In this text, particular focus is given to functional language, with units on areas such as greetings, excuses, directions and descriptions, agreeing and disagreeing. This gives students a wider view of grammar and vocabulary in context in a variety of immediately useful everyday situations.

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Spinning directly out of X-MEN: SCHISM, the X-Men are split in two. In the oversized debut issue of the new ongoing flagship X-series, Wolverine takes one half of the X-Men back to Westchester to start over again with a new school, a new student body and a lot of surprises up his sleeve. But when the new Hellfire Club decides they don\'t like what the ol\' Canucklehead has started, and decide to burn

Precocious and shocking when first published in 1956, Chocolates for Breakfast is a candid coming-of-age story of a young girl\'s sudden awakening to love and desire written by 18-year-old Pamela Moore. Disaffected, sexually precocious 15-year-old Courtney Farrell splits her time between her parents\' homes in New York and Los Angeles. When a crush on a female teacher in boarding school ends badly,

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La Russie est en danger et le tsar charge Michel Strogoff d\'une mission secrte : porter une lettre son frre, le grand-duc, qui se trouve dans la lointaine Sibérie. Pour aller de Moscou Irkoutsk, Michel Strogoff change de nom et devient le marchand Nicolas Korpanoff, car personne ne doit savoir qui il est réellement : ni Nadia, une jeune fille qu\'il rencontre au début de son voyage et qui ne le quittera

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