born and educated in Edinburgh, he began his career in the...

A graded reader for learners of English (EFL) Level 2 A1/A2 Starter (2) Word count: 7,909 Many people believe that travelling by train is the most romantic and interesting way to travel. This book has five short stories about adventures on trains. Mrs Wilson is on the train. She is going...

Andy is all grown up and heading off to college. What will happen toBuzz Woody and the rest of his toys? Find out in this completeretelling of the brand-new Disney/Pixar film Toy Story 3 featuringeight pages of full-color art right from the movie.

How well do you really know the Presidents of the United States? Sure, the names may be familiar, but do you know the details and secrets of their lives? Or know the adventures that might have been? Presidential Pulp takes five great Presidents from the past and reinvents them in great adventure tales....

Stephanie Johnson's first full-length collection of short stories.Stephanie Johnson can accomplish in five hundred words what some writers can only do in five thousand: a complete arc of narrative with compelling characters struggling through the web of human frailties, entangled in passion...

Tinker Bells friendship with Terence is tested when they build the Autumn Scepter for the rare blue harvest moon. But thats the least of Tinks worries when the precious moonstone is shattered leaving the blue harvest moon the Pixie Dust Tree and the rest of Pixie Hollow doomed. Only the lost mythical...