След бръснене кожата на мъжкото лице е стресирана и раздразнена. Затова е необходим козметичен продукт, който да я успокои и предотврати възпаленията. С тази цел от Caola са създали афтършейв Barbon, който охлажда и подмладява кожата, като я предпазва от външни влияния. Формулата съдържа антисептичен комплекс, който възстановява оптималната киселинност на кожата, свива порите и стимулира кръвообращението. ... |
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Балсамът за ръце от Caola има доказала се във времето и изпитана от няколко поколения формула. При редовна употреба Kez балсамът успешно предпазва кожата на ръцете и кутикулите от изсушаване и напукване. Вложеният в състава натурален ланолин допринася за дълбоката хидратация на кожата, като я прави нежна и копринено мека. ... |
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Life is short. No-one knows that better than seventeen-year-old Lenni. But as she is about to learn, it's not only what you make of life that matters, but who you share it with. Dodging doctor's orders, she joins an art class where she bumps into fellow patient Margot, a rebel-hearted eighty-three-year-old from the next ward. Their bond is instant as they realize that together they have lived an astonishing one hundred years. To celebrate their shared century, they decide to paint their life stories: of growing old and staying young, of giving joy, of receiving kindness, of losing love, of finding the person ... |
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Когато наскоро дипломиралият се лекар Андрю Менсън поема първото си назначение в малко миньорско градче в Уелс, той е изпълнен с вдъхновение и идеализъм. Скоро обаче ентусиазмът му е попарен, когато се сблъсква с действителността - отживели медицински практики и липсата на каквито и да е условия за справяне с болестите и мизерията. Откровеността и решителността на Андрю бързо му спечелват врагове, но също така и приятели, както и любовта на младата учителка Кристин. Кариерата на Андрю Менсън продължава сред блясъка на богатия Лондон, където изгражда завидна частна практика, която обаче не се поколебава да жертва в името ... |
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Прочутият роман Замъкът на шапкаря, който превръща Арчибалд Кронин в един от най-четените и обичани съвременни писатели, е вълнуваща история за гордост, алчност и възмездие. След като е принудена от баща си да напусне училище и да прекъсне всякакви връзки с външния свят, Мери Броуди става затворник в собствения си дом. Защото замъкът на шапкаря е именно това - затвор, в който тираничният, горд и нарцистичен Джеймс Броуди държи в страх и подчинение цялото си семейство. Но има по-силни неща от страха и едно от тях е любовта. Когато Мери се влюбва в младия ирландец Денис и решава да се опълчи на волята на шапкаря, това ... |
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Chief Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis went into the house. Inside the sitting-room, the light was still switched on and a gas fire was burning. The dead body of a young man was lying on the carpet, in front of the fire. Near the body, on a small table, stood a bottle of sherry and a wine glass. The bottle almost full, the glass was almost empty. Morse smelt the sherry which was left in the glass. "This smells like cyanide, Lewis", he said. "This man was probably poisoned." From the Book This book is in British English. Here you can find: notes about this story; points for understanding ... |
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A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... On holiday in Lyme Regis, Chief Inspector Morse is startled to read a tantalising article in The Times about this missing woman. An article which lures him back to Wytham Woods near Oxford... and straight into the most extraordinary murder investigation of his career. First published in 1992, "The Way Through the Woods" strikes the perfect balance between the best of Colin Dexter's cantankerous detective, and the character as portrayed in the hugely successful television adaptation starring John Thaw. Ingenious and affecting, this modern crime novel will endure as a ... |
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When the corpse of Sir Charles Baskerville is found on the grounds of his Dartmoor estate next to a mysterious animal footprint, thoughts turn to a fabled family curse: that of a hellhound set out to avenge a crime committed by one of Sir Charles’s ancestors. As the only surviving heir of the Baskervilles is terrified for his safety, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are called in to investigate. The most famous novel in Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes cycle, The Hound of the Baskervilles is a masterpiece of terror, suspense and mystery which has enthralled readers young and old since it was first published in 1902. ... |
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First published in 1922 and here presented in a fully annotated edition - the only currently available to English readers - this collection will offer the opportunity to discover a lesser-known side of this master storyteller’s ability to surprise and enthrall. A master of many literary genres, Arthur Conan Doyle excelled particularly in the short-story form, and was acclaimed in his day as much for his detective stories as for his thrilling tales of mystery and the supernatural. While the adventures of Sherlock Holmes have become part of our collective imagination, these stories - concerned with ghosts, obscure ... |
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A mysterious murder near Esher, a gruesome delivery of two human ears packed in coarse salt, the disappearance of secret submarine plans, the sudden descent into madness of two brothers - these are only some of the apparently unsolvable cases contained in this volume, which the great sleuth, assisted by his trusted friend Doctor Watson, is challenged to clear up with the aid of his sagacity and unrivalled analytical skills. Published a quarter of a century after the first book of Holmes adventures, and including the famous titular story His Last Bow: An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes, this collection shows the detective ... |
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When Sherlock Holmes receives a bungled tip-off from one of the agents of his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, the great detective hopes to avoid a murderous crime and bring the would-be assassin to justice. But on being informed soon afterwards that one John Douglas of Birlstone Manor has been found with his head blown apart by a shotgun, he realizes that he is too late. And so begins an enthralling tale of revenge, vigilantism and secret societies, one that transports the reader from the English countryside to the violent world of the American frontier of the 1860s. The fourth and final novel in the Sherlock Holmes canon, ... |
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Award-winning readers series of original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. Is it coincidence or is he losing his mind? While researching a new programme, John, a successful television producer, comes across a story about a ghostly hitch-hiker. Soon he realises that the story of the Lady in White bears many similarities to part of his own life. Returning to London from a holiday in Ireland, John begins to ask himself some uncomfortable questions. ... |