Vocabulary tests to accompany the popular English Vocabulary in Use Upper-intermediate Third edition. Test Your English Vocabulary in Use Upper-intermediate Second edition contains 100 easy-to-use practice vocabulary tests with a clear marking system on each page so that progress can be easily checked. The book can be used on its own for self-study or in the classroom or to reinforce the vocabulary covered in English Vocabulary in Use Upper-intermediate Third edition available separately. ...

Test Your Professional English: Hotel & Catering is organized into eight sections & covers words & expressions in areas such as hotel services housekeeping food & drink health & safety financial issues sales & marketing human resources & management. ...

Troy Phelen is a self-made billionaire one of the richest men in the United States. He is also eccentric reclusive confined to a wheelchair & looking for a way to die. Nate O' Riley is a high-octane Washington litigator who's lived too hard too fast for too long. Emerging from his fourth stay in rehab he knows returning to the real world is always difficult but this time it's going to be murder. Rachel Lane is a young woman who chose to give her life to God who walked away from the modern world with all its strivings & trappings & encumbrances & went to live & work with a primitive tribe of Indians in the deepest jungles of Brazil. In a story that mixes legal suspense with a remarkable adventure their lives are forever altered by the startling secret of The Testament. ...

Somewhere in Germany was hidden a manuscript that would rock Western Europe to its foundations: the testament of Caspar Schulz. Once a prominent Nazi & long believed to be dead Schultz could soon be hailed as the author of the most shattering confessions ever to make print. Paul Chavasse British Intelligence's toughest trouble-shooter was hired to track the former Nazi down & secure the manuscript. But he soon discovered that he wasn't the only one who wanted to get his hands on the book. & some of his rivals would go to any lengths
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In her bestselling first volume of autobiography Testament of Youth Vera Brittain passionately recorded the agonising years of the First World War lamenting the destruction of a generation which for her included those she most dearly loved
- her lover her brother her closest friends. In Testament of Friendship Brittain tells the story of the woman who helped her survive those tragic years
- the writer Winifred Holtby. They met at Somerville College Oxford immediately after the war & their friendship continued through Veras marriage & their separate but parallel writing careers until Winifreds untimely death at the age of thirty-seven. When she died her fame as a writer was about to reach its peak with the publication of her greatest novel South Riding. A moving record of a friendship between two women of courage determination & intelligence & a wonderful portrait of a lifelong love Testament of Friendship now takes its rightful place as a Virago Modern Classic with a new introduction by Mark Bostridge.

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In a voice that is both tender & filled with rage The Testament of Mary" tells the story of a cataclysmic event which led to an overpowering grief. For Mary her son has been lost to the world & now living in exile & in fear she tries to piece together the memories of the events that led to her sons brutal death. To her he was a vulnerable figure surrounded by men who could not be trusted living in a time of turmoil & change. As her life & her suffering begin to acquire the resonance of myth Mary struggles to break the silence surrounding what she knows to have happened. In her effort to tell the truth in all its gnarled complexity she slowly emerges as a figure of immense moral stature as well as a woman from history rendered now as fully human." ...

This is longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013. Colm Toibin's The Testament of Mary is the moving story of the Virgin Mary told by a novelist famous for writing brilliantly about the family. From the author of Brooklyn in a voice that is both tender & filled with rage The Testament of Mary tells the story of a cataclysmic event which led to an overpowering grief. For Mary her son has been lost to the world & now living in exile & in fear she tries to piece together the memories of the events that led to her son's brutal death. To her he was a vulnerable figure surrounded by men who could not be trusted living in a time of turmoil & change. As her life & her suffering begin to acquire the resonance of myth Mary struggles to break the silence surrounding what she knows to have happened. In her effort to tell the truth in all its gnarled complexity she slowly emerges as a figure of immense moral stature as well as a woman from history rendered now as fully human. Praise for The Testament of Mary: This is a short book but it is as dense as a diamond. It is as tragic as a Spanish pieta but it is completely heretical... Toibin maintains all the dignity of Mary without subscribing to the myths that have accumulated around her". (Edmund White Irish Times). " Depicting the harrowing losses & evasions that can go on between mothers & sons... Toibin creates a reversed Pieta: he holds the mother in his arms". (Independent). "A beautiful & daring work.. .it takes its power from the surprise of its language its almost shocking characterization". (Mary Gordon New York Times). Colm Toibin was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of six novels including The Blackwater Lightship The Master both of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize & Brooklyn which won the Costa Novel Award & two collections of stories Mothers & Sons & The Empty Family." ...

In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen & as war was declared she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life
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When Frances Banks died her friend Helen Greaves was by her side. Then one evening some three weeks after Frances death Helen sensed her presence. This extraordinary encounter marked the beginning of contact between them from either side of the veil. Testimony of Light is based on the communications that Helen received telepathically from Frances. The scripts have been authenticated by those who knew them both & who were familiar with their individual writing styles. Moving & inspiring this book is a testament to the enduring power of their friendship & offers an important message to us all
- that the death of the body is but a gentle passing to a much freer & fuller life. Never have we read such a spontaneous simple direct happy & instructive series of scripts from the other side Science of Thought Review A glass of spiritual champagne
- Churches Fellowship News"

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When the world-famous marine biologist Dr Denman comes to town there is much excitement. For budding scientist Lewis its a dream-come-true as he might be able to work as her assistant. He might also be able to learn more about why his three friends Cleo Rikki & Emma turn into mermaids everytime theyre splashed with water. But as Lewis spends more time at Dr Denmans lab Cleo & her friends begin to worry that they secret could be under threat. Could they end up as lab rats? ...