Collection: Language Learning Fiction

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A beginner‑friendly Chinese reader that blends Chinese and English for learners who know fewer than 50 characters. Using a popular time‑travel theme and engaging historical stories, it offers simple vocabulary support, annotations, and comprehension questions to help new learners read with confid...

Boby, Trini's dog, has disappeared. The girl, with the help of Carlos, a young "geek" who loves computer science, decides to go and look for him in a nearby forest. The two boys embark on a fascinating and dangerous nocturnal adventure in one of the most "enchanted" areas of Spain: La Fraga de Ce...

For two thousand years, the epic tale of Aeneas' dramatic flight from Troy, his doomed love affair with Dido, his descent into the underworld, and the bloody story behind the establishment of Rome has electrified audiences around the world. In Vergil's telling, Aeneas' heroic journey not only gav...

Bruno and Ludovic are on holiday in Périgord when one day they three suspicious men in the wood with spots of blood on them. What have they been doing? Bruno and Ludovic decide to investigate… Find out about a fascinating region of France, about its prehistoric caves and its local food specialities.

"The story centers on Kaspar, a Berlin-based bookseller, who is devastated by the sudden death of his wife, Birgit. While sorting through her belongings, Kaspar discovers a manuscript revealing that Birgit had a daughter, Svenja, whom she left behind in East Germany when she fled to the West in 1...

To learn the origin of this popular German sidewalk food, the narrator tracks down Lena Bruckner in a retirement home in Hamburg. And, yes, it was her invention, but it's a long story, one which he cajoles from her over teas. It all started in April 1945 when she met, seduced and held captive a y...

A collection of short readers enriched by colour illustrations, notes on vocabulary and interspersed with a variety of comprehension activities and exercises. The accompanying audio material offers a reading of the entire story as well as some listening exercises, as detailed in the books. With d...

"The readings included have been specially written for heritage students in their second and third semesters or non-heritage students in their third and fourth semesters of study. Students are exposed to interesting cultural topics while expanding their active vocabulary and developing reading an...

"Le 2 novembre 2020, Caroline Darian reçoit un appel de la police de Carpentras. Son père est en garde à vue. La saisie de son matériel informatique révèle l’impensable : depuis 2013, il drogue sa femme avant de la livrer, inconsciente, à des hommes, de tous les horizons et sans contrepartie. Car...