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His Disinclined Bride
Jennie Goutet
A Marriage of Duty. A Love That Can’t Be Denied.
Kitty Stokes never expected to marry a nobleman. But when the only alternative is a lifetime spent caring for her brother’s children, she reluctantly agrees to a marriage of convenience with the brooding and distant Lord Hayworth. On her wedding day, she is certain she’s made a terrible mistake—until she meets his gaze for the first time.
Phineas Hayworth never intended to fall for his wife. Marrying the sister of a wealthy merchant is a desperate move to save his crumbling estate, and he has no right to expect more. But from the moment he sees Kitty, his carefully laid plans begin to unravel. She is beautiful, strong-willed, and utterly captivating. Yet, she keeps him at arm’s length, and he soon realizes that while he was prepared for a loveless marriage, he is not willing to endure an unrequited love.
As they navigate the glittering world of Regency society, their growing attraction becomes impossible to ignore. But will Kitty risk her heart, or will Phineas’s love remain unreturned?
A Yorkshire Carol
Jennie Goutet
The heart is deceitful above all things. Who can understand it?
When Juliana Issot’s godmother invites her to spend the month of Christmas at a house party in Yorkshire, Juliana feels compelled by affection to accept. Never mind that she escaped Yorkshire at first chance to secure a more glittering match in London and that the only matrimonial prospect back home is her childhood playmate, Willelm.
Willelm Armitage is a born-and-bred Yorkshireman, and as far as he is concerned, Juliana belongs here, too—here at his side. However, the one time he dared to convince her of this, she speedily gave him the right-about, making him question whether she truly is the right choice for him. After all, if she cannot see how well they suit, why should he force her hand?
A Christmas house party with pudding, games, charades, riding, and carols turns out to be just the thing to remind Juliana of how much she loves Yorkshire. But when her nostalgia slips into love, will she be able to admit that Willelm knows the longings of her heart better than she knows her own?
Collins English Readers: Amazing Writers Level 4
Katerina Mestheneou, Fiona MacKenzie
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
Contents:
Voltaire, the French writer who believed in equality for all
Charlotte Brontë, the British novelist who wrote Jane Eyre
Mark Twain, the American who wrote Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer
Jacques Prévert, the writer known in France as ‘the People’s Poet’
Ayn Rand, whose writing expressed her own philosophical ideas
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn who wrote about life in a Soviet Labour Camp
Collins English Readers: Amazing Women Level 1
Helen Parker, Fiona MacKenzie
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
Contents:
Harriet Tubman, the slave who helped hundreds of other slaves to escape
Emmeline Pankhurst who wanted women to be able to vote
Maria Montessori, the doctor who found a new way to teach children
Helen Keller, the deaf and blind woman who became a famous teacher
Eva Perón, the actress who helped poor and sick people in Argentina
Nancy Wake, the Second World War spy
Collins English Readers: Amazing Scientists Level 3
Anne Collins, Fiona MacKenzie
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
Contents:
Antoine Lavoisier who wrote the first modern chemistry textbook
Humphry Davy who discovered ‘laughing gas’
Charles Darwin who changed people’s ideas with his theory of evolution
Gregor Mendel who first discovered the science of genetics
Louis Pasteur who saved millions of lives by killing germs
Francis Crick who helped to discover the structure of DNA
Collins English Readers: Amazing Medical People Level 2
Fiona F.H. Cornish, Fiona MacKenzie
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
Contents:
Edward Jenner, the man who fought the terrible disease, smallpox
Florence Nightingale, the nurse known as ‘the lady with the lamp’
Elizabeth Garrett, England’s first female doctor
Carl Jung, the doctor who wanted to understand the human mind
Jonas Salk who defeated the dangerous illness, polio
Christiaan Barnard, the first man to replace a human heart
Collins English Readers: Amazing Philanthropists Level 3
Jane Rollason, Fiona MacKenzie
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
Contents:
Alfred Nobel, creator of the Nobel Prize
Andrew Carnegie, the businessman who built libraries for poor people
John D. Rockefeller who made money from oil and gave it all away
Thomas Barnardo who created homes for poor children
Henry Wellcome who used his money for medical research
Madam C. J. Walker who gave her money to the African-American community
Collins English Learners: Amazing Performers Level 3
Fiona MacKenzie, Jane Rollason
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
Contents:
Pablo Casals, the Catalan cello-player
Louis Armstrong, the American trumpet-player and singer
Frank Sinatra, the Italian-American singer and actor
Édith Piaf, France's famous singing star
Maria Callas, the Greek opera singer
Elvis Presley, the man who changed pop music
Collins English Readers: Amazing Performers Level 1
Fiona MacKenzie, Silvia Tiberio
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
Contents:
Glenn Miller, the leader of the most famous big band in the USA
Pérez Prado, the Cuban musician who was known as ‘the King of Mambo’
Ella Fitzgerald, the most popular female jazz singer in the USA
Luciano Pavarotti, one of the world’s best opera singers
John Lennon, member of the famous band The Beatles
Collins English Readers: Amazing Mathematicians Level 2
Anna Trewin, Fiona MacKenzie
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
Contents:
Galileo who wanted to show that the earth went around the sun
René Descartes, the Frenchman who famously said ‘I think, therefore I am’
Sir Isaac Newton who proved how gravity works
Carl Friedrich Gauss, ‘the Prince of Mathematicians’
Charles Babbage who invented computers
Ada Lovelace who wrote the first computer program
Collins English Readers: Amazing Leaders Level 4
Fiona MacKenzie
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
Contents:
Gaius Julius Caesar, the powerful Roman leader
Queen Elizabeth I who ruled England for 45 years
George Washington, the first president of the USA
King Louis XVI, the last king of France
Winston Churchill who led Britain in the Second World War
Che Guevara, the Argentinian doctor who fought for revolution
Collins English Readers: Amazing Leaders Level 1
Silvia Tiberio, Fiona MacKenzie
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
Contents:
William the Conqueror, the first Norman King of England
Saladin, historic Muslim leader
Genghis Khan, famous leader of the Mongol empire
Catherine the Great, the woman who turned Russia into an empire
Abraham Lincoln who stopped slavery in the USA
Queen Victoria, the famous British Queen