The Stranger in Room 205
Автор: GINA WILKINS
Год издания: 0000
EXTRA! EXTRA! HOT OFF June THE PRESSThe Evening Star's Local Chatter…EDSTOWN, Ark.–Yesterday evening, Serena Schaffer, owner of our town newspaper, found an injured man in a ditch near her home in Edstown. He'd been beaten, robbed and left for dead. Schaffer rushed him to the Edstown hospital, where he's recovering in room 205. The word around town is that it won't be long before those two give in to their powerful attraction to each other….The man in question–Sam Wallace–is a drifter with a vague past. Something tells this reporter that he's not who he claims to be, but one look into his blue eyes and you'd believe anything he said. Although, when it comes to Schaffer and her irresistible smile, there may not be many words spoken!
The Three Strangers and Other Stories
Автор: Томас Харди
Год издания:
A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West.
On a stormy winter night, a stranger knocks at the door of a shepherd’s cottage. He is cold and hungry, and wants to get out of the rain. He is welcomed inside, but he does not give his name or his business. Who is he, and where has he come from? And he is only the first visitor to call at the cottage that night…
In these three short stories, Thomas Hardy gives us pictures of the lives of shepherds and hangmen, dukes and teachers. But rich or poor, young or old, they all have the same feelings of fear, hope, love, jealousy…